Literature
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Literary Rebels: A History of Creative Writers in Anglo-American UniversitiesHow many times have you heard that creative writing programmes are factories that produce the same kind of writers, isolated from real life? Only by escaping academia can writers be completely free. Universities are profoundly conservative places, designed to favour a certain way of...
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Cherilo di IasoIn the current revival of studies on Alexander the Great, literature has until now neglected - also because of the scarcity of testimonies - its 'poetic' side. Choerilus of Iasus, the most important among the poets who accompanied Alexander's endeavours, represents no exception. For...
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Auden and the Muse of HistoryConcentrating on W. H. Auden's work from the late 1930s, when he seeks to understand the poet's responsibility in the face of a triumphant fascism, to the late 1950s, when he discerns an irreconcilable "divorce" between poetry and history in light of industrialized murder,...
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Shakespeare's Mad Men: A Crisis of AuthorityThis book is about a mad king and a mad duke. With original and iconoclastic readings, Richard van Oort pioneers the reading of Shakespeare as an ethical thinker of the "originary scene," the scene in which humans became conscious of themselves as symbol-using moral...
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The Death of a Beekeeper: NovelThe celebrated Swedish author's American debut, The Death of a Beekeeper is a gentle, courageous, and sometimes comic meditation on living with pain.Author: Lars GustafssonPublisher: New Directions Publishing CorporationPublished: 11/17/1981Pages: 176Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsISBN: 9780811208109About the AuthorGustafsson, Lars: - Lars Gustafsson is one of...
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Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian FictionAuthor: Régine Michelle Jean-CharlesPublisher: University of Virginia PressPublished: 11/10/2022Pages: 376Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.00dISBN: 9780813948454
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Edinburgh German Yearbook 15: Tracing German Visions of Eastern Europe in the Twentieth CenturyReconsidering the German tendency to define itself vis-à-vis an eastern "Other" in light of fresh debate regarding the Second World War, this volume and the cultural products it considers expose and question Germany's relationship with its imagined East. Germany has long defined itself in...
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Going Underground: Race, Space, and the Subterranean in the Nineteenth-Century United StatesFirst popularized by newspaper coverage of the Underground Railroad in the 1840s, the underground serves as a metaphor for subversive activity that remains central to our political vocabulary. In Going Underground, Lara Langer Cohen excavates the long history of this now familiar idea while...
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A Companion to the Works of Elizabeth StroutIncluding an exclusive interview with bestselling American novelist Elizabeth Strout, this groundbreaking study will engage literature scholars and general readers alike.Written in accessible language, this book is the first to offer a sustained analysis of Elizabeth Strout's work. A recipient of the Pulitzer Prize...
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Reimagining Realism: A New Anthology of Late Nineteenth- And Early Twentieth-Century American Short FictionThis innovative collection reinvents the standard American short fiction anthology and offers readers an invigorated, inclusive, and nuanced understanding of American literary history and culture from the Civil War to the end of World War I.Beginning with one of Louisa May Alcott's Hospital Sketches,...
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Stream of Consciousness in the Modern Novel: A Study of James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Richardson, William Faulkner, and OthersThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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Writers and Pilgrims: Medieval Pilgrimage Narratives and Their PosterityThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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Signs and Symptoms: Thomas Pynchon and the Contemporary WorldThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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Blake's Human Form DivineThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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The Imaginary Puritan: Literature, Intellectual Labor, and the Origins of Personal Life Volume 21Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse challenge traditional accounts of the origins of modern Anglo-American culture by focusing on the emergence of print culture in England and the North American colonies. They postulate a modern middle class that consisted of authors and intellectuals who literally...
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Perplexing Plots: Popular Storytelling and the Poetics of MurderNarrative innovation is typically seen as the domain of the avant-garde. However, techniques such as nonlinear timelines, multiple points of view, and unreliable narration have long been part of American popular culture. How did forms and styles once regarded as "difficult" become familiar to...
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Honoré de BalzacA book on the experience of reading Honoré de Balzac's La Comédie humaine which recounts the process of Peter Brooks's own discovery of Balzac. A personal account of coming to terms with Balzac: moving from more classical and restrained authors to the highly-coloured melodramatic...
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Andere Ästhetik: Grundlagen - Fragen - PerspektivenThe CRC research project Different Aesthetics aims to change perspectives in aesthetic discussions by directing attention to the 2000-year history of European art and culture before the 18th century. This volume explains the benefit of this approach using contributions that range from the philologies...
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Way Worst Than Attica: the 1980 Riot at the Penitentiary of New MexicoThis book on the 1980 Penitentiary of New Mexico riot is by far the most comprehensive, best-researched and most credible publication on this topic. It examines the prison administration, the correctional officers and the inmates in great detail. Clues to the impending riot are...
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The PagodaThis novel is a landmark in Japanese literature, widely known, read, and beloved. Sometimes known as "The Five-Story Pagoda," it tells the story of Jubei, a carpenter and craftsman, who dreams of building a pagoda for the Abbot of the Kannoji Temple. Despite his...
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