Recent Arrivals from Palimpsest Scholarly Books

Third printing. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", is like new. vi/437 pages. "After its heyday in the 1970s and 1980s, many wondered whether the law and literature movement would retain vitality. This collection of essays, featuring twenty-two prominent scholars from literature departments as well as law schools, showcases the vibrancy of recent work in the field while highlighting its… Read more about this item

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8.5", shows very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and without markings. xiii/154 pages. "Postmodernism plays - seriously - with the structures of cultural authority. Focusing on the subversive techniques of British postmodernist fiction, Lee examines its challenge to Realist traditions, and the liberal humanist ideology behind it. Lee provides a lively analysis… Read more about this item

Cornell Studies in English, 19. Volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", displays light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Pages are clean and bright. xii/205 pages.

Author-inscribed first printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.5", is bound in black cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book is like new. Dust jacket shows light shelfwear, with sunning to spine panel. ix/265 pages. Inscription appears on front flyleaf. "Across Europe, and particularly in Great Britain, the Romantic age coincided with a large-scale revival of lost literatures and the first… Read more about this item

Epistemata: Würzburger Wissenschaftliche Schriften, Reihe Literaturwissenschaft,Band 80. Author-inscribed first edition. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 202 pages. "In dieser Arbeit wird der Versuch unternommen, die Kategorie des Räumlichen in die bestehenden erzähltheoretischen Konzepte zu integrieren. Da die Erzähltheorie weitgehend auf den Voraussetzungen aufbaut, die durch den russischen Formalismus… Read more about this item

Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts. First printing. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", is new. xiv/257 pages. "Hermann Kappelhoff casts the evolution of cinema as an ongoing struggle to relate audiences to their historical moment. Appreciating cinema's unique ability to bind concrete living conditions to individual experience (which existing political institutions cannot), he reads films by… Read more about this item

First printing. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8", is new. xxi/307 pages. "In September 2023, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan boasted that the Middle East "is quieter today than it has been in two decades." One week later, unprecedented violence in Gaza and Israel shattered the status quo and shocked the world. Hamas's Operation Al-Aqsa Deluge punctured delusions of stability… Read more about this item

Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation, 15. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9.25", shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. xcix/687 pages. "Why do famines occur and how have their effects changed through time? Why are those who produce food so often the casualties of famines? Looking at the food crisis that struck the West African… Read more about this item

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", is like new. xiii/290 pages. "In "Putin's Labor Dilemma," Stephen Crowley investigates how the fear of labor protest has inhibited substantial economic transformation in Russia. Putin boasts he has the backing of workers in the country's industrial heartland, but as economic growth slows in Russia, reviving the economy will require restructuring the country's industrial… Read more about this item

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", is like new. x/187 pages. "Having emerged from the end of the Cold War as a unified country, Germany has quickly become the second largest exporter in the world. Its economic might has made it the center of the Eurozone and the pivotal power of Europe. Like other geo-economic powers, Germany's foreign policy is… Read more about this item

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9.25", is in fine condition, with solid binding, clean and bright pages. 303 pages. "The term geopoetics is currently experiencing an interesting boom, especially in Central and Eastern European literature. There are many reasons for this, but one plays a decisive role here: after the reorganization of the political geography of Europe since 1989 following… Read more about this item

Studies in Major Literary Authors. Second printing. Hardcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", is bound in glossy blue covers, with white lettering to spine and front cover. Book displays very light shelfwear, with firm binding, clean and bright interior. ix/356 pages. "This book was written to venture beyond interpretations of Cormac McCarthy's characters as simple, antinomian, and non-psychological; and of… Read more about this item

Second printing. Volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8.5", is bound in dark blue cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Small red dot appears on bottom edge of text block. Book is otherwise in fine condition, with firm binding, clean and bright interior. Dust jacket, with price of $40 on front flap, is preserved in mylar cover. xx/1046 pages. "With this… Read more about this item

First printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", is bound in white paper spine and boards, with stamped black lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are like new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. xix/234 pages. "Emerson and Thoreau are the most celebrated odd couple of nineteenth-century American literature. Appearing to play the roles of benign mentor and eager disciple,… Read more about this item

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8.75", shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 247 pages. "Through precise and inventive readings of Kant, Heidegger and Benjamin, Weber demonstrates how key aesthetic categories such as from are transformed in a way that anticipates and participates in the radical shift from a work-oriented to a medium-oriented conception of art… Read more about this item

Library of Public Policy and Public Administration, 11. Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is bound in glossy covers. Book shows very light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Pages are clean and bright. xxi/304 pages. "This timely book addresses the conflict between globalism and nationalism. It provides a liberal communitarian response to the rise of populism occurring in many democracies. The book… Read more about this item

Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5" x 8", shows very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and without markings. 273 pages. "When "Fatal Strategies" was first published in French in 1983, it represented a turning point for Jean Baudrillard: an utterly original, and for many readers, utterly bizarre book that offered a theory as proliferative, ecstatic, and hallucinatory as the… Read more about this item

Large-format volume, measuring approximately 9.5" x 12.5", is bound in gray cloth, with stamped black lettering to spine and front cover. Book and dust jacket are new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. 176 pages. "A richly illustrated study of a preeminent monument of Chinese cultural history, the painted handscroll Hsiao-ching, a classic of the orthodox canon of Confucianism."

First printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.75", is bound in black cloth, with stamped silver lettering to spine. Book displays light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and without markings. Illustrated with map endpapers and b&w photographic plates. Dust jacket, with price of $9.95 on front flap, exhibits light shelfwear. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. x/353 pages. "In… Read more about this item

Large-format volume, measuring approximately 9" x 11.75", is bound in burgundy cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. 245 pages. Catalogue of an exhibition held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York from October 2, 1991 to June 28, 1992. ""The Lotus Transcendent" explores works drawn from one of… Read more about this item