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“david b paxman”

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  • Voyage into Language

    Space and the Linguistic Encounter, 1500–1800

    by David B. Paxman ...
    In this new study, author David Paxman demonstrates that ordinary spatial concepts, together with the changing sense of the earth's space brought about by exploration, navigation, and mapping exerted a strong influence on linguistic thought. Paxman illuminates how our thinking about language as a whole, as well as our exploration of languages, developed in ways parallel to our thinking about and ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

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    An Anthology of Essential Writings

    by Professor Rob Latham ...
    Including more than 30 essential works of science fiction criticism in a single volume, this is a comprehensive introduction to the study of this enduringly popular genre. Science Fiction Criticism: An Anthology of Essential Writings covers such topics as:·Definitions and boundaries of the genre·The many forms of science fiction, from time travel to 'inner space'·Ideology and identity: from ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Persophilia

    Persian Culture on the Global Scene

    by Hamid Dabashi ...
    From the Biblical period and Classical Antiquity to the rise of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, aspects of Persian culture have been integral to European history. A diverse constellation of European artists, poets, and thinkers have looked to Persia for inspiration, finding there a rich cultural counterpoint and frame of reference. Interest in all things Persian was no passing fancy but an ... Read more

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  • The Consolations of Writing

    Literary Strategies of Resistance from Boethius to Primo Levi

    by Rivkah Zim ...
    Why writing in captivity is a vitally important form of literary resistanceBoethius wrote The Consolation of Philosophy as a prisoner condemned to death for treason, circumstances that are reflected in the themes and concerns of its evocative poetry and dialogue between the prisoner and his mentor, Lady Philosophy. This classic philosophical statement of late antiquity has had an enduring ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Excursions with Thoreau

    Philosophy, Poetry, Religion

    by Professor Edward F. Mooney ...
    Excursions with Thoreau is a major new exploration of Thoreau's writing and thought that is philosophical yet sensitive to the literary and religious.Edward F. Mooney's excursions through passages from Walden, Cape Cod, and his late essay “Walking” reveal Thoreau as a miraculous writer, artist, and religious adept. Of course Thoreau remains the familiar political activist and environmental ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Street Urchins, Sociopaths and Degenerates

    Orphans of late-Victorian and Edwardian Fiction

    by David Floyd ...
    From the notable emergence of orphan figures in late eighteenth-century literature, through early- and middle-period Victorian fiction and, as this book argues, well into the fin de siecle, this potent literary type is remarkable for its consistent recurrence and its metamorphosis as a register of cultural conditions. The striking ubiquity of orphans in the literature of these periods encourages ... Read more

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  • 1590s Drama and Militarism

    Portrayals of War in Marlowe, Chapman and Shakespeare's Henry V

    by Nina Taunton ...
    1590s Drama and Militarism is a fascinating interdisciplinary study of various textual interventions into the military realities of the late Elizabethan period. Its major strength is its insistence on the discursive nature of militarism, and the author convincingly uses literary and non-literary texts-including manuals and contemporary military correspondence-to reconstruct the particular ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • James Joyce's 'Work in Progress'

    Pre-Book Publications of Finnegans Wake Fragments

    by Dirk Van Hulle ...
    Series series Studies in Publishing History: Manuscript, Print, Digital
    The text of Finnegans Wake is not as monolithic as it might seem. It grew out of a set of short vignettes, sections and fragments. Several of these sections, which James Joyce confidently claimed would "fuse of themselves", are still recognizable in the text of Finnegans Wake. And while they are undeniably integrated very skillfully, they also function separately. In this publication history, Dirk ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

  • Women and Politics in Early Modern England, 1450–1700

    Edited by James Daybell ...
    This collection of essays examines women's involvement in politics in early modern England, as writers, as members of kinship and patronage networks, and as petitioners, intermediaries and patrons. It challenges conventional conceptualizations of female power and influence, defining 'politics' broadly in order to incorporate women excluded from formal, male-dominated state institutions. The ... Read more

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  • Modernism and Latin America

    Transnational Networks of Literary Exchange

    by Patricia Novillo-Corvalán ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
    This book is the first in-depth exploration of the relationship between Latin American and European modernisms during the long twentieth century. Drawing on comparative, historical, and postcolonial reading strategies (including archival research), it seeks to reenergize the study of modernism by putting the spotlight on the cultural networks and aesthetic dialogues that developed between European ... Read more

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  • Plotting Early Modern London

    New Essays on Jacobean City Comedy

    by Dieter Mehl ...
    Series series Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
    With the publication of Brian Gibbons's Jacobean City Comedy thirty-five years ago, the urban satires by Ben Jonson, John Marston and Thomas Middleton attained their 'official status as a Renaissance subgenre' that was distinct, by its farcical humour and ironic tone, from 'citizen comedy' or 'London drama' more generally. This retrospective genre-building has proved immensely fruitful in the ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • Victorian Conversion Narratives and Reading Communities

    by Emily Walker Heady ...
    Because Victorian authors rarely discuss conversion experiences separately from the modes in which they are narrated, Emily Walker Heady argues that the conversion narrative became, in effect, a form of literary criticism. Literary conventions, in turn, served the reciprocal function as a means of discussing the nature of what Heady calls the 'heart-change.' Heady reads canonical authors such as ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD