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Writing, Representation and Postcolonial Nostalgias

Writing, Representation and Postcolonial Nostalgias

Author: Walder Dennis
ISBN: 9780415445337
Format: Undefined
$153.15 $176.00

Examining prose, poetry and drama by writers including Achebe, Naipaul, Coetzee, Walcott, Krog, Fugard, and versions of Shakespeare, this title pursues the often ambiguous paths of nostalgia as it has been represented within and...

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Positionen Der Germanistik in Der Ddr: Personen - Forschungsfelder - Organisationsformen

Positionen Der Germanistik in Der Ddr: Personen - Forschungsfelder - Organisationsformen

Author: Jan Calln ,  Franz-Josef Holznagel
ISBN: 9783110201345
Format: Hardback
$230.40

This collected volume contains chapters on different generations of scholars and various academic institutions (universities, Academy of Sciences, National Research and Memorial Sites of Classical German Literature in Weimar,...

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Teaching Theory

Teaching Theory

Author: Richard Bradford ,  C B Knights
ISBN: 9780230520745
Format: Paperback
$43.70

This new volume in the 'Teaching the New English' series aims to provide a historical view of the teaching of literary theory in universities, a current survey and aims for the teaching of theory in the future.

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A Universal History of the Destruction of Books: From Ancient Sumer to Modern Iraq

A Universal History of the Destruction of Books: From Ancient Sumer to Modern Iraq

Author: Fernando Baez ,  Alfred MacAdam
ISBN: 9781934633243
Format: Paperback
$21.50 $24.69

Baez's well-researched work traces a tragic story: the widespread looting of libraries, book burnings, and censorship against authors past and present as well as the motives behind the destruction of books.

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Philodemus, on Poems, Books 3-4: With the Fragments of Aristotle, on Poets

Philodemus, on Poems, Books 3-4: With the Fragments of Aristotle, on Poets

Author: Richard Janko
ISBN: 9780199572076
Format: Paperback
$408.90 $470.00

An edition, with Greek text, translation, and scholarly commentary, of Books 3 and 4 of the On Poems by the Epicurean philosopher and poet Philodemus of Gadara (1st century BC). Philodemus's work offers unique insights into...

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Larynx Galaxy: Prose Poems

Larynx Galaxy: Prose Poems

Author: John Olson
ISBN: 9780984264032
Format: Paperback
$28.60 $32.83

John Olson's ninth book of new poetry and prose poems, after his well received Backscatter: New and Selected Poems two years ago. Olson's prose poems have been published widely around the world and his essays are frequently seen...

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Voices of the Fourth Generation: China's Poets Today

Voices of the Fourth Generation: China's Poets Today

Author: Keming Liu ,  Keming Liu
ISBN: 9781891640582
Format: Paperback
$31.20 $32.83

For the first time in bilingual format, this book showcases outstanding poetry emerging from a vibrant and rapidly developing cultural scene and also introduces some of China's hottest visual artists and their work.

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The Moon Belongs to No One: New and Selected Poems

The Moon Belongs to No One: New and Selected Poems

Author: Glen Phillips
ISBN: 9781844715282
Format: Undefined
$30.00 $34.48

Presents three basic themes - scenes from Shanghai life in today's China, ancient granite landscapes of Western Australia and travelling in Australia and Italy. This title features poems that were part of a major presentation by...

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Mensch Und Gott

Mensch Und Gott

Author:
ISBN: 9783598249914
Format: Hardback
$620.45

Thispart volumecovers the topic areas of the Bible, Apocrypha, hagiography, liturgy and devotion, care of souls, preaching and edification.

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Behaving Like Fools: Voice, Gesture, and Laughter in Texts, Manuscripts, and Early Books

Behaving Like Fools: Voice, Gesture, and Laughter in Texts, Manuscripts, and Early Books

Author: L Perry ,  A Schwartz
ISBN: 9782503531571
Format: Hardback
$181.40 $190.91

The period from 1200 to 1600 was the golden age of fools. There is almost no Arthurian hero without a phase of madness, and almost no gothic church without mocking misericords, not to speak of the spread of the literature and the...

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Furor and Mystery and Other Poems

Furor and Mystery and Other Poems

Author: Rene Char
ISBN: 9780984264025
Format: Paperback
$34.40 $39.50

Rene Char (1907-1988) was one of France's most respected 20th century poets. Part of the Surrealist group in the late 1920's-1930's, he gradually drifted away from the group. During WWII he joined the resistance and wrote his...

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Around the Book: Systems and Literacy - Kafka, Benjamin, Derrida

Around the Book: Systems and Literacy - Kafka, Benjamin, Derrida

Author: Henry Sussman
ISBN: 9780823232833
Format: Hardback
$123.45

Offers a status report and theoretically nuanced update on the traditions and medium of the book. This study highlights some of the most radical experiments in the book's history as trials in what the author terms the 'Prevailing...

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King Lear

King Lear

Author: William Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781551119670
Format: Paperback
$11.30 $12.95

An essay on the play in performance and source material and scholarship notes accompany the text of the tragedy.

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English Fragments: A Brief History of the Soul

English Fragments: A Brief History of the Soul

Author: Martin Corless-Smith
ISBN: 9781934200384
Format: Paperback
$24.35 $27.98

The final volume in a trilogy of alternate selves and alternate literary histories

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Nick Demske

Nick Demske

Author: Nick Demske
ISBN: 9781934200391
Format: Paperback
$24.30 $27.90

His name is a transcendant uber-obsenity that can be understood universally by speakers of any language.

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Artful Assassins: Murder as Art in Modern Mexico

Artful Assassins: Murder as Art in Modern Mexico

Author: Fernando Fabio Sanchez
ISBN: 9780826517265
Format: Paperback
$90.55

Violence as a way of life, and murder as a political tool. This philosophy is nothing new to Mexico, most recently demonstrated in the wave of assassination and indiscriminate killing brought on by the drug war gripping the...

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The Network

The Network

Author: Jena Osman
ISBN: 9781934200407
Format: Paperback
$25.70 $29.54

A practitioner of socio-literary engagement continues her investigations in this network of connective texts.

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Foreign Accents: Chinese American Verse from Exclusion to Postethnicity

Foreign Accents: Chinese American Verse from Exclusion to Postethnicity

Author: Steven G. Yao
ISBN: 9780199730339
Format: Paperback
$107.00

Foreign Accents sets forth a historical poetics of verse by writers of Chinese descent in the U.S. from the early twentieth century to the present. With readings of works by Ezra Pound, Li-young Lee, Marilyn Chin, Ha Jin, and John...

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Indian Angles: English Verse in Colonial India from Jones to Tagore

Indian Angles: English Verse in Colonial India from Jones to Tagore

Author: Mary Ellis Gibson
ISBN: 9780821419410
Format: Paperback
$65.75

In Indian Angles, Mary Ellis Gibson provides a new historical approach to Indian English literature. Gibson shows that poetry, not fiction, was the dominant literary genre of Indian writing in English until 1860 and that poetry...

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Re-reading Poets: The Life of the Author

Re-reading Poets: The Life of the Author

Author: Paul Kameen
ISBN: 9780822961079
Format: Paperback
$41.10

Paul Kameen reflects on the life and works of several famous poets. This serves as his foundation to explore a range of critical, intellectual, and cultural issues and to reestablish the value of poetry for everyone.

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The Terror of Natural Right: Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, and the French Revolution

The Terror of Natural Right: Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, and the French Revolution

Author: Dan Edelstein
ISBN: 9780226184395
Format: Paperback
$35.80 $41.14

During the French Revolution, the tradition of 'Natural Right' was interpreted to justify the most repressive actions of the violent period known as the Terror. This work challenges the prevailing assumptions of the Terror to...

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The Self-deceiving Muse: Notice and Knowledge in the Work of Art

The Self-deceiving Muse: Notice and Knowledge in the Work of Art

Author: Alan Singer
ISBN: 9780271037219
Format: Paperback
$123.35

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A World Among These Islands: Essays on Literature, Race, and National Identity in Antillean America

A World Among These Islands: Essays on Literature, Race, and National Identity in Antillean America

Author: Roberto Marquez
ISBN: 9781558498518
Format: Paperback
$38.60 $44.35

Literary essays that embrace a pan-Caribbean perspective

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To See the Earth Before the End of the World

To See the Earth Before the End of the World

Author: Ed Roberson
ISBN: 9780819569509
Format: Paperback
$32.85 $37.77

Generous, visionary new work by this major American poet

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Five Plays

Five Plays

Author: Anton Chekhov ,  Marina Brodskaya ,  Tobias Wolff
ISBN: 9780804769655
Format: Paperback
$82.30

A fresh, lively, accurate, and, for the first time, complete translation in English of Chekhov's five most famous plays.

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