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  • The Things I've Seenby Lara Marlowe

    Liberties Press 2013; US$ 11.65

    Lara Marlowe, the Washington correspondent of The Irish Times, has witnessed more than her share of history in three decades as a foreign correspondent. She has reported with clarity and fearlessness on the main conflicts of our era, from the civil war in Lebanon to the break-up of Yugoslavia, the US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and the ongoing... more...

  • Literature and the Political Imaginationby Andrea T. Baumeister; John Horton

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 57.95

    This volume shows how modern political theory can be enriched through an engagement with works of literature. It uses the resources of literature to explore issues such as nationalism, liberal philosophy, utopiansim, narrative and the role of theory in political thought. A variety of approaches are adopted and the aim is to show some of the many and... more...

  • Double Agentsby Erin G Carlston

    Columbia University Press 2013; US$ 28.99

    Why were white bourgeois gay male writers so interested in spies, espionage, and treason in the twentieth century? Erin G. Carlston believes such figures and themes were critical to exploring citizenship and its limits, requirements, and possibilities in the modern Western state. Through close readings of Marcel Proust?s novels, W. H. Auden?s poetry,... more...

  • Slow Printby Elizabeth Miller

    Stanford University Press 2013; US$ 60.00

    This book explores the literary culture of Britain's radical press from 1880 to 1910, a time that saw a flourishing of radical political activity as well as the emergence of a mass print industry. While Enlightenment radicals and their heirs had seen free print as an agent of revolutionary transformation, socialist, anarchist and other radicals of... more...

  • Der witzige, tiefe, leidenschaftliche Kierkegaardby Christian Wiebe

    Universitätsverlag Winter 2013; US$ 56.53

    Hauptbeschreibung Zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts setzt in Deutschland und Österreich eine breite Kierkegaard-Rezeption ein. Die Begeisterung für die Schriften des Dänen erfasst Philosophen, Theologen und Schriftsteller. Diese Arbeit konzentriert sich auf die Bedeutung Kierkegaards für die Literatur und fragt nach ihren Gründen und Funktionen. Wozu... more...

  • Cultures of Environmental Communicationby Sara Nofri

    Springer 2012; US$ 54.99

    Sara Nofri combines several research methods (multilingual bibliographic research, quantitative content analysis, semiotic text analysis, interviews to journalists) and a cross-cultural, interdisciplinary perspective for investigating environmental communication in the daily quality press of Germany, Italy, Sweden and UK. She provides an in-depth portrait... more...

  • Gelesene Wirklichkeitby Ruth Klüger

    Wallstein Verlag 2012; US$ 16.30

    Hauptbeschreibung Steht es dem Schriftsteller frei, einen historischen Stoff in einem literarischen Text nach eigenen Maßgaben zu verändern? Von Platon bis Philip Roth reicht das Spektrum der Texte, anhand derer Ruth Klüger dieser Fragestellung nachgeht. Was ist wahr? - Wie steht es um das Verhältnis des geschichtlichen Faktums zum Erzählen davon?... more...

  • Journalism Across Boundariesby Kevin Grieves

    Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 85.00

    Journalistic activity crosses national borders in creative and sometimes unexpected ways. Drawing on many interviews and newsroom observation, this book addresses an overlooked but important aspect of international journalism by examining how journalists carry out their daily work at the transnational and regional transborder level. more...

  • Style in Theoryby Ivan Callus; James Corby; Gloria Lauri-Lucente

    Bloomsbury Publishing 2012; US$ 19.99

    What, in theory, is style? How has style been rethought in literary theory?' Drawing together leading academics working within and across the disciplines of English, philosophy, literary theory, and comparative literature, Style in Theory: Between Philosophy and Literature sets out to rethink the important but all-too-often-overlooked issue of... more...

  • Ritual and the Idea of Europe in Interwar Writingby Patrick R. Query

    Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2012; US$ 104.95

    Query examines the ways interwar writers use three European ritual forms-verse drama, bullfighting and Roman Catholic rite-to articulate ideas of European cultural identity. Although these ritual forms were frequently associated with the most conservative tendencies of the age, Query shows that each had a remarkable political flexibility in the hands... more...