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What Literature Teaches Us about Emotion
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 72.00Explores emotion in a range of literary works, in the context of current neurobiological, psychological, sociological and other empirical research. more...
How Literature Changes the Way We Think
Continuum International Publishing 2011; US$ 100.00The capacity of the arts and the humanities, and of literature in particular, to have a meaningful societal impact has been increasingly undervalued in recent history. Both humanists and scientists have tended to think of the arts as a means to represent the world via imagination. Mack maintains that the arts do not merely describe our world but that... more...
Theory of Literature and Other Critical Writings
Columbia University Press 2012; US$ 28.99Natsume Soseki (1867-1916) was the foremost Japanese novelist of the twentieth century, known for such highly acclaimed works as Kokoro , Sanshiro , and I Am a Cat . Yet he began his career as a literary theorist and scholar of English literature. In 1907, he published Theory of Literature , a remarkably forward-thinking attempt to understand... more...
Médée protéiforme
Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa 2012; US$ 24.95Le mythe de l?infanticide Médée a toujours connu une fortune littéraire et la littérature féminine contemporaine ne fait pas exception. L?analyse comparée de huit textes de femmes de divers horizons tente de cerner les enjeux de cette figure irréductible pour une pensée féministe actuelle sur la maternité, le sujet et l?écriture mythique. En... more...
Writing At Risk
University of Iowa Press 1991; US$ 33.95Much has been made of the image of writers in Paris—romanticized and idealized in fiction and on screen, these émigré artists in sidewalk cafés spark our imagination with unusual force. But rarely do the real-life figures speak to us directly to comment on their work, their lives, and their reasons for choosing to live... more...
Arthurian Literature XXI
Boydell & Brewer 2004; US$ 90.00A special number devoted to Celtic material. more...
African American Foreign Correspondents
LSU Press 2013; US$ 35.00Though African Americans have served as foreign reporters for almost two centuries, their work remains virtually unstudied. In this seminal volume, Jinx Coleman Broussard traces the history of black participation in international newsgathering. Beginning in the mid-1800s with Frederick Douglass and Mary Ann Shadd Cary?the first black woman to edit... more...
Arthurian Literature XXIX
Boydell & Brewer 2012; US$ 90.00" 'Arthurian Literature' has established its position as the home for a great diversity of new research into Arthurian matters. It delivers fascinating material across genres, periods, and theoretical issues." TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT. more...
Ginger-Snaps
The Floating Press 2012; US$ 3.99An influential critic, commentator, and journalist, New England-based writer Fanny Fern (born Sara Willis) ascended to the very highest levels of literary acclaim in the late nineteenth century, even at one time commanding the title of the best-paid woman writer in the United States. The collection Ginger-Snaps brings together many of Fern's most... more...
Memories and Studies
The Floating Press 2012; US$ 4.99William James was a towering intellectual figure with a vast knowledge base that transcended typical disciplinary boundaries. In this collection of essays, William James explores the topics of memory and cognition through the lenses of philosophy, psychology, and his own personal life experiences, all recounted in his uniquely engaging writing style. more...









