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  • No Kids Allowed
    Michelle Ann Abate
    Children’s literature isn’t just for children anymore. This original study explores the varied forms and roles of children’s literature--when it’s written for adults. What do Adam Mansbach’s Go the F**k to Sleep and Barbara Park’s MA! There’s Nothing to Do Here! have in common? These large-format picture books are decidedly intended for parents rather than children. In No Kids...
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    47,40 €

  • Radical Animism
    Jemma Deer
    The reckoning of climate change calls for us to fundamentally rethink our notions of human centrality, superiority and power. Drawing on a wide range of modern writers and thinkers - from Freud and Darwin to Latour and Derrida, from Shakespeare and Carroll to Woolf and Kafka - Radical Animism develops a new theory of life for a planet in crisis. In this original and timely work...
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    160,87 €

  • J. M. Coetzee’s Poetics of the Child
    Charlotta Elmgren
    Tracing how central tensions in J.M. Coetzee’s fiction converge in and are made visible by the child figure, this book establishes the centrality of the child to Coetzee’s poetics. Through readings of novels from Dusklandsto The Schooldays of Jesus, Charlotta Elmgren shows how Coetzee’s writing stages the constant interplay between irresponsibility and responsibility-to the sel...
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    161,06 €

  • Biopoéticas para las biopolíticas
    Julieta Yelin
    Este libro aborda el estado de las investigaciones que vinculan a la literatura y a la crítica literaria latinoamericanas recientes con la corriente de pensamiento posthumanista. Para ello, pone a prueba la noción de biopoética, un dispositivo de lectura que apunta a identificar y analizar los procedimientos mediante los cuales la escritura literaria se aproxima a lo viviente. ...
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    33,86 €

  • Palabras tendidas
    Autores Varios
    La huella de Vittorio Bodini (1914-1970) brilla con luz propia en el prestigioso panorama del hispanismo italiano del siglo XX. Hombre del Sur, intelectual inquieto y escritor, profesor universitario, poeta y narrador, fue sobre todo admirador y estudioso de España, así como de su literatura y su cultura. Su legado incluye un relevante conjunto de estudios y traducciones al ita...
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    15,00 €

  • New Media and the Transformation of Postmodern American Literature
    Casey Michael Henry
    How has American literature after postmodernism responded to the digital age? Drawing on insights from contemporary media theory, this is the first book to explore the explosion of new media technologies as an animating context for contemporary American literature. Casey Michael Henry examines the intertwining histories of new media forms since the 1970s and literary postmodern...
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    55,14 €

  • Offering Theory
    John Mowitt
    A reading of Theory that in tracing when and where Theory arises in the event of reading, proposes how Theory might best be handled in the context of higher education today. ...
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    180,37 €

  • Born Yesterday
    Stephanie Insley Hershinow
    Between the emergence of the realist novel in the early eighteenth century and the novel's subsequent alignment with self-improvement a century later lies a significant moment when novelistic characters were unlikely to mature in any meaningful way. That adolescent protagonists poised on the cusp of adulthood resisted a headlong tumble into maturity through the workings of ...
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    41,08 €

  • Jouissance
    Néstor A. Braunstein / Silvia Rosman
    A comprehensive discussion of an important but elusive Lacanian concept within the field of psychoanalysis, as well as its relevance for philosophy, literature, gender, and queer studies. ...
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    126,80 €

  • Hide and Seek
    Benson P. Fraser / Benson PFraser
    As bearers of the divine image, all of us are storytellers and artists. However, few people today believe in truth that is not empirically knowable or verifiable, the sort of truth often trafficked through direct forms of communication. Drawing on the works of Soren Kierkegaard, Benson P. Fraser challenges this penchant for direct forms of knowledge by introducing the indirect ...
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    33,85 €

  • Hide and Seek
    Benson P. Fraser / Benson PFraser
    As bearers of the divine image, all of us are storytellers and artists. However, few people today believe in truth that is not empirically knowable or verifiable, the sort of truth often trafficked through direct forms of communication. Drawing on the works of Soren Kierkegaard, Benson P. Fraser challenges this penchant for direct forms of knowledge by introducing the indirect ...
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    55,56 €

  • Reaganism in Literary Theory
    Jeremiah Bowen
    Largely erased from disciplinary memory, Paul de Man’s replacement of canon with literariness as the object of literary studies preserved a discourse of devotion and disqualification homologous with Reaganism. This negative moralism shelters professional privilege and competition from scrutiny, supported by misrecognitions like hermeneutic suspicion, materiality, and identity p...
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    180,35 €

  • The Moral Worlds of Contemporary Realism
    Mary K. Holland
    Literature has never looked weirder--full of images, colors, gadgets, and footnotes, and violating established norms of character, plot, and narrative structure. Yet over the last 30 years, critics have coined more than 20 new 'realisms' in their attempts to describe it. What makes this decidedly unorthodox literature 'realistic'? And if it is, then what does 'realism' mean any...
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    173,62 €

  • Approximate Gestures
    Anthony Stewart
    In Approximate Gestures, Anthony Stewart argues that the writing of Percival Everett, the acclaimed author of Erasure and more than twenty other works of fiction, compels readers to retrain their thinking habits and to value uncertainty. Stewart maintains that Everett's fiction challenges its interpreters to question their assumptions, consider the spaces in between categor...
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    62,94 €

  • Harley manuscript geographies
    Daniel Birkholz
    This first-ever monograph on the celebrated medieval miscellany Harley 2253 (c. 1340) uses methods derived from cultural geography to revise prevailing understandings of English literary history. The Harley manuscript’s extraordinary diversity of texts has a counterpart in the monograph’s topical range and flexibility of approach. ...
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    156,94 €

  • Understanding Merleau-Ponty, Understanding Modernism
    Ariane Mildenberg
    Understanding Merleau-Ponty, Understanding Modernismbrings into dialogue Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology with modernist art, literature, music, film and neurophysiological discoveries, opening up the complexities of the philosopher’s phenomenology of perception to a broader audience across the arts.An important resource for anyone interested in the links between modernism...
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    54,55 €

  • Afterlives of Abandoned Work
    Matthew Harle
    Afterlives of Abandoned Workconsiders the relevance of unfinished projects to literary history and criticism, looking beyond famous posthumous work to investigate the abandoned everyday, from scrapped plans and rejected ideas to half-written novels or unfinished artistic works. It traces how the reading of abandoned creative endeavor-whether arriving in the form of a rejection ...
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    54,92 €

  • Modernism and Subjectivity
    Adam Meehan
    In Modernism and Subjectivity: How Modernist Fiction Invented the Postmodern Subject, Adam Meehan argues that theories of subjectivity coming out of psychoanalytic, poststructuralist, and adjacent late--twentieth--century intellectual traditions had already been articulated in modernist fiction before 1945. Offering a bold new genealogy for literary modernism, Meehan finds vers...
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    56,63 €

  • The Forms of Informal Empire
    Jessie Reeder
    Spanish colonization of Latin America came to an end in the early nineteenth century as, one by one, countries from Bolivia to Chile declared their independence. But soon another empire exerted control over the region through markets and trade dealings--Britain. Merchants, developers, and politicians seized on the opportunity to bring the newly independent nations under the swa...
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    47,20 €

  • Reading and Not Reading The Faerie Queene
    Catherine Nicholson
    The four-hundred-year story of readers’ struggles with a famously unreadable poem-and what they reveal about the history of reading and the future of literary studies'I am now in the country, and reading in Spencer’s fairy-queen. Pray what is the matter with me?' The plaint of an anonymous reader in 1712 sounds with endearing frankness a note of consternation that resonates thr...
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    45,77 €

  • Reading and Not Reading The Faerie Queene
    Catherine Nicholson
    The four-hundred-year story of readers’ struggles with a famously unreadable poem-and what they reveal about the history of reading and the future of literary studies'I am now in the country, and reading in Spencer’s fairy-queen. Pray what is the matter with me?' The plaint of an anonymous reader in 1712 sounds with endearing frankness a note of consternation that resonates thr...
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    163,38 €

  • Humor, Psyche, and Society
    Arthur Asa Berger
    It is the age-old saying that “laughter is the best medicine”. Scientific research has substantiated the claim made by this proverb by verifying the positive effects it has on both our mind and body, but what is it about a good joke, comic, or sitcom that makes us laugh?Humor, Psyche and Society is a compilation of Berger’s previously published articles and new chapters on the ...
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    56,25 €

  • Southern Hyperboles
    Michał Choiński
    In Southern Hyperboles: Metafigurative Strategies of Narration, Michal Choiński confronts the often paradoxical and excessive elements of southern literature, focusing on dominant narrative modes and representation strategies in works produced from the early 1930s to the late 1950s. With renewed attention to renderings of the gothic and grotesque, Choiński argues that modernist...
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    63,13 €

  • Stories and the Brain
    Paul B Armstrong
    How do our brains enable us to tell and follow stories? And how do stories affect our minds? In Stories and the Brain, Paul B. Armstrong analyzes the cognitive processes involved in constructing and exchanging stories, exploring their role in the neurobiology of mental functioning.Armstrong argues that the ways in which stories order events in time, imitate actions, and relate ...
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    47,28 €

  • The Last Utopians
    Michael Robertson
    The entertaining story of four utopian writers-Edward Bellamy, William Morris, Edward Carpenter, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman-and their continuing influence todayIn this lively literary history, Michael Robertson introduces readers to a vital strain of utopianism that seized the imaginations of four American and British writers during an extraordinary period of literary and soc...
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    30,46 €

  • Falling Short
    Aleksandar Stevic
    A paradox haunts the bildungsroman: few protagonists successfully complete the process of maturation and socialization that ostensibly defines the form. From the despondent endings of Dickens's Great Expectations and Meredith's The Ordeal of Richard Feverel to the suicide of Balzac's Lucien de Rubempré and the demise of Eliot's Maggie and Tom Tulliver, the ninet...
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    82,56 €

  • Falling Short
    Aleksandar Stevic
    A paradox haunts the bildungsroman: few protagonists successfully complete the process of maturation and socialization that ostensibly defines the form. From the despondent endings of Dickens's Great Expectations and Meredith's The Ordeal of Richard Feverel to the suicide of Balzac's Lucien de Rubempré and the demise of Eliot's Maggie and Tom Tulliver, the ninet...
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    44,71 €

  • How to Read Literature Like a Professor Revised Edition
    Thomas C Foster / Thomas C. Foster
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    16,98 €

  • Classics in Film and Fiction
    This book negotiates the notion of a ’classic’ in film and fiction, exploring the growing interface and the blurring of boundaries between literature and film. Taking the problematic term ’classic’ as its focus, the contributors consider both canonical literary and film texts, questioning whether classic status in one domain transfers it to another. Classics in Film and Fiction...
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    42,14 €

  • Figural Realism
    Hayden White
    Originally published in 1998. In his earlier books such as Tropics of Discourse and The Content of the Form, Hayden White focused on the conventions of historical writing and on the ordering of historical consciousness. In Figural Realism, White collects eight interrelated essays primarily concerned with the treatment of history in recent literary critical discourse. 'Histo...
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    40,94 €


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