The Book Company: New Products - Comparative Literature

Living On After Failure (Affective Structures of Modern Life)

Thu, 03 Sep 2026 23:07:22 +0000

In Living On After Failure, Irving Goh dwells with failure and all of its negative affects. Goh does not seek a theorization of failure as something to overcome or turn into a recuperative philosophy or progress narrative. Rather, he engages with the ontological condition of failure as a pr..

Price: $103.95

Thinking Critically through Literature, Film and Art (Theory and Practice)

Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:53:43 +0000

Thinking Critically through Literature, Film and Art is a multidisciplinary guide integrating global literature, psychology, and philosophy. It positions critical thinking as a practical tool for understanding individual cognition, well-being, and the broader human experience.

Price: $233.99

The English Bhagavad Gita (Translation, Transcreations, and Transformation)

Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:05:41 +0000

This book examines English translations and transcreations of the Bhagavad Gita, one of the most sacred and influential texts in Hinduism, exploring how textual transfers, affected by languages, cultures, and time, reconfigure the Gita’s content and meaning, thus transforming it.

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Price: $233.99

Dickens from Shakespeare, Fuseli and Blake (Imagination and Jealousy in Art and Literature)

Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:00:29 +0000

Dickens says he concentrates on 'the romantic side of familiar things', and so highlights the visionary, non-realist, uncanny nature of his writing. This book delves into the sources of that through Shakespeare, and Fuseli, the great artist who imagined scenes from Shakespeare.

Price: $233.99

The Dharma Bum's Guide to Western Literature (Finding Nirvana in the Classics)

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:45:01 +0000

HOW THE LITERATURE WE LOVE CONVEYS THE AWAKENING WE SEEK

Suppose we could read Hemingway as haiku . . . learn mindfulness from Virginia Woolf and liberation from Frederick Douglass . . . see Dickinson and Whitman as buddhas of poetry, and Huck Finn and Gatsby as seekers of..

Price: $18.95

The Mythic Dimension (Selected Essays 1959-1987)

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:21:32 +0000

In these pages, the Collected Works of Joseph Campbell presents twelve eclectic, far-ranging and brilliant essays exploring myth in all its dimensions: its history; its influence on art, literature, and culture; and its role in everyday life. This second volume of Campbell’s essays (following..

Price: $18.95

Women Managers in American Popular Culture

Sat, 22 Aug 2026 17:20:34 +0000

This book explores various portrayals of women managers in American culture from the late 1960s to the present. This interdisciplinary volume will be of interest to scholars and students in cultural studies, gender studies, American studies, and cinema studies, as well as those in economics, ma..

Price: $64.99

Reading James Joyce and Orhan Pamuk (A Modernist Bildung at Work)

Sat, 22 Aug 2026 17:08:59 +0000

Reading James Joyce and Orhan Pamuk reveals how by embracing the idea that an individual subject and history mutually shape identities as formative processes, James Joyce and Orhan Pamuk create “portraits” adapting bildung to chart the becoming of the protagonist alongside the developmen..

Price: $64.99

The Fool and the Clown in Western Culture and Literature (Homo Insipiens)

Sat, 22 Aug 2026 16:48:11 +0000

The Fool and the Clown in Western Culture and Literature: Homo Sapiens is a fascinating description of these two perennial figures in European and North American history, folklore, theatre, literature, arts, and popular culture.

Price: $64.99

Contemporary Refugee Literature (Syria and Beyond)

Sat, 22 Aug 2026 16:37:35 +0000

This book examines contemporary refugee narratives, and explores their power to challenge dominant representations while revealing their entanglement in neoliberal literary markets.

Price: $64.99