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Genetic Criticism: Tracing Creativity in LiteratureIn Genetic Criticism, Dirk Van Hulle introduces the study of creative processes to an Anglophone audience. As a method in the study of literary writing processes, genetic criticism is also a reading strategy. The idea behind this book is to introduce this strategy to...
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Picturesque Literature and the Transformation of the American Landscape, 1835-1874Picturesque Literature and the Transformation of the American Landcape, 1835-1874 recovers the central role that the picturesque, a popular mode of scenery appreciation that advocated for an improved and manipulated natural landscape, played in the social, spatial, and literary history ofmid-nineteenth century America. It...
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Provincial PatriotsFrom the Taiping Rebellion in the mid-nineteenth century to the Chinese Communist movement in the twentieth, no province in China gave rise to as many reformers, military officers, and revolutionaries as did Hunan. Stephen Platt offers the first comprehensive study of why Hunan wielded...
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The Joyce of Everyday LifePart of James Joyce's genius was his ability to find the poetry in everyday life. For Joyce, even a simple object like a table becomes magical, "a board that was of the birchwood of Finlandy and it was upheld by four dwarfmen of that...
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Photo-Attractions: An Indian Dancer, an American Photographer, and a German CameraIn Spring 1938, an Indian dancer named Ram Gopal and an American writer-photographer named Carl Van Vechten came together for a photoshoot in New York City. Ram Gopal was a pioneer of classical Indian dance and Van Vechten was reputed as a prominent white...
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Digital Fiction and the Unnatural: Transmedial Narrative Theory, Method, and AnalysisDigital Fiction and the Unnatural: Transmedial Narrative Theory, Method, and Analysis offers the first comprehensive and systematic theoretical, methodological, and analytical examination of unnatural narratology as a medium-specific and transmedial phenomenon. It applies and adapts key concepts of narrative theory and analysis to digital-born...
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Becoming Pynchon: Genetic Narratology and V.The 1963 publication of Thomas Pynchon's V. changed the landscape of American fiction. Becoming Pynchon: Genetic Narratology and V. offers a detailed examination of the dramatic transformations that took place as Pynchon's foundational novel went from typescript to published work. Luc Herman and John...
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Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers: Lives in the LawThe captivating story of how a diverse group of women, including Janet Reno and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, broke the glass ceiling and changed the modern legal profession In Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers, award-winning legal historian Jill Norgren curates the oral histories of one...
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Slave Traders by Invitation: West Africa's Slave Coast in the Precolonial EraThe Slave Coast, situated in what is now the West African state of Benin, was the epicentre of the Atlantic Slave Trade. But it was also an inhospitable, surf-ridden coastline, subject to crashing breakers and devoid of permanent human settlement. Nor was it easily...
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Deutsche Freikorps: Sozialgeschichte Und Kontinuitaten (Para)Militarischer Gewalt Zwischen Weltkrieg, Revolution Und NationalsozialismusMit der systematischen Auswertung bislang wenig beachteter Quellen zu suddeutschen Freikorps liefert der Autor erstmals ein profundes und detailliertes Sozialprofil dieser Einheiten, die so entscheidend die Gewalt des Nachkrieges und damit die Geschichte der Weimarer Republik gepragt haben. Die umfangreichen sozialhistorischen Daten ermoglichen eine...
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The Lost War for Texas: Mexican Rebels, American Burrites, and the Texas Revolution of 1811One of the most important themes in US history is the series of struggles that transformed the Southwest from a Spanish to an American possession: the Texas Revolution of 1836 and the Mexican-American War of 1845. But what if historians have been overlooking a...
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Homes of the Past: A Lost Jewish MuseumHomes of the Past tells the powerful story of how immigrant Jewish scholars in 1940s New York sought to build a museum to commemorate their lost worlds and people. Among the Jews who arrived in the United States in the early 1940s were a...
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Impresiones de Un Surumato En Nuevo México by Manuel Sariñana: A Bilingual Edition of the Original 1908 Picaresque NovellaImpresiones de un Surumato en Nuevo México by Manuel Sariñana represents a remarkable literary recovery. For the first time, the novella is presented in its original Spanish and in English, painstakingly translated and annotated by Phillip B. Gonzales.Manuel Sariñana came to the New Mexico...
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Humanistic Letters: The Irving Babbitt-Paul Elmer More CorrespondenceIrving Babbitt (1865-1933) and Paul Elmer More (1864-1937) were the leading lights of the New Humanism, a consequential movement of literary and social criticism in America. Through their writings on literary, educational, cultural, religious, and political topics, they influenced countless important thinkers, such as...
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Twilight of the American StateThe sudden emergence of the Trump nation surprised nearly everyone, including journalists, pundits, political consultants, and academics. When Trump won in 2016, his ascendancy was widely viewed as a fluke. Yet time showed it was instead the rise of a movement--angry, militant, revanchist, and...
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Victorian Alchemy: Science, magic and ancient EgyptExamining literature and other cultural forms, Victoria Alchemy explores nineteenth-century conceptions of ancient Egypt as this extant civilisation was being 'rediscovered' in the modern world. Author: Eleanor DobsonPublisher: UCL PressPublished: 10/06/2022Pages: 279Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9781787358508About the AuthorEleanor Dobson is associate professor of English literature...
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The Other Cold WarIn this conceptually bold project, Heonik Kwon uses anthropology to interrogate the cold war's cultural and historical narratives. Adopting a truly panoramic view of local politics and international events, he challenges the notion that the cold war was a global struggle fought uniformly around...
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Stroke of a Pen: Essays on Poetry and Other ProvocationsFor over five decades, Samuel Hazo has taught his readers about literature and life with generosity and awareness, taking everyday experiences and translating them into songs at once familiar and surprising. In his poetry, fiction, essays, and plays, Hazo, in a style that is...
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A Serpentine Gesture: John Ashbery's Poetry and PhenomenologyIn A Serpentine Gesture: John Ashbery's Poetry and Phenomenology Elisabeth W. Joyce examines John Ashbery's poetry through the lens of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's conception of phenomenology. For Merleau-Ponty, perception is a process through which people reach outside of themselves for sensory information, map that experiential...
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Untying Things Together: Philosophy, Literature, and a Life in TheoryUntying Things Together helps to clarify the stakes of the last fifty years of literary and cultural theory by proposing the idea of a sexuality of theory. In 1905, Freud published his Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, the book that established the...
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