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Old Norse-Icelandic Literature

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Old Norse-Icelandic Literature

From runic inscriptions to sagas, this book introduces readers to the colourful world of Old Norse-Icelandic literature. An introduction to the colourful world of Old Norse-Icelandic literature. Covers mythology and family sagas, as well as less well-known areas, such as oral story-telling, Eddaic verse and skaldic verse. An introduction helps readers to appreciate the language and culture of the first settlers in Iceland. Looks at the reception of Old-Norse-Icelandic literature over the ages,...

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Palpitations

Gift Foraine Amukoyo

Palpitations

Nuit des dames Si tu me retiens, je serai brisé Je ne peux pas me ressaisir Chaque fois que tu te libères, je suis ton sillage pour attraper ton frisson ”Merveilleuse explication des douleurs et des désirs d'amour de manière subtile et décente.” ”Romantiquement grandiose avec un élément nature fusionné au besoin humain rendu nécessaire par la nature.” ”Poème d'amour très sexuel et passionné.” – Chennakesava Singh ”Oh mon Dieu !!! Ces lignes m'ont fait pleurer…” – Jennifer Akubue Onwuekwe...

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Gift Foraine Amukoyo

Performance and Power

Jeffrey C. Alexander

Performance and Power

Performativity has emerged as a critical new idea across the humanities and social sciences, from literary and cultural studies to the study of gender and the philosophy of action. In this volume, Jeffrey Alexander demonstrates how performance can reorient our study of politics and society. Alexander develops a cultural pragmatics that shifts cultural sociology from texts to gestural meanings. Positioning social performance between ritual and strategy, he lays out the elements of social...

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Petronius

Ian Repath D.

Petronius

Petronius: A Handbook unravels the mysteries of the Satyrica, one of the greatest literary works that antiquity has bequeathed to the modern world. Includes a dozen original essays by a team of leading Petronius and Roman history scholars Features the first multi-dimensional approach to Satyricon studies by exploring the novel's literary structure, social and historic contexts, and modern reception Supplemented by illustrations, plot outline, glossary, map, bibliography, and suggestions for...

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Ian Repath D.

Phenomenal Shakespeare

Bruce Smith R.

Phenomenal Shakespeare

In Phenomenal Shakespeare, leading Shakespeare scholar Bruce R. Smith presents an original account for the ways in which Shakespeare’s poems and plays continue to resonate with audiences, readers and scholars because of their engagement with the whole body, not just the reading mind. An original examination of Shakespeare’s appeal written by leading Shakespeare scholar Bruce R. Smith Contains insightful examinations of a single Shakespeare sonnet, Venus and Adonis, and King Lear to model the...

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Bruce Smith R.

Plautus and Roman Slavery

Roberta Stewart

Plautus and Roman Slavery

This book studies a crucial phase in the history of Roman slavery, beginning with the transition to chattel slavery in the third century bce and ending with antiquity’s first large-scale slave rebellion in the 130s bce. Slavery is a relationship of power, and to study slavery – and not simply masters or slaves – we need to see the interactions of individuals who speak to each other, a rare kind of evidence from the ancient world. Plautus’ comedies could be our most reliable source for...

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Roberta Stewart

Posthumanism

Pramod Nayar K.

Posthumanism

This timely book examines the rise of posthumanism as both a material condition and a developing philosophical-ethical project in the age of cloning, gene engineering, organ transplants and implants. Nayar first maps the political and philosophical critiques of traditional humanism, revealing its exclusionary and ‘speciesist’ politics that position the human as a distinctive and dominant life form. He then contextualizes the posthumanist vision which, drawing upon biomedical, engineering and...

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Pramod Nayar K.

postjournalist

Василий Викторович Гатов

postjournalist

Книга-блог Василия Гатова – это собрание статей о настоящем и будущем российских СМИ, а также авторских переводов исследований зарубежных медиааналитиков, опубликованных на сайте postjournalist.ru. Впервые эти тексты выходят отдельным изданием. Автор рассуждает о влиянии технологических, экономических и политических перемен на потребление информации, а также трансформации журналистики в цифровую эпоху. Книга будет интересна журналистам и всем, кого волнует судьба медиа в России и мире.

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Василий Викторович Гатов

Premodern Places

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Premodern Places

This book recovers places appearing in the mental mapping of medieval and Renaissance writers, from Chaucer to Aphra Behn. A highly original work, which recovers the places that figure powerfully in premodern imagining. Recreates places that appear in the works of Langland, Chaucer, Dante, Petrarch, Spenser, Shakespeare, Aphra Behn, and many others. Begins with Calais – peopled by the English from 1347 to 1558 and ends with Surinam – traded for Manhattan by the English in 1667. Other particular...

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Proust Among the Stars: How To Read...

Malcolm Bowie

Proust Among the Stars: How To Read Him; Why Read Him?

The first book to address everyone who relishes reading Proust and wants to know more about how his writing works.This is a matchless close reading of a literary masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time, and a lesson in how to read the Great Books profitably and pleasurably.‘Read this excellent book’ Stuart Jeffries, Guardian‘Very refreshing… a splendidly tough-minded and generous introduction’ Gabriel Josipovici, Independent‘Brilliant’ Peter Conrad, Observer‘A splendidly thought-filled book’ Eric...

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Malcolm Bowie

Provoking Democracy

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Provoking Democracy

A provocative and compelling book that explores the complex relationship between democracy and avant-garde art, offering a surprising new perspective on the critical role that the arts play in democratic governance at home and abroad. Covers a broad range of topics, from disputes over public art, copyright, and obscenity, to the operations of the House Un-American Activities Committee during the Cold War Highlights detailed and at times shocking debates over the role of the rebellious artist...

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Psychoanalytic Criticism

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Psychoanalytic Criticism

What is psychoanalytic criticism and how can it be justified as a type of criticism in its own right? In this new and thoroughly revised edition of her classic textbook, Elizabeth Wright provides a cogent answer to this question and a wide-ranging introduction to psychoanalytic criticism from Freud to the present day. Since each school of psychoanalysis has its own theory of the aesthetic process, the field is complex. Adopting a critical perspective, Elizabeth Wright focuses on major figures...

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Re-Scripting Walt Whitman

Ed Folsom

Re-Scripting Walt Whitman

This introductory guide to Walt Whitman weaves together the writer’s life with an examination of his works. · An innovative introductory guide to Walt Whitman. · Weaves together the writer’s life with an examination of his works. · Focuses especially on Whitman’s evolving masterpiece Leaves of Grass. · Examines the material conditions and products of Whitman’s “scripted life”, including his original manuscripts. · Investigates Whitman’s “life in print” – his belief that he could literally embody...

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Ed Folsom

Reading Modernist Poetry

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Reading Modernist Poetry

This essential guide to modernist poetry enables readers to make sense of a literary movement often regarded as difficult and intimidating. Provides close examinations of key poems by T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, and others Considers key techniques employed to orient and disorient the reader, such as diction, rhythm, and allusion Explores the ideological implications of subject matter and the literary forms and structures of modernist poetry Places modernist poetry in relation to its...

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Reading Paradise Lost

David Hopkins

Reading Paradise Lost

Casting a fresh perspective on the greatest long poem in English, David Hopkins guides the reader through the inspiring poetic landscape of Milton’s great epic Paradise Lost, a work of literature which has compelled and fascinated readers down the ages and which offers enduring insight into the human condition A welcome aesthetic focus on the poetic experience of reading Paradise Lost rather than its religious or political context Provides a nuanced, unified vision of the poem from a celebrated...

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David Hopkins

Reading Postwar British and Irish P...

Thurston Michael

Reading Postwar British and Irish Poetry

Combining detailed explorations of both mainstream and experimental poets with a clear historical and literary overview, Reading Postwar British and Irish Poetry offers readers at all levels an ideal guide to the rich body of poetic works published in Britain and Ireland over the last half-century. Features detailed discussions of individual poems that are widely available in anthologies and selected poems volumes Pays explicit attention to how to read the poems, focusing on language and form...

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Thurston Michael

Reading Romantic Poetry

Fiona Stafford

Reading Romantic Poetry

Reading Romantic Poetry introduces the major themes and preoccupations, and the key poems and players of a period convulsed by revolution, prolonged warfare and political crisis. Provides a clear, lively introduction to Romantic Poetry, backed by academic research and marked by its accessibility to students with little prior experience of poetry Introduces many of the major topics of the age, from politics to publishing, from slavery to sociability, from Milton to the mind of man Encourages...

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Fiona Stafford

Reading Sixteenth-Century Poetry

Patrick Cheney

Reading Sixteenth-Century Poetry

Reading Sixteenth-Century Poetry combines close readings of individual poems with a critical consideration of the historical context in which they were written. Informative and original, this book has been carefully designed to enable readers to understand, enjoy, and be inspired by sixteenth-century poetry. Close reading of a wide variety of sixteenth-century poems, canonical and non-canonical, by men and by women, from print and manuscript culture, across the major literary modes and genres...

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Patrick Cheney

Reading the American Novel 1780 - 1...

Shirley Samuels

Reading the American Novel 1780 - 1865

Reading the American Novel 1780-1865 provides valuable insights into the evolution and diversity of fictional genres produced in the United States from the late 18th century until the Civil War, and helps introductory students to interpret and understand the fiction from this popular period. Offers an overview of early fictional genres and introduces ways to interpret them today Features in depth examinations of specific novels Explores the social and historical contexts of the time to help the...

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Shirley Samuels

Reading the American Novel 1865-191...

G. Thompson R.

Reading the American Novel 1865-1914

An indispensable tool for teachers and students of American literature, Reading the American Novel 1865-1914 provides a comprehensive introduction to the American novel in the post-civil war period. Locates American novels and stories within a specific historical and literary context Offers fresh analyses of key selected literary works Addresses a wide audience of academics and non-academics in clear, accessible prose Demonstrates the changing mentality of 19th-century America entering the 20th...

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G. Thompson R.

Reading the American Novel 1920-201...

James Phelan

Reading the American Novel 1920-2010

This astute guide to the literary achievements of American novelists in the twentieth century places their work in its historical context and offers detailed analyses of landmark novels based on a clearly laid out set of tools for analyzing narrative form. Includes a valuable overview of twentieth- and early twenty-first century American literary history Provides analyses of numerous core texts including The Great Gatsby, Invisible Man, The Sound and the Fury, The Crying of Lot 49 and Freedom...

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James Phelan

Reading the Contemporary Irish Nove...

Liam Harte

Reading the Contemporary Irish Novel 1987-2007

Reading the Contemporary Irish Novel 1987–2007 is the authoritative guide to some of the most inventive and challenging fiction to emerge from Ireland in the last 25 years. Meticulously researched, it presents detailed interpretations of novels by some of Ireland’s most eminent writers. This is the first text-focused critical survey of the Irish novel from 1987 to 2007, providing detailed readings of 11 seminal Irish novels A timely and much needed text in a largely uncharted critical field...

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Liam Harte

Reading the European Novel to 1900

Daniel Schwarz R.

Reading the European Novel to 1900

Offers a close reading of individual texts with attention to their cultural and canonical context Examines the history and evolution of the novel to 1900 and defines each author’s aesthetic, cultural, political, and historical significance Covers essential and frequently taught masterworks up to 1900, including Cervantes’ Don Quixote; Tolstoy’s War and Peace and Anna Karenina; Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment, and The Brothers Karamazov; Stendhal’s The Red and the Black...

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Daniel Schwarz R.

Reading the Modern British and Iris...

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Reading the Modern British and Irish Novel 1890 - 1930

Daniel R. Schwarz has studied and taught the modern British novel for decades and now brings his impressive erudition and critical acuity to this insightful study of the major authors and novels of the first half of the twentieth century. An insightful study of British fiction in the first half of the twentieth century. Draws on the author’s decades of experience researching and teaching the modern British novel. Sets the modern British novel in its intellectual, cultural and literary contexts....

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