Literary Criticism
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Book in Movement, The: Autonomous Politics and the Lettered City Underground [Hardback]
Magalí Rabasa (Author)
£35.50ISBN: 9780822965879
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Illuminations
Over the past two decades, Latin America has seen an explosion of experiments with autonomy, as people across the continent express their refusal to be absorbed by the logic and order of neoliberalism. The autonomous movements of the twenty-first ... .... 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 -
Restless Ilan Stavans, The: Outsider on the Inside [Hardback]
Steven Kellman (Author)
£28.50ISBN: 9780822965855
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Latinx and Latin American Profiles
This is the first book-length study of one of the most prominent and prolific Latino academics, Ilan Stavans. He has written extensively on Latino culture, Jewish culture, dictionaries, immigration, language, Spanglish, soccer, translation, travel... .... Learn More -
Shared Truth, A: The Theater of Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol [Hardback]
Julie Ann Ward (Author)
£31.00ISBN: 9780822965886
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Latinx and Latin American Profiles
Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol (Lizards Lounging in the Sun) is a Mexican theater company that performs what is known as theater of the real.By taking reality as its subject, this genre claims a special relationship to reality, truth, and authenticity.... .... Learn More -
Polyphonic Machine, The: Capitalism, Political Violence, and Resistance in Contemporary Argentine Literature [Paperback]
Niall H.D. Geraghty (Author)
£23.50ISBN: 9780822965534
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Illuminations
Focusing on the work of the Argentine authors César Aira, Marcelo Cohen, and Ricardo Piglia, The Polyphonic Machine conducts a close analysis of the interrelations between capitalism and political violence in late twentieth-century Argentina. Taki... .... Learn More -
Translational Turn, A: Latinx Literature into the Mainstream [Paperback]
Marta E. Sánchez (Author)
£21.00ISBN: 9780822965510
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Latinx and Latin American Profiles
No contemporary development underscores the transnational linkage between the United States and Spanish-language América today more than the wave of in-migration from Spanish-language countries during the 1980s and 1990s. This development, among ... .... Learn More -
Healing Memories: Puerto Rican Women’s Literature in the United States [Paperback]
Elizabeth Garcia (Author)
£21.00ISBN: 9780822965640
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Latinx and Latin American Profiles
Using an interdisciplinary approach, Healing Memories analyzes the ways that Puerto Rican women authors use their literary works to challenge historical methodologies that have silenced the historical experiences of Puerto Rican women in the Unite... .... Learn More -
Vernacular Latin Americanisms: War, the Market, and the Making of a Discipline [Paperback]
Fernando Degiovanni (Author)
£23.50ISBN: 9780822965541
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Illuminations
In Vernacular Latin Americanisms, Fernando Degiovanni offers a long-view perspective on the intense debates that shaped Latin American studies and still inform their function in the globalized and neoliberal university of today. By doing so he pro... .... Learn More -
Oresteia: Agamemnon, Women at the Graveside, Orestes in Athens [Hardback]
Aeschylus (Author); Oliver Taplin (Author)
Regular Price: £17.99
Special Price: £12.95
ISBN: 9781631494666
Published by : W.W. Norton & Company Ltd
One of the foundational texts of Western literature, the Oresteia trilogy is about cycles of deception and brutality within the ruling family of Argos. In Agamemnon, queen Clytemnestra awaits her husband's return from war to commit a terrible act ... .... Learn More -
Modernity at Gunpoint: Firearms, Politics, and Culture in Mexico and Central America [Paperback]
Sophie Esch (Author)
£22.50ISBN: 9780822965381
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Illuminations
2019 Best Book in the Humanities (Mexico section) of the Latin American Studies Association
Modernity at Gunpoint provides the first study of the political and cultural significance of weaponry in the context of major armed conflicts in M... .... Learn More
