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  • The Novel-Essay, 1884-1947

    by S. Ercolino ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The novel-essay emerged in France, in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, and reached its highest formal complexity in Austria and Germany, during the interwar period. Here, Ercolino argues that it is crucial for a renovated understating of the history of the novel in modernity. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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    by Samuel Waterloo ...
    But for a recent occurrence I should certainly not be telling the story of a friend, or, rather, I should say, of two friends of mine. What that occurrence was I will not here indicate - it is unnecessary; but it has not been without its effect upon my life and plans. If it be asked by those who may read these pages under what circumstances it became possible for me to acquire such familiarity ... Read more

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  • The Bourgeois

    Between History and Literature

    by Franco Moretti ...
    "I am a member of the bourgeois class, feel myself to be such, and have been brought up on its opinions and ideals," wrote Max Weber, in 1895. Who could repeat these words today?Thus begins Franco Moretti’s study of the bourgeois in modern European literature, where a gallery of individual portraits is entwined around the analysis of specific keywords – such as ‘useful’ and ‘earnest’, ‘efficiency’ ... Read more

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  • Why the Romantics Matter

    by Peter Gay ...
    Series series Why X Matters Series
    With his usual wit and élan, esteemed historian Peter Gay enters the contentious, long-standing debates over the romantic period. Here, in this concise and inviting volume, he reformulates the definition of romanticism and provides a fresh account of the immense achievements of romantic writers and artists in all media.Gay’s scope is wide, his insights sharp. He takes on the recurring questions ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Collected Works of Erasmus

    Paraphrase on Luke 1–10, Volume 47

    by Desiderius Erasmus ...
    Series Book 47 - Collected Works of Erasmus
    Erasmus yearned to make the New Testament an effective instrument of reform in society, church, and everyday life, and to this end he composed the Paraphrases, in which the words of Holy Scripture provide the core of a text that was vastly expanded to embrace the reforming “philosophy of Christ.” Paraphrase on Luke 1–10 contains the first half of Erasmus’s Paraphrase on Luke – the second half of ... Read more

    $146.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Modern French Culture

    Edited by Nicholas Hewitt ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    France entered the twentieth century as a powerful European and colonial nation. In the course of the century, her role changed dramatically: in the first fifty years two World Wars and economic decline removed its status as a world power, whilst the immediate post-war era was marked by wars of independence in its colonies. Yet at the same time, in the second half of the century, France entered a ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Poetry, Physics, and Painting in Twentieth-Century Spain

    by C. Gala ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book reads the work of Salinas, Guillén, Larrea, Diego, Alberti, Méndez, and Lorca in analogical relation with Cubism and with the revolutionary discoveries of modern physics. Gala advances traditional criticism by considering these artists in the broader cultural context of Spain, Europe, and European Modernism. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Reading Conrad

    by J. Hillis Miller ...
    Series series Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
    For half a century, J. Hillis Miller has been a premier figure in English and comparative literature, influencing and leading the direction of literary studies. What is less well-known is that he has been equally influential in Conrad studies with his work on nihilism, language, and narrative in Joseph Conrad’s fiction. Returning to Conrad at different stages of his long career—reading and ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Early Modern Constructions of Europe

    Literature, Culture, History

    Edited by Florian Kläger, Gerd Bayer ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
    Between the medieval conception of Christendom and the political visions of modernity, ideas of Europe underwent a transformative and catalytic period that saw a cultural process of renewed self-definition or self-Europeanization. The contributors to this volume address this process, analyzing how Europe was imagined between 1450 and 1750. By whom, in which contexts, and for what purposes was ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Digressions in European Literature

    From Cervantes to Sebald

    Edited by A. Grohmann, C. Wells ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    With studies of, amongst others, Miguel de Cervantes, Anton Chekhov, Charles Baudelaire and Henry James, this landmark collection of essays is a unique and wide-ranging exploration and celebration of the many forms of digression in major works by fifteen of the finest European writers from the early modern period to the present day. ... Read more

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  • Beckett’s Art of Mismaking

    by Leland de la Durantaye ...
    Readers have long responded to Samuel Beckett’s novels and plays with wonder or bafflement. They portray blind, lame, maimed creatures cracking whips and wielding can openers who are funny when they should be chilling, cruel when they should be tender, warm when most wounded. His works seem less to conclude than to stop dead. And so readers quite naturally ask: what might all this be meant to mean ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Dylan Thomas

    by Walford Davies ...
    Series series Writers of Wales
    This critical study covers the whole range of Dylan Thomas's writing, both poetry and prose, in an accessible appraisal of the work and achievement of a major and dynamic poet. It interrelates the man and his national-cultural background by defining in detail the Welshness of his poetic temperament and critical attitudes, as both man and poet. At the same time, it illustrates Thomas's wide ... Read more

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