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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “mary henes”
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  • Travel Writing, Visual Culture, and Form, 1760-1900

    Edited by Brian H. Murray, Mary Henes ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This collection reveals the variety of literary forms and visual media through which travel records were conveyed in the long nineteenth century, bringing together a group of leading researchers from a range of disciplines to explore the relationship between travel writing, visual representation and formal innovation. ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

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  • Death in a Cold Climate

    A Guide to Scandinavian Crime Fiction

    by B. Forshaw ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Barry Forshaw, the UK's principal crime fiction expert, presents a celebration and analysis of the Scandinavian crime genre, from Sjöwall and Wahlöö's Martin Beck series through Henning Mankell's Wallander to Stieg Larsson's demolition of the Swedish Social Democratic ideal in the publishing phenomenon The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo . ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • The Antinomies Of Realism

    by Fredric Jameson ...
    The Antinomies of Realism is a history ofthe nineteenth-century realist novel and its legacy told without a glimmer of nostalgia for artistic achievements that the movement of history makes it impossible to recreate. The works of Zola, Tolstoy, Pérez Galdós, and George Eliot are in the most profound sense inimitable, yet continue to dominate the novel form to this day. Novels to emerge since ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Around The Globe - Must See Places in Europe

    Europe Travel Guide for Kids

    by Baby Professor ...
    Series series Children's Explore the World Books
    Visit key places in Europe, and learn about their cultures and traditions too in less then 30 minutes! This book is heavy on knowledge but light on the budget. You can even use this book to teach geography to children too. This is definitely one for your collection. Buy a copy now! ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • A Beckett Canon

    by Ruby Cohn ...
    Series series Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
    Samuel Beckett is unique in literature. Born and educated in Ireland, he lived most of his life in Paris. His literary output was rendered in either English or French, and he often translated one to the other, but there is disagreement about the contents of his bilingual corpus. A Beckett Canon by renowned theater scholar Ruby Cohn offers an invaluable guide to the entire corpus, commenting on ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Modern Russian Culture

    Edited by Nicholas Rzhevsky ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    Russia is a dominant force in the world, whose culture has been shaped by its unique position on the margins of both East and West. As Russia faces new cultural challenges from outside its national boundaries, this volume introduces Russian culture in all its rich diversity, including the historical conditions that helped shape it and the arts that express its highest achievements. Newly ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Savage Reprisals

    Bleak House, Madame Bovary, Buddenbrooks

    by Peter Gay ...
    A revelatory work that examines the intricate relationship between history and literature, truth and fiction—with some surprising conclusions.Focusing on three literary masterpieces—Charles Dickens's Bleak House (1853), Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary (1857), and Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks (1901)—Peter Gay, a leading cultural historian, demonstrates that there is more than one way to read a novel ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • French Literature

    A Cultural History

    by Alison Finch ...
    Series series Cultural History of Literature
    This book is the first to offer a cultural history of French literature from its very beginnings, analysing the relationship between French literature and France’s evolving power structures from the Middle Ages through to the present day. It shows the political connections between the elite literature of France and other aspects of its culture, from racism, misogyny, tolerance and liberal reform ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Childhood and Children's Books in Early Modern Europe, 1550-1800

    by Andrea Immel, Michael Witmore ...
    Series series Children's Literature and Culture
    This volume of 14 original essays by historians and literary scholars explores childhood and children's books in Early Modern Europe, 1550-1800. The collection aims to reposition childhood as a compelling presence in early modern imagination--a ready emblem of innocence, mischief, and playfulness. The essays offer a wide-ranging basis for reconceptualizing the development of a separate literature ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • Adventures in Paradox

    Don Quixote and the Western Tradition

    by Charles D. Presberg ...
    Series series Studies in Romance Literatures
    Cervantes’s Don Quixote confronts us with a series of enigmas that, over the centuries, have divided even its most expert readers: Does the text pursue a serious or comic purpose? Does it promote the truth of history and the untruth of fiction, or the truth of poetry and the fictiveness of truth itself? In a book that will revise the way we read and debate Don Quixote, Charles D. Presberg ... Read more

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  • Soviet and Post-Soviet Identities

    Edited by Mark Bassin, Catriona Kelly ...
    Since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, questions of identity have dominated the culture not only of Russia, but of all the countries of the former Soviet bloc. This timely collection examines the ways in which cultural activities such as fiction, TV, cinema, architecture and exhibitions have addressed these questions and also describes other cultural flashpoints, from attitudes to language to ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • Kafka: A Guide for the Perplexed

    by Professor Clayton Koelb ...
    Series series Guides for the Perplexed
    Franz Kafka is one of the most widely taught, and read, writers in world literature. Readers encountering texts like 'The Metamorphosis' and The Trial for the first time are frequently perplexed by his often intentionally weird writing. Some might say that Kafka's enduring achievement has been to make his readers love being perplexed. As much of Kafka's writing is designed to perplex the reader, ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD