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  • T. S. Eliot and the Mother

    by Matthew Geary ...
    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    The first full-length study on T. S. Eliot and the mother, this book responds to a shortfall in understanding the true importance of Eliot’s poet-mother, Charlotte Champe Stearns, to his life and works. In doing so, it radically rethinks Eliot’s ambivalence towards women. In a context of mother–son ambivalence (simultaneous feelings of love and hate), it shows how his search for belief and love ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Cross-disciplinary Perspectives on a Contested Buddhist Site

    Bodh Gaya Jataka

    Edited by David Geary, Abhishek Singh Amar, Matthew Sayers ...
    Series series Routledge South Asian Religion Series
    Bodh Gaya in the North Indian state of Bihar has long been recognized as the place where the Buddha achieved enlightenment. This book brings together the recent work of twelve scholars from a variety of disciplines - anthropology, art history, history, and religion – to highlight their various findings and perspectives on different facets of Bodh Gaya’s past and present.Through an engaging and ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Global Milton and Visual Art

    by Joseph Wittreich, Hiroko Sano, Ana Elena González-Treviño, Nathalie Collé, Wendy Furman-Adams, Joshua Reid, Gabriela Villanueva, Chia-Yin Huang, Aaron Shapiro, Beverley Sherry, Matthew Geary, Islam Issa, Jonathan R. Olson ...
    Global Milton and Visual Art showcases the aesthetic appropriation and reinterpretation of the works and legend of the early modern English poet and politician John Milton in diverse eras, regions, and media: book illustrations, cinema, digital reworkings, monuments, painting, sculpture, shieldry, and stained glass. It innovates an inclusive approach to Milton’s literary art, especially his ... Read more

    $158.99 CAD

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  • Beauty

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Roger Scruton ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference. In this Very Short Introduction the renowned philosopher Roger Scruton explores the concept of beauty, asking what makes an object - either in art, in nature, or the human form - beautiful, and ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • Poetry

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Professor Bernard O'Donoghue ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Poetry, arguably, has a greater range of conceptual meaning than perhaps any other term in English. At the most basic level everyone can recognise it--it is a kind of literature that uses special linguistic devices of organization and expression for aesthetic effect. However, far grander claims have been made for poetry than this--such as Shelley's that the poets 'are the unacknowledged ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Northrop Frye: New Directions from Old

    New Directions from Old

    Edited by David Rampton ...
    Series series Reappraisals: Canadian Writers
    More than fifty years after the publication of Anatomy of Criticism, Northrop Frye remains one of Canada's most influential intellectuals. This reappraisal reasserts the relevance of his work to the study of literature and illuminates its fruitful intersection with a variety of other fields, including film, cultural studies, linguistics, and feminism. Many of the contributors draw upon the early ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Translation Studies

    by Susan Bassnett ...
    Series series New Accents
    At a time when millions travel around the planet – some by choice, some driven by economic or political exile – translation of the written and spoken word is of ever increasing importance. This guide presents readers with an accessible and engaging introduction to the valuable position translation holds within literature and society.Leading translation theorist Susan Bassnett traces the history of ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • 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

    $57.99 CAD

  • The New Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot

    Edited by Jason Harding ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Drawing on the latest developments in scholarship and criticism, The New Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot opens up fresh avenues of appreciation and inquiry to a global twenty-first century readership. Emphasizing major works and critical issues, this collection of newly commissioned essays from leading international scholars provides seven full chapters reassessing Eliot's poetry and drama; ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot

    Edited by A. David Moody ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    In this Companion, an international team of leading T. S. Eliot scholars contribute studies of different facets of the writer's work to build up a carefully co-ordinated and fully rounded introduction. Five chapters give a complete account of Eliot's poems and plays from several distinct points of view. The major aspects and issues of his life and thought are assessed: his American origins and his ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to The Waste Land

    Edited by Gabrielle McIntire ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land is often considered to be the most important poem written in English in the twentieth century. The poem dramatically shattered old patterns of form and style, proposed a new paradigm for poetry and poetic thought, demanded recognition from all literary quarters, and changed the ways in which it was possible to approach, read, or write poetry. The Waste Land helped to ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Joyce

    The Return of the Repressed

    Edited by Susan Stanford Friedman ...
    Did James Joyce, that icon of modernity, spearhead the dismantling of the Cartesian subject? Or was he a supreme example of a modern man forever divided and never fully known to himself? This volume reads the dialogue of contradictory cultural voices in Joyce's works—revolutionary and reactionary, critical and subject to critique, marginal and central. It includes ten essays that identify ... Read more

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