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Life Is a DreamThe masterwork of Spain's preeminent dramatist--now in a new verse translationLife Is a Dream is a work many hold to be the supreme example of Spanish Golden Age drama. Imbued with highly poetic language and humanist ideals, it is an allegory that considers contending...
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Knowing Books: The Consciousness of Mediation in Eighteenth-Century BritainThe eighteenth century has long been associated with realism and objective description, modes of representation that deemphasize writing. But in the middle decades of the century, Christina Lupton observes, authors described with surprising candor the material and economic facets of their own texts' production....
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Jim Tully: American Writer, Irish Rover, Hollywood BrawlerMany saw the dark side of the American dream, but none wrote about it like Jim Tully. Having spent six years of his childhood in a Cincinnati orphanage, Tully returned to his hometown of St. Marys, Ohio before climbing aboard a freight train in...
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Incredible Herb TrimpeFrom running the first photostat machine at Marvel Comics to being the first to illustrate Wolverine, no other member of the Marvel Bullpen has had such a varied and remarkable career as Herb Trimpe. He's best known for his definitive eight-year stint drawing the...
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Escenas de Traducción En Las Literaturas de América LatinaLa traduccion entendida como un fenomeno de negociacion asimetrica de lenguas e identidades constituye un aspecto central en los debates que pretenden explicar la "invisibilizacion" de la pluralidad cultural latinoamericana. Este libro se propone reflexionar sobre "escenas de traduccion" en una apuesta que busca...
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Eleven Canadian Novelists Interviewed by Graeme GibsonOriginally published in 1970, Eleven Canadian Novelists Interviewed by Graeme Gibson is a collection of candid and wide-ranging interviews with Canadian writers, including Alice Munro, Mordecai Richler, Margaret Laurence, and more.With the intuition of an insider, Gibson asks the important questions: In what way...
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Doyle's World--Lost & Found: The Unknown Histories of Sherlock Holmes and Sir Arthur Conan DoylePRAISE for Doyle's World--Lost & Found "Everything you ever wanted to know about the dynamic duo""For fans of Sherlock Holmes and his creator, you can't do better than plunge into Doyle's World--Lost & Found The Unknown Histories of Sherlock Holmes and Sir Arthur Conan...
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Dorothy Parker in HollywoodAn expansive and illuminating study of legendary writer Dorothy Parker's life and legacy in Hollywood from the author of the "fascinating" (Town & Country) Three Martini Afternoons at the Ritz. The glamorous extravagances and devasting lows of her time in Hollywood are revealed as...
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Didion and BabitzJoan Didion is revealed at last in this outrageously provocative and profoundly moving new work on the mutual attractions--and mutual antagonisms--of Didion and her fellow literary titan, Eve Babitz. "Could you write what you write if you weren't so tiny, Joan?" --Eve Babitz, in...
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Deep Reading: Practices to Subvert the Vices of Our Distracted, Hostile, and Consumeristic AgeThis book helps readers develop practices that will result in deep, formative, and faithful reading so they can contribute to the flourishing of their communities and cultivate their own spiritual and intellectual depth. The authors present reading as a remedy for three prevalent cultural...
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David PeaceAs a Northern Ballard and the father of 'Yorkshire noir', David Peace offers the twenty-first-century reader unique novelized histories of events we think we know well. This new study provides a comprehensive introduction to the author and an overview of the debates surrounding his...
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Creatures of Attention: Aesthetics and the Subject Before KantCreatures of Attention excavates the early modern prehistory of our late modern crises of attention. At the threshold of modernity, philosophers, scientists, and poets across Europe began to see attention as the key to autonomous agency and knowledge. Recovering the philosophical and literary works...
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Conversations with Dostoevsky: On God, Russia, Literature, and LifeConversations with Dostoevsky presents a series of fictional conversations taking place between November 2018 and Spring 2019 in the narrator's Glasgow apartment and elsewhere in the city. At the beginning of the conversations, the narrator has been reading Dostoevsky's story A Gentle Spirit, which...
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Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait in Black and WhiteA groundbreaking inquiry into the life of the audacious Carl Van Vechten, and his singular and singularly controversial contributions to the Harlem Renaissance Carl Van Vechten was a white man with a passion for blackness who played a crucial role in helping the Harlem...
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Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s, Revised EditionHighlights Jewish participation in the civil rights movementBlack Power, Jewish Politics charts the transformation of American Jewish political culture from the Cold War liberal consensus of the early postwar years to the rise and influence of Black Power-inspired ethnic nationalism. It shows how, in...
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An Analysis of Robert D. Putnam's Bowling AloneAmerican political scientist Robert Putnam wasn't the first person to recognize that social capital - the relationships between people that allow communities to function well - is the grease that oils the wheels of society. But by publishing Bowling Alone, he moved the debate...
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All the Devils Are Here: American Romanticism and Literary InfluenceThe English literary influence on classic American novelists' depictions of gender, sexuality, and race With All the Devils Are Here, the literary scholar David Greven makes a signal contribution to the growing list of studies dedicated to tracing threads of literary influence. Herman Melville's,...
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Unsaying the Commonplace: George MacDonald and the Critique of Victorian ConventionAuthor: Daniel GabelmanPublisher: Winged Lion Press, LLCPublished: 05/04/2024Pages: 290Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.94lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.65dISBN: 9781935688440This title is not returnable
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Thomas Hardy: Selected WritingsThis volume in the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series offers students a comprehensive selection of the work of Thomas Hardy--the first for nearly thirty years. The edition presents the poetry in a new way by using the text of Hardy's individual volumes, as they appeared...
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The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion: A MemoirA brilliant debut memoir about a young writer--struggling with depression, family issues, and addiction--and his life-changing decade working for Joan DidionAs an aspiring novelist in his early twenties, Cory Leadbeater was presented with an opportunity to work for a well-known writer whose identity was...
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