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Understanding Badiou, Understanding Modernism

"In his philosophical project, aesthetic orientation and political leanings, Alain Badiou is a product of, and a leading advocate for, European modernism. From the milieu of May 1968 to the contempor…

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Leslie Fiedler
Love and Death in the American Novel

A provocative work of American literary criticism covering Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Faulkner, and others. Fielder's groundbreaking work changed the way we…

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Paul Kent
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse - Volume 2: Mid-Season Form

In 1915, and for the next decade or so, P.G. Wodehouse's fictional world mushroomed within his imagination. His best-known creations, Jeeves and Bertie, arrived in that year, as did Lord Emsworth and many…

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Melissa Funke
Phryne

How did Mnesarete, a girl from Boeotia, turn into Phryne the famous beauty, and how did she end up as an enduring symbol of ancient Greek culture? This book pieces together the story of the notorious four…

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Thomas Gustafson
American Anti-Pastoral

Combining literary analysis with historical research, Thomas Gustafson examines how Philip Roth's acclaimed 1997 novel American Pastoral draws upon the history of Brookside, New Jersey as its model for th…

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Thomas Gustafson
American Anti-Pastoral

Combining literary analysis with historical research, Thomas Gustafson examines how Philip Roth's acclaimed 1997 novel American Pastoral draws upon the history of Brookside, New Jersey as its model for th…

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Stephen Yeager
Chaucer's Problem of Prose

This book examines how Chaucer's innovative use of prose inThe Canterbury Tales reflects the complex political anxieties surrounding writing and media in fourteenth-century England.

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Reparation, Restitution, and the Politics of Memory / Réparation, restitution et les politiques de la mémoire

Beyond Universalism / Partager l¿universel, 3

Over the past two decades, the concepts of reparation, restitution, and commemorative culture have gained momentum in academic, activist, artistic, and political contexts. How can the humanities help addr…

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John Julius Norwich
The Ultimate Christmas Cracker

In 1969, John Julius Norwich, the legendary popular historian, gathered together the favourite things he'd come across in the last 365 days into one short charming pamphlet. Initially just a treat for his…

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Shakespeare and Comics

From their inception, 'low culture' comics have intersected with the 'high culture' of Shakespeare. This is the first book-length collection dedicated entirely to the exploration of this collision.Its cha…

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David Streitfeld
Western Star

By his longtime friend and a Pulitzer Prize--winning journalist, the definitive biography of Larry McMurtry, the legendary author and screenwriter of Lonesome Dove , The Last Picture Show , and Brokeback …

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Erica Weaver
The Hermeneutics of Distraction in Early Medieval England

This book writes the cultural and intellectual history of distraction through the study of the affective practices of a particular community of medieval writers and readers: the influential circle of Æthe…

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Stefano Serafini
Gothic Italy

Gothic Italy explores how the Gothic permeated and shaped the project of nation-building in the aftermath of Italy's unification.

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,
We Have Ceased to See the Purpose

This collection brings together ten of Nobel Prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's most memorable and consequential speeches, delivered in the West and in Russia between 1972 and 1997. Following his exile…

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Nicholas Jenkins
The Island

Nicholas Jenkins explores war, love, and politics in the early works of W. H. Auden, one of the twentieth century's most controversial and moving poets. Auden's poems embraced both haunted meditations on …

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Ken Krimstein
Einstein in Kafkaland

From award-winning New Yorker cartoonist Ken Krimstein, a brilliant graphic narrative revealing the pivotal year in Prague when Einstein became "Einstein," Kafka became "Kafka," and ev…

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Haun Saussy
The Making of Barbarians

A groundbreaking account of translation and identity in the Chinese literary tradition before 1850—with important ramifications for today Debates on the canon, multiculturalism, and world literature ofte…

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The Passenger: Thailand

**Fully-illustrated, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world. **IN THIS VOLUME: Buddhism, the State, and Superpowers by Pitchaya Sudbanthad - The …

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Antonios Pontoropoulos
Writing Herstory Through Ancient Greek Letters

The first comprehensive feminist reading of ancient Greek fictional letter collections.

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Lili Berger,
On the Waves of Destiny

On the Waves of Destiny is a powerful collection of essays and works of fiction that introduces English-speaking readers to Lili Berger, one of the most prolific and insightful Yiddish women writers of th…

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