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  • How To Read Montaigne

    by Terence Cave ...
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    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

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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

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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

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  • 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

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  • Hunger

    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

    $5.99 USD

  • Pan

    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

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  • The Life and Times of Abū Tammām

    Translated by Beatrice Gruendler ...
    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

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  • The Mill on the Floss

    by George Eliot ...
    The Mill on the Floss is a novel by George Eliot (the pen name of author Mary Ann Evans), published in 1860. The novel was originally published in three parts. It was very successful and was adapted into a film as early as 1937. It was Eliot's second novel and one of her most successful of all time. The novel tells the story of Maggie Tulliver and her brother Tom as they grow from children to ... Read more

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  • Felix Holt, the Radical

    by George Eliot ...
    Five-and-thirty years ago the glory had not yet departed from the old coach roads: the great roadside inns were still brilliant with well-polished tankards, the smiling glances of pretty barmaids, and the repartees of jocose hostlers; the mail still announced itself by the merry notes of the horn; the hedge-cutter or the rick-thatcher might still know the exact hour by the unfailing yet otherwise ... Read more

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  • Adam Bed

    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 regularly used in university studies of 19th-century English literature.The plot is founded on a story told to George Eliot by ... Read more

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  • Scenes Of Clerical Life (Mobi Classics)

    by George Eliot ...
    Scenes of Clerical Life is a collection of George Eliot's first writings in fiction. The book contains three stories each set in the small town of Milby in the English Midlands. The time-frame for the stories was about 30 years prior to their first publication in Blackwood's Magazine in 1857. Each of the stories examines an aspect of religious reform and the impacts that change and differing ... Read more

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