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  • Twentieth-Century Drama Dialogue as Ordinary Talk

    Speaking Between the Lines

    de Susan Mandala ...
    In this book, Susan Mandala offers a series of in-depth investigations into how the dialogue of four modern plays 'works' with respect to the pragmatic and discoursal norms postulated for ordinary conversation. After an account of the often-heated debates between linguists and critics concerning the analysis of drama dialogue as talk, four plays are considered: Harold Pinter's The Homecoming, ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

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  • How to Read Novels Like a Professor

    A Jaunty Exploration of the World’s Favorite Literary Form

    de Thomas C. Foster ...
    The follow-up and companion volume to the New York Times bestselling How to Read Literature Like a Professor—a lively and entertaining guide to understanding and dissecting novels to make everyday reading more enriching, satisfying, and funOf all the literary forms, the novel is arguably the most discussed . . . and fretted over. From Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote to the works of Jane Austen, ... Leer más

    $9.49 USD

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  • In the Name of the Mother

    Reflections on Writers and Empire

    de Ngugi wa Thiong'o ...
    Renowned worldwide, as novelist and dramatist, Ngugi wa Thiongo's contributions to the body of critical writing on African literature, politics and society have been highly significant. His best known critical work is Decolonising the Mind, which since publication in 1986 has profoundly influenced other writers, critics, scholars and students.These latest essays reflect Ngugi's continuing ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • The Deep Zoo

    Essays

    de Rikki Ducornet ...
    Rikki Ducornet’s essays explore eros, violence, dreams, fairy tales, and art as alchemy—the Deep Zoo at the core of humanity.Within the writer’s life, words and things acquire power. For Borges it is the tiger and the color red, for Cortázar a pair of amorous lions, and for an early Egyptian scribe the monarch butterfly that metamorphosed into the Key of Life. Ducornet names these powers The Deep ... Leer más

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  • Illustrating the Past in Early Modern England

    The Representation of History in Printed Books

    de James A. Knapp ...
    Illustrating the Past is a study of the status of visual and verbal media in early modern English representations of the past. It focuses on general attitudes towards visual and verbal representations of history as well as specific illustrated books produced during the period. Through a close examination of the relationship of image to text in light of contemporary discussions of poetic and ... Leer más

    $69.99 USD

  • Iterations of Loss

    Mutilation and Aesthetic Form, al-Shidyaq to Darwish

    de Jeffrey Sacks ...
    In a series of exquisite close readings of Arabic and Arab Jewish writing, Jeffrey Sacks considers the relation of poetic statement to individual and collective loss, the dispossession of peoples and languages, and singular events of destruction in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. Addressing the work of Mahmoud Darwish, Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, Elias Khoury, Edmond Amran El ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Intertextuality and Victorian Studies

    de Sudha Shastri ...
    This book explores the recall of the Victorians, displayed by select novels ranging in time from Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea (1996) to A. S. Byatt’s Possession: A Romance (1990). These Victorianist novels are complex studies of Victorian literature, society and modes of representation. ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD

  • English Travel Narratives in the Eighteenth Century

    Exploring Genres

    de Jean Viviès ...
    Series series Studies in Early Modern English Literature
    The eighteenth century, commonly described as the age of the novel, is also the golden age of travel narratives. In this English edition of Le Récit de voyage en Angleterre au XVIIIe siècle, the genre of the travel narrative receives a treatment based on its development in close relationship with fiction. The book provides a survey of famous travel narratives: James Boswell's journal of a tour to ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD

  • Reimagining the Transatlantic, 1780-1890

    de Joselyn M. Almeida ...
    In her thought-provoking study of Britain's relationship with Latin America and the Caribbean during the Romantic and Victorian periods, Joselyn M. Almeida makes a compelling case for extending the critical boundaries of current transatlantic and circumatlantic scholarship. She proposes the pan-Atlantic as a critical model that encompasses Britain's relationship to the non-Anglophone Americas ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Slavery, Colonialism and Connoisseurship

    Gender and Eighteenth-Century Literary Transnationalism

    de Nandini Bhattacharya ...
    Colonization, slavery, traffic in women, and connoisseurship seem to have particularly captured the imaginations of circumatlantic writers of the later eighteenth century. In this book, Nandini Bhattacharya examines the works of such writers as Richard Brinsley Sheridan, George Colman Jr., James Cobb and Phillis Wheatley, who redefined ideas about Value and Taste. Writers re-presented the ethical ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Erich Auerbach and the Crisis of German Philology

    The Humanist Tradition in Peril

    de Avihu Zakai ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book analyzes and contextualizes Auerbach’s life and mind in the wide ideological, philological, and historical context of his time, especially the rise of Aryan philology and its eventual triumph with the Nazi Revolution or the Hitler Revolution in Germany of 1933. It deals specifically with his struggle against the premises of Aryan philology, based on völkisch mysticism and Nazi ... Leer más

    $98.99 USD

  • Country House Discourse in Early Modern England

    A Cultural Study of Landscape and Legitimacy

    de Kari Boyd McBride ...
    In this study, Kari Boyd McBride defines 'country house discourse' as a network of fictions that articulated and mediated early modern concerns about the right use of land and the social relationships that land engendered. McBride provides new perspectives on the roles of the discourse she identifies, linking it with a number of larger historical shifts during the time period. Her ... Leer más

    $69.99 USD