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Ahab's Rolling Sea A Natural History of "Moby-Dick"
ISBN: PB: 9780226789873, ISBN: HB: 9780226514963, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 colour plates, 71 halftones
Although Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick" is beloved as one of the most profound and enduring works of American fiction, we rarely consider it a work of nature writing – or even a novel of the sea. Yet Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard avers "...
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£17,00
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£23,00
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"Rain-Maiden and the Bear-Man" and Other Stories
ISBN: HB: 9780857426185, Seagull Books, March 2021
136 pp., 19x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates
In Easterine Kire's stories, the boundaries between magic and reality drift away, leaving us to marvel at simple yet fantastical folktales about human connection. The title story in this collection is about feeling trapped by other people's definitio...
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Order of Forms Realism, Formalism, and Social Space
ISBN: PB: 9780226653341, ISBN: HB: 9780226653204, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones, 5 line drawings
In literary studies today, debates about the purpose of literary criticism and about the place of formalism within it continue to simmer across periods and approaches. Anna Kornbluh contributes to – and substantially shifts – that conversation in "Th...
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£22,00
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£62,00
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Inadvertent
ISBN: PB: 9780300248517, Yale University Press, November 2019
104 pp., 17.8x12.1 cm
"Why I Write" may prove to be the most difficult question Karl Ove Knausgaard has struggled to answer yet it is central to the project of one of the most influential writers working today. To write, for the Norwegian artist, is to resist easy thinkin...
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£7,95
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Neoliberalism and Contemporary American Literature
ISBN: PB: 9781512603613, ISBN: HB: 9781512603606, University of Chicago Press, Dartmouth College Press, September 2019
252 pp., 23.4x15.8 cm
Neoliberalism is the rare buzzword that has fully crossed over from academic theorizing into mainstream discussion. "Neoliberalism and Contemporary American Literature" is the first book to examine the ways that US literature has responded to the dom...
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£34,00
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£64,00
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Anselm Kiefer in Conversation with Klaus Dermutz
ISBN: HB: 9780857426031, Seagull Books, September 2019
272 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 34 colour plates
"I think in pictures. Poems help me with this. They are like buoys in the sea. I swim to them, from one to the other. In between, without them, I am lost. They are the handholds where something masses together in the infinite expanse" – Anselm Kiefer...
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£25,00
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Who Wants to Be a Jewish Writer? And Other Essays
ISBN: HB: 9780300240139, Yale University Press, May 2019
232 pp., 21x14 cm
Adam Kirsch is one of today's finest literary critics. This collection brings together his essays on poetry, religion, and the intersections between them, with a particular focus on Jewish literature. He explores the definition of Jewish literature,...
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£18,00
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Love Writ Large
ISBN: HB: 9780857426024, Seagull Books, March 2019
212 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
For a fifteen-year-old, falling in love can eclipse everything else in the world, and make a few short weeks feel like a lifetime of experience. In "Love Writ Large", Navid Kermani captures those intense feelings, from the emotional explosion of a fi...
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Labyrinth of Tender Love 166 Love Stories
ISBN: HB: 9780857426048, Seagull Books, March 2019
576 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 50 halftones
No human quality is more necessary for survival than love. But while love has the power to lift us up with boundless joy, it has equal strength to crush us – it is easy to lose your way within love's complex labyrinth of oppositions. "The Labyrinth...
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God Behind the Window
ISBN: HB: 9780857426055, Seagull Books, March 2019
240 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
The thirteen stories of Michael Kruger's "The God behind the Window" capture the poignancy and cynicism of late life through tales of misanthropic old men full of the mixture of wisdom and melancholy that so often accompanies old age. In Kruger's sto...
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