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In Animals and Other People , Heather Keenleyside argues for the central role of literary modes of knowledge in apprehending animal life. Keenleyside focuses on writers who populate their poetry, novels, and children's stories with conspicuously figurative animals, experiment with conventional genres like the beast fable, and write the «lives» of mice as well as men. From such writers—including James Thomson, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Laurence Sterne, Anna Letitia Barbauld,...
| Автор | Heather Keenleyside |
The storyline of the novel The Emancipated, written by George Gissing, is set in Italy. It depicts a group of British middle class intellectuals going on a tour through the countryside and doing things they might later either bless or regret. This book shows their adventures and search of identity.
| Автор | George Gissing |
Musaicum Books presents the Musaicum Christmas Specials. We have selected the greatest Christmas novels, short stories and fairy tales for this joyful and charming holiday season, for all those who want to keep the spirit of Christmas alive with a heartwarming tale. Table of Contents: The Gift of the Magi Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking Christmas by Injunction A Chaparral Christmas Gift
| Автор | O. Henry |
Between 1780 and 1800, authors of imaginative literature in the new United States wanted to assert that their works, which bore obvious connections to anglophone literature on the far side of the Atlantic, nevertheless constituted a properly «American» tradition. No one had yet figured out, however, what it would mean to write like an American, what literature with an American origin would look like, nor what literary characteristics the elusive quality of Americanness could generate. ...
| Автор | Ezra Tawil |
Among the dramatists who wrote for the professional playhouses of early modern London was a small group of writers who were neither members of the commercial theater industry writing to make a living nor aristocratic amateurs dipping their toes in theatrical waters for social or political prestige. Instead, they were largely working- and middle-class amateurs who had learned most of what they knew about drama from being members of the audience. Using a range of familiar and lesser-known print...
| Автор | Matteo A. Pangallo |
In Front Lines , Miguel Martínez documents the literary practices of imperial Spain's common soldiers. Against all odds, these Spanish soldiers produced, distributed, and consumed a remarkably innovative set of works on war that have been almost completely neglected in literary and historical scholarship. The soldiers of Italian garrisons and North African presidios , on colonial American frontiers and in the traveling military camps of northern Europe read and wrote epic...
| Автор | Miguel Martinez |
In Brood, Kimiko Hahn trains her eye on the commonplace—clothespins, bees, papaya, perfume, poached eggs, a sponge, fire, sand dollars—and reveals their very essence in concise evocative language. Underlying these little gems is a sense of loss, a mother's death or a longing for childhood. «Brood» connotes the bundling of family or beasts, but also dark thinking, and both are at play here where the less said, the better. Kimiko Hahn is the author of ten books of...
| Автор | Kimiko Hahn |
In Wonder and Exile in the New World , Alex Nava explores the border regions between wonder and exile, particularly in relation to the New World. It traces the preoccupation with the concept of wonder in the history of the Americas, beginning with the first European encounters, goes on to investigate later representations in the Baroque age, and ultimately enters the twentieth century with the emergence of so-called magical realism. In telling the story of wonder in the New World, Nava gives...
| Автор | Alex Nava |
"Shon Meckfessel . . . brings a fresh perspective to the stubborn debates around violence and nonviolence and suggests a way to move beyond the left's tactical impasse. Nonviolence Ain't What It Used to Be won't settle the old argument, but it may start a new one."—Kristian Williams, Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America Shon Meckfessel takes an innovative look at challenges faced by twenty-first century social movements in the US. One of their most...
| Автор | Shon Meckfessel |
"Im Schatten um Russlands Thron" ist eine eindrückliche Geschichte, die in mannigfaltiger Art die Ära Russlands der Zwischenkriegszeit wiedergibt. Abenteuerlich, tückisch und komplex, fesselt Axel Rudolphs Roman den Leser vom ersten Augenblick an. – Lesenswert!-
| Автор | Axel Rudolph |
"Una poesía que nada le debe a otras, una poesía sin concesiones ni manierismos, una poesía que atestigua esa vida interior tan perseguida, acosada y calumniada en nuestros días, una poesía libre de abstracciones e influencias, una poesía entera, iluminante y refrescante, que nos devuelve la confianza en los poderes de convocatoria y de resurrección de nuestra palabra" Ivonne Bordelois
| Автор | María Casiraghi |
Ein offizieller THE WALKING DEAD-Roman von Bestsellerautor Wesley Chu (Die Leben des Tao)! Dieser nervenaufreibende Thriller spielt in der großen Welt von Robert Kirkmans Serie THE WALKING DEAD. In China finden sich drei sehr unterschiedliche Menschen – ein Bauer, ein Militärveteran und ein amerikanischer Student – urplötzlich in einem regelrechten Taifun der Untoten wieder, als das Chaos über das bevölkerungsreichste Land der Welt schwappt.
| Автор | Wesley Chu |
One of Britain’s foremost political writers confronts ten years of murderous delusion. In 2001, Tony Blair declared that those who opposed the war on terror had been ‘proved wrong’ – along with critics of unfettered corporate power and free market capitalism. Ten years later, the critics have been comprehensively vindicated and the champions of the New World Order proved catastrophically wrong. The evidence on hand includes the disastrous occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq and the failure of...
| Автор | Seumas Milne |
A new vision of politics “below the radar” One way to grasp the nature of politics is to understand the key terms in which it is discussed. Unexceptional Politics develops a political vocabulary drawn from a wide range of media (political fiction, art, film, and TV), highlighting the scams, imbroglios, information trafficking, brinkmanship, and parliamentary procedures that obstruct and block progressive politics. The book reviews and renews modes of thinking about micropolitics that counter...
| Автор | Emily Apter |
In this fascinating new exploration of Samuel Beckett's work, Pascale Casanova argues that Beckett's reputation rests on a pervasive misreading of his oeuvre, which neglects entirely the literary revolution he instigated. Reintroducing the historical into the heart of this body of work, Casanova provides an arresting portrait of Beckett as radically subversive-doing for writing what Kandinsky did for art-and in the process presents the key to some of the most profound enigmas of...
| Автор | Pascale Casanova |
The formation of an unorthodox literary critic. How does a literary historian end up thinking in terms of z-scores, principal component analysis, and clustering coefficient? In the ten essays collected in this volume, Franco Moretti reconstructs the intellectual trajectory of his philosophy of ‘distant reading’. From the evolutionary model of ‘Modern European Literature’, through the geo-cultural dominant of ‘Conjectures on World Literature’ and ‘Planet Hollywood’ to the quantitative findings...
| Автор | Franco Moretti |
Ein heißer Nachbarschaftsflirt! Eben erst ist Lisa in eine kleine Wohnung in Kopenhagen gezogen und alles scheint perfekt zu sein – wären da nicht diese nachtaktiven Nachbarn, die Lisa den Schlaf rauben. Als Carl, der in der Wohnung über Lisa wohnt, eine Lösung anbietet, entwickelt sich das Gespräch in eine ganz andere Richtung, als Lisa sich vorgestellt hatte…-
| Автор | Camille Bech |
Was ist vor drei Jahren in den West End Arkaden passiert und welchen schrecklichen Erinnerungen muss sich vor allem Gabriel bei der Planung des erneuten Einsatzes stellen? Doch nicht nur der Einsatz in den Arkaden beschert Gründe zur Sorge. Es steht außerdem auch noch der Einbruch in die Akademie an … Der 10. Roman aus der Reihe, «Die Totenbändiger», von Nadine Erdmann (Cyberworld, Die Lichtstein-Saga).
| Автор | Nadine Erdmann |