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“terence rodgers”

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  • Grant Allen

    Literature and Cultural Politics at the Fin de Siècle

    by Terence Rodgers ...
    A strikingly interdisciplinary figure in Victorian literary history, Grant Allen (1848-1899) has thus far managed to elude the focused scrutiny of contemporary scholarship. This collection offers a valuable analytical and bibliographical resource for the exploration of the man and his work. Grant Allen was a prolific novelist, essayist, and man of letters, who is best remembered today for his The ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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    by G. K. Chesterton ...
    A collection of essays dealing with various topics, such as human nature, current affairs, science and religion. A collection of essays dealing with various topics, such as human nature, current affairs, science and religion ... Read more

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  • In the Name of the Mother

    Reflections on Writers and Empire

    by Ngugi wa Thiong'o ...
    Renowned worldwide, as novelist and dramatist, Ngugi wa Thiongo's contributions to the body of critical writing on African literature, politics and society have been highly significant. His best known critical work is Decolonising the Mind, which since publication in 1986 has profoundly influenced other writers, critics, scholars and students.These latest essays reflect Ngugi's continuing ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Deep Zoo

    Essays

    by Rikki Ducornet ...
    Rikki Ducornet’s essays explore eros, violence, dreams, fairy tales, and art as alchemy—the Deep Zoo at the core of humanity.Within the writer’s life, words and things acquire power. For Borges it is the tiger and the color red, for Cortázar a pair of amorous lions, and for an early Egyptian scribe the monarch butterfly that metamorphosed into the Key of Life. Ducornet names these powers The Deep ... Read more

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  • The End of Airports

    by Dr. Christopher Schaberg ...
    If air travel was once the bold future, it has now settled into a mundane, on-going present. We no longer expect romantic experiences or sublime views, but just hope that we get from here to there with minimal hassle. In The End of Airports, Christopher Schaberg suggests that even as the epoch of flight approaches a threshold of banality, there are still mysteries to be unraveled around our ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Ritual and the Idea of Europe in Interwar Writing

    by Patrick R. Query ...
    While most critical studies of interwar literary politics have focused on nationalism, Patrick Query makes a case that the idea of Europe intervenes in instances when the individual and the nation negotiate identity. He examines the ways interwar writers use three European ritual forms-verse drama, bullfighting, and Roman Catholic rite-to articulate ideas of European cultural identity. Within the ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Ted Hughes and Trauma

    Burning the Foxes

    by Danny O'Connor ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book is a radical re-appraisal of the poetry of Ted Hughes, placing him in the context of continental theorists such as Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Slavoj Zizek to address the traumas of his work. As an undergraduate, Hughes was visited in his sleep by a burnt fox/man who left a bloody handprint on his essay, warning him of the dangers of literary criticism. Hereafter, criticism became ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Ways of Knowing in Early Modern Germany

    Johannes Praetorius as a Witness to his Time

    by Gerhild Scholz Williams ...
    Series series Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
    Gerhild Scholz Williams's Ways of Knowing in Early Modern Germany: Johannes Praetorius as a Witness to His Time, reviews key discourses in eight of Praetorius's works. She introduces the modern reader to the kinds of subjects, the intellectual and spiritual approaches to them, and the genres that this educated and productive German scholar and polymath presented to his audience in the seventeenth ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Contrastive Analysis of Discourse-pragmatic Aspects of Linguistic Genres

    Edited by Karin Aijmer, Diana Lewis ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume will give readers insight into how genres are characterised by the patterns of frequency and distribution of linguistic features across a number of European languages. The material presented in this book will also stimulate further corpus-based contrastive research including more languages, more genres and different types of corpora. This is the first special issue of the Yearbook of ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Their Fair Share

    Women, Power and Criticism in the Athenaeum, from Millicent Garrett Fawcett to Katherine Mansfield, 1870–1920

    by Marysa Demoor ...
    Series series The Nineteenth Century Series
    Their Fair Share identifies and contextualises many previously unknown critical writings by a selection of well-known turn-of-the-century women. It reveals the networks behind an influential journal like the Athenaeum and presents a more shaded assessment of its position in the field of cultural production, in the period 1870-1920. The Athenaeum (1828-1921) has often been presented as a monolithic ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Joyce's Love Stories

    by Christopher DeVault ...
    In his comprehensive study of love in James Joyce's writings, Christopher DeVault suggests that a love ethic persists throughout Joyce's works. DeVault uses Martin Buber's distinction between the true love for others and the narcissistic desire for oneself to frame his discussion, showing that Joyce frequently ties his characters' personal and political pursuits to their ability to affirm both ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • First-Person Anonymous

    Women Writers and Victorian Print Media, 1830–1870

    by Alexis Easley ...
    Series series The Nineteenth Century Series
    First-Person Anonymous revises previous histories of Victorian women's writing by examining the importance of both anonymous periodical journalism and signed book authorship in women’s literary careers. Alexis Easley demonstrates how women writers capitalized on the publishing conventions associated with signed and unsigned print media in order to create their own spaces of agency and meaning ... Read more

    $64.99 USD