Literature
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Women's Friendship in Medieval LiteratureIn Women's Friendship in Medieval Literature, Karma Lochrie and Usha Vishnuvajjala bring together established scholars and new voices to illuminate a previously understudied but consequential element of life in the Middle Ages. Contributors focus on representations of women's friendships in medieval European literature and...
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The Racial Unfamiliar: Illegibility in Black Literature and CultureThe works of African American authors and artists are too often interpreted through the lens of authenticity. They are scrutinized for "positive" or "negative" representations of Black people and Black culture or are assumed to communicate some truth about Black identity or the "Black...
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Precarious Passages: The Diasporic Imagination in Contemporary Black Anglophone FictionPrecarious Passages unites literature written bymembers of the far-flung Black Anglophone diaspora. Rather than categorizingnovels as simply "African American," "Black Canadian,""Black British," or "postcolonial African Caribbean," thisbook takes an integrative approach: it argues that fiction creates and sustainsa sense of a wider African diasporic...
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A Literary Fellowship: Relationships and Rivalries in 19th-Century American LiteratureThe companion to an exhibition at the Grolier Club, this catalogue has an informative introduction, followed by eight chapters on American literary publishers and authors, each with detailed descriptions of the books, manuscripts, letters, and other items featured in the exhibition.Author: Susan Jaffe Tane,...
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Les mots m'ont sauvéeje ne savais pas quoi dire, alors j'ai écrit.ps: si vous avez une quelconque plainte envers l'état du livre à sa réception, l'auteur n'en est pas responsable, les avis et les commentaires concernent ce que vous avez lu. (Il y a un service spécial...
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Through Her Opera GlassesIt's August 1930 and storm clouds are brewing across Europe, heralding the rise of fascism and the upheavals of the Great Depression. Even so, these frightening realities can't stop twenty-four-year-old Betty Harbert from making the most of her tour of the continent. Sailing from...
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Hotly in Pursuit of the Real: Notes Toward a MemoirIn Hotly in Pursuit of the Real, the beloved bestselling novelist Ron Hansen opens the doors of his writing studio to share with us his passions for history, scandal, theology, Jesuits, the American West, and golf (which he plays even in bad weather). If...
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Cumbres Borrascosas / Wuthering HeightsUna de las mayores historias de amor de la literatura y quizá la mejor representante del romanticismo inglés Cumbres borrascosas, la épica historia de Catherine y Heathcliff, situada en los sombríos y desolados páramos de Yorkshire, constituye una asombrosa visión metafísica del destino, la...
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Single Lives: Modern Women in Literature, Culture, and FilmSingle Lives is a collection of singleness studies essays from the interdisciplinary humanities that explores the last two hundred years of literature and popular media by, about, and for single women in the US and the UK. Independent women have always been a center...
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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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Binu and the Great Wall of ChinaIn Peach Village, crying is forbidden. But as a child, Binu never learnt to hide her tears. Shunned by the villagers, she faced a bleak future, until she met Qiliang, an orphan who offered her his hand in marriage. Then one day Qiliang disappears....
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The Dynastic Drama of BeowulfA strikingly original approach to Beowulf, linking its structure to the dynastic life-cycle. The original audience of Beowulf was steeped in ancient Scandinavian royal legend. But for modern readers of the poem, these traditions are frustratingly obscure and confusing. This book argues that Beowulf...
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Into the Fantastical Spaces of Contemporary Japanese LiteratureMurakami Haruki, Ogawa Yōko, Tawada Yōko, Kanai Mieko, Hino Keizō, Murakami Ryū, Kawakami Hiromi, Murata Sayaka... These acclaimed authors are united by a shared fascination with fantastical conceptions of space. In highlighting these luminaries of contemporary Japanese literature, Into the Fantastical Spaces of Contemporary...
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The Promise and Peril of Things: Literature and Material Culture in Late Imperial ChinaOur relationship with things abounds with paradoxes. People assign value to objects in ways that are often deeply personal or idiosyncratic yet at the same time rooted in specific cultural and historical contexts. How do things become meaningful? How do our connections with the...
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The Dedalus Book of Decadence: Moral RuinsThe Decadence Movement which flourished in the 1890s produced some of Europe's most striking and exotic works of literature The Decadents, convinced that civilization was in a state of terminal decline, refused to rebel as the Romantics had, but set forth instead to cultivate...
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Practical Criticism, a Study of Literary JudgmentThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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The Bean Eaters;This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Equipping Space Cadets: Primary Science Fiction for Young ChildrenEquipping Space Cadets: Primary Science Fiction for Young Children argues for the benefits and potential of "primary science fiction," or science fiction for children under twelve years old. Science fiction for children is often disregarded due to common misconceptions of childhood. When children are...
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Geographies of African American Short FictionPerhaps the brevity of short fiction accounts for the relatively scant attention devoted to it by scholars, who have historically concentrated on longer prose narratives. The Geographies of African American Short Fiction seeks to fill this gap by analyzing the ways African American short...
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The Decameron Ninth Day in PerspectiveThe Ninth Day of Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron is significant both for numerological and structural reasons. Whether we consider the Decameron as reproducing an itinerary toward the attainment of virtue or following other possible interpretive schematics, Day Nine remains a liminal moment of pause before...
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