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"The Lives of Others" and Contemporary German Film
De Gruyter 2013; US$ 280.00This volume will offer the first book-length academic investigation of Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck?s Oscar-winning film The Lives of Others (2006). The aim of this edited collection is twofold. On the one hand, it will offer new insight into one of the most successful German films of the past two decades placing The Lives of Others within its... more...
Die Ökonomien des Realismus
De Gruyter 2013; US$ 140.00The literature of realism from 1850 to 1900 has maintained a lively exchange of knowledge across the disciplinary boundaries of economics and literary studies. While the literary world has appropriated the vocabulary of economics in order to lend factual plausibility to fiction, economics has often resorted to literary devices in its narratives. This... more...
Romantic Feuds
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 99.95Despite their desire to rise above the so-called 'age of personality' and personal attacks, Romantic-era figures such as Robert Southey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Leigh Hunt, William Hazlitt, Sydney Owenson, and the explorer John Ross became enmeshed in public feuds with the Edinburgh Review and the Quarterly Review. Finding literary genres... more...
Victorian Conversion Narratives and Reading Communities
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 99.95Reading canonical authors such as John Henry Newman, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot and Oscar Wilde through a dual lens of literary history and post-liberal theology, Emily Walker Heady suggests that Victorian authors discuss conversion experiences in the context of the modes in which are narrated. Thus, conversion narratives... more...
Incredible Modernism
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 114.95Examining the importance of trust as an influence on a wide range of European and American modernists - including James Joyce, Marcel Proust, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, H.D., Ford Madox Ford, Samuel Beckett, Ralph Ellison and Wallace Stevens - this collection shows that the concept underwent a violent set of transformations at the turn... more...
Mirages and Mad Beliefs
Princeton University Press 2013; US$ 45.00Marcel Proust was long the object of a cult in which the main point of reading his great novel In Search of Lost Time was to find, with its narrator, a redemptive epiphany in a pastry and a cup of lime-blossom tea. We now live in less confident times, in ways that place great strain on the assumptions and beliefs that made those earlier readings... more...
European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages
Princeton University Press 2013; US$ 35.00Published just after the Second World War, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a sweeping exploration of the remarkable continuity of European literature across time and place, from the classical era up to the early nineteenth century, and from the Italian peninsula to the British Isles. In what T. S. Eliot called a "magnificent" book,... more...
Italo Calvino
Princeton University Press 2013; US$ 39.50This is the first collection in English of the extraordinary letters of one of the great writers of the twentieth century. Italy's most important postwar novelist, Italo Calvino (1923-1985) achieved worldwide fame with such books as Cosmicomics , Invisible Cities , and If on a winter's night a traveler . But he was also an influential literary... more...
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Mark Twain
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 67.95'A model reference work that can be used with profit and delight by general readers as well as by more advanced students of Twain. Highly recommended.' ? Library Journal The Routledge Encyclopedia of Mark Twain includes more than 700 alphabetically arranged entries that cover a full variety of topics on this major American writer's life,... more...
Michel Foucault
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 105.00It is impossible to imagine contemporary critical theory without the work of Michel Foucault. His radical reworkings of the concepts of power, knowledge, discourse and identity have influenced the widest possible range of theories and impacted upon disciplinary fields from literary studies to anthropology. Aimed at students approaching Foucault's texts... more...









