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“robert garnier”

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  • A Discourse of Life and Death by Mornay and Antonius by Garnier

    by Robert Garnier ...
    "A Discourse of Life and Death" by Philippe de Mornay is a philosophical essay that reflects on the transient nature of human life and the inevitability of death. Mornay, a Protestant theologian, argues for the importance of understanding the temporary nature of life in order to live virtuously and with proper regard for the afterlife. The work engages with ideas about the human soul, divine ... Read more

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    In this eye-opening book, Mary McCarthy shares her love of the novel and her fear that it is becoming an endangered literary species"He had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it."So begins Mary McCarthy's fascinating critical analysis of the novel (and its practitioners) from her double-edged perspective as both reader and writer. The bestselling author of The Group takes T. S. Eliot's ... Read more

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  • The End of Airports

    by Dr. Christopher Schaberg ...
    If air travel was once the bold future, it has now settled into a mundane, on-going present. We no longer expect romantic experiences or sublime views, but just hope that we get from here to there with minimal hassle. In The End of Airports, Christopher Schaberg suggests that even as the epoch of flight approaches a threshold of banality, there are still mysteries to be unraveled around our ... Read more

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  • Transnationalism and German-Language Literature in the Twenty-First Century

    by Stuart Taberner ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book examines how German-language authors have intervened in contemporary debates on the obligation to extend hospitality to asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants; the terrorist threat post-9/11; globalisation and neo-liberalism; the opportunities and anxieties of intensified mobility across borders; and whether transnationalism necessarily implies the end of the nation state and the dawn of ... Read more

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  • Intertextuality and Victorian Studies

    by Sudha Shastri ...
    This book explores the recall of the Victorians, displayed by select novels ranging in time from Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea (1996) to A. S. Byatt’s Possession: A Romance (1990). These Victorianist novels are complex studies of Victorian literature, society and modes of representation. ... Read more

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  • The Body in Late Medieval and Early Modern Culture

    by Nina Taunton ...
    Taking as its chronological starting-point the female body of late medieval devotional literature, the volume moves on to a consideration of the representation of gendered bodies in later literature. It then proceeds to examine sixteenth-century occupational orderings of the (male) body in education, the civil service and the army, and involves explorations into a variety of rituals for the ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • Dickens and the City

    Edited by Jeremy Tambling ...
    Series series A Library of Essays on Charles Dickens
    Dickens's relationship to cities is part of his modernity and his enduring fascination. How he thought about, grasped and conceptualised the rapidly expanding and anonymous urban scene are all fascinating aspects of a critical debate which, starting virtually from Dickens's own time, has become more and more active and questioning of the significance of that new thing, the unknown and unknowable, ... Read more

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  • Politics and Genre in the Works of Elizabeth Hamilton, 1756–1816

    by Claire Grogan ...
    In the first book-length study of the well-respected and popular British writer Elizabeth Hamilton, Claire Grogan addresses a significant gap in scholarship that enlarges and complicates critical understanding of the Romantic woman writer. From 1797 to 1818, Hamilton published in a wide range of genres, including novels, satires, historical and educational treatises, and historical biography. ... Read more

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  • Modern Print Activism in the United States

    Edited by Rachel Schreiber ...
    The explosion of print culture that occurred in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century activated the widespread use of print media to promote social and political activism. Exploring this phenomenon, the essays in Modern Print Activism in the United States focus on specific groups, individuals, and causes that relied on print as a vehicle for activism. They also take up the variety ... Read more

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  • George Du Maurier: Illustrator, Author, Critic

    Beyond Svengali

    by Simon Cooke, Paul Goldman ...
    Though well-known as the author of Trilby and the creator of Svengali, the writer-artist George Du Maurier had many other accomplishments that are less familiar to modern audiences. This collection traces Du Maurier’s role as a participant in the wider cultural life of his time, restoring him to his proper status as a major Victorian figure. Divided into sections, the volume considers Du Maurier ... Read more

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  • The Bawdy Politic in Stuart England, 1660–1714

    Political Pornography and Prostitution

    by Melissa M. Mowry ...
    Series series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    With this original study, Melissa Mowry makes a strong contribution to a provocative interdisciplinary conversation about an important and influential sub genre: seventeenth-century political pornography. This book further advances our understanding of pornography's importance in seventeenth-century England by extending its investigation beyond the realm of cultural rhetoric into the realm of ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • Twentieth-Century Drama Dialogue as Ordinary Talk

    Speaking Between the Lines

    by Susan Mandala ...
    In this book, Susan Mandala offers a series of in-depth investigations into how the dialogue of four modern plays 'works' with respect to the pragmatic and discoursal norms postulated for ordinary conversation. After an account of the often-heated debates between linguists and critics concerning the analysis of drama dialogue as talk, four plays are considered: Harold Pinter's The Homecoming, ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD