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  • Samuel Beckett as World Literature

    Edited by Prof Thirthankar Chakraborty, Juan Luis Toribio Vazquez ...
    Series series Literatures as World Literature
    The essays in this collection provide in-depth analyses of Samuel Beckett's major works in the context of his international presence and circulation, particularly the translation, adaptation, appropriation and cultural reciprocation of his oeuvre. A Nobel Prize winner who published and self-translated in both French and English across literary genres, Beckett is recognized on a global scale as a ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • A Taste for the Negative

    Beckett and Nihilism

    by Shane Weller ...
    Since the mid-1950s, when the works of Samuel Beckett began to attract sustained critical attention, commentators have tended either to dismiss his oeuvre as nihilist or defend it as anti-nihilist. On the one side are figures such as Georg Lukacs; on the other, some of the most influential philosophers and literary theorists of the post-war era, from Theodor Adorno to Alain Badiou. Taking as his ... Read more

    $102.99 USD

  • Language and Negativity in European Modernism

    by Shane Weller ...
    This book charts the history of a distinct strain of European literary modernism that emerged out of a radical re-engagement with late nineteenth-century language scepticism. Focusing first on the literary and philosophical strands of this language-sceptical tradition, the book proceeds to trace the various forms of linguistic negativism deployed by European writers in the interwar and post-war ... Read more

    $98.39 USD

  • The Idea of Europe

    A Critical History

    by Shane Weller ...
    There is an increasingly widespread sense that Europe is in crisis. Notions of a shared European identity and a common European culture appear to be losing their purchase. This crisis is often seen as a conflict between a cosmopolitan and a nationalist idea of Europe. The reality is, however, considerably more complex, as the long history of the idea of Europe reveals. In The Idea of Europe: A ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Samuel Beckett and Cultural Nationalism

    by Shane Weller ...
    Series series Elements in Beckett Studies
    Drawing on evidence from his published works, manuscripts, and correspondence, Samuel Beckett and Cultural Nationalism explores Beckett's engagement with the theme of cultural nationalism throughout his writing life, revealing the various ways in which he sought to challenge culturally nationalist conceptions of art and literature, while never embracing a cosmopolitan approach. The Element shows ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • German Expressionist Woodcuts

    Edited by Shane Weller ...
    Series series Dover Fine Art, History of Art
    German Expressionism was an extraordinarily vivid presence in the art of the early twentieth century, its violent colors and often distorted, stylized forms reflecting not only the rebellious spirit of its participants, but the revolutionary mood of the new century itself. One of the most popular media used by the German Expressionists was the woodcut, important in the history of German art from ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Christmas Carols

    Complete Verses

    Edited by Shane Weller ...
    Series series Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry
    Carolers, choral groups and sing-along enthusiasts will welcome this convenient collection of over 50 of the most popular Christmas carols. Compact, inexpensive and printed in easy-to-read type, this handy volume is the perfect companion to pass around and take along on informal singing events throughout the holiday season. With this book, you don't have to worry about remembering every word of ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Great Love Poems

    Edited by Shane Weller ...
    Series series Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry
    Never give all the heart, for loveWill hardly seem worth thinking ofTo passionate women if it seemCertain, and they never dreamThat it fades out from kiss to kiss;For everything that's lovely isBut a brief, dreamy, kind delight.— W. B. YeatsDown through the millennia the emotion of love has inspired countless poets to great heights of lyrical expression. In this volume readers can sample more than ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

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  • Phenomenology of Perception

    by Maurice Merleau-Ponty ...
    First published in 1945, Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s monumental Phénoménologie de la perception signalled the arrival of a major new philosophical and intellectual voice in post-war Europe. Breaking with the prevailing picture of existentialism and phenomenology at the time, it has become one of the landmark works of twentieth-century thought. This new translation, the first for over fifty years, ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Modernism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Christopher Butler ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Is a tower block, your unmade bed, your lavatory basin, or the bicycle chained to the gate next door a work of art? Why should a novel have a beginning, a middle, and an end; or even a story? Whether we recognise it or not, virtually every aspect of our life today has been influenced in part by the aesthetic legacy of Modernism. In this Very Short Introduction Christopher Butler examines how and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • 1913

    The Year Before the Storm

    by Florian Illies ...
    Translated by Shaun Whiteside, Jamie Lee Searle ...
    **INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER: This “absolute gem of a book” offers a month-by-month account of the year before World War I—one of the most exciting times in the 20th century (The Observer).“A sexy, comic and occasionally heartbreaking soap opera” for history buffs interested in 20th-century art, music, and literature (Washington Post).**It was the year Henry Ford first put a conveyer belt in his car ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Pearl: Seven Hymns on the Faith

    by St. Ephrem the Syrian, Wyatt North ...
    This book comes complete with a Touch-or-Click Table of Contents, divided by each section.Ephrem the Syrian was a Syriac and a prolific Syriac-language Hymnographer and theologian of the 4th century. His works are hailed by Christians throughout the world and many denominations venerate him as a saint. He has been declared a Doctor of the Church in Roman Catholicism. He is especially beloved in ... Read more

    $0.99 USD