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  • Herman Melville and the Politics of the Inhuman

    de Michael Jonik ...
    Studies of the writing of Herman Melville are often divided among those that address his political, historical, or biographical dimensions and those that offer creative theoretical readings of his texts. In Herman Melville and the Politics of the Inhuman, Michael Jonik offers a series of nuanced and ambitious philosophical readings of Melville that unite these varied approaches. Through a careful ... Leer más

    $109.99 USD

  • Thoreauvian Modernities

    Transatlantic Conversations on an American Icon

    de Bruno Monfort, Christian Maul, David Dowling, David Robinson, Dieter Schulz, Henrik Otterberg, Joseph Urbas, Kristen Case, Michael Jonik, Michel Imbert, Randall Conrad0, Thomas Pughe1, William Rossi2, François Specq4, Laura Dassow Walls6, Michel Granger8 ...
    Does Thoreau belong to the past or to the future? Instead of canonizing him as a celebrant of “pure” nature apart from the corruption of civilization, the essays in Thoreauvian Modernities reveal edgier facets of his work—how Thoreau is able to unsettle as well as inspire and how he is able to focus on both the timeless and the timely. Contributors from the United States and Europe explore Thoreau ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Herman Melville

    Edición de Jennifer Greiman, Michael Jonik ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Now more than a century since the revival that placed Herman Melville at the center of the US literary canon, his work stands as one of the most important touchstones of world literature. The Oxford Handbook of Herman Melville aims to reintroduce readers to a writer whom they think they know well by re-examining Melville's entire corpus--the novels, short prose, and poetry--in light of the ... Leer más

    $166.99 USD

  • The New Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Edición de Michael Jonik ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    While Emerson's place in American literary history has remained secure, the New Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson draws on a wealth of recent Emerson scholarship which has highlighted his contemporary relevance for questions of philosophy and politics, ecology and science, poetics and aesthetics, or identity and race, and connects these to the key formal and interpretive issues at stake ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

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  • When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness

    de Rowan Ricardo Phillips ...
    Series series Dalkey Archive Scholarly
    In When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness, Rowan Ricardo Phillips pushes African American poetry to its limits by unraveling “our desire to think of African American poetry as African American poetry.” Phillips reads African American poetry as inherently allegorical and thus “a successful shorthand for the survival of a poetry but unsuccessful shorthand for the sustenance of its poems.” Arguing in ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau

    Edición de Joel Myerson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau is intended as an accessible guide to reading and understanding the works of Thoreau. Presenting essays by a distinguished array of contributors, the Companion is a valuable resource for historical and contextual material, whether on early writings like A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, on the monumental Walden, or on his assorted journals ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Edición de Joel Porte, Saundra Morris ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson provides a critical introduction to pastor and poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson, author of Nature and The Conduct of Life. The tradition of American literature and philosophy as we know it at the end of the twentieth century was largely shaped by Emerson's example and practice. This volume offers students, scholars, and the general reader a collection of ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Literary Transcendentalism

    Style and Vision in the American Renaissance

    de Lawrence Buell ...
    Broader in scope than any previous literary study of the transcendentalists, this rewarding book analyzes the theories and forms characteristic of a vital group of American writers, as well as the principles and vision underlying transcendentalism. All the movement's major literary figures and forms are considered in detail.Lawrence Buell combines intellectual history and critical explication, ... Leer más

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    Essays on Thoreau

    de Robert B. Ray ...
    Provocative and illuminating essays on Thoreau's masterwork, shedding new light on its enduring inspiration and philosophical depth.In 1845, Henry David Thoreau moved from his parents' house in Concord, Massachusetts, to a one-room cabin he built himself on the land of his mentor, Ralph Waldo Emerson. He described his time there, just over two years, as an experiment in "living deliberately." His ... Leer más

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  • A Political Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Edición de Alan M. Levine, Daniel S. Malachuk ...
    Series series Political Companions to Great American Authors
    From before the Civil War until his death in 1882, Ralph Waldo Emerson was renowned—and renounced—as one of the United States' most prominent abolitionists and as a leading visionary of the nation's liberal democratic future. Following his death, however, both Emerson's political activism and his political thought faded from public memory, replaced by the myth of the genteel man of letters and the ... Leer más

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  • Ariel's Ecology

    Plantations, Personhood, and Colonialism in the American Tropics

    de Monique Allewaert ...
    What happens if we abandon the assumption that a person is a discrete, world-making agent who acts on and creates place? This, Monique Allewaert contends, is precisely what occurred on eighteenth-century American plantations, where labor practices and ecological particularities threatened the literal and conceptual boundaries that separated persons from the natural world.Integrating political ... Leer más

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  • Ontological Terror

    Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation

    de Calvin L. Warren ...
    In Ontological Terror Calvin L. Warren intervenes in Afro-pessimism, Heideggerian metaphysics, and black humanist philosophy by positing that the "Negro question" is intimately imbricated with questions of Being. Warren uses the figure of the antebellum free black as a philosophical paradigm for thinking through the tensions between blackness and Being. He illustrates how blacks embody a ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD