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Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilich
This latest volume in the acclaimed AATSEEL series assembles fact and informed opinion on the most celebrated work of Tolstoy's later period.... Les mer
Saying I No More
In recent criticism, Samuel Beckett's prose has been increasingly described as a labor of refusal: not only of what traditionally has made... Les mer
Dostoevsky’s The Devil
The Devils is one of Dostoevsky's four major novels--and the most openly political of his works. Known by several names, including The Demons and... Les mer
Poetic Culture
In Poetic Culture, Christopher Beach questions the cultural significance of poetry, both as a canonical system and as a contemporary practice. By... Les mer
Facing Black and Jew
A reading of African American and Jewish American writers from Henry Roth and Ralph Ellison to Philip Roth and David Bradley. Reading the work of... Les mer
Autobiography and Black Identity Politics
Why has autobiography been central to African American political speech throughout the twentieth century? What is it about the racialization process... Les mer
Imagined Dialogues
By conducting "imagined dialogues" between selected literary works--Eastern Europeans like Kis and Borowski on one hand, American and... Les mer
My Way: Speeches and Poems
In My Way, (in)famous language poet and critic Charles Bernstein deploys a wide variety of interlinked forms—speeches and poems, interviews and... Les mer
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The Poetics of Indeterminacy
In her seminal study, first published in 1981, Marjorie Perloff argues that the map of Modernist poetry needs to be redrawn to include a central... Les mer
A History of Russian Literature
Russian literature has always been inseparable from Russian history. D.S. Mirsky constantly keeps in mind the ever-colorful and ever-changing aspects... Les mer
Poetic Investigations
Poetic Investigations studies five contemporary writers whose radical engagements with poetic form and political content shed new light on issues of... Les mer
Expanding Hermeneutics
Expanding Hermeneutics examines the development of interpretation theory, emphasizing how science in practice involves and implicates interpretive... Les mer
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Black Holes / J. Hillis Miller; or, Boustrophedonic Reading
This innovative work sets two texts by two different authors on facing pages, designed so that they read in tandem—Miller’s text on the right,... Les mer
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The Springs of Liberty
The Springs of Liberty takes up questions of literary history and theory and explores sources of power harnessed by modern political doctrines and... Les mer
New Essays on Seize the Day
This book provides a multifaceted introduction to Nobel Prize-winner Saul Bellow’s most widely read, respected, and taught work of fiction, Seize... Les mer
The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1500–1600
This is the first comprehensive account of English Renaissance literature in the context of the culture which shaped it: the courts of Henry VIII and... Les mer
Samuel Johnson and the Culture of Property
Kevin Hart traces the vast literary legacy and reputation of Samuel Johnson. Through detailed analyses of the biographers, critics and epigones who... Les mer
The Geography of Empire in English Literature, 1580–1745
Between 1580 and 1745 - Edmund Spenser’s journey to an unconquered Ireland and the Jacobite Rebellion - the first British Empire was established.... Les mer
Romanticism and Postmodernism
The persistence of Romantic thought and literary practice into the late twentieth century is evident in many contexts, from the philosophical and... Les mer
Milton, Authorship, and the Book Trade
This study offers an original exploration of Milton’s relationship to the seventeenth-century book trade. Critics have often assumed that Milton... Les mer
Imagined Empires
Imagined Empires demonstrates that early American culture, and in particular literature, took great interest in South American civilizations,... Les mer
Dos Passos and the Ideology of the Feminine
Dos Passos and the Ideology of the Feminine is an original contribution to traditional Dos Passos scholarship, which tends to focus on the author’s... Les mer
Romanticism, Aesthetics, and Nationalism
This ambitious study argues that our modern conception of the aesthetic sphere emerged during the era of British and German Romanticism from... Les mer
The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy’s fiction has had a remarkably strong appeal for general readers for decades, and his poetry has been acclaimed as among the most... Les mer