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What Jane Knew: Anishinaabe Stories and American Imperialism, 1815-1845The children of an influential Ojibwe-Anglo family, Jane Johnston and her brother George were already accomplished writers when the Indian agent Henry Rowe Schoolcraft arrived in Sault Ste. Marie in 1822. Charged by Michigan's territorial governor with collecting information on Anishinaabe people, he soon...
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Wasps and Other Plays: A New Verse Translation, with Introduction and Notes'No matter which way you look at us, you'll find that we're in all respects; Remarkably wasp-like in our habits, in every aspect of our lives.' Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished...
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Tropical Time Machines: Science Fiction in the Contemporary Hispanic CaribbeanHow writers and artists use sciencefiction to speak to the current moment in the Caribbean Exploringthe remarkable recent increase in works of science fiction originating fromSpanish-speaking parts of the Caribbean and their diasporas, Tropical Time Machines shows how writers, filmmakers, musicians, and artists are...
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Thoreau's GodMeditative reflections on the great spiritual seeker's deeply felt experience of the divine. Henry David Thoreau's spiritual life is a riddle. Thoreau's passionate critique of formal religion is matched only by his rapturous descriptions of encounters with the divine in nature. He fled the...
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The Tale of Genji: A Norton Critical EditionThis Norton Critical Edition includes: Dennis Washburn's acclaimed and unabridged translation of Murasaki Shikibu's eleventh-century literary masterpiece, widely considered the world's first novel. Editorial matter by Dennis Washburn. Fourteen background selections--from the eleventh-century The Daughter of Sugawara no Takasue to Virginia Woolf--carefully selected to...
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The Serpent's Plumes: Contemporary Nahua Flowered Words in MovementDraws on Nahua concepts to explore Nahua literary production and contributions to cultural activism from the 1980s to the present.Author: Adam W. CoonPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 05/01/2024Pages: 358Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.43lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81dISBN: 9781438497778This title is not returnable
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The Night Has A Thousand Eyes And Other Poems (1899)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...
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The Harlem Ghetto: EssaysThis collectible edition celebrates James Baldwin's 100th-year anniversary, revealing and critiquing the realities of Black life in mid-century US Originally published in Notes of a Native Son, the essays "The Harlem Ghetto," "Journey to Atlanta," and "Notes of a Native Son" will appeal to...
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The Cambridge Companion to William MorrisIn his short life, William Morris (1834-96) combined the roles of poet, author, painter, designer, translator, lecturer, political activist, journalist, weaver, bookmaker, and businessman. This volume draws together influential voices from different disciplines who have participated in the recent critical, political, and curatorial revival...
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The Art of Shakespeare's SonnetsHelen Vendler, widely regarded as our most accomplished interpreter of poetry, here serves as an incomparable guide to some of the best-loved poems in the English language. In detailed commentaries on Shakespeare's 154 sonnets, Vendler reveals previously unperceived imaginative and stylistic features of the...
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Stevie Smith: Between the LinesIn this first book-length study of Stevie Smith, Romana Huk reassesses the work of this major twentieth-century woman writer as emerging not only from the practices of female literary modernism, but also from within the tumultuous cultural context of mid-century Europe. Amongst the work...
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Sounding BodiesShannon Draucker is Assistant Professor of English at Siena College.Author: Shannon DrauckerPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 07/01/2024Pages: 294Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.33lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81dISBN: 9781438498416This title is not returnable
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Selected Amazon ReviewsA book-length selection from Kevin Killian's legendary corpus of more than two thousand product reviews posted on Amazon.com. An enchanting roll of duct tape. Love Actually on Blu-ray Disc. The Toaster Oven Cookbook, The Biography of Stevie Nicks, and an anthology of poets who...
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ReSegregation Volume II: The Facts of the Black Oppression And The Problems Facing The White AllyIn the landmark sequel to his groundbreaking work, Antonio T. Smith Jr. lays bare the structural underpinnings of Black oppression and charts a bold course towards racial equity in "ReSegregation Volume II: The Facts of the Black Oppression and The Problems Facing The White...
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Reading Like a WriterLong before there were creative-writing workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, says Francine Prose.In "Reading Like a Writer," Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour...
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Petrarch's Penitential Psalms and PrayersThe first English translation of Petrarch's Psalms and Prayers provides an intimate look at the personal devotions of the "Father of Humanism."Author: Demetrio S. Yocum, Francesco PetrarcaPublisher: University of Notre Dame PressPublished: 05/15/2024Pages: 160Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44dISBN: 9780268207847About the...
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Opacities: On Writing and the Writing LifeOpacities is a book about writing, publishing, and friendship. Rooted in an epistolary relationship between Sofia Samatar and a friend and fellow writer, this collection of meditations traces Samatar's attempt to rediscover the intimacy of writing In a series of compressed, dynamic prose pieces,...
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One Hundred Mountains of Japan"The more deeply you go into a long-held tradition, the more secrets and surprises it yields up. Mighty Ontake is like that. The mountain's inexhaustible treasury of riches is like some endless storybook with its pages uncut. As one follows the rambling plot along,...
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Object-Oriented NarratologyThe quick spread of posthumanism and of critiques of anthropomorphism in the past few decades has resulted in greater attention to concrete objects in critical theories and in philosophy. This new materialism or new object philosophy marks a renewal of interest in the existence...
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Mainly the Truth: Interviews with Mark TwainMainly the Truth: Interviews with Mark Twain is a collection of the most colorful and vivacious interviews that Mark Twain gave to newspapers and reporters throughout his career. A master storyteller and raconteur, Twain understood the value of publicity, and these interviews capture Twain...
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