Literature
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Precarity in Contemporary Literature and CultureThe contemporary moment is characterized by precarity - an expanding and intensifying vulnerability conditioned by political and economic structures. Using literary and cultural texts to develop a nuanced and critical exploration of the concept of precarity that emphasizes its contemporary manifestations while also attending...
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Finding the World's FullnessForty years as a poet has kept Robert Cording looking at the details of everyday experience. That long labor has brought him face-to-face with the inescapable complexity of a world that is full of suffering and injustice. And grace.This journey has convinced him that,...
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Hermann Broch and Mass Hysteria: Theory and Representation in the Age of ExtremesThe first English-language monograph on Hermann Broch's literary and theoretical work on mass hysteria. Austrian Jewish author Hermann Broch (1886-1951), a leading figure of European Modernism, spent decades attempting to understand the phenomenon of mass hysteria. With his work, he hoped to help protect...
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BlumenbergNow in paperback, from one of the most dazzling authors of contemporary German literature comes this delightful tale of a philosopher and his encounter with a supernatural lion. One night, German philosopher Hans Blumenberg returns to his study to find a shocking sight--a lion...
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The Instagram Archipelago: Race, Gender, and the Lives of Dead FishSet on Idan Hayosh's peculiar Instagram page of women holding dead fish, The Instagram Archipelago is a conversation with contemporary culture's logics of gender and race. Working through recent thinking in Black studies and Hayosh's satirical images, Elliot C. Mason presents the aesthetics of...
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On the Oregon Trail: A Classic WesternA five-star masterpiece from best-selling author Robert Vaughan. When sixteen-year-old Matt Logan and his friend Danny Duggan run away from an orphanage, they go west. There, they meet Jim Bridger, among other mountain men, and become fur trappers. But the market for beaver plews...
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PseudoIn this stunning and keenly anticipated collection of stories, Dorothy Speak explores family, loss, betrayal, conflict and entrapment in narratives shining with humour, mystery and anguish. Speak has published four other highly acclaimed works, written in the same luminous prose: a novel called The...
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Institutional Character: Collectivity, Individuality, and the Modernist NovelHow do our institutions shape us, and how do we shape them? From the late nineteenth-century era of high imperialism to the rise of the British welfare state in the mid-twentieth century, the concept of the institution was interrogated and rethought in literary and...
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The Esopus Reader: A Collection of Writing from Esopus, 2003-2018Author: Tod LippyPublisher: EsopusPublished: 02/07/2022Pages: 448Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 2.05lbsSize: 9.50h x 6.90w x 1.40dISBN: 9780989911788
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Time and Identity in Ulysses and the OdysseyA comparative study of two classicliterary works, from a specialist in Joyce and Homer Time and Identity in"Ulysses" and the "Odyssey" offers a unique in-depth comparative study oftwo classic literary works, examiningessential themes such as change, the self, and humans' dependence on andisolation from...
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KrisKris är en modern klassiker om ungdom, sexualitet och tro. När studenten Malin upptäcker att hon har känslor för en studiekamrat ställs hennes världsåskådning på ända. Karin Boye var en svensk poet, författare och översättare. Hon är en av Sveriges mest älskade författare med...
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The Recognition of H. P. Lovecraft: His Rise from Obscurity to World RenownDuring his lifetime, H. P. Lovecraft did not have a single book of his stories published. When he died in 1937, he probably envisioned the oblivion that would overtake his entire literary output. But in the decades that have followed, Lovecraft's fiction, essays, poetry,...
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New Frontiers in Popular Romance: Essays on the Genre in the 21st CenturyIn the twenty-first century, the romance genre has gained a growing academic response, including the creation of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance. Popular romance has long been so ignored and maligned that seemingly every scholarly work on it opens with...
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Lectures on DostoevskyFrom the author of the definitive biography of Fyodor Dostoevsky, never-before-published lectures that provide an accessible introduction to the Russian writer's major works Joseph Frank (1918-2013) was perhaps the most important Dostoevsky biographer, scholar, and critic of his time. His never-before-published Stanford lectures on...
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One Heart with Courage: Essays and StoriesIn One Heart with Courage, Teri Rizvi brings a powerful, original voice to a collection of essays that shows why our dreams matter. Woven throughout her writings is a deep faith in what's possible when we open our hearts.A journalist and storyteller who has...
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Detroit Time CapsuleDetroit Time Capsule is a collection of seventy-five articles that first appeared as Fornology.com blog posts. The original posts have been revised and re-edited for inclusion in this anthology. Topics vary from significant historical events to biographical profiles of people who left their mark...
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The MetamorphosesPerhaps one of the most influential works of mythology ever written, "The Metamorphoses" is an epic and narrative poem by Roman author Ovid. Finished in 8 A.D., this work, organized into fifteen books, combines a stunning arrangement of mythological tales that are masterfully connected...
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The Federalist PapersFollowing the signing of the Declaration of Independence there was a vigorous debate in the American colonies on the form of government that should be then established. A Constitutional Convention was convened between May 25th and September 17th, 1787. A principal point in the...
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Doubletalk: the Language of CommunismThis 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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Medieval Marvels and Fictions in the Latin West and Islamic WorldA cross-cultural study of magical phenomena in the Middle Ages. Marvels like enchanted rings and sorcerers' stones were topics of fascination in the Middle Ages, not only in romance and travel literature but also in the period's philosophical writing. Rather than constructions of belief...
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