Comparative Literature
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Writing During the Apocalypse: Reflections on the Great Unraveling
$24.95 Add to cartAll of American literature is a tragedy. What we’re living through now isn’t a tragedy, however – it’s a horror novel. Why bother writing when the world’s on fire?
Rising authoritarianism. Covid. Inf- Author: Simon, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 22 2026
- ISBN10: 9798765123218
- Language: English
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Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel
$21.00 Add to cartOne of the Washington Post’s 50 Best Nonfiction Books of 2024 A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice A Boston Globe Best Book of 2024
“Ambitious, intelligent, and happily unpretentious.” —Louis- Author: Frank, Edwin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1250397839
- Language: English
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Far Calls: On Omens, Slips, & Epiphanies
$37.00 Add to cartAn inquiry into the theories and practices of overhearing
When words are not heard but overheard, when phrases are perceived in bits and pieces, and when speakers, failing to do as they intend, state- Author: Heller-Roazen, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1945861045
- Language: English
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The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories – 20th Anniversary Edition
$29.99 Read more**20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION**
This remarkable and monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small number of ‘basic stories’ in the world.- Author: Booker, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1399415921
- Language: English
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The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet
$21.95 Add to cartPROSE AWARDS MEDIA ADN CULTURAL STUDIES FINALIST 2024
The Gutenberg Parenthesis traces the epoch of print from its fateful beginnings to our digital present – and draws out lessons for the age to come- Author: Jarvis, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 03 2024
- ISBN10: 9798765115862
- Language: English
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How to Read Literature Like a Professor [Third Edition]: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Understanding Literature, from the Great Gatsby to the Hat
$19.99 Add to cartThoroughly revised and expanded for a new generation of readers, this classic guide to enjoying literature to its fullest–a lively, enlightening, and entertaining introduction to a diverse range of w
- Author: Foster, Thomas C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 006330774X
- Language: English
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Literature for a Changing Planet
$31.58 Read moreWhy we must learn to tell new stories about our relationship with the earth if we are to avoid climate catastrophe
Reading literature in a time of climate emergency can sometimes feel a bit like fiddl- Series: Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities/Princeton University Press Lectures in European Culture #1
- Author: Puchner, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0691213755
- Language: English
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Literature Class, Berkeley 1980
$19.95 Read more“I want you to know that I’m not a critic or theorist, which means that in my work I look for solutions as problems arise.” So begins the first of eight classes that the great Argentine writer Julio C… [more below]
- Author: Cortázar, Julio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 28 2017
- ISBN10: 0811225348
- Language: English
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The Bright Side of Life
$13.95 Add to cartOrphaned with a substantial inheritance at the age of ten, Pauline Quenu is taken from Paris to live with her relatives, Monsieur and Madame Chanteau and their son Lazare, in the village of Bonneville… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Zola, ?mile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 26 2018
- ISBN10: 0198753616
- Language: English
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Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles: The Power of the Reader’s Mind Over a Universe of Death
$22.00 Read more“The great poems, plays, novels, stories teach us how to go on living. . . . Your own mistakes, accidents, failures at otherness beat you down. Rise up at dawn and read something that matters as soon … [more below]
- Author: Bloom, Harold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0300261535
- Language: English
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Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader’s Guide to a More Tranquil Mind
$17.00 Read more“At a time when many Americans . . . are engaged in deep reflection about the meaning of the nation’s history [this] is an exceptionally useful companion for those who want to do so with honesty and i… [more below]
- Author: Jacobs, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1984878425
- Language: English
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Inventions of a Present: The Novel in Its Crisis of Globalization
$34.95 Add to cartThe giant of literary theory analyses the novel: Conrad, James, Atwood, Oe, Mailer, Grass, Grossman, Garcia Marquez, Gibson, Knausgaard and more
A novel is an act, an intervention, which, most often,- Author: Jameson, Fredric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1804292400
- Language: English
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Civic Storytelling: The Rise of Short Forms and the Agency of Literature
$29.95 Read moreA deep history of storytelling as a civic agency, recalibrating literature’s political role for the twenty-first century
Why did short narrative forms like the novella, fable, and fairy tale suddenly- Author: Fuchs, Florian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1942130740
- Language: English
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The Epic Cosmos
$19.95 Add to cartLarry Allums, editor Louise Cowan, general editor The community of scholar-critics that brought out The Terrain of Comedy has produced the second volume in its studies of the four genres, with Larry A… [more below]
- Series: Studies in Genre
- Author: Allums, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 394
- Publish Date: February 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0911005226
- Language: English
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Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature – New and Expanded Edition
$27.95 Read moreThe classic book that has taught generations how to read Western literature
More than half a century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach’s Mimesis remains a masterpiece of literary crit- Series: Princeton Classics #1
- Author: Auerbach, Erich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 616
- Publish Date: October 06 2013
- ISBN10: 0691160228
- Language: English
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A Room of One’s Own: The Feminist Classic
$13.00 Add to cartDiscover Virginia Woolf’s landmark essay on women’s struggle for independence and creative opportunity
A Room of One’s Own is one of Virginia Woolf’s most influential works and widely recognized for i
- Series: Capstone Classics
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0857088823
- Language: English
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Wuthering Heights (Deluxe Hardbound Edition)
$14.99 Add to cartDiscover the hauntingly beautiful tale of “Wuthering Heights” by Emily Bront?. Immerse yourself in the dark and passionate world of the Earnshaw and Linton families, as love, revenge, and the superna
- Author: Bront?, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: November 01 2020
- ISBN10: 8194898889
- Language: English
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The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet
$29.00 Read moreThe Gutenberg Parenthesis traces the epoch of print from its fateful beginnings to our digital present – and draws out lessons for the age to come.
The age of print is a grand exception in history. Fo- Author: Jarvis, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: June 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1501394827
- Language: English
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