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  • The Irish Proust

    Cultural Crossings from Beckett to McGahern

    Edited by Max McGuinness, Michael Cronin ...
    Series series Historicizing Modernism
    This collection of essays is the first book devoted to exploring Marcel Proust's influence on Irish literature and Irish themes within his work. Featuring contributions from eleven scholars of French and Irish studies, The Irish Proust reveals a surprising textual dimension of Proust's novel and traces the enduring legacy of his work throughout modern Irish letters.Proust's work, which was banned ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • Beckett's Friendship

    by André Bernold ...
    Translated by Max McGuinness ...
    'Despite his deep sense of privacy, Beckett's persona has been so widely written about that it has become unavoidably mixed up in our imagination with what Bernold calls his "creatures". Whether or not Barthes and Foucault were right to dismiss the figure of the author, when confronted with Vladimir wincing or Krapp hunched over his tape recorder or Molloy resting on his bicycle, one's mind always ... Read more

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  • Beckett's Friendship

    by André Bernold, John Minihan ...
    Translated by Max McGuinness ...
    'Despite his deep sense of privacy, Beckett's persona has been so widely written about that it has become unavoidably mixed up in our imagination with what Bernold calls his "creatures". Whether or not Barthes and Foucault were right to dismiss the figure of the author, when confronted with Vladimir wincing or Krapp hunched over his tape recorder or Molloy resting on his bicycle, one's mind always ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sport, History, and Heritage

    Studies in Public Representation

    by Jeffrey Hill, Jean Williams, Jed Smith, John K. Walton, Kevin Moore, Matthew Taylor, Max Dunbar, Mike McGuinness, Neil Skinner0, Ray Physick1, Richard Holt2, Santiago De Pablo3, Stephen Done4, Tim O'Sullivan5, Wray Vamplew6, Jason Wood8, Andrea Titterington9, Anthony Bateman0, Daphné Bolz1, David Storey2, Honor Godfrey3 ...
    Sport is an integral part of British culture and an important aspect of modern life. Although its importance has been recognised by academic historians, sport has yet to be fully appreciated in the growing and related fields of heritage and museum studies. Sport and heritage have operated as seemingly separate spheres, yet together they can convey powerful messages; convergence between them is ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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  • The Theatre of the Absurd

    by Martin Esslin ...
    In 1953, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot premiered at a tiny avant-garde theatre in Paris; within five years, it had been translated into more than twenty languages and seen by more than a million spectators. Its startling popularity marked the emergence of a new type of theatre whose proponents—Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, Pinter, and others—shattered dramatic conventions and paid scant attention ... Read more

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  • A Beckett Canon

    by Ruby Cohn ...
    Series series Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
    Samuel Beckett is unique in literature. Born and educated in Ireland, he lived most of his life in Paris. His literary output was rendered in either English or French, and he often translated one to the other, but there is disagreement about the contents of his bilingual corpus. A Beckett Canon by renowned theater scholar Ruby Cohn offers an invaluable guide to the entire corpus, commenting on ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Translating Milan Kundera

    by Michelle WOODS ...

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  • The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

    by Walter Benjamin ...
    Series series Penguin Great Ideas
    One of the most important works of cultural theory ever written, Walter Benjamin's groundbreaking essay explores how the age of mass media means audiences can listen to or see a work of art repeatedly – and what the troubling social and political implications of this are.Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves – and each other. They ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Schubert's Winter Journey

    Anatomy of an Obsession

    by Ian Bostridge ...
    Franz Schubert's Winterreise is at the same time one of the most powerful and one of the most enigmatic masterpieces in Western culture. In his new book, Schubert's Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession, Ian Bostridge - one of the work's finest interpreters - focusses on the context, resonance and personal significance of a work which is possibly the greatest landmark in the history of Lieder. ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Liverpool v Manchester United: Seeing Red (A Short Pass)

    by Andy Mitten ...
    ‘Seeing Red’ is an exclusive extract from the best-selling ‘Mad For It’, published in association with FourFourTwo magazine. It examines one of the greatest sporting rivalries from the viewpoint of the people that matter; the fans.‘Mad For It’ proves that some football matches are far more than just a game.These short extracts, from the original book published in association with FourFourTwo ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Before Auschwitz

    Irène Némirovsky and the Cultural Landscape of Inter-war France

    by Angela Kershaw ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
    This book analyses Irene Némirovsky’s literary production in its relationship to the literary and cultural context of the inter-war period in France. It examines topics of central importance to our understanding of the literary field in France in the period, such as: the close relationship between politics and literature; the historical, political, cultural and personal legacies of the First World ... Read more

    $46.71 CAD

  • This Little Art

    by Kate Briggs ...
    An essay with the reach and momentum of a novel, Kate Briggs's This Little Art is a genre-bending song for the practice of literary translation, offering fresh, fierce and timely thinking on reading, writing and living with the works of others. Taking her own experience of translating Roland Barthes's lecture notes as a starting point, the author threads various stories together to give us this ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus