Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Books
Universitatsverlag Winter Der Zauberberg: Die Zergliederung Der Welt
£999.99
Universitätsverlag Winter Geschichte Der Polnischen Gegenwartsliteratur
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£68.87
Universitatsverlag Winter Ernst Junger Und Carl Schmitt - Eine Ambivalente
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£40.80
Universitatsverlag Winter Interregnum
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£999.99
Tectum Verlag J.R.R. Tolkien Und Sein Christentum: Eine
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£30.60
V&R unipress GmbH Der Dreißigjährige Krieg in Literatur und Kunst
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£40.35
V&R unipress Literarische Gestaltung historischer Biographien
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£66.50
V&R unipress GmbH Dystopien der Gegenwart: Negative
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£52.69
V&R unipress Buchblogs zwischen Passion und Profession
Book SynopsisGegenstand konfliktreicher kultureller Aushandlungen: Was sind âBuchblogsâ?
£55.79
V&R unipress GmbH Postmodernizing the Holocaust: A Comparative
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£35.99
V&R unipress Carl Hanser Verlag as an intermediary of Polish
Book SynopsisThe cultural transfer of Polish literature to West Germany would be/is inconceivable without Carl Hanser Verlag
£43.19
V&R unipress Zwischen Krieg und Frieden
Book SynopsisAlfred Hein â ein Autor zwischen Krieg und Frieden
£57.99
V & R Unipress GmbH Die Suche der Kritik
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V & R Unipress GmbH Günter Grass Interkulturelle Dialoge und Auseinandersetzungen
£458.68
Bloomsbury India Imagining a Postcolonial Nation: Hindi Novels and
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£80.75
Taemeer Publications Urdu Adab kuch Jaizey
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£17.09
Palgrave Macmillan Poetization of Illness
Book Synopsis1. Foreword.- 2. Introduction.- 3. Elements for a genealogy of the concept of illness in european discourses.- 4. The Relationship between literature and medicine as a subject of analysis in cultural sciences.- 5. The Aestheticization Of Illness.- 6. The Metaphor Of Illness.- 7. The Dramatization Of Illness-Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s Play The Physicists.- 8. The Significance Of Illness-Thomas Bernhard’s Debut Novel Frost.
£116.99
Oxford University Press The First World War
Book SynopsisThe First World War at once extends and marks a departure from established understandings of the literature and culture of the First World War. In a series of compelling readings, scholars who have shaped the field rethink the intersections between war, literature, culture, and modernity across an international range of writers.Their attention ranges from combatant poets Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, David Jones, and Robert Service to intrepid nurse-memoirists Enid Bagnold and Mary Borden, to civilian intellectuals as diverse as H. G. Wells, Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf, Rebecca West, Anna Akhmatova, and Rabindranath Tagore. At the same time, there is engagement with the visual arts, including the film The Battle of the Somme, the sculpture, lithographs and woodcuts of Käthe Kollwitz and the interwar imaginative engagement with zeppelins. What results is both a daring expansion of the canon and a reframing of the terms of the debate.Silence, sacrifice, the unfathomable, maximal intensTrade ReviewAll eleven essays and the introduction are well written and deploy a variety of approaches to the vast topic proposed in the volume's title; each essay, moreover, demonstrates a thorough knowledge of its particular subfield. The volume itself is handsome and, unlike many essay collections, includes an index. The authors and editors deserve praise for selecting essays that expand on the cannon of war literature beyond the well-known combatant-poets and for moving beyond the literary to include film and the plastic arts...There is a great deal of merit in this very fine contribution to the field of First World War literary studies. * Susan McCready, University of South Alabama, H-War *This is a scholarly book which includes several intriguing black and white photos and artwork. All bibliographic references are included in the copious footnotes on each page, and an index concludes the text. A fascinating study for those interested in uncovering some overlooked aspects of the Great War through the eyes of modernism. * David F. Beer, Roads to the Great War *Table of ContentsList of figures Notes on contributors Preface and acknowledgements Santanu Das & Kate McLoughlin: Introduction Part One: Unfathomable 1: Kate McLoughlin: Three War Veterans Who Don't Tell War Stories 2: Hope Wolf: Scaling War: Poetic Calibration and Mythic Measures in David Jones's In Parenthesis 3: Vincent Sherry: Imbalances: Mass Death and the Economy of 'Sacrifice' in the Great War Part Two: Scoping the War 4: Sarah Cole: Civilians Writing the War: Metaphor, Proximity, Action 5: Laura Marcus: First World War Film and the Face of Death 6: Christine Froula: The Zeppelin in the Sky of the Mind 7: Mark Rawlinson: Dissent and the Literature of the First World War: Wyndham Lewis and Henry Williamson Part Three: 'Cosmopolitan Sympathies'? 8: Jahan Ramazani: 'Cosmopolitan Sympathies': Poetry of the First Global War 9: Margaret Higonnet: Maternal Cosmopoetics: Käthe Kollwitz and European Women Poets of the First World War 10: Claire Buck: Encountering War, Encountering Others 11: Santanu Das: Entangled Emotions: Race, Encounters and Anti-Colonial Cosmopolitanism Index
£65.00
OUP Oxford New Light on Tony Harrison
Book SynopsisNew Light on Tony Harrison explores the lifetime achievement and influence of one of Britain's greatest living poets; Tony Harrison. It explores his extensive body of poems and his profound contribution to the literary world.Trade ReviewTheir essays combine to form a remarkable celebration of the integrity, depth, learning, intelligence and politics of Britain's most important living poet: the bard of Leeds. * Sean Sheehan, Scottish Left Review *Edith Hall has skilfully edited this disparate collection into an affectionate tribute and an appreciative overview of his poetry. The volume makes a good introduction to the poet and his work, while celebrating TH at 80. * Alan Beale, Classics for all *
£45.00
The University of Chicago Press Virginia Woolf and the Fictions of Psychoanalysis
Book SynopsisA stunning, brilliant, absolutely compelling reading of Woolf through the lens of Kleinian and Freudian psychoanalytic debates about the primacy of maternality and paternality in the construction of consciousness, gender, politics, and the past, and of psychoanalysis through the lens of Woolf's novels and essays. In addition to transforming our understanding of Woolf, this book radically expands our understanding of the historicity and contingent construction of psychoanalytic theory and our vision of the potential of psychoanalytic feminism.Nancy J. Chodorow, University of California at Berkeley Virginia Woolf and the Fictions of Psychoanalysis brings Woolf's extraordinary craftsmanship back into view; the book combines powerful claims about sexual politics and intellectual history with the sort of meticulous, imaginative close reading that leaves us, simply, seeing much more in Woolf's words than we did before. It is the most exciting book on Woolf to come along in some time.Lisa Rud
£23.00
The University of Chicago Press Isak Dinesen the Engendering of Narrative Women
Book SynopsisAlthough Isak Dinesen has been widely acclaimed as a popular writer, her work has received little sustained critical attention. In this revisionist study, Susan Hardy Aiken takes up the complex relations of gender, sexuality, and representation in Dinesen's narratives. Drawing on feminist, psychoanalytic, and post-structuralist theories, Aiken shows how the form and meaning of Dinesen's texts are affected by her doubled situations as a Dane who wrote in English, a European who lived for many years in Africa, and a woman who wrote under a male pseudonym within a male-centered literary tradition. In a series of readings that range across Dinesen's career, Aiken demonstrates that Dinesen persistently asserted the inseparability of gender and the engendering of narrative. She argues that Dinesen's texts anticipate in remarkable ways some of the most radical insights of contemporary literary theories, particularly those of French feminist criticism. Aiken also offers a major rereading of Out of Africa that both addresses its distinctiveness as a colonialist text and places it within Dinesen's larger oeuvre. In Aiken's account, Dinesen's work emerges as a compelling inquiry into sexual difference and the ways it informs culture, subjectivity, and the language that is their medium. This important book will at last give Isak Dinesen's work the prominence it deserves in literary studies.
£38.00
The University of Chicago Press Iris Murdoch the Search for Human Goodness
Book SynopsisComprehensively engaging with Murdoch's work this volume gathers contributions from philosophers, theologians, and a literary critic to explore the significance of her ideas for contemporary thought.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Maria Antonaccio, William Schweiker. 1: Iris Murdoch and Moral Philosophy Charles Taylor 2: Love and Vision: Iris Murdoch on Eros and the Individual Martha C. Nussbaum 3: Iris Murdoch and the Many Faces of Platonism David Tracy 4: "We Are Perpetually Moralists": Iris Murdoch, Fact, and Value Cora Diamond 5: Form and Contingency in Iris Murdoch's Ethics Maria Antonaccio 6: The Green Knight and Other Vagaries of the Spirit; or, Tricks and Images for the Human Soul; or, The Uses of Imaginative Literature Elizabeth Dipple 7: On the Loss of Theism Franklin I. Gamwell 8: Murdochian Muddles: Can We Get Through Them If God Does Not Exist? Stanley Hauerwas 9: The Sovereignty of God's Goodness William Schweiker Appendix: Metaphysics and Ethics Iris Murdoch Bibliography List of Contributors Index
£76.95
The University of Chicago Press Iris Murdoch and the Search for Human Goodness
Book SynopsisComprehensively engaging with Murdoch's work this volume gathers contributions from philosophers, theologians, and a literary critic to explore the significance of her ideas for contemporary thought.
£31.35
The University of Chicago Press My Way Speeches and Poems
Book SynopsisExploring the place of poetry in American culture and in the university, this text addresses issues such as: the role of the public intellectual; the poetics of scholarly prose; vernacular modernism; idiosyncratic postmodernism; identity politics; aesthetics; and poetry as a performance art.
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press Interpreting the Self Two Hundred Years of
Book SynopsisIn this study, Diane Bjorklund explores the historical nature of self-narrative. Examining over 100 American autobiographies, she discusses not only well-known ones such as Mark Twain, but obscure ones such as a minstrel and a hoopskirt wire manufacturer.
£26.00
The University of Chicago Press Madame Proust A Biography
Book SynopsisAims to acquaint Proust fans with Jeanne Weil Proust. This book captures the life and times of Proust's mother, from her German-Jewish background and her marriage to a Catholic grocer's son to her lifelong worries about her son's sexuality, health problems, and talent. It explores the culture of fin de siecle France.Trade Review"Evelyne Bloch-Dano's Madame Proust provides a wealth of new details about Marcel Proust's formative years and illustrates, as never before, the importance of his Jewish heritage. It does so by concentrating on the most important love relationship in Proust's life: the great affection he had for his mother. Carefully researched, richly documented, and skillfully translated by Alice Kaplan, Bloch-Dano's book deserves to be read by all who are interested in the life and works of Marcel Proust." - William C. Carter, author of Marcel Proust: A Life"
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press The Aesthetics of Visual Poetry 19141928
Book SynopsisA full-length study of the visual poetry of the early twentieth century. Bohn illuminates the works of Apollinaire, Josep-Maria Junow, Guillermo de Torre, and others.
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press In the Shadows Light
Book SynopsisThis bilingual edition of the contemporary master's fifth work, Ce qui fut sans lumi, re, includes an extensive new interview with the poet in English translation.
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Nobodys Nation
Book SynopsisThis volume offers an illuminating look at the St Lucian, Nobel prize-winning writer, Derek Walcott, and grounds his work firmly in the context of West Indian history.
£30.40
The University of Chicago Press Hugo Von Hofmannsthal and His Time
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The University of Chicago Press In Praise of Antiheroes Figures and Themes in
Book SynopsisThrough critical readings of key works of modern European literature, Victor Brombert shows how a new kind of hero - the antihero - has arisen to replace the toppled heroic model. The works of Buchner, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Flaubert, Svevo, Hasek, Frisch, Camus and Levi are examined.
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press In Praise of Antiheroes Figures Themes in
Book SynopsisThrough critical readings of key works of modern European literature, Victor Brombert shows how a new kind of hero - the antihero - has arisen to replace the toppled heroic model. The works of Buchner, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Flaubert, Svevo, Hasek, Frisch, Camus and Levi are examined.
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Poetry and Its Others
Book SynopsisWhat is poetry? Often it is understood as a largely self-enclosed verbal system - "suspended from any mutual interaction with alien discourse," in the words of Mikhail Bakhtin. In this book, the author reveals modern and contemporary poetry's animated dialogue with other genres and discourses.Trade Review"It is delightful to watch Jahan Ramazani do what he does best: delve into poets such as Hopkins, Yeats, Heaney, and Muldoon and show us the nitty-gritty of how their verse works. Anyone who loves poetry is going to come away from this book revitalized, prepared to think complexly about the modes of address that poets employ, as well as the kinds of writing that they habitually echo, distort, take apart, and reassemble." (Brian M. Reed, University of Washington)"
£25.00
The University of Chicago Press Until Choice Do Us Part
Book SynopsisFor centuries, people have been thinking and writing - and fiercely debating - about the meaning of marriage. This book offers a new account of marriage as it appeared in fiction, journalism, legal decisions, scholarly work, and private correspondence at the start of the twentieth century.Trade Review"In this fascinating and timely study, Clare Virginia Eby shines in her ability to brings us closer to the emotional and cultural aspects of the Progressive era, and her argument for marriage as a laboratory is extremely compelling. Until Choice Do Us Part will make a terrific addition to seminars on women and gender history, family history, and the history of sexuality-not to mention a number of other disciplines." (Jennifer Fronc, author of New York Undercover)"
£26.00
The University of Chicago Press Hurricane Lamp
Book SynopsisWith my eyes closed, I might have guessed a collaboration between William Empson and Noel Coward. But of course no one could have made up Turner Cassity but himself. The man is a wizard. In these new poems, each as clear and mysterious as crystal, he has conjured all sorts of miniature wonders and nasty home truths. It is the devil's own sorcery-and pure enchantment.-J. D. McClatchy
£21.00
The University of Chicago Press Bound Determined Captivity CultureCrossing
Book SynopsisThis work, covering a period of three centuries, analyzes the narratives of American women that were written whilst being held prisoner by a variety of different captors. It explores the relevance of such narrative for critical investigation into the construction of gender, race and nation.
£26.00
The University of Chicago Press One Kind of Everything Poem and Person in
Book SynopsisElucidates the uses of autobiography and constructions of personhood in American poetry since World War II, with reference to American literature in general since Emerson. Including essays on Robert Lowell, Frank Bidart, Frank O'Hara, and Louise Gluck, the author intends to bridge the chasm between formal and experimental poetry in the US.Trade Review"In demonstrating the prevalence of subjectivity in twentieth-century poetry, Chiasson is scrupulous in his attention to detail: footnotes and attributions to recent criticism amplify his developing argument." (Choice) "Delighting and instructing is exactly what One Kind of Everything accomplishes." (Salamander)"
£999.99
The University of Chicago Press Victorian and Modern Poetics
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£24.00
The University of Chicago Press In the Days of Simon Stern Phoenix Fiction
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£19.00
The University of Chicago Press Elsie Clews Parsons Inventing Modern Life 1997
Book SynopsisElsie Clews Parsons was a pioneering feminist, eminent anthropologist and ardent social critic who challenged Americans to develop flexible and dynamic gender, family and social arrangements. This biography examines the connections linking Parsons' intellectual commitments to her life experience.
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press HardCore Romance
Book SynopsisFrom its beginnings in Twilight fan-fiction to its record-breaking sales as an e-book and paperback, this book tells the story of the erotic romance novel Fifty Shades of Grey and its two sequels. It subjects the Fifty Shades cultural phenomenon to the serious scrutiny it has been begging for.Trade Review"Hard-Core Romance is a wonderfully creative piece of cultural analysis. Writing from a feminist-sociological perspective, Illouz tells us how Fifty Shades of Grey became an international best-seller by providing fantasy resolutions to real-life female dilemmas and self-help for the douleurs of contemporary heterosexuality. A most timely intervention." (Laura Kipnis, author of How to Become a Scandal)"
£19.00
The University of Chicago Press Signs and Cities Black Literary Postmodernism
Book SynopsisDubey argues that for African American studies, postmodernity best names a period, beginning in the early 1970s, marked by acute disenchantment with the promises of urban modernity and of print literacy.
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Kafkas Law The Trial and American Criminal
Book SynopsisShows how The Trial provides an uncanny lens through which to consider flaws in the American criminal justice system today. The author begins with the story, at once funny and grim, of Josef K, caught in the Law's grip and then crushed by it.Trade Review"Burns's distinctive voice-combining that of an experienced practitioner, a legal scholar, and a philosopher-is immensely engaging, deeply serious, and consequential. He has a remarkable, almost kaleidoscopic ability to bring together, while respecting the differences, the very particular nightmare of Kafka's work, the ideas of the great philosophers, and the daily injustices of American law today, all while insisting that we know, and should do, better." (Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Indiana University Bloomington)"
£25.00
The University of Chicago Press Leading a Human Life Wittgenstein Intentionality
Book SynopsisAn account of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations, interpreting the text as displaying the human need to pursue an ideal of expressive freedom within the limits set by culture. The author sees Wittgenstein as a Romantic protagonist pondering on the nature of intentional consciousness.
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press By Words Alone The Holocaust in Literature
Book SynopsisThe creative literature that evolved from the Holocaust constitutes an unprecedented encounter between art and life. Those who wrote about the Holocaust were forced to extend the limits of their imaginations to encompass unspeakably violent extremes of human behavior. The result, as Ezrahi shows in By Words Alone, is a body of literature that transcends national and cultural boundaries and shares a spectrum of attitudes toward the concentration camps and the world beyond, toward the past and the future.
£27.00
University of Chicago Press A Menorah for Athena Charles Reznikoff and the
Book Synopsis"A Menorah for Athena" is an extended treatment of Charles Reznikoff's work, in it Stephen Fredman illuminates the relationship of Jewish intellectuals to modernity through a close look at Reznikoff's life and writing.
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Physics Envy
Book SynopsisAt the close of the Second World War, modernist poets found themselves in an increasingly scientific world, where natural and social sciences claimed exclusive rights to knowledge of both matter and mind. Following the overthrow of the Newtonian worldview and the recent, shocking displays of the power of the atom, physics led the way, with other disciplines often turning to the methods and discoveries of physics for inspiration. In Physics Envy, Peter Middleton examines the influence of science, particularly physics, on American poetry since World War II. He focuses on such diverse poets as Charles Olson, Muriel Rukeyser, Amiri Baraka, and Rae Armantrout, among others, revealing how the methods and language of contemporary natural and social sciences-and even the discourse of the leading popular science magazine Scientific American-shaped their work. The relationship, at times, extended in the other direction as well: leading physicists such as Robert Oppenheimer, Werner Heisenberg, and Erwin SchrA dinger were interested in whether poetry might help them explain the strangeness of the new, quantum world. Physics Envy is a history of science and poetry that shows how ultimately each serves to illuminate the other in its quest for the true nature of things.
£37.05
The University of Chicago Press The Dark Gaze Maurice Blanchot and the Sacred
Book SynopsisA profound reconsideration of how Blanchot work figures theologically in some of the major currents of twentieth-century thought. Hart reveals Blanchot to be a thinker devoted to the possibilities of a spiritual life with the possibilities of leading an ethical life in the absence of God.
£30.00
