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A Room of One's Own'If Shakespeare had a sister as talented as he, would she have got the same opportunities to develop her skills?' This was the burning question every feminist must have pondered over and agreed with while reading Virginia Woolf 's extended essay A Room of...
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Holy Envy: Writing in the Jewish Christian BorderzoneWhat is between us and the Christians is a deep dark affair which will go for another hundred generations . . ." (Amos Oz, Judas) Among the great social shifts of the post-World War II era is the unlikely sea-change in Jewish Christian relations....
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The Last Day of a Condemned ManThe Last Day of a Condemned Man (1829) is a short novel by Victor Hugo. Having witnessed several executions by guillotine as a young man, Hugo devoted himself in his art and political life to opposing the death penalty in France. Praised by Dostoevsky...
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The Gift of Black FolkThe Gift of Black Folk (1924) is a book of essays by W. E. B. Du Bois. Written while the author was using his role at The Crisis, the official magazine of the NAACP, to publish emerging Black artists of the Harlem Renaissance, The...
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The Racist Fantasy: Unconscious Roots of HatredWhat stands out about racism is its ability to withstand efforts to legislate or educate it away. In The Racist Fantasy, Todd McGowan argues that its persistence is due to a massive unconscious investment in a fundamental racist fantasy. As long as this fantasy...
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Gary Soto: A Career in Poetry and ProseIn a 1995 interview, prolific Chicano writer Gary Soto noted, ""Wonderment has always been a part of my life."" This book surveys Soto's immense range of poems, stories, novels, essays and plays for audiences of prereaders to adults. Soto's world moves from the cotton...
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(P)Rescription Narratives: Feminist Medical Fiction and the Failure of American Censorship(P)rescription Narratives reveals how the act of narrative creates the subjects of disability, race, and gender during a period of censorship in American history. In a Crip Affect reading of woman-authored medical fiction from the Comstock law era, this book astutely argues that women...
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Virginia Woolf and Nineteenth-Century Women Writers: Victorian Legacies and Literary AfterlivesThis book examines Virginia Woolf's influence on the literary afterlives of nineteenth-century women of letters including Jane Austen, Mary Russell Mitford, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Margaret Oliphant and Mary Augusta Ward through her journalism. Woolf's responses to her literary predecessors provide...
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The Puritan Cosmopolis: The Law of Nations and the Early American ImaginationThe Puritan Cosmopolis traces a sense of kinship that emerged from within the larger realm of Puritan law and literature in late seventeenth-century New England. Nan Goodman argues that these early modern Puritans-connected to the cosmopolis in part through travel, trade, and politics-were also...
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The Boy in the BushThe book "" The Boy in the Bush "", has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future...
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Ciclo Onírico Randolph CarterSelección de relatos protagonizados por un alter ego aventurero de Lovecraft. La influencia de Lovecraft creció después de su muerte, dejando a muchos seguidores y escritores que ampliaron el corpus de sus mitos. Selection of stories starring an adventurous alter ego of Lovecraft. Lovecraft's...
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Swiss Family RobinsonWhile traveling on a ship, a Swiss pastor, his wife and four sons encounter a violent storm that abruptly transports them to a tropical island. They attempt to navigate the desolate shore but face looming danger and an unforeseen presence. A family venture turns...
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The Bloomsbury Handbook to Agatha ChristieThe first specifically academic companion to contemporary scholarship on the work of Agatha Christie, this book includes chapters by an international group of scholars writing on topics and fields of study as various as ecocriticism and the anthropocene, popular modernism, middlebrow fiction, queer theory,...
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La BatardeAn obsessive and revealing self-portrait of a remarkable woman humiliated by the circumstances of her birth and by her physical appearance, La Bâtarde relates Violette Leduc's long search for her own identity through a series of agonizing and passionate love affairs with both men...
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Agon: Towards a Theory of RevisionismAuthor: Harold BloomPublisher: Oxford University Press, USAPublished: 09/08/1983Pages: 352Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.05h x 5.33w x 0.75dISBN: 9780195033540This title is not returnable
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The Federal Theatre Project, 1935-1939: Engagement and ExperimentationInvestigates the explosive phenomenon of the Federal Theatre Project (FTP) from a transatlantic perspective Offers the first comparative study of the history, performances and politics of the FTP in a book form Contributes significantly to the study of Hallie Flanagan as the bridge between...
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The Native SoilThe Native Soil, has been considered an important book throughout the human history. So that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. The whole book has...
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The Native SonThe Native Son, has been considered an important book throughout the human history. So that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. The whole book has...
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The Naturalist in La PlataThe Naturalist in La Plata, has been considered an important book throughout the human history. So that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. The whole...
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The Natural History of the GentThe Natural History of the Gent, has been considered an important book throughout the human history. So that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. The...
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