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hangover daysRobbie Masso's first full-length collection of poetry and prose shows off his ability to intricately describe life, love, sadness, depression, anxiety, addiction, and the longing for freedom, while being as honest and blunt as possible. Reminiscent of the likes of Bukowski and other modern...
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Literary Patronage in Late Medieval Japan: Volume 23The late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries in Japan, which were dominated by social upheavals and political conflicts, were the scene of a fundamental expansion of arts patronage. This was a time of great change in all areas of Japanese life: old centralized political...
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A New Handbook of Literary TermsAn indispensable literary reference guide that comes at a time of formidable complexity in literary studies A New Handbook of Literary Terms offers a lively, informative guide to words and concepts that every student of literature needs to know. Mikics's definitions are essayistic, witty,...
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Women on War in Spain's Long Nineteenth Century: Virtue, Patriotism, CitizenshipDrawing on feminist theories and cultural histories, this book interweaves historical and literary contexts of Spanish female writers and their works on war. Author: Christine ArkinstallPublisher: University of Toronto PressPublished: 12/19/2022Pages: 296Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.23lbsSize: 9.13h x 5.98w x 1.02dISBN: 9781487546267
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Selected Plays of Stan Lai: Volume 3: A Dream Like a Dream and Ago Volume 3These volumes feature works from across Lai's career, providing an exceptional selection of a diverse range of performances. Volume Three contains: A Dream Like a Dream AgoAuthor: Stan LaiPublisher: University of Michigan PressPublished: 02/24/2022Pages: 486Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.63lbsSize: 8.98h x 6.06w x 1.34dISBN: 9780472055098This...
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Latin American Literature at the Millennium: Local Lives, Global SpacesLatin American Literature at the Millennium: Local Lives, Global Spaces analyzes literary constructions of locality from the early 1990s to the mid 2010s. In this astute study, Raynor reads work by Roberto Bolaño, Valeria Luiselli, Luiz Ruffato, Bernardo Carvalho, João Gilberto Noll, and Wilson...
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Sangati: EventsSangati is a startling insight into the lives of Dalit women who face the double disadvantage of caste and gender discrimination. Written in a colloquial style, the original Tamil version overturns the decorum and aesthetics of upper-caste, upper-class Tamil literature and culture and, in...
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Memoirs of General William T Sherman: Shiloh, Vicksburg, and the March to the SeaGeneral William T Sherman's firsthand account of the Civil War. From Shiloh to Vicksburg and the March to the Sea, General Sherman's campaign crippled the Confederacy and led to Union victory. With eight pages of photos.Author: William Tecumseh ShermanPublisher: Red and Black PublishersPublished: 05/22/2009Pages:...
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The Batcave Companion: An Examination of the "New Look" (1964-1969) and Bronze Age (1970-1979) Batman and Detective ComicsThe writer/editor of the critically acclaimed The Krypton Companion and the designer of the eye-popping Spies, Vixens, and Masters of Kung Fu: The Art of Paul Gulacy team up to investigate the Silver and Bronze Ages of Batman comic books in The Batcave Companion!...
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The Lion in the Waste Land: Fearsome Redemption in the Work of C. S. Lewis, Dorothy L. Sayers, and T. S. EliotAs bombs fell on London almost nightly from the autumn of 1940 through the summer of 1941, the lives of ordinary people were altered beyond recognition. A reclusive Oxford lecturer found himself speaking, not about Renaissance literature to a roomful of students but about...
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Wisdom from the Edge: Writing Ethnography in Turbulent TimesWisdom From the Edge describes what anthropologists can do to contribute to the social and cultural changes that shape a social future of wellbeing and viability. Paul Stoller shows how anthropologists can develop sensuously described ethnographic narratives to communicate powerfully their insights to a...
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Tales of an Eastern Port: The Singapore Novellas of Joseph ConradSingapore in the writings of Joseph Conrad: a node in the networks of colonial modernity. In the 1880s, Joseph Conrad spent three extended stints in the colonial port city of Singapore, while working on ships around the region. Over the next thirty years, he...
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Love, Death, Fame: Poetry and Lore from the Emirati Oral TraditionPoems and tales of a literary forefather of the United Arab Emirates Love, Death, Fame features the poetry of al-Māyidī ibn Ẓāhir, who has been embraced as the earliest poet in what would later become the United Arab Emirates. Although little is known about...
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How the News Feels: The Empathic Power of Literary JournalistsLiterary journalism's origins can be traced to the nineteenth century, when it developed alongside the era's sentimental literature. Combining fact-based reporting with the sentimentality of popular fiction, literary journalism encouraged readers to empathize with subjects by presenting more nuanced and engaging stories than typical...
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Fictions of Gender: Women, Femininity, and the Zionist Imagination Volume 1In the wake of the #MeToo movement, gender scholars and activists have asked whether a reconcilliation between Zionism and feminism is possible in the current political landscape. Fictions of Gender explores the contemporary controversies surrounding both Zionism and feminism, and how they are prefigured...
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The History of MdmaAs recent statistics show, more than 100 million people on the planet have used MDMA. After cannabis, it is the second most used drug worldwide. Yet there are many misconceptions surrounding the drug, which have affected attempts to use it as a legitimate and...
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The Poets: Geoffrey Chaucer to Alfred Tennyson, 1340-1892: ImpressionsThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Between Daily Routine and Violent ProtestMost human action has a technical dimension. This book examines four components of this technical dimension. First, in all actions, various individual, organizational or institutional agents combine actional capabilities with tools, institutions, infrastructure and other elements by means of which they act. Second, the...
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Standing at the Crossroads: Stories of Doubt in Renaissance ItalyImagined as an armed old man leaping like a locust or as a young man walking in the dark, doubt occupies a prominent place in the mental landscape of Renaissance Italians. Intriguing stories of doubters, as well as allegories and tales of doubt populated...
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Ever After: The Extended Lives and Work of Eleven Famous WritersImagine an alternate reality--where Jane Austen, Henry David Thoreau, George Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, Emily Dickinson, Emma Lazarus, Oscar Wilde, Marcel Proust, Colette, Virginia Woolf, and Franz Kafka--all lived longer lives--wrote the poems, stories, and books we read in school--one of which changed history--and lived...
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