Comparative Literature
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Duino Elegies: A New and Complete Translation
$12.95 Read moreRainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies are one of the great literary masterpieces of the twentieth century. Begun in 1912 while the poet was a guest at Duino Castle on the Adriatic Sea and completed in a
- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1324005408
- Language: English
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Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate
$15.95 Read moreA memoir, biography, work of history, and literary criticism all in one, this moving book tells the story of three exiled writers–Erich Auerbach, Fran輟is Fé§elon, and W. G. Sebald–and their relat… [more below]
- Author: Mendelsohn, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1681376393
- Language: English
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The Bright Side of Life
$13.95 Add to cartOrphaned with a substantial inheritance at the age of ten, Pauline Quenu is taken from Paris to live with her relatives, Monsieur and Madame Chanteau and their son Lazare, in the village of Bonneville… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Zola, ?mile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 26 2018
- ISBN10: 0198753616
- Language: English
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Voidopolis
$22.95 Read moreShortlisted for the 2023 Lumen Prize, a hybrid digital artistic and literary project in the form of an augmented reality book, which retells Dante’s Inferno as if it were set in pandemic-ravaged New Y… [more below]
- Series: Leonardo
- Author: Mustatea, Kat
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 0262048264
- Language: English
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Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles: The Power of the Reader’s Mind Over a Universe of Death
$22.00 Read more“The great poems, plays, novels, stories teach us how to go on living. . . . Your own mistakes, accidents, failures at otherness beat you down. Rise up at dawn and read something that matters as soon … [more below]
- Author: Bloom, Harold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0300261535
- Language: English
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Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader’s Guide to a More Tranquil Mind
$17.00 Read more“At a time when many Americans . . . are engaged in deep reflection about the meaning of the nation’s history [this] is an exceptionally useful companion for those who want to do so with honesty and i… [more below]
- Author: Jacobs, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1984878425
- Language: English
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Dirty Pictures: How an Underground Network of Nerds, Feminists, Misfits, Geniuses, Bikers, Potheads, Printers, Intellectuals, and Art
$18.00 Read moreJournalist and comic book critic Brian Doherty’s Dirty Pictures is the first complete narrative history of the weird and wonderful world of Underground Comix–“a welcome addition to an under-analyzed … [more below]
- Author: Doherty, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 141975047X
- Language: English
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On James Baldwin
$19.95 Add to cartColm T?ib?n’s personal account of encountering James Baldwin’s work, published in Baldwin’s centenary year.
Acclaimed Irish novelist Colm T?ib?n first read James Baldwin just after turning eighteen.- Series: The Mandel Lectures in the Humanities at Brandeis University
- Author: Toibin, Colm
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: August 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1684582474
- Language: English
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The Philosophy of Translation
$28.00 Add to cartA deep dive into the nature of translation from one of its most acclaimed practitioners
Avoiding theoretical debates and clich?d metaphors, award-winning translator Damion Searls has written a fresh,- Author: Searls, Damion
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0300247370
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
$14.99 Add to cartThe Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is a timeless literary treasure that offers readers a fascinating glimpse into the life and mind of one of America’s most iconic founding fathers. In this engagi
- Author: Franklin, Benjamin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: December 25 2023
- ISBN10: 9358562145
- Language: English
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Inventions of a Present: The Novel in Its Crisis of Globalization
$34.95 Add to cartThe giant of literary theory analyses the novel: Conrad, James, Atwood, Oe, Mailer, Grass, Grossman, Garcia Marquez, Gibson, Knausgaard and more
A novel is an act, an intervention, which, most often,- Author: Jameson, Fredric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1804292400
- Language: English
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Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times
$70.00 Add to cartFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography
A double portrait of two of America’s most influential writers that reveals the surprising connections between them–and their uncanny- Author: Sachs, Aaron
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 0691215413
- Language: English
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The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories
$29.95 Read moreThis remarkable and monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small number of ‘basic stories’ in the world. Using a wealth of examples,
- Author: Booker, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: September 17 2019
- ISBN10: 1472976185
- Language: English
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Tricks of the Light: Essays on Art and Spectacle
$32.00 Add to cartEssays on media systems and contemporary art by a leading theorist of modern visual culture
Tricks of the Light brings together essays by critic and art historian Jonathan Crary, internationally known- Author: Crary, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1942130856
- Language: English
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The Uses of Literature
$20.99 Add to cartIn these widely praised essays, Calvino reflects on literature as process, the great narrative game in the course of which writer and reader are challenged to understand the world. Calvino himself mad… [more below]
- Author: Calvino, Italo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: March 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0156932504
- Language: English
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How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry
$18.99 Add to cartA masterful work by a master poet, this brilliant summation of poetry and human nature will speak to all readers who long to place poetry in their lives.
How to Read a Poem is an unprecedented explorat… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Hirsch, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0156005662
- Language: English
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Civic Storytelling: The Rise of Short Forms and the Agency of Literature
$29.95 Read moreA deep history of storytelling as a civic agency, recalibrating literature’s political role for the twenty-first century
Why did short narrative forms like the novella, fable, and fairy tale suddenly- Author: Fuchs, Florian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1942130740
- Language: English
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How to Read Novels Like a Professor: A Jaunty Exploration of the World’s Favorite Literary Form
$17.99 Add to cartThe follow-up and companion volume to the New York Times bestselling How to Read Literature Like a Professor–a lively and entertaining guide to understanding and dissecting novels to make everyday re
- Author: Foster, Thomas C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0061340405
- Language: English
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Jewish Literature: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe story of Jewish literature is a kaleidoscopic one, multilingual and transnational in character, spanning the globe as well as the centuries.
In this broad, thought-provoking introduction to Jewish- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Stavans, Ilan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0190076976
- Language: English
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The Epic Cosmos
$19.95 Add to cartLarry Allums, editor Louise Cowan, general editor The community of scholar-critics that brought out The Terrain of Comedy has produced the second volume in its studies of the four genres, with Larry A… [more below]
- Series: Studies in Genre
- Author: Allums, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 394
- Publish Date: February 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0911005226
- Language: English
