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Walter Benjamin
On Goethe contains the full range of Walter Benjamin's reflections on the central figure in modern German culture. The writings in this volume-newly translated, fully annotated, and framed by an…
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Susan Bernstein
Reconsiders the figure of synaesthesia, understood as the combination of the senses and of the arts, in philosophy and literature.
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Franz Liszt is the organizing figure in this detailed study of music in Heine and Baudelaire. Virtuosity of the Nineteenth Century offers a fresh reading of relatively marginal texts by…
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Housing Problems provides fresh readings of major writers, Goethe, Walpole, Freud, Heidegger, Poe, H.D., and Oppen, by bringing together the fields of literature, philosophy and architecture.
Susan David Bernstein
This text examines the gendered power relationships embedded in confessional literature of the Victorian period. Based on cultural criticism, poststructuralism and feminist theory, Bernstein’s analysis constitutes a reassessment of Freud’s…
Arguing not only that the British Museum Reading Room facilitated various practices of women’s literary traditions, the author also questions the overdetermined value of privacy and autonomy in constructions of…
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Explores a specific site - the Reading Room of the British Museum - as a space of imaginative potential in relation to the emergence of modern women writers in Victorian…
Susan Goldman Rubin
A Junior Library Guild selection –Dust jacket.
Examines the diverse ramifications of vulgarity in the four areas where it was most discussed in the nineteenth century: language use, changing social spaces, the emerging middle classes, and visual…
Brings together chapters by researchers from South Africa, Portugal, the United Kingdom, United States, and Australia, to build on the theoretical concepts developed by Bernstein to explore issues of access…
Susan Gates
When Elise hears Grandmas story about being chased by a leopard in Africa, she is terrified!Oxford Reading Tree Story Sparks is an emotionally-engaging fiction series that will fire children’s imagination…
Jeffrey Bernstein, Ph.D.,Susan Magee
Finally, this guide is the missing link for couples who want to beat the relationship odds and sustain a loving marriage or long-term relationship.
Stan Bernstein,Susan H. Seabury,Jack F. Williams
This practical resource offers a roadmap on the fundamentals of a business bankruptcy case.
This integrated and multidisciplinary approach to medical care will become even more necessary as medical capabilities continue to develop faster than society can respond.
This new edition focuses on recent developments that are reflected by an impressive addition to the scientific literature. This fifth edition retains key elements that have made the success of…
This poetry anthology includes the work of Russian writers Alexander Vedensky, Daniil Kharms, and Nikolai Zabolotsky who, between 1927 and 1930 made up the core of OBERIU (The Union of…
Long before the word interdisciplinary entered the landscape of higher education, William Morris embodied that ideal. Teaching William Morris offers a wide array of perspectives on the challenges and the…
Joe Amato,David Antin,John Ashbery,Susan Bee
The first major anthology of writing that offers readers an overview of this other tradition as it lives in the early decades of the 21st century. Featuring over 100 pieces…
Chris Powling,Ciaran Murtagh,Jonny Zucker,Susan Gates,Kate Scott
Oxford Reading Tree Story Sparks is emotionally-engaging fiction that will fire imagination and deepen comprehension. This pack contains one of each of the following titles: Ella’s Umbrella; Sugar Plum Scary…
Oxford Reading Tree Story Sparks is emotionally-engaging fiction that will fire imagination and deepen comprehension. This pack contains six of each of the following titles: Ella’s Umbrella; Sugar Plum Scary…
This multidisciplinary collection of essays provides a means to appreciate the richness and variety of fictional portrayals of businesses and businesspersons. The works selected for examination reflect the variety of…
