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Juan Goytisolo is arguably Spain’s foremost contemporary novelist. This book is one of the few major... more

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Taking seriously Guillaume Apollinaire’s wager that twentieth-century poets would one day "mechanize... more

To understand the cultural history of England during the Restoration, one need look no further than ... more

An arresting comparative analysis, Prophets of Recognition invites readers to consider four well-kno... more

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Scholars have often drawn attention to William Blake s unusual sensitivity to his social context. In... more

The Sensual Philosophy offers a richly illuminating reading of James Joyce’s canon, placing his text... more

When Oscar Wilde was convicted of gross indecency in 1895, a reporter for the National Observer wrot... more

In Soviet culture, the reader was never a "consumer of books" in the Western sense. According to the... more

Exploring how the concept of the imagination is figured in some principal texts of English Romantici... more

This is a study of Baudelaire’s canonization in the critical debates of the twentieth century, focus... more

If the Renaissance was the Golden Age of English comedy, the Restoration was the Silver. These comed... more

To English poets and writers of the seventeenth century, as to their predecessors, mountains were ug... more

Since the 1920s, an endless flow of studies has analyzed the political systems of fascism, theseizur... more

When Houston A. Baker Jr. one of America s foremost literary critics, first published Afro-American ... more

In this definitive study of one of popular culture’s favorite genres Robert C. Harvey, a cartoonist ... more

Recent criticism of Eliot has ignored the public dimension of his life and work. Professor Cooper sh... more

Exploring how the concept of the imagination is figured in some principal texts of English Romantici... more

Oscar Kenshur combines trenchant analyses of important early-modern texts with a powerful critique o... more

The impetus behind this collection of original essays is the tension between the aesthetic emphasis ... more

As interest in aesthetic experience evolved in the eighteenth century, discussions of the sublime lo... more

Societies around the world have their puppet traditions and puppetry remains a vital theatrical art;... more

This book examines the ways that Classical and Renaissance epic poems often work against their expre... more

Why do people respond emotionally to works of fiction they know are make-believe? Boruah tackles thi... more

Acknowledgements - Introduction - Chapter 1 - Chapter 2 - Conclusion - Notes - Works Cited - Index... more

"A brilliant, original, and powerful book. . . . This is the most skillful integration of feminism a... more

Marc Redfield maintains that the literary genre of the Bildungsroman brings into sharp focus the con... more

Disintegration in Frames examines the ways in which national identity and interethnic relations are ... more

Remarkably, writes Ted Atkinson, during a period roughly corresponding to the Great Depression, Fa... more

This book argues that philosophical skepticism helps define the aesthetic experience of the sublime ... more

Many films and novels defy our ability to make sense of the plot. While puzzling storytelling, stran... more

A critical look at the aesthetic encounter with semi-detachment through literature and art When you ... more

This book differentiates between and analyzes the Confucian, Taoist and Buddhist spirit in tradition... more

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The Tree of Life and Arboreal Aesthetics in Early Modern Literature explores the vital motif of the ... more

This volume offers a major selection of Bertolt Brecht’s groundbreaking critical writing. Here, arra... more

This book explores the intersection between medicine and literature in medieval Iberian literature a... more

The book investigates the phenomenon of Frontism (a Swiss far-right movement) in the period between ... more

This book provides a stylistic and cognitive poetic account of ekphrastic poetry (poetry whose subje... more

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