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A dazzling account of the development of American cultural hegemony from one of the world's leading literary theorists. Franco Moretti, acclaimed author of Graphs, Maps, Trees and Distant Reading, distils a lifetime of teaching and research to present `the university, in the form of an essay'. Ranging from poetry and the novel to theatre and the visual arts, Far Country juxtaposes canonical figures in American art and letters with European counterparts-Whitman and Baudelaire,...
| Автор | Franco Moretti |
“Drifter” by Emily Mandel was selected for inclusion in The Best American Mystery Stories 2013, edited by Otto Penzler and Lisa ScottolineOriginal stories by: Peter James, Emily St. John Mandel, Barbara Baraldi, Mike Hodges, Mary Hoffman, Maria Tronca, Matteo Righetto, Tony Cartano, Francesco Ferracin, Isabella Santacroce, Michelle Lovric, Francesca Mazzucato, Maxim Jakubowski, and Michael Gregorio."Forget the magnificence of Venice's art, architecture, and music, and...
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A new perspective on Proust, Joyce, Kafka and others from a master of literary theory Cultural critic Fredric Jameson, renowned for his incisive studies of the passage of modernism to postmodernism, returns to the movement that dramatically broke with all tradition in search of progress for the first time since his acclaimed A Singular Modernity. The Modernist Papers is a tour de force of analysis and criticism, in which Jameson brings his dynamic and acute thought to bear on the modernist...
| Автор | Fredric Jameson |
Die weltbekannte Geschichte eines Experiments, das aus dem Ruder läuft und Tod und Schaden anrichtet: Der junge Schweizer Viktor Frankenstein erschafft an der Universität Ingolstadt einen künstlichen Menschen. Als dieser jedoch viel hässlicher und furchteinflößender ist, als gedacht, flieht Viktor vor ihm und das Wesen entkommt. Doch es dauert nicht lange, bis der erste Todesfall in seiner Familie eintritt, und er bleibt nicht der letzte…-
| Автор | Mary Shelley |
When Carol Berkley takes over the company business, she faces a great dilemma: To prove herself and do what is best for the business or listen to her heart.
| Автор | Grace Livingston Hill |
24 Jahre nachdem der Erzähler als 12-Jähriger seine geliebte Heimat Island in Richtung Kopenhagen verlassen musste, bekommt er die Chance, im Sommer 1894 dieses von ihm so heiß geliebte Land und seine Menschen wiederzutreffen. Auf dem Rücken eines Pferdes durchstreift er die Insel im Atlantik mit all ihren Schönheiten und Herausforderungen.-
| Автор | Jón Svensson |
Wenn der Lehrer heiß ist…Der Sex mit Michael ist für die attraktive Jung-Schauspielerin Celine atemberaubend und immer wieder überraschend. Trotzdem fühlt sie sich zu ihrem deutlich älteren Schauspiellehrer Ulrik hingezogen. Keinen Mann will sie so sehr wie ihn. Als Celine das Casting für einen Job gewinnt, feiert sie dies mit Ulrik – heiß und hemmungslos!-
| Автор | Camille Bech |
On the problems of translation in literary study. Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability argues for a rethinking of comparative literature focusing on the problems that emerge when large-scale paradigms of literary studies ignore the politics of the “Untranslatable”—the realm of those words that are continually retranslated, mistranslated, transferred from language to language, or especially resistant to substitution. In the place of “World Literature”—a dominant...
| Автор | Emily Apter |
Brand-new stories by: Desmond Barry, Ken Bruen, Stewart Home, Barry Adamson, Michael Ward, Sylvie Simmons, Daniel Bennett, Cathi Unsworth, Max Décharné, Martyn Waites, Joolz Denby, John Williams, Jerry Sykes, Mark Pilkington, Joe McNally, Patrick McCabe, and Ken Hollings.Cathi Unsworth moved to Ladbroke Grove in 1987 and has stayed there ever since. She began a career in rock writing with Sounds and Melody Maker, before co-editing the arts journal Purr and then Bizarre...
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A seminal text in literary theory available in English for the first time Legend, saga, myth, riddle, proverb, case, anecdote, fairy tale, joke: André Jolles understands each of these nine “simple forms” as the reflection in language of a distinct mode of human engagement with the world and thus as a basic structuring principle of literary narrative. Long recognized as a classic of genre theory, Simple Forms, first published in 1929, has been called a significant precursor to structuralist and...
| Автор | André Jolles |
"Despite Pittsburgh being labeled the country's most livable city, the fictional citizens populating the 14 high quality stories in Akashic's noir anthology centered on the Steel City have the same dreams, frustrations, passions, and vices as anyone else."–Publishers Weekly"Pittsburgh hasn't inspired many crime novelists to use its haunts for settings in the way that Boston, Baltimore, Seattle and even Cleveland have. Now that's changed with the publication of Pittsburgh...
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Als ein ehemaliger Mitschüler Conny Bligh, den Anwalt der Geister, um seine Hilfe bittet, ist dieser davon zunächst alles andere als angetan. Doch das ändert sich, als er und Allison Harrowmore auf Hidden Manor, der Burg ohne Vergangenheit, eintreffen. Oder hat das alte Gemäuer doch eine Geschichte? Bald drängt die Zeit, denn ein großer Maskenball steht unmittelbar bevor. Und jeder einzelne Gast läuft Gefahr, in dieser Nacht seine Seele zu verlieren …
| Автор | Miriam Rademacher |
Marilla Reed grew up in wealth, having everything she wanted. After her life turned upside-down, and she lost everything, Marilla lost all hope of finding happiness in life. Just when she thought she hit rock bottom, true love happened!
| Автор | Grace Livingston Hill |
Heiße Orgie über den Wolken!Jack und Bianca treffen im Flugzeug nach New York aufeinander. Zwischen den beiden knistert es gewaltig, doch Biancas extreme Flugangst macht einen aufregenden Flirt unmöglich. Als Jack nach einem Nickerchen erwacht, traut er seinen Augen kaum: Alle Passagiere sind nackt und das ganze Flugzeug ist Schauplatz einer gewaltigen Orgie…-
| Автор | Vanessa Salt |
How to reinvent Lenin in the era of “cultural capitalism.” The idea of a Lenin renaissance might well provoke an outburst of sarcastic laughter. Marx is OK, but Lenin? Doesn’t he stand for the big catastrophe which left its mark on the entire twentieth-century? Lenin, however, deserves wider consideration than this, and his writings of 1917 are testament to a formidable political figure. They reveal his ability to grasp the significance of an extraordinary moment in history. Everything is here,...
| Автор | Slavoj Žižek |
There are many collections of African oral traditions, but few as carefully organized as The Uncoiling Python. Harold Scheub, one of the world’s leading scholars of African oral traditions and folklore, explores the ways in which oral traditions have served to combat and subvert colonial domination in South Africa. From the time colonial forces first came to southern Africa in 1487, oral and written traditions have been a bulwark against what became 350 years of colonial rule, characterized by...
| Автор | Harold Scheub |
In Poetry, Pictures, and Popular Publishing eminent Rossetti scholar LorraineJanzen Kooistra demonstrates the cultural centrality of a neglected artifact:the Victorian illustrated gift book. Turning a critical lens on “drawing-room books” as both material objects and historical events, Kooistra reveals how the gift book’s visual/verbal form mediated “high” and popular art as well as book and periodical publication. A composite text produced by many makers, the poetic gift book was designed...
| Автор | Lorraine Janzen Kooistra |
Historical Studies of Writing Program Administration: Individuals, Communities, and the Formation of a Discipline collects essays that shine new light on the early history of writing program administration. Broad in scope, the book illuminates the development of the profession in the narratives of the individuals who helped form the discipline prior to the emergence of the Council of Writing Program Administrators in 1976, including those narratives of Gertrude Buck and Laura J. Wylie, Edwin...
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Ein prickelnder Tag im Homeoffice…Dieser Tag wird für Stina heißer als geplant, nachdem Bodenverleger Thor unerwartet vor der Tür steht. Zwischen den beiden knistert es auf Anhieb gewaltig. Stina entdeckt ihre dominante Seite und Thor ist bereit, ihre Befehle entgegenzunehmen… -
| Автор | Christina Tempest |
Heiße Verführung auf kalten Fliesen!Kim ist 20 Jahre alt und liebt seinen Maurer-Job. Als er eines Tages bei Liv Nielsen das Badezimmer neu verfugen soll, ist es sofort um ihn geschehen, und auch die 42-Jährige fühlt sich zu dem jungen Maurer hingezogen. Beide geben dem gegenseitigen Verlangen nach und stürzen sich in eine heiße Affäre voller Lust, Leidenschaft und atembraubendem Sex…-
| Автор | Camille Bech |
This collection of five award-winning plays by Charles Smith includes Jelly Belly, Free Man of Color, Pudd’nhead Wilson, Knock Me a Kiss, and The Gospel According to James. Powerful, provocative, and entertaining, these plays have been produced by professional theater companies across the country and abroad. Four of the plays are based on historical people and events from W.E.B. Du Bois and Countee Cullen to the Harlem Renaissance. Accurate in the way they capture the political and cultural...
| Автор | Charles R. Smith |
Religious Imaginaries explores liturgical practice as formative for how three Victorian women poets imagined the world and their place in it and, consequently, for how they developed their creative and critical religious poetics. In doing so, this new study rethinks several assumptions in the field: that Victorian women’s faith commitments tend to limit creativity; that the contours of church experiences matter little for understanding religious poetry; and that gender is more significant than...
| Автор | Karen Dieleman |
Der gefälschte König Ludwig XIV., der Sonnenkönig, eine «Fälschung»? Sein Vater, Ludwig XIII. schwul – seine Mutter Anna von Österreich den Frauen zugeneigt? Die scheinbar unglaubliche These: Der Bourbonenkönig sei in Wirklichkeit ein illegitimes Kind aus dem Volk, auf den Thron gehoben, um den Einfluss der katholischen Kirche in Frankreich zu wahren. Max Melbo, alias Volker Elis Pilgrim, auf den Spuren einer Geschichtscamouflage ohne Beispiel.-
| Автор | Max Melbo |
Estava decidido a protegê-la…Tia ficou horrorizada quando o imponente Anatole Kyrgiakis regressou à sua vida exigindo que se casasse com ele. Há seis anos, tinha-a deixado com o coração partido… Por muito que o desejasse agora, não voltaria a cometer o mesmo erro. Mas Tia estava unida ao poderoso grego por algo mais do que a paixão… Atrever-se-ia a confessar o maior segredo de todos?
| Автор | Julia James |