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Elizabethan Poetry in Manuscript An Edition of British Library Harley MS 7392(2)
ISBN: HB: 9781649590206, University of Chicago Press, Iter Press, May 2021
492 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 colour plates, 19 halftones
This volume presents the first printed edition of a late sixteenth-century poetic miscellany and provides invaluable insight into understanding the literature of the period. Its owner and principal scribe, Humfrey Coningsby, drew on texts circulating...
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£77,00
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Epidemic Empire Colonialism, Contagion, and Terror, 1817–2020
ISBN: PB: 9780226739359, ISBN: HB: 9780226739212, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones
Terrorism is a cancer, an infection, an epidemic, a plague. For more than a century, this metaphor has figured insurgent violence as contagion in order to contain its political energies. In Epidemic Empire, Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb shows that this tro...
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£28,00
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£84,00
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End of the World Poetry and Prose
ISBN: PB: 9788024645278, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2020
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Sometimes called the Czech Bukowski, and more widely known by the epithet "Magor" (which translates roughly to "fool" or "madman"), Ivan Jirous was one of the most significant figures in t...
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£20,00
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English Paleography and Manuscript Culture, 1500-1800
ISBN: HB: 9780300254358, Yale University Press, June 2020
288 pp., 29.2x22.5 cm, 313 colour illus.
This engaging book provides an essential introduction to the manuscript in early modern England. From birth to death, parish record to probate inventory, writing framed the lives of the early modern English. The book offers a detailed technical intro...
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£30,00
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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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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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Enumerations Data and Literary Study
ISBN: PB: 9780226568751, ISBN: HB: 9780226568614, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 48 line drawings, 26 tables
For well over a century, academic disciplines have studied human behavior using quantitative information. Until recently, however, the humanities have remained largely immune to the use of data – or vigorously resisted it. Thanks to new developments...
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£67,50
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Elusive Brain Literary Experiments in the Age of Neuroscience
ISBN: HB: 9780300221176, Yale University Press, April 2018
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.
Featuring a foreword by renowned neuroscientist Joseph E. LeDoux, The Elusive Brain is an illuminating, comprehensive survey of contemporary literature's engagement with neuroscience. This fascinating book explores how literature interacts with neuro...
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£37,00
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Essay on Negation Towards a Linguistic Anthropology
ISBN: HB: 9780857424389, Seagull Books, February 2018
232 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm
As speaking animals, we continuously make use of an unassuming grammatical particle, without suspecting that what is at work in its inconspicuousness is a powerful apparatus, which orchestrates language, signification, and the world at large. What pa...
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£19,50
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Eclipse of Action Tragedy and Political Economy
ISBN: HB: 9780226433653, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
336 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
According to traditional accounts, the history of tragedy is itself tragic: following a miraculous birth in fifth-century Athens and a brilliant resurgence in the early modern period, tragic drama then falls into a marked decline. While disputing the...
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£34,00
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