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Frede Jensen
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• Author(s): Frede Jensen • Publisher: Unc Department of Romance Studies • Publisher Imprint: Unc Department of Romance Studies • BISAC: European - FrenchThis study examines the Old Provencal language on the basis of philological interpretations ...
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English and Italian Literature from Dante to Shakespeare: A Study of Source, Analogue and Divergence
English and Italian Literature from Dante to Shakespeare: A Study of Source, Analogue and Divergence
Robin Kirkpatrick
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• Author(s): Robin Kirkpatrick • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshThis is the first comprehensive critical comparison of English and Italian literature from the three centuries from Dante...
View full detailsEnglish Translators of Homer: From George Chapman to Christopher Logue
Simeon Underwood
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• Author(s): Simeon Underwood • Publisher: Liverpool University Press • Publisher Imprint: Liverpool University Press • BISAC: Ancient and ClassicalSince Chapman made his famous translation at the end of the Elizabethan period, Homer and the tran...
View full detailsLiterature and the Internet
Stephanie Browner, Stephen Pulsford, Richard Sears
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• Author(s): Stephanie Browner | Stephen Pulsford | Richard Sears • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: ReferenceLiterature and the Internet: A Guide for Students, Teachers, and Scholars is the only Internet guide written...
View full detailsWith a Pen in Her Hand: Women and Writing in Italy in the Nineteenth Century and Beyond
Verina Jones, Anna-Laura Lepschy
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• Author(s): Verina Jones | Anna-Laura Lepschy • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Women AuthorsWith a Pen in Her Hand, Women and Writing in Italy in the Nineteenth Century and Beyond is collection of papers covering Mo...
View full detailsLanguage, the Novelist and National Identity in Post-Franco Catalonia
Kathryn Crameri
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• Author(s): Kathryn Crameri • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: European - GeneralKathryn Crameri reveals some of the complex responses of writers and literary critics to the new possibilities for the expression of Cat...
View full detailsThe Golden Age Comedia: Text, Theory, and Performance
Charles Ganelin, Howard Mancing
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• Author(s): Charles Ganelin | Howard Mancing • Publisher: Purdue University Press • Publisher Imprint: Purdue University Press • BISAC: DramaDrawing on the groundbreaking Spanish scholarship and editions of earlier generations and relying on res...
View full detailsThe Romance Epics of Boiardo, Ariosto, and Tasso: From Public Duty to Private Pleasure
Jo Ann Cavallo
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• Author(s): Jo Ann Cavallo • Publisher: University of Toronto Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Toronto Press • BISAC: RenaissanceIn The Romance Epics of Boiardo, Ariosto, and Tasso, Jo Ann Cavallo attempts a new interpretation of the his...
View full detailsThe Feminine in the Prose of Andrey Platonov
Philip Bullock
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• Author(s): Philip Bullock • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Russian & SovietAndrey Platonovich Platonov (1899-1951) is increasingly regarded as one of the greatest writers of the Soviet period. His linguistic vi...
View full detailsHow Picturebooks Work
Maria Nikolajeva, Carole Scott
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• Author(s): Maria Nikolajeva | Carole Scott • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Children's & Young Adult LiteratureHow Picturebooks Work is an innovative and engaging look at the interplay between text and image in...
View full detailsTheorists of the Modernist Novel: James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson, Virginia Woolf
Deborah Parsons
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• Author(s): Deborah Parsons • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryTracing the modernist aesthetic in the thought and writing of James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf, this book consider...
View full detailsThe Routledge Companion to Gothic
Catherine Spooner, Emma McEvoy
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• Author(s): Catherine Spooner | Emma McEvoy • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Gothic & RomanceIn a wide ranging series of introductory essays written by some of the leading figures in the field, this essential gu...
View full detailsHow Joyce Wrote Finnegans Wake: A Chapter-by-Chapter Genetic Guide
Luca Crispi
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• Author(s): Luca Crispi • Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Wisconsin Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshIn this landmark study of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, Luca Crispi and Sam Slote have ...
View full detailsSamuel Beckett and Testimony
D. Jones
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• Author(s): D. Jones • Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshThis is the first sustained study of Samuel Beckett and testimony. It offers new readings of the problem of unsp...
View full detailsA Common Strangeness: Contemporary Poetry, Cross-Cultural Encounter, Comparative Literature
Jacob Edmond
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• Author(s): Jacob Edmond • Publisher: Modern Language Initiative • Publisher Imprint: Modern Language Initiative • BISAC: PoetryWhy is our world still understood through binary oppositions--East and West, local and global, common and strange--th...
View full detailsComics & Media: A Special Issue of Critical Inquiry
Hillary L. Chute, Patrick Jagoda
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• Author(s): Hillary L. Chute | Patrick Jagoda • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Comics & Graphic NovelsAn exploration of the past, present, and future of comics from a gatherin...
View full detailsThe Apple and the Spectroscope (Routledge Revivals): Being Lectures on Poetry Designed (in the main) for Science Students
T. Henn
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• Author(s): T. Henn • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralFirst published in 1951, this book is based on a course of lectures on poetry and prose given at Cambridge University during the long vacations of 1946-195...
View full detailsTyrants Writing Poetry
Albrecht Koschorke, Konstantin Kaminskij
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• Author(s): Albrecht Koschorke | Konstantin Kaminskij • Publisher: Central European University Press • Publisher Imprint: Central European University Press • BISAC: PoetryWhy do tyrants - of all people - often have poetic aspirations? Where do t...
View full detailsThe Mélusine Romance in Medieval Europe: Translation, Circulation, and Material Contexts
Lydia Zeldenrust
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• Author(s): Lydia Zeldenrust • Publisher: Boydell & Brewer • Publisher Imprint: Boydell & Brewer • BISAC: MedievalThe legend of M�lusine examined in a pan-European context. Readers have long been fascinated by the enigmatic figure of M�l...
View full detailsPanepiphanal World: James Joyce's Epiphanies
Sangam Macduff
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• Author(s): Sangam Macduff • Publisher: University Press of Florida • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Florida • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshPanepiphanal World is the first in-depth study of the forty short texts James Joyce call...
View full detailsWomen Writing War: Ireland 1880-1922
Tina O'Toole, Gillian McIntosh, Muireann O'Cinneide
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• Author(s): Tina O'Toole | Gillian McIntosh | Muireann O'Cinneide • Publisher: University College Dublin Press • Publisher Imprint: University College Dublin Press • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - Historical EventsA collection of writings, eyewi...
View full detailsInterpreting Chekhov's Prose
Leonard A. Polakiewicz
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• Author(s): Leonard A. Polakiewicz • Publisher: Academic Studies Press • Publisher Imprint: Academic Studies Press • BISAC: Russian & SovietChekhov's brief but highly meaningful life of forty-four years can be best defined as a brilliant mer...
View full detailsFlann O'Brien and the Nonhuman: Environments, Animals, Machines
Katherine Ebury, Paul Fagan, John Greaney
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• Author(s): Katherine Ebury | Paul Fagan | John Greaney • Publisher: Cork University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cork University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshFlann O'Brien and the Nonhuman is the first book to explore in detail t...
View full detailsThe Coherence of Gothic Conventions
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
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• Author(s): Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Gothic & RomanceFirst published in 1986, The Coherence of Gothic Conventions makes the case that the Gothic in English literature has been marke...
View full detailsRepurposing Literary Romance Texts in Medieval Manuscripts: Beyond the Author
Stefano Resconi
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• Author(s): Stefano Resconi • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: MedievalTranscribing a text within a Medieval manuscript was often not a culturally and ideologically neutral act. The lack of direct control by the autho...
View full detailsAnimating the Victorians: Disney's Literary History
Patrick C. Fleming
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• Author(s): Patrick C. Fleming • Publisher: University Press of Mississippi • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Mississippi • BISAC: Children's & Young Adult LiteratureMany Disney films adapt works from the Victorian period, which is of...
View full detailsThe Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion
Patrick Colm Hogan, Bradley J. Irish, Lalita Pandit Hogan
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• Author(s): Patrick Colm Hogan | Bradley J. Irish | Lalita Pandit Hogan • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: LGBTThis is a crucial guide to the ways in which new, interdisciplinary understandings of emotion and affect -...
View full detailsLeo Tolstoy: The Power of Dissent
Ani Kokobobo
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• Author(s): Ani Kokobobo • Publisher: Academic Studies Press • Publisher Imprint: Academic Studies Press • BISAC: Russian & SovietThe Tolstoy that emerges from this volume is a thinker who resists easy answers, explores contradictions, and s...
View full detailsNostalgic Rebels: Politics, Aesthetics, and Selfhood in Postcolonial Morocco
Khalid Lyamlahy
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• Author(s): Khalid Lyamlahy • Publisher: Liverpool University Press • Publisher Imprint: Liverpool University Press • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - PoliticsMohammed Kha�r-Eddine (1941-1995), Abdelk�bir Khatibi (1938-2009), and Abdellatif La�bi ...
View full detailsEngagements with Children's and Young Adult Literature
Lydia Kokkola, Sara Van Den Bossche
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• Author(s): Lydia Kokkola | Sara Van Den Bossche • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Children's & Young Adult LiteratureEngagements with Children's and Young Adult Literature offers an accessible guide to studying ...
View full detailsClinical Fictions: Psychoanalytic Novelists and Short Story Writers
Jeffrey Berman
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• Author(s): Jeffrey Berman • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Comparative LiteratureClinical Fictions: Psychoanalytic Novelists and Short Story Writers is the first book to explore works of fiction written by prominen...
View full detailsTranslating Petrarch in Early Modern Britain: Canzoniere and Triumphi, C. 1530-1650
Marie-Alice Belle, Riccardo Raimondo, Francesco Venturi
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• Author(s): Marie-Alice Belle | Riccardo Raimondo | Francesco Venturi • Publisher: Manchester University Press • Publisher Imprint: Manchester University Press • BISAC: RenaissanceThis collection of essays explores the translation of Petrarch’s ...
View full detailsAlice's Adventures in Lacan-Land: Demystifying Lacanian Psychoanalysis
Ali Yansori
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• Author(s): Ali Yansori • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Modern - 19th CenturyAlice's Adventures in Lacan-Land is an accessible exploration of Lacanian psychoanalysis through the prism of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adv...
View full detailsYale French Studies, Number 146: Fabienne Kanor in Transgression Volume 146
Gladys M. Francis
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• Author(s): Gladys M. Francis • Publisher: Yale University Press • Publisher Imprint: Yale University Press • BISAC: European - FrenchA collection of interdisciplinary critical essays examining the political and aesthetic practices of Martinican...
View full detailsHyam Plutzik and the Mosaic of Time: Essays and Selected Poems
Victoria Aarons, Holli G. Levitsky, Hilene Flanzbaum
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• Author(s): Victoria Aarons | Holli G. Levitsky | Hilene Flanzbaum • Publisher: Academic Studies Press • Publisher Imprint: Academic Studies Press • BISAC: PoetryThis original collection of essays written by scholars and poets explores the life ...
View full detailsPlautus: Casina
Peter Barrios-Lech
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• Author(s): Peter Barrios-Lech • Publisher: Liverpool University Press • Publisher Imprint: Liverpool University Press • BISAC: Ancient and ClassicalThis is a new text, commentary, and translation of Plautus' most challenging and uproarious farc...
View full detailsOceanic Connections: The Sea in Irish and Caribbean Poetry
Ellen Howley
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• Author(s): Ellen Howley • Publisher: Syracuse University Press • Publisher Imprint: Syracuse University Press • BISAC: PoetryOceanic Connections is a first-of-its-kind comparative study of Anglophone Irish and Caribbean poets who write widely a...
View full detailsFame or Oblivion?: Russian Creativity in the Arts and Sciences
Loren Graham
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• Author(s): Loren Graham • Publisher: Cherry Orchard Books • Publisher Imprint: Cherry Orchard Books • BISAC: Russian & SovietWhy do some creations flourish while others fade into obscurity? In Fame or Oblivion? the author makes a provocativ...
View full detailsThe Postcolonial Bildungsroman: Narratives of Youth, Representational Politics, and Aesthetic Reinventions
Arnab Roy, Paul Ugor
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• Author(s): Arnab Roy | Paul Ugor • Publisher: University of Alberta Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Alberta Press • BISAC: Comparative LiteratureOffering a fresh comparative lens, this volume demonstrates how postcolonial writers have ...
View full detailsBy Consent Alone: Marriage Law and German Romance, 1186-1210
Jonathan Seelye Martin
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• Author(s): Jonathan Seelye Martin • Publisher: University of Toronto Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Toronto Press • BISAC: MedievalThe twelfth and early thirteenth centuries saw some of the most important changes to marriage laws in E...
View full detailsThe Island of Hermaphrodites: Volume 588
Kathleen Perry Long
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• Author(s): Kathleen Perry Long • Publisher: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance S • Publisher Imprint: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance S • BISAC: European - FrenchA scandal in its time and a revelation today, this fearless s...
View full detailsVariations of the Hero's Journey in Contemporary British, French and Australian Picture Books about the Great War: Reimagining the Horrors of the Past
Martin C. Kerby, Denise Burkhard, Alison Bedford
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• Author(s): Martin C. Kerby | Denise Burkhard | Alison Bedford • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & MythologyThis book is grounded in the belief that every nation had its own 'Grea...
View full detailsGraphic Medicine Manifesto: Tenth-Anniversary Edition
Mk Czerwiec, Ian Williams, Susan Merrill Squier
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• Author(s): Mk Czerwiec | Ian Williams | Susan Merrill Squier • Publisher: Penn State University Press • Publisher Imprint: Penn State University Press • BISAC: Comics & Graphic NovelsA decade ago, Graphic Medicine Manifesto established a bo...
View full detailsReimagining Science Fiction: Essays on 21st Century Ideas and Authors
Gary Westfahl
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• Author(s): Gary Westfahl • Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc. • Publisher Imprint: McFarland and Company, Inc. • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy In the first decades of the twenty-first century, science fiction literature has been tran...
View full detailsPoetry After Barbarism: The Invention of Motherless Tongues and Resistance to Fascism
Jennifer Scappettone
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• Author(s): Jennifer Scappettone • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: PoetryAgainst a backdrop of xenophobic and ethnonationalist fantasies of linguistic purity, Poetry After Barbarism un...
View full detailsModern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children's Literature
Miriam Udel
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• Author(s): Miriam Udel • Publisher: Princeton University Press • Publisher Imprint: Princeton University Press • BISAC: Children's & Young Adult LiteratureHow modern Yiddish children's literature gave expression to emerging forms of Jewish ...
View full detailsThe Poetic Way of XIE Lingyun: Literary Expression and the Natural World
Ping Wang
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• Author(s): Ping Wang • Publisher: University of Washington Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Washington Press • BISAC: Asian - Chinese The father of Chinese landscape poetry in time and place During the dark centuries between the fall o...
View full detailsThe Soldier's Choice
Hayden Pelliccia
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• Author(s): Hayden Pelliccia • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Ancient and ClassicalIn the pitch of battle, according to Pericles, the Athenian citizen-soldier chooses to die rather than...
View full detailsTeaching John McGahern's the Dark
Anna Teekell, Ellen Scheible, Barry Houlihan
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• Author(s): Anna Teekell | Ellen Scheible | Barry Houlihan • Publisher: Syracuse University Press • Publisher Imprint: Syracuse University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshTeaching John McGahern's "The Dark" provides an indispensabl...
View full detailsThe Politics of Play: Oulipo and the Legacy of French Literary Ludics
Aubrey Gabel
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• Author(s): Aubrey Gabel • Publisher: Northwestern University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northwestern University Press • BISAC: European - FrenchShowing the political importance of play in postwar French literature In postwar France, authors app...
View full detailsThe Code of the Superhero: Morality and Citizenship in the Comics
Ryan L. Johnson
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• Author(s): Ryan L. Johnson • Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc. • Publisher Imprint: McFarland and Company, Inc. • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels Since their inception, superheroes in comic books and other media have endeavored to guide...
View full detailsKamila Shamsie
Peter Morey
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• Author(s): Peter Morey • Publisher: Liverpool University Press • Publisher Imprint: Liverpool University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshIn the first book-length study of this major contemporary author, Peter Morey traces the infl...
View full detailsClose Reading for the Twenty-First Century
Dan Sinykin, Johanna Winant
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• Author(s): Dan Sinykin | Johanna Winant • Publisher: Princeton University Press • Publisher Imprint: Princeton University Press • BISAC: ReferenceA user's guide to the fundamental practice of literary studies, providing context, examples, and p...
View full detailsInsidious Trauma in Eastern African Literatures and Cultures
Norman Saadi Nikro, Denish Odanga, James Odhiambo Ogone
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• Author(s): Norman Saadi Nikro | Denish Odanga | James Odhiambo Ogone • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshThis book investigates the thematic and conceptual dimensions of insidious trauma...
View full detailsThe Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics
Julia Fiedorczuk, Mary Newell, Bernard Quetchenbach
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• Author(s): Julia Fiedorczuk | Mary Newell | Bernard Quetchenbach • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralThe Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics offers comprehensive coverage of the vital and growing movement of ecop...
View full detailsRemains – Jacques Derrida: Text and Commentary
Jacques Derrida
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• Author(s): Jacques Derrida • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: European - FrenchExplores Jacques Derrida’s thoughts on what it means to ‘remain’.
Hemingway and Posthumanism
Marcos Antonio Norris, Ryan Hediger
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• Author(s): Marcos Antonio Norris | Ryan Hediger • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Modern - 20th CenturyErnest Hemingway is often recognised for his contributions to the intellectual...
View full detailsSlightly Magical Irish Poetry and the Long 1990s
Lucy McDiarmid
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• Author(s): Lucy McDiarmid • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSlightly Magical Irish Poetry and the Long 1990s is a major intervention in the field of I...
View full detailsChilean Women's Poetry Under Neoliberalism, 1980-2020
Bárbara Fernández-Melleda
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• Author(s): Bárbara Fernández-Melleda • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Women AuthorsChilean Women's Poetry under Neoliberalism, 1980-2020 explores how the works of 6 women poets int...
View full detailsThe Asian American Renaissance: Literary Encounters Across Time
Mai Wang
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• Author(s): Mai Wang • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: American - Asian AmericanHow do transnational Asian American novels and poems reimagine the classics of nineteenth-century Amer...
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