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  • Victorian Conversion Narratives and Reading Communities

    par Emily Walker Heady ...
    Because Victorian authors rarely discuss conversion experiences separately from the modes in which they are narrated, Emily Walker Heady argues that the conversion narrative became, in effect, a form of literary criticism. Literary conventions, in turn, served the reciprocal function as a means of discussing the nature of what Heady calls the 'heart-change.' Heady reads canonical authors such as ... En savoir plus

    $107.17 CAD

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  • Self and Soul

    A Defense of Ideals

    par Mark Edmundson ...
    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 ... En savoir plus

    $25.29 CAD

  • On Poets and Others

    Traduit par Michael Schmidt ...
    par Octavio Paz ...
    The Nobel Prizewinning poet and man of letters Octavio Paz was also a brilliant reader of other writers, and this book selects his best critical essays from over three decades. In the sixteen pieces collected here, Paz discusses a wide range of poets and writers, both American and international, from Robert Frost and Walt Whitman to William Carlos Williams; from Fyodor Dostoevsky to Luis Buñuel to ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • Persophilia

    Persian Culture on the Global Scene

    par Hamid Dabashi ...
    From the Biblical period and Classical Antiquity to the rise of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, aspects of Persian culture have been integral to European history. A diverse constellation of European artists, poets, and thinkers have looked to Persia for inspiration, finding there a rich cultural counterpoint and frame of reference. Interest in all things Persian was no passing fancy but an ... En savoir plus

    $46.99 CAD

  • Comic Sense

    Reading Robert Coover, Stanley Elkin, Philip Roth

    par Thomas Pughe ...
    Collections series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The idea for this study came to me in the course of my reading of innova tive US-American! fiction of the last three decades. I observed that much of it is cast in the comic mode - or, more precisely, that there seems to be in contemporary fiction an affinity between 'innovation' and 'the comic' and that this affinity, furthermore, appears to be characteristic of postmo dernism. It is obvious, at ... En savoir plus

    $64.99 CAD

  • Making India: Colonialism, National Culture, and the Afterlife of Indian English Authority

    par Makarand R. Paranjape ...
    Collections series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Compared to how it looked 150 years ago at the eve of the colonial conquest, today’s India is almost completely unrecognizable. A sovereign nation, with a teeming, industrious population, it is an economic powerhouse and the world’s largest democracy. It can boast of robust legal institutions and a dizzying plurality of cultures, in addition to a lively and unrestricted print and electronic media. ... En savoir plus

    $115.99 CAD

  • Mary Wroth

    Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series 1, Part One, Volume 10

    par Josephine A. Roberts ...
    Collections Livre 1 - The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works & Printed Writings, 1500-1640: Series I
    Mary Wroth (1587-1653?) was niece and god-daughter of Mary Sidney Herbert. She was married in 1604 to Sir Robert Wroth with whom she joined the Court circle of James I. In 1618 she began work on her enormous prose romance The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania. The first known work of original fiction by an Englishwoman it reflects her experience as an eyewitness to the turbulent Jacobean Court. ... En savoir plus

    $86.56 CAD

  • Modernism on Fleet Street

    par Patrick Collier ...
    British modernism came of age at a time of great cultural anxiety about the state of journalism. The new newspapers, with their brief, flashy articles, striking visuals, hyperbolic headlines, and sensational news, stood at the center of debates about reading in the period, seeming to threaten the viability of representative democracy, the health and vitality of the language, and the very future of ... En savoir plus

    $89.31 CAD

  • Robert Southey and the Contexts of English Romanticism

    Modifié par Lynda Pratt ...
    Lynda Pratt's collection of specially commissioned essays is the first edited volume devoted to the multiple connections between Robert Southey (1774-1843) and English Romantic culture. A major and highly controversial personage in his own day, Southey has until recently been the forgotten member of the Lake School. ... En savoir plus

    $89.31 CAD

  • Jane Austen, Young Author

    par Juliet McMaster ...
    In her lively and accessibly written book, Juliet McMaster examines Jane Austen’s acute and frequently uproarious juvenile works as important in their own right and for the ways they look forward to her novels. Exploring the early works both collectively and individually, McMaster shows how young Austen’s fictional world, peopled by guzzlers and unashamed self-seekers, operates by an ethic of ... En savoir plus

    $101.68 CAD

  • The Name and Nature of Tragicomedy

    par Verna A. Foster ...
    Collections series Studies in European Cultural Transition
    Focusing on European tragicomedy from the early modern period to the theatre of the absurd, Verna Foster here argues for the independence of tragicomedy as a genre that perceives and communicates human experience differently from the various forms of tragedy, comedy, and the drame (serious drama that is neither comic nor tragic). Foster posits that, in the sense of the dramaturgical and emotional ... En savoir plus

    $89.31 CAD

  • Balzac, Literary Sociologist

    par Allan H. Pasco ...
    Collections series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Melding the fields of literature, sociology, and history, this book develops analyses of the ten novels in Balzac's Scènes de la vie de province. Following the order of the novels projected in La Comédie humaine, Allan H. Pasco investigates how Balzac used art as a tool of social inquiry to obtain startlingly accurate insights into the relationships that defined his turbulent society. His repeated ... En savoir plus

    $32.09 CAD