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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “jason gulya”
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  • Allegory in Enlightenment Britain

    Literary Abominations

    by Jason J. Gulya ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This Palgrave Pivot argues for the significance of allegory in Enlightenment writing. While eighteenth-century allegory has often been dismissed as an inadequate form, both in its time and in later scholarship, this short book reveals how Enlightenment writers adapted allegory to the cultural changes of the time. It examines how these writers analyzed earlier allegories with scientific precision ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Adapting the Eighteenth Century

    A Handbook of Pedagogies and Practices

    by Sharon R. Harrow, Jason Gieger, Jason Gulya, Jeremy Brett, Jodi L. Wyett, Kathleen E. Urda, Kristen T. Saxton, Lindsay Doukopoulos, Maria Park Bobroff, Misty Krueger0, Nora Nachumi1, Peggy Schaller Elliott3, Rivka Swenson4, Robin Runia5, Servanne Woodward6, Ula Lukszo Klein7, Aleksondra Hultquist8, Anne Betty Weinshenker9, Cait Coker0, Catherine Ingrassia1, Chase Bringardner2, Emily C. Friedman3, Heather King4 ...
    The eighteenth century was a golden age of adaptation: classical epics were adapted to contemporaneous mock-epics, life writing to novels, novels to plays, and unauthorized sequels abounded. In our own time, cultural products of the long eighteenth century continue to be widely adapted. Early novels such as Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver's Travels, the founding documents of the United States, Jane ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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  • Unforbidden Pleasures

    by Adam Phillips ...
    Much has been written of the forbidden pleasures. But what of the "unforbidden" pleasures?Unforbidden Pleasures is the singular new book from Adam Phillips, the author of Missing Out, Going Sane, and On Balance. Here, with his signature insight and erudition, Phillips takes Oscar Wilde as a springboard for a deep dive into the meanings and importance of the unforbidden, from the fall of our "first ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • Renaissance Self-Fashioning

    From More to Shakespeare

    by Stephen Greenblatt ...
    "Greenblatt's classic placed the world of Renaissance scholarship in a deep and vigorous dialogue with literary modernity . . . a remarkable work." —Homi BhabhaPulitzer Prize–Winning AuthorRenaissance Self-Fashioning is a study of sixteenth-century life and literature that spawned a new era of scholarly inquiry. Stephen Greenblatt examines the structure of selfhood as evidenced in major literary ... Read more

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  • Self and Soul

    A Defense of Ideals

    by Mark Edmundson ...
    An ARTery Best Book of the YearAn Art of Manliness Best Book of the YearIn a culture that has become progressively more skeptical and materialistic, the desires of the individual self stand supreme, Mark Edmundson says. We spare little thought for the great ideals that once gave life meaning and worth. Self and Soul is an impassioned effort to defend the values of the Soul.“An impassioned critique ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Literature

    A Student's Guide

    by Louis Markos, David S. Dockery ...
    Series series Reclaiming the Christian Intellectual Tradition
    Enjoying poetry and novels can seem irrelevant and out of touch in a world of texting, tweeting, and blogging. But even in this technological age literature matters.Seasoned professor Louis Markos invites us into the great literary conversation that has been taking place throughout the ages and illuminates the wisdom to be found therein. He offers both a guide to studying and understanding ... Read more

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  • An Appetite for Poetry

    by Frank Kermode ...
    Frank Kermode is one of the pre-eminent practitioners of the art of criticism in the English speaking world. It has been his distinction to make a virtue – as all the best critics have done – of the necessarily occasional nature of his profession. That virtue is evident on every page of this collection of essays.In one group of essays he asks the reader to share his pleasure in a number of major ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Prayers of Kierkegaard

    Edited by Soren Kierkegaard ...
    "The best book on Kierkegaard which has been written in English—or in any other language." —Walter Lowrie, author of A Short Life of KierkegaardSoren Kierkegaard's influence has been felt in many areas of human thought from theology to psychology. The nearly one hundred of his prayers gathered here from published works and private papers, not only illuminate his own life of prayer, but speak to ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Paradise Lost

    Edited by Louis Schwartz ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Fifteen short, accessible essays exploring the most important topics and themes in John Milton's masterpiece, Paradise Lost. The essays invite readers to begin their own independent exploration of the poem by equipping them with useful background knowledge, introducing them to key passages, and acquainting them with the current state of critical debates. Chapters are arranged to mirror the way the ... Read more

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  • Allegory

    by Jeremy Tambling ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    Indispensable to an understanding of Medieval and Renaissance texts and a topic of controversy for the Romantic poets, allegory remains a site for debate and controversy in the twenty-first-century.In this useful guide, Jeremy Tambling:presents a concise history of allegory, providing numerous examples from Medieval forms to the present dayconsiders the relationship between allegory and ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Introduction to Victorian Poetry

    by Linda K. Hughes ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    Victorian poetry was read and enjoyed by a much larger audience than is sometimes thought. Publication in widely-circulating periodicals, reprinting in book reviews, and excerpting in novels and essays ensured that major poets such as Tennyson, Browning, Hardy and Rossetti were household names, and they remain popular today. The Cambridge Introduction to Victorian Poetry provides an accessible ... Read more

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