Literature
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Bronwen Wallace: Essays on Her WorksWriters and critics have long acknowledged Bronwen Wallace's unique contribution to Canadian literature and yet her work has received little academic recognition. This collection attempts to remedy this with voices old and new. A critical introduction, biography, and interview are followed by previously published...
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FaulkneristaFaulknerista collects more than twenty years of critically influential scholarship by Catherine Gunther Kodat on the writings of one of the most important American authors of the twentieth century, William Faulkner. Initially composed as freestanding essays and now updated and revised, the book's nine...
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After The Rain: There is Always a RainbowAfter the Rain: There is always a Rainbow is an inspirational read. Each chapter has its own personal story. You will find something in each chapter you read that resonated with you. This book doesn't have to be read in sequence. You can skip...
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Widening the Sphere: Mid-To-Late Victorian Popular Fiction, Gender Representation, and CanonicityThis work addresses the erasure of popular women writers in the formation of Victorian studies. Mid-century critical work on the Victorian novel, which established a long-standing canon, was mainly concerned with the form of the novel rather than the literature of the Victorian period....
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Race and Affect in Early Modern English LiteratureThis collection brings together critical race studies and affect theory to examine the emotional dimensions of race in early modern literature. Race and Affect in Early Modern English Literature puts the fields of critical race studies and affect theory into dialogue. Doing so opens...
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What Rosalind Likes: Pastoral, Gender, and the Founding of English VerseWhat Rosalind Likes begins with the strange ferocity of Elizabethan responses to poetry: a woman named Rosalind expresses scorn for a shepherd's poems, and a character in a play loses his temper and storms off stage at the sound of a blank verse line....
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A Theory of the Consumption FunctionWhat is the exact nature of the consumption function? Can this term be defined so that it will be consistent with empirical evidence and a valid instrument in the hands of future economic researchers and policy makers? In this volume a distinguished American economist...
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Beyond the Icon: Asian American Graphic NarrativesWhile most US-based comics studies anthologies tend to neglect race, Beyond the Icon brings it to the foreground through an analysis of the vibrant and growing body of graphic narratives by Asian North American creators in the twenty-first century. By demonstrating how the forms...
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Tales from Du Bois: The Queer Intimacy of Cross-Caste RomanceTales from Du Bois brings together critical race theory, queer studies, philosophy, and genre theory to offer an illuminating new comprehensive study of W. E. B. Du Bois's fiction from 1903-1928. Erika Renée Williams begins by revisiting Du Bois's tale of being rebuffed by...
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One, None and a Hundred ThousandIn an autobiographical letter, the author refers to this work as the "...bitterest of all, profoundly humoristic, about the decomposition of life...." Vitangelo, the protagonist, discovers by way of a completely irrelevant question that his wife poses to him that everyone he knows, and...
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Susan Sontag: Obra Imprescindible / Susan Sontag: Essential Works: Edición de David RieffLa mejor manera de conocer a Susan Sontag es leyéndola. Esta selección definitiva de su obra ha sido editada por David Rieff.El volumen reúne la obra imprescindible de una de las escritoras e intelectuales más trascendentales de la segunda mitad siglo XX. El crítico...
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Fluide MedialeFlie ende Übergänge, verschwimmende Körper, sich auflösende Substanzen, verflüssigte Sprache - Fluide Mediale rücken eine bisher wenig akzentuierte Genealogie in den Fokus. Inwieweit Fragestellungen nach dem ökologischen Verbundensein von Mensch/Tier/Pflanze/Stein und Umwelt fruchtbar sind, zeigt sich daran, dass anhand des Fluiden nicht nur Begriffsgrenzen...
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Teaching Literature in the Online ClassroomKeep students engaged in online literature classes.This volume considers the challenges and opportunities of online literature classes and suggests instructional strategies that ensure students are engaged in the virtual classroom. The ideas shared here are grounded in research, practice, critical self-reflection, and collaboration. Reflecting...
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Nabokov Noir: Cinematic Culture and the Art of ExileNabokov Noir places Vladimir Nabokov's early literary career--from the 1920s to the 1940s--in the context of his fascination with silent and early sound cinema and the chiaroscuro darkness and artificial brightness of the Weimar era, with its movie palaces, cultural Americanism, and surface culture....
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A Weaver-Poet and the Plague: Labor, Poverty, and the Household in Shakespeare's LondonWilliam Muggins, an impoverished but highly literate weaver-poet, lived and wrote in London at the turn of the seventeenth century, when few of his contemporaries could even read. A Weaver-Poet and the Plague's microhistorical approach uses Muggins's life and writing, in which he articulates...
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A Matter of IdentityJamike Nnorom, an only male child of his family, was educated in the United States of America. He returned to his village in Africa on what he hoped would be a brief visit to see his widowed mother after years of absence, with the...
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Build Me A CityParis, 1853. The gloomy, centuries-old city is undergoing the most important and splendid redevelopment in the history of modern urban planning. Day by day it is being transformed from a muddy, foul-smelling city languishing by a polluted river into a magnificent world capital. An...
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The Blue CastleFirst published in 1926, "The Blue Castle" is one of the few stories for adults by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery, famed for her "Anne of Green Gables" novels. It is the story of Valancy Stirling, a lonely and deeply unhappy "old maid", who...
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Reading Homer's IliadWe still read Homer's epic the Iliad two-and-one-half millennia since its emergence for the questions it poses and the answers it provides for our age, as viable today as they were in Homer's own times. What is worth dying for? What is the meaning...
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El Corazón de Las TinieblasRecoge parte de sus experiencias a bordo de un barco de vapor en el río Congo. Las enigmáticas últimas palabras de Kurtz, « El horror! El horror! , nos hablan de dos de las grandes preocupaciones del autor: los excesos de la colonización europea...
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