Literary Criticism
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Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 EditionIn 1855, Walt Whitman published -- at his own expense -- the first edition of Leaves of Grass, a visionary volume of twelve poems. Showing the influence of a uniquely American form of mysticism known as Transcendentalism, which eschewed the general society and culture...
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The Book of Illustrious Men of CastileThe Book of Illustrious Men of Castile by Fernando del Pulgar.Translated by Erik Ekman and Samantha Mori.The Book of Illustrious Men of Castile is a collection of twenty-four biographies of Castilian nobles and prelates from the fifteenth century published by the royal chronicler, Fernando...
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Traces of the Unseen: Photography, Violence, and Modernization in Early Twentieth-Century Latin America Volume 43A richly illustrated examination of photography as a technology for documenting, creating, and understanding the processes of modernization in turn-of-the-century Brazil and the Amazon Photography at the turn of the twentieth century was not only a product of modernity but also an increasingly available...
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From the Valley of Bronze Camels: A Primer, Some Lectures, & a Boondoggle on PoetryJane Miller loves poetry. In these provocative and deeply insightful essays, she unpacks the work of giants like Adrienne Rich, Paul Celan, Marina Tsvetaeva, Osip Mandelstam, and Federico García Lorca alongside painters such as Caravaggio and Paul Klee, as well as ancient Chinese music...
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Lessing Und Die FolgenDie Geschichte des modernen deutschen Dramas beginnt mit Lessing. Gleichwohl gilt er als Autor, der an einer Schwelle steht: Er bereitet den Klassikern den Weg, bleibt aber hinter ihnen zurück. Lessing ist der "Vorklassiker" der deutschen Literatur, gerühmt und vereinnahmt als Kämpfer für die...
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Reframing Disability in MangaReframing Disability in Manga analyzes popular Japanese manga published from the 1990s to the present that portray the everyday lives of adults and children with disabilities in an ableist society. It focuses on five representative conditions currently classified as shōgai (disabilities) in Japan--deafness, blindness,...
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Writing the Caribbean in Magazine TimeWriting the Caribbean in Magazine Time examines literary magazines generated during the 1940s that catapulted Caribbean literature into greater international circulation and contributed significantly to social, political, and aesthetic frameworks for decolonization, including Pan-Caribbean discourse. This book demonstrates the material, political, and aesthetic dimensions...
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Secret Lives of Great Authors: What Your Teachers Never Told You about Famous Novelists, Poets, and PlaywrightsThe strange-but-true tales of the rumors, idiosyncrasies, and feuds of literary legends--including Agatha Christie, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Shakespeare, and more This fascinating--and shocking!--tour through the lives of classic literature icons is the perfect stocking stuffer for book lovers and fans of little-known history....
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Ovid, Death and TransfigurationThe open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. Death, the ultimate change, is an unexpected Leitmotiv of Ovid's career and reception. The eighteen contributions collected in this volume explore the theme of death...
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Improbability, Chance, and the Nineteenth-Century Realist NovelIn Improbability, Chance, and the Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel, Adam Grener advances a new approach to evaluating realism in fiction by arguing that nineteenth-century literary realism shifted attention to the historical and social dimensions of probability in the period's literature. In an era in which...
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Reading Territory: Indigenous and Black Freedom, Removal, and the Nineteenth-Century StateThe formation of new states was an essential feature of US expansion throughout the long nineteenth century, and debates over statehood and states' rights were waged not only in legislative assemblies but also in newspapers, maps, land surveys, and other forms of print and...
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Cartografías cosmopolitas: León de Greiff y la tradición literariaCartografías cosmopolitas: León de Greiff y la tradición literaria analyzes the poetic works of this twentieth-century Colombian writer as a manifestation of cosmopolitanism, global cultural cartographies, and a self-fashioned poetic genealogy. Ramírez Rojas approaches de Greiff's poems as cultural maps that reveal both a...
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Studies in Medievalism XXXII: Medievalism in PlayThough manifestations of play represent a burgeoning subject area in the study of post-medieval responses to the Middle Ages, they have not always received the respect and attention they deserve. This volume seeks to correct those deficiencies. Though manifestations of play represent a burgeoning...
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The Environmental Unconscious: Ecological Poetics from Spenser to MiltonBringing psychoanalysis to bear on the diagnosis of ecological crisis Why has psychoanalysis long been kept at the margins of environmental criticism despite the many theories of eco-Marxism, queer ecology, and eco-deconstruction available today? What is unique, possibly even traumatic, about eco-psychoanalysis? The Environmental...
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Blockheads, Beagles, and Sweet Babboos: New Perspectives on Charles M. Schulz's PeanutsBlockheads, Beagles, and Sweet Babboos: New Perspectives on Charles M. Schulz's "Peanuts" sheds new light on the past importance, ongoing significance, and future relevance of a comics series that millions adore: Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts. More specifically, it examines a fundamental feature of the...
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The World of Bond and Maigret"I invent the most hopeless sounding plots; very often they are based on something I've read in a newspaper. And people say, 'Oh, this is all nonsense'--and then the Russians come along in Germany and shoot people with potassium cyanide pistols." Between them, Ian...
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Critical Confessions NowThis book is based on the postmedieval journal special issue Critical Confessions Now. These chapters on confessions exhibit great diversity and take up different disciplinary approaches by scholars who stand at various stages of their careers. They address not only different time periods but...
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Poetry is the PortalPoetry served as my secret confidant.In early innocent days, I assembled words like LEGO(R) blocks when my heart felt more than I could speak. On a rare occasion, I presented my poem to a crush, a grade-school girl unsure how to respond. I felt...
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The Wound That Will Never Heal: An Allegorical Interpretation of Richard Wagner's the Ring of the NibelungPaul Heise's The Wound That Will Never Heal is an original allegorical reading of Richard Wagner's epic music drama The Ring of the Nibelung. The product of 50 years of scholarship, Heise challenges the standard view that Wagner merely dramatized the conflict between love...
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Game Poems: Videogame Design as Lyric PracticeScholars, critics, and creators describe certain videogames as being "poetic," yet what that means or why it matters is rarely discussed. In Game Poems: Videogame Design as Lyric Practice, independent game designer Jordan Magnuson explores the convergences between game making and lyric poetry and...
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