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Queer as Folklore: The Hidden Queer History of Myths and MonstersQueer as Folklore takes readers across centuries and continents which reveals the unsung heroes and villains of storytelling, magic and fantasy. Featuring images from archives, galleries and museums around the world, each chapter investigates the queer history of different mythic and folkloric characters, both...
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Publicity and the Early Modern Stage: People Made PublicWhat did publicity look like before the eighteenth century? What were its uses and effects, and around whom was it organized? The essays in this collection ask these questions of early modern London. Together, they argue that commercial theater was a vital engine in...
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Psychology According to Shakespeare: What You Can Learn about Human Nature from Shakespeare's Great PlaysWilliam Shakespeare has undergone psychological analyses ever since Freud diagnosed Hamlet with an Oedipus complex. But now, two psychologists propose to turn the tables by telling how Shakespeare himself understood human behavior and the innermost workings of the human mind. Psychology According to Shakespeare:...
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Norse Runes - The Language of the Gods: How to understand the meaning and symbolism of the runes and integrate them into your life - The Elder FutharkRunes - Discover the magical world of Norse mythology and transform your lifeA beginner's guide to understanding and using the mysterious world of runes Dive into the magical world of Norse mythology and discover the power of the runes of the elder Futhark. This...
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Literary History and Avant-Garde Poetics in the Antipodes: Languages of InventionAvant-garde poetry in the Antipodes causes all sorts of trouble for literary history. It is an avant-garde that seems to arrive too late and yet right on time. In 1897, Christopher Brennan made his own version of Un Coup de Dés, the same year...
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La gran pantalla dominicana. Miradas críticas al cine actualLas secuelas del trujillato, las subjetividades de toda ndole que remiten a lo identitario y los lazos trasnacionales en el Caribe articulan un recorrido exhaustivo por la cinematograf a dominicana contempor nea. Cartograf a necesaria, este libro indaga a trav s de una mirada...
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In Transition: Young Adult Literature and Transgender RepresentationThe first book-length work of its kind, In Transition: Young Adult Literature and Transgender Representation examines the shift in the young adult book market towards increased representation of transgender characters and authors. Through a comprehensive exploration of historical conventions, genres, character diversity, and ideologies...
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Indian Old-Man Stories: More Sparks from War Eagle's Lodge-Fire (the Authorized Edition)The Indians of the northwestern plains always laughed at the tales about Old-man, heard around the lodge fire in the wintertime after sunset. For a powerful character, he was comically flawed. Old-man made the world but sometimes forgot the names of things. Victim and...
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If You're Cracked, You're Happy (hardback): The History of Cracked Mazagine, Part TooThis is Part 2! "No one was ever a fan of Cracked. We would buy Mad every month, but about two weeks later we would get anxious for new material. We would tell ourselves, 'OK, we are not going to buy Cracked. Never again!'...
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Ideology: An IntroductionIdeology has never before been so much in evidence as a fact, and so little understood as a concept, as it is today. In this now classic work, originally written for both students and for those already familiar with the debates around the concept,...
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History of the Gothic: American GothicDefining the American gothic tradition both within the context of the major movements of intellectual history over the past three-hundred years, as well as within the issues critical to American culture, this comprehensive volume covers a diverse terrain of well-known American writers, from Poe...
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Henry Constable: The Complete PoemsElizabethan poet Henry Constable (1562-1613), a Protestant-born Catholic convert, is a fascinating case study in how religious and political preoccupations could drive the learned across the unstable confessional divide. He threw over an early career of government service to work towards the return of...
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Engaging Ambience: Visual and Multisensory Methodologies and Rhetorical TheoryEngaging Ambience is an in-depth exploration of contemporary rhetorical theory, drawing from rich traditions of visual and sensory research. It is the first book to develop comprehensive empirical approaches to ambient rhetoric and the first to offer systematic approaches to visual research in studies...
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Elizabeth Bishop and the New Yorker: The Complete CorrespondenceI sort of see you surrounded with fine-tooth combs, sandpaper, nail files, pots of varnish, etc.--with heaps of used commas and semicolons handy, and little useless phrases taken out of their contexts and dying all over the floor," Elizabeth Bishop said upon learning a...
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Consuming Anxieties: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Trade in British Satire, 1660-1751Writers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries--a period of vast economic change--recognized that the global trade in alcohol and tobacco promised a brighter financial future for England, even as overindulgence at home posed serious moral pitfalls. This engaging and original study explores...
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Constant Reader: The New Yorker Columns 1927-28"Does anyone know how hard it is to be that funny? . . . Read her book reviews. Read them now and see how good they are." --Fran Lebowitz When Dorothy Parker became a book critic for the New Yorker, in 1927, she was...
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Characters Of Shakespeare'S Plays"Characters of Shakespeare's Plays" is a collection of essays written by the English literary critic and essayist, William Hazlitt. The book is a critical analysis of the characters in the plays of William Shakespeare, one of the most celebrated playwrights of all time. In...
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Bigger: A Literary LifeA biography of Native Son's Bigger Thomas that examines his continued relevance in debates over Black men and the violence of racism Bigger Thomas, the central figure in Richard Wright's novel Native Son (1940), eludes easy categorization. A violent and troubled character who rejects...
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BeowulfIn Beowulf warriors must back up their mead-hall boasts with instant action, monsters abound, and fights are always to the death. The Anglo-Saxon epic, composed between the 7th and 10th centuries, has long been accorded its place in literature, though its hold on our...
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Balzac's Paris: The City as Human ComedyExploring Paris arm in arm with Balzac, nineteenth-century France's most famous novelist and observer In Balzac's vast Human Comedy, a body of ninety-one completed novels and stories, he endeavoured to create a complete picture of contemporary French society and manners. Within this work is...
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