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Piero Gobetti,
An Intellectual Against Fascism

As we approach the centenary of the death of Italian journalist, radical liberal, and anti-fascist intellectual Piero Gobetti (1901--26), his insights into liberalism and anti-fascism resonate more than e…

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Veronika Tuckerová
Reading Kafka in Prague

An untold history of Franz Kafka's reception in his homeland under two totalitarian regimes, from his death in 1924 to the end of communism 1989.In the first book-length study of the reception of Kafka in…

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John Gordon
Sensational Joyce

Exploring how Ulysses imitates the human mind at work, connecting close readings to psychological theories of Joyce's timeIn this book, John Gordon uses historically oriented close readings to demonstrate…

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Henry James,
On Writers and Writing

"Best known as a master novelist, Henry James was also an incisive critic whose essays on the novel had as profound an influence on its development as did his fiction. Here, Pulitzer-finalist Michael…

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Glocal Metamodernisms

This volume explores how the contemporary European novel reflects the tensions between local and global conceptualizations of Metamodernism .Each chapter explicitly addresses metamodern novels' "gloc…

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Paul Celan,
Conversation in the Mountains

"I am supposed to tell you some of the words I heard deep down in the sea where there is much silence and so much happens." So begins the first text in this indispensable volume, which includes:…

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Dante Alighieri,
The Divine Comedy

When Michael Palma's translation of the Inferno appeared in 2002, it defied the conventional wisdom of literary commentators who had long argued that Dante's intricate terza rima form simply could not be …

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Marcel Proust, Helen Constantine, Adam Watt
Sodom and Gomorrah

'the metamorphosis of Monsieur de Charlus into a new person was so complete that... everything which had appeared incoherent to me until then, was becoming intelligible, and self-evident'The fourth volume…

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Seamus Heaney,
The Letters of Seamus Heaney

The letters provide us with an intimate, multilayered understanding of this extraordinary poet's life and mind. Every now and again I need to get down here, to get into the Diogenes tub, as it were, or th…

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Ian Fleming
Talk of the Devil

A fascinating collection of rarely seen journalism and other writings by Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond series.Ian Fleming was best known for bringing to life the legendary character of James Bond,…

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
Scientific Studies

Authoritative English translations of Goethe's most illuminating essays on scienceGoethe's scientific work may be less familiar to the reading public than his poetry, yet his understanding of natural phen…

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Kylie M. Murray
The Making of the Scottish Dream Vision

This book is about how Scotland responded to the dream-vision, Medieval Europe's most widely known literary form and precursor of the novel. Studies abound in Continental and English dream-vision writing:…

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Bárbara Gallego Larrarte,
Intergenerational Modernism

A study of cross-generational literary networks in interwar Britain, this book investigates how writers in the 1930s emerged from the shadow of their older modernist contemporaries such as E. M. Forster, …

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Iuliia Kysla
Discipline Through Humiliation

Discipline through Humiliation examines what it meant to live and work as a non Russian author in the post-war Soviet Union, tracing the experiences of Ukrainian writers caught up in Stalin's literary pur…

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Patti M Marxsen
Karen Blixen's Search for Self

In Karen Blixen's Search for Self , Patti M. Marxsen presents a twenty-first-century reconsideration of Blixen's iconic memoir Out of Africa, originally published in 1937 and now regarded as a classic of …

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A History of Modern French Literature

"This is a tremendous achievement, bringing into a single volume much of the best writing and thinking on French literature that is currently available anywhere. It is highly readable, full of energe…

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Ian Fleming
Talk of the Devil

A fascinating collection of rarely seen journalism and other writings by Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond series.Ian Fleming was best known for bringing to life the legendary character of James Bond,…

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Nicholas Mcdowell
Comic Enlightenment

How the seventeenth-century translations of notoriously obscene tales by Rabelais shaped some of the great works of eighteenth-century English fictionFrançois Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel ---loosel…

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Simon Jackson
George Herbert and Early Modern Musical Culture

"Described by one contemporary as the 'sweet singer of The Temple', George Herbert has long been recognised as a lover of music. Nevertheless, Herbert's own participation in seventeenth-century music…

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Claudia Olk
Shakespeare and Beckett

"The danger is in the neatness of identifications", Samuel Beckett famously stated, and, at first glance, no two authors could be further distant from one another than William Shakespeare and Sa…

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