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Professing Literature
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 27.50Widely considered the standard history of the profession of literary studies, Professing Literature unearths the long-forgotten ideas and debates that created the literature department as we know it today. In a readable and often-amusing narrative, Gerald Graff shows that the heated conflicts of our recent culture wars echo—and often recycle—controversies... more...
Edward Said and the Literary, Social, and Political World
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 44.95Edward Said is widely recognized for his work as a critic and theorist of Orientalism and the Palestine crisis, but far less attention has been devoted to his considerable body of literary and cultural criticism. In this edited collection, the contributors - many among the foremost Said scholars in the world - examine Said as the literary critic;... more...
European Literature from Romanticism to Postmodernism
Continuum International Publishing 2006; US$ 170.00European Literature from Romanticism to Postmodernism is an anthology of key theoretical writings by the major representatives of the schools and movements of recent European literature. Each chapter is devoted to one particular school of movement from within the broad body of literature, from romanticism, realism and modernism though to the literature... more...
Rhetoric, Rhetoricians and Poets
Amsterdam University Press 2000; US$ 29.25A tribute to Marijke Spies on her retirement as professor of 16th- and 17th-century Dutch literature. more...
In tekst gevat
Amsterdam University Press 2006; US$ 47.40Sekse en etniciteit impliceren fundamentele hiërarchieën in onze cultuur, die alle representatie doordesemen. Het zijn krachten die elke tekst van binnenuit besturen, conventies van representatie die zo vanzelfsprekend zijn, dat zij niet langer, als conventies worden gezien. Dat verklaart waarom deze categorieën zo vaak als 'natuurlijk' worden... more...
Romantic Border Crossings
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2008; US$ 99.95Romantic Border Crossings participates in the movement towards 'otherness' in Romanticism, by uncovering the intellectual and disciplinary anxieties surrounding comparative studies of British, American, and European literature and culture. Spanning a wide range of authors and topics that includes Elizabeth Inchbald, Gérard de Nerval, Jacobinism,... more...
A Handbook to Literary Research
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 35.95The Handbook to Literary Research is a practical guide for students embarking on postgraduate work in Literary Studies. It introduces and explains research techniques, methodologies and approaches to information resources, paying careful attention to the differences between countries and institutions, and providing a range of key examples. This... more...
The Literary Cold War, 1945 to Vietnam
Edinburgh University Press 2009; US$ 113.99This is a ground-breaking study of the psychological and cultural impact of the Cold War on the imaginations of citizens in the UK and US.The Literary Cold War examines writers working at the hazy borders between aesthetic project and political allegory, with specific attention being paid to Vladimir Nabokov and Graham Greene as Cold War writers. The... more...
Erzählkultur
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 210.00The volume presents 25 papers on the cultural analysis of narration and narratives. The selection concentrates both on comparative historical narratology and on contemporary narratology as an analysis of consciousness. The authors come from a number of European countries and from North America, and the papers, in German and English, provide exemplary... more...
Making Publics in Early Modern Europe
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 39.95The book looks at how people, things, and new forms of knowledge created "publics" in early modern Europe, and how publics changed the shape of early modern society. The focus is on what the authors call "making publics" ? the active creation of new forms of association that allowed people to connect with others in ways not rooted in family, rank... more...









