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  • Tracing the Essay
    G. Douglas Atkins
    The essay, as a notably hard form of writing to pin down, has inspired some unflattering descriptions: It is a greased pig, for example, or a pair of baggy pants into which nearly anything and everything can fit. In Tracing the Essay, G. Douglas Atkins embraces the very qualities that have moved others to accord the essay second-class citizenship in the world of letters.Drawing...
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    30,56 €

  • The Representation of Old Truths in T.S. Eliot’s New Verse
    G. Douglas Atkins
    Continuing his explorations of T. S. Eliot’s most captivating yet difficult works, G. Douglas Atkins’ new and insightful book takes on the question of Eliot and hermeneutics: understanding and being understood, putting-in-other-words, and, in Eliot’s own words, ’restoring/ With a new verse the ancient rhyme.’ This perspective opens new paths towards the elucidation of Ash-Wedne...
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    66,85 €

  • On Keats’s Practice and Poetics of Responsibility
    G. Douglas Atkins
    This accessible, informed, and engaging book offers fresh, new avenues into Keats’s poems and letters, including a valuable introduction to 'the responsible poet.' Focusing on Keats’s sense of responsibility to truth, poetry, and the reader, G. Douglas Atkins, a noted T.S. Eliot critic, writes as an ama-teur. He reads the letters as literary texts, essayistic and dramatic; the ...
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    73,29 €

  • On the Familiar Essay
    G. Atkins
    Rooted in close reading of texts, including the essays of E.B. White, this comprehensive assessment of the oft-slighted subform of the literary essay situates the familiar at the heart of the essay as form. ...
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    48,19 €

  • Literary Paths to Religious Understanding
    G. Atkins
    This highly readable book represents a unique approach to the controverted matter of the relations of literature and religion, eschewing linear argument in favor of a nuanced essayistic manner that elucidates texts and issues of immediate and lasting concern. ...
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    48,30 €

  • Reading T.S. Eliot
    G. Atkins
    This book offers an exciting new approach to T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets as it shows why it should be read both closely and in relation to Eliot’s other works, notably the poems The Waste Land, ’The Hollow Men,’ and Ash-Wednesday. ...
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    48,29 €

  • T.S. Eliot and the Failure to Connect
    G. Atkins
    Here, G. Douglas Atkins offers a fresh new reading of the past century’s most famous poem in English, T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922). Using a comparatist approach that is both intra-textual and inter-textual, this book is a bold analysis of satire of modern forms of misunderstanding. ...
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    48,48 €

  • T.S. Eliot’s Christmas Poems
    G. Atkins
    This is the first full-scale analysis of T.S. Eliot’s six 'Ariel Poems' as Christmas poems. Through close readings, Atkins argues that these poems considered together emerge as clearly related representations of the 'impossible union' that occurred in the Incarnation. ...
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    48,66 €

  • T.S. Eliot and the Fulfillment of Christian Poetics
    G. Atkins
    The culmination of a trilogy that began with T.S. Eliot, Lancelot Andrewes, and the Word, and continued with T.S. Eliot: The Poet as Christian, this gracefully executed new book brings to a triumphant conclusion the unique effort to pinpoint and identify the Christian characteristics of Eliot’s poetic art. The book offers a close but companionable reading of each of the complex...
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    48,70 €

  • T.S. Eliot Materialized
    G. Atkins
    By reading T.S. Eliot literally and laterally, and attending to his intra-textuality, G. Douglas Atkins challenges the familiar notion of Eliot as bent on escaping this world for the spiritual. This study culminates in the necessary, but seemingly impossible, union of reading and writing, literature and commentary. ...
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    48,30 €

  • Alexander Pope’s Catholic Vision
    G. Atkins
    A fresh look at the greatest poet of early eighteenth-century England, this highly readable book focuses on Pope’s religious thinking and major poems. G. Douglas Atkins extends the argument that the Roman Catholic poet was no Deist, ’closet’ or otherwise. ...
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    48,34 €

  • E. B. White
    G. Atkins
    This is the first book-length critical study of E.B. White, the American essayist and author of Stuart Little, Charlotte’s Web, The Trumpet of the Swan . G. Douglas Atkins focuses on White and the writing life, offering detailed readings of the major essays and revealing White’s distinctiveness as an essayist. ...
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    48,31 €

  • Swift’s Satires on Modernism
    G. Atkins
    More than three centuries later, Jonathan Swift’s writing remains striking and relevant. In this engaging study, Atkins brings forty-plus years of critical experience to bear on some of the greatest satires ever written, revealing new contexts for understanding post-Reformation reading practices and the development of the modern personal essay. ...
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    48,69 €

  • Swift, Joyce, and the Flight from Home
    G. Atkins
    In a fresh reading of Gulliver’s Travels and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Atkins draws parallels between the protagonists: both Lemuel Gulliver and Stephen Dedalus flee from the burdens of life, seeking a transcendent existence. The study sheds important new light on both novels as essential critiques of modern misunderstandings. ...
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    48,30 €

  • T.S. Eliot, Lancelot Andrewes, and the Word
    G. Atkins
    With special attention to the poems For Lancelot Andrewes, Journey of the Magi, and Ash-Wednesday , G. Douglas Atkins offers an exciting new analysis of T.S. Eliot’s debt to the seventeenth-century churchman Lancelot Andrewes and his theories of reading and writing texts. ...
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    48,66 €

  • T.S. Eliot
    G. Atkins
    By comparing and contrasting the pre-conversion and the post-conversion poetics and poetic practices of T.S. Eliot, this book elucidates the responsibilities and opportunities for a poet who is also Christian. This book is the second in a trilogy which includes T.S. Eliot, Lancelot Andrewes, and the Word. ...
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    48,64 €

  • Geoffrey Hartman
    G. Douglas Atkins
    Geoffrey Hartman is the first book devoted to an exploration of the `intellectual poetry’ of the critic who, whether or not he `represents the future of the profession’, is a unique and major voice in twentieth-century criticism. ...
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    97,86 €

  • German Literature Through Nazi Eyes (RLE Responding to Fascism)
    G Atkins / G H Atkins
    In German Literature Through Nazi Eyes, H.G. Atkins gives an account of how the Nazis undertook a re-evaluation of German literature, making it sub-ordinate to their own interests. All reference to Jewish writers and influence was virtually eliminated, and key writers such as Goethe and Lessing were re-interpreted. What was left was a military history that was avowedly militant...
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    88,58 €

  • E. B. White
    G. Atkins
    This is the first book-length critical study of E.B. White, the American essayist and author of Stuart Little, Charlotte’s Web, The Trumpet of the Swan . G. Douglas Atkins focuses on White and the writing life, offering detailed readings of the major essays and revealing White’s distinctiveness as an essayist. ...
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    66,76 €

  • Reading T.S. Eliot
    G. Atkins
    This book offers an exciting new approach to T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets as it shows why it should be read both closely and in relation to Eliot’s other works, notably the poems The Waste Land, ’The Hollow Men,’ and Ash-Wednesday. ...
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    66,75 €

  • Literary Paths to Religious Understanding
    G. Atkins
    This highly readable book represents a unique approach to the controverted matter of the relations of literature and religion, eschewing linear argument in favor of a nuanced essayistic manner that elucidates texts and issues of immediate and lasting concern. ...
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    66,75 €

  • On the Familiar Essay
    G. Atkins
    Rooted in close reading of texts, including the essays of E.B. White, this comprehensive assessment of the oft-slighted subform of the literary essay situates the familiar at the heart of the essay as form. ...
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    66,63 €

  • THE COMMON MAN’S GUIDE TO UNCOMMON RICHES
    John Hildreth Atkins / Jonathan G. Rundy / Jonathan GRundy
    Besides teaching you to win online auctions, how to buy and sell antiques and collectibles for top dollar, I tell you where to buy a home for under $10,000. with little or zero down. Own your own home in under a year. Isn’t that the ultimate in the Great American dreams! Too many people are getting depressed paying a thirty year mortgage on a home they will never own. Why not b...
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    17,49 €

  • Handbook Of Research On The International Relations Of Latin America And The Caribbean
    G. Pope Atkins
    The study of Latin American and Caribbean international relations has a long evolution both within the development of international relations as a general academic undertaking and in terms of the part ...
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    106,23 €

  • Latin America And The Caribbean In The International System
    G. Pope Atkins
    This book remains organized around the idea of Latin America and the Caribbean as a separate international subsystem within the global system, with special consideration given to both further subsystems within the region and to the extraregional world of which it is a part. ...
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    106,00 €