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“richard detsch”

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  • Georg Trakl's Poetry

    Toward a Union of Opposites

    by Richard Detsch ...
    The chaotic mixture of elements in Trakl's poems is more apparent than real, this book argues, thus challenging the "Orphic" view of Walther Killy and his followers. A dream of unity—one of the most ancient dreams in human history—is in fact reflected in all of Trakl's work.The recurring themes in Trakl's poetry are brought into focus through Dr. Detsch's literary, psychological, and philosophical ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

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    by Charles Dickens ...
    The bibliography of Charles Dickens (1812–70) includes more than a dozen major novels, a large number of short stories (including Christmas-themed stories and ghost stories), several plays, several non-fiction books, and individual essays and articles. Dickens's novels were serialised initially in weekly or monthly magazines, then reprinted in standard book formats. Book One Hard Times – For These ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Nancy Cunard

    Heiress, Muse, Political Idealist

    by Lois Gordon ...
    Lois Gordon's absorbing biography tells the story of a writer, activist, and cultural icon who embodied the dazzling energy and tumultuous spirit of her age, and whom William Carlos Williams once called "one of the major phenomena of history."Nancy Cunard (1896-1965) led a life that surpasses Hollywood fantasy. The only child of an English baronet (and heir to the Cunard shipping fortune) and an ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Touché

    The Duel in Literature

    by John Leigh ...
    The monarchs of seventeenth-century Europe put a surprisingly high priority on the abolition of dueling, seeing its eradication as an important step from barbarism toward a rational state monopoly on justice. But it was one thing to ban dueling and another to stop it. Duelists continued to kill each other with swords or pistols in significant numbers deep into the nineteenth century. In 1883 ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • Captain Burle (Unabridged)

    by Émile Zola ...
    Translated by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly ...
    This carefully crafted ebook: “Captain Burle (Unabridged)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.Captain Burle is a story by Émile Zola about a French officer who embezzles funds to support his mistresses.Table of Contents:Chapter I. The SwindleChapter II. The CafeChapter III. Again?Chapter IV. InspectionÉmile Zola (1840 – 1902), French novelist, critic, ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • An Utterly Dark Spot

    Gaze and Body in Early Modern Philosophy

    by Miran Bozovic ...
    Series series The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism
    Slovenian philosopher Miran Bozovic's An Utterly Dark Spot examines the elusive status of the body in early modern European philosophy by examining its various encounters with the gaze. Its range is impressive, moving from the Greek philosophers and theorists of the body (Aristotle, Plato, Hippocratic medical writers) to early modern thinkers (Spinoza, Leibniz, Malebranche, Descartes, Bentham) to ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Miniature Metropolis

    Literature in an Age of Photography and Film

    by Andreas Huyssen ...
    In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Europe’s modernizing metropolises offered a sensory experience unlike anything that had come before. Cities became laboratories bubbling with aesthetic experimentation in old and new media, and from this milieu emerged metropolitan miniatures—short prose pieces about the experiences of urban life written for European newspapers. Miniature ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Holocaust Impiety in Literature, Popular Music and Film

    by Matthew Boswell ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Surveying irreverent and controversial representations of the Holocaust - from Sylvia Plath and the Sex Pistols to Quentin Tarantino and Holocaust comedy - Matthew Boswell considers how they might play an important role in shaping our understanding of the Nazi genocide and what it means to be human. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the French Novel

    From 1800 to the Present

    Edited by Timothy Unwin ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This volume offers a unique and valuable insight into the novel in French over the past two centuries. In a series of essays, acknowledged experts discuss a variety of topics including nineteenth-century realism, women and fiction, popular fiction, experiment and innovation, war and the Holocaust, the Francophone novel, and postmodern fiction. They offer a challenging reassessment of major figures ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Translation of Female Kingship

    by F. Tolhurst ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Translation of Female Kingship provides the first feminist analysis of the part of The History of the Kings of Britain that most readers overlook: the reigns before and after Arthur's. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Russian Literature since 1991

    Edited by Evgeny Dobrenko, Mark Lipovetsky ...
    Russian Literature since 1991 is the first comprehensive, single-volume compendium of modern scholarship on post-Soviet Russian literature. The volume encompasses broad, complex and diverse sources of literary material - from ideological and historical novels to experimental prose and poetry, from nonfiction to drama. Written by an international team of leading experts on contemporary Russian ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The Revival of Antique Philosophy in the Renaissance

    by John L. Lepage ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book examines the revival of antique philosophy in the Renaissance as a literary preoccupation informed by wit. Humanists were more inspired by the fictionalized characters of certain wise fools, including Diogenes the Cynic, Socrates, Aesop, Democritus, and Heraclitus, than by codified systems of thought. Rich in detail, this study offers a systematic treatment of wide-ranging Renaissance ... Read more

    $49.49 USD