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Commonalities eBook Series

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  • The Techne of Giving

    Cinema and the Generous Form of Life

    by Timothy C. Campbell ...
    Series series Commonalities
    Over the last five years, corporations and individuals have given more money, more often, to charitable organizations than ever before. What could possibly be the downside to inhabiting a golden age of gift-giving? That question lies at the heart of Timothy Campbell’s account of contemporary giving and its social forms. In a milieu where gift-giving dominates, nearly everything given and received ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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  • Poetic Trespass

    Writing between Hebrew and Arabic in Israel/Palestine

    by Lital Levy ...
    A Palestinian-Israeli poet declares a new state whose language, "Homelandic," is a combination of Arabic and Hebrew. A Jewish-Israeli author imagines a "language plague" that infects young Hebrew speakers with old world accents, and sends the narrator in search of his Arabic heritage. In Poetic Trespass, Lital Levy brings together such startling visions to offer the first in-depth study of the ... Read more

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  • Melville’s Philosophies

    Edited by Professor Branka Arsic, Dr. K. L. Evans ...
    Melville's Philosophies departs from a long tradition of critical assessments of Melville that dismissed his philosophical capacities as ingenious but muddled. Its contributors do not apply philosophy to Melville in order to detect just how much of it he knew or understood. To the contrary, they try to hear the philosophical arguments themselves-often very strange and quite radical-that Melville ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Fetish

    Literature, Cinema, Visual Art

    by Professor Massimo Fusillo ...
    Object fetishism is becoming a more and more pervasive phenomenon. Focusing on literature and the visual arts, including cinema, this book suggests a parallelism between fetishism and artistic creativity, based on a poetics of detail, which has been brilliantly exemplified by Flaubert's style. After exploring canonical accounts of fetishism (Marx, Freud, Benjamin), by combining a historicist ... Read more

    $129.99 USD

  • Manifestos for World Thought

    Edited by Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh, Lucian Stone ...
    Series series Future Perfect: Images of the Time to Come in Philosophy, Politics and Cultural Studies
    What are the still-unknown horizons of world thought?This book brings together prominent scholars from varying disciplines to speculate on this obscure question and the many crossroads that face intellectuals in our contemporary era and its aftermath. The result is a collection of “manifestos” that contemplate a potential global future for thinking itself, venturing across some of the most ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Lin Yutang and China’s Search for Modern Rebirth

    by Suoqiao Qian ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides a comprehensive examination of the socio-cultural and political context of modern China in terms of its interaction with America and the West, focusing on the influence of the well-known Chinese writer and intellectual Lin Yutang (1895-1976). Offering a unique study of the life and works of Lin Yutang, it highlights his intellectual legacy in modern China and considers how his ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Vocational Philanthropy and British Women's Writing, 1790–1810

    Wollstonecraft, More, Edgeworth, Wordsworth

    by Patricia Comitini ...
    Patricia Comitini's study compels serious rethinking of how literature by women in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries should be read. Beginning with a description of the ways in which evolving conceptions of philanthropy were foundational to constructions of class and gender roles, Comitini argues that these changes enabled a particular kind of feminine benevolence that was linked ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Labors of Modernism

    Domesticity, Servants, and Authorship in Modernist Fiction

    by Mary Wilson ...
    In The Labors of Modernism, Mary Wilson analyzes the unrecognized role of domestic servants in the experimental forms and narratives of Modernist fiction by Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, Nella Larsen, and Jean Rhys. Examining issues of class, gender, and race in a transatlantic Modernist context, Wilson brings attention to the place where servants enter literature: the threshold. In tracking ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Memory and Complicity

    Migrations of Holocaust Remembrance

    by Debarati Sanyal ...
    "A sophisticated, nuanced, and beautifully written account of the intersecting legacies of genocide and colonialism in postwar France." —Michael Rothberg, author of Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of DecolonizationSince World War II, French and Francophone literature and film have repeatedly sought not to singularize the Holocaust as the paradigm of historical trauma ... Read more

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  • Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Reprinting and the Embodied Book

    by Jessica DeSpain ...
    Series series Ashgate Series in Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Studies
    Until the Chace Act in 1891, no international copyright law existed between Britain and the United States, which meant publishers were free to edit text, excerpt whole passages, add new illustrations, and substantially redesign a book's appearance. In spite of this ongoing process of transatlantic transformation of texts, the metaphor of the book as a physical embodiment of its author persisted. ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Masks of Conquest

    Literary Study and British Rule in India

    by Gauri Viswanathan ...
    A classic work in postcolonial studies, Masks of Conquest describes the introduction of English studies in India under British rule and illuminates the discipline's transcontinental movements and derivations, showing that the origins of English studies are as diverse and diffuse as its future shape. In her new preface, Gauri Viswanathan argues forcefully that the curricular study of English can no ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Edward Upward and Left-Wing Literary Culture in Britain

    Edited by Benjamin Kohlmann ...
    Offering the first book-length consideration of Edward Upward (1903-2009), one of the major British left-wing writers, this collection positions his life and works in the changing artistic, social and political contexts of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Upward’s fiction and non-fiction, from the 1920s onwards, illustrate the thematic and formal richness of left-wing writing during ... Read more

    $60.99 USD