PACKAGE: COURSE: CORE THEORIES AND CURRENT DEBATES
This package contains all required books for the course 'Core theories and current debates'
- 10:04
- The sorrow of war
- Comparative Literature. A Very Short Introduction
This discount only applies if you buy all books in this package at once. You can have...
COURSE: CORE THEORIES AND CURRENT DEBATES - BOOK: 10:04 - Ben Lerner
In the past year, the narrator of 10:04 has enjoyed unexpected literary success, been diagnosed with a potentially fatal heart condition, and been asked by his best friend to help her conceive a child. Now, in a New York of increasingly frequent superstorms and political...
COURSE: CORE THEORIES AND CURRENT DEBATES - BOOK: The sorrow of war - Bao Ninh
Kien's job is to search the Jungle of Screaming Souls for corpses. He knows the area well - this was where, in the dry season of 1969, his battalion was obliterated by American napalm and helicopter gunfire. Kien was one of only ten survivors.
This book is his attempt to...
COURSE: CORE THEORIES AND CURRENT DEBATES - BOOK: Comparative Literature: A Very Short Introduction - Ben Hutchinson
Comparative Literature is both the past and the future of literary studies. Its history is intimately linked to the political upheavals of modernity: from colonial empire-building in the nineteenth century to the postcolonial culture wars of the twenty-first century, attempts...
PACKAGE: COURSE: THINKING LITERATURE: CREATIVE FORMS OF KNOWLEDGE
This package contains all required books for the course 'Thinking Literature: Creative forms of knowledge'
- Duino Elegies: Bilingual Edition
- Elizabeth Costello
- Satin Island
- Ceremony
This discount only applies if you buy all books in this package at...
COURSE: THINKING LITERATURE: CREATIVE FORMS OF KNOWLEDGE - BOOK: Duino Elegies: Bilingual Edition - R.M. Rilke
Over the last fifteen years, in his two volumes of 'New Poems' as well as in 'The Book of Images' and 'Uncollected Poems', Edward Snow has emerged as one of Rainer Maria Rilke's most able English-language interpreters. In his translations, Snow adheres faithfully to the intent...
COURSE: THINKING LITERATURE: CREATIVE FORMS OF KNOWLEDGE - BOOK: Elizabeth Costello - J.M. Coetzee
Elizabeth Costello is an Australian writer of international renown. Famous principally for an early novel that established her reputation, she has reached the stage where her remaining function is to be venerated and applauded. Her life has become a series of engagements in...
COURSE: THINKING LITERATURE: CREATIVE FORMS OF KNOWLEDGE - BOOK: Satin Island - Tom McCarthy
U. is a 'corporate anthropologist' who, while working on a giant, epoch-defining project no one really understands, is also tasked with writing the Great Report on our society. But instead, U. spends his days procrastinating, meandering through endless buffer-zones of...
CCOURSE: THINKING LITERATURE: CREATIVE FORMS OF KNOWLEDGE - BOOK: Ceremony - Leslie Marmon Silko
Almost forty years since its original publication, 'Ceremony' remains one of the most profound and moving works of Native American literature; a novel that is itself a ceremony of healing. Masterfully written, filled with the somber majesty of Pueblo myth, 'Ceremony' is a work...
