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Poems of a Penisist"In the name of / Man, member, / and the holy fluid, / Amen," begins Mutsuo Takahashi's epic one-thousand-line erotic fantasy poem, "Ode," the centerpiece of his groundbreaking collection of queer poetry, Poems of a Penisist. Takahashi's work, reminiscent of Walt Whitman's, is a...
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Tales of SevastopolTolstoy (1828-1910) joined the army in 1851 and took part in campaigns against the native Caucasian tribes and, soon after, in the Crimean War (1853-56). This book of three sketches published between 1855 and 1856 is based on his experiences during the Crimean War.Author:...
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Printing and Misprinting: A Companion to Mistakes and In-House Corrections in Renaissance Europe (1450-1650)'To err is human'. As a material and mechanical process, early printing made no exception to this general rule. Against the conventional wisdom of a technological triumph spreading freedom and knowledge, the history of the book is largely a story of errors and adjustments....
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The Personal Heresy: A ControversyA repackaged edition of the revered author's set of dueling critical essays with fellow scholar E. M. W. Tillyard in which they debate the role of an author's biography in the critical appraisal of literature.C. S. Lewis--the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster,...
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Comforts of the Abyss: The Art of Persona WritingThroughout his growth as a writer, acclaimed poet Philip Schultz has battled with the dark voice in his head--the "shitbird," as his late friend the poet Ralph Dickey termed it--that whispers his insecurities and questions his ability to create. Persona writing, a method of...
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Liberties Journal of Culture and PoliticsLiberties, a Journal of Culture and Politics, is essential reading for those engaged in the cultural and political issues of our time.In this issue of Liberties: Katherine C. Epstein -- Scholarship and the Future of Society; Mario Vargas Llosa -- A Forgotten Giant; Cass...
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Cool Memories IV, 1995-2000Baudrillard's work of the last two decades has downplayed the position of the critical subject and gone over to the standpoint of the object. Nowhere is this objective (non-)critique which results so clearly played out as in the Cool Memories series. Here again, in...
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Hot Dudes ReadingHumans of New York meets Porn for Women in this collection of candid photos, clever captions, and hilarious hashtags about one of the most important subjects of our time: hot dudes reading. Based on the viral Instagram account of the same name, Hot Dudes...
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Greek SlaverySlavery is attested throughout ancient Greek history and all over the Greek world. Unsurprisingly, then, scholarship on Greek slavery has proliferated in the past twenty-five or so years, making a holistic synthesis of such work especially desirable. This book offers a state-of-the-art guide to...
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Iris Murdoch and the Literary ImaginationThis volume is the third volume in Palgrave' Macmillan's new Iris Murdoch Today scholarly series.Iris Murdoch and the Literary Imagination is the first major collection of literary essays since her centenary in 2019. It brings together leading Murdoch scholars from across the world who...
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Crossing Boundaries and Confounding Identity: Chinese Women in Literature, Art, and FilmExamines literary, historical, and cultural portrayals of Chinese women, across centuries and continents.Author: Cheryl C. D. HughesPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 08/02/2023Pages: 280Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.91lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63dISBN: 9781438492148This title is not returnable
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Tragedy and CivilizationDrawing on comprehensive analyses of all of Sophocles' plays, on structuralist anthropology, and on other extensive work on myth and tragedy, Charles Segal examines Sophocles both as a great dramatic poet and as a serious thinker. He shows how Sophoclean tragedy reflects the human...
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Masters of American Cookery: M. F. K. Fisher, James Beard, Craig Claiborne, Julia ChildEver since American soldiers returned home after World War II with a passion for pâté and escargots instead of pork and beans, our preferences have moved from cooked to raw, from canned to fresh, from bland to savory, from water to wine. And guiding...
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The Ethics of Opting Out: Queer Theory's Defiant SubjectsIn The Ethics of Opting Out, Mari Ruti provides an accessible yet theoretically rigorous account of the ideological divisions that have animated queer theory during the last decade, paying particular attention to the field's rejection of dominant neoliberal narratives of success, cheerfulness, and self-actualization....
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Comics Gone Ape!: The Missing Link to Primates in ComicsThey may be only one notch below humans on the evolutionary ladder, but gorillas and monkeys have for decades climbed to the top of the comic-book world as monsters, super-villains, sentient masterminds, soldiers, aliens, buffoons and super-heroes. Comics Gone Ape! is the definitive missing...
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The Book of Misers: Al-BukhalaAl-Jahiz (776-869) was one of the greatest exponents of Arabic prose of all time. His scholarship, the breadth of his interests, and his ability to express his ideas and arguments with vigour and humour were outstanding; "The Book of Misers" is his comical masterpiece,...
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Walter Benjamin's Archive: Images, Texts, SignsAn absorbing selection of Walter Benjamin's personal manuscripts, images, and documents The work of the great literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin is an audacious plotting of history, art, and thought; a reservoir of texts, commentaries, scraps, and fragments of everyday life, art, and...
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Creating Identity: The Popular Romance Heroine's Journey to Selfhood and Self-PresentationWhile the world often categorizes women in reductive false binaries--careerist versus mother, feminine versus fierce--romance novels, a unique form of the love story, offer an imaginative space of mingled alternatives for a heroine on her journey to selfhood.In Creating Identity, Jayashree Kamblé examines the...
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Key Concepts in Victorian StudiesKey Concepts in Victorian Studies is a comprehensive and accessible resource for students of the long nineteenth century. The volume is divided into a number of cross-referenced sections which address the preoccupations and historical events of this crucial period in recent history and culture....
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On Liberty and Other Writings: A Norton Critical EditionThis Norton Critical Edition includes: Three major essays--On Liberty (1859), Utilitarianism (1861), and The Subjection of Women (1869)--that illustrate Mill's liberal political philosophy at the height of his powers. Editorial matter--including a richly detailed introduction--by Nadia Urbinati. Nine major commentaries--by Alan Ryan, Jonathan Riley,...
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