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“gillian piggott”

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  • Dickens and Benjamin

    Moments of Revelation, Fragments of Modernity

    by Gillian Piggott ...
    Placing the works of Charles Dickens and Walter Benjamin in conversation with one another, Gillian Piggott argues that the two writers display a shared vision of modernity. Her analysis of their works shows that both writers demonstrate a decreased confidence in the capacity to experience truth or religious meaning in an increasingly materialist world and that both occupy similar positions towards ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

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  • The Age of Insight

    The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present

    by Eric Kandel ...
    A brilliant book by Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel, The Age of Insight takes us to Vienna 1900, where leaders in science, medicine, and art began a revolution that changed forever how we think about the human mind—our conscious and unconscious thoughts and emotions—and how mind and brain relate to art.At the turn of the century, Vienna was the cultural capital of Europe. Artists and scientists ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • Life Writing and Space

    by Eveline Kilian, Hope Wolf ...
    How does our ability, desire or failure to locate ourselves within space, and with respect to certain places, effect the construction and narration of our identities? Approaching recordings and interpretations of selves, memories and experiences through the lens of theories of space and place, this book brings the recent spatial turn in the Humanities to bear upon the work of life writing. It ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Pudentiana Deacon

    Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series I, Part Three, Volume 4

    by Frans Blom ...
    Series Book 3 - The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works & Printed Writings, 1500-1640: Series I
    Delicious entertainments of the soule is a translation of a collection of conferences which Francis de Sales held for the Order of the Sisters of the Visitation. This order took the form of an institute for young girls and widows who wanted to enter a convent but lacked the strength or the inclination for the physical austerities of the great orders. It was for these sisters that Francis held ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • George Gissing, the Working Woman, and Urban Culture

    by Emma Liggins ...
    George Gissing's work reflects his observations of fin-de-siècle London life. Influenced by the French naturalist school, his realist representations of urban culture testify to the significance of the city for the development of new class and gender identities, particularly for women. Liggins's study, which considers standard texts such as The Odd Women, New Grub Street, and The Nether World as ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Chimeras of Form

    Modernist Internationalism Beyond Europe, 1914–2016

    by Aarthi Vadde ...
    Series series Modernist Latitudes
    In the years following World War I, the “international” emerged as a distinct scale of political and cultural focus. Internationalisms proliferated in kind as writers and thinkers sought to imagine modes of cooperation that would balance transnational solidarities with national sovereignty. While so-called political realists across the twentieth century have regarded such attempts as wishful ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Site Reading

    Fiction, Art, Social Form

    by Professor David J. Alworth ...
    Site Reading offers a new method of literary and cultural interpretation and a new theory of narrative setting by examining five sites—supermarkets, dumps, roads, ruins, and asylums—that have been crucial to American literature and visual art since the mid-twentieth century. Against the traditional understanding of setting as a static background for narrative action and character development, ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Shock and Awe

    American Exceptionalism and the Imperatives of the Spectacle in Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

    by William V. Spanos ...
    Inspired by the foreign policy entanglements of recent years, William V. Spanos offers a dramatic interpretation of Twain’s classic A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, providing a fresh assessment of American exceptionalism and the place of a global America in the American imaginary. Spanos insists that Twain identifies with his protagonist, particularly in his defining use of the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Affective Landscapes in Literature, Art and Everyday Life

    Memory, Place and the Senses

    by Christine Berberich, Neil Campbell ...
    Bringing together a diverse group of scholars representing the fields of cultural and literary studies, cultural politics and history, creative writing and photography, this collection examines the different ways in which human beings respond to, debate and interact with landscape. How do we feel, sense, know, cherish, memorise, imagine, dream, desire or even fear landscape? What are the specific ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Text/Image Mosaics in French Culture

    Emblems and Comic Strips

    by Laurance Grove ...
    Series series Studies in European Cultural Transition
    This study compares text/image interaction as manifested in emblem books (and related forms) and the modern bande dessinée, or French-language comic strip. It moves beyond the issue of defining the emblematic genre to examine the ways in which emblems - and their modern counterparts - interact with the surrounding culture, and what they disclose about that culture. Drawing largely on primary ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Media, Technology, and Literature in the Nineteenth Century

    Image, Sound, Touch

    by Margaret Linley ...
    Operating at the intersection where new technology meets literature, this collection discovers the relationship among image, sound, and touch in the long nineteenth century. The chapters speak to the special mixed-media properties of literature, while exploring the important interconnections of science, technology, and art at the historical moment when media was being theorized, debated, and ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • The Cosmos and the Creative Imagination

    Edited by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Patricia Trutty-Coohill ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The essays in this book respond to Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka’s recent call to explore the relationship between the evolution of the universe and the process of self-individuation in the ontopoietic unfolding of life. The essays approach the sensory manifold in a number of ways. They show that theories of modern science become a strategy for the phenomenological study of works of art, and vice versa. ... Read more

    $89.99 USD