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Winter Stories
ISBN: HB: 9780857426109, Seagull Books, February 2020
224 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
In "Winter Stories", Norwegian author Ingrid H. Rishoi gives us three contemporary tales about personal resilience in the face of adversity. We meet a teenager on the run from social services with her younger half-sister and half-brother in tow; a yo...
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£18,99
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Mood and Trope The Rhetoric and Poetics of Affect
ISBN: PB: 9780226673264, ISBN: HB: 9780226673127, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 figures
In "Mood and Trope", John Brenkman introduces two provocative propositions to affect theory: that human emotion is intimately connected to persuasion and figurative language; and that literature, especially poetry, lends precision to studying affect...
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£24,00
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£72,00
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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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Five Words Critical Semantics in the Age of Shakespeare and Cervantes
ISBN: PB: 9780226709710, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
224 pp., 21.6x14 cm
Blood. Invention. Language. Resistance. World. Five ordinary words that do a great deal of conceptual work in everyday life and literature. In this original experiment in critical semantics, Roland Greene considers how these five words changed over t...
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£20,00
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To Love Is to Act Les Miserables and Victor Hugo's Vision for Leading Lives of Conscience
ISBN: PB: 9780997228762, University of Chicago Press, Swan Isle Press, January 2020
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones
"To love is to act" – "Aimer, c'est agir".  These words, which Victor Hugo wrote three days before he died, epitomize his life's philosophy. His love of freedom, democracy, and all people – especially the poor and wretched – drove him not only to wri...
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£24,00
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Writing Underground Reflections on Illegal Texts in Communist Czechoslovakia
ISBN: PB: 9788024641256, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2020
200 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In this collection of writings produced between 2000 and 2018, the pioneering literary historian of the Czech underground, Martin Machovec, examines the multifarious nature of the undergro...
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£15,00
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Thinking with Shakespeare Essays on Politics and Life
ISBN: PB: 9780226710198, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones
What is a person? What company do people keep with animals, plants, and things? Such questions – bearing fundamentally on the shared meaning of politics and life – animate Shakespearean drama, yet their urgency has often been obscured. Julia Reinhard...
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£28,00
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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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Sanskrit Treasury A Compendium of Literature from the Clay Sanskrit Library
ISBN: HB: 9781851245314, Bodleian Library Publishing, November 2019
240 pp., 28.5x24.4 cm, 120 colour illus.
This beautiful collection brings together passages from the renowned stories, poems, dramas, and myths of South Asian literature, including the Mahabharata and the Ramaya?a. Drawing on the translations published by the Clay Sanskrit Library, the pass...
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£50,00
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Arts of Dying Literature and Finitude in Medieval England
ISBN: PB: 9780226640990, ISBN: HB: 9780226640853, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones
People in the Middle Ages had chantry chapels, mortuary rolls, the daily observance of the Office of the Dead, and even purgatory – but they were still unable to talk about death. Their inability wasn't due to religion, but philosophy: saying someone...
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£24,00
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£72,00
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