Literature
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The New Alphabet: DNA #1The first in a new series on evolving forms of communicationThis book tracks the relationship between binary code and Leibniz's Monadology; the technological and cosmological aspects of non-Western writing systems; and the power of the alphabet song.Author: Bernd Scherer, Ben LernerPublisher: Spector BooksPublished: 04/26/2022Pages:...
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Multilingual Literature as World LiteratureMultilingual Literature as World Literature examines and adjusts current theories and practices of world literature, particularly the conceptions of world, global and local, reflecting on the ways that multilingualism opens up the borders of language, nation and genre, and makes visible different modes of...
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Grotesque Visions: The Science of Berlin DadaGrotesque Visions focuses on the radical avant-garde interventions of Salomo Friedländer (aka Mynona), Til Brugman, and Hannah Höch as they challenged the questionable practices and evidentiary claims of late-19th- and early-20th-century science. Demonstrating the often excessive measures that pathologists, anthropologists, sexologists, and medical professionals...
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April twilights, and other poemsThe book "" April twilights, and other poems "", has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future...
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The Cliff-Dwellers; A NovelThe book, "" The Cliff-Dwellers; A Novel "", has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations....
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Deeply in Love with NingboNingbo is one of China's most ancient cities, with a history dating back over 8,000 years, and as a part of the trade route known as the Silk Road, has through many dynasties to the present day been a critical seaport and trading center...
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The Sun Also RisesOne of Ernest Hemingway's masterpieces, The Sun Also Rises is the quintessential novel of the "Lost Generation"-American expatriates living in Paris after World War I. The characters are based on real people in Hemingway's circle, and the action is based on real events.Hemingway presents...
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A Brief Literary History of DisabilityA Brief Literary History of Disability is a convenient, lucid, and accessible entry point into the rapidly evolving conversation around disability in literary studies. The book follows a chronological structure and each chapter pairs a well-known literary text with a foundational disability theorist in...
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Observation: --every Man His Own UniversityThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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British Literature and Archaeology, 1880-1930British literature and archaeology, 1880-1930 reveals how British writers and artists across the long turn of the twentieth century engaged with archaeological discourse--its artefacts, landscapes, bodies, and methods--uncovering the materials of the past to envision radical possibilities for the present and future. This project...
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Reading Machines in the Modernist Transatlantic: Avant-Gardes, Technology and the EverydayA revisionist account of technology's role in the aesthetics, spaces and politics of transatlantic avant-gardes Explores of a range of key avant-garde formations in the modernist transatlantic period, from the Italian futurists and English Vorticists to the Dada-surrealist and post-Harlem Renaissance African American experimentalists...
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The Lusiads16th century poet Luís Vaz de Camões is widely considered as Portugal's greatest classical poet. Most likely born in Lisbon around 1524, Luís Vaz de Camões received a formal education, possibly from the University of Coimbra. While his family was poor, his heritage was...
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Women's Friendship in Medieval LiteratureIn Women's Friendship in Medieval Literature, Karma Lochrie and Usha Vishnuvajjala bring together established scholars and new voices to illuminate a previously understudied but consequential element of life in the Middle Ages. Contributors focus on representations of women's friendships in medieval European literature and...
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The Racial Unfamiliar: Illegibility in Black Literature and CultureThe works of African American authors and artists are too often interpreted through the lens of authenticity. They are scrutinized for "positive" or "negative" representations of Black people and Black culture or are assumed to communicate some truth about Black identity or the "Black...
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Precarious Passages: The Diasporic Imagination in Contemporary Black Anglophone FictionPrecarious Passages unites literature written bymembers of the far-flung Black Anglophone diaspora. Rather than categorizingnovels as simply "African American," "Black Canadian,""Black British," or "postcolonial African Caribbean," thisbook takes an integrative approach: it argues that fiction creates and sustainsa sense of a wider African diasporic...
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A Literary Fellowship: Relationships and Rivalries in 19th-Century American LiteratureThe companion to an exhibition at the Grolier Club, this catalogue has an informative introduction, followed by eight chapters on American literary publishers and authors, each with detailed descriptions of the books, manuscripts, letters, and other items featured in the exhibition.Author: Susan Jaffe Tane,...
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Les mots m'ont sauvéeje ne savais pas quoi dire, alors j'ai écrit.ps: si vous avez une quelconque plainte envers l'état du livre à sa réception, l'auteur n'en est pas responsable, les avis et les commentaires concernent ce que vous avez lu. (Il y a un service spécial...
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Through Her Opera GlassesIt's August 1930 and storm clouds are brewing across Europe, heralding the rise of fascism and the upheavals of the Great Depression. Even so, these frightening realities can't stop twenty-four-year-old Betty Harbert from making the most of her tour of the continent. Sailing from...
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Hotly in Pursuit of the Real: Notes Toward a MemoirIn Hotly in Pursuit of the Real, the beloved bestselling novelist Ron Hansen opens the doors of his writing studio to share with us his passions for history, scandal, theology, Jesuits, the American West, and golf (which he plays even in bad weather). If...
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Cumbres Borrascosas / Wuthering HeightsUna de las mayores historias de amor de la literatura y quizá la mejor representante del romanticismo inglés Cumbres borrascosas, la épica historia de Catherine y Heathcliff, situada en los sombríos y desolados páramos de Yorkshire, constituye una asombrosa visión metafísica del destino, la...
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