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Product Description: Against the Event: The Everyday and the Evolution of Modernist Narrative investigates how a modernity famed for temporal acceleration - from Benjamin's 'shock' and 'distraction' to the postmodern loss of historical consciousness diagnosed by Jameson - generated fictions defined, strangely enough, not just by the 'new' but just as forcefully by everyday depletions of stasis and repetition, a flood of sameness in modern life...read more

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9780199681259 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 22, 2013, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: Against the Event: The Everyday and the Evolution of Modernist Narrative investigates how a modernity famed for temporal acceleration - from Benjamin's 'shock' and 'distraction' to the postmodern loss of historical consciousness diagnosed by Jameson - generated fictions defined, strangely enough, not just by the 'new' but just as forcefully by everyday depletions of stasis and repetition, a flood of sameness in modern life.

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Product Description: Nobel Prize winner Albert Camus’ contributions to political and cultural analysis make him one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. Camus’ writing has been heavily researched and analyzed in academia, with many scholars concentrating on the formal tri-part structure he adhered to in his later work: the cycle that divided his books into stages of the absurd, rebellion, and love...read more

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9780826219244 | Univ of Missouri Pr, June 20, 2011, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Nobel Prize winner Albert Camus’ contributions to political and cultural analysis make him one of the most important writers of the twentieth century.

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Product Description: An examination of literary modernism in its relation to the history of criticism, this work analyzes the role of Aristotelian principles, primarily the notion of formal affectivism, in the critical writings of three modernists who have invariably been thought to uphold incompatible aesthetic beliefs...read more

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9781845191719 | Sussex Academic Pr, August 22, 2008, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: An examination of literary modernism in its relation to the history of criticism, this work analyzes the role of Aristotelian principles, primarily the notion of formal affectivism, in the critical writings of three modernists who have invariably been thought to uphold incompatible aesthetic beliefs.

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9781848934375 | Pickering & Chatto Ltd, September 30, 2013, cover price $150.00

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9781138663022, titled "Ascetic Modernism in the Work of T S Eliot and Gustave Flaubert" | Routledge, January 20, 2016, cover price $52.95

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Product Description: Steven Connor, one of the most influential critics of twentieth-century literature and culture working today, has spent much of his career writing and thinking about Samuel Beckett. This book presents Connor's finest published work on Beckett alongside fresh essays that explore how Beckett has shaped major themes in modernism and twentieth-century literature...read more

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9781107059221 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 30, 2014, cover price $99.99 | About this edition: Steven Connor, one of the most influential critics of twentieth-century literature and culture working today, has spent much of his career writing and thinking about Samuel Beckett.

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9781107629110 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 30, 2014, cover price $44.99 | About this edition: Steven Connor, one of the most influential critics of twentieth-century literature and culture working today, has spent much of his career writing and thinking about Samuel Beckett.

In this Companion, eminent British and American scholars offer a guide to the revolutionary cultural transformations of the first decades of the twentieth century. Chapters on the major literary genres, on intellectual, political and institutional contexts, and on film and the visual arts, provide close analyses and a broader set of interpretive narratives. A Chronology and Guide to Further Reading supply valuable orientation within the field. Students will find much-needed help with the difficulties of approaching Modernism, while the essays' original contributions will send scholars back to this volume for stimulating reevaluation.
By Michael Levenson (editor)

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9781107010635 | 2 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, October 30, 2011), cover price $105.00
9780521495165 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 1, 1999, cover price $57.99 | About this edition: In this Companion, eminent British and American scholars offer a guide to the revolutionary cultural transformations of the first decades of the twentieth century.

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9780521281256 | 2 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, October 30, 2011), cover price $34.99
9780521498661 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 1, 1999, cover price $31.99

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By Celia Marshik (editor)

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9781107049260 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 31, 2014, cover price $80.00

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9781107627390 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 31, 2014, cover price $27.99

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Product Description: Modernist poems are some of the twentieth-century's major cultural achievements, but they are also hard work to read. This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world...read more

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9780521764476 | Cambridge Univ Pr, December 26, 2011, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: Modernist poems are some of the twentieth-century's major cultural achievements, but they are also hard work to read.

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9780521147859 | Cambridge Univ Pr, December 26, 2011, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Modernist poems are some of the twentieth-century's major cultural achievements, but they are also hard work to read.

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9780230360518 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 24, 2012, cover price $100.00

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Product Description: In this highly original study, Jeremy Braddock focuses on collective forms of modernist expression―the art collection, the anthology, and the archive―and their importance in the development of institutional and artistic culture in the United States...read more

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9781421403649 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, December 27, 2011, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: In this highly original study, Jeremy Braddock focuses on collective forms of modernist expression—the art collection, the anthology, and the archive—and their importance in the development of institutional and artistic culture in the United States.

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9781421409627 | Reprint edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, January 3, 2013), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In this highly original study, Jeremy Braddock focuses on collective forms of modernist expression―the art collection, the anthology, and the archive―and their importance in the development of institutional and artistic culture in the United States.

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9780199977970 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 27, 2013, cover price $69.00

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9780190455927 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, December 1, 2015), cover price $29.95

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Product Description: This stylistic study of consciousness in the Modernist novel explores shifts across different viewpoints and the techniques through which they are dialogically interconnected. The dialogic resonances in the presentation of character consciousness are analysed using linguistic evidence and evidence drawn from everyday conversational practices...read more

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9780230525528 | Palgrave Macmillan, June 24, 2013, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: This stylistic study of consciousness in the Modernist novel explores shifts across different viewpoints and the techniques through which they are dialogically interconnected.

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Product Description: The epistemological uncertainties of the early modern and the postmodern give rise an anatomical desire that is behind several representational techniques. This work scrutinizes this anatomical perspective through the discussion of the semiography of violence, abjection and the fantastic...read more

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9780773414761 | Edwin Mellen Pr, March 24, 2011, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: The epistemological uncertainties of the early modern and the postmodern give rise an anatomical desire that is behind several representational techniques.

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9780823270972 | Fordham Univ Pr, July 1, 2016, cover price $90.00

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9780823270989 | Fordham Univ Pr, July 1, 2016, cover price $25.00

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Product Description: All of Derrida’s texts on Joyce together under one cover in fresh, new translations, along with key essays covering the range of Derrida’s engagement with Joyce’s works.Bringing together all of Jacques Derrida’s writings on James Joyce, this volume includes the first complete translation of his book Ulysses Gramophone: Two Words for Joyce as well as the first translation of the essay “The Night Watch...read more
By Sam Slote (editor)

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9781438446394 | State Univ of New York Pr, May 1, 2013, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: All of Derrida’s texts on Joyce together under one cover in fresh, new translations, along with key essays covering the range of Derrida’s engagement with Joyce’s works.

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9781438446387 | Reprint edition (State Univ of New York Pr, January 2, 2014), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: All of Derrida’s texts on Joyce together under one cover in fresh, new translations, along with key essays covering the range of Derrida’s engagement with Joyce’s works.

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Product Description: The purpose of this volume is to give a detailed account of a series of re­ sults concerning some ergodic questions of quantum mechanics which have the past six years following the formulation of a generalized been addressed in Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy by A...read more

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9783540570172 | Springer Verlag, December 2, 1993, cover price $149.00 | About this edition: The purpose of this volume is to give a detailed account of a series of re­ sults concerning some ergodic questions of quantum mechanics which have the past six years following the formulation of a generalized been addressed in Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy by A.
9780387570174 | Springer Verlag, October 1, 1993, cover price $49.00 | also contains Epic Negation: The Dialectical Poetics of Late Modernism | About this edition: The purpose of this volume is to give a detailed account of a series of re­ sults concerning some ergodic questions of quantum mechanics which have the past six years following the formulation of a generalized been addressed in Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy by A.

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Product Description: Pairing the two concepts of diaspora and modernism, Allison Schachter formulates a novel approach to modernist studies and diasporic cultural production. Diasporic Modernisms illuminates how the relationships between migrant writers and dispersed readers were registered in the innovative practices of modernist prose fiction...read more

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9780199812639 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 4, 2011, cover price $38.95 | About this edition: Pairing the two concepts of diaspora and modernism, Allison Schachter formulates a novel approach to modernist studies and diasporic cultural production.

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9780199394753 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, July 24, 2014), cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Pairing the two concepts of diaspora and modernism, Allison Schachter formulates a novel approach to modernist studies and diasporic cultural production.

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9780199937080 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, January 31, 2014, cover price $105.00

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9780199937103 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 31, 2014, cover price $31.95

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Product Description: Challenges the notion of a singular global modernism and argues for the importance of critically integrating the local and the international dimensions of modernist aesthetics

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9780823245444 | Fordham Univ Pr, November 1, 2012, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Challenges the notion of a singular global modernism and argues for the importance of critically integrating the local and the international dimensions of modernist aesthetics

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Product Description: The history of the epic-ranging from the heroic narratives of cultural origin found in Homer and Virgil to the tumultuous theological and political conflicts depicted by Dante or Milton-is nearly as old as literature itself. But the epic is also made and remade by its present, adapted to the pressures and formal necessities of its particular cultural moment...read more

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9780199844715 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 14, 2015, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: The history of the epic-ranging from the heroic narratives of cultural origin found in Homer and Virgil to the tumultuous theological and political conflicts depicted by Dante or Milton-is nearly as old as literature itself.

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9780387570174, titled "Deterministic Chaos in Infinite Quantum Systems" | Springer Verlag, October 1, 1993, cover price $49.00 | also contains Deterministic Chaos in Infinite Quantum Systems | About this edition: The purpose of this volume is to give a detailed account of a series of re­ sults concerning some ergodic questions of quantum mechanics which have the past six years following the formulation of a generalized been addressed in Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy by A.

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