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Volgens Kapitein Bellen
Sidestone Press 2013; US$ 37.50In de eerste helft van de 20ste eeuw was de naam van kapitein Hendrik Joseph Bellen onlosmakelijk verbonden met de Veluwse en Drentse heidevelden. Vooral in de alom aanwezige zandverstuivingen en nieuwe ontginningen deed hij zijn belangrijke archeologische ontdekkingen. Als amateurarcheoloog onderhield hij contact met internationaal bekende archeologen... more...
The Book of Virtues
Simon & Schuster 2010; US$ 25.00Responsibility. Courage. Compassion. Honesty. Friendship. Persistence. Faith. Everyone recognizes these traits as essentials of good character. In order for our children to develop such traits, we have to offer them examples of good and bad, right and wrong. And the best places to find them are in great works of literature and exemplary stories from... more...
Theorizing Modernisms
Taylor and Francis 1993; US$ 160.00At a time when postmodernism seems to have achieved a dominant position in cultural and critical theory, the contributors to this volume present a much needed corrective to the misleading images of modernism which have dominated recent debate. Theorizing Modernisms includes an account of European modernism, and analysis of the work of Apollinaire... more...
Modernity and Metropolis
Palgrave Macmillan 2001; US$ 145.00A study of urban identity and community looks at selected twentieth century literary and film texts in the context of theorizations of modernism, postmodernism, postcoloniality and globalization. Brooker draws on Beck and Giddens to propose a 'reflexive modernism' which rewrites and re-imagines the urban scene. The principal cities considered are London... more...
Polemic
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 36.95These new essays by leading scholars examine some famous and less well-known instances of polemical encounters. The essays are enhanced by an interview with Gayatri Spivak, specially conducted by Jane Gallop for this volume Historically rigorous, theoretically astute, and sometimes wickedly funny, Polemic makes criticism a critical issue. more...
Copying Machines
University of Minnesota Press 2000; US$ 72.00In readings of texts by Lafayette, Molière, Laclos, and La Bruyère?and in a chapter on the eighteenth-century inventor of automatons, Jacques Vaucanson?Catherine Liu provides a fascinating account of ways in which the automaton and the preindustrial machine haunt the imagination of ancien régime France and structure key moments of the canonical literature... more...
HIV Stories
Liverpool University Press 2002; US$ 70.00This book draws attention to the existence in France of an AIDS literature from 1985 to 1988 before AIDS writing became either a widely recognised genre or a culturally influential form of writing. It is a predominantly literary critical study, informed by gender studies and psychoanalytic criticism in its readings of individual texts, and interwoven... more...
Cold War Literature
Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 44.95The Cold War was the longest conflict in a century defined by the scale and brutality of its conflicts. In the battle between the democratic West and the communist East there was barely a year in which the West was not organising, fighting or financing some foreign war. It was an engagement that resulted ? in Korea, Guatemala, Nicaragua and elsewhere... more...
Equivocal Beings
University of Chicago Press 2009; US$ 30.00In the wake of the French Revolution, Edmund Burke argued that civil order depended upon nurturing the sensibility of men—upon the masculine cultivation of traditionally feminine qualities such as sentiment, tenderness, veneration, awe, gratitude, and even prejudice. Writers as diverse as Sterne, Goldsmith, Burke, and Rousseau were politically... more...
Fighting Songs and Warring Words
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 158.00The accepted canon of war poetry usually includes only those underlining patriotic or nationalistic views. This study opens up the view of war poetry with the inclusion of such material as Nazi poetry and song, and the poetry of the atomic bomb. more...









