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  • On Reading

    An Essay

    Series Libro 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 ... Leer más

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  • The Daemon Knows

    Literary Greatness and the American Sublime

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $217 MXN

  • In Defence Of The School. A Public Issue

    As a painfully outdated institution the school is accused of: being alienating, closing itself off to society and to the needs of young people; reproducing social inequality and consolidating existing power relations; demotivating youth; showing a lack of effectiveness and having great difficulty with employability. And last but not least, the school is considered redundant: the school, where ... Leer más

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  • A Scream Goes Through the House

    What Literature Teaches Us About Life

    “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, ... Leer más

    $157 MXN

  • Refurbishing Eden: Exploring Adaptations of Adam and Eve

    What has to happen for an old story to become fresh and engaging again? One example of a myth that has been retold and modified is the story of creation and Fall of Man, which appears in the first three chapters of Genesis from the Old Testament. This essay looks into the different methods and tools that writers need to make a retelling of a story fresh and engaging for modern audiences. ... Leer más

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  • Life Writing and Space

    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 ... Leer más

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  • On Subbing

    The First Four Years

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Pirates and Mutineers of the Nineteenth Century

    Swashbucklers and Swindlers

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Famine and Fashion

    Needlewomen in the Nineteenth Century

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Hermaphrodites in Renaissance Europe

    Series 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 ... Leer más

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  • ‘A Miracle of Learning’

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

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Proust, China and Intertextual Engagement

    Translation and Transcultural Dialogue

    de Shuangyi Li ...
    Series 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 ... Leer más

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