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  • Towards Turkish American Literature

    Narratives of Multiculturalism in Post-Imperial Turkey

    by Barbara Buchenau, Elena Furlanetto ...
    Series Book 10 - Interamericana
    The author expands the definition of Turkish American literature beyond fiction written by Americans of Turkish descent to incorporate texts that literally ‘commute’ between two national spheres. This segment of Turkish American literature transcends established paradigms of immigrant life-writing, as it includes works by Turkish authors who do not qualify as American permanent residents and were ... Read more

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  • City Scripts

    Narratives of Postindustrial Urban Futures

    Edited by Barbara Buchenau, Jens Martin Gurr, Maria Sulimma ...
    Storytelling shapes how we view our cities, legitimizing histories, future plans, and understandings of the urban. City Scripts responds to calls by literary theorists to engage a new kind of narrative analysis that recalibrates close reading and interpretation to the multiple ways in which narratives “do things”—how they intervene in the world and take action in everyday life. A multidisciplinary ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

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  • Northanger Abbey

    by Jane Austen ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    Although Northanger Abbey was not published until after Jane Austen's death in 1817, it was one of her first novels. Northanger Abbey is, in part, Austen's response to Gothic novels, like Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho, which were enjoying tremendous popularity in the late seventeeth and early eighteenth centuries, and to their devoted readers. It is a fine demonstration of the young ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

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  • I Saw Water

    An Occult Novel and Other Selected Writings

    by Ithell Colquhoun, Richard Shillitoe, Mark S. Morrisson ...
    Ithell Colquhoun (1906–1988) is remembered today as a surrealist artist, writer, and occultist. Although her paintings hang in a number of public collections and her gothic novel Goose of Hermogenes (1961) remains in print, critical responses to her work have been severely constrained by the limited availability of her art and writings. The publication of her second novel, I Saw Water—presented ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Celebrating the Sacred in Ordinary Life

    James Joyce and the Renaissance Magus

    by Tom Absher ...
    Series Book 134 - Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature
    This book is an introductory examination of the Hermetic tradition in the Renaissance and how James Joyce made use of certain of its salient features in his four works of fiction: Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake. This book makes a useful contribution to literary studies of Joyce’s work as well as introductory cultural studies of the Hermetic ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

  • The Physiognomical Discourse and European Theatre

    Theory, Performance, Dramatic Text

    by Maria-Christina Mur ...
    Series Book 23 - Interkulturelle Begegnungen. Studien zum Literatur- und Kulturtransfer
    The discourse on Physiognomy had an important influence and impact on European theatrical culture at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries. The book discusses the debate about the scientific nature of Physiognomy. Starting from the concept that Physiognomy refers to particular signs on the face, it looks for evidence of a knowledge and awareness of this pseudo ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Inter-American Literary History

    Six Critical Periods

    by Earl E. Fitz ...
    Series Book 11 - Interamericana
    Inter-American literary study is an exciting and fast-growing area of comparative scholarship. The Americas are tied together by a common historical heritage and by a history of social, political, economic, and cultural interaction.As a contribution to this field, this book brings together the literatures and literary histories of English and French Canada, the United States, Spanish America, the ... Read more

    $146.99 CAD

  • A Mandala of Words

    Cultural Realities in the Poems of Ashok Vajpeyi

    by Renata Czekalska ...
    Series Book 3 - Studies in East Asian Literatures and Cultures
    This book is a hermeneutic analysis of the main poetic spaces in the work of Ashok Vajpeyi, a poet and a critic recognized among the eminent contemporary Hindi writers. The four parts of the book are devoted to major anthropological questions, instrumental for the poet who – while searching for the principle of unity with the world – causes language to become an extension of existence. The author ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Editing Women's Writing, 1670-1840

    Edited by Amy Culley, Anna M. Fitzer ...
    Series series Chawton Studies in Scholarly Editing
    This edited volume is the first to reflect on the theory and practice of editing women’s writing of the 18th century. The list of contributors includes experts on the fiction, drama, poetry, life-writing, diaries and correspondence of familiar and lesser known women, including Jane Austen, Delarivier Manley, Eliza Haywood and Mary Robinson. Contributions examine the demands of editing female ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Ideologies and Forms of Leisure and Recreation in Victorian Manchester

    by Beata Kiersnowska ...
    Series Book 7 - Studies in Linguistics, Anglophone Literatures and Cultures
    This book analyses certain ideologies which governed the middle class’ hegemonic approach to leisure in Victorian Manchester. The study presents different forms of leisure, recreation and entertainment in the city. The author also examines the reasons for the support and financial involvement of Manchester bourgeoisie and its municipal authorities in their development. The analysis covers a wide ... Read more

    $96.99 CAD

  • Réhabilitation d’un poète haïtien

    Etzer Vilaire

    by Wedsly Turenne Guerrier ...
    Series Book 67 - Francophone Cultures and Literatures
    Le poète Etzer Vilaire (1872–1951) a fait l’objet de nombreuses critiques de la part des intellectuels car son œuvre s’écarte de la conception dominante de la poésie haïtienne adossée à une politique ouverte et une place importante accordée à la “couleur locale” et à la langue créole, en tant qu’incarnation d’une conscience raciale et nationale. Je défends la thèse selon laquelle de tels rejets ... Read more

    $121.99 CAD

  • In Search of a Dream America

    Place in the Life Writing of Eastern European Immigrants

    by Irina V. Rodimtseva ...
    Series Book 2 - Immigration from Europe to North America
    This book explores immigrant life writing and examines the complex relationship between the America imagined in the dreams of would-be immigrants and their ability to establish connections to actual places in America. The authors discussed in the book (Vasily Aksyonov, Mary Antin, Eva Hoffman, Edward Limonov, and Miriam Potocky-Tripodi) come to North America from different places in Eastern Europe ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD