Literature
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The Folklore of Orkney and Shetland [Paperback]
Ernest Walker Marwick(Author); Ernest Marwick(Author)
$18.95Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781912476923
Published by : Origin
The two island groups of Orkney and Shetland have much in common. In each the grey stone houses and treeless landscapes are scoured in winter by stinging gales, and in summer lie under the endless days of the ‘simmer din’.
Ori... .... Learn More -
The Wounded Self: Writing Illness in Twenty-First-Century German Literature [Paperback]
Nina Schmidt(Author)
$29.95ISBN: 9781640141346
Published by : Camden House
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Volume: 190
In the German-speaking world there has been a new wave - intensifying since 2007 - of autobiographically inspired writing on illness and disability, death and dying. Nina Schmidt's book takes this writing seriously as literature,examining how the ... .... Learn More -
Written under the Skin: Blood and Intergenerational Memory in South Africa [Paperback]
Carli Coetzee(Author)
$24.95ISBN: 9781847013248
Published by : James Currey
Series: African Articulations
Volume: 5
In this book the author argues that a younger generation of South Africans is developing important and innovative ways of understanding South African pasts, and that challenge the narratives that have over the last decades been informed by notions... .... Learn More -
Transcultural Memory and European Identity in Contemporary German-Jewish Migrant Literature [Hardback]
Jessica Ortner(Author); Jessica Ortner Nielsen(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781640140226
Published by : Camden House
Series: Dialogue and Disjunction: Studies in Jewish German Literature, Culture & Thought
Preserving the memory of the Holocaust as a moral and ethical limit case is key to the European Union's attempt to construct a pan-European identity. But with the Eastern expansion of the EU, new member states have challenged the Holocaust's singu... .... Learn More -
Forgeries and Historical Writing in England, France, and Flanders, 900-1200 [Hardback]
Robert F. Berkhofer III(Author)
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The Pebbled Beach at Pentecost [Paperback]
Andrew Lemon(Author)
$30.00ISBN: 9781922669247
Published by : Australian Scholarly Publishing
Vernon Lee Walker, a young Englishman from industrial Wolverhampton, meets his death on a beach on Pentecost Island in the South Pacific on the eve of Christmas 1887.
Why did Vernon die, in what circumstances, and who was responsible? Was... .... Learn More -
Keorapetse Kgositsile & the Black Arts Movement [Hardback]
Uhuru Portia Phalafala(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781847012777
Published by : James Currey
Series: African Articulations
Volume: 10
The cultural configurations of the Black Atlantic and, more broadly, the Black diaspora, cannot be fully understood without recognizing the presence and extensive influence of writers and artists from the African continent itself, among these the ... .... Learn More -
Heinrich von Kleist: Literary and Philosophical Paradigms [Hardback]
Jeffrey L. High(Editor); Rebecca Stewart(Editor); Elaine Chen(Editor); Paul Michael Lützeler(Contributor); Gail K. Hart(Contributor)
$110.00ISBN: 9781640140967
Published by : Camden House
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Volume: 226
Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) was a rebel who upset canonization by employing his predecessors and contemporaries as what Steven Howe calls "inspirational foils." It was precisely a keen awareness of literary and philosophical traditio... .... Learn More -
Great Books by German Women in the Age of Emotion, 1770-1820 [Hardback]
Margaretmary Daley(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781640140974
Published by : Camden House
Series: Women and Gender in German Studies
Volume: 7
Literature written by women in German during the "Age of Goethe" was largely considered unworthy Trivialliteratur. Using insights from Gender Studies yet acknowledging the need for a literary canon, Great Books by German... .... Learn More -
The World as Metaphor in Robert Musil's The Man without Qualities: Possibility as Reality [Paperback]
Genese Grill(Author)
$29.95ISBN: 9781640141278
Published by : Camden House
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Volume: 127
Robert Musil, known to be a scientific and philosophical thinker, was committed to aesthetics as a process of experimental creation of an ever-shifting reality. Musil wanted, above all, to be a creative writer, and obsessively engaged in almost en... .... Learn More
