Literature
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Machado de Assis: The Brazilian Master and His NovelsMachado de Assis is among the most original creative minds in Brazil's rich, four-century-long literary tradition. Caldwell's critical and biographical study explores Machado's purpose, meaning, and artistic method in each of his nine novels, published between 1872 and 1908. She traces the ideas and...
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George Eliot's Early Novels: The Limits of RealismThis study shows how George Eliot, a leader in the nineteenth-century intellectual world of Darwin and the Industrial Revolution, wrestled in her early novels with the esthetic problems of reconciling her art and her philosophy. Attempting in her fiction to reproduce the real, temporal...
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OIn O, artist and writer Tammy Nguyen returns to Vietnam to visit the caves of the Phong Nha Karst. This journey into the Karst's windcarved teeth resounds with the traditional songs of Nguyen's guides, whose melodies produce the OOOOOOOO that echoes through narratives woven...
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Maladies of the Will: The American Novel and the Modernity ProblemAn examination of the nineteenth-century American novel that argues for a new genealogy of the concept of the will. What if the modern person were defined not by reason or sentiment, as Enlightenment thinkers hoped, but by will? Western modernity rests on the ideal...
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Latin: Or, the Empire of a SignA highly original and accessible history of Latin between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries For almost three centuries, Latin dominated the civic and sacred worlds of Europe and, arguably, the entire western world. From the moment in the sixteenth century when it was adopted...
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La metamorfosis (Anotado)La metamorfosis (Die Verwandlung, en su título original en alemán) es un relato de Franz Kafka, publicado en 1915 y que narra la historia de Gregorio Samsa, un comerciante de telas que vive con su familia a la que él mantiene con su sueldo,...
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D.H. Lawrence's Final Fictions: A Lacanian PerspectiveD.H. Lawrence's Final Fictions: A Lacanian Perspective explores how literature thinks; more specifically, how the reading of fiction influences behavior. Lawrence writes passionately about our alienation from ourselves, from other people, and from the cosmos. He believes that we need to heed the voices...
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The Masculinities of John Milton: Cultures and Constructs of Manhood in the Major WorksThe Masculinites of John Milton is the first published monograph on Milton's men. Examining how Milton's fantasies of manly authority are framed in his major works, this study exposes the gaps between Milton's pleas for liberty and his assumptions that White men like himself...
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Art in Doubt: Tolstoy, Nabokov, and the Problem of Other MindsLeo Tolstoy's and Vladimir Nabokov's radically opposed aesthetic worldviews emanate from a shared intuition--that approaching a text skeptically is easy, but trusting it is hard Two figures central to the Russian literary tradition--Tolstoy, the moralist, and Nabokov, the aesthete--seem to have sharply conflicting ideas...
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Capsule Stories Spring 2022 Edition: Into the LightFeaturing poetry and prose, Capsule Stories Spring 2022 Edition explores the theme Into the Light. Read bright and sunny writings that shine a light on growth and new possibilities after a long, dark winter. These stories and poems tell of leaving bad relationships, of...
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Books of the Brave: Being an Account of Books and of Men in the Spanish Conquest and Settlement of the Sixteenth-Century New WorldSince its original appearance in 1949, Irving A. Leonard's pioneering Books of the Brave has endured as the classic account of the introduction of literary culture to the Spanish New World. Leonard's study documents the works of fiction that accompanied and followed the conquistadores...
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On Ovid's MetamorphosesOvid's Metamorphoses has entranced audiences for two thousand years, from Rome under Augustus to humanities classrooms today. Borrowing liberally from Greek and Roman mythology, the poem tells hundreds of stories that share one essential theme: each tale depicts a transformation from one physical form...
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Piers Plowman and Its Manuscript TraditionThe first full survey of crucial witnesses to the reception of Piers Plowman. The fifty-plus surviving manuscripts of William Langland's Piers Plowman cast important light on the early public life of this central Middle English work, but they have been relatively neglected by scholarship....
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Teaching Asian North American TextsEssays for teaching Asian North American texts and their historical and cultural contexts.From the short stories and journalism of Sui Sin Far to Maxine Hong Kingston's pathbreaking The Woman Warrior to recent popular and critical successes such as Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Sympathizer, Mohsin...
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Law as Performance: Theatricality, Spectatorship, and the Making of Law in Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern EuropeTirades against legal theatrics are nearly as old as law itself, and yet so is the age-old claim that law must not merely be done: it must be seen to be done. Law as Performance traces the history of legal performance and spectatorship through...
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The Art and Thought of the Beowulf PoetIn The Art and Thought of the Beowulf Poet, Leonard Neidorf explores the relationship between Beowulf and the legendary tradition that existed prior to its composition. The Beowulf poet inherited an amoral heroic tradition, which focused principally on heroes compelled by circumstances to commit...
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Weathered Words: Formulaic Language and Verbal ArtFormulaic phraseology presents the epitome of words worn and weathered by trial and the tests of time. Scholarship on weathered words is exceptionally diverse and interdisciplinary. This volume focuses on verbal art, which makes Oral-Formulaic Theory (OFT) a major point of reference. Yet weathered...
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Private Lives Made Public: The Invention of Biography in Early Modern EnglandFollowing the trial and execution of Charles I in 1649, the seventeenth century witnessed an explosion of print culture in England, including an unprecedented boom in biographical writing. Andrea Walkden offers a case-study examination of this fascinating trend, bringing together texts that generations of...
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Milton, Materialism, and Embodiment: One First Matter AllBringing together eight original essays from leading and emerging Miltonists, this volume explores a second wave of critical thought about Milton's monist materialism, the view that all existence arises from a single substance or reality. Contributors examine sensory matters of fragrance and sound, the...
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The PearlThe Pearl is a novella by the American author John Steinbeck. The story, first published in 1947, follows a pearl diver, Kino, and explores man's purpose as well as greed, defiance of societal norms, and evil. Steinbeck's inspiration was a Mexican folk tale from...
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