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  • 'Anticipating' the 2011 Arab Uprisings

    Revolutionary Literatures and Political Geographies

    par R. Sakr ...
    Collections series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This Palgrave Pivot volume explores an exciting range of powerful novels and memoirs from Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Syria that reveal political geographies of injustice and popular discontent thus 'anticipating' or imaginatively envisioning as well as participating in some of the major current upheavals in their particular national contexts. ... En savoir plus

    $64.99 CAD

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  • Grand Expectations

    The United States, 1945-1974

    par James T. Patterson ...
    Collections series Oxford History of the United States |v X
    Beginning in 1945, America rocketed through a quarter-century of extraordinary economic growth, experiencing an amazing boom that soared to unimaginable heights in the 1960s. At one point, in the late 1940s, American workers produced 57 percent of the planet's steel, 62 percent of the oil, 80 percent of the automobiles. The U.S. then had three-fourths of the world's gold supplies. English Prime ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD

  • The Intellectuals and the Masses

    Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia 1880-1939

    par John Carey ...
    Professor John Carey shows how early twentieth-century intellectuals imagined the 'masses' as semi-human swarms, drugged by popular newspapers and cinema, and ripe for extermination. Exposing the revulsion from common humanity in George Bernard Shaw, Ezra Pound, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, H. G. Wells, Aldous Huxley, W. B. Yeats and other canonized writers, he relates this to ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Modern Chinese Culture

    Modifié par Kam Louie ...
    Collections series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    At the start of the twenty-first century, China is poised to become a major global power. Understanding its culture is more important than ever before for western audiences, but for many, China remains a mysterious and exotic country. This Companion explains key aspects of modern Chinese culture without assuming prior knowledge of China or the Chinese language. The volume acknowledges the ... En savoir plus

    $37.99 CAD

  • Darwin Loves You

    Natural Selection and the Re-enchantment of the World

    par George Levine ...
    Jesus and Darwin do battle on car bumpers across America. Medallions of fish symbolizing Jesus are answered by ones of amphibians stamped "Darwin," and stickers proclaiming "Jesus Loves You" are countered by "Darwin Loves You." The bumper sticker debate might be trivial and the pronouncement that "Darwin Loves You" may seem merely ironic, but George Levine insists that the message contains an ... En savoir plus

    $39.59 CAD

  • Utopia and the Village in South Asian Literatures

    par A. Mohan ...
    Collections series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Shifting the postcolonial focus away from the city and towards the village, this book examines the rural as a trope in twentieth-century South Asian literatures to propose a new literary history based on notions of utopia, dystopia, and heterotopia and how these ideas have circulated in the literary and the cultural imaginaries of the subcontinent. ... En savoir plus

    $64.09 CAD

  • Early Encounters between East Asia and Europe

    Telling Failures

    Modifié par Ralf Hertel, Michael Keevak ...
    Collections series Transculturalisms, 1400-1700
    While inquiries into early encounters between East Asia and the West have traditionally focused on successful interactions, this collection inquires into the many forms of failure, experienced on all sides, in the period before 1850. Countering a tendency in scholarship to overlook unsuccessful encounters, it starts from the assumption that failures can prove highly illuminating and provide ... En savoir plus

    $89.31 CAD

  • The Postcolonial Epic

    From Melville to Walcott and Ghosh

    par Sneharika Roy ...
    Collections series Literary Cultures of the Global South
    This book demonstrates the epic genre’s enduring relevance to the Global South. It identifies a contemporary avatar of classical epic, the ‘postcolonial epic’, ushered in by Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, a foundational text of North America, and exemplified by Derek Walcott’s Caribbean masterpiece Omeros and Amitav Ghosh’s South Asian saga, the Ibis trilogy.The work focuses on the epic genre’s rich ... En savoir plus

    $86.56 CAD

  • Empires of Love

    Europe, Asia, and the Making of Early Modern Identity

    par Carmen Nocentelli ...
    Through literary and historical documents from the early sixteenth to late seventeenth centuries—epic poetry, private correspondence, secular dramas, and colonial legislation—Carmen Nocentelli charts the Western fascination with the eros of "India," as the vast coastal stretch from the Gulf of Aden to the South China Sea was often called. If Asia was thought of as a place of sexual deviance and ... En savoir plus

    $67.99 CAD

  • The Chinese Language in European Texts

    The Early Period

    par Dinu Luca ...
    Collections series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This detailed, chronological study investigates the rise of the European fascination with the Chinese language up to 1615. By meticulously investigating a wide range of primary sources, Dinu Luca identifies a rhetorical continuum uniting the land of the Seres, Cathay, and China in a tropology of silence, vision, and writing. Tracing the contours of this tropology, The Chinese Language in European ... En savoir plus

    $64.99 CAD

  • Placing the Modern Chinese Vernacular in Transnational Literature

    par G. Zhou ...
    Collections series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This is the first book to concentrate not only on the triumph of the vernacular in modern China but also on the critical role of the rise of the vernacular in world literature, invoking parallel cases from countries throughout Europe and Asia. ... En savoir plus

    $64.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to French Literature

    Modifié par John D. Lyons ...
    Collections series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    In this authoritative and accessible account of French literature, sixteen essays by leading specialists offer provocative insights into French literary culture, its genres, movements, themes, and historic turning points, including the cultural and linguistic challenges of today's multi-ethnic France. The French have, over the centuries, invented and reinvented writing, from the Arthurian romances ... En savoir plus

    $34.99 CAD