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Star-Spangled PantiesShe's the Amazing Amazon The celebrated champion of her people She's WONDER WOMAN And she's the greatest superhero this world has ever seen.A lifelong fan lays out WW's legend for those who want to know her better. Brush up on the important people, equipment,...
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The Analyst's Desire: The Ethical Foundation of Clinical PracticeMitchell Wilson explores the fundamental role that lack and desire play in psychoanalytic interpretation by using a comparative method that engages different psychoanalytic traditions: Lacanian, Bionian, Kleinian, Contemporary Freudian. Investigating crucial questions Wilson asks: What is the nature of the psychoanalytic process? How are...
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Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian FictionWhat we can learn about caregiving and community from the Victorian novel In Communities of Care, Talia Schaffer explores Victorian fictional representations of care communities, small voluntary groups that coalesce around someone in need. Drawing lessons from Victorian sociality, Schaffer proposes a theory of...
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Extraction Ecologies and the Literature of the Long ExhaustionHow literature of the British imperial world contended with the social and environmental consequences of industrial mining The 1830s to the 1930s saw the rise of large-scale industrial mining in the British imperial world. Elizabeth Carolyn Miller examines how literature of this era reckoned...
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Black Metaphors: How Modern Racism Emerged from Medieval Race-ThinkingIn the late Middle Ages, Christian conversion could wash a black person's skin white--or at least that is what happens when a black sultan converts to Christianity in the English romance King of Tars. In Black Metaphors, Cord J. Whitaker examines the rhetorical and...
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The Song of the Massacred Jewish PeopleThe remarkable poem written in Yiddsh by Yitzhak Katzenelson at the time of the Holocaust of the Jews in the second World War (1943), after which the poet and his son were murdered by the nazis. The poem is written in 15 sections, each...
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Sisterlocking Discoarse: Race, Gender, and the Twenty-First-Century AcademyFinalist for the 2021 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Education CategoryIn Sisterlocking Discoarse, hair is a medium for reflecting on how academic leadership looks, performs, and changes when embodied by a Black woman. In these ten essays, Valerie Lee traverses...
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Warning ShadowsA view of a long-neglected classic of Weimar cinema - now restored and widely available - as both a gripping narrative of infidelity and jealousy and a film inherently about film. Artur Robison's Warning Shadows - in German simply Schatten, shadows - premiered in...
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The wood engravers' self-portrait: The Dalziel Archive and Victorian illustrationThe wood engravers' self portrait tells the story of the image-making firm Dalziel Brothers, investigating and interpreting a unique archive from the British Museum. The study takes a creative-critical approach to illustration, alongside detailed investigation of print techniques and history. Five siblings ran the...
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John Fletcher's Rome: Questioning the ClassicsJohn Fletcher's Rome is the first book to explore John Fletcher's engagement with classical antiquity. Like Shakespeare and Jonson, Fletcher wrote, alone or in collaboration, a number of Roman plays: Bonduca, Valentinian, The False One and The Prophetess. Unlike Shakespeare's or Jonson's, however, Fletcher's...
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Embattled: How Ancient Greek Myths Empower Us to Resist TyrannyAn incisive exploration of the way Greek myths empower us to defeat tyranny. As tyrannical passions increasingly plague twenty-first-century politics, tales told in ancient Greek epics and tragedies provide a vital antidote. Democracy as a concept did not exist until the Greeks coined the...
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Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century AmericaIn Disaffected Xine Yao explores the racial and sexual politics of unfeeling--affects that are not recognized as feeling--as a means of survival and refusal in nineteenth-century America. She positions unfeeling beyond sentimentalism's paradigm of universal feeling. Yao traces how works by Herman Melville, Martin...
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The Blessing and the Curse: The Jewish People and Their Books in the Twentieth CenturyFollowing The People and the Books, which covers more than 2,500 years of highly variegated Jewish cultural expression (Robert Alter, New York Times Book Review), poet and literary critic Adam Kirsch now turns to the story of modern Jewish literature. From the vast emigration...
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Skinfolk: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah (...Afterwords)Literary Nonfiction. African & African American Studies. When Did You First Realize You Were Black? Provoked by the fraught relationship between the African continent and American culture in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah, acclaimed Nigerian-American novelist Tochi Onyebuchi takes an emotional and intellectual journey through...
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Worlds Apart: Worldbuilding in Fantasy and Science FictionWorlds Apart: Worldbuilding in Fantasy and Science Fiction is the fifth Call for Papers of Academia Lunare, the non-fiction arm of Luna Press Publishing.The papers focus on the theme of worldbuilding in fantasy and science fiction, in all its forms, in different media.Featuring papers...
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DIY on the Lower East Side: Books, Buildings, and Art After the 1975 Fiscal CrisisThe severe financial austerity imposed on New York City during the 1975 fiscal crisis resulted in a city falling apart. Broken windows, crumbling walls, and piles of bricks were everywhere. While, for many, this physical decay was a sign that the postwar welfare state...
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Letters: The Classroom Is Burning, Let's Dream about a School of Improper EducationLiterary Nonfiction. Since its founding as a cultural studies group in 1999 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, KUNCI Study Forum & Collective has experimented with methods of producing and sharing knowledge through acts of collective study at the intersections of affective, manual, and intellectual labor. This...
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The Only Way Is the Steady Way: Essays on Baseball, Ichiro, and How We Watch the GameEssays about baseball's past, present, and future--and the wisdom of Ichiro SuzukiThe Only Way Is the Steady Way is a baseball memoir in scorecards and baseball cards, a recollection of the game's biggest stars and outlandish personalities, and introspective letters to a legendary player....
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25 Classic Chinese Love Poems: Translated and InterpretedIn this book we invite you into the immense and alluring world of Chinese love poetry. Hundreds of love poems from almost every era of Chinese history still exist; we have decided to present twenty-five of them to you, complete with fresh translations and...
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Antagonistic Cooperation: Jazz, Collage, Fiction, and the Shaping of African American CultureRalph Ellison famously characterized ensemble jazz improvisation as "antagonistic cooperation." Both collaborative and competitive, musicians play with and against one another to create art and community. In Antagonistic Cooperation, Robert G. O'Meally shows how this idea runs throughout twentieth-century African American culture to provide...
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