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11 produkter
Translation as Innovation
Bridging the Sciences and the Humanities
Av Patricia Phillips-Batoma, Florence Xiangyun Zhan
Häftad, 2016
481 kr
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“Translation as Innovation: Bridging the Sciences and the Humanities” was the theme of the second biennial conference coordinated through a partnership between the Center for Translation Studies at the University of Illinois and the Centre d’Études sur la Traduction at the University of Paris …
Writing The Sky
Observations and Essays on Dermot Healy
Häftad, 2016
492 kr
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Writing the Sky: Observations and Essays on Dermot Healy is a comprehensive collection of critical essays, memoirs, poetry, and other writerly responses devoted to the life and work of the late Dermot Healy (1947– 2014). Healy was an accomplished poet, short story writer, novelist, playwright, and …
Minuit
Häftad, 2023
418 kr
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"How does a novel accrue value? How do certain new and unknown authors and their works make their way from obscurity into the pantheon of the greats, or—at least—the firmament of the stars?" Minuit examines the role played by French publishing house Editions de Minuit in altering the conception of …
Monogamy
Its Songs and Poems
Häftad, 2023
374 kr
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Monogamy elaborates an ideology of romance from extraordinary poems and songs, one by one. Poems and popular songs are still the main medium for preserving the rules of romance. Each chapter is a meditation on one of eight commonplaces about love: that it makes one monogamous, sentimental, …
Confessions of Narcissus
Av Sean Scully
Häftad, 2023
351 kr
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A rumination on authority and its limitations, about what we think we know - and the spaces in between. In Confessions of Narcissus, Scully suggests that our demand for narrative coherence is one of the things that makes our lives so difficult to bear, that when William Hazlitt declared, "It is we …
As I Was Saying
Av Cecilia Konchar Farr, Janie Sisson
Häftad, 2026
351 kr
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An indispensable companion to Gertrude Stein’s masterpiece, The Making of Americans.One of the great works of 20th-century American fiction, Stein’s novel represents a peak of modernist literature: filled with repetition, overlapping and disintegrating plots, innumerable characters, and sentences …
Border Towns
Häftad, 2016
197 kr
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The several essays that comprise Border Towns chase, worry, and trouble ideas about situation and reference. As a group, the essays’ topics—color, lycanthropy, African-Canadian history, cooking, public transit, etc.—make an unlikely field. But through all its pages the book traces and describes …
John Barth: A Body of Words
Av Charlie Harris, Gabrielle Dean
Häftad, 2016
433 kr
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For the past half-century, John Barth has been recognized as our quintessential postmodernist and praised as one of the best writers “we have ever had” (New York Times Book Review). In this unique collection, thirty-six writers and critics look back at Barth’s career, providing a deeper …
Prancing Ovelist
in Praise of Ronald Firbank
Häftad, 2016
244 kr
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One of the most penetrating and sympathetic explorations ever undertaken by one writer into the mind of another, Prancing Novelist is far more than a simple tribute or work of research. In these pages--by turns instructive, mischievous, and even gossipy--Brigid Brophy seeks nothing less than a …
Non-Memoirs
Häftad, 2015
144 kr
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One afternoon in December 1992, in Tartu, Estonia, Yuri Mikhailovich Lotman reluctantly sat down to dictate his memoirs to Elena Pogosian, his assistant, over a pot of tea. It was to be the first of twelve dictation sessions during which the initial draft of Non-Memoirs was created. The sessions …
Stepping Off the Edge
Häftad, 2021
332 kr
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Stepping Off the Edge addresses the question of literary edges and endings in contemporaryworks of literature from France, the United States, Canada, and Latin America. The bookincludes discussion of works by nine different authors, including Anne Carson, Marie NDiaye,Paul Auster, and César Aira. …
