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Guides for the Perplexed eBook Series

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  • 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

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  • Six Walks in the Fictional Woods

    by Umberto Eco ...
    Series Book 59 - The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
    “Erudite, wide-ranging, and slyly humorous.”—The AtlanticOne of the great novelists and public intellectuals of our time gives a master class on the philosophy of fiction.Umberto Eco was fond of pointing out that all writing is narrative. He published his famed debut novel The Name of the Rose when he was forty-eight years old, yet he believed that everything he had written to that point—from ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Theaters of Justice

    Judging, Staging, and Working Through in Arendt, Brecht, and Delbo

    by Yasco Horsman ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    What role do legal trials have in collective processes of coming to terms with a history of mass violence? How does the theatrical structure of a criminal trial facilitate and limit national processes of healing and learning from the past? This study begins with the widely publicized, historic trials of three Nazi war criminals, Eichmann, Barbie, and Priebke, whose explicit goal was not only to ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Darwin Loves You

    Natural Selection and the Re-enchantment of the World

    by George Levine ...
    Jesus and Darwin do battle on car bumpers across America. Medallions of fish symbolizing Jesus are answered by ones of amphibians stamped "Darwin," and stickers proclaiming "Jesus Loves You" are countered by "Darwin Loves You." The bumper sticker debate might be trivial and the pronouncement that "Darwin Loves You" may seem merely ironic, but George Levine insists that the message contains an ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Dante: De vulgari eloquentia

    by Dante, Steven Botterill ...
    Series Book 5 - Cambridge Medieval Classics
    De vulgari eloquentia, written by Dante in the early years of the fourteenth century, is the only known work of medieval literary theory to have been produced by a practising poet, and the first to assert the intrinsic superiority of living, vernacular languages over Latin. Its opening consideration of language as a sign-system includes foreshadowings of twentieth-century semiotics, and later ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Francis of Assisi and His “Canticle of Brother Sun” Reassessed

    by B. Moloney ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Bringing the skills of a literary historian to the subject, Brian Moloney considers the genesis of Saint Francis of Assisi's Canticle of Brother Sun to show how it works as a carefully composed work of art. The study examines the saint's life and times, the structure of the poem, the features of its style, and the range of its possible meanings. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Communities of Learned Experience

    Epistolary Medicine in the Renaissance

    by Nancy G. Siraisi ...
    Series series Singleton Center Books in Premodern Europe
    Sixteenth-century physicians had their letters on medical topics published in printed collections to record their exchange of ideas and make known their professional expertise.During the Renaissance, collections of letters both satisfied humanist enthusiasm for ancient literary forms and provided the flexibility of a format appropriate to many types of inquiry. The printed collections of medical ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli

    Edited by John M. Najemy ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527) is the most famous and controversial figure in the history of political thought and one of the iconic names of the Renaissance. The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli brings together sixteen original essays by leading experts, covering his life, his career in Florentine government, his reaction to the dramatic changes that affected Florence and Italy in his lifetime ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Kangaroo Courts and the Rule of Law

    The Legacy of Modernism

    by Desmond Manderson ...
    Kangaroo Courts and the Rule of Law -The Legacy of Modernism addresses the legacy of contemporary critiques of language for the concept of the rule of law. Between those who care about the rule of law and those who are interested in contemporary legal theory, there has been a dialogue of the deaf, which cannot continue. Starting from the position that contemporary critiques of linguistic meaning ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Postcolonial Conrad

    Paradoxes of Empire

    by Terry Collits ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
    Winner of the 2006 NSW Prize for Literary Scholarship.The work of Joseph Conrad has been read so disparately that it is tempting to talk of many different Conrads. One lasting impression however, is that his colonial novels, which record encounters between Europe and Europe’s ‘Other’, are highly significant for the field of post-colonial studies.Drawing on many years of research and a rich body of ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Divided Empire

    Milton's Political Imagery

    by Robert Thomas Fallon ...
    In Divided Empire, Robert T. Fallon examines the influence of John Milton's political experience on his great poems: Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes. This study is a natural sequel to Fallon's previous book, Milton in Government, which examined Milton's decade of service as Secretary for Foreign Languages to the English Republic.Milton's works are crowded with political ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Politics and the Passions, 1500-1850

    Edited by Victoria Kahn, Neil Saccamano, Daniela Coli ...
    Focusing on the new theories of human motivation that emerged during the transition from feudalism to the modern period, this is the first book of new essays on the relationship between politics and the passions from Machiavelli to Bentham. Contributors address the crisis of moral and philosophical discourse in the early modern period; the necessity of inventing a new way of describing the ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD