Literary Criticism
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Retold Resold Transformed: Crime Fiction in the Global Era [Paperback]
Christiana Gregoriou (Editor); Gigliola Sulis (Editor); David Platten (Editor)
£10.00ISBN: 9788869771736
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Literature
In recent decades crime fiction has enjoyed a creative boom. Although, as Alison Young argues in her book Imagining Crime (1996), crime stories remain strongly identified with specific locations, the genre has acquired a global reach, illuminating... .... Learn More -
Aesthetics, Literature, and Life: Essays in honor of Jean Pierre Cometti [Paperback]
Jerrold Levinson (Editor); Carla Carmona (Editor)
£20.00ISBN: 9788869771804
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Aesthetics
The complex relationship between life and the arts has always been a crucial topic in philosophical discourse. The essays in this book discuss fundamental issues of modern and contemporary aesthetics, drawing upon the work of the French philosophe... .... Learn More -
Five Centuries Later: Aldus Manutius: Culture, Typography and Philology [Paperback]
Natale Vacalebre (Editor)
£30.00ISBN: 9788822266019
Published by : Olschki
The volume publishes the proceedings of the international conference held at the Ambrosiana Library in Milan in 2015. The essays provide an informed presentation of the new research centered on the figure of the great humanist and publisher Aldus ... .... Learn More -
Copernicus Banned: The entangled matter of the anti-copernican decree of 1616 [Hardback]
Natacha Fabbri (Editor)
£30.00ISBN: 9788822265845
Published by : Olschki
This book, consisting of nine essays on the causes, on the figures involved and on the consequences of the decree, sheds light on various philosophical, theological, political and cultural aspects of the discussions that arose around the ‘temerity... .... Learn More -
At the Origin of Middle-Class Rationality: Interpretations of Ulysses and the Sirens [Paperback]
Ruggero D’Alessandro (Author)
£12.00ISBN: 9788869771378
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Literature
The Odyssey is rightly celebrated as a story that goes far beyond the scope of epic poetry. It is an open window to an entire era and its social systems as well as its theological, cultural, economic and political structures, while running simulta... .... Learn More -
Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men: A Reader's Companion [Hardback]
Jonathan S. Cullick (Author)
£18.50ISBN: 9780813175928
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Robert Penn Warren is one of the best-known and most consequential Kentucky writers of the twentieth century and the only American writer to have won three Pulitzers in two different genres. All the King's Men, generally considered one of the fin... .... Learn More -
A Political Companion to Frederick Douglass [Hardback]
Neil Roberts (Editor); Paul Gilroy (Other); Bernard Boxill (Other); Margaret Kohn (Other); Angela Y. Davis (Other)
£60.00ISBN: 9780813175621
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Political Companions to Great American Authors
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) was a prolific writer and public speaker whose impact on American literature and history has been long studied by historians and literary critics. Yet as political theorists have focused on the legacies of such notab... .... Learn More -
Imaginative Conservatism: The Letters of Russell Kirk [Hardback]
James E. Person (Editor)
£30.00ISBN: 9780813175461
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Russell Kirk (1918-1994) is renowned worldwide as one of the founders of postwar American conservatism. His 1953 masterpiece, The Conservative Mind, became the intellectual touchstone for a reinvigorated movement and began a sea change in the nati... .... Learn More -
From Vanitas to Veritas: John Donne and the Journey of the Soul [Paperback]
Audrey Taschini (Author)
£8.00ISBN: 9788869771057
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Literature
An overview of the complex world of John Donne's poetry and specifically of his reflections on the theme of the journey of the soul. Donne's Metempsychosis and his Anniversaries are analysed from both a literary and philosophical/theological persp... .... Learn More -
A Political Companion to W. E. B. Du Bois [Hardback]
Nick Bromell (Editor); Charles Mills (Other); Lewis R. Gordon (Other); Anthony Reed (Other); James E. Ford (Other)
£60.00ISBN: 9780813174907
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Political Companions to Great American Authors
Literary scholars and historians have long considered W. E. B. Du Bois (1868--1963) an extremely influential writer and a powerful cultural critic. The author of more than one hundred books, hundreds of published articles, and founding editor of t... .... Learn More
