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  • Things in Poems

    From the Shield of Achilles to Hyperobjects

    Edited by Josef Hrdlicka, Mariana Machová ...
    Series series Studia Poetica
    An exploration of the place of material objects in modern poetry.In this volume, fifteen scholars and poets, from Austria, Britain, Czechia, France, Germany, Ireland, Lithuania, and Russia, explore the topic of things and objects in poetry written in a number of different languages and in different eras. The book begins with ancient poetry, then moves on to demonstrate the significance of objects ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Poetry in Exile

    Czech Poets during the Cold War and the Western Poetic Tradition

    by Josef Hrdlicka ...
    Translated by Václav Z. J. Pinkava ...
    In this comparative tour de force, Josef Hrdlička--one of the Czech Republic’s foremost experts on lyric poetry--examines the impact of exile, literal or spiritual, on poetry. Hrdlička argues that exile serves to disrupt the fundamental elements of poetry, especially its linguistic and cultural framework. Beginning with an examination of exile as a cultural phenomenon in the Western tradition, ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Faces of Community in Central European Towns

    Images, Symbols, and Performances, 1400–1700

    by Tomáš Borovský, Jana Doktorová, Elisabeth Gruber, Blanka Szeghyová, Katalin Szende, Katerina Hornícková, Josef Hrdlicka, Ondrej Jakubec, Zdenka Míchalová, Katerina Pražáková0, Robert Šimunek1, Michal Šronek2 ...
    Concepts of visual communication form an explanatory framework for discussing the visual expressions of urban symbolic communication in urban life in towns in the center of Europe in the late medieval and early modern period, including the dramatic times of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation. This book examines the role of images and visual representation by concentrating on the varieties of ... Read more

    $183.99 CAD

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    by Walter Benjamin, Leon Wieseltier ...
    Translated by Henry Zohn ...
    Essays and reflections from one of the twentieth century's most original cultural critics, with an introduction by Hannah Arendt.Walter Benjamin was an icon of criticism, renowned for his insight on art, literature, and philosophy. This volume includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and Brecht's epic ... Read more

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  • Language and Silence

    Essays on Language, Literature, and the Inhuman

    by George Steiner ...
    The evolution and manipulation of language from the celebrated author of After Babel. "A keenly discriminating literary mind at work on what it loves" ( The New York Times Book Review).Language and Silence is a book about language—and politics, meaning, silence, and the future of literature. Originally published between 1958 and 1966, the essays that make up this collection ponder whether we have ... Read more

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  • Literature and the Gods

    by Roberto Calasso ...
    Series series Vintage International
    Brilliant, inspired, and gloriously erudite, Literature and the Gods is the culmination of Roberto Calasso’s lifelong study of the gods in the human imagination. By uncovering the divine whisper that lies behind the best poetry and prose from across the centuries, Calasso gives us a renewed sense of the mystery and enchantment of great literature.From the banishment of the classical divinities ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Ecce Homo

    How To Become What You Are

    by Friedrich Nietzsche ...
    Translated by Duncan Large ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'I am not a man, I am dynamite.' Ecce Homo is an autobiography like no other. Deliberately provocative, Nietzsche subverts the conventions of the genre and pushes his philosophical positions to combative extremes, constructing a genius-hero whose life is a chronicle of incessant self-overcoming. Written in 1888, a few weeks before his descent into madness, the book sub-titled 'How To Become What ... Read more

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  • Correspondence 1949-1975

    by Martin Heidegger, Ernst Jünger ...
    Translated by Timothy Sean Quinn ...
    Series series New Heidegger Research
    Beginning in 1949, the German novelist and essayist Ernst Jünger began a correspondence with the philosopher Martin Heidegger that lasted until Heidegger’s death in 1975. This volume contains the first English translation of their complete correspondence, as well as letters from Heidegger’s wife and son and others referred to in their correspondence. It also contains a translation of Jünger’s ... Read more

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  • Nostalgia

    When Are We Ever at Home?

    by Barbara Cassin ...
    Translated by Pascale-Anne Brault ...
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  • Buried Treasures

    The Power of Political Fairy Tales

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  • The Oxford Handbook of European Romanticism

    Edited by Paul Hamilton ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    TThe Oxford Handbook to European Romanticism brings together leading scholars in the field to examine the intellectual, literary, philosophical, and political elements of European Romanticism. The book focuses on the cultural history of the period extending from the French Revolution to the uprisings of 1848. It begins with a series of chapters examining key texts written by major writers in ... Read more

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