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“carl seelig”

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  • Walks with Walser

    by Carl Seelig ...
    Translated by Anne Posten ...
    A unique and personal portrait of the beloved, legendary Swiss writer, finally in EnglishAfter a nervous breakdown in 1929, Robert Walser spent the remaining twenty-seven years of his life in mental asylums, closed off from the rest of the world in almost complete anonymity. While at the Herisau sanitarium, instead of writing, Walser practiced another favorite activity: walking. Starting in 1936, ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel provides a broad ranging introduction to the major trends in the development of the Italian novel from its early modern origin to the contemporary era. Contributions cover a wide range of topics including the theory of the novel in Italy, the historical novel, realism, modernism, postmodernism, neorealism, and film and the novel. The contributors are ... Read more

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  • Condorcet

    Writings on the United States

    Edited by Guillaume Ansart ...
    Condorcet (1743–1794) was the last of the great eighteenth-century French philosophes and one of the most fervent américanistes of his time. A friend of Franklin, Jefferson, and Paine and a member of the American Philosophical Society, he was well informed and enthusiastic about the American Revolution. Condorcet’s writings on the American Revolution, the Federal Constitution, and the new ... Read more

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  • Sexuality, Iconography, and Fiction in French

    Queering the Martyr

    by Jason James Hartford ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
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  • Subject Without Nation

    Robert Musil and the History of Modern Identity

    by Stefan Jonsson ...
    Series series Post-contemporary interventions
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    $45.99 CAD

  • Gender and Power in Medieval Exegesis

    by T. Tinkle ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    After establishing a feminist-historicist perspective on the tradition of biblical commentary, Tinkle develops in-depth case studies that situate scholars reading the bible in three distinct historical moments, and in so doing she exposes the cultural pressures that medieval scholars felt as they interpreted the bible. ... Read more

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  • Literature and Intoxication

    Writing, Politics and the Experience of Excess

    Edited by Eugene Brennan, Russell Williams ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This collection traces the intersection between writing and intoxication, from the literary to the theoretical, exploring a diversity of experiences of excess. Comprising a variety of perspectives, this book offers unique insights into how politics and literature have been shaped by states of intoxication. ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • Kangaroo Courts and the Rule of Law

    The Legacy of Modernism

    by Desmond Manderson ...
    Kangaroo Courts and the Rule of Law -The Legacy of Modernism addresses the legacy of contemporary critiques of language for the concept of the rule of law. Between those who care about the rule of law and those who are interested in contemporary legal theory, there has been a dialogue of the deaf, which cannot continue. Starting from the position that contemporary critiques of linguistic meaning ... Read more

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  • Portrait Stories

    by Michal Peled Ginsburg ...
    What makes stories about portraits so gripping and unsettling? Portrait Stories argues that it is the ways they problematize the relation between subjectivity and representation. Through close readings of short stories and novellas by Poe, James, Hoffmann, Gautier, Nerval, Balzac, Kleist, Hardy, Wilde, Storm, Sand, and Gogol, the author shows how the subjectivities of sitter, painter, and viewer ... Read more

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  • Tribal Fantasies

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    Edited by J. Mackay, D. Stirrup ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This transnational collection discusses the use of Native American imagery in twentieth and twenty-first-century European culture. With examples ranging from Irish oral myth, through the pop image of Indians promulgated in pornography, to the philosophical appropriations of Ernst Bloch or the European far right, contributors illustrate the legend of "the Indian." Drawing on American Indian ... Read more

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  • Transforming Memories in Contemporary Women's Rewriting

    by L. Plate ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Including topics as diverse as feminism and its relationship to the marketplace, plagiarism and copyright, silence and forgetting, and myth in a digital age, this book explores the role of rewriting within feminist literature from the 1970s onwards in relation to the theme of cultural memory. ... Read more

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