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A Midsummer Night's Dream"A Midsummer Night's Dream", one of Shakespeare's earliest comedies is a spectacular tale of fantasy. The story revolves around two couples (Hermia and Lysander and Helena and Demetrius) who escape to a fairyland forest ruled by Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of...
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The Geography of the Imagination: Forty EssaysForty essays on history, art, and literature from one of the most incisive, and most exhilarating, critical minds of the twentieth century. Guy Davenport was perhaps the last great American polymath. He provided links between art and literature, music and sculpture, modernist poets and...
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The Palestinian Novel: From 1948 to the PresentWhat happens to the Palestinian novel after the national dispossession of the nakba, and how do Palestinian novelists respond to this massive crisis? This is the first study in English to chart the development of the Palestinian novel in exile and under occupation from...
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The Complete Works of NietzscheThis is a complete collection of all the novels written by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, On the Genealogy of Morals, The Anti-Christ, The Gay Science, The Birth of Tragedy, Ecce Homo, Human All Too Human,...
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Tweaking Things a Little. Essays on the Epic Fantasy of J.R.R. Tolkien and G.R.R. Martin"World-building, name-finding, language-crafting; the flaws in chivalric practice, and the ethics (Machiavellian and otherwise) that produce the moral complexities of Middle-earth and the Known World are thus the topics that Tweaking Things a Little considers. The modest title belies what lies within these covers:...
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The Bitter Life of Bozena Nemcova: A Biographical CollageLiterary Nonfiction. Women's Studies. Hybrid Genre. Biography. Memoir. Winner of the Silver Medal for Best European (Focused) Nonfiction at the 2017 Independent Publisher Book Awards. Artistic, rebellious, and unapologetically intelligent, Bozena Němcov defied every convention for a woman in mid-nineteenth-century Bohemia: she was active...
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Where the Wild Grape Grows: Selected Writings, 1930-1950Despite her strong associations with Massachusetts--her upbringing in Roxbury, her lifelong connection with Martha's Vineyard, and two novels documenting the Great Migration and the rise and decline of Boston's African American community--Dorothy West (1907-1998) is perhaps best known as a member of the Harlem...
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Heaven, Hell and Paradise LostA poet who crafted thegreatest character in literary history with his engaging anti-hero of Satan, John Milton connected personal experience with the breadth of cosmic epic. His Paradise Lost is a touchstone of English literature.In the latest entry in Ig's celebrated Bookmarked series, author...
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Masculine, Feminine, Neuter and Other Writings on LiteratureA major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback. Roland Barthes was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator--often as a daring smuggler of ideas from one discipline to another--he first gained...
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O City of Byzantium: Annals of Niketas ChoniataesO City of Byzantium is the first English translation of a history which chronicles the period of Byzantine history from 1118 to 1207. The historian Niketas Choniates provides an eye-witness account of the inexorable events that led to the destruction of the longest lived...
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Break and Flow: Hip Hop Poetics in the AmericasHip hop is a global form of creative expression. In Cuba, Brazil, and Haiti, rappers refuse the boundaries of hip hop's US genesis, claiming the art form as a means to empower themselves and their communities in the face of postcolonial racial and class...
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Practicing New HistoricismFor almost twenty years, new historicism has been a highly controversial and influential force in literary and cultural studies. In Practicing the New Historicism, two of its most distinguished practitioners reflect on its surprisingly disparate sources and far-reaching effects. In lucid and jargon-free prose,...
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Burning the Books Lib/E: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of KnowledgeIn Burning the Books, Richard Ovenden describes the deliberate destruction of knowledge held in libraries and archives from ancient Alexandria to contemporary Sarajevo, from smashed Assyrian tablets in Iraq to the destroyed immigration documents of the UK Windrush generation. He examines both the motivations...
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How to Draw a NovelFrom the acclaimed author of The Black Minutes and Don't Send Flowers, How to Draw a Novel is an ingenious and visually stimulating exploration of narrative and craft from master storyteller and former publisher Martín SolaresIn this finely wrought collection of essays, Martín Solares...
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Michael Gold: The People's WriterJewish American Communist writer and cultural figure Michael Gold (1893-1967) was a key progressive author of his generation, yet today his work is too often forgotten. A novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, journalist, and editor, Gold was the leading advocate of leftist, proletarian literature in...
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The Last MosaicLiterary Nonfiction. Art. Poetry. Italian Studies. Haunted by three thousand years of artists who made pilgrimage to the Eternal City, collaborators Elizabeth Cooperman and Thomas Walton gather impressions from the ruinous streets in and around Rome. The result is a literary mosaic that aligns...
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Raise Some Shell: Teenage Mutant Ninja TurtlesCelebrating the persistence of Turtle Power Raise Some Shell critically and cleverly examines the origins, evolution, and impact of the Ninja Turtles phenomenon -- from its beginning as a self-published black-and-white comic book in 1984, through its transformation into a worldwide transmedia phenomenon by...
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When I Came to Die: Process and Prophecy in Thoreau's Vision of DyingScholars have long considered the elegiac characteristics of Thoreau's work. Yet few have explored how his personal views on death and dying influenced his philosophies and writings. In beautiful prose, Audrey Raden places Thoreau's views of death and dying at the center of his...
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Collected Poems of A. E. Housman: With a Chapter from Twenty-Four Portraits By William RothensteinFirst published in 1922, this book contains the collected poems of A. E. Housman. Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936), also known as A. E. Housman, was an English poet and classical scholar most famous for his cycle of poems "A Shropshire Lad". He was a...
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The Private Life of Lord ByronThe great Romantic poet Lord Byron starved himself compulsively for most of his life. His behaviour mystified his friends and other witnesses, yet he never imagined he was ill. Instead, he rationalized his behavior as a fight for spiritual freedom and made it the...
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