Category - Literary Criticism
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The Things That Fly in the Night: Female Vampires in Literature of the Circum-Caribbean and African Diaspora
PaperbackOriginal price $45.95 - Original price $45.95Original price $45.95$59.99$59.99 - $59.99Current price $59.99| /The Things That Fly in the Night explores images of vampirism in Caribbean and African diasporic folk traditions and in contemporary fiction. Gis...
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The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize | Finalist for the 2022 Edgar AwardWinner of the 2021 Quinn AwardAn innovative biography of Edgar A...
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The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative...
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Shapes of Time: History and Eschatology in the Modernist Imagination
HardcoverOriginal price $125.00 - Original price $125.00Original price $125.00$152.99$152.99 - $152.99Current price $152.99| /Shapes of Time explores how concepts of time and history were spatialized in early twentieth-century German thought. Michael McGillen locates effor...
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Shapes of Time: History and Eschatology in the Modernist Imagination
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /Shapes of Time explores how concepts of time and history were spatialized in early twentieth-century German thought. Michael McGillen locates effor...
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The Orphic Astrologer Critodemus: Fragments with Annotated Translation and Commentary
HardcoverOriginal price $109.99 - Original price $109.99Original price $109.99$135.99$135.99 - $135.99Current price $135.99| /Despite the relevance of astrology in Graeco-Roman mentality, our information about the early period of Hellenistic astrology is marred by the sca...
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Borges and Memory: Encounters with the Human Brain
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /A scientist's exploration of the working of memory begins with a story by Borges about a man who could not forget.Imagine the astonishment felt b...
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A Bastard Kind of Reasoning: William Blake and Geometry
PaperbackOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /What do Einsteinian relativity, eighteenth-century field theory, Neoplatonism, and the overthrow of three-dimensional perspective have in common?...
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Equal Natures: Popular Brain Science and Victorian Women's Writing
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /In Equal Natures, Shalyn Claggett argues that Victorian women writers used scientific understandings of the brain to challenge socially construct...
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Liberating Science: The Early Universe, Evolution and the Public Voice of Science
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /Liberating Science: The Early Universe, Evolution and the Public Voice of Science is a presentation of science for the general reader, with an emph...
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Photo, Phyto, Proto, Nitro
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Photo: to do with light. Phyto: plants and flowers. Proto: the first, the original. Nitro: it blows up.From Troy to Hiroshima, Crimea to the nu...
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