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  • Studying Crime in Fiction

    An Introduction

    by Eric Sandberg ...
    The primary aim of Studying Crime in Fiction: An Introduction is to introduce the emerging cross-disciplinary area of study that combines the fields of crime fiction studies and criminology. The study of crime fiction as a genre has a long history within literary studies, and is becoming increasingly prominent in twenty-first-century scholarship. Less attention, however, has been paid to the ways ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Crime Fiction and the Holocaust

    by Eric Sandberg ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores a wide range of twentieth and twenty-first century international fiction that engages with the Holocaust and its historical legacy. It examines the use of tropes of crime and detection in the representation of historical atrocity in both explicit crime fiction and in literary fiction that relies on some of crime fiction’s signature techniques. Crime Fiction and the Holocaust ... Read more

    $125.09 USD

  • Adaptation, Awards Culture, and the Value of Prestige

    Edited by Colleen Kennedy-Karpat, Eric Sandberg ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores the intersection between adaptation studies and what James F. English has called the “economy of prestige,” which includes formal prize culture as well as less tangible expressions such as canon formation, fandom, authorship, and performance. The chapters explore how prestige can affect many facets of the adaptation process, including selection, approach, and reception. The ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Dorothy L. Sayers

    A Companion to the Mystery Fiction

    by Eric Sandberg ...
    Series Book 11 - McFarland Companions to Mystery Fiction
    Dorothy L. Sayers was one of the "Queens of Crime." Alongside writers like Agatha Christie, she perfected the whodunnit, but also used the genre to explore social, ethical, and emotional matters. Her characters, particularly Lord Peter Wimsey and his investigative partner Harriet Vane, struggle with the complexities of life and love in a rapidly changing world while solving some of the most ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • 100 Greatest Literary Detectives

    Edited by Eric Sandberg ...
    Crime fiction is one of the most popular literary genres and has been for more than a century. At the heart of almost all forms of mysteries—from the Golden Age puzzler to the contemporary police procedural, from American hardboiled fiction to the Japanese timetable mystery—is the investigator. He—or, increasingly, she—can be a private eye, a police officer, or a general busybody. But whatever ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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  • Vienna

    How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World

    by Richard Cockett ...
    How can one European capital be responsible for most of the West’s intellectual and cultural achievements in the twentieth century?Viennese ideas saturate the modern world. From California architecture to Hollywood Westerns, modern advertising to shopping malls, orgasms to gender confirmation surgery, nuclear fission to fitted kitchens—every aspect of our history, science, and culture is in some ... Read more

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  • Maus Now

    Selected Writing

    Edited by Hillary Chute ...
    Richly illustrated with images from Art Spiegelman’s Maus (“the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust” —The Wall Street Journal), Maus Now includes work from twenty-one leading critics, authors, and academics—including Philip Pullman, Robert Storr, Ruth Franklin, and Adam Gopnik—on the radical achievement and innovation of Maus, more than forty years since the ... Read more

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  • When Reason Goes on Holiday

    Philosophers in Politics

    by Neven Sesardic ...
    Philosophers usually emphasize the importance of logic, clarity and reason. Therefore when they address political issues they will usually inject a dose of rationality in these discussions, right?Wrong. This book gives a lot of examples showing the unexpected level of political irrationality among leading contemporary philosophers. The body of the book presents a detailed analysis of extreme ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Koestler

    The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic

    by Michael Scammell ...
    From award-winning author Michael Scammell comes a monumental achievement: the first authorized biography of Arthur Koestler, one of the most influential and controversial intellectuals of the twentieth century. Over a decade in the making, and based on new research and full access to its subject’s papers, Koestler is the definitive account of this fascinating and polarizing figure. Though best ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Pursuit of the Nazi Mind

    Hitler, Hess, and the Analysts

    by Daniel Pick ...
    The story of how psychoanalysis was used in the war against Nazi Germany - in the crucial quest to understand the Nazi mind. Daniel Pick brings both the skills of the historian and the trained psychoanalyst to weave together the story of clinical encounters with leading Nazis and the Allies' broader interpretations of the Nazi high command and the mentality of the wider German public who supported ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • The Age of the Crisis of Man

    Thought and Fiction in America, 1933–1973

    by Mark Greif ...
    A compelling intellectual and literary history of midcentury AmericaIn a midcentury American cultural episode forgotten today, intellectuals of all schools shared a belief that human nature was under threat. The immediate result was a glut of dense, abstract books on the "nature of man." But the dawning "age of the crisis of man," as Mark Greif calls it, was far more than a historical curiosity. ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • A Nazi Word for a Nazi Thing

    by So Mayer ...
    In 1937 the Nazis staged an exhibition of seized artworks to showcase the 'perverse Jewish spirit' pervading German culture. It contained work by Jewish artists, but also those were queer or foreign. It was an event that sought to define degeneracy and put it on display. This exhibition, Entartete Kunst, is just a single episode in a long running culture war, one that has always been fought on ... Read more

    $7.99 USD