Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Books
Louisiana State University Press In the Shadow of Invisibility
Book SynopsisOffers a long-overdue reconsideration of Ralph Ellison, examining the trajectory of his intellectual thought in relation to its resonances in twenty-first-century American culture. Bland charts Ellison’s evolving attitudes on several central topics including democracy, race, identity, social community, place, and political expression.
£30.56
Louisiana State University Press F. Scott Fitzgeralds The Beautiful and Damned
Book SynopsisPublished to coincide with the novel’s centennial in 2022, this collection approaches The Beautiful and Damned for its insights more than its faults. Prominent Fitzgerald scholars analyse major themes and reveal unappreciated issues with attention to history, biography, literary influence, gender studies, and narratology.
£25.95
LOUISIANA ST UNIV PR Taking Things Hard
Book SynopsisF. Scott Fitzgerald published The Great Gatsby, at the age of twenty-eight. Despite this extraordinary early achievement, Fitzgerald finished just one novel in the next (and last) fifteen years of his life. This volume reveals the story behind Gatsby, along with Fitzgerald’s struggle to write anything that matched its brilliance.
£32.25
LSU Press Echo and Critique
Book SynopsisCharts the ways that poets have responded to the cliches of public speech from the start of the Second World War to the present. This innovative study blends close readings with historical context as it traces the development of echo and critique in the work of seven poets.
£31.46
Louisiana State University Press The Achievement of Cormac McCarthy
Book SynopsisNow back in print, Vereen M. Bell’s The Achievement of Cormac McCarthy was the first critical book devoted to an author who would become one of the most celebrated American writers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century.
£19.76
Louisiana State University Press The Evolving Project of Cormac McCarthy
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LSU Press Afterlife
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LSU Press How Cormac Works
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Northwestern University Press The Noise of Time Selected Prose European
Book SynopsisOsip Mandelstam has come to be seen as a central figure in European modernism. This volume includes his autobiographical sketches, ""The Noise of Time""; his novella ""The Egyptian Stamp""; ""Fourth Prose""; and his travel memoirs. There are essays by Clarence Brown.Trade ReviewThe most illuminating commentary on Mandelstam in English at the present moment...A work of impeccable scholarship. - Isaiah Berlin, New York Review of Books; ""In this translation, 'Journey to Armenia' takes its place among the outstanding masterpieces of twentieth century literature."" - Bruce Chatwin
£16.16
Northwestern University Press Style and Time Essays on the Politics of
Book SynopsisOffers a sustained meditation on the role of interruption in modernity. This book departs from and elaborates an important but overlooked dimension of Walter Benjamin's discourse: the question of style as it bears upon temporality and spatiality. This work suggests that the time has come to revise existing paradigms.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Style, Time, and Appearance; Part 1. Working through Walter Benjamin; 1. Benjamin's Modernity; 2. Being Roman Now: The Time of Fashion. A Commentary on Walter Benjamin's ""Theses on the Philosophy of History"" XIV; 3. Benjamin's Style: The Style that is not Jugendstil; Part 2. Unforeseen Appearances; 4. The ""Place"" of Cosmopolitan Architecture; 5. ""In What Style Should We Build?"" The Style of Cosmopolitan Architecture; 6. Refugees, Cosmopolitanism, and the Place of Citizenship; 7. The Matter of a Materialist Philosophy of Art: Bataille's Manet.
£22.46
Northwestern University Press Daniil Kharms Writing and the Event Avantgarde and Modernism Studies AvantGarde and Modernism Studies Paperback
Book SynopsisThe 'texts' of Russian artist and thinker Daniil Kharms (1905-1942) were so many and varied and often unique that they defied categorization. This book view Kharms' oeuvre in its entirety. It offers an understanding of the overall project of this artist and writer considered a major figure in the modernist canon of Europe.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Writer of Disaster; 1. Against Metaphor; 2. Writing Without Difference; 3. Infinity - Letter - Event; 4. Theaters of Terror; 5. Event and Performances; Conclusion: It Happens...; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
£999.99
Northwestern University Press Three Sons
Book SynopsisFranz Kafka was a self-conscious writer whose texts were highly if mysteriously autobiographical. Three giants of contemporary fiction - J M Coetzee, Philip Roth, and W G Sebald - have acknowledged their debt to the work of Kafka. This work shows that the use of Kafka by Coetzee, Roth, and Sebald is similarly self-reflexive and autobiographical.
£999.99
Northwestern University Press Uncanny Encounters Literature Psychoanalysis and
Book SynopsisAround 1900, when the last blank spaces on their maps were filled, Europeans traveled to far-flung places hoping to find traces of the spectacularly foreign. They discovered instead what Freud called, several years later, the uncannily familiar: disturbing reflections of themselveseither actual Europeans or Westernized natives. This experience was most extreme for German travelers, who arrived in the contact zones late, on the heels of other European colonialists, and it resulted not in understanding or tolerance but in an increased propensity for violence and destruction. The quest for a virginal, exotic existence proved to be ruined at its source, mirroring back to the travelers demonic parodies of their own worst aspects. In this strikingly original book, John Zilcosky demonstrates how these popular uncanny encounters influenced Freud'sand the literary modernists'use of the term, and how these encounters remain at the heart of our crosscultural anxieties today.
£26.55
Northwestern University Press Beckett After Wittgenstein
Book SynopsisAmong the best-represented authors in Samuel Beckett's library was Ludwig Wittgenstein, yet the philosopher's relevance to the Nobel laureate's work is scarcely acknowledged and seldom elucidated. Beckett after Wittgenstein is the first book to examine Beckett's formative encounters with, and profound affinities to, Wittgenstein's thought, style, and character.
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Northwestern University Press They Have All Been Healed Reading Robert Walser
Book SynopsisIn perhaps the most provocative reading to date of the Swiss German modernist Robert Walser, Walter Benjamin asserted that Walser's figures have all been healed. They Have All Been Healed takes up and extends Benjamin's assessment by following the figure of healing throughout major works by Walser.
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Northwestern University Press Long Shadows The Second World War in British
Book SynopsisFew countries attribute as much importance to the Second World War and its memory as Britain. Long Shadows is about how literature and film have helped shape this process. More precisely, these essays suggest that this is a continuous work in progress, subject to transgenerational revisions, political expediencies, commercial considerations, and the vicissitudes of popular taste.
£29.71
Northwestern University Press James Joyce and the Philosophers at Finnegans
Book SynopsisExplores how Joyce used the philosophers Nicholas Cusanus, Giordano Bruno, and Giambattista Vico as the basis upon which to write Finnegans Wake. Joyce embraces these philosophic companions to lead him through the underworld of history with all its repetitions and resurrections, oppositions and recombinations.
£27.96
Northwestern University Press ThirdGeneration Holocaust Representation Trauma
Book SynopsisArgues that Holocaust literary representation has continued to flourish well into the twenty-first century. This bold new work examines those structures, tropes, patterns, ironies, disjunctions, and overall tensions that produce a literature that laments unrecoverable loss for a generation removed spatially and temporally from the extended trauma of the Holocaust.
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Northwestern University Press Nabokov Upside Down
Book SynopsisBrings together essays that explicitly diverge from conventional topics and points of reference when interpreting a writer whose influence on contemporary literature is unrivalled. Scholars from around the world here read Nabokov in terms of bodies rather than minds, belly-laughs rather than erudite wit, servants rather than master-artists, or Asian rather than Western perspectives.
£27.96
Northwestern University Press Nabokov Upside Down
Book SynopsisBrings together essays that explicitly diverge from conventional topics and points of reference when interpreting a writer whose influence on contemporary literature is unrivalled. Scholars from around the world here read Nabokov in terms of bodies rather than minds, belly-laughs rather than erudite wit, servants rather than master-artists, or Asian rather than Western perspectives.
£89.10
Northwestern University Press Poland the Holocaust Eyewitness Testimonies
Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking study of responses to the Holocaust in wartime and postwar Polish literature explores seven writers' compulsive need to share their traumatic experience of witness with the world. It is a particularly timely book in view of the continuing debates about the attitudes of Poles toward the Jews during the war.Table of Contents 1. The Holocaust in Polish Consciousness: Early Literary Representations 2. The Moral Failure of the Enlightened Witness of the Holocaust: Kornel Filipowicz, Józef Mackiewicz, and Tadeusz Borowski 3. Re-thinking Christian theology in the Time of the Holocaust: Zofia Kossak–Szczucka 4. The Humanistic Crisis of a Godless World: Leopold Buczkowski 5. Catholic Existentialism in Face of the Occupation and the Holocaust: Jerzy Andrzejewski 6. The Holocaust and a Vision of Polish-Jewish Kinship: Stefan Otwinowski Epilogue Notes Index
£27.96
Northwestern University Press The Hygienic Apparatus
Book SynopsisFraming hygiene within the project of national reconstruction after World War I, The Hygienic Apparatus explores cinema's material contexts alongside its representations of housework, urban space, traffic, pollution, disability, aging, and labour.Trade Review“This study brilliantly unpacks the imbrications between early German cinema and a pervasive concern with hygiene, understood as a set of ideas and techniques for managing the interactions between bodies and environments. Dobryden shows how hygienic thinking impacted not only filmic representations and the development of distinct genres, but also the understanding of cinema more broadly: its spaces of production and reception, its technological development, and its power to bolster or disrupt the disciplinary regimes of industrial capitalism.” —Michael Cowan, author of Walter Ruttmann and the Cinema of Multiplicity: Avant-Garde Film—Advertising—Modernity“The Hygienic Apparatus beautifully weaves together two aspects of German modernity that are usually considered separately: the simultaneously unfolding trajectories of hygienic discourse and of cinema during the early decades of the twentieth century. It demonstrates on the one hand how nonfiction films on topics as diverse as the design of urban and domestic space, the perils of big city traffic, and sexual and reproductive life helped define a new hygienic imaginary, and on the other hand how feature films forged a counter-hygienic alternative to the powerfully normative schemas that emerged from the modern obsession with efficiency, order and health.” —Andreas Killen, author of Homo Cinematicus: Science, Motion Pictures, and the Making of Modern Germany“In this superb reconsideration of Weimar cinema, Paul Dobryden places film at the heart of a struggle for environmental and hygienic control that is at once fascinating and unnervingly timely. Connecting architecture and infrastructure, biopolitics and disability, and both canonical and forgotten figures of early German cinema, The Hygienic Apparatus offers a model of how capacious cultural film histories should be written and important lessons for scholars of German history and the environmental humanities.” —Brian R. Jacobson, author of Studios Before the System: Architecture, Technology, and the Emergence of Cinematic SpaceTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Hygiene, Cinema, and German Modernity 1. The Hygienic Dispositif: Health and the Movie Theater Environment 2. Hygienic Modernization: Visions of Environmental Order in the Weimar Kulturfilm 3. Matter Out of Place: Pollution and Distraction in F.W. Murnau's Faust 4. Bodies Out of Place: Images of Disability and Aging 5. Landscapes of Exploitation: Environmental Disorder and Late Weimar Oppositional Filmmaking Afterword: Hygiene and Media, Then and Now Filmography Notes Bibliography Index
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Northwestern University Press Cannibal Translation Volume 44
Book SynopsisCannibal translators digest, recombine, transform, and trouble their source materials. Isabel Gomez makes the case for this model of literary production by excavating a network of translation projects in Latin America that includes canonical writers of the twentieth century.Trade Review“Gómez’s hugely erudite, multidisciplinary study of translation in Latin America--which finds theoretical sources not only in translation studies but also in anthropology, philosophy, Latin American studies, and other fields--brilliantly decolonizes, decenters, contests, and undoes prevailing paradigms. Gómez pushes back on translation studies’ Anglocentric tendencies by focusing primarily on translations between Spanish and Portuguese, and pushes boundaries in other directions, as well, not limiting her analyses to the printed word but including songs, graphic design, and even, in the final chapter (which redefines translation once again), digital media from Augusto de Campos’s Instagram account.” - Esther Allen, translator of Zama by Antonio Di Benedetto“Cannibalism has been a provocative metaphor for translation, especially in Isabel C. Gómez’s fascinating study. Through her close readings, Gómez analyzes the vital function of mutual translations or transcreations among great poets and translators in Spanish, Portuguese, and English as a gift, or an act of literary reciprocity.” - Suzanne Jill Levine, author of The Subversive Scribe: Translating Latin American FictionTable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Thirteen Theses on Cannibal Translation Introduction Chapter 1: Unrequited Gifts and Perilous Translations Chapter 2: Belated Encounters between Latin American Translators Chapter 3: Intersectional Translation, Gendered Authority, and Biographical Positionality Chapter 4: Translingual Editing for a Latin American Canon at Biblioteca Ayacucho Chapter 5: Approximation, Untranslation, and World Literature as Heteronym Conclusion: Cannibal Translation Futures Bibliography Notes
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Northwestern University Press The Aesthetics of Mythmaking in German Postwar
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Northwestern University Press Radio Free Stein
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New Directions Publishing Corporation Baudelaire
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New Directions Publishing Corporation Vienna Blood Poetry
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New Directions Publishing Corporation Of the Great House Poetry
Book SynopsisA collection of poems discussing illusion and reality, the nature of time, and the meaning of death
£12.34
New Directions Publishing Corporation The Novel Poem
Book Synopsis'The Novel' is a booklength poem which examines the privilege of the novelist from the poet's point of view, asking in both astonishment and disappointment: why is the novelist at once the most lordly and common of authors?
£9.67
New Directions Publishing Corporation Baby Doll Tiger Tail
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New Directions Publishing Corporation The Man with the Heart in the Highlands Other
Book SynopsisOffers a selecttion of the master of human comedy's short stories from the 1930s and 1940s.
£10.99
New Directions Publishing Corporation Frame Structures
Book SynopsisIn Frame Structures, Susan Howe brings together those of her earliest poems she wishes to remain in print, and in the forms in which she cares to have them last.Trade Review"Her work is a voyage of reconnaissance in language, a sounding out of ancient hiding places,and it is a voyage full of risks. ''Words are the only clues we have,'' she has said. ''What if they fail us?''" -- Geoffrey O'Brien - Poetry Pilot
£12.34
University of Pennsylvania Press The Language of Fiction in a World of Pain
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University of Pennsylvania Press Beyond the Red Notebook
Book SynopsisThe novels of Paul Auster have captured the imagination of readers and the admiration of many critics of contemporary literature. In Beyond the Red Notebook, the first book devoted to the works of Auster, an international group of scholars provide a rich and insightful examination of Auster's writings.Trade Review"This is the first book on Auster and is sure to be the foundation of most Auster criticism to follow." * Review of Contemporary Fiction *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Paul Auster and the Postmodern American Novel Paul Auster, or The Heir Intestate Paul Auster's Pseudonymous World In the Realm of the Naked Eye: The Poetry of Paul Auster "The Hunger Must Be Preserved at All Cost": A Reading of The Invention of Solitude The Detective and the Author: City of Glass Auster's Sublime Closure: The Locked Room "Looking for Signs in the Air": Urban Space and the Postmodern in In the Country of Last Things Inside Moon Palace The Music of Chance: Aleatorical (Dis)harmonies Within "The City of the World" Leviathan: Post Hoc Harmonies A Look Back from the Horizon Being Paul Auster's Ghost Paul Auster: A Selected Bibliography Contributors Index
£21.59
University of Pennsylvania Press American Magic and Dread
Book SynopsisA strongly argued analysis and close reading of Delillo's works... There is much here in the methodology and discussion of postmodern themes and techniques that will have relevance to American studies and cultural studies more widely.-Forum for Modern Language StudiesTrade Review"Osteen's wide-ranging knowledge of media history and theory and ability to draw upon a variety of theoretical approaches with great clarity convincingly links DeLillo to the major intellectual currents of our times. This is just the sort of book to generate a livelier discussion of DeLillo's place in the postmodern canon." * David Cowart, University of South Carolina *"A strongly argued analysis and close reading of Delillo's works. . . . There is much here in the methodology and discussion of postmodern themes and techniques that will have relevance to American studies and cultural studies more widely." * Forum for Modern Language Studies *
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University of Pennsylvania Press Suspicious Readings of Joyces Dubliners
Book SynopsisAnalyzes the stories in James Joyce's "Dubliners". This work examines the text for counterindictions and draws on the social context of the writing in order to offer readings from diverse theoretical perspectives.Trade Review"A sophisticated, provocative, and thoroughly original approach to Joyce's stories, especially to the peculiarities of their narrative style. It is difficult to think of another book on Joyce published over the last fifteen years of comparable significance."-Jean-Michel Rabate, University of Pennsylvania
£49.30
University of Pennsylvania Press Modern Women Modern Work
Book SynopsisFocuses on literary authors, social reformers, journalists, and anthropologists. This work demonstrates how women intellectuals in early 20th century America combined and criticized ideas from both the Victorian cult of domesticity" and the modern "culture of professionalism" to shape new kinds of writing and new kinds of work for themselves.Trade Review"This stimulating study focuses on ways in which women who understood themselves as 'professionals' in the years between the final decades of the nineteenth century and the 1940s used the values of their feminine 'past'-sometimes identified as 'the cult of domesticity'-to highlight and criticize contradictions in modern professionalism." * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction. We Other Victorians: Domesticity and Modern Professionalism Chapter 1. Domesticity, Cultivation, and Vocation in Jane Addams and Sarah Orne Jewett Chapter 2. Situated Expertise: Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, Pauline Hopkins, and the NACW Chapter 3. Naturalist Sentimentalism and Cultural Authority in Frank Norris and George Santayana Chapter 4. "Going Over to the Standard": The Paradoxes of Objectivity in Ida Tarbell and Willa Cather Chapter 5. Objective Domestic Critique: Anthropology and Social Reform in Ruth Benedict and Zora Neale Hurston Afterword Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index
£49.30
University of Pennsylvania Press Deans and Truants
Book SynopsisFor a work to be considered African American literature, does it need to focus on African American characters? Or is it enough for the author to be identified as African American? Jarrett traces the shifting definitions of African American literature and the authors who wrote beyond those boundaries at the cost of critical dismissal or obscurity.Trade Review"Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature is a richly textured study of theoretical conceptions of the African American canon as well as primary and secondary sources." * American Literature *"In Deans and Truants Gene Jarrett has inaugurated an entirely new approach to the subject of canon-formation in African American literature, insisting that we expand our definition of the tradition to include black authors who chose not to write about race and who, consequently, have often found their works uncollected and unanalyzed, if not severely critiqued. Jarrett's cogent and compelling argument is sure to generate debate and, ultimately, lead to a reconsideration of what, exactly, is 'African American' about African American literature. This is a very important book and marks the inaugural intervention of one of the major scholars and critics of African American literature of a new generation." * Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University *"While challenging the standard notion of black literature, this readable, engaging work also provides insightful analyses of such understudied works as Morrison's short story 'Recitatif,' Yerby's historical novel The Foxes of Harrow, and Schuyler's satirical novel Black No More." * Choice *"Selecting a wide range of writing, poetry, novels, short stories, satire, and criticism, Jarrett shows how the reception of certain authors and their texts has defined what is and is not considered African American literature to this day. . . . This book is well written and as nicely nuanced as the topic it addresses." * Journal of American Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Problem of African American Literature 1. Entirely Black Verse from Him Would Succeed 2. We Must Write Like the White Men 3. The Conventional Blindness of the Caucasian Eye 4. The Impress of Nationality Rather than Race 5. A Negro Peoples' Movement in Writing 6. The Race Problem Was Not a Theme for Me 7. A-World-in-Which-Race-Does-Not-Matter Notes Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Neither the Time nor the Place
Book SynopsisThe usefulness of time and place as defining categories would seem to be baked into the very notion of nineteenth-century American literary studies, yet they have challenged scholars practically since the field's inception. In Neither the Time nor the Place seventeen critics consider how the space-time dyad has both troubled and invigorated Americanist scholarship in recent decades and make explicit how time and place are best considered in tandem, interrogating each other. Taken together, the essays challenge depictions of place and time as bounded and linear, fixed and teleological, or mere ideological constructions. They address both familiar and unexpected objects, practices, and texts, including a born-digital Melville, documents from the construction of the Panama Canal, the hollow earth, the desiring body, textual editing, marble statuary, the sound of frogs, spirit photography, and twentieth-century Civil War fiction. The essays draw on an equally wide variety of critical met
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida The Book of Yeatss Poems
Book SynopsisA study of all of the poems Yeats wished to include in his volume of collected poetry, which reveals a canon carefully constructed to tell a dramatic story. The author's commentary is particularly concerned with the order of Yeats' poems.
£18.86
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida The Harlem and Irish Renaissances Language Identity and Representation
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Advertising and Commodity Culture in Joyce
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Zora Neale Hurston and American Literary Culture
Book SynopsisGenevieve West examines the cultural history of Zora Neale Hurston's writing and the reception of her work, in an attempt to explain why Hurston died in obscure poverty only to be reclaimed as an important Harlem Renaissance writer decades after her death.
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida We Are Imazighen
Book SynopsisTo the world they are known as Berbers, but they prefer to call themselves Imazighen, or “free people”. By tracing the cultural production of the Kabyle people—their songs, oral traditions, and literature—from the early 1930s to the end of the twentieth century, Fazia Aïtel shows how they have defined their own culture over time, both within Algeria and in its diaspora.
£52.70
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Mina Loys Critical Modernism
Book SynopsisProvides a fresh assessment of the works of British-born poet and painter Mina Loy. Laura Scuriatti shows how Loy's “eccentric” writing and art celebrate ideas central to the modernist movement while simultaneously critiquing them, resulting in a continually self-reflexive and detached stance that Scuriatti terms “critical modernism”.
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Virginia Woolf the War Without the War Within
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Lounsberry establishes how central to Woolf’s personal and creative being was diary-writing.”—Panthea Reid, author of Art and Affection: A Life of Virginia Woolf “A tour de force. Insightfully retraces Woolf’s movement from joyful confidence to restless struggles, persuasively illustrates the antiwar nature of all of Woolf’s work during the 1930s, and movingly interprets Woolf’s last diary entry.”—Beth Rigel Daugherty, coeditor of Approaches to Teaching Woolf’s “To the Lighthouse”
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Allusions in Omeros
Book SynopsisOmeros, a transatlantic Homeric epic poem, is widely considered the masterwork of Nobel laureate Derek Walcott and one of the most important pieces of postcolonial Caribbean literature. Yet it is also Walcott’s most challenging work. This guide provides exhaustive textual annotations and is the ideal resource for mapping the intricate matrix of allusions in this influential poem.
£52.70
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Joyce and Geometry
Book SynopsisReveals the full extent to which the modernist writer James Joyce was influenced by the radical theories of non-Euclidean geometry. Tracing Joyce's obsession with measuring and mapping space throughout his works, Ciaran McMorran delves into a major theme in Joyce's work that has not been thoroughly explored until now.
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