Literary Criticism
-
The Post-Structuralist Vulva Coloring BookThe Post-Structuralist Vulva Coloring Book demystifies gender and pleasantly confuses your assumptions as you are drawn into its mesmerizing bricolage of patterns, folds, and whorls. Color away the false binaries between male and female, words and text, inside and outside, art and nature. As...
- CHF 18.23
- CHF 18.23
- Unit price
- per
-
The Emergence of American Literary Narrative, 1820-1860In the mid-nineteenth century writers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville produced works of fiction that even today, centuries later, help to define what American literature means. In this work of innovative literary history, Jonathan Arac explains what made this remarkable creativity possible...
- CHF 68.75
- CHF 68.75
- Unit price
- per
-
Robo Sacer: Necroliberalism and Cyborg Resistance in Mexican and Chicanx DystopiasRobo Sacer engages the digital humanities, critical race theory, border studies, biopolitical theory, and necropolitical theory to interrogate how technology has been used to oppress people of Mexican descent--both within Mexico and in the United States--since the advent of the North American Free Trade...
- CHF 77.50
- CHF 77.50
- Unit price
- per
-
Grand Emporium, Mercantile Monster: The Antebellum South's Love-Hate Affair with New York CityFocusing on the crucial period of 1820 to 1860, Grand Emporium, Mercantile Monster examines the strong economic bonds between the antebellum plantation South and the burgeoning city of New York that resulted from the highly lucrative trade in cotton. In this richly detailed work...
- CHF 89.82
- CHF 89.82
- Unit price
- per
-
Dialogue with a Somnambulist: Stories, Essays & a Portrait GalleryRenowned internationally for her lyrically unsettling novels, PEN/Faulkner Award winner Chloe Aridjis now offers readers her first collection of shorter works, with an introduction by Tom McCarthy Chloe Aridjis's stories and essays are known to transport readers into liminal, often dreamlike, realms. In this...
- CHF 35.92
- CHF 35.92
- Unit price
- per
-
Robo Sacer: Necroliberalism and Cyborg Resistance in Mexican and Chicanx DystopiasRobo Sacer engages the digital humanities, critical race theory, border studies, biopolitical theory, and necropolitical theory to interrogate how technology has been used to oppress people of Mexican descent--both within Mexico and in the United States--since the advent of the North American Free Trade...
- CHF 221.64
- CHF 221.64
- Unit price
- per
-
A Study in Scarlet"There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life." In Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet a popular cultural phenomenon is born. We meet two of the most famous characters in modern literary history: the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes...
- CHF 13.23
- CHF 13.23
- Unit price
- per
-
The Return of Sherlock HolmesArthur Conan Doyle famously killed off Sherlock Holmes in 1893, in the short story 'The Final Problem', but was tempted to bring him back to life ten years later, in the thirteen tales that comprise The Return of Sherlock Holmes. While the outcry that...
- CHF 15.89
- CHF 15.89
- Unit price
- per
-
The Black Pilgrimage 2: Further Explorations in Supernatural FictionTHE GHOSTLY WORK OF M.R. JAMESThe celebrated writer M.R. James is arguably the most significant author of ghost stories in the world. His macabre work has terrified and fascinated readers for over a hundred years. Now collected in this second volume, here are a...
- CHF 30.59
- CHF 30.59
- Unit price
- per
-
BackloguesIn Backlogues Joseph Minden explores how the act of remembering recreates spaces of oppression and how complicity in ancient power structures sustains modern day violence. Minden writes about the detritus of British history, from the Birkenhead Iron Works to the Bay of Biscay to...
- CHF 23.26
- CHF 23.26
- Unit price
- per
-
The Persian Prince: The Rise and Resurrection of an Imperial ArchetypeWith its title borrowed from Machiavelli, The Persian Prince goes far beyond Machiavelli's wildest imagination as to how to rule the world. Hamid Dabashi articulates a bold new idea of the Persian Prince--a metaphor of political authority, a figurative ideal deeply rooted in the...
- CHF 46.57
- CHF 46.57
- Unit price
- per
-
The Hound of the Baskervilles'Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!' The mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville brings Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson to Dartmoor in the most famous of all of Arthur Conan Doyle's books. Is Sir Charles the latest victim of the...
- CHF 10.57
- CHF 10.57
- Unit price
- per
-
Understanding Superhero Comic Books: A History of Key Elements, Creators, Events and ControversiesThis work dissects the origin and growth of superhero comic books, their major influences, and the creators behind them. It demonstrates how Batman, Wonder Woman, Captain America and many more stand as time capsules of their eras, rising and falling with societal changes, and...
- CHF 88.58
- CHF 88.58
- Unit price
- per
-
A Short Introduction to the Ancient Greek TheaterContemporary productions on stage and film, and the development of theater studies, continue to draw new audiences to ancient Greek drama. With observations on all aspects of performance, this volume fills their need for a clear, concise account of what is known about the...
- CHF 46.57
- CHF 46.57
- Unit price
- per
-
Bold Conscience: Luther to Shakespeare to MiltonHow the conscience in early modern England emerged as a fulcrum for public action Bold Conscience chronicles the shifting conception of conscience in early modern England, as it evolved from a faculty of restraint--what Shakespeare labels "coward conscience"--to one of bold and forthright self-assertion....
- CHF 69.75
- CHF 69.75
- Unit price
- per
-
Laugh-Out-Loud Animal Jokes for Kids Lib/EAuthor: Rob Elliott, Dylan AugustPublisher: Mission AudioPublished: 12/31/2016Binding Type: CDISBN: 9798200518494Audience: Ages 9-12About the AuthorElliott, Rob: - Rob Elliott is the bestselling author of Laugh-Out-Loud Jokes for Kids, More Laugh-Out-Loud Jokes for Kids, Laugh-Out-Loud Spooky Jokes for Kids, Laugh-Out-Loud Christmas Jokes for Kids, Laugh-Out-Loud...
- CHF 12.18
- CHF 12.18
- Unit price
- per
-
Reading Picture Books with Children: How to Shake Up Storytime and Get Kids Talking about What They SeeA new, interactive approach to storytime, The Whole Book Approach was developed in conjunction with the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art and expert author Megan Dowd Lambert's graduate work in children's literature at Simmons College, offering a practical guide for reshaping storytime...
- CHF 29.20
- CHF 29.20
- Unit price
- per
-
Black in Print: Plotting the Coordinates of Blackness in Central AmericaExplores the role of print media in conversations about race and belonging across Central America.Author: Jennifer Carolina Gómez MenjívarPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 05/01/2023Pages: 294Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.33lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81dISBN: 9781438492810About the AuthorJennifer Carolina Gómez Menjívar is Associate Professor...
- CHF 208.57
- CHF 208.57
- Unit price
- per
-
Incomplete: The Feminist Possibilities of the Unfinished Film Volume 5This field-defining collection establishes unfinished film projects--abandoned, interrupted, lost, or open-ended--as rich and underappreciated resources for feminist film and media studies. In deeply researched and creatively conceived chapters, scholars join with film practitioners in approaching the unfinished film as an ideal site for revealing...
- CHF 77.50
- CHF 77.50
- Unit price
- per
-
China in Twentieth- And Twenty-First-Century African LiteratureChina in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century African Literature unpacks the long-standing complexity of exchanges between Africans and Chinese as far back as the Cold War and beyond. This scope encompasses how China, which emerged as a main engine of the world economy by the...
- CHF 207.35
- CHF 207.35
- Unit price
- per