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“colin winborn”

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  • The Literary Economy of Jane Austen and George Crabbe

    by Colin Winborn ...
    Though Jane Austen (1775-1817) and the poet George Crabbe (1754-1832) each wrote during the Napoleonic Wars, no full-length study has considered the importance of these pivotal events to their writing. In The Literary Economy of Jane Austen and George Crabbe, the author argues that both writers were unusually responsive to the economic anxieties specific to wartime, occasioned especially by the ... Read more

    $46.71 CAD

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    A Defense of Ideals

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    An ARTery Best Book of the YearAn Art of Manliness Best Book of the YearIn a culture that has become progressively more skeptical and materialistic, the desires of the individual self stand supreme, Mark Edmundson says. We spare little thought for the great ideals that once gave life meaning and worth. Self and Soul is an impassioned effort to defend the values of the Soul.“An impassioned critique ... Read more

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  • The Deep Zoo

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    by Rikki Ducornet ...
    Rikki Ducornet’s essays explore eros, violence, dreams, fairy tales, and art as alchemy—the Deep Zoo at the core of humanity.Within the writer’s life, words and things acquire power. For Borges it is the tiger and the color red, for Cortázar a pair of amorous lions, and for an early Egyptian scribe the monarch butterfly that metamorphosed into the Key of Life. Ducornet names these powers The Deep ... Read more

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  • Manifestos for World Thought

    Edited by Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh, Lucian Stone ...
    Series series Future Perfect: Images of the Time to Come in Philosophy, Politics and Cultural Studies
    What are the still-unknown horizons of world thought?This book brings together prominent scholars from varying disciplines to speculate on this obscure question and the many crossroads that face intellectuals in our contemporary era and its aftermath. The result is a collection of “manifestos” that contemplate a potential global future for thinking itself, venturing across some of the most ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Miscellaneous Short Poetry, 1641–1700

    Printed Writings 1641–1700: Series II, Part Three, Volume 4

    by Robert C. Evans ...
    Series Book 3 - The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works & Printed Writings, 1641-1700: Series II
    This volume reproduces twenty short texts written by named and unnamed women in the years 1641-1700. These texts, selected and introduced by various hands, are grouped in thematic clusters for the reader's ease - poetry on religion, on politics, on society, on domestic/social affairs and on mourning. The poems are arranged chronologically within each cluster. The volume closes with Anne Wentworth ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • The Horizons of Continental Philosophy

    Essays on Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty

    Edited by H.J. Silverman ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    lacan. Barthes. Jakobson. Horkheimer. Adorno. Gadamer. Ricoeur. Foucault. Deleuze. Derrida. lyotard. Vattimo. Kofman. and Irigaray are also part of that outer horizon of continental philosophy. The purpose of this volume however is to establish that space within the core of continental philosophy - specifically in relation to the work of Husserl. Heidegger. and Merleau-Ponty -- and to move out to ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • Literature and the Global Contemporary

    Edited by Mathias Nilges, Sarah Brouillette, Emilio Sauri ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book attempts to understand what ‘contemporary’ has meant, and should mean, for literary studies. The essays in this volume suggest that an attentive reading of recent global literatures challenges the idea that our contemporary moment is best characterized as a timeless, instantaneous ‘now’. The contributors to this book argue that global literatures help us to conceive of the contemporary ... Read more

    $128.09 CAD

  • Tragic Plots

    A New Reading from Aeschylus to Lorca

    by Felicity Rosslyn ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2000. This book offers a wide-ranging account of tragic drama from the Greeks to Arthur Miller. It puts forward a bold and vigorously developed argument about the recurrent concerns of tragedy, and proposes to uncover the archetypal tragic plot that emerges at key points of historical transition. It traces this plot through fascinatingly diverse formations on ... Read more

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  • Poetry Off the Page

    Twentieth-Century British Women Poets in Performance

    by Laura Severin ...
    This study examines the performed poetry of Charlotte Mew, Anna Wickham, Edith Sitwell, Stevie Smith, Liz Lochhead, and Jackie Kay as an alternative radical tradition of British poetry, developed to convey women's experience. Through a historical treatment in which the poets are discussed in pairs, the chapters trace how these six women used a performative poetry to deal with difficulties ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Narratives of Difference in Globalized Cultures

    Reading Transnational Cultural Commodities

    Edited by Andrea Ruthven, Belén Martín-Lucas ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book is about how the marketing of transnational cultural commodities capitalizes on difference and its appeal for cosmopolitan consumers in our postmodern globalized world. At what price? What ethical and political conundrums does the artist/writer/reader confront when going global? This volume analyzes why difference - whether gender, sexual, racial, ethnic, or linguistic - has become such ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Ella Hepworth Dixon

    The Story of a Modern Woman

    by Valerie Fehlbaum ...
    Series series The Nineteenth Century Series
    In a career that spanned over forty years, Ella Hepworth Dixon (1857-1932) was alternately journalist, critic, essayist, short story writer, novelist, editor of a women's magazine, dramatist, and autobiographer. After an initial popularity, however, Ella Hepworth Dixon's work, like that of the majority of her contemporaries, remained largely unread for decades. In her new study, Valerie Fehlbaum ... Read more

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  • Andrew Marvell

    Loss and aspiration, home and homeland in Miscellaneous Poems

    by A. D. Cousins ...
    This monograph studies how, across the Folio of 1681, Marvell's poems engage not merely with different kinds of loss and aspiration, but with experiences of both that were, in mid-seventeenth-century England, disturbingly new and unfamiliar. It particularly examines Marvell's preoccupation with the search for home, and with redefining the homeland, in times of civil upheaval. In doing so it traces ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD