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  • How To Read Montaigne

    by Terence Cave ...
    Series series
    Montaigne (1533-92) is commonly regarded as an early modern sceptic, standing at the threshold of a new secular way of thinking. He is also known for his ground-breaking exploration of the 'subject' or the 'self'. Terence Cave discusses these and other key aspects of the Essais (Montaigne's major work) not as philosophical themes but as features in the mapping of a mental landscape: the project of ... Read more

    $13.29 CAD

  • Live Artefacts

    Literature in a Cognitive Environment

    by Terence Cave ...
    Literary artefacts--the stories people tell, the songs they sing, the scenes they enact--are neither a by-product nor a side-issue in human culture. They provide a model of everything that cognition does. They refuse to separate thought from emotion, bodily responses from ethical reflection, perception from imagination, logic from desire. Above all, they demonstrate the essential fluidity and ... Read more

    $56.29 CAD

  • Pan

    by Knut Hamsun, Terence Cave ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'When the snow water had broken crevices open in the mountain a shot or even just a sharp cry was enough to tear loose a huge slab and send it toppling.' Lieutenant Thomas Glahn spends a summer in northern Norway, where the midnight sun triggers a short but intense release of energies. Living out of a rudimentary hut on the edge of the forest, he pursues a solitary existence, hunting, fishing, and ... Read more

    $9.49 CAD

  • Hunger

    by Knut Hamsun, Tore Rem, Terence Cave ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'It was at the time when I was wandering around hungry in Kristiania, that strange city no one leaves before it has set its mark on them...' Hunger is the first-person story of a young man desperately trying to establish himself in the city as a writer, living in shabby lodgings where he can seldom afford to pay the rent, eating almost nothing, and engaging spasmodically and manically with ... Read more

    $10.39 CAD

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  • Daniel Deronda

    by George Eliot ...
    As Daniel Deronda opens, Gwendolen Harleth is poised at the roulette-table, prepared to throw away her family fortune. She is observed by Daniel Deronda, a young man groomed in the finest tradition of the English upper-classes. And while Gwendolen loses everything and becomes trapped in an oppressive marriage, Deronda's fortunes take a different turn. After a dramatic encounter with the young ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Reading Beyond the Code

    Literature and Relevance Theory

    Edited by Terence Cave, Deirdre Wilson ...
    This book explores the value for literary studies of the model of communication known as relevance theory. Drawing on a wide range of examples—lyric poems by Yeats, Herrick, Heaney, Dickinson, and Mary Oliver, novels by Cervantes, Flaubert, Mark Twain, and Edith Wharton—nine of the ten essays are written by literary specialists and use relevance theory both as a broad framing perspective and as a ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD

  • The Life and Times of Abū Tammām

    Translated by Beatrice Gruendler ...
    by Abū Bakr al-Ṣūlī ...
    Series Book 43 - Library of Arabic Literature
    A robust defense of a poetic geniusAbū Tammām (d. 231 or 232/845 or 846) is one of the most celebrated poets in the Arabic language. Born in Syria to Greek Christian parents, he converted to Islam and quickly made his name as one of the premier Arabic poets in the caliphal court of Baghdad, promoting a new style of poetry that merged abstract and complex imagery with archaic Bedouin language. Both ... Read more

    $15.39 CAD

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  • The Mill on the Floss: Romance Classic

    Enriched edition. Victorian Romance Novel

    by George Eliot, Shane Fisher ...
    George Eliot's 'The Mill on the Floss: Romance Classic' is a poignant and introspective novel set in the early 19th century English countryside. The story follows the tumultuous lives of siblings Tom and Maggie Tulliver as they navigate complex family relationships, societal expectations, and personal desires. Eliot's prose masterfully combines elements of realism and romanticism, providing a rich ... Read more

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  • Felix Holt, the Radical

    by George Eliot ...
    In "Felix Holt, the Radical", an opportunistic bid for power sparks a dramatic love triangle.It's the early 1830s in England, and the town of Treby is gearing up for an election. Harold Transome, a radical candidate, is leading the pack. The problem is that he's lacking in real beliefs—he's in politics for the fame. As the election draws nearer, Treby becomes a powder keg of tension. And to make ... Read more

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  • Adam Bede (Mobi Classics)

    by George Eliot ...
    Adam Bede, the first novel written by George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans), was published in 1859. It was published pseudonymously, even though Evans was a well-published and highly respected scholar of her time. The novel has remained in print ever since, and is used in university studies of 19th century English literature. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. ... Read more

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  • Scenes of Clerical Life

    by George Eliot, Josie Billington ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'the only true knowledge of our fellow-man is that which enables us to feel with him' George Eliot's first published work consisted of three short novellas: 'The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton', 'Mr Gilfil's Love-Story', and 'Janet's Repentance'. Their depiction of the lives of ordinary men and women in a provincial Midlands town initiated a new era of nineteenth-century literary realism ... Read more

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