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A history of modern french literature
An accessible and authoritative new history of French literature, written by a highly distinguished transatlantic group of scholarsThis book provides an engaging, accessible, and exciting new history of French literature from the Renaissance through the twentieth century, from Rabelais and Margue...
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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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Empire and history writing in britain c.1750–2012
This books offers both a narrative and an analysis of the influence of British imperial involvements on history writing since 1750.
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Insomniac dreams
Nabokov's dream diary—published for the first timeOn October 14, 1964, Vladimir Nabokov, a lifelong insomniac, began a curious experiment. Over the next eighty days, immediately upon waking, he wrote down his dreams, following the instructions in An Experiment with Time by British philosopher Joh...
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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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Reading old books
A wide-ranging exploration of the creative power of literary tradition, from Chaucer to the presentIn literary and cultural studies, "tradition" is a word everyone uses but few address critically. In Reading Old Books, Peter Mack offers a wide-ranging exploration of the creative power of literary...
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Romantic dialogues and afterlives
Contributors to this book examine Romantic writers’ responses to their contemporaries, explore their dialogues with the culture of the past, and their interactions across the arts and sciences. They also scrutinize the Romantics’ far-reaching influence, linking them with their predecessors and su...
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Storytelling as an act of remembering
This book explores how the storytellers’ acts of recalling eventful episodes from the past bring about constructive emotional and cognitive outputs for them.
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The promise and peril of things
Wai-yee Li traces notions of the pleasures and dangers of things in the literature and thought of late imperial China. She considers core oppositions—people and things, elegance and vulgarity, real and fake, lost and found—to tease out the ambiguities of material culture.
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The self-help compulsion
The Self-Help Compulsion reveals the profound entanglement of modern literature and commercial advice from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Beth Blum explores popular reading practices in which people turn to literature in search of practical advice alongside modern writers’ rebuke...
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Tone
Tone is a collaborative study of literary tone, exploring its implications for community, politics, and ecology.
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