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Jean Sbogar and Other StoriesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssAuthor: Charles NodierPublisher: Snuggly BooksPublished: 08/31/2021Pages: 302Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.98lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.68dISBN: 9781645250791This title is not returnable
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Los Tres Crímenes de Arsène Lupin / Arsène Lupin's Three MurdersLOS TRES CRÍMENES DE ARSÈNE LUPIN. LAS HISTORIAS EN LAS QUE SE BASA LA NUEVA SERIE DE TELEVISIÓN DE NETFLIX. LA SAGA LITERERARIA EN LA QUE SE INSPIRA LUPIN. DESCUBRE LAS HISTORIAS QUE CAMBIARON LA VIDA DE ASSANE, EL HÉROE DE LA EXIT0SA SERIE...
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The Sonnets of Rainer Maria RilkeRomano Guardini described Rainer Maria Rilke as the "poet who had things of such importance to say about the end of our own age [and] was also a prophet of things to come." The complexity of Rilke is, then, "highly relevant to modern Man."...
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManAfter a scandal breaks out involving a famous Irish Nationalist politician, Stephen Dedalus finds his family being torn apart over their differing opinions of the matter. Shaken by all the fighting and animosity, Stephen begins to wonder where he can place his faith. Questioning...
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TikkunTikkun refers to the Kabbalistic mythology associated with the Sephiroth, vessels created to contain the energies emanating from the divine (En-Sof). Those vessels were unable to contain those energies and were shattered by their force. The broken shards fall in a shower of sparks...
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Women Writing Jewish Modernity, 1919-1939In Women Writing Jewish Modernity, 1919-1939, Allison Schachter rewrites Jewish literary modernity from the point of view of women. Focusing on works by interwar Hebrew and Yiddish writers, Schachter illuminates how women writers embraced the transgressive potential of prose fiction to challenge the patriarchal...
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I Was More American Than the Americans: Sylvère Lotringer in Conversation with Donatien GrauA personal take on French Theory by one of the people who invented it. In the mid-1970s, Sylvère Lotringer created Semiotext(e), a philosophical group that became a magazine and then a publishing house. Since its creation, Semio-text(e) has been a place of stimulating dialogue...
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Life in Plastic: Artistic Responses to PetromodernityA vital contribution to environmental humanities that explores artistic responses to the plastic age Since at least the 1960s, plastics have been a defining feature of contemporary life. They are undeniably utopian--wondrously innovative, cheap, malleable, durable, and convenient. Yet our proliferating use of plastics...
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Subjects in PoetryDaniel Brown's Subjects in Poetry is the first book to examine the broad and imposing topic of poetic subject matter, probing both what poems are about and how that influences the way they're made. It comprises one poet's attempt to plumb the nature of...
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Hope Is the Thing: Wisconsinites on Perseverance in a PandemicIn March 2020, as a pandemic began to ravage our world, writer and professor B. J. Hollars started a collaborative writing project to bridge the emotional challenges created by our physical distancing. Drawing upon Emily Dickinson's famous poem "'Hope' is the thing with feathers,"...
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Navigating Chamoru Poetry: Indigeneity, Aesthetics, and DecolonizationNavigating CHamoru Poetry focuses on Indigenous CHamoru (Chamorro) poetry from the Pacific Island of Guåhan (Guam). Poet and scholar Craig Santos Perez brings critical attention to a diverse and intergenerational collection of CHamoru poetry and scholarship. Throughout this book, Perez develops an Indigenous literary...
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Latin in Modern Fiction: Who Says It's a Dead Language?The goal of this book is to prove that Latin is not a dead language by demonstrating how prevalent and strong it still is in modern Western culture. In order to do so, the author, an English philologist with a long experience as a...
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El Divino NarcisoSor Juana In s de la Cruz, a seventeenth-century colonial Mexican nun known for her intellect and writings, wrote El Divino Narciso around 1688. It is a type of theatrical work known as an auto sacramental, peculiar to Spain and its colonies. Autos sacramentales...
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Black Dragon: Afro Asian Performance and the Martial Arts ImaginationIn Black Dragon: Afro Asian Performance and the Martial Arts Imagination, Zachary F. Price illuminates martial arts as a site of knowledge exchange between Black, Asian, and Asian American people and cultures to offer new insights into the relationships among these historically marginalized groups....
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The Short Story of the Novel: A Pocket Guide to Key Genres, Novels, Themes and TechniquesAuthor: Henry RussellPublisher: Laurence KingPublished: 04/06/2021Pages: 224Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 8.30h x 5.80w x 0.80dISBN: 9781786277442
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Marienbad and BeyondMarienbad & Beyond: a fascinating story of courage and survival with an eighty-year travel around the world. Starting in Marienbad, the resort where Orthodox Jewry enjoyed their annual vacations.A Picture Gallery of Marienbad.Over a dozen personal letters from Reb Aaron of Belz.Correspondence and a...
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The Black Man, the Father of Civilization, Proven by Biblical HistoryAuthor: James Morris WebbPublisher: E-ArtnowPublished: 04/22/2021Pages: 36Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.14lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.07dISBN: 9788027340576This title is not returnable
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Phantasmion: A Fairy TalePhantasmion is the king of a fantastical realm who is forced into a series of trials that require him to seek help from unexpected allies. It's a captivating adventure full of vibrant characters and internal and external conflicts. King Phantasmion is desperate to protect...
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Hagar's DaughterHagar's Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice (1901-1902) is a novel by African American author Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins. Originally published in The Colored American Magazine, America's first monthly periodical covering African American arts and culture, Hagar's Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice...
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On Novels and NovelistsA collection of essays on renowned French writers, including Sarraute, Renard, and Gide. Iconic French novelist, playwright, and essayist Jean-Paul Sartre is widely recognized as one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, and his work has remained relevant and thought-provoking through...
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