Literature
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King Lear: Shakespeare's Dark ConsolationsA book on the experience of reading Shakespeare's 'dark plays'. As part of the My Reading series, King Lear is a personal meditation on a great literary work. Arthur Frank brings a career of studying illness experience and suffering to consider how King Lear...
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Fantasma de la Ópera, ElAuthor: Gaston LeRouxPublisher: SelectorPublished: 07/26/2022Pages: 80Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.30dISBN: 9786074537543Language: Spanish
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Ballad Hunting with Max Hunter: Stories of an Ozark Folksong CollectorA traveling salesman with little formal education, Max Hunter gravitated to song catching and ballad hunting while on business trips in the Ozarks. Hunter recorded nearly 1600 traditional songs by more than 200 singers from the mid-1950s through the mid-1970s, all the while focused...
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The Abyss or Life Is Simple: Reading Knausgaard Writing ReligionAn absorbing collection of essays on religious textures in Knausgaard's writings and our time. Min kamp, or My Struggle, is a six-volume novel by Karl Ove Knausgaard and one of the most significant literary works of the young twenty-first century. Published in Norwegian between...
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The Inner Sea: Maritime Literary Culture in Early Modern PortugalAn expansive consideration of how nautical themes influenced literature in early modern Portugal. In this book, Josiah Blackmore considers how the sea and seafaring shaped literary creativity in early modern Portugal during the most active, consequential decades of European overseas expansion. Blackmore understands "literary"...
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The Uninhabited HouseAuthor: Charlotte RiddellPublisher: Broadview Press IncPublished: 03/21/2022Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 8.43h x 5.43w x 0.63dISBN: 9781554815036This title is not returnableThis title is only available via back order
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Rasa Theory in Shakespearian TragediesThis book adds a unique eastern perspective to the ever growing corpus of Shakespeare criticism. The ancient Sanskrit theory of Rasa - the aesthete's emotional response to performing arts - is explicated in detail and applied to Shakespeare's tragic masterpieces. Bharata, who wrote about...
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Packing Death in Australian Literature: Ecocides and Eco-SidesPacking Death in Australian Literature: Ecocides and Eco-Sidesaddresses Australian Literature from ecocritical, animal studies, plantstudies, indigenous studies, and posthumanist critical perspectives. Thebook's main purpose is twofold: to bring more sustained attention to environmental, vegetal, and animal rights issues, past and present, and todo that...
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The Intelligent Unconscious in Modernist Literature and ScienceThis book reassesses the philosophical, psychological and, above all, the literary representations of the unconscious in the early twentieth century. This period is distinctive in the history of responses to the unconscious because it gave rise to a line of thought according to which...
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The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance FictionPopular romance fiction constitutes the largest segment of the global book market. Bringing together an international group of scholars, The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction offers a ground-breaking exploration of this global genre and its remarkable readership. In recognition of the diversity...
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Antarctica in British Children's LiteratureFor over a century British authors have been writing about the Antarctic for child readers, yet this body of literature has never been explored in detail. Antarctica in British Children's Literature examines this field for the first time, identifying the dominant genres and recurrent...
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MedeaONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL AND ENDURING OF GREEK TRAGEDIESAuthor: EuripidesPublisher: G&D MediaPublished: 09/27/2022Pages: 94Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.22lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.19dISBN: 9781722503857
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Planet Work: Rethinking Labor and Leisure in the AnthropoceneLabor and labor norms orient much of contemporary life, organizing our days and years and driving planetary environmental change. Yet, labor, as a foundational set of values and practices, has not been sufficiently interrogated in the context of the environmental humanities for its profound...
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The Principles of Scientific ManagementFrederick Winslow Taylor (March 20, 1856 - March 21, 1915) was an American mechanical engineer. He was widely known for his methods to improve industrial efficiency. He was one of the first management consultants. In 1911, Taylor summed up his efficiency techniques in his...
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Situating Poetry: Covenant and Genre in American ModernismA retelling of American modernism through the lines of solidarity and division within and among ethnic and religious identities found in poetry.What happens if we approach the reading and writing of poetry not as an individual act, but as a public one? Answering this...
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Toni Morrison: A Literary LifeA reading of the oeuvre of Toni Morrison--fiction, non-fiction, and other--drawing extensively from her many interviews as well as her primary texts, Toni Morrison: A Literary Life, second edition provides an overview of Morrison's intellectual growth as an artist. Linda Wagner-Martin aligns Morrison's novels...
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The Mexican Transpacific: Nikkei Writing, Visual Arts, and PerformanceThe Mexican Transpacific considers the influence of a Japanese ethnic background or lack thereof in the cultural production of several twentieth- and twenty-first-century Mexican authors, performers, and visual artists. Despite Japanese Mexicans' unquestionable influence on Mexico's history and culture and the historical studies recently...
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Keats's Anatomy of Melancholy: Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St Agnes and Other Poems (1820)A detailed study of John Keats's classic volume of poetry published in 1820 considered in the light of the history of melancholy First, book-length critical study of John Keats's collection of poems, Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes, And Other Poems (1820) Considers...
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The Short Writings of Nelson Algren: A Study of His Stories, Essays, Articles, Reviews, Poems and Other LiteratureNelson Algren was a renowned Chicago writer known for his social commentary and his novels like The Man with the Golden Arm and A Walk on the Wild Side. Although he continues to be remembered almost exclusively for his novels, this book aims to...
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King Lear 'After' Auschwitz: Shakespeare, Appropriation and Theatres of Catastrophe in Post-War British DramaAnalyses appropriations of King Lear in post-war British drama Provides the first dedicated study on appropriations of King Lear in British playwriting of the post-war, developing valuable new perspectives on the legacy of Shakespeare in post-war drama and culture. Features original case studies on...
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