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Poems of Widowhood A Bilingual Edition of the 1538 "Rime"
ISBN: PB: 9781649590145, University of Chicago Press, Iter Press, May 2021
206 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 colour plates
Vittoria Colonna's 1538 Rime, originally issued without her permission by a small Parma press, was the first of many editions of her poetry published during her lifetime. Born into one of the most powerful families in Rome and connected to many of th...
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£34,00
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Practical Cues and Social Spectacle in the Chester Plays
ISBN: PB: 9780226709376, ISBN: HB: 9780226709239, University of Chicago Press, July 2020
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 tables
Amid the crowded streets of Chester, guild players portraying biblical characters performed on colorful mobile stages hoping to draw the attention of fellow townspeople. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, these Chester plays employed flamboyan...
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£24,00
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£72,00
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Packing My Library An Elegy and Ten Digressions
ISBN: PB: 9780300244526, ISBN: HB: 9780300219333, Yale University Press, June 2019
160 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm
A best-selling author and world-renowned bibliophile meditates on his vast personal library and champions the vital role of all libraries. In June 2015 Alberto Manguel prepared to leave his centuries-old village home in France's Loire Valley and ree...
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£10,99
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£16,99
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Promise of the Suburbs A Victorian History in Literature and Culture
ISBN: HB: 9780300179330, Yale University Press, March 2019
296 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.
Literature has, from the start of the nineteenth century, cast the suburbs as dull, vulgar, and unimaginative margins where, by definition, nothing important takes place. Sarah Bilston argues that such attitudes were forged to undermine the cultural...
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£30,00
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Pixel
ISBN: HB: 9780857426093, Seagull Books, March 2019
240 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Like stars in the sky, pixels may seem like tiny, individual points. But, when viewed from a distance, they can create elaborate images. Each pixel contributes to this array, but no individual point can create the whole. The thirty stories that compr...
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£18,99
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Paraliterary The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America
ISBN: PB: 9780226473970, ISBN: HB: 9780226473833, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones
Literature departments are staffed by, and tend to be focused on turning out, "good" readers – attentive to nuance, aware of history, interested in literary texts as self-contained works. But the vast majority of readers are, to use Merve Emre's tong...
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£20,50
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£68,00
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Philosophy, Writing, and the Character of Thought
ISBN: HB: 9780226569567, University of Chicago Press, September 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Philosophy's relation to the act of writing is John T. Lysaker's main concern in "Philosophy, Writing, and the Character of Thought". Whether in Plato, Montaigne, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, or Derrida, philosophy has come in many forms, and those forms...
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£27,00
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Paper Minds Literature and the Ecology of Consciousness
ISBN: PB: 9780226573151, ISBN: HB: 9780226573014, University of Chicago Press, September 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
How do poems and novels create a sense of mind? What does literary criticism say in conversation with other disciplines that address problems of consciousness? In "Paper Minds", Jonathan Kramnick takes up these vital questions, exploring the relation...
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£56,00
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Philology of the Flesh
ISBN: HB: 9780226572826, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
As the Christian doctrine of Incarnation asserts, "the Word became Flesh". Yet, while this metaphor is grounded in Christian tradition, its varied functions far exceed any purely theological import. It speaks to the nature of God just as much as to t...
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Politics of Parody A Literary History of Caricature, 1760-1830
ISBN: HB: 9780300223750, Yale University Press, May 2018
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 76 black&white illus.
This engaging study explores how the works of Shakespeare, Milton, Swift, and others were taken up by caricaturists as a means of helping the eighteenth-century British public make sense of political issues, outrages, and personalities. The first in-...
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