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The Classic Fairy TalesThis volume contains twenty-four of the best known fairy tales in the English language, presented here in the exact words of their first English publication or of the earliest surviving text. Including "Sleeping Beauty," "Bluebeard," "Cinderella," "Thumbelina," and "Hansel and Gretel," as well as...
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Selected PoemsA billingual collection showing the range of Brecht's poetry, from the early Manual of Piety to the late Songs, Poems, and Choruses, including songs from his theater works. Translated and introduced by H.R. Hays.Author: Bertolt BrechtPublisher: Ecco PressPublished: 03/24/1971Pages: 179Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 8.56h...
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Henry VI, Part 2The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare's time, an introduction...
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On Stories: And Other Essays on LiteratureA repackaged edition of the revered author's collection of essays on writing fiction.C. S. Lewis--the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster, Christian apologist, and bestselling author of Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, The Chronicles of Narnia, and many other beloved...
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Hugely Hilarious Jokes about DinosaursSome are huge with giant, gnashing teeth. Others are small with strong protective plates. Dinosaurs come in all shapes and sizes. And they all make for great jokes that readers will rush to share with their family and friends. Through an engaging design that...
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Agrotopias: An American Literary History of SustainabilityIn this book, Abby L. Goode reveals the foundations of American environmentalism and the enduring partnership between racism, eugenics, and agrarian ideals in the United States. Throughout the nineteenth century, writers as diverse as Martin Delany, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Walt Whitman worried about...
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When a Gesture Was Expected: A Selection of Examples from Archaic and Classical Greek LiteratureA boldly innovative study of nonverbal communication in the poetry and prose of Hellenic antiquity When a Gesture Was Expected encourages a deeper appreciation of ancient Greek poetry and prose by showing where a nod of the head or a wave of the hand...
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T. S. Eliot's Ascetic IdealT. S. Eliot's Ascetic Idealcharts an intellectual history of T. S. Eliot's interaction with asceticism. Eliot's early encounters with the ascetic ideal began a lifetime of interplay and reflection upon self-denial, purgation, and self-surrender.Author: Joshua RichardsPublisher: BrillPublished: 05/25/2022Pages: 188Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 9.10h x...
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Indian Ocean Literary CircularitiesContributors to this special issue explore world literatures of the Indian Ocean as a site for studying mobile networks of capital and labor as well as diasporic movements generated by European imperial expansion and its aftermath. These circularities shape both identities and the cultural...
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The Meaning of Travel: Philosophers AbroadHow can we think more deeply about travel? This was the thought that inspired Emily Thomas to journey into the philosophy of travel, to explore the places where philosophy and travel intersect. Part philosophical ramble, part memoir, The Meaning of Travel begins in the...
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Las Rosas de Orwell / Orwell's RosesA partir de la figura de George Orwell, la gran pensadora de nuestro tiempo nos insta a la reflexión en un libro urgente, hermoso y esperanzador. «En el año 1936, un escritor plantó unas rosas . Así comienza el nuevo libro de Rebecca Solnit,...
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Faith in Exposure: Privacy and Secularism in the Nineteenth-Century United StatesRecent legal history in the United States reveals a hardening tendency to treat religious freedom and sexual and reproductive freedom as competing, even opposing, claims on public life. They are united, though, by the fact that both are rooted in our culture's understanding of...
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The Many Resurrections of Henry Box BrownOn March 23, 1849, Henry Brown climbed into a large wooden postal crate and was mailed from slavery in Richmond, Virginia, to freedom in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. "Box Brown," as he came to be known after this astounding feat, went on to carve out a...
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After Darwin: Literature, Theory, and Criticism in the Twenty-First CenturyCreative storytelling is the beating heart of Darwin's science. All of Darwin's writings drew on information gleaned from a worldwide network of scientific research and correspondence, but they hinge on moments in which Darwin asks his reader to imagine how specific patterns came to...
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Silius Italicus and the Tradition of the Roman Historical EposThis book is an innovative attempt to analyse Silius' poem as an important step in the development of the Roman historical epic tradition and by connecting epic poems and authors belonging to different ages, to frame the development of the literary genre, according to...
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Teaching Asian North American TextsEssays for teaching Asian North American texts and their historical and cultural contexts.From the short stories and journalism of Sui Sin Far to Maxine Hong Kingston's pathbreaking The Woman Warrior to recent popular and critical successes such as Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Sympathizer, Mohsin...
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Approaches to Teaching the Novels of James Fenimore CooperEssays for teaching the iconic American themes of James Fenimore Cooper.A cosmopolitan author who spent nearly a decade in Europe and was versed in the works of his British and French contemporaries, James Fenimore Cooper was also deeply concerned with the America of his...
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Fatherhood in the Borderlands: A Daughter's Slow ApproachAs a young girl growing up in Houston, Texas, in the 1980s, Domino Perez spent her free time either devouring books or watching films--and thinking, always thinking, about the media she consumed. The meaningful connections between these media and how we learn form the...
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American Exceptionalism as Religion: Postmodern DiscontentJordan Carson's American Exceptionalism as Religion looks at how American nationalist ideologies intersect with religious ones in contemporary literature. Carson traces out how an exceptionalist belief system began to emerge historically with a distorted picture of religious commitment. He then connects this trend to...
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Améfrica in Letters: Literary Interventions from Mexico to the Southern ConeTraditional histories of Black letters in Latin America have delimited their geographic scope to the Caribbean while also omitting intertwined Afro-Indigenous discourses. Inspired by the legacy of Amefrican thinker Lélia Gonzalez, Améfrica in Letters highlights the Black poets, songwriters, novelists, essayists, and bloggers who...
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