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The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction: Tips from Editors, Teachers, and Writers in the FieldLiterary Nonfiction. Literary Criticism and History. Reference. With its unprecedented gathering of 25 brief essays by experts in the field, THE ROSE METAL PRESS FIELD GUIDE TO WRITING FLASH FICTION meets the growing need for a concise yet creative exploration of the re-emerging genre...
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The Pastons: A Family in the Wars of the RosesAttractive selection conveys well their recurrent concerns with land, money, civil violence, flirtation, marriage, and the purchase of ginger and lace. MEDIUM AEVUM Vivid first-hand accounts of life in England at the time ofthe Wars of the Roses, presented in their historical context. Essential...
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The Narrow Cage and Other Modern Fairy TalesVasily Eroshenko was one of the most remarkable transnational literary figures of the early twentieth century: a blind multilingual Esperantist from Ukraine who joined left-wing circles in Japan and befriended the famous modernist writer Lu Xun in China. Born in a small Ukrainian village...
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The Inscription of Things: Writing and Materiality in Early Modern ChinaWhy would an inkstone have a poem inscribed on it? Early modern Chinese writers did not limit themselves to working with brushes and ink, and their texts were not confined to woodblock-printed books or the boundaries of the paper page. Poets carved lines of...
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The Cambridge Companion to ComicsThe Cambridge Companion to Comics presents comics as a multifaceted prism, generating productive and insightful dialogues with the most salient issues concerning the humanities at large. This volume provides readers with the histories and theories necessary for studying comics. It consists of three sections:...
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The Cambridge Companion to Literature and AnimalsAuthor: Derek RyanPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 11/09/2023Pages: 300Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.38lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81dISBN: 9781009300056This title is not returnable
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Super Intelligent, Emotional Me! (Landscape)Young children learn and develop through their interactions with and the examples set by their primary caregivers. And often the best way to share with a child is through the use of storytelling. Super Intelligent, Emotional Me provides parents with nine stories they can...
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Sound-Blind: American Literature and the Politics of TranscriptionIn the 1880s, a new medical term flashed briefly into public awareness in the United States. Children who had trouble distinguishing between similar speech sounds were said to suffer from "sound-blindness." The term is now best remembered through anthropologist Franz Boas, whose work deeply...
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Romeo and JulietWhen Romeo, heartbroken and love-sick over Rosalind, meets Juliet, he falls in love almost instantly. Masked and unaware of her family origins, Romeo doesn't realize that Juliet is a Capulet-sworn enemies of his family, the Montagues. The lovers decide to escape their families' legacies...
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Radical Empathy in Multicultural Women's Fiction: From the Library to LiberationFiction provides the possibility for radical empathy by connecting us with strangers and Radical Empathy in Multicultural Women's Fiction: From the Library to Liberation both analyzes and embodies this phenomenon by putting women novelists of color in conversation with one another. Foregrounding the growing...
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Puss in Books: Our Best-Loved Writers on Their Best-Loved CatsA charming collection of quotes about cats from our favourite authors, accompanied by artwork in the trademark style of Paul Magrs (author of The Panda, the Cat and the Dreadful Teddy).'I love them, they are so nice and selfish' - L.M. MontgomeryThis collection of...
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Protecting the Spanish Woman: Gender Identity and Empowerment in María de Zayas's WorksAn important contribution to the study of women writers. María de Zayas is unique in the seventeenth century as the only Spanish woman to write a collection of exemplary novels whose quality is often compared to Miguel de Cervantes' masterful works. Her two main...
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Potterversity: Essays Exploring the World of Harry PotterPotterversity: Essays Exploring the World of Harry Potter presents a written companion to the popular, "Hermione-Approved" MuggleNet podcast by the same name. Selected from the top Potter Studies scholars in the field, the diverse authors in the volume provide a range of interpretations of...
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Oxford Guides to Chaucer: Troilus and CriseydeThis is a comprehensive critical guide to Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde. This new edition has been comprehensively revised in light of the latest scholarly and critical research and with a fully updated bibliography. It includes a full account of Chaucer's imaginative deployment of his...
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Ovid, Amores (Book 1)From Catullus to Horace, the tradition of Latin erotic poetry produced works of literature which are still read throughout the world. Ovid's Amores, written in the first century BC, is arguably the best-known and most popular collection in this tradition. Born in 43 BC,...
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Our Exodus: Leon Uris and the Americanization of Israel's Founding StoryDespite the dramatic circumstances of its founding, Israel did not inspire sustained, impassioned public discussion among Jews and non-Jews in the United States until Leon Uris's popular novel Exodus was released in 1958. Uris's novel popularized the complicated story of Israel's founding and, in...
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Love is the Greater LabyrinthFor her final play (Amor es más laberinto), Sor Juana updated the classical Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur for a late seventeenth-century Mexican audience. The Mexican playwright/philosopher/poet delivers subtle messages to new leaders of her time; not only by what she adds...
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Lord Byron: Selected WritingsThis volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers readers a generous selection of the poetry upon which Byron's fame depended and his reputation now rests. It presents the poems in the chronological order in which they were published, working in almost every...
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Literature and Food StudiesLiterature and Food Studies introduces readers to a growing interdisciplinary field by examining literary genres and cultural movements as they engage with the edible world and, in turn, illuminate transnational histories of empire, domesticity, scientific innovation, and environmental transformation and degradation. With a focus...
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Labanyabatiରୀତିଯୁଗୀୟ କାବ୍ୟ ପରମ୍ପରା ଓ କବିମାନଙ୍କୁ ଅନୁସରଣ କରିଥିଲେ ମଧ୍ୟ କାବ୍ୟର ସମସ୍ତ ବିଭାଗରେ ଯେଉଁ ଅପୂର୍ବ ସଫଳତା ହାସଲ କରିଛନ୍ତି, ତାହା ସମଗ୍ର ଓଡ଼ିଆ ସାହିତ୍ୟରେ ବିରଳ । ଉପେନ୍ଦ୍ରଙ୍କ ଶବ୍ଦ ପାଣ୍ଡିତ୍ୟ, ଛନ୍ଦ ଓ ବନ୍ଧର ବୈଚିତ୍ର]୍ୟ, ଶବ୍ଦାଳଙ୍କାର ଓ ଅର୍ଥାଳଙ୍କାରରେ ଅଦୃଷ୍ଟପୂର୍ବ କୃତିତ୍ୱ, ଶୃଙ୍ଗାର ରସର ପୁଷ୍କଳ ପରିବେଷଣ, ପ୍ରକୃତି ଚିତ୍ରଣ, ବର୍ଣ୍ଣନା ଚାତୁରୀ, ରଚନା ଶୈଳୀରେ...
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