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A companion to goethe's faust
Cutting-edge criticism on major aspects of Goethe's best-known work.Undisputedly a canonical work, Goethe's Faust is also the key to understanding its author, one of European civilization's most complex figures. Written over several decades, the work spans both Goethe's life and an age of enormou...
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A companion to javier marías
A detailed and lively discussion and analysis of the novels, short stories, newspaper columns, and other works of one of the most important and popular writers in Spain today.This book provides the most comprehensive study to date of the full range of Marías' writing, including discussion and ana...
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A companion to magical realism
A refreshing new interdisciplinary slant on magical realism as an international literary phenomenon emerging from the trauma of colonial dispossession.Companion to Magical Realism provides an assessment of the world-wide impact of a movement which was incubated in Germany, flourished in Latin Ame...
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A companion to portuguese literature
An essential chronological framework for students of Portuguese literature.This companion volume offers an introduction to European Portuguese literature for university-level readers. It consists of a chronological overview of Portuguese literature from the twelfth century to the present day, by ...
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A companion to thomas mann's magic mountain
Volume offering a guide to and reassessment of Thomas Mann's famous novel.Thomas Mann was the first writer since Goethe to attract a large international audience to stories written in German, bringing German fiction into the mainstream of European literature. His second major work, The Magic Moun...
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Affect and realism in contemporary brazilian fiction
This book is about contemporary Brazilian fiction from the past two decades and concerned with the possibilities of literary intervention in the reality of the historical moment.
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Afterlives of letters
Satoru Hashimoto offers a novel way of understanding the origins of modern literature in a transregional context, drawing on Chinese-, Japanese-, and Korean-language texts in both classical and vernacular forms.
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Against redemption
WINNER, HELEN AND HOWARD R. MARRARO PRIZE IN ITALIAN HISTORYDiscloses the richness of ideas and sheds light on the controversy that characterized the transition from fascism to democracy, examining authors, works and memories that were subsequently silenced by Cold War politics.How a shared me...
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Arts of the border
Examining Europe’s borders and their artistic representations as an archive both of state violence and of refusal, fugitivity, and imagination.
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Before modernism
How Black poets have charted the direction of American poetics for the past two centuriesBefore Modernism examines how Black poetics, in antagonism with White poetics in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, produced the conditions for the invention of modern American poetry. Throug...
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Cathay
An extensively annotated edition of Ezra Pound’s Chinese translations in Cathay (1915) and Lustra (1916), complete with manuscript sources and the Chinese originals and Pound’s article “Chinese Poetry. Filled out by essays by Haun Saussy, Christopher Bush, and Timothy Billings, this edition resit...
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Cheerfulness
A timely story of a forgotten emotionCheerfulness: A Literary and Cultural History tells a new story about the cultural imagination of the West wherein cheerfulness — a momentary uptick in emotional energy, a temporary lightening of spirit — functions as a crucial theme in literary, philosophical...
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Chimeras of form
Aarthi Vadde shows why modernist literary form is essential to understanding the aspirational and analytical force of internationalism in and beyond Europe. She explains how major writers use modernist strategies to reshape how readers think about the cohesion and interrelation of political commu...
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Chinese songs in a french key
Chinese Songs in a French Key tells the extraordinary story of the birth, rebirth, and rich afterlife of Judith Gautier’s The Book of Jade, which introduced readers throughout Europe to classical Chinese poetry.
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Cinema before the world
Tells the global story of the cinematograph while modeling a film scholarship committed to transnational analysis across languages, regions, and media.
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City of beginnings
How poetic modernism shaped Arabic intellectual debates in the twentieth century and beyondCity of Beginnings is an exploration of modernism in Arabic poetry, a movement that emerged in Beirut during the 1950s and became the most influential and controversial Arabic literary development of the tw...
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Civic storytelling
A deep history of storytelling as a civic agency, recalibrating literature’s political role for the twenty-first centuryWhy did short narrative forms like the novella, fable, and fairy tale suddenly emerge around 1800 as genres symptomatic of literature’s role in life and society? In order to exp...
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Cold war reckonings
Cold War Reckonings shows how the Cold War shaped culture and political power in the decolonizing world and gave rise, paradoxically, to authoritarian regimes of the so-called free world.
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Companion to victor pelevin
Companion to Victor Pelevin, a collaborative undertaking by a group of emerging Russianist scholars, focuses on the work of one of the most important and hotly debated post-Soviet writers. The contributors offer new readings of Pelevin texts that cover a broad time span and pay due attention to t...
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Comparing literatures
During periods of globalization and encounters as well as clashes between cultures, the place of literature within society is often questioned. From the reception studies of the 1970s and 1980s to the stress laid on intermedial and intercultural relations, this question opens up a wide field of r...
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Comparing the literatures
From a leading figure in comparative literature, a major new survey of the field that points the way forward for a discipline undergoing rapid changesLiterary studies are being transformed today by the expansive and disruptive forces of globalization. More works than ever circulate worldwide in E...
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Conflicts
Conflicts engages Hebrew and Arabic literature to critically reassess the concept of conflict, both in Palestine–Israel and in general. Drawing on a diverse archive, ranging from the 1930s to the present and from prose and poetry to film and television, it reveals indigenous literary concepts tha...
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Death of a discipline
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak declares the death of comparative literature as we know it and sounds an urgent call for a “new comparative literature,” in which the discipline is reborn.
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Decadent orientalisms
Decadent Orientalisms presents a sustained critique of the ways Orientalism and decadence have formed a joint discursive mode of the imperial imagination. Rather than attending to Orientalism as a repertoire of clichés and stereotypes, Fieni reads both Western and Islamic discourses of decadence ...
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Dostoevsky’s "crime and punishment"
A chapter-by-chapter guide to Dostoevsky’s most popular novel that reveals how Crime and Punishment works. Narrative strategy, why the novel is not a whodunit but whydunit, and clear explanations of the novel’s ideological debates.
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Extraterritorial
Extraterritorial spaces fall outside of national borders but enhance state power. Matthew Hart reveals extraterritoriality’s centrality to twenty-first-century art and fiction and presents a new theory of literature that explains what happens when dreams of an open, connected world confront the r...
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Extreme domesticity
Susan Fraiman reformulates domesticity, freeing it from associations with conformity and sentimentality. Ranging across periods and genres, and diversifying the archive of domestic depictions, Extreme Domesticity stresses the heterogeneity of households and probes the multiplicity of domestic mea...
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Far calls
An inquiry into the theories and practices of overhearing When words are not heard but overheard, when phrases are perceived in bits and pieces, and when speakers, failing to do as they intend, state things that they never meant to say, the saying, in its unsteady relation to understanding, becom...
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Forms of poetic attention
Identifying a crucial link between poetic form and the forming of attention, Lucy Alford offers a new terminology for how poetic attention works and how attention becomes a subject and object of poetry. She combines close readings of a wide variety of poems with research in the philosophy, aesthe...
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Four moments of aesthetic experience
This book examines the novels of Joris-Karl Huysmans, Marcel Proust, Tom McCarthy and Rachel Cusk to reconsider aesthetic experience as it has been articulated in Western philosophy.
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Gilgamesh
Reflections on a lost poem and its rediscovery by contemporary poetsGilgamesh is the most ancient long poem known to exist. It is also the newest classic in the canon of world literature. Lost for centuries to the sands of the Middle East but found again in the 1850s, it is a story of monsters, g...
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Heroines and local girls
Over the course of the long eighteenth century, a network of some fifty women writers, working in French, English, Dutch, and German, staked out a lasting position in the European literary field. These writers were multilingual and lived for many years outside of their countries of origin, transl...
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History and race in caryl phillips’s the nature of blood
This monograph examines Caryl Phillips’s The Nature of Blood (1997), a novel exploring recurring expressions of exclusion and discrimination throughout history with particular focus on Jewish and African diasporas and the storytelling of its migrant characters. Particular attention is given to th...
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How literatures begin
A comparative history of the practices, technologies, institutions, and people that created distinct literary traditions around the world, from ancient to modern timesLiterature is such a familiar and widespread form of imaginative expression today that its existence can seem inevitable. But in f...
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How to draw a novel
Finalist for the Big Other Book Award for Translation From the acclaimed author of The Black Minutes and Don’t Send Flowers, How to Draw a Novel is an ingenious and visually stimulating exploration of narrative and craft from master storyteller and former publisher Martín Solares In this finely...
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If babel had a form
“The likeness of form between Chinese and English sentences,” writes the American Sinologist Ernest Fenollosa around 1906, “renders translation from one to the other exceptionally easy.” If Babel Had a Form asks not if his claim may be true, but what its phantasmic surprise may yet do. In twentie...
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Indigenous vanguards
Ben Conisbee Baer provides a theoretical and historical account of the relationships between modern literature, representations of indigeneity, and educative practices in colonial zones from the 1920s to the 1940s, encompassing the central place of teaching and learning both in modernist aestheti...
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Infowhelm
Heather Houser explores the ways contemporary art manages environmental knowledge in the age of climate crisis and informational overload. She argues that the infowhelm—a state of abundant yet contested scientific information—is an unexpectedly resonant resource for environmental artists seeking ...
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Intransitive encounter
Nan Z. Da offers an in-depth study of nineteenth-century Sino-U.S. literary interactions that highlights their lack of transpacific interpollination. Intransitive Encounter is an unconventional and theoretically rich reflection on global meetings and imaginings that do not fit the patterns procla...
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Inventing afterlives
Regina M. Janes proposes a new theory of the origins of the hereafter. Drawing on a variety of religious traditions and contemporary literature and film as well as cognitive science and evolutionary psychology, Inventing Afterlives shows that in asking what happens after we die we define the worl...
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Kaleidophonic modernity
What stories remain hidden behind one of the most significant inventions of the nineteenth century? Kaleidophonic Modernity reexamines the development of mechanical sound recording technology by charting the orbits of writers, scientists, and artists in France and the United States. Working betwe...
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Lectures on dostoevsky
From the author of the definitive biography of Fyodor Dostoevsky, never-before-published lectures that provide an accessible introduction to the Russian writer's major worksJoseph Frank (1918–2013) was perhaps the most important Dostoevsky biographer, scholar, and critic of his time. His never-be...
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Libraries of the mind
How we build our invisible libraries Erich Auerbach wrote his classic work Mimesis, a history of narrative from Homer to Proust, based largely on his memory of past reading. Having left his physical library behind when he fled to Istanbul to escape the Nazis, he was forced to rely on the invisibl...
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Literature for a changing planet
Why we must learn to tell new stories about our relationship with the earth if we are to avoid climate catastropheReading literature in a time of climate emergency can sometimes feel a bit like fiddling while Rome burns. Yet, at this turning point for the planet, scientists, policymakers, and act...
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Literature’s refuge
Stories silenced or sequestered by a century of mass displacement between Europe and the Middle East—recovered and retold at lastIn 1923, the Greco-Turkish Population Exchange uprooted and swapped nearly two million Christians and Muslims, “pacifying” the so-called Near East through ethnic partit...
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Make it the same
Jacob Edmond examines the turn toward repetition in poetry, using the explosion of copying to offer a deeply inventive account of modern and contemporary literature. Make It the Same explores how poetry is increasingly made from other texts through sampling, appropriation, and other forms of repe...
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Malaysian crossings
Malaysian Chinese (Mahua) literature is marginalized on several fronts. Cheow Thia Chan demonstrates that Mahua authors’ grasp of their marginality in the world-Chinese literary space has been the impetus for—rather than a barrier to—aesthetic inventiveness.
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