(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Sep-2021, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478014621)
Modernity arrived in Japan, as elsewhere, through new forms of ownership. In A Fictional Commons, Michael K. Bourdaghs explores how the literary and theoretical works of Natsume Sōseki (1867&;1916), widely celebrated as Japans greate...Loe edasi...
Asks important questions about the very nature of stories--examines why we read stories rather than just learning the endings. Asks important questions about the very nature of stories and examines why we read stories rather than just learnin...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197687383)
No Place Like Home examines the home through the lens of female writers and thinkers across history, in order to reinstate the home as a philosophical problem....Loe edasi...
This book is a sustained engagement with Mahadeva’s work that seeks to fill this lacuna. It includes translations of select samples of Mahadeva’s fiction and nonfiction writings and some of the major responses to these works from Kannada. ...Loe edasi...
We are in the middle of a vibrant renaissance of queer writing. But LGBTQ+ writers, characters and readers have been here since the beginning quietly, defiantly, and persistently telling their stories if you know where to look. ...Loe edasi...
First published in 1985, Novel and Society in Elizabethan England presents a whole range of English fiction of the Elizabethan period against its social background. It considers the major authors of prose fiction and examines how they organised thei...Loe edasi...
“Through identifying connections between teaching and learning, I suggest that teaching can give a life meaning, that we might define ourselves, understand ourselves, meaningfully, as teachers. Teaching is a way of living and not just a way to mak...Loe edasi...
“Through identifying connections between teaching and learning, I suggest that teaching can give a life meaning, that we might define ourselves, understand ourselves, meaningfully, as teachers. Teaching is a way of living and not just a way to mak...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1973, this is foremost a study of Dryden as a writer, but, the author maintains, his ideas cannot be separated from his art. Drydens concern with familiar 17th Century problems make him almost as important to the historian as...Loe edasi...
The year 1688 is a turning point in English culture, and one from which can be dated numerous distinctively modern notions of truth, property and political order. The texts assembled in this collection, originally published in 1986, focus on this in...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1971, this book elucidates Becketts work in the light of his concern with literary form. This is seen as an increasingly compressed and dense medium for the purer and purer statement of his view of mans existence....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197839300)
The environmental and political crises humanity faces today have given rise to influential new theories of life, matter, and time. Vitalism, a controversial term describing the ideas of philosophers from Lucretius to Bergson, provides a common intell...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Fordham University Press, ISBN-13: 9781531514150)
Shows how art and literature can both describe and instantiate the slow, unredeemed violence of physical deterioration. Mere Materialism challenges us to recognize a neglected, transhistorical aesthetics of loss. Against the...Loe edasi...
Shows how art and literature can both describe and instantiate the slow, unredeemed violence of physical deterioration. Mere Materialism challenges us to recognize a neglected, transhistorical aesthetics of loss. Against the...Loe edasi...
As writing and language teachers, we recognize the difference immediately; an event has occurred, and a new subject has appeared in the classroom. Increasingly our students struggle to pay attention, to dissociate from their cell phones, to complete...Loe edasi...
