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Pulp Fiction of the 1920s and 1930s, Hardback/***
Publisher: EBSCO Publishing Number of pages: 368 Collection: Critical Insights Publication date: 2013 Dimensions: 236 x 162 x 24 Cover type: Hardback Editor(s): Gary Hoppenstand Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti…Catre Magazin -
George Eliot, Music and Victorian Culture, Hardback/Delia da Sousa Correa
George Eliot was passionate about music and her writing is steeped in musical allusion. The book establishes how intensely Eliot's musical allusions are informed by her contemporary culture and offers…Catre Magazin -
Critical Insights: Life of Pi, Hardback/***
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British Fictions of the Sixties. The Making of the Swinging Decade, Hardback/***
From television documentaries and a steady output of critical works to retrospective art exhibitions and Austin Powers, the sixties fascinate us. This book focuses on the major socio-political changes that…Catre Magazin -
Brian Moore and the Meaning of the Past. An Irish Novelist Re-imagines History, Hardback/Patrick Hicks
Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press Ltd Author(s): Patrick Hicks Number of pages: 228 Publication date: 2007 Dimensions: 214 x 210 x 21 Cover type: Hardback Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti…Catre Magazin -
Blake’s Poetry: Spectral Visions. 1st ed. 1993, Paperback/Stephen R. Mandell
William Blake is acknowledged as a poet of opposition and contradiction: a writer who, from Songs of Innocence and Experience to his last epic Jerusalem, ceaselessly explored the conflicts between…Catre Magazin -
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Hardback/***
Maya Angelou's "" I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings "" took the world by storm when it was published in 1969. Despite controversy over its frank depiction of sexual…Catre Magazin -
Barack Obama. The Fulfillment of an American Dream, Paperback/***
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers Inc Number of pages: 95 Publication date: 2013 Dimensions: 230 x 153 x 8 Cover type: Paperback / softback Editor(s): Thomas E Carney Redescopera farmecul lecturii…Catre Magazin -
On Weight and the Will. The Forces of Form in German Literature and Aesthetics, 1890-1930, Hardback/Malika Maskarinec
Charts a modern history of form as emergent from force. Offering a provocative alternative to the imagery of crisis and estrangement that has preoccupied scholarship on modernism, Malika Maskarinec shows…Catre Magazin -
Oxford Shakespeare: Henry VI, Part One, Hardback/William Shakespeare
Completing the trilogy of Henry VI plays in The Oxford Shakespeare, Michael Taylor edits the play for students, scholars, and theatregoers with an informative commentary on all aspects of the…Catre Magazin -
Lucian Freud: A Life, Hardback/***
A breathtaking visual biography of Freud, told through his own words, unpublished private photographs, and painted portraitsCatre Magazin -
Intralingual Translation of British Novels. A Multimodal Stylistic Perspective, Hardback/Prof Linda Pilliere
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Narrative in the Age of the Genome: Genetic Worlds, Hardcover/Lara Choksey
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by the Wellcome Trust. Genomic technologies have had a…Catre Magazin -
The Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar, Hardcover/Nuria Triana-Toribio
This book offers a comprehensive film-by-film analysis of Spain's most famous living director, Pedro Almod var. It shows how Almod var's films draw on various national cinemas and genres, including…Catre Magazin -
Frankenstein in Theory: A Critical Anatomy, Hardcover/Orrin N. C. Wang
This collection provides new readings of Frankenstein from a myriad of established and burgeoning theoretical vantages including narrative theory, cognitive and affect theory, the new materialism, media theory, critical race…Catre Magazin -
The Modern Short Story and Magazine Culture, 1880-1950, Hardcover/Elke D’Hoker
This collection of original essays highlights the intertwined fates of the modern short story and periodical culture in the period 1880-1950, the heyday of magazine short fiction in Britain. Through…Catre Magazin -
Charlotte Gainsbourg: Transnational and Transmedia Stardom, Hardcover/Felicity Chaplin
Actress, singer, indie icon and embodiment of Parisian cool, Charlotte Gainsbourg is one of the most intriguing yet understated stars of our time. This book, the first detailed study of…Catre Magazin -
Echoes of Surrealism: Challenging Socialist Realism in East German Literature, 1945-1990, Hardcover/Gerrit-Jan Berendse
For many artists and intellectuals in East Germany, daily life had an undeniably surreal aspect, from the numbing repetition of Communist Party jargon to the fear and paranoia engendered by…Catre Magazin -
Sleep and Its Spaces in Middle English Literature: Emotions, Ethics, Dreams, Hardcover/Megan Leitch
Middle English literature is intimately concerned with sleep and the spaces in which it takes place. In the medieval English imagination, sleep is an embodied and culturally determined act. It…Catre Magazin -
Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1800-1920: Volume 1, Hardcover/Evelyn O’Callaghan
This volume examines what Caribbean literature looked like before 1920 by surveying the print culture of the period. The emphasis is on narrative, including an enormous range of genres, in…Catre Magazin -
Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970-2020: Volume 3, Hardcover/Ronald Cummings
The period from the 1970s to the present day has produced an extraordinarily rich and diverse body of Caribbean writing that has been widely acclaimed. Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970-2020…Catre Magazin -
Dickens’s Dialogue. Margins of Conversation, Hardback/George Goodin
Explores the rhetoric of Dickens's characters and its place in his work. Drawing on Victorian conversation manuals and more recent philosophical, sociological, and linguistic insights into the nature of conversations,…Catre Magazin -
Nietzsche and Modern Literature. Themes in Yeats, Rilke, Mann and Lawrence, Hardback/Keith M. May
Nietzsche's work has greatly influenced twentieth-century ideas and culture, but four European writers may be regarded as particularly 'Nietzschean'. Keith May discusses parallels between Nietzsche and these four authors, emphasizing…Catre Magazin -
Spanish Vampire Fiction since 1900. Blood Relations, Hardback/Abigail Lee Six
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Writing Architecture in Modern Italy. Narratives, Historiography, and Myths, Hardback/Daria Ricchi
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Literary Criticism, Culture and the Subject of ‘English’: F.R. Leavis and T.S. Eliot, Hardback/Dandan Zhang
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Social Trauma, Narrative Memory, and Recovery in Japanese Literature and Film, Hardback/David C. Stahl
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Desire and Time in Modern English Fiction: 1919-2017, Hardback/Richard Dellamora
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Character and Dystopia. The Last Men, Hardback/Aaron S. Rosenfeld
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Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy: Walking in Other Worlds, Hardcover/Ingrid E. Castro
Joining the emergent interdisciplinary investment in bridging the social sciences and the humanities, Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy: Walking in Other Worlds explores linkages between children's agency and fantasy. Fantasy as…Catre Magazin -
Bulgarian Literature as World Literature, Hardback/***
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Number of pages: 304 Collection: Literatures as World Literature Publication date: 2020 Dimensions: 158 x 236 x 27 Cover type: Hardback Editor(s): Prof Dimitar (Trinity College…Catre Magazin -
Grotesque Visions. The Science of Berlin Dada, Hardback/Dr. Thomas O. Haakenson
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African American Literature in Transition, 1900-1910: Volume 7, Hardcover/Shirley Moody-Turner
African American Literature in Transition, 1900-1910 offers a wide ranging, multi-disciplinary approach to early twentieth century African American literature and culture. It showcases the literary and cultural productions that took…Catre Magazin -
Site Unscene. The Offstage in English Renaissance Drama, Hardback/Jonathan Walker
Explores the key role of dramatic episodes that occur offstage and beyond the knowledge-generating faculty of playgoers' sight. Does Ophelia drown? Is Desdemona unfaithful to Othello? Does Macbeth murder Duncan…Catre Magazin -
Multilingual Life Writing by French and Francophone Women: Translingual Selves, Hardcover/Natalie Edwards
This volume examines the ways in which multilingual women authors incorporate several languages into their life writing. It compares the work of six contemporary authors who write predominantly in French.…Catre Magazin -
The Dramaturgy of the Door, Hardcover/Stuart Andrews
The Dramaturgy of the Door examines the door as a critical but under-explored feature of theatre and performance, asking how doors function on stage, in site-specific practice and in performances…Catre Magazin -
Writing Shame: Gender, Contemporary Literature and Negative Affect, Hardcover/Kaye Mitchell
Through readings of an array of recent texts - literary and popular, fictional and autofictional, realist and experimental - this book maps out a contemporary, Western, shame culture. It unpicks…Catre Magazin -
Comics and Pop Culture: Adaptation from Panel to Frame, Hardcover/Barry Keith Grant
It is hard to discuss the current film industry without acknowledging the impact of comic book adaptations, especially considering the blockbuster success of recent superhero movies. Yet transmedial adaptations are…Catre Magazin -
A History of American Puritan Literature, Hardcover/Kristina Bross
For generations, scholars have imagined American puritans as religious enthusiasts, fleeing persecution, finding refuge in Massachusetts, and founding 'America'. The puritans have been read as a product of New England…Catre Magazin -
Trauma Fiction, Hardcover/Anne Whitehead
The literary potential of trauma is examined in this book, bringing trauma theory and literary texts together for the first time. About author(s): Anne Whitehead is Senior Lecturer in Modern…Catre Magazin -
Persian Prose. A History of Persian Literature, Vol V, Hardback/***
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Hilary Mantel. Contemporary Critical Perspectives, Hardback/***
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Jacob’s Room, Hardback/Virginia Woolf
This edition is for students and academics of Woolf's works. It aims to be as comprehensive as possible in providing an authoritative text, hundreds of explanatory notes and an extensive…Catre Magazin -
Much Ado About Nothing: A Critical Reader, Hardback/***
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Precarity in Contemporary Literature and Culture, Hardback/***
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Sappho and Catullus in Twentieth-Century Italian and North American Poetry, Hardback/Cecilia Piantanida
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Classics in South America. Five Case Studies, Hardback/Dr German Campos Munoz
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Colourworks. Chromatic Innovation in Modern French Poetry and Art Writing, Hardback/Professor Susan Harrow
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Minor Greek Tragedians, Volume 1: The Fifth Century. Fragments from the Tragedies with Selected Testimonia, Hardback/***
Publisher: Liverpool University Press Number of pages: 296 Collection: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts Publication date: 2019 Dimensions: 154 x 217 x 28 Cover type: Hardback Redescopera farmecul lecturii si…Catre Magazin -
Empire on the English Stage 1660-1714, Hardcover/Bridget Orr
Empire on the Restoration Stage analyzes Restoration and early-eighteenth-century drama in terms of empire. The book provides a comprehensive account of colonialism, national identity and the representation of race and…Catre Magazin -
African American Literature: An Encyclopedia for Students, Hardcover/Hans A. Ostrom
This compact encyclopedia, aimed at students, selects the most important authors, literary movements, and key topics for them to know. Entries cover the most influential and highly regarded African American…Catre Magazin -
Reginald Sutcliffe and the Invention of Modern Weather Systems Science, Hardcover/Jonathan E. Martin
Despite being perhaps the foremost British meteorologist of the twentieth century, Reginald Sutcliffe has been understudied and underappreciated. His impact continues to this day every time you check the weather…Catre Magazin -
Relative Races: Genealogies of Interracial Kinship in Nineteenth-Century America, Hardcover/Brigitte Fielder
In Relative Races , Brigitte Fielder presents an alternative theory of how race is ascribed. Contrary to notions of genealogies by which race is transmitted from parents to children, the…Catre Magazin -
Novel of Female Adultery. Love and Gender in Continental European Fiction, 1830-1900, Hardback/Bill Overton
The novel of adultery is a nineteenth-century form about the experience of women, produced almost exclusively by men. The opening chapter defines the terms 'adultery' and 'novel of adultery', and…Catre Magazin -
Bronte Sisters and George Eliot. A Unity of Difference, Hardback/Barbara Prentis
An approach to the lives, thought and works of the Bronte sisters and George Eliot. Seen against the background of the dramatically changing world, their attitudes to such vital issues…Catre Magazin -
Remembering the Memphis Massacre: An American Story, Hardcover/Beverly Greene Bond
On May 1, 1866, a minor exchange between white Memphis city police and a group of black Union soldiers quickly escalated into murder and mayhem. Changes wrought by the Civil…Catre Magazin -
Shakespeare and Stratford, Hardcover/Katherine Scheil
Description As the site of literary pilgrimage since the eighteenth century, the home of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the topic of hundreds of imaginary portrayals, Stratford is ripe for…Catre Magazin -
Shakespeare in the North: Place, Politics and Performance in England and Scotland, Hardcover/Adam Hansen
This exciting collection of original essays critically assesses the significance of locality in Shakespearean plays. Considering how Shakespeare and his contemporaries understood the 'North', it brings together diverse voices to…Catre Magazin -
Modernism and Theology: Rainer Maria Rilke, T. S. Eliot, Czeslaw Milosz, Hardcover/Joanna Rzepa
This is the first book-length study to examine the interface between literary and theological modernisms. It provides a comprehensive account of literary responses to the modernist crisis in Christian theology…Catre Magazin -
Marcel Proust in the Light of William James. In Search of a Lost Source, Hardback/Marilyn M. Sachs
Publisher: Lexington Books Author(s): Marilyn M. Sachs Illustration(s): Illustrations, unspecified; Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs Number of pages: 328 Publication date: 2013 Dimensions: 154 x 235…Catre Magazin -
Language as Prayer in Finnegans Wake, Hardback/Colleen Jaurretche
An innovative analysis that shows how James Joyce uses the language of prayer to grapple with profoundly human ideas in Finnegans Wake. Colleen Jaurretche moves beyond what scholars know about…Catre Magazin -
Troilus and Cressida: A Critical Reader, Hardback/***
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Shakespeare and Emotion, Hardcover/Katharine A. Craik
Shakespeare and Emotion devotes sustained attention to the emotions as a novel way of exploring Shakespeare's works in their original contexts. A variety of disciplinary approaches drawn from literary, theatrical,…Catre Magazin -
Mythologizing Performance, Hardback/Richard P. Martin
Building on numerous original close readings of works by Homer, Hesiod, and other ancient Greek poets, Richard P. Martin articulates a broad and precise poetics of archaic Greek verse. The…Catre Magazin -
Precarious Lives and Marginal Bodies in North Africa: Homo Expendibilis, Hardcover/Hervé Anderson Tchumkam
Marginal Bodies and Precarious Lives in North Africa: Homo Expendibilis presents an examination of North African literature situated at the crossroads of literary analysis, political philosophy, and sociology. The author…Catre Magazin -
Teaching Nabokov’s Lolita in the #Metoo Era, Hardcover/Elena Rakhimova-Sommers
Teaching Nabokov's Lolita in the #MeToo Era seeks to critique the novel from the standpoint of its teachability to undergraduate and graduate students in the twenty-first century. The time has…Catre Magazin -
Beckett Beyond the Normal, Hardcover/Seán Kennedy
This book examines why Beckett's writing is so queer, so disabled and disabling. Why did Beckett write so often about mental illness, disability, perversion? Why did he take such an…Catre Magazin -
Fairy Tales in Contemporary American Culture: How We Hate to Love Them, Hardcover/Kate Christine Koppy
In the twenty-first century, American culture is experiencing a profound shift toward pluralism and secularization. In Fairy Tales in Contemporary American Culture: How We Hate to Love Them , Kate…Catre Magazin -
Franz Liszt and Agnes Street-Klindworth – A Correspondence: 1854-1886, Hardback/Pauline Pocknell
Publisher: Pendragon Press Author(s): Pauline Pocknell Number of pages: 528 Publication date: 2000 Dimensions: 227 x 296 x 43 Cover type: Hardback Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro…Catre Magazin -
Boccaccio`s “Decameron” – Rewriting the Christian Middle Ages and the Lyric Tradition, Paperback/Dino S. Cervigni
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Sensing Willa Cather: The Writer and the Body in Transition, Hardcover/Guy J. Reynolds
A radical reinterpretation of Willa Cather's oeuvre Deploying the concepts and techniques of Body Studies, Guy J. Reynolds remaps Cather's vast and diverse range of writing from the 1890s through…Catre Magazin -
Anneliese’s House, Hardcover/Lou Andreas-Salomé
Best known now for her involvement with Nietzsche, Rilke, and Freud, Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861-1937) first became famous for fiction and criticism that engaged provocatively with "the woman question." In recent…Catre Magazin -
Translating Early Medieval Poetry: Transformation, Reception, Interpretation, Hardcover/Tom Birkett
The first decades of the twenty-first century have seen an unprecedented level of creative engagement with early medieval literature, ranging from the long-awaited publication of Tolkien's version of Beowulf and…Catre Magazin -
Self-Portrait, with Parents and Footnotes: In and Out of a Postwar Jewish Childhood, Hardcover/Annette Aronowicz
Self-Portrait, with Parents and Footnotes is a story of movement. Moving from city to city characterized the author's growing up--from Poland to Belgium and from the East Coast to the…Catre Magazin -
Affect and Literature, Hardcover/Alex Houen
This book considers how 'affect', the experience of feeling or emotion, has developed as a critical concept within literary studies in different periods and through a range of approaches. Stretching…Catre Magazin -
Historical Dictionary of Sherlock Holmes, Hardcover/Neil McCaw
Historical Dictionary of Sherlock Holmes contains a variety of information about Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, as both narratives and also cultural phenomena. The volume will help readers look…Catre Magazin -
‘imagined Sound’ of Australian Literature and Music, Hardcover/Joseph Cummins
'Imagined Sound' is a unique cartography of the artistic, historical and political forces that have informed the post-World War II representation of Australian landscapes. It is the first book to…Catre Magazin -
Becoming Achilles. Child-sacrifice, War, and Misrule in the lliad and Beyond, Hardback/Richard Kerr Holway
Publisher: Lexington Books Author(s): Richard Kerr Holway Number of pages: 270 Collection: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches Publication date: 2011 Dimensions: 240 x 164 x 24 Cover type: Hardback Redescopera farmecul…Catre Magazin -
Border Blurs. Concrete Poetry in England and Scotland, Hardback/Greg Thomas
This book considers the relationship between English and Scottish poets and the international concrete poetry movement of the 1950s-1970s,focusing on the work of Ian Hamilton Finlay, Edwin Morgan, Dom Sylvester…Catre Magazin -
Beckett’s Laboratory. Experiments in the Theatre Enclosure, Hardback/Corey Wakeling
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