Literary Criticism
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Loving the World Appropriately: Persuasion and the Transformation of SubjectivityA revolutionary approach to rhetoric that asks why audiences need persuading. What is persuasion? For some, it is the ideal alternative to violence. For others, persuasion is simply a neutral instrumentality--a valued source of soft power. Both positions rest on a fundamental belief: persuasion...
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ClimateWe could try writing letters, one of us said to the other after our cross-country trip was over and we weren't done talking. Talking about hurricanes, fires, floods, droughts, freezes. About shootings, bombings, border crises, #MeToo. Jewishness, whiteness, feminism. Fear, ambition, desire. Work, marriage,...
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The Ghetto, and Other Poems: An Annotated EditionAt last recovered in this enriching annotated edition, this important but neglected work of American modernism offers a unique poetic encounter with the Jewish communities in New York's Lower East Side. Long forgotten on account of her gender and left-wing politics, Lola Ridge is...
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Enuma ElishThe Enuma Elish is widely known as the classic Akkadian creation myth, passed down from the Sumerian, and replete with all the gods one has come to expect from ancient mythology. But is this an accurate reading? Were our ancestors superstitious rubes who relied...
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The Application of Peircean Semiotics to the Elder Futhark Tradition: Establishing Parameters of Magical CommunicationThis work addresses the issue of magical communication found in the Elder Futhark runic inscriptions. It examines the Kragehul Spear Shaft (DR 196), Björketorp runestone (DR 360), the Horn(s) of Gallehus (DR 12), Gummarp runestone (DR 358), Lindholm amulet (DR 261), Straum whetstone (KJ...
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Latinx Shakespeares: Staging U.S. Intracultural TheaterLatinx peoples and culture have permeated Shakespearean performance in the United States for over 75 years--a phenomenon that, until now, has been largely overlooked as Shakespeare studies has taken a global turn in recent years. Author Carla Della Gatta argues that theater-makers and historians...
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Minor Salvage: The Korean War and Korean American Life WritingsThe Korean War, often invoked in American culture as "the forgotten war," remains ongoing. Though active fighting only occurred between 1950 and 1953, the signing of an armistice resulted in an infamous stalemate and the construction of the Korean Peninsula's Demilitarized Zone. Minor Salvage...
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A Fire to Light Our Tongues: Texas Writers on SpiritualityA Fire to Light Our Tongues: Texas Writers on Spirituality brings together the works of writers in Texas. The title is taken, with permission, from Naomi Shihab Nye's introduction to Salting the Ocean: 100 Poems by Young Poets, where she states the role of...
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Concepts of the World: The French Avant-Garde and the Idea of the International, 1910-1940 Volume 42How did the avant-garde imagine its interconnected world? And how does this legacy affect our understanding of the global today? The writers and artists of the French avant-garde aspired to reach a global audience that would be wholly transformed by their work. In this...
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Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination: Morbid AnatomiesAn account of the intersection of the Gothic and the medical imaginations in the Romantic era. This book demonstrates a little-studied crossover between the Gothic imagination and the medical imagination in the Romantic period. Unafraid to explore the gore and uncertainty typical of medical...
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Joy of the Worm: Suicide and Pleasure in Early Modern English LiteratureConsulting an extensive archive of early modern literature, Joy of the Worm asserts that voluntary death in literature is not always a matter of tragedy. In this study, Drew Daniel identifies a surprisingly common aesthetic attitude that he calls "joy of the worm," after...
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The Ethics of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 1998-2007Hayden White is widely considered to be the most influential historical theorist of the twentieth century. The Ethics of Narrative brings together nearly all of White's uncollected essays from the last two decades of his life, revealing a lesser-known side of White: that of...
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Religion: Rereading What Is Bound TogetherWith this profound final work, completed in the days leading up to his death, Michel Serres presents a vivid picture of his thinking about religion--a constant preoccupation since childhood--thereby completing Le Grand Récit, the comprehensive explanation of the world and of humanity to which...
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Conversion Disorder: Listening to the Body in PsychoanalysisConversion disorder--a psychiatric term that names the enigmatic transformation of psychic energy into bodily manifestations--offers a way to rethink the present. With so many people suffering from unexplained bodily symptoms; with so many seeking recourse to pharmacological treatments or bodily modification; with young men...
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The Meaning of Myth: With 12 Greek Myths Retold and Interpreted by a PsychiatristNot just the stories, but what they mean.What is myth, and why does it have such a hold on the human mind? How does myth relate to near forms such as legend and fairy tale, and to other modes of understanding such as religion...
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Mother Courage and Her ChildrenThis new Student Edition, featuring the classic John Willett translation of the play, includes an introduction by Katherine Hollander, which explores the following: * Contexts (Thirty Years War, 1618-1648; World War II and exile; sources; influential figures such as Brecht, Margarete Steffin, Helene Weigel...
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Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition: Cree and Métis ÂcimisowinaAutobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition critiques ways of approaching Indigenous texts that are informed by the Western academic tradition and offers instead a new way of theorizing Indigenous literature based on the Indigenous practice of life writing. Since the 1970s non-Indigenous scholars have perpetrated...
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Harper Lee and MeHarper Lee and Me is the result of five years of study by David Dessauer, as he dissected and explored the various "secrets" he found in the epic book To Kill a Mockingbird (TKAM). Although the author and Harper Lee never met, he felt...
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Tolkien and the Classical WorldWhile scholars have often cited the influence of medieval texts and society on J.R.R. Tolkien's seminal fantasy creations, the role of the classical world - the literature and thought of ancient Greece and Rome - has received far less attention. This volume of essays...
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The Code of Patrick Süskind's Perfume: Truth and fiction in the text of the famous novelThis book provides you with answers to the questions coming up while reading the novel "Perfume: The Story of a Murderer" by a German writer Patrick S skind.Did the Europeans really smell so bad?***Is it true that European cities were drowning in mud?***Did Grenoiulle...
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