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Ariel Stilerman
Court Poetry and the Culture of Learning in Japan

In Court Poetry and the Culture of Learning in Japan, Ariel Stilerman examines the transformation of classical Japanese poetry (waka) from the exclusive domain of the aristocracy to a dynamic tool embrace…

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John Gordon
Sensational Joyce

This book demonstrates that James Joyce's Ulysses is a book that imitates the workings of the human mind, connecting close readings of the novel's text to psychological theories of Joyce's time.

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Umberto Eco
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods

In six lectures covering everything from James Bond to antisemitic conspiracy theories, Umberto Eco offers a master class in the philosophy of fiction. Dissecting the rhythms and ambiguities of narrative,…

lieferbar ab 16.9.2025.

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William Stroebel
Literature's Refuge

"For the Translation/Transnation comparative literature series, a monograph that explores the refugee and diasporic literatures that resulted from the 1923 population exchange between Greece and Turk…

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Rebecca M Rush
The Fetters of Rhyme

How rhyme became entangled with debates about the nature of liberty in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English poetry In his 1668 preface to Paradise Lost, John Milton rejected the use of rhyme, portr…

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Penny Cartwright,
Irony, Agency and the Global Imaginary in Contemporary Nigerian and Kenyan Literature

An examination of alternate imaginaries of 'the global' in post-millennium anglophone African literature and the differing forms of agency that these imaginaries produce.

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Patrick Armstrong
Microscopy, Magnification and Modernist Fiction

Exploring how modernism registered shock experiences of the microscopic and extended vision in prose fiction through the work of four modernist writers - D. H. Lawrence, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and…

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Wislawa Szymborska
Nonrequired Reading

"She's accessible and deeply human and a joy ---though it is a dark kind of joy ---to read... She is a poet to live with." -- Robert Hass, The Washington Post Book WorldWislawa Szymborska's poem…

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Laura Bradley
Brecht and the Art of Spectatorship

This major new study explores Brecht's treatment of vision, observation, and spectatorship in twelve of his plays, spanning his career from the Weimar Republic through to the German Democratic Republic.

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Colm Tóibín
On Elizabeth Bishop

"This book offers the reader a luminous meditation on Elizabeth Bishop's poetry. It focuses, among other things, on the restraint of her style and the power of the unsaid in her work. But more than t…

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Abdessalam Benabdelali,
Writings on Translation

An exploration of the philosophical dimensions of translation, celebrating it as a practice that preserves and proliferates cultural differences. Abdessalam Benabdelali is a revered Moroccan philosopher a…

lieferbar ab 6.12.2025.

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The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature

Extending from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century, The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature is the first book in English to tell the intricate story of Cuban literary-intellectual culture from t…

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Will Kaufman
American Song and Struggle from Columbus to World War 2

Long before anyone ever heard of 'protest music', people in America were singing about their struggles. They sang for justice and fairness, food and shelter, and equality and freedom; they sang to be ackn…

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Garrett Stewart,
Closer Reading

Perhaps the most prolific and exacting reader of his generation, Garrett Stewart's first book of essays - on close analysis of novels, literary theory, conceptual art, and cinema - is joined by a new inte…

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Garrett Stewart,
Closer Reading

Perhaps the most prolific and exacting reader of his generation, Garrett Stewart's first book of essays - on close analysis of novels, literary theory, conceptual art, and cinema - is joined by a new inte…

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Susan L Roberson
Geographies of Travel

Travel writing was the most popular genre of writing in the nineteenth century. Initially published in newspapers and journals as dispatches from the road, these works allowed readers to join in on fabulo…

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Adam Kelly
New Sincerity

"The years 1989-2008 were an era of neoliberal hegemony in US politics, economy, and culture. Post45 scholar Adam Kelly argues that American novelists who began their careers during these years - spe…

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Commodities and Literature

Global commodities, from tea and sugar to coal and oil, have had an enduring presence in literary texts. Commodity cultures have also shaped literary ones, from the early influence of the literary coffeeh…

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African Literature in Transition: Volume 1

"Offers a compelling new approach to African literatures as a collective memory built over the years by generations of authors. It considers what African writers assume readers know and need to know,…

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John Mullan
What Matters in Jane Austen?

From 'Is there Sex Before Marriage in Austen?' to 'Which important Austen characters never speak?' the Guardian Book Club columnist answers 21 apparently trivial questions that reveal deep and hidden trut…

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