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ISBN: 9780748641055 - The Post-romantic Predicament The Post-romantic Predicament
Paul de Man Martin McQuillan

ISBN10: 074864105X  ISBN13: 9780748641055
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 30 Sep 2013
The first collection of texts by Paul de Man to follow the posthumous Aesthetic Ideology (1996), the title refers to de Man's Harvard thesis of the late 1950s, from which the long section on Mallarme is reproduced. Also included are texts by de... More

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ISBN: 9781441149992 - Narrative Care: Biopolitics and the Novel Narrative Care: Biopolitics and the Novel
Arne De Boever

ISBN10: 1441149996  ISBN13: 9781441149992
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 23 May 2013
If the September 11 terror attacks opened up an era of crises and exceptions of which we are yet to see the end, it is perhaps not surprising that care has emerged in the early twenty-first century as a key political issue. This book approaches... More

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ISBN: 9781623563547 - Exiles, Outcasts, Strangers Exiles, Outcasts, Strangers
Mary Jo Muratore

ISBN10: 1623563542  ISBN13: 9781623563547
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 23 May 2013
An exploration of the broad paradigm of alienation in post-war literature through close readings of nine novels. Exiles, Outcasts, Strangers explores how nine different "outsider" authors treat the theme of alienation in one of their major works. More

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ISBN: 9781441192660 - Adaptation Studies Adaptation Studies
Jorgen Bruhn, Anne Gjelsvik, Eirik Frisvold Hanssen

ISBN10: 1441192662  ISBN13: 9781441192660
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 09 May 2013
Extending the boundaries of contemporary adaptation studies, this book brings together leading international scholars to survey new directions in the field. Re-thinking the key questions at the heart of the discipline, Adaptation Studies... More

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ISBN: 9781441194671 - Adaptation Studies Adaptation Studies
Jorgen Bruhn, Anne Gjelsvik, Eirik Frisvold Hanssen

ISBN10: 1441194673  ISBN13: 9781441194671
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 09 May 2013
Extending the boundaries of contemporary adaptation studies, this book brings together leading international scholars to survey new directions in the field. Re-thinking the key questions at the heart of the discipline, Adaptation Studies... More

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ISBN: 9781441126788 - Secular Mysteries: Stanley Cavell and English Romanticism Secular Mysteries: Stanley Cavell and English Romanticism
Edward T Duffy

ISBN10: 1441126783  ISBN13: 9781441126788
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 09 May 2013
Stanley Cavell and English Romanticism serves as both introduction to Cavell for Romanticists, and to the larger question of what philosophy means for the reading of literature, as well as to the importance and relevance of Romantic literature to... More

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ISBN: 9780230358935 - Utopianism, Modernism, and Literature in the Twentieth Century Utopianism, Modernism, and Literature in the Twentieth Century
Alice Reeve-Tucker, Nathan Waddell

ISBN10: 0230358934  ISBN13: 9780230358935
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 07 May 2013
Utopianism, Modernism, and Literature in the Twentieth Century explores connections between utopian politics and modernism across a wide-ranging selection of twentieth-century literature. Utopianism, Modernism, and Literature in the Twentieth... More

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ISBN: 9781421409535 - The Myth of the Superhero The Myth of the Superhero
Marco Arnaudo

ISBN10: 1421409534  ISBN13: 9781421409535
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 03 May 2013
Examines the religious and mythological elements of superhero comics and uncovers the influence of the classical epic and the Baroque style on the genre. This title looks beyond the cape, the mask, and the super powers, presenting a serious study... More

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ISBN: 9780231136730 - Double Agents Double Agents
Erin G Carlston

ISBN10: 0231136730  ISBN13: 9780231136730
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 03 May 2013
Why were white bourgeois gay male writers so interested in spies, espionage, and treason in the twentieth century? Erin G. Carlston believes such figures and themes were critical to exploring citizenship and its limits, requirements... More

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ISBN: 9780199933983 - How the Light Gets in How the Light Gets in
Pat Schneider

ISBN10: 0199933987  ISBN13: 9780199933983
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 25 Apr 2013
Many writing instructors teach writing through autobiography. By considering the lives of others and then contemplating their own lives, aspiring writers discover a wellspring of material that can be used in their prose. While not explicitly for... More