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  • Lima Barreto

    New Critical Perspectives

    par Paulo da-Luz-Moreira, Robert Anderson, Talia Gúzman-González, Luiz Fernando Valente, Vivaldo A. Santos, Earl E. Fitz, Renata R. M. Wasserman, Nelson H. Vieira, Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, Marc A. Hertzman, Mário Higa, Emanuelle K. F. Oliveira ...
    This edited volume is a collection of twelve interdisciplinary essays from various Brazilian literary scholars, historians, and anthropologists analyzing the work of 19th- and 20th-century Afro-Brazilian writer Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto. This is the first collection to present a cohesive analysis of this writer’s work in English. It is an intellectually diverse collection of essays that ... En savoir plus

    $142.99 CAD

  • Emerging Dialogues on Machado de Assis

    Modifié par Lamonte Aidoo, Daniel F. Silva ...
    Collections series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The first book-length edited collection on Machado de Assis, this volume offers essays on Machado de Assis' work that offer new critical perspectives not only Brazilian literature and history, but also to social, cultural, and political phenomena that continue to have global repercussions. ... En savoir plus

    $115.99 CAD

  • Subjectivity and the Reproduction of Imperial Power

    Empire�s Individuals

    par Daniel F. Silva ...
    Collections series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    This bookbrings forth a new contribution to the study of imperialism and colonial discourse by theorizing the emergence and function of individual identity as product and producer of imperial power. While recent decades of theoretical reflections on imperialism have yielded important understandings of how the West has repeatedly reconsolidated its power, this book seeks to grasp the complex role ... En savoir plus

    $89.31 CAD

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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 ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The End of Airports

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $31.69 CAD

  • How the World Works

    par Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian ...
    An eye-opening introduction to the timelessly relevant ideas of Noam Chomsky, "arguably the most important intellectual alive" (The New York Times), this book is a penetrating, illusion-shattering look at how things really workOffering something not found anywhere else, How the World Works is pure Chomsky, but tailored for those who are new to his work. The book is made up of meticulously edited ... En savoir plus

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  • Illustrating the Past in Early Modern England

    The Representation of History in Printed Books

    par James A. Knapp ...
    Illustrating the Past is a study of the status of visual and verbal media in early modern English representations of the past. It focuses on general attitudes towards visual and verbal representations of history as well as specific illustrated books produced during the period. Through a close examination of the relationship of image to text in light of contemporary discussions of poetic and ... En savoir plus

    $96.18 CAD

  • Iterations of Loss

    Mutilation and Aesthetic Form, al-Shidyaq to Darwish

    par Jeffrey Sacks ...
    In a series of exquisite close readings of Arabic and Arab Jewish writing, Jeffrey Sacks considers the relation of poetic statement to individual and collective loss, the dispossession of peoples and languages, and singular events of destruction in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. Addressing the work of Mahmoud Darwish, Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, Elias Khoury, Edmond Amran El ... En savoir plus

    $44.99 CAD

  • The Changing Face of Empire

    Special Ops, Drones, Spies, Proxy Fighters, Secret Bases, and Cyberwarfare

    par Nick Turse ...
    Collections series Dispatch Books
    Following the failures of the Iraq and Afghan wars, as well as military lite” methods and counterinsurgency, the Pentagon is pioneering a new brand of global warfare predicated on special ops, drones, spy games, civilian soldiers, and cyberwarfare. It may sound like a safer, saner war-fighting. In reality, it will prove anything but, as Turse's pathbreaking reportage makes clear. ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD

  • Castaway Tales

    From Robinson Crusoe to Life of Pi

    par Christopher Palmer ...
    A wide-ranging and appreciative literary history of the castaway tale from Defoe to the presentEver since Robinson Crusoe washed ashore, the castaway story has survived and prospered, inspiring a multitude of writers of adventure fiction to imitate and adapt its mythic elements. In his brilliant critical study of this popular genre, Christopher Palmer traces the castaway tales' history and changes ... En savoir plus

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  • Detaining Time

    Temporal Resistance in Literature from Shakespeare to McEwan

    par Eric P. Levy ...
    Detaining Time is the first book to investigate the representation of time in literature in terms of the project to reconceptualize time, so that its movement no longer threatens security. Focusing on the nature, consequences, and resolution of resistance to temporal passage, Eric P. Levy offers detailed and probing close readings, enriched by thorough yet engaging explication and application of ... En savoir plus

    $51.99 CAD

  • Giordano Bruno and the Geometry of Language

    par Arielle Saiber ...
    Collections series Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
    Giordano Bruno and the Geometry of Language brings to the fore a sixteenth-century philosopher's role in early modern Europe as a bridge between science and literature, or more specifically, between the spatial paradigm of geometry and that of language. Arielle Saiber examines how, to invite what Bruno believed to be an infinite universe-its qualities and vicissitudes-into the world of language, ... En savoir plus

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