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The period between the World Wars was one of the richest and most inventive in the long history of British literature. Interwar literature stood apart by virtue of the sheer …
In an innovative and invigorating exploration of the complex relations between women and the modern, Rita Felski challenges conventional male-centered theories of modernity. She …
Because emotion is assumed to depend on subjectivity, the "e;death of the subject"e; described in recent years by theorists such as Derrida, de Man, and Deleuze would also …
"e;To be someone-to be anyone-is about...not being someone else. Miller's amused and inspired book is utterly compelling."e;-Adam Phillips"e;A compendium of expressions …
In 1941 Thelonious Monk and Kenny Clarke copyrighted "e;Epistrophy,"e; one of the best-known compositions of the bebop era. The song's title refers to a literary device-the …
Beginning in the 1830s, the white actor Thomas D. Rice took to the stage as Jim Crow, and the ragged and charismatic trickster of black folklore entered-and forever …
As a pandemic swept across fourteenth-century Europe, the Decameron offered the ill and grieving a symphony of life and love.For Florentines, the world seemed to be coming to an …
The first book in many years to take in the full sweep of national fiction, The Dream of the Great American Novel explains why this supposedly antiquated idea continues to thrive. …
Ernest Hemingway was a mythic figure of overt masculinity and vibrant literary genius. He lived life on an epic scale, presenting to the world a character as compelling as the …