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Texts include selections from "Sketchbook 1946-1949," "I'm Not Stiller," and "Homo Faber: A Report," The plays includes selections from "Now They are Singing Again," "Don Juan," and "Andorra," The essays and speeches include "Emigrants," "Foreignization I," and "Switzerland as Heimat,".

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Through a series of readings of three key Latin literary texts alongside six contemporary cultural theorists, the author argues for an understanding of sovereignty as a system which enforces certain rules for legibility, transmission and circulation on information and bodies, redefining the relationship between the 'virtual' and the 'material'.

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Offers discussion of themes such as spatiality, temporality and sovereignty in Latin literature, drawing upon key conteporary critical theorists. This title deals with the way that sovereign power regulates the movement of information and the movement of bodies through space and time.

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This study investigates the affective agency of the book, through the emotional literacy training that a single codex provided a late-medieval English household. It demonstrates how MS Ashmole 61 affirms both the physical and moral agency of nonhumans, who fashion spiritually generous and socially mindful human household members.

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This book centers on visual and literary productions of Francophone Caribbean women. It investigates their aesthetics of violence, pain, the abhorrent, and the uglification of the feminine to unravel what makes them transgressive and uncommodifiable. It probes the ways in which these works destroy the regimentation of the ideal body.

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This book takes four stories by Vladimir Odoevsky, the Russian-Romantic author, to illustrate 'pathways' in modern fiction, developed further by subsequent writers. Featured here are: the artistic story, the rise of science fiction, aspects of the detective story, and of confession in the novel. -- .

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This is the first collection of essays in which African critics present an in-depth study of African-American writers. These prominent critics from different African countries and backgrounds bring an important perspective to the complex relationship between African Americans and Africa.

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Exploring how adults mistreat children, this book focuses on adults not only as hostile characters in fairy tales themselves but also as real people who use frightening stories to discipline young listeners.

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Written in a period characterized by increased mobility and the development of proto-capitalism, Thomas Dekkers Old Fortunatus (1599) is a journeying play that offers joyous celebration of the pleasures of travel and a circumspect critique of spendthrift indulgence. This Revels Plays edition makes Dekkers neglected stage romance newly available.

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This essay collection reveals how bathos has become so central to literature, fine art, and music >

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This essay collection reveals how bathos has become so central to literature, fine art, and music

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Five experts present their viewpoints on four of the most important figures in recent intellectual and cultural history. Professor Egon Schwarz evaluates Hofmannsthal as a critic; Professors C. V. Bock and Lother Helbing combine forces in an analysis of Gundolf; Professor Yakov Malkiel has provided an evocative, ornately styled document luimain on

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Through a careful rendering of the text, deciphering its hidden ironies, Mr. Weinberg sees Promethee as a modern allegory, a parable wrought of allusions, symbols, and images drawn from classical antiquity and calvinist theology, and a multi-leveled sotie a miroirs. Originally published in 1972. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-

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In applying the standards of modern literary criticism to medieval Arabic literature, Andras Hamori concentrates on those aspects of the literature that appear most alien to modern Western taste: the limitation of themes, the sedimentation with conventions, and the use of elusive patterns of composition. The first part of the book approaches Arabi

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Contents include: The Style of the Mythical Age: An Introduction by Hermann Broch ON THE ILIAD Hector Thetis and Achilles Helen The Comedy of the Gods Troy and Moscow Priam and Achilles Break Bread Poets and Prophets Originally published in 1947. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-d

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Contents include: The Style of the Mythical Age: An Introduction by Hermann Broch ON THE ILIAD Hector Thetis and Achilles Helen The Comedy of the Gods Troy and Moscow Priam and Achilles Break Bread Poets and Prophets Originally published in 1947. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-d

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This book reveals that the roots of modern Tibetan literature grow in the rich and fertile soil of Tibets oral and literary traditions, rather than in the 1980s as current scholarship presents.

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This book reveals that the roots of modern Tibetan literature grow in the rich and fertile soil of Tibets oral and literary traditions, rather than in the 1980s as current scholarship presents.