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Subject of Crusade Lyric, Romance, and Materials, 1150 to 1500
ISBN: PB: 9780226693354, ISBN: HB: 9780226693217, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
280 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 14 colour plates, 12 halftones
In the Middle Ages, religious crusaders took up arms, prayed, bade farewell to their families, and marched off to fight in holy wars. These Christian soldiers also created accounts of their lives through lyric poetry, putting words to the experience...
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£24,00
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£72,00
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Ecological Poetics; or, Wallace Stevens's Birds
ISBN: PB: 9780226687971, ISBN: HB: 9780226687834, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The poems of Wallace Stevens teem with birds: grackles, warblers, doves, swans, nightingales, owls, peacocks, and one famous blackbird who summons thirteen ways of looking. What do Stevens's evocations of birds, and his poems more generally, tell us...
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£22,00
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£66,00
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Different Order of Difficulty Literature after Wittgenstein
ISBN: PB: 9780226677156, ISBN: HB: 9780226677019, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Is the point of philosophy to transmit beliefs about the world, or can it sometimes have higher ambitions? In this bold study, Karen Zumhagen-Yekple makes a critical contribution to the "resolute" program of Wittgenstein scholarship, revealing his "T...
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£26,00
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£78,00
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Rhythm Form and Dispossession
ISBN: PB: 9780226685878, ISBN: HB: 9780226685731, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
216 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
More than the persistent beat of a song or the structural frame of poetry, rhythm is a deeply imbedded force that drives our world and is also a central component of the condition of human existence. It's the pulse of the body, a power that orders ma...
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£20,00
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Book of Sleep
ISBN: HB: 9780857427410, Seagull Books, March 2020
168 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
What is sleep? How can this most unproductive of human states – metaphorically called death's shadow or considered the very pinnacle of indolence – be envisioned as action and agency? And what do we become in sleep? What happens to the waking selves...
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£16,99
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Existentialism, 70 Years After Yale French Studies, Number 135/136
ISBN: PB: 9780300242669, Yale University Press, February 2020
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 1 black&white illus.
In 1948, Yale French Studies devoted its inaugural issue to existentialism. This anniversary issue responds seventy years later. In recent years, new critical and theoretical approaches have reconfigured existentialism and refreshed perspectives on t...
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£50,00
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Rhetoric in Tooth and Claw Animals, Language, Sensation
ISBN: PB: 9780226706771, ISBN: HB: 9780226398174, University of Chicago Press, February 2020
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones
We tend to think of rhetoric as a solely human art. After all, only humans can use language artfully to make a point, the very definition of rhetoric. Yet when you look at ancient and early modern treatises on rhetoric, what you find is surprising: t...
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£24,00
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£36,00
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Glass, Light, and Electricity Essays
ISBN: PB: 9781602234086, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2020
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Fleet-footed and capricious, the essays in "Glass, Light & Electricity" wander through landscapes both familiar and unfamiliar, finding them equal parts magical and toxic. They explore and merge public and private history through lyric meditations th...
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£18,00
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Journey of a Caribbean Writer
ISBN: PB: 9780857427557, ISBN: HB: 9780857420978, Seagull Books, February 2020
232 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
For nearly four decades, Maryse Conde, best known for her novels "Segu" and "Windward Heights", has been at the forefront of French Caribbean literature. In this collection of essays and lectures, written over many years and in response to the challe...
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£11,99
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£19,00
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Suspended Passion Interviews
ISBN: PB: 9780857427564, ISBN: HB: 9780857423290, Seagull Books, February 2020
184 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
A controversial figure of the postwar French literary and cultural scene, Marguerite Duras has exerted a powerful hold on readers around the world. This volume of interviews – hailed on its French publication as Duras's "secret confession" – offers r...
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£9,99
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£18,50
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