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Tolkien in the Twenty-First Century: The Meaning of Middle-Earth TodayAn original and thought-provoking journey into J. R. R. Tolkien's world, revealing how his visionary creation of Middle-Earth is more relevant now than ever before. *Finalist for the The 2023 Tolkien Society Best Book Award* What is it about Middle-Earth and its inhabitants that...
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The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish LiteratureThe Necromantics dwells on the literal afterlives of history. Reading the reanimated corpses--monstrous, metaphorical, and occasionally electrified--that Mary Shelley, Robert Browning, Charles Dickens, W. B. Yeats, Bram Stoker, and others bring to life, Renée Fox argues that these undead figures embody the present's desire to...
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Entranced Earth: Art, Extractivism, and the End of Landscape Volume 45A sweeping analysis of the lasting effects of neocolonial extractivism in Latin American aesthetic modernity from 1920 to the present Looking to the extractive frontier as a focal point of Latin American art, literature, music, and film, Jens Andermann asks what emerges at the...
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No Evil Star: Selected Essays, Interviews, and ProseCollects the best of Anne Sexton's memoirs and prose reflections on her development as a poetAuthor: Anne SextonPublisher: University of Michigan PressPublished: 09/30/1985Pages: 224Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.53lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.26w x 0.50dISBN: 9780472063666This title is only available via back order
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Ciudadanías liminales. Vida cotidiana y espacio urbano en la Cuba postsoviéticaEn la Cuba de las postutop as y el desencanto, cu l es la relaci n entre la ciudad y sus habitantes? En qu medida pueden acceder los cubanos a la producci n y vitalidad de la polis? Ciudadan as liminales explora la representaci...
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Writing Lives in the Eighteenth CenturyWriting Lives in the Eighteenth Century is a collection of essays on memoir, biography, and autobiography during a formative period for the genre. The essays revolve around recognized male and female figures--returning to the Boswell and Burney circle--but present arguments that dismantle traditional privileging...
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From Oral to Written: A Celebration of Indigenous Literature in Canada, 1980-2010Aboriginal Canadians tell their own stories, about their own people, in their own voice, from their own perspective.If as recently as forty years ago there was no recognizable body of work by Canadian writers, as recently as thirty years ago there was no Native...
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Walter Scott at 250: Looking ForwardAt 250, Walter Scott points toward our possible futures. Scott, although we necessarily look on his times as past, of course experienced them as present. His times were times of crisis. Scott, then, has much to share in the experience, narration, anticipation and response...
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Limpy's Adult Lexicon: Raw, Politically Incorrect, Improper & Unexpurgated as Overheard & Noodled by Joseph HeywoodFrom the author of the Woods Cop and Lute Bapcat mystery series comes a new book for the fans. When Heywood was writing his first Woods Cop novel, into his mind crawled a character called Limpy Allerdyce, who is a master poacher-predator-violator in the...
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WineObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. While wine drunk millennia ago was the humble beverage of the people, today the drink is inextricable with power, sophistication, and often wealth. Bottles sell for half...
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Birha Da Sultan - Shiv Kumar Batalvi Nu Chitran Rahi ShradhanjaliFirst ever paintings done on the poems of the legendary Punjabi poet- Shiv Kumar Batalvi by a Punjabi artist. The book comprises of 20 paintings done on 20 poems of Shiv Kumar Batalvi. The book is useful for art lovers and lovers of Punjabi...
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Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Era of High CapitalismAuthor: Walter BenjaminPublisher: VersoPublished: 01/01/1997Pages: 192Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.53lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.25w x 0.45dISBN: 9781859841921
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North of 36North of 36, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken precautions to assure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern manner for both present and future generations. This book has been completely retyped, revised, and...
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All Of MeThis book is an insight of me, my thoughts, my love, my life, my relationships it's all about me. Experiences and obstacles I had to overcome, if I didn't find this talent and a way to channel my emotions I don't know where I'd...
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Grown-Up Child: A MemoirCHIUFANG HWANG came to the United States from Taiwan when she was a toddler so her father could pursue a PhD. But his academic American dream stalled, forcing the family into a transient lifestyle as he chased one PhD program after another, from Texas...
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The Murakami Pilgrimage: A Guide to the Real-Life Places of Haruki Murakami's FictionThe Murakami Pilgrimage is a comprehensive Japan travel guide which focuses on the locations featured in the novels of Haruki Murakami. Put yourself into your favorite characters' shoes as you explore Tokyo, Hokkaido, Shikoku and more You'll learn all about the neighborhoods and landmarks...
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Z Generation: Into the Heart of Russia's Fascist YouthHow did Vladimir Putin galvanize the Russian people to back his genocidal war in Ukraine and why are so many of them willing to embrace fascism? This vivid, on-the-ground narrative reveals how Russia's fascist generation came into being-and the dark future that awaits the...
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War Remains: Ruination and Resistance in LebanonWar Remains traces the poetics of ruination and resistance in select contemporary Lebanese wartime literature, cultural production, and sites of memory. Drawing upon work from southern Lebanon and Beirut, Khayyat examines how war remains are employed as a resistant trope in the intellectual spaces...
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Light from a Nearby Window: Contemporary Mexican PoetryLight from a Nearby Window introduces a new generation of poets who have become a driving force in Mexican literature today.Until quite recently, contemporary Mexican poetry has been little-known and virtually unavailable to English-speaking readers. This bilingual anthology includes twenty-one poets--twelve men and nine...
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Designing Women: The Dressing Room in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and CultureDressing rooms, introduced into English domestic architecture during the seventeenth century, provided elite women with unprecedented private space at home and in so doing, promised them equally unprecedented autonomy by providing a space for self-fashioning, eroticism, and contemplation. Tita Chico's Designing Women argues that...
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