Literature
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The Woman in WhiteHarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.'The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared.'One of the earliest...
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My Lady Ludlow and Other StoriesAuthor: Elizabeth Cleghorn GaskellPublisher: Oxford University Press, USAPublished: 04/27/1989Pages: 488Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.36lbsSize: 7.33h x 4.64w x 0.88dISBN: 9780192818386This title is not returnable
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Outback and Out West: The Settler-Colonial Environmental ImaginaryOutback and Out West examines the ecological consequences of a settler-colonial imaginary by comparing expressions of settler colonialism in the literature of the American West and Australian Outback. Tom Lynch traces exogenous domination in both regions, which resulted in many similar means of settlement,...
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Vergil's Aeneid and the Roman Self: Subject and Nation in Literary DiscourseNow in Paper!As the most widely read Roman poem in antiquity, the Aeneid was indelibly burned into the memories of generations of Roman school children. In this book, author Yasmin Syed analyzes the formative influence the poem exerted on its broad audience of educated...
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The Sun Also Rises2022 Reprint of the 1926 Edition. Published in 1926 to explosive acclaim, The Sun Also Rises stands as perhaps the most impressive first novel ever written by an American writer. A roman a clef about a group of American and English expatriates on an...
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Incarnation & Metamorphosis: Can Literature Change Us?"Witty and heartfelt essays, shaken and stirred."--Kirkus Reviews "David Mason believes in literature as a weather event--even an extreme one. He reads to be changed--drenched, burned, blown away. He has no wish to have his standing position confirmed, and is alert to the ways...
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French Short Stories for Intermediate Level: Improve Your Reading and Listening Skills in FrenchImprove your reading and listening comprehension and make learning new vocabulary so much easier with 7 French short stories.By using this book you will be able to: Understand grammar concepts without the monotonous chore of memorizing rules. Grasp new vocabulary that you can immediately...
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Bestsellers and Masterpieces: The Changing Medieval CanonBestsellers and masterpieces: The changing medieval canon addresses the strange fact that, in both European and Middle Eastern medieval studies, those texts that we now study and teach as the most canonical representations of their era were in fact not popular or even widely...
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The Mark of ZorroAmerican author Johnston McCulley first introduced the world to his dashing and mysterious hero Zorro in "The Curse of Capistrano", a five-part story published in the pulp magazine "All-Story Weekly" in 1919. Soon made into a popular silent film starring Douglas Fairbanks as the...
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Storm Birds"This gripping novel is as good at describing the magnificent seascapes and the unforgiving elements as it is at examining the inner lives of the besieged crew, toiling ceaselessly against implacable nature" -Financial Times BOOKS OF THE YEAR "Gripping and Exciting" The Sunday Times...
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The Semiotics of Architecture in Video GamesVideo games are among the most popular media on the planet, and billions of people inhabit these virtual worlds on a daily basis. This book investigates the architecture of video games, the buildings, roads and cities in which gamers play out their roles. Examining...
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East of the Wardrobe: The Unexpected Worlds of C. S. LewisA fascinating look at the rich but under-appreciated Eastern sources behind the Narnia book C. S. Lewis was no great traveller but he was a prodigious bibliophile who absorbed the world's traditions of myth, religion, and cosmology. The Chronicles of Narnia are steeped in...
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Northanger Abbey (Jane Austen Collection)Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey is now available in an exclusive collector's edition featuring a delicate laser-cut jacket on a textured book with foil stamping and ribbon marker, ideal for fiction lovers and book collectors alike. Austen fans who appreciated the Seasons collection will love...
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The Tao of S: America's Chinee & the Chinese Century in Literature and FilmA study of recent shifts in the depictions of Asian cultural stereotypes The Tao of S is an engaging study of American racialization of Chinese and Asians, Asian American writing, and contemporary Chinese cultural production, stretching from the nineteenth century to the present. Sheng-mei...
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Conquering BerlinBerlin: Capital of the Reich. In the heyday of the decadent Weimar Republic, the political heart of Germany is a Red fortress with streets overrun by communist gangs. While the brown-shirted SA-Men are ascendant in other parts of the country, only the bravest dare...
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Breathing AestheticsIn Breathing Aesthetics Jean-Thomas Tremblay argues that difficult breathing indexes the uneven distribution of risk in a contemporary era marked by the increasing contamination, weaponization, and monetization of air. Tremblay shows how biopolitical and necropolitical forces tied to the continuation of extractive capitalism, imperialism,...
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Poetry, Politics, and the Law in Modern IrelandPoetry, Politics, and the Law in Modern Ireland is a richly detailed exploration of how modern Irish poetry has been shaped by, and responded to, the laws, judgments, and constitutions of both of the island's jurisdictions. Focusing on poets' responses in their writing to...
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In Common Things: Commerce, Culture, and Ecology in British Romantic LiteratureThe hardness of stone, the pliancy of wood, the fluidity of palm oil, the crystalline nature of salt, and the vegetable qualities of moss - each describes a way of being in and understanding the world. These substances are both natural objects hailed in...
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Medieval Devil: A ReaderFrom his first appearances in scripture preventing Balaam from disobeying God's will to his supposed role presiding over cannibalistic orgies in the middle of the fifteenth century, the devil has been a dynamic force underlying European society. The personification of shifting fears and anxieties...
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The Making of Barbarians: Chinese Literature and Multilingual AsiaA groundbreaking account of translation and identity in the Chinese literary tradition before 1850--with important ramifications for today Debates on the canon, multiculturalism, and world literature often take Eurocentrism as the target of their critique. But literature is a universe with many centers, and...
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