Literary Studies: from c 1900
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Spoon River America: Edgar Lee Masters and the Myth of the American Small Town
Jason StacyCurrent price €26.99Original price €29.99From Main Street to Stranger Things, how poetry changed our idea of small town life A literary and cultural milestone, Spoon River Anthology captur...
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Tales of an Eastern Port: The Singapore Novellas of Joseph Conrad
Joseph ConradCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50Singapore in the writings of Joseph Conrad: a node in the networks of colonial modernity. In the 1880s, Joseph Conrad spent three extended stints i...
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Jane Austen and Literary Theory
Shawn NormandinCurrent price €43.19Original price €47.99Jane Austen was one of the most adventurous thinkers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, but one would probably never guess that...
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Outside Literary Studies: Black Criticism and the University
Dr. Andy HinesCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50A timely reconsideration of the history of the profession, Outside Literary Studies investigates how midcentury Black writers built a critical prac...
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Bringing Up War-Babies: The Wartime Child in Womens Writing and Psychoanalysis at Mid-Century
Amanda JonesCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99The figure of the wartime child in the mid-twentieth century unsettles and disturbs. This book employs a range of material biographical, literary ...
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The Inner Adventure: Conversations with Louis Calaferte
James J. ButcherCurrent price €56.69Original price €62.99Calaferte had recently been awarded the Grand Prix National des Lettres when he sat down with Jean-Pierre Pauty, a friend and movie director, to di...
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Ferdinand von Schirach: Zwischen Literatur und Recht
Julian GoughCurrent price €101.69Original price €112.99Ferdinand von Schirach war lange Strafverteidiger, bevor er mit dem Erzählband Verbrechen einen sensationellen Debüterfolg feierte. Seither hat er ...
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The Sociocultural Functions of Edwardian Book Inscriptions: Taking a Multimodal Ethnohistorical Approach
Lauren Alex O'HaganCurrent price €40.01Original price €45.99This innovative text draws on theories and methodologies from the fields of multimodality, ethnography, and literacy studies to explore the sociocu...
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Sexuality, Gender and Nationalism in Caribbean Literature
Kate HouldenCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This book is the first to focus exclusively on issues of gender and sexuality in a range of post-war novels from the Anglophone Caribbean. Concentr...
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Barbara Kingsolver''s World: Nature, Art, and the Twenty-First Century, Revised Edition
Prof Linda Wagner-MartinCurrent price €93.59Original price €103.99Current price €93.59Original price €103.99Save 10% -
Barbara Kingsolver''s World: Nature, Art, and the Twenty-First Century, Revised Edition
Prof Linda Wagner-MartinCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50Current price €24.75Original price €27.50Save 10% -
Borges''s Creative Infidelities: Translating Joyce, Woolf and Faulkner
Dr. Leah Leone AndersonCurrent price €90.47Original price €103.99Using comparative analyses of source and target texts, Leone Anderson examines Jorge Luis Borgess residual presence in his Spanish-language transla...
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Norman Mailer''s Later Fictions: Ancient Evenings through Castle in the Forest
J. Whalen-BridgeCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Norman Mailer s Later Fiction considers five works - Ancient Evenings (1983), Tough Guys Don t Dance (1984), Harlot's Ghost (1991), The Gospel Acco...
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Or Orwell: Writing and Democratic Socialism
Alex WolochCurrent price €53.09Original price €58.99There have been many studies of George Orwells life and work, but nothing quite like this book by Alex Wolochan exuberant, revisionary account of O...
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A Companion to David Foster Wallace Studies
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €101.69Original price €112.99Criticism of the work of David Foster Wallace has tended to be atomistic, focusing on a single aspect of individual works. A Companion to the Work ...
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The Composition of Sense in Gertrude Stein''s Landscape Writing
Linda VorisCurrent price €83.69Original price €92.99This book offers a bold critical method for reading Gertrude Steins work on its own terms by forgoing conventional explanation and adopting Steins ...
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Freak Shows and the Modern American Imagination: Constructing the Damaged Body from Willa Cather to Truman Capote
T. FahyCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This book examines the artistic use of freak shows between 1900-1950. During this period, the freak show shifted from a highly popular and profitab...
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Repression and Realism in Post-War American Literature
E. MercerCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This study of fiction produced in America in the decade following 1945 examines literature by writers such as Kerouac and Bellow. It examines how, ...
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Reading Vietnam Amid the War on Terror
T. HawkinsCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Argues that the examination of contemporary American war narratives can lead to newfound understandings of American literature, American history, a...
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American Authorship and Autobiographical Narrative: Mailer, Wideman, Eggers
Jonathan DAmoreCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This book explores the conflicted relationship writers have with their public image, particularly when they have written about their personal lives...
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Amnesia and Redress in Contemporary American Fiction: Counterhistory
M. GauthierCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This book shows how a political and cultural dynamic of amnesia and truth telling shapes literary constructions of history. Gauthier focuses on the...
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Fetishism and Its Discontents in Post-1960 American Fiction
C. KocelaCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This study explores the concept of fetishism as a strategy for expressing social and political discontent in American literature, and for negotiati...
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The Middle Class in the Great Depression: Popular Womens Novels of the 1930s
Jennifer HaytockCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99In contrast to most studies of literature from the Great Depression which focus on representations of poverty, labor, and radicalism, this project ...
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Charles Bukowski, King of the Underground: From Obscurity to Literary Icon
A. DebrittoCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99This critical study of the literary magazines, underground newspapers, and small press publications that had an impact on Charles Bukowski's early ...
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