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  • On Reading

    An Essay

    par Georg Brandes, James Huneker, Julius Moritzen ...
    Collections Livre 1 - MegaMicrón
    “It is childish to suppose that a hundred books can be named as those which are the best for each and every one. The simplest experience of the world proves that a work of great excellence may deeply move one person, while it leaves another untouched; and that a book which has influenced one strongly in one's youth may lose such influence over one's later years. There is practically nothing that ... En savoir plus

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  • The Daemon Knows

    Literary Greatness and the American Sublime

    par Harold Bloom ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND KIRKUS REVIEWSHailed as “the indispensable critic” by The New York Review of Books, Harold Bloom—New York Times bestselling writer and Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University—has for decades been sharing with readers and students his genius and passion for understanding literature and ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • A Scream Goes Through the House

    What Literature Teaches Us About Life

    par Arnold Weinstein ...
    “For too long we have been encouraged to see culture as an affair of intellect, and reading as a solitary exercise. But the truth is different: literature and art are pathways of feeling, and our encounter with them is social, inscribing us in a larger community.... Through art we discover that we are not alone.”So writes the esteemed Brown University professor Arnold Weinstein in this brilliant, ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $14.99 CAD Maintenant $10.99 CAD

  • Life Writing and Space

    par Eveline Kilian, Hope Wolf ...
    How does our ability, desire or failure to locate ourselves within space, and with respect to certain places, effect the construction and narration of our identities? Approaching recordings and interpretations of selves, memories and experiences through the lens of theories of space and place, this book brings the recent spatial turn in the Humanities to bear upon the work of life writing. It ... En savoir plus

    $94.81 CAD

  • On Subbing

    The First Four Years

    par Dave Roche ...
    On Subbing is a quiet classic. It's impossible to put down, or forget, Dave Roche's vivid, self-deprecating tales of woe from working as a substitute teaching assistant in Portland's elementary schools in the early 2000s. Roche writes candidly about the great days and the terrible ones, the triumphs and failures, both personal and institutional. He recounts helping kids who can't function in ... En savoir plus

    $6.49 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Pirates and Mutineers of the Nineteenth Century

    Swashbucklers and Swindlers

    Modifié par Grace Moore ...
    The first volume devoted to literary pirates in the nineteenth century, this collection examines changes in the representation of the pirate from the beginning of the nineteenth century through the late Victorian period. Gone were the dangerous ruffians of the eighteenth-century novel and in their place emerged a set of brooding and lovable rogues, as exemplified by Byron's Corsair. As the ... En savoir plus

    $107.17 CAD

  • Famine and Fashion

    Needlewomen in the Nineteenth Century

    Modifié par Beth Harris ...
    Like the figure of the governess, the seamstress occupied a unique place in the history of the nineteenth century, appearing frequently in debates about women's work and education, and the condition of the working classes generally in the rapidly changing capitalist marketplace. Like the governess, the figure of the needlewoman is ubiquitous in art, fiction and journalism in the nineteenth century ... En savoir plus

    $116.79 CAD

  • Hermaphrodites in Renaissance Europe

    par Kathleen P. Long ...
    Collections series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    Kathleen Long explores the use of the hermaphrodite in early modern culture wars, both to question traditional theorizations of gender roles and to reaffirm those views. These cultural conflicts were fueled by the discovery of a new world, by the Reformation and the backlash against it, by nascent republicanism directed against dissolute kings, and by the rise of empirical science and its ... En savoir plus

    $116.79 CAD

  • ‘A Miracle of Learning’

    Studies in Manuscripts and Irish Learning: Essays in Honour of William O’Sullivan

    par Dáibhí Ó Cróinín ...
    This volume celebrates the work of William O’Sullivan, the first keeper of manuscripts at Trinity College, Dublin, who preserved, made more accessible and elucidated the documents in his care. The manuscripts throw new light on the society of Ireland, the place of the learned and literate in that world, and its relations with Britain, Europe and America. Some of these essays clarify technical ... En savoir plus

    $89.31 CAD

  • Proust, China and Intertextual Engagement

    Translation and Transcultural Dialogue

    par Shuangyi Li ...
    Collections series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The book traces the literary journey that Proust’s work made to China and back by means of translation, intertextual engagement, and the creation of a transcultural dialogue through migrant literature. It begins with a translation history of Proust’s work in China and studies the different (re)translations and editions of La Recherche highlighting their culturally conditioned thematic emphases and ... En savoir plus

    $83.29 CAD

  • Everyday Saints and the Art of Narrative in the South English Legendary

    par Anne B. Thompson ...
    Anne Thompson here gives the fullest account and explanation to date of the diversity of the more than sixty manuscripts of the South English Legendary, a late thirteenth-century collection of lively verse lives of saints, in a southern English dialect. The importance of the SEL to hagiographic and cultural studies has been increasingly acknowledged in recent years. Without denying the legendaries ... En savoir plus

    $89.31 CAD

  • Choreomania

    Dance and Disorder

    par Kélina Gotman ...
    Collections series Oxford Studies in Dance Theory
    When political protest is read as epidemic madness, religious ecstasy as nervous disease, and angular dance moves as dark and uncouth, the 'disorder' being described is choreomania. At once a catchall term to denote spontaneous gestures and the unruly movements of crowds, 'choreomania' emerged in the nineteenth century at a time of heightened class conflict, nationalist policy, and colonial rule. ... En savoir plus

    $67.19 CAD