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Machines of the Mind Personification in Medieval Literature
ISBN: PB: 9780226776590, ISBN: HB: 9780226776453, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In Machines of the Mind, Katharine Breen proposes that medieval personifications should be understood neither as failed novelistic characters nor as instruments of heavy-handed didacticism. She argues that personifications are instead powerful tools...
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£28,00
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£84,00
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Modern Myths Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination
ISBN: HB: 9780226719269, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 60 halftones
Myths are usually seen as stories from the depths of time – fun and fantastical, but no longer believed by anyone. Yet, as Philip Ball shows, we are still writing them – and still living them – today. From Robinson Crusoe and Frankenstein to Batman,...
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£20,00
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Hernando Colon's New World of Books Toward a Cartography of Knowledge
ISBN: HB: 9780300230413, Yale University Press, March 2021
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 80 black&white illus.
This engaging book offers the first comprehensive account of the extraordinary projects of Hernando Colon, son of Christopher Columbus, which culminated in the creation of the greatest library of the Renaissance, with ambitions to be universal––that...
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£25,00
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Ruins Lesson Meaning and Material in Western Culture
ISBN: PB: 9780226792200, ISBN: HB: 9780226632612, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 colour plates, 80 halftones
How have ruins become so valued in Western culture and so central to our art and literature? Covering a vast chronological and geographical range, from ancient Egyptian inscriptions to twentieth-century memorials, Susan Stewart seeks to answer this q...
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£23,00
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£27,00
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Speaking Stone Stories Cemeteries Tell
ISBN: PB: 9781947602304, University of Chicago Press, University of Cincinnati Press, March 2021
325 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 86 halftones
The Speaking Stone: Stories Cemeteries Tell is a literary love letter to the joys of wandering graveyards and the discoveries such wanderings can yield. Here, Michael Griffith roams Spring Grove (founded 1844), the nation's third-largest cemetery, fo...
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£24,00
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Infinitely Determinable Children and Childhood in Modern Literature
ISBN: PB: 9783035803167, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2021
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Upon the "discovery of childhood", as named by Philippe Aries, bourgeois culture and modern literature marked out an arcane realm that, while scarcely accessible for adults, acted as a space for projections of the most contradictory kind and diverse...
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£20,00
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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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£18,99
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Secret Germany Myth in Twentieth-Century German Culture
ISBN: HB: 9780857424815, Seagull Books, March 2021
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In the decades before the rise of the Third Reich, "Secret Germany" was a phrase used by the circle of writers around the poet Stefan George to describe a collective political and poetic project: the introduction of the highest values of art into eve...
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£22,00
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Time and Festivity
ISBN: HB: 9780857426307, Seagull Books, March 2021
224 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm
One of the foremost thinkers of his generation, Furio Jesi began to publish scholarly essays in academic journals at the age of fifteen. By the time of his early death in 1980, he had accumulated a body of work that astonishes with its abundance and...
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£19,00
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