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La cultura de la crítica: Los judíos y la crítica radical de la cultura gentilLos movimientos que se analizan en este libro (la antropología boasiana, el radicalismo político, el psicoanálisis, la Escuela de Fráncfort y los intelectuales neoyorquinos) fueron abrazados sólo por unas pocas personas cuyos puntos de vista no eran conocidos ni comprendidos por la comunidad judía....
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Prose Poetry in Theory and PracticeProse Poetry in Theory and Practice vigorously engages with the Why? and the How? of prose poetry, a form that is currently enjoying a surge in popularity. With contributions by both practitioners and academics, this volume seeks to explore how its distinctive properties guide...
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Best Worst Dad JokesWhen a man becomes a dad, he takes on certain responsibilities: providing for his family, raising up his children to be good citizens--and telling the absolute worst jokes he can come up with. But dad jokes don't always come naturally, which is why Sandy...
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What the Ballad Knows: The Ballad Genre, Memory Culture, and German NationalismOver the course of the 19th century, ballads proliferated in German-speaking Europe in a truly remarkable range of contexts. Audiences were of course likely encounter balladry in the volumes of Goethe and Schiller, in various anthologies or illustrated editions. But they were just as...
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The Prague Circle: Franz Kafka, Egon Erwin Kisch, Max Brod, Franz Werfel, Paul Kornfeld, and Their LegaciesA group of mostly Jewish German-speakingwriters, the Prague Circle included some of the most significant figures inmodern Western literature. Its core members, Franz Kafka, Max Brod, FranzWerfel, Paul Kornfeld, and Egon Erwin Kisch, are renowned for their seminaldramas, lyric poetry, novels, short stories, and...
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Escribir otra isla. La República Dominicana en su literaturaDe la mano de un rescate de voces que bien por cuestiones de raza, género o condición diaspórica han sido silenciadas en el campo cultural, Escribir otra isla incluye relecturas de obras fundacionales de finales del siglo xix y de la considerable producción del...
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Mondegreen: Songs about Death and LoveA mondegreen is something that is heard improperly by someone who then clings to that misinterpretation as fact. Fittingly, Volodymyr Rafeyenko's novel Mondegreen: Songs about Death and Love explores the ways that memory and language construct our identity, and how we hold on to...
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Contagious Imagination: The Work and Art of Lynda BarryContributions by Frederick Luis Aldama, Melissa Burgess, Susan Kirtley, Rachel Luria, Ursula Murray Husted, Mark O'Connor, Allan Pero, Davida Pines, Tara Prescott-Johnson, Jane Tolmie, Rachel Trousdale, Elaine Claire Villacorta, and Glenn Willmott Lynda Barry (b. 1956) is best known for her distinctive style and...
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Sudden Frenzy: Improvisation, Orality, and Power in Renaissance ItalyIn Renaissance Italy there existed a rich interplay between two cultural practices frequently regarded as entirely separate and mutually antagonistic: the humanistic study of the ancient world and ancient literature, and the oral and improvisational performance of poetry which constituted one of the most...
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Liberalism and American Literature in the Clinton EraLiberalism and American Literature in the Clinton Era argues that a new, post-postmodern aesthetic emerges in the 1990s as a group of American writers - including Mary Gaitskill, George Saunders, Richard Powers, Karen Tei Yamashita, and others - grapples with the political triumph of...
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Ariane & Bluebeard: From Fairy Tale to Comic Book OperaMaurice Maeterlinck described his libretto Ariane et Barbe-bleue as "a sort of legendary opera, or fairy [opera], in three acts." In 1907, Paul Dukas finished setting Maeterlinck's libretto to music, and the opera's Paris premiere was lauded as a landmark in operatic history. Ariane...
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The Avant-Postman: Experiment in Anglophone and Francophone Fiction in the Wake of James JoyceA new look at the development of innovative postwar writing in France, Britain, and the United States. The Avant-Postman explores a broad range of innovative postwar writing from France, Britain, and the United States. Taking James Joyce's Ulysses and Finnegans Wake as a joint...
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A True Account of My Life and Selected Meditations: Volume 87The autobiographical narrative of Anne, Lady Halkett. Born in the early 1620s, Anne, Lady Halkett (née Murray) grew up on the fringes of the English court during a period of increasing political tension. From 1644 to 1699, Halkett recorded her personal and political experiences...
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The Rise of the Military Entrepreneur: War, Diplomacy, and Knowledge in Habsburg EuropeThe Rise of the Military Entrepreneur explores how a new kind of international military figure emerged from, and exploited, the seventeenth century's momentous political, military, commercial, and scientific changes. In the era of the Thirty Years' War, these figures traveled rapidly and frequently across...
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Ezra Pound's JapanThe first book to deal with the subject of Ezra Pound's relationships with Japanese literature as a whole, this book provides a wealth of new scholarship on this subject, including on the 19th-century Japanese contexts that led to Pound's interest in 'hokku' and Fenollosa's...
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Price of Slavery: Capitalism and Revolution in the CaribbeanThe Price of Slavery analyzes Marx's critique of capitalist slavery and its implications for the Caribbean thought of Toussaint Louverture, Henry Christophe, C. L. R. James, Aimé Césaire, Jacques Stephen Alexis, and Suzanne Césaire. Nick Nesbitt assesses the limitations of the literature on capitalism...
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Monogamy: Its Songs and PoemsMonogamy elaborates an ideology of romance from extraordinary poems and songs, one by one. Poems and popular songs are still the main medium for preserving the rules of romance. Each chapter is a meditation on one of eight commonplaces about love: that it makes...
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On the Digital Semiosphere: Culture, Media and Science for the AnthropoceneIt is only since global media and digital communications became accessible to ordinary populations - with Telstar, jumbo jets, the pc and mobile devices - that humans have been able to experience their own world as planetary in extent. What does it mean to...
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Stephen Crane RememberedRevealing episodes in the life of the elusive writer, as told by acquaintances This book collects reminiscences by contemporaries, friends, and associates of Stephen Crane that illuminate the life of this often misunderstood and misrepresented writer. Although Crane is widely regarded as a major...
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Murder Most Grotesque: The Comedic Crime Fiction of Joyce PorterJoyce Porter is the funniest crime writer you've never heard of- until now. Creator of DCI Wilfrid Dover, Scotland Yard's laziest and rudest detective, Eddie Brown, a schoolteacher forced into Cold War spycraft against his will, and Constance Ethel Morrison-Burke ("The Hon Con"), a...
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