Modern Classics – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 6

Amanda Anderson, Simon During
Humanities Theory

Humanities Theory argues that there exists a global humanities world which not only transcends disciplinary divisions but joins the professional academic humanities to a thriving amateur public humanities…

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Naama Harel
The Jew, the Beauty, and the Beast

The Jew, the Beauty, and the Beast critically examines the entanglements between Jewishness, gender, and animality in modernist Hebrew fiction. Analyzing the effeminate Jew vis-à-vis the animalized woman …

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Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism

Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism shows that Wharton was highly engaged with global issues of her time, due in part to her extensive travel abroad. Examining both her canonical and lesser-known works and …

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Caterina Paoli
Greek Tragedy in 20th-Century Italian Literature

"Focusing on the works of Camillo Sbarbaro and Giovanna Bemporad, this book offers the first in-depth analysis of poetic translations of Greek tragedy in 20th-century Italian poetry. The close examin…

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Claire de Duras, Pratima Prasad, Chris Miller
Ourika, Édouard, and Olivier

'I have no secrets; my unhappiness is the story of my entire life.'A key figure in the literary world of post-Revolutionary Paris, Claire de Duras was a writer of exceptional talent, admired by Sainte-Beu…

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Vin Nardizzi
Marvellous Vegetables in the English Renaissance

John Gerard's natural history of plants, The Herball (1597), is considered a failure in the history of science. Despite this reputation, it has endured as an aesthetic resource. Its illustrations were use…

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Amanda Anderson, Simon During
Humanities Theory

Humanities Theory argues that there exists a global humanities world which not only transcends disciplinary divisions but joins the professional academic humanities to a thriving amateur public humanities…

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Edward Watts
Berserk Violence, Racial Vengeance, and Settler Colonialism in American Writing from Franklin to Melville

Berserk Violence, Racial Vengeance, and Settler Colonialism in American Writing from Franklin to Melville studies the literary and cultural tradition of the "Indian Hater" in American writing fr…

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James E Caron,
Comic Belles Lettres

Comic Belles Lettres presents a significant rethinking of standard categories in scholarship on antebellum American humor---such as Old Southwest humorists and literary comedians---to provide a richer ana…

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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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Czeslaw Milosz,
The Issa Valley

Penguin Modern Classics

'Thomas was born in the village of Gine at that time of year when a ripe apple thumps to the ground during an afternoon lull.' So a boy's life begins in a winding river valley on the Polish-Russian border…

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George Orwell
Down an Out in Paris and London

Penguin Modern Classics

'You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them'. George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time among the desperately poor and destitute in London and Pa…

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James Joyce
Ulysses

Penguin Modern Classics

Following the events of one single day in Dublin, the 16th of June 1904, and what happens to the characters Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom and his wife Molly, Ulysses is a monument to the human condition.…

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Zora Neale Hurston
Their Eyes Were Watching God

Virago Modern Classics

Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth.When, at sixteen, Janie is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, …

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Torborg Nedreaas,
Nothing Grows by Moonlight

Penguin Modern Classics

'Breathtakingly powerful' Guardian'This startling, absorbing book will leave you fizzing with anger and possibility' Noreen MasudIn the blue dusk of a spring evening, a man is drawn to a lonely, beautiful…

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Yukio Mishima,
Voices of the Fallen Heroes

Penguin Modern Classics

'These stories are waves of fury, desire and delicious cruelty, always kissed by beauty and death' Mariana Enríquez A new selection of lyrically haunting short stories from a Japanese literary icon A writ…

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Elsa Morante,
Lies and Sorcery

Penguin Modern Classics

'Thrillingly addictive, magnificent, luxurious . . . as staggering and absorbing as a great 19th-century novel' Telegraph'I loved it and it had been a long time since I had read anything that gave me such…

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Tove Ditlevsen,
Vilhelm's Room

Penguin Modern Classics

The unforgettable final novel from the great Danish writer and author ofThe Copenhagen Trilogy'Recently escaped a long, unhappy marriage - aged 51, but youthful in spirit - wonderful son, aged 15 - househ…

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Philip Guston
I Paint What I Want to See

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Illuminating reflections on painting and drawing from one of the most revered artists of the twentieth century 'Thank God for yellow ochre, cadmium red medium, and permanent green light'How does a painter…

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J. L. Carr
A Month in the Country

Penguin Modern Classics

'One of the best books I've ever read' Richard Osman 'Tender and elegant' Guardian 'Unlike anything else in modern English literature' D.J. Taylor, SpectatorA damaged survivor of the First World War, Tom …

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