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  • Cultural Hybrids of (Post)Modernism

    Japanese and Western Literature, Art and Philosophy

    Edited by Beatriz Penas-Ibáñez, Akiko Manabe ...
    Series Book 16 - Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture
    Cultural Hybrids of (Post)Modernism starts from the premise that the literary-cultural milieu we live in is characteristically hybrid. To develop that premise, the present volume focuses on explaining the strong impact that Japanese culture, especially Japanese aesthetics, bore on Western intellectuals, Modernist literary writers and artists from the second half of the nineteenth century onwards, ... Read more

    $119.79 CAD

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    by Jane Austen, Publix Press ...
    The Publix Press edition of Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen:-Includes the full, unaltered text.-Is newly formatted, typeset, and designed to ensure readability.-Is a fully functional electronic book that includes an interactive table of contents, automatically saves your reading place, and more.-Includes a "Questions for Further Study and Discussion" section at the end of the book.A wonderfully ... Read more

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  • I Saw Water

    An Occult Novel and Other Selected Writings

    by Ithell Colquhoun, Richard Shillitoe, Mark S. Morrisson ...
    Ithell Colquhoun (1906–1988) is remembered today as a surrealist artist, writer, and occultist. Although her paintings hang in a number of public collections and her gothic novel Goose of Hermogenes (1961) remains in print, critical responses to her work have been severely constrained by the limited availability of her art and writings. The publication of her second novel, I Saw Water—presented ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • Reading the Anglo-Saxon Self Through the Vercelli Book

    by Amity Reading ...
    Series Book 7 - Medieval Interventions
    Reading the Anglo-Saxon Self Through the Vercelli Book explores conceptions of subjectivity in Anglo-Saxon England by analyzing the contents and sources of the Vercelli Book, a tenth-century compilation of Old English religious poetry and prose. The Vercelli Book’s selection and arrangement of texts has long perplexed scholars, but this book argues that its organizational logic lies in the ... Read more

    $118.99 CAD

  • Feminism and the Politics of Travel after the Enlightenment

    by Yaël Schlick ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
    Taking the Enlightenment and the feminist tradition to which it gave rise as its historical and philosophical coordinates, Feminism and the Politics of Travel After the Enlightenment explores travel as a “technology of gender.” It also investigates the way travel’s utopian dimension and feminism’s utopian ideals have intermittently fed off each other in productive ways. With broad historical and ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • «Eating Regret and Seeing Contempt» – A Cognitive Linguistic Approach to the Language of Emotions in Igala (Nigeria)

    by Lillian Brise ...
    Series Book 119 - DASK – Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft / Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture
    This book deals with the expression of emotions in Igala – a Nigerian minority language with about two million speakers – from a Cognitive Linguistics perspective. The author investigates the network of the Igala language of emotions using the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) framework as developed by Anna Wierzbicka and her collaborators. The claims of adequacy of NSM in its present form for ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD

  • Celebrating the Sacred in Ordinary Life

    James Joyce and the Renaissance Magus

    by Tom Absher ...
    Series Book 134 - Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature
    This book is an introductory examination of the Hermetic tradition in the Renaissance and how James Joyce made use of certain of its salient features in his four works of fiction: Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake. This book makes a useful contribution to literary studies of Joyce’s work as well as introductory cultural studies of the Hermetic ... Read more

    $125.99 CAD

  • The Physiognomical Discourse and European Theatre

    Theory, Performance, Dramatic Text

    by Maria-Christina Mur ...
    Series Book 23 - Interkulturelle Begegnungen. Studien zum Literatur- und Kulturtransfer
    The discourse on Physiognomy had an important influence and impact on European theatrical culture at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries. The book discusses the debate about the scientific nature of Physiognomy. Starting from the concept that Physiognomy refers to particular signs on the face, it looks for evidence of a knowledge and awareness of this pseudo ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

  • Dominicanidad / Dominicanity

    Perspectivas de un concepto (trans-)nacional / Perspectives on a (trans-)national concept

    Edited by Christine Felbeck, Andre Klump ...
    Series Book 9 - America Romana
    Con unos 20 artículos de investigadores/-as de Europa, de los Estados Unidos y de la República Dominicana, la presente obra interdisciplinaria e internacional ofrece un panorama actual de la investigación sobre la dominicanidad como concepto (trans-)nacional en sus contextos mundiales, insulares y nacionales. Los estudios son fruto en gran parte de un congreso organizado por el America Romana ... Read more

    $103.99 CAD

  • The Language of Polish Modernism

    by Ryszard Nycz ...
    Translated by Tul’si Bhambry ...
    Series Book 49 - Literary and Cultural Theory
    This book debunks the myth of Polish Modernist literature as rooted in rash, immediate expression. The author compares programmatic statements on language by turn-of-the-century writers such as Wacław Berent, Bolesław Leśmian, Stanisław Brzozowski or Karol Irzykowski with notions deduced from their literary works. He demonstrates that these writers’ linguistic self-consciousness informs their ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Editing Women's Writing, 1670-1840

    Edited by Amy Culley, Anna M. Fitzer ...
    Series series Chawton Studies in Scholarly Editing
    This edited volume is the first to reflect on the theory and practice of editing women’s writing of the 18th century. The list of contributors includes experts on the fiction, drama, poetry, life-writing, diaries and correspondence of familiar and lesser known women, including Jane Austen, Delarivier Manley, Eliza Haywood and Mary Robinson. Contributions examine the demands of editing female ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Tradition and Innovation in Language and Linguistics

    A Coserian Perspective

    by Cristinel Munteanu ...
    Series Book 19 - Romanistische Arbeiten interkulturell und interdisziplinaer
    This volume consists of twelve studies thematically grouped into three parts: (1) Linguistics and Philosophy of Language, (2) Hermeneutics and Text Linguistics, and (3) Lexicology and Phraseology. The phrase «tradition and innovation» characterizes almost all the texts included here, since tradition and innovation are present both at the level of the object (language) and at the level of its ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD