Literature
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From Goethe to Gundolf: Essays on German Literature and CultureFrom Goethe to Gundolf: Essays on German Literature and Culture is a collection of Roger Paulin's groundbreaking essays, spanning the last forty years. The work represents his major research interests of Romanticism and the reception of Shakespeare in Germany, but also explores a broader...
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The Letters and the Law: Legal and Literary Culture in Late Imperial RussiaThe Letters and the Law explores the fraught relationship between writers and lawyers in the four decades following Alexander II's judicial reforms. Nineteenth-century Russian literature abounds in negative images of lawyers and the law. Literary scholars have typically interpreted these representations either as the...
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Historia AugustaThe Historia Augusta is a biographical work roughly following the model of the imperial biographer Suetonius (LCL 31, 38) and covering the lives of the Roman emperors from Hadrian (r. 117-138) to Carinus (r. 283-285), with a lacuna between the lives of the Gordians...
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Elena Ferrante as World LiteratureA model of academic praxis. - Public Books Elena Ferrante as World Literature is the first English-language monograph on Italian writer Elena Ferrante, whose four Neapolitan Novels (2011-2014) became a global phenomenon. The book proposes that Ferrante constructs a theory of feminine experience which...
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English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660-1800The essays in English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660-1800 explore the theatrical anecdote's role in the construction of stage fame in England's emergent celebrity culture during the long eighteenth century, as well as the challenges of employing such anecdotes in theatre scholarship today. This collection showcases...
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The Limits of Familiarity: Authorship and Romantic ReadersWhat did Wordsworth wear, and where did he walk? Who was Byron's new mistress, and how did his marriage fare? Answers--sometimes accurate, sometimes not--were tantalizingly at the ready in the Romantic era, when confessional poetry, romans à clef, personal essays, and gossip columns offered...
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Love Letters of Kings and QueensAuthor: Daniel SmithPublisher: GreenfinchPublished: 02/22/2022Pages: 352Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.43w x 1.10dISBN: 9781529413526About the AuthorDaniel Smith is the bestselling author of 100 Places You Will Never Visit, which has been translated into eight languages. He has written more than fifteen books, on...
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Lives of HousesNotable writers--including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow--celebrate our fascination with the houses of famous literary figures, artists, composers, and politicians of the past What can a house tell us about the person who lives there? Do we...
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Holocaust Consciousness and Cold War Violence in Latin AmericaThis book proposes the existence of a recognizably distinct Holocaust consciousness in Latin America since the 1970s. Community leaders, intellectuals, writers, and political activists facing state repression have seen themselves reflected in Holocaust histories and have used Holocaust terms to describe human rights atrocities...
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Fear and Other StoriesFear and Other Storiesis a translation from Yiddish to English of the collected stories of Chana Blankshteyn ( 1860-1939), a woman who may be almost entirely forgotten now but was widely admired during her long and productive life. The mere existence of these stories...
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Robert Morgan: Essays on the Life and WorkFor more than fifty years Robert Morgan has brought to life the landscape, history and culture of the Southern Appalachia of his youth. In 30 acclaimed volumes, including poetry, short story collections, novels and nonfiction prose, he has celebrated an often marginalized region. His...
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Edwidge Danticat: A Companion to the Young Adult LiteratureA comet in the mounting firmament of third-world, non-white, female writers, Edwidge Danticat stands apart. An accomplished trilingual children's and YA author, she is also an activist, op-ed and cinema writer, and keynote speaker. Much of her work introduces the world to the cultural...
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Understanding Marx, Understanding ModernismA concentrated study of the relationships between modernism and transformative left utopianism, this volume provides an introduction to Marx and Marxism for modernists, and an introduction to modernism for Marxists. Its guiding hypothesis is that Marx's writing absorbed the lessons of artistic and cultural...
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Screening Love and War in Troy: Fall of a CityThis is the first volume of essays published on the television series Troy: Fall of a City (BBC One and Netflix, 2018). Covering a wide range of engaging topics, such as gender, race and politics, international scholars in the fields of classics, history and...
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Awotm: Praying for Everything Under the SunThe Bible is clear about nothing being new under the sun. What we're experiencing in our lives is prophecy being fulfilled. I still believe in the power of prayer, even when it looks like God has stopped moving. It's my desire for everyone who...
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Joyce, Aristotle, and AquinasA rich examination of the influence of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas on James Joyce In this book, Fran O'Rourke examines the influence of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas on James Joyce, arguing that both thinkers fundamentally shaped the philosophical outlook which pervades the author's oeuvre....
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In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Jewish-Communist Writers in East GermanyThis study investigates six German Jewish writers' negotiation of Jewish-German-Communist identity in post-Holocaust East Germany. This study investigates the negotiation of Jewish-German-Communist identity in post-Holocaust Germany, specifically East Germany. After an introduction to the political-historical context, it highlights the conflicted writings of six East...
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Silas MarnerSilas Marner is a lowly weaver who is wrongfully accused of a crime, loses the woman he loves and the respect of his conservative neighbors. Shamed and broken, he attempts to build a new life without the reminder of everything he's lost. In the...
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The Collected Essays of Mary ButtsAuthor: Mary ButtsPublisher: McPhersonPublished: 10/01/2021Pages: 399Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 8.35h x 5.51w x 1.26dISBN: 9781620540329Review Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 09/06/2021About the AuthorA distinctive and original voice within the Modernism movement, the English novelist Mary Butts was a prodigy of style, learning, and energy who wrote...
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Genres of Privacy in Postwar AmericaWith this incisive work, Palmer Rampell reveals the surprising role genre fiction played in redefining the category of the private person in the postwar period. Especially after the Supreme Court established a constitutional right to privacy in 1965, legal scholars, judges, and the public...
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