Literature
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Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of ManWinner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize "This trenchant work of literary criticism examines the complex ways...African American authors have written about animals. In Bennett's analysis, Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, Jesmyn Ward, and others subvert the racist comparisons that have 'been used against them...
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The Godfather Effect: Changing Hollywood, America, and MeFifty years and one billion dollars in gross box-office receipts after the initial release of The Godfather, Francis Ford Coppola's masterful trilogy continues to fascinate viewers old and new. The Godfather Effect skillfully analyzes the reasons behind this ongoing global phenomenon. Packed with behind-the-scenes...
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Hawaiian Legends of Ghosts and Ghost-GodsHawaiian Legends of Ghosts and Ghost-Gods (1915) is a collection of Hawaiian folktales and myths by W. D. Westervelt. Connecting the origin story of Hawaii to the traditions of other Polynesian cultures, Westervelt provides an invaluable resource for understanding the historical and geographical scope...
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A Passion in the DesertA Passion in the Desert (1830) is a short story by French author Honoré de Balzac. Written as part of his La Comédie humaine sequence, A Passion in the Desert is a frequently anthologized work of short fiction that explores humanity's relationship with nature...
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RaysFrom flightless, long-legged ostriches to winged rays, and from elusive, long-tailed snow leopards to wily foxes, the world of animals is wonderfully diverse. This popular and newly expanded series continues traveling the planet to study these and other fascinating mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, and...
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What's Wrong with the WorldG.K. Chesterton delivers insightful commentary on modern behavior and social practices influenced by big business, gender roles, government and other notable figures throughout his lifetime. The book is inspired by his own personal beliefs regarding faith, family and the working man. What's Wrong with...
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Survey Graphic: Harlem Mecca of the New NegroThe contributors to this edition include W.E.B Du Bois, Arthur Schomburg, James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, and Countee Cullen. Harlem Mecca is an indispensable aid toward gaining a better understanding of the Harlem Renaissance.Author: Alain Leroy LockePublisher: Black Classic PressPublished: 04/01/1980Pages: 92Binding Type: PaperbackWeight:...
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Feminine Singularity: The Politics of Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century LiteratureWhat happens if we read nineteenth-century and Victorian texts not for the autonomous liberal subject, but for singularity--for what is partial, contingent, and in relation, rather than what is merely "alone"? Feminine Singularity offers a powerful feminist theory of the subject--and shows us paths...
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Feminist Formalism and Early Modern Women's Writing: Readings, Conversations, PedagogiesFeminist Formalism and Early Modern Women's Writing reexamines the relationship between gender and form in early modern women's writing in essays that elaborate the specific literary strategies of women writers, that examine women's debts to and appropriations of different literary genres, and that offer...
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Tania Bruguera: The Francis Effect"The Francis Effect was about proposing something completely absurd, as absurd as borders are. If Immigrant Movement was for the thousands of people who went there, The The Francis Effect was just for one person, the pope. But the more people that participated, the...
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Listen, We All BleedMandy-Suzanne Wong does something far beyond 'giving voice' to animals and the artists that record them. She listens: quietly, carefully, truthfully. And the animals speak for themselves. Listen, we all bleed is a powerful and much needed book for our times. Now more than...
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Califa Uhuru: A Compilation of Literature from the Moorish Science Temple of AmericaCompilation of standard-issue M.S.T. of A. literature in one conveniently compiled and professionally bound text. Selections include reproductions of artifacts found in earlier editions of the Califa Uhuru series.Author: Tauheedah S. Najee-Ullah ElPublisher: Califa Media PublishingPublished: 10/20/2014Pages: 214Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w...
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The Idiot by Fyodor DostoevskyThe IdiotDostoevskys Idiot, is one of the most famous novels by Fyodor Dostoevsky. After a five-year stay in a Swiss sanatorium, 26-year-old Prince Lev Myshkin returns to Russia one November morning to settle an inheritance matter in St. Petersburg following the death of a...
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Won in Translation: Textual Mobility in Early Modern EuropeIn Won in Translation Roger Chartier, one of the world's leading historians of books, publishing, and reading, considers the mobility of the early modern text and the plurality of circulating versions of the same work. The agent for both is translation, for through their...
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Seamus Heaney in ContextAuthor: Geraldine HigginsPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 04/01/2021Pages: 384Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.40lbsSize: 9.20h x 7.80w x 1.00dISBN: 9781107180147Review Citation(s): Choice 04/01/2022About the AuthorHiggins, Geraldine: - Geraldine Higgins is Associate Professor of English and Director of Irish Studies at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. Her publications...
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Journal 1887-1910A wry, observant masterpiece--one of the singular treasures of the French fin de siècle Written between the age of twenty-three and his death at age forty-six, Jules Renard's Journal 1887-1910 is a triumph of introspection and wit. One of the most celebrated figures of...
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Relation of the Mineral Salts of the Body to the Signs of the ZodiacDr. George Washington Carey's 1932 work Relation of the Mineral Salts of the Body to the Signs of the Zodiac unites homeopathy and astrology to explain both the causes and cures of human disease. Dr. Carey's unique blend of chemistry, physiology, religion, and astrology...
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The Cambridge Companion to Environmental HumanitiesThis Companion offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the environmental humanities, an interdisciplinary movement that responds to a world reconfigured by climate change and its effects, from environmental racism and global migration to resource impoverishment and the importance of the nonhuman world. It...
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Digital Encounters: Envisioning Connectivity in Latin American Cultural ProductionTo understand the creative fabric of digital networks, scholars of literary and cultural studies must turn their attention to crowdsourced forms of production, discussion, and distribution. Digital Encounters explores the influence of an increasingly networked world on contemporary Latin American cultural production. Drawing on...
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On Bataille and BlanchotAn in-depth analysis of two of Sartre's contemporaries, Bataille and Blanchot. Iconic French novelist, playwright, and essayist Jean-Paul Sartre is widely recognized as one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, and his work has remained relevant and thought-provoking through the decades....
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