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Seneca, Epistulae Morales Book 2: A Commentary with Text, Translation, and Introduction
Janja SoldoCurrent price €138.59Original price €153.99When Seneca the Younger turned his back on politics, having previously advised the increasingly volatile Emperor Nero, he became one of Rome's most...
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Critical Terrains: French and British Orientalisms
Lisa LoweCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99Examining and historicizing the concept of otherness in both literature and criticism, Lisa Lowe explores representations of non-European cultures ...
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Franz Kafka: The Necessity of Form
Stanley CorngoldCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99In Stanley Corngolds view, the themes and strategies of Kafkas fiction are generated by a tension between his concern for writing and his growing s...
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York Notes Companions: New Directions: Writing Post-1990
Fiona TolanCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50A York Notes Companion for students of contemporary literature, this volume looks at the literature of our own times, shaped by recent experiences ...
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York Notes Companions Nineteenth Century American Literature
Rowland HughesCurrent price €16.19Original price €17.99This volume examines the literature and culture of nineteenth century America, covering genres such as the early American novel, realist fiction an...
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Dostoevsky the Thinker
James P. ScanlanCurrent price €31.49Original price €34.99For all his distance from formal philosophy, Fyodor Dostoevsky was one of the most philosophical of writers. In works from fictional masterpieces t...
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Global Matters: The Transnational Turn in Literary Studies
Paul JayCurrent price €26.99Original price €29.99As the pace of cultural globalization accelerates, the discipline of literary studies is undergoing dramatic transformation. Scholars and critics f...
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Novel Translations: The European Novel and the German Book, 16801730
Bethany WigginCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99Many early novels were cosmopolitan books, read from London to Leipzig and beyond, available in nearly simultaneous translations into French, Engli...
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Knowing Poetry: Verse in Medieval France from the Rose to the Rhétoriqueurs
Adrian ArmstrongCurrent price €62.09Original price €68.99In the later Middle Ages, many writers claimed that prose is superior to verse as a vehicle of knowledge because it presents the truth in an unvarn...
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The Growth of the Medieval Icelandic Sagas (11801280)
Theodore M. AnderssonCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50In this book, Theodore M. Andersson, a leading scholar of the Norse sagas, introduces readers to the development of the Icelandic sagas between 118...
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The Visual Dominant in Eighteenth-Century Russia
Marcus C. LevittCurrent price €53.99Original price €59.99The Enlightenment privileged vision as the principle means of understanding the world, but the eighteenth-century Russian preoccupation with sight ...
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Welcome to the Suck: Narrating the American Soldier''s Experience in Iraq
Stacey PeeblesCurrent price €31.49Original price €34.99Our collective memories of World War II and Vietnam have been shaped as much by memoirs, novels, and films as they have been by history books. In W...
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York Notes Companions Postcolonial Literature
Wendy KnepperCurrent price €16.19Original price €17.99This volume mines the diversity and richness of the literature and literary theory produced in the postcolonial era, discussing texts and ideas fro...
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Homer: The Poetry of the Past
Andrew FordCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99Andrew Ford here addresses, in a manner both engaging and richly informed, the perennial questions of what poetry is, how it came to be, and what i...
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The Sword of Ambition: Bureaucratic Rivalry in Medieval Egypt
Uthmn ibn Ibrhm al-NbulusCurrent price €41.39Original price €45.99The Sword of Ambition belongs to a genre of religious polemic written for the rulers of Egypt and Syria between the twelfth and the fourteenth cent...
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Signature Pieces: On the Institution of Authorship
Peggy KamufCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99Some contemporary approaches to literature still accept the separation of historical, biographical, external concerns from formal, internal ones. O...
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Becoming a Name: Virginia Woolf''s Political Reputation
Stuart N. ClarkeCurrent price €9.89Original price €10.99Current price €9.89Original price €10.99Save 10% -
Victorian Visions of Suburban Utopia: Abandoning Babylon
Nathaniel Robert WalkerCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99The rise of suburbs and the disinvestment from cities have been defining features of life in many countries over the course of the twentieth centur...
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Philosophical Orations, Volume I: Orations 121
Maximus of TyreCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99A Platonic evangelists lectures on the good life.Maximus of Tyre, active probably in the latter half of the second century AD, was a devoted Platon...
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The Op-Ed Novel: A Literary History of Post-Franco Spain
Bécquer SeguínCurrent price €42.29Original price €46.99The Op-Ed Novel not only elegantly recounts a vital intellectual and cultural history of post-Franco Spain. Carefully exploring the careers of Spai...
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Co-workers in the Kingdom of Culture: Classics and Cosmopolitanism in the Thought of W. E. B. Du Bois
David WithunCurrent price €75.59Original price €83.99W. E. B. Du Bois was one of the great African American intellectuals of the early twentieth century. He was a prominent civil rights leader, sociol...
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Value in Modernity: The Philosophy of Existential Modernism in Nietzsche, Scheler, Sartre, Musil
Peter PoellnerCurrent price €108.89Original price €120.99Value in Modernity examines a historical paradigm in ethics that has hitherto not been identified as such: existential modernism. Peter Poellner di...
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Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature
Dan SinykinCurrent price €102.59Original price €113.99Shortlisted, 2024 SHARP Book History Book Prize, Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and PublishingIn the late 1950s, Random House edit...
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Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature
Dan SinykinCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50Shortlisted, 2024 SHARP Book History Book Prize, Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and PublishingIn the late 1950s, Random House edit...
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