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Piracy, Slavery, and Redemption: Barbary Captivity Narratives from Early Modern England by Daniel Vitkus 9780231119054
RRP: €35.70€27.72These narratives recount the harrowing experiences of Englishmen abducted by the Barbary pirates of North Africa. After being sold into slavery, the narrators succeeded in returning to their homeland where their stories were printed. Never before... -
Time and Sense: Proust and the Experience of Literature by Julia Kristeva
RRP: €38.08€35.14-- Modern PhilologyNot only a meditation on Proust, this is a commentary on how the experience of literature is manifested in time and sensation. Kristeva uses Proust as a starting point to reflect upon broader notions of character, time, sensation,... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Thomas Mann by Todd Kontje 9780521743860
RRP: €28.55€18.12Nobel Prize-winner Thomas Mann (1875-1955) is not only one of the leading German novelists of the twentieth century, but also one of the few to transcend national and language boundaries to achieve major stature in the English-speaking world. Famous from... -
The Charlemagne Legend in Medieval Latin Texts by William J. Purkis
€106.96Essays on the various manifestations of Charlemagne and his legends. This book explores the multiplicity of ways in which the Charlemagne legend was recorded in Latin texts of the central and later Middle Ages, moving beyond some of the earlier... -
The Picaresque Novel in Western Literature: From the Sixteenth Century to the Neopicaresque by J. A. Garrido Ardila
RRP: €36.88€26.05Since the sixteenth century, Western literature has produced picaresque novels penned by authors across Europe, from Aleman, Cervantes, Lesage and Defoe to Cela and Mann. Contemporary authors of neopicaresque are renewing this traditional form to express... -
The Body of Beatrice by Robert Pogue Harrison
€32.05Harrison's elegant poems follow in the steps of his work on interpreting the classic "Divine Comedy"by Dante. (Poetry)About the AuthorRobert Pogue Harrison is a professor of literature at Stanford University, where he is Rosina Pierotti Professor in... -
History of My Life: Volumes 7 and 8 by Giacomo Casanova
RRP: €51.17€45.84In volumes 7 and 8, Casanova is now close to forty. His various manipulations of the credulous rich have made him rich in turn. His travels take him to France, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy. In Rome he charms the Pope; in Naples, he nearly marries a... -
The Cambridge Companion to Flaubert by Timothy Unwin 9780521894593
RRP: €30.93€26.17This volume brings together a series of essays by acknowledged experts on Flaubert. It offers a coherent overview of the writer's work and critical legacy, and provides insights into the very latest scholarly thinking. While a central place is given to... -
The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry: with <i>The Lady Falkland: Her Life</i>, by One of Her Daughters by Elizabeth Cary
RRP: €32.13€25.06The Tragedy of Mariam (1613) is the first original play by a woman to be published in England, and its author is the first English woman writer to be memorialized in a biography, which is included with this edition of the play. Mariam is a distinctive... -
Biblical and Classical Myths: The Mythological Framework of Western Culture by Northrop Frye 9780802086952
RRP: €48.79€43.09In the 1970s and 80s, Northrop Frye and Jay Macpherson co-taught a very influential course at the University of Toronto's Victoria College on the history of Western mythology - Frye focusing on the biblical myths; Macpherson on the classical. Biblical... -
Robert Musil's 'The Man Without Qualities': A Critical Study by Philip Payne
RRP: €40.45€34.93Robert Musil's The Man without Qualities is perhaps the most important novel in German written in the twentieth century - certainly it is among the most brilliant, puzzling and profound. This, the first comprehensive study of the work to appear in... -
Criticism and Truth by Roland Barthes 9780826494740
€22.66Roland Barthes (1915-1980) was a major French writer, literary theorist and critic of French culture and society. His classic works include "Mythologies" and "Camera Lucida". "Criticism and Truth" is a brilliant discussion... -
Camus: The Stranger by Patrick A. McCarthy 9780521539777
RRP: €28.55€21.53Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Berlin by Andrew J. Webber 9781107661011
RRP: €28.55€24.24This collection of essays by international specialists in the literature of Berlin provides a lively and stimulating account of writing in and about the city in the modern period. The first eight chapters chart key chronological developments from 1750 to... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Thomas Mann by Todd Kontje 9780521767927
RRP: €40.46€36.81Nobel Prize-winner Thomas Mann (1875-1955) is not only one of the leading German novelists of the twentieth century, but also one of the few to transcend national and language boundaries to achieve major stature in the English-speaking world. Famous from... -
The New Bergson by John Mullarkey 9780719055539
RRP: €23.79€20.96Henri Bergson, central to European philosophy at the beginning of the C20th, is returning to that position at the beginning of the C21st. Bergson's legacy reaches across the disciplines of philosophy, humanities and the arts, and has especial relevance... -
Dante and the Making of a Modern Author by Albert Russell Ascoli 9780521178440
RRP: €57.11€49.35Leading scholar Albert Russell Ascoli traces the metamorphosis of Dante Alighieri - minor Florentine aristocrat, political activist and exile, amateur philosopher and theologian, and daring experimental poet - into Dante, author of the Divine Comedy and... -
French Literature: A Cultural History by Alison Finch 9780745628400
€22.66This book is the first to offer a cultural history of French literature from its very beginnings, analysing the relationship between French literature and France s evolving power structures from the Middle Ages through to the present day. It shows the... -
Monomania: The Flight from Everyday Life in Literature and Art by Marina van Zuylen 9780801489860
RRP: €33.31€28.73"This book is about the obsessive strategies people use to keep the arbitrary out of their lives; it is about the fanaticism and intolerance linked to their ideas of perfection and permanence.... Those readers who have brushed against the dangers of the... -
Proust: Swann's Way by Sheila Stern 9780521315449
RRP: €27.36€23.93Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
History of My Life: Volumes 3 and 4 by Giacomo Casanova
€51.68Volumes 3 and 4 offer some of the most extraordinary episodes in Casanova's extraordinary life, including his liaison with the nun M. M., and his flight from the State Inquisitor's prison-each in its own way a feat of singular dash and daring.The... -
Mallarme and the Art of Being Difficult by Malcolm Bowie 9780521055703
RRP: €46.40€39.58Mallarme is widely regarded as one of the most original and distinctively modern writers of the late nineteenth century. At the same time, his fame is accompanied by a certain notoriety, and his works are often thought of as unnecessarily complicated. In... -
The Cambridge Companion to Pushkin by Andrew Kahn 9780521604710
RRP: €30.93€26.17Alexander Pushkin stands in a unique position as the founding father of Russian literature. In this Companion, leading scholars discuss Pushkin's work in its political, literary, social and intellectual contexts. In the first part of the book individual... -
Sensible Flesh: On Touch in Early Modern Culture by Elizabeth D. Harvey 9780812218299
RRP: €33.31€28.73This ground-breaking interdisciplinary collection explores the complex, ambiguous, and contradictory sense of touch in early modern culture. If touch is the sense that mediates between the body of the subject and the world, these essays make apparent the... -
Catastrophizing: Materialism and the Making of Disaster by Gerard Passannante
RRP: €28.56€23.94When we catastrophize, we think the worst. We make too much of too little, or something of nothing. Yet what looks simply like a bad habit, Gerard Passannante argues, was also a spur to some of the daring conceptual innovations and feats of imagination... -
Against the Event: The Everyday and Evolution of Modernist Narrative by Michael Sayeau 9780199681259
€141.07Against the Event: The Everyday and the Evolution of Modernist Narrative investigates how a modernity famed for temporal acceleration - from Benjamin's 'shock' and 'distraction' to the postmodern loss of historical consciousness diagnosed by Jameson -... -
German Stories/Deutsche Erzahlungen: A Bilingual En Face Anthology by Harry Steinhauer 9780520268159
RRP: €29.75€23.31The short stories in this bilingual anthology are from the works of some of the great masters of the German literary tradition - including Goethe, Glister, Mann, and Kafka - and offer a representative collection illustrating the development of German... -
Pathologies of Motion: Historical Thinking in Medicine, Aesthetics, and Poetics by Kevis Goodman
RRP: €41.65€40.35An original study of late Enlightenment aesthetics, poetics, and environmental medicine as overlapping ways of comprehending the dislocations of historical existence lodged in the movements of bodies and minds This book studies later eighteenth-century... -
Mandelstam by Brown 9780521293471
RRP: €45.21€38.41Osip Mandelstam, who died in 1938 in one of Stalin's labour camps, is one of the greatest poets of this century. Brown's 1978 volume is a very full and important book which tells of Mandelstam's earlier life and gives an introduction to the poetry... -
The Order of Mimesis: Balzac, Stendhal, Nerval and Flaubert by Christopher Prendergast 9780521369770
RRP: €45.21€38.41This book is a challenging investigation of the idea of literary mimesis in the light of contemporary literary theory. Drawing on a range of theoretical perspectives developed in and around the work of Barthes, Kristeva, Genette and Derrida, Dr... -
Reading Paul Valery: Universe in Mind by Paul Gifford 9780521585446
RRP: €45.21€38.41Paul Valery's work is a unique odyssey in the universe of ideas and mental forms. The most recently acknowledged - and the most private - of the masters of modernity, Valery is perhaps the most radical and wide-ranging. He navigates freely within the... -
Region, Religion and Patronage: Lancastrian Shakespeare by Richard Dutton 9780719063695
RRP: €29.75€26.22Explores the network of social, political and spiritual connections in north west England as a site for regional drama, introducing the reader to the non-metropolitan theatre spaces which formed a vital part of early modern dramatic activity. Uses the... -
Confrontations by Rene Wellek 9780691623214
RRP: €35.70€27.72Confrontations brings, together in one volume six essays by the distinguished critic Rene Wellek. Five have been previously published but are now practically unobtainable; one, "German and English Romanticism: A Confrontation," is previously unpublished... -
Dante and the Mystical Tradition: Bernard of Clairvaux in the Commedia by Steven Botterill 9780521021722
RRP: €34.50€29.06In this study, Steven Botterill explores the intellectual relationship between the greatest poet of the fourteenth century, Dante, and the greatest spiritual writer of the twelfth century, Bernard of Clairvaux. Botterill analyses the narrative episode... -
The Chastity Plot by Lisabeth During
RRP: €47.60€39.97In The Chastity Plot, Lisabeth During tells the story of the rise, fall, and transformation of the ideal of chastity. From its role in the practice of asceticism to its associations with sovereignty, violence, and the purity of nature, it has been loved,... -
Gothic Incest: Gender, Sexuality and Transgression Jenny DiPlacidi 9781526148117
RRP: €29.75€21.32The first full-length study of incest in the Gothic genre, this book argues that Gothic writers resisted the power structures of their society through incestuous desires. It provides interdisciplinary readings of incest within father-daughter, sibling,... -
The Politics of Home: Postcolonial Relocations and Twentieth-Century Fiction by Rosemary Marangoly George
RRP: €32.13€25.06The Politics of Home examines the changing representations of "home" in twentieth-century English literature. Examining imperial fiction, contemporary literary and cultural theory, and postcolonial narratives on belonging, exile and immigration, Rosemary... -
Subterranean Cities: The World beneath Paris and London, 1800-1945 by David L. Pike
RRP: €36.89€33.03The underground has been a dominant image of modern life since the late eighteenth century. A site of crisis, fascination, and hidden truth, the underground is a space at once more immediate and more threatening than the ordinary world above. In... -
From the Berlin Journal by Max Frisch
RRP: €20.22€17.39Max Frisch (1911 91) was a giant of twentieth-century German literature. When Frisch moved into a new apartment in Berlin's Sarrazinstrasse, he began keeping a journal, which he came to call the Berlin Journal. A few years later, he emphasized in an... -
The Tragic and the Sublime in Medieval Literature by Piero Boitani 9780521131070
RRP: €36.88€28.32Professor Boitani's latest book explores the areas of the tragic and the sublime in medieval literature by asking what medieval texts mean to modern readers. Boitani, who has written widely on medieval and comparative literature, studies tragic and...