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Routledge Handbook of Minority Discourses in African LiteratureThis handbook provides a critical overview of literature dealing with groups of people or regions that suffer marginalization within Africa.The contributors examine a multiplicity of minority discourses expressed in African literature, including those who are culturally, socially, politically, religiously, economically, and sexually marginalized in...
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Canon/Archive: Studies in Quantitative FormalismAuthor: Franco MorettiPublisher: N+1 BooksPublished: 10/01/2017Pages: 336Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.30lbsISBN: 9780997031874
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Actual Fictions: Literary Representation and Character Network AnalysisThis Element sheds a new light on the ubiquitous yet complex notion of mimesis. By systematically comparing the social dynamics of the Dutch population at a given time with the social dynamics of characters in Dutch literary fiction published in the same period, it...
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Deep Time: A Literary HistoryHow the concept of "deep time" began as a metaphor used by philosophers, poets, and naturalists in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries In this interdisciplinary book, Noah Heringman argues that the concept of "deep time"--most often associated with geological epochs--began as a metaphorical language...
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Printing History and Cultural Change: Fashioning the Modern English Text in Eighteenth-Century BritainThis study provides one of the most detailed and comprehensive examinations ever devoted to a critical transformation in the material substance of the printed page; it carries out this exploration in the history of the book, moreover, by embedding these typographical changes in the...
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Orwell and EmpireConsiders George Orwell's writing about the East, and the presence of the East in his writing. George Orwell was born in India and served in the Imperial Police in Burma as a young man. Orwell and Empire is a study of his writing about...
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Theorie der KlassikDas Buch stellt den Anspruch, Phänomene, die man als "Klassiker" bezeichnet, besser zu verstehen und zugleich tradierte Vorstellungen darüber, was als klassisch gilt oder zu gelten hat, zu korrigieren. Dazu wird "Klassik" nicht, wie in den historischen und ideologiekritischen Debatten üblich, als Epochenbegriff verstanden,...
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Botanical Poetics: Early Modern Plant Books and the Husbandry of PrintDuring the middle years of Queen Elizabeth's reign, the number of books published with titles that described themselves as flowers, gardens, or forests more than tripled. During those same years, English printers turned out scores of instructional manuals on gardening and husbandry, retailing useful...
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Shakespeare and the ActorWhat is a 'Shakespearean actor'? Does the term still have any meaning? Drawing on the biographical and autobiographical accounts of actors and directors, as well as on interviews with actors from a wide range of backgrounds, this book looks at these questions in a...
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The Twice-Given Gift & Other WritingsStories help us connect. Yes, they take us out of our comfort zone - out of our own world - and allow us to see things through other people's eyes. But they also open us up to the values and feelings we share as...
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Mayaya Rising: Black Female Icons in Latin American and Caribbean Literature and CultureWho are the Black heroines of Latin America and the Caribbean? Where do we turn for models of transcendence among women of African ancestry in the region? In answer to the historical dearth of such exemplars, Mayaya Rising explores and celebrates the work of...
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The Aesthetics of Kinship: Form and Family in the Long Eighteenth CenturyThe Aesthetics of Kinship intervenes critically into rigidified discourses about the emergence of the nuclear family and the corresponding interior subject in the eighteenth century. By focusing on kinship constellations instead of "family plots" in seminal literary works of the period, this book presents...
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En busca de los ladrones del fuegoDesde la mitología griega, y con el mito de Prometeo honrado por robar el fuego de los dioses para entregarlo a los humanos, tenemos en este elemento el símbolo de la sabiduría, el conocimiento, lo que nutre el deseo de saber. La poeta y...
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Manto Ke Hashiye (Urdu Edition): Selected Short Stories of MantoManto is a legendary writer from India and Pakistan, famous for his works in Urdu fiction at the time of the partition of India and Pakistan in the mid-1900s. The knowledge of his ideology and work will be vastly important to the new generation....
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Ah, WildernessAh, Wilderness! is a sharp departure from the gritty reality of the author's renowned dramas. Taking place over the July 4th weekend of 1906 in an idyllic Connecticut town, it offers a tender, retrospective portrait of small town family values, teenage growing pains, and...
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The Man Who LaughsThe Man Who Laughs (1869) is a novel by Victor Hugo. Written while Hugo was living in exile on the island of Guernsey, The Man Who Laughs is set between the 17th and 18th centuries in England, a time of political unrest and class...
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The Place of the LionThe veil between the worlds has been torn, and terrible powers are coming through...A magician has caused a rift in the fabric of the universe, and Platonic ideals are now roaming the English countryside, taking the form of giant animals and generally wrecking havoc...
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Formalists against Imperialism: The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar and Russian OrientalismIn January 1829, an angry mob in Tehran murdered Russian poet and diplomat Alexander Griboedov, author of the verse comedy Woe from Wit and architect of the Russian annexation of the north Caucasus from Persia after the Russo-Persian War. A century later, the Russian...
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Tolstoy as Philosopher. Essential Short Writings: An AnthologyThis anthology is the fullest edition to date of the rich variety of Tolstoy's philosophical output collected in a single volume that covers more than seven decades of his life, from 1835 to 1910. The seventy-seven texts included exemplify Tolstoy as an artistically inventive,...
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Fathering the Nation: American Genealogies of Slavery and FreedomRuss Castronovo underscores the inherent contradictions between America's founding principles of freedom and the reality of slavery in a book that probes mid-nineteenth-century representations of the founding fathers. He finds that rather than being coherent and consensual, narratives of nationhood are inconsistent, ambivalent, and...
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