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Naama Harel

The Jew, the Beauty, and the Beast

The Jew, the Beauty, and the Beast critically examines the entanglements between Jewishness, gender, and animality in modernist Hebrew fiction. Analyzing the effeminate Jew vis-à-vis the animalized woman …

Eliot Now

Eliot Now-the first collection of essays written with full access to T. S. Eliot's recently published Complete Prose and Poems-combines contemporary critical approaches with a sustained inquiry into the n…

Adam Kelly

New Sincerity

"The years 1989-2008 were an era of neoliberal hegemony in US politics, economy, and culture. Post45 scholar Adam Kelly argues that American novelists who began their careers during these years - specific…

The Boomtown Rats

Back To Boomtown: Classic Rats' Hits

Die Boomtown Rats wurden einst als ‘Chaoten’ und ‘Geschwür’ bezeichnet, und als ‘aussätzige, antiautoritäre Schweine’ und es wurde ihnen untersagt, in ihrem Heimatland aufzutreten. Der Schrecken, den die …

Rachel Cusk

Rachel Cusk is one of the most critically acclaimed and controversial contemporary British authors. Her diverse body of work offers a striking portrait of trends in 21st-century literature, and the histor…

Zoot Sims (1925-1985)

Four Classic Albums 2

4 klassische Alben von Zoot Sims inklusive Original LP Liner Notes auf einer digital remasterten 2CD!

Sebastian P Klinger

Sleep Works

An exploration of sleep at the intersection of literature, science, and pharmacology in the early twentieth century. At the turn of the twentieth century, sleep began to be seen not merely as a passive st…

Vered Lev Kenaan, Patricia A Rosenmeyer

Classics Transformed in Jewish, Israeli, and Palestinian Receptions

This volume explores how classical antiquity influenced the writings of poets, translators, and scholars emerging from modern Jewish diasporas, Mandatory Palestine, and the State of Israel. The chapters e…

Paul Tenngart

The Nobel Prize and the Formation of Contemporary World Literature

"Explores the history, ambitions, and impact of the Nobel Prize in literature as it gained a central position in 20th-century global literary culture"--

Oscar Peterson (1925-2007)

Three Classic Albums Plus

The Political Uses of Literature

"Analyses the rich global histories of 20th- and 21st-century politicized writing in order to provoke new debate about the complex intersections between literature and political action"--

Iona Heath

John Berger

Iona Heath relates the importance that John Berger's work and friendship had on her working life as a GP. It includes extracts from letters that span 20 years of her correspondence with John Berger.

Writing Borders and Other Barriers in the Era of Climate Crisis

Bringing together intersectional perspectives across disciplines such as the humanities, arts and social sciences, this book explores borders and crossings in relation to environmental damage and injustic…

D Marcel Decoste

Professing Darkness

"Professing Darkness: Cormac McCarthy's Catholic Critique of American Enlightenment establishes the centrality of Catholic thought, imagery, and sacrament both to the spiritual outlook of the McCarthy cor…

Ange Mlinko

Difficult Ornaments

This book draws on the works and lives of six poets, illustrating how the state of Florida inspired twentieth-century poets to new subject matter and forms, expanding and deepening the American experiment…

Rochelle Rives

The New Physiognomy

"This work bridges a number of fields in the humanities to examine how modernist representations demonstrate the limits of facial expressivity as a marker of the true qualities of a person"--

Jazz Drummers: Four Classic Albums

The Irish Proust

The first book devoted to exploring Marcel Proust's influence on Irish literature and Irish themes within his work, The Irish Proust reveals a surprising textual dimension of Proust's novel and traces the…

Jeffrey C Kinkley

China Mysteries

With the 1989 Beijing massacre fading from popular memory in the West, China from the mid-1990s to a few years ago felt more open than ever to global trade, communication, travel, and cultural and educati…