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  • How To Read Montaigne

    by Terence Cave ...
    Series series
    Montaigne (1533-92) is commonly regarded as an early modern sceptic, standing at the threshold of a new secular way of thinking. He is also known for his ground-breaking exploration of the 'subject' or the 'self'. Terence Cave discusses these and other key aspects of the Essais (Montaigne's major work) not as philosophical themes but as features in the mapping of a mental landscape: the project of ... Read more

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  • Live Artefacts

    Literature in a Cognitive Environment

    by Terence Cave ...
    Literary artefacts--the stories people tell, the songs they sing, the scenes they enact--are neither a by-product nor a side-issue in human culture. They provide a model of everything that cognition does. They refuse to separate thought from emotion, bodily responses from ethical reflection, perception from imagination, logic from desire. Above all, they demonstrate the essential fluidity and ... Read more

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  • Daniel Deronda

    by George Eliot ...
    As Daniel Deronda opens, Gwendolen Harleth is poised at the roulette-table, prepared to throw away her family fortune. She is observed by Daniel Deronda, a young man groomed in the finest tradition of the English upper-classes. And while Gwendolen loses everything and becomes trapped in an oppressive marriage, Deronda's fortunes take a different turn. After a dramatic encounter with the young ... Read more

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  • Reading Beyond the Code

    Literature and Relevance Theory

    Edited by Terence Cave, Deirdre Wilson ...
    This book explores the value for literary studies of the model of communication known as relevance theory. Drawing on a wide range of examples—lyric poems by Yeats, Herrick, Heaney, Dickinson, and Mary Oliver, novels by Cervantes, Flaubert, Mark Twain, and Edith Wharton—nine of the ten essays are written by literary specialists and use relevance theory both as a broad framing perspective and as a ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Pan

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'When the snow water had broken crevices open in the mountain a shot or even just a sharp cry was enough to tear loose a huge slab and send it toppling.' Lieutenant Thomas Glahn spends a summer in northern Norway, where the midnight sun triggers a short but intense release of energies. Living out of a rudimentary hut on the edge of the forest, he pursues a solitary existence, hunting, fishing, and ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Hunger

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'It was at the time when I was wandering around hungry in Kristiania, that strange city no one leaves before it has set its mark on them...' Hunger is the first-person story of a young man desperately trying to establish himself in the city as a writer, living in shabby lodgings where he can seldom afford to pay the rent, eating almost nothing, and engaging spasmodically and manically with ... Read more

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  • The Life and Times of Abū Tammām

    Translated by Beatrice Gruendler ...
    Series Book 43 - Library of Arabic Literature
    A robust defense of a poetic geniusAbū Tammām (d. 231 or 232/845 or 846) is one of the most celebrated poets in the Arabic language. Born in Syria to Greek Christian parents, he converted to Islam and quickly made his name as one of the premier Arabic poets in the caliphal court of Baghdad, promoting a new style of poetry that merged abstract and complex imagery with archaic Bedouin language. Both ... Read more

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    "Anna Karenina" is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in book form in 1878. Many writers consider Anna Karenina the greatest work of literature ever, and Tolstoy himself called it his first true novel. It was initially released in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger. A complex novel in eight parts, with more than a dozen major ... Read more

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  • The Mill on the Floss

    by George Eliot ...
    The Mill on the Floss tells the devastating story of young Maggie Tulliver, and how her struggles against the constraints of her community nearly destroy her relationship with her beloved brother Tom. The novel spans a period of ten to fifteen years and details the lives of the two siblings growing up at Dorlcote Mill on the River Floss at its junction with the more minor River Ripple near the ... Read more

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  • Felix Holt, the Radical

    by George Eliot ...
    In "Felix Holt, the Radical," George Eliot intricately weaves a narrative that explores the social and political milieu of 1830s England, a time of tumultuous reform and rising radicalism. The novel delves into themes of idealism and the moral complexities of political engagement, presenting a rich tapestry of characters whose lives reflect the era's struggles for social justice. Eliot employs her ... Read more

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  • Adam Bede

    by George Eliot ...
    George Eliot’s (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans) first full-length novel, „Adam Bede” paints a powerful portrait of rural life, seduction, faith, self-deception and redemption. First published in 1859, this innovative novel carried its readers back sixty years to a time of impending change for England and the wider world. The story follows the rural lives in the fictional community of Hayslope – a ... Read more

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  • Scenes Of Clerical Life

    by George Eliot ...
    A marvellous work by Eliot it comprises of three tales of three clergymen. She has done a brilliant job as she explores different facets of society and various aspects of life like misfortune rejection of love and repentance of sin. Her stories are remarkable for their insightful and intricate characterization. This book will keep up on the edge of your seat till the very last page. ... Read more

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