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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes"I never can resist a touch of the dramatic." The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is now best remembered for its concluding story in which the great detective appears to plunge to his death into the waters at the bottom of the Reichenbach Falls, locked...
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Towers in the Void: Li Yu and Early Modern Chinese MediaThe maverick cultural entrepreneur Li Yu survived the tumultuous Ming-Qing dynastic transition of the mid-seventeenth century through a commercially successful practice founded on intermedial experimentation. He engaged an astonishingly broad variety of cultural forms: from theatrical performance and literary production to fashion and wellness;...
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The Oxford Chaucer Two Volume Set: Volumes 1 and 2This authoritative edition of the complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer presents Chaucer's works for a new generation of students, and for a wide range of general readers. It provides all that undergraduates and graduate students will need to understand and appreciate Chaucer in his...
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African American Adolescent Female Heroes: The Twenty-First-Century Young Adult Neo-Slave NarrativeIn the wake of the second wave of the Black Lives Matter movement, inequalities and disparities were brought to light across the publishing industry. The need for more diverse, representative young adult literature gained new traction, resulting in an influx of young adult speculative...
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Climate Change and Original Sin: The Moral Ecology of John Milton's PoetryPrior to the Enlightenment era, how was the human-climate relationship conceived? Focusing on the most recent epoch in which belief in an animate environment still widely prevailed, Climate Change and Original Sin argues that an ecologically inflected moral system assumed humanity's responsibility for climate...
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Tricks of the Light: Essays on Art and SpectacleEssays on media systems and contemporary art by a leading theorist of modern visual culture Tricks of the Light brings together essays by critic and art historian Jonathan Crary, internationally known for his groundbreaking and widely admired studies of modern Western visual culture. This...
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Seeking Palestine: New Palestinian Writing on Exile and HomeAuthor: JohnsonPublisher: Olive Branch PressPublished: 07/11/2023Pages: 224Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.88lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60dISBN: 9781623717469
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Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa CatherA tender biography of one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century and an elegant exploration of artistic endurance, as told by a lifelong lover of Willa Cather's work The story of Willa Cather is defined by a lifetime of determination, struggle, and...
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Personal Best: Makers on Their Poems That Matter MostHome to fifty-eight author-selected poems and accompanying essays, Personal Best: Makers on Their Poems That Matter Most is a far-reaching, essential touchstone for the art of poetry in the United States today.Personal Best: Makers on Their Poems That Matter Most is home to fifty-eight...
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Samuel Butler and the Science of the MindDarwin's theory of evolution was received with great interest all across Europe. The theory of evolution generated numerous debate among scientists, philosophers and the general public. Questions concerning the evolution of animals and humans, the existence of any blueprint or design in biology, and...
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Three Preludes to the Song of Roland: GUI of Burgundy, Roland at Saragossa, and OtinelThe first complete English translation of three chansons de geste inspired by the Romance epic, the Song of Roland. The success of the eleventh-century Song of Roland gave rise to a series of around twenty related chansons de geste, known collectively as the Cycle...
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Mary Robinson and the GothicAuthor: Jerrold E. HoglePublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 04/27/2023Pages: 75Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.17dISBN: 9781009160872
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Tolkien and DiversityWelcoming over 700 delegates across the two-day event, the 2021 Tolkien Society summer seminar was the highest attended event in the Society's history. It invited scholars to consider the role that diversity plays in Middle-earth's linguistic and literary make-up: how does he explore race,...
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The Year of the Death of Ricardo ReisAuthor: José SaramagoPublisher: HarperviaPublished: 10/20/2022Pages: 368Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.40w x 0.90dISBN: 9780156996938Review Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 02/03/1992About the AuthorSaramago, José: - JOSÉ SARAMAGO (1922-2010) was the author of many novels, among them Blindness, All the Names, Baltasar and Blimunda, and The Year...
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And the Rivers Thereof: Reflections on Riverine Images in the Writing of Jack KerouacAND THE RIVERS THEREOF: Following the flow of river imagery through the writings of Jack Kerouac - novels, short stories, journals & essays. Reflections upon the roles and resonances of watercourses in the Kerouacian chronicle. Author: Gregory StephensonPublisher: Felix Culpa PressPublished: 06/12/2023Pages: 46Binding Type:...
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A Long Essay on the Long Poem: Modern and Contemporary Poetics and PracticesA masterful meditation on our most mercurial and abiding of poetic forms--the long poem For decades, Rachel Blau DuPlessis has shown readers how genres, forms, and the literal acts of writing and reception can be understood as sites of struggle. In her own words,...
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Galactic Suburbia: Recovering Women's Science FictionIn this groundbreaking cultural history, Lisa Yaszek recovers a lost tradition of women's science fiction that flourished after 1945. This new kind of science fiction was set in a place called galactic suburbia, a literary frontier that was home to nearly 300 women writers....
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Crossing Unmarked Snow: Further Views on the Writer's Vocation"It is this impulse to change the quality of experience that I recognize as central to creation. . . . Out of all that could be done, you choose one thing. What that one thing is, nothing else can tell you--you come at it...
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The Poetry BookAn accessible guide to the most important poems ever written-- from the Epic of Gilgamesh to The Waste Land--and the poets behind them Discover the key themes and ideas behind the most important poems ever written, and the poetic geniuses who wrote them. The...
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The Winter Sun Shines in: A Life of Masaoka ShikiRather than resist the vast social and cultural changes sweeping Japan in the nineteenth century, the poet Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902) instead incorporated new Western influences into his country's native haiku and tanka verse. By reinvigorating these traditional forms, Shiki released them from outdated conventions...
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