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Pioneers of Modern Japanese Poetry: Muro Saisei, Kaneko Mitsuharu, Miyoshi Tatsuji, Nagase KiyokoThis bilingual book presents a generous selection of work by four distinguished twentieth-century poets who made significant contributions to the development of modern Japanese poetry. A general introduction provides the literary and historical context for their achievement, while each poet's work is prefaced with...
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The Essential Clarence Major: Prose and PoetryClarence Major is one of America's literary masters. He has published numerous books, from novels to poetry and short story collections. Among his many accolades, he was a finalist for the National Book Award and a Fulbright scholar and received the PEN Oakland/Reginald Lockett...
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Over Her Dead Body: Death, Femininity and the AestheticIn 1846, Edgar Allen Poe wrote that 'the death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetic topic in the world'. The conjuction of death, art and femininity forms a rich and disturbing strata of Western culture, explored here in fascinating detail by...
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Jordan Peele's Get Out: Political HorrorJordan Peele's Get Out: Political Horror is a collection of sixteen essays devoted to exploring Get Out's roots in the horror tradition and its complex and timely commentary on twenty-first-century US race relations. The first section, "The Politics of Horror," traces the influence of...
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Manning Up: Transsexual Men Finding Brotherhood, Family and ThemselvesLiterary Nonfiction. LGBTQIA Studies. A call to trans men everywhere to embrace their personal journey of transition, MANNING UP brings together a wide range of voices, from young men to elders, to candidly share their journeys of transitioning to manhood. More than just the...
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Proof of LossLiterary Nonfiction. California Interest. Upon learning about her ex-brother-in-law's cancer diagnosis, Sara Marchant decides to stand in as caretaker during his intensive treatment. Marchant's distinct, evocative, and at times humorous memoir, PROOF OF LOSS, grips the reader from all sides, illuminating Marchant's own tragic...
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Dictionary of Jamaican EnglishOriginally published by Cambridge University Press in 1967 and then revised as a second edition in 1980, this classic study has never before been available in a paperback edition. This method and plan of the dictionary are basically those of the Oxford English Dictionary,...
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Caribbean Reasonings: The George Lamming Reader - The Aesthetics of DecolonisationGeorge Lamming is one of the best known, certainly one of the most highly regarded contemporary writers from the Caribbean. Spanning nearly 60 years and encompassing fiction, poetry and critical essays, Lamming's writing covers the length and breadth of Caribbean intellectual, cultural, political and...
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Being the Other: The Muslim in IndiaThe clouds are moving ecstatically from Kashi to Mathura and the sky will remain covered with dense clouds as long as there is Krishna in Braj. These lines were composed by Mohsin Kakorvi, a Muslim poet, to celebrate not Lord Krishna's birthday but that...
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The Celtic Evil Eye and Related Mythological Motifs in Medieval IrelandIf looks could kill... They can, according to medieval Irish texts - our richest literary inheritance in a Celtic language. The belief in evel, angry or envious eyes casting harmful glances that destroy their target is widespread. This is the first comprehensive study of...
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Lazarillo de Tormes: Analisis y Estudio Sobre La Obra, El Autor y Su EpocaEach title in this series, created by teachers and writers, provides a complete and thoughtful analysis of several of the most valuable works of world literature. Intended as a starting point for a better understanding and appreciation of literature, each analysis also imparts information...
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Formas Breves = Short FormsAuthor: Ricardo PigliaPublisher: Editorial AnagramaPublished: 06/01/2001Pages: 144Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 8.70h x 5.70w x 0.50dISBN: 9788433924636Language: SpanishReview Citation(s): Criticas 06/01/2001 pg. 38Publishers Weekly 06/11/2001This title is only available via back order
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Die Andere Tradition: Psalm-Gedichte Im 20. JahrhundertEnglish summary: "The other tradition. Psalms-Poems of the 20th Century" deals with poems which refer to Biblical Psalms in content and form. The author analyses poems by German-writing poets of the last century: from Else Lasker-Schuler, Georg Trakl and Bertolt Brecht through Karl Wolfskehl,...
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Welt als Rätsel und Geheimnis?; Studien und Materialien zu Umberto Ecos Foucaultschem PendelDas Foucaultsche Pendel - nicht nur Roman, sondern zugleich profundes Lehrstück über Geschichte und Mythos des Templerordens, grandioses Panoptikum der älteren und jüngeren Esoterik, feinsinnige Analyse der kabbalistischen Schriften? Die Vielfalt des Wissens mag abschreckend wirken, kann aber auch die Wi begier des Lesers...
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Goethes Faust Und Das Neue TestamentDer Faust, die wohl bedeutendste Dichtung im deutschen Sprachbereich, ist auch ein theologisches Werk Es ist Theologie in Poesie. Goethe selbst wollte es allerdings nicht als ein christliches Werk verstanden wissen. Er beurteilte sein Verhaltnis zum Christentum sehr unterschiedlich, zum Teil sogar widerspruchlich. So...
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The Black Middle Ages: Race and the Construction of the Middle AgesContributes timely research to join the fields of medieval studies and African American studies Assembles an archive of texts to expand understandings of black studies Promotes a transhistorical and comparative theoretical framework Author: Matthew X. VernonPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublished: 06/26/2018Pages: 266Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.07lbsSize: 8.27h...
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Leben Und Abenteuer Des Großen Koenigs Apollonius Von Tyrus Zu Land Und Zur See: Ein Abenteuerroman Von Heinrich Von Neustadt Verfaßt Zu Wien Um 1300Der Apolloniusroman des Wiener Arztes Heinrich von Neustadt (um 1300 entstanden) ist ein packender, in seiner Konzeption k hner und seiner Durchf hrung h chst eigenwilliger Abenteuer- und Unterhaltungsroman. Er entstand in der Zeit der beginnenden Habsburgerherrschaft und entwirft die Ideen eines weltumspannenden Imperiums...
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Le Portrait Dans Les Memoires Du Duc de Saint-Simon: Fonctions, Techniques Et Anthropologie. Etude Statistique Et AnalytiqueLes Memoires du duc de Saint-Simon, redigees entre 1740 et 1750, forment un objet litteraire d'une telle richesse et d'une telle complexite, qu'il est raisonnable de choisir, pour son etude, une thematique speciale. Dirk Van der Cruysse ne s'est certes pas facilite la tache...
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L' Imperatrice Galla Placidia Raconte Sa Vie Et Son TempsAuthor: Rene-Albert GutmannPublisher: KlincksieckPublished: 05/01/1982Pages: 190Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9782707801005Language: FrenchAbout the AuthorDocteur en medecine, poete. A publie, outre des ouvrages scientifiques de medecine, plusieurs recueils de poemes (Ecrit pour le vent, 1942; Ecrit pour la nuit, 1943; Petites escales, 1944; Ecrit pour l'ombre, 1948),...
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Jean Meckert, Dit Jean Amila: Du Roman Proletarien Au Roman Noir ContemporainEnglish summary: Jean Meckert was a key figure in twentieth-century French literature, bridging populist novels and detective fiction. This biography should help Meckert acquire the recognition his contributions deserve, as shown by the recent creation of a literary award in this name. French description:...
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