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Migration and Modernities: The State of Being Stateless, 1750-1850
Joellen Delucia, Juliet Shields
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• Author(s): Joellen Delucia | Juliet Shields • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Comparative LiteratureRecovers a comparative literary history of migrationThis collection initiates tra...
View full detailsComedia y melancolía en la narrativa neopoliciaca (Vázquez Montalbán, Taibo II, Padura)
Carlos Tongeren
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• Author(s): Carlos Tongeren • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryIn this book, Carlos van Tongeren offers a profound and innovative reflection on the intersections between comedy and melancholy, through de...
View full detailsArt and Science in Word and Image
Keith Williams
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• Author(s): Keith Williams • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryArt and Science in Word and Image explores how discovery and innovation have functioned inter-dependently across art, literature and the scie...
View full detailsHomer's Odyssey and the Near East
Bruce Louden
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• Author(s): Bruce Louden • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Ancient and ClassicalThe Odyssey's larger plot is composed of a number of distinct genres of myth, all of which are extant ...
View full detailsImagining Medieval English
Tim William Machan
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• Author(s): Tim William Machan • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshImagining Medieval English is concerned with how we think about language, and simply t...
View full detailsThe Cambridge Companion to Boxing
Gerald Early
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• Author(s): Gerald Early • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralWhile humans have used their hands to engage in combat since the dawn of man, boxing originated in Ancien...
View full detailsThe Elizabethan Country House Entertainment
Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich
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• Author(s): Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshThis is the first full-length critical study of country house entertainment, a ...
View full detailsEditing Early Modern Women
Sarah C. E. Ross, Paul Salzman
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• Author(s): Sarah C. E. Ross | Paul Salzman • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshThis collection of new essays is a comprehensive exploration of the theor...
View full detailsShakespeare and the Natural World
Tom Macfaul
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• Author(s): Tom Macfaul • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: ShakespeareExploring the rich range of meanings that Shakespeare finds in the natural world, this book fuses ecocritical app...
View full details'A Mirror for Magistrates' in Context
Harriet Archer, Andrew Hadfield
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• Author(s): Harriet Archer | Andrew Hadfield • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshThis is the first essay collection on A Mirror for Magistrates, the most...
View full detailsMemory and Intertextuality in Renaissance Literature
Raphael Lyne
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• Author(s): Raphael Lyne • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshThis book uses theories of memory derived from cognitive science to offer new ways of unders...
View full detailsWriting Performative Shakespeares
Rob Conkie
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• Author(s): Rob Conkie • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: ShakespeareThis innovative study offers a genuinely groundbreaking approach to Shakespeare in performance. Six chapters work ...
View full detailsEnglish Alliterative Verse
Eric Weiskott
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• Author(s): Eric Weiskott • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshEnglish Alliterative Verse tells the story of the medieval poetic tradition that includes B...
View full detailsThe Cambridge History of Travel Writing
Nandini Das, Tim Youngs
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• Author(s): Nandini Das | Tim Youngs • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryBringing together original contributions from scholars around the world, this volume trac...
View full detailsBaciyelmo: Theologies of Transformation in Don Quixote
A. Robert Lauer, Pamela H. Long
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• Author(s): A. Robert Lauer | Pamela H. Long • Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi • BISAC: European - FrenchThis text examines the character of Don Quixote,...
View full detailsMetalepse Im Werk Von Günter Grass: Eine Analyse Der Narrativen Struktur in Sechs Ausgewählten Romanen (1961-2010)
Saartje Gobyn
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• Author(s): Saartje Gobyn • Publisher: J.B. Metzler • Publisher Imprint: J.B. Metzler • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryGünter Grass hat sein Leben lang versucht, Grenzen zu überspringen und profiliert sich seit dem Anfang seiner künstlerischen Lau...
View full detailsSchwarzer Karneval - Heiner Müllers Poetik des Grotesken
Mirjam Meuser
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• Author(s): Mirjam Meuser • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: European - GermanDie Studie zielt auf eine literaturhistorisch fundierte Rekonstruktion von Heiner Müllers Poetik des Grotesken, die als Antwort auf die k...
View full detailsStanley Cavell and the Claim of Literature
David Rudrum
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• Author(s): David Rudrum • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryAn analysis of the significance of literature in the work of one of America's most influentia...
View full detailsThe Works of Li Qingzhao
Ronald Egan, Anna Shields
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• Author(s): Ronald Egan | Anna Shields • Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter Mouton • BISAC: Asian - GeneralPrevious translations and descriptions of Li Qingzhao are molded by an image of her as lonely wife and bereft wi...
View full detailsAcross the Boundaries: Talking about Thomas Kilroy
Guy Woodward
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• Author(s): Guy Woodward • Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis • BISAC: DramaThomas Kilroy's long and distinguished career is celebrated in this volume by ne...
View full detailsLiving by the Golden Rule: Mentor - Scholar - World Citizen: A Festschrift for Wolfgang Mieder's 75th Birthday
Andreas Nolte, Dennis Mahoney
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• Author(s): Andreas Nolte | Dennis Mahoney • Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W • BISAC: European - FrenchThis Festschrift for Wolfgang Mieder, preeminent p...
View full detailsA Reader's Guide to Yeats's a Vision
Neil Mann
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• Author(s): Neil Mann • Publisher: Clemson University Press W/ Lup • Publisher Imprint: Clemson University Press W/ Lup • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshW. B. Yeats is one of the most important writers in English of the twentieth century,...
View full detailsSilvery World and Other Stories: Anthology of Korean Literature
Michael J. Pettid
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• Author(s): Michael J. Pettid • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Asian - GeneralThis anthology is an exciting new collection of Korean fiction in translation from the early years of the t...
View full detailsSilvery World and Other Stories: Anthology of Korean Literature
Michael J. Pettid
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• Author(s): Michael J. Pettid • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series • Publisher Imprint: Cornell East Asia Series • BISAC: Asian - GeneralThis anthology is an exciting new collection of Korean fiction in translation from the early years of the t...
View full detailsThe Cambridge Companion to George Eliot
George Levine, Nancy Henry
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• Author(s): George Levine | Nancy Henry • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshThis second edition of The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot includes sever...
View full detailsThe Cambridge Companion to George Eliot
George Levine, Nancy Henry
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• Author(s): George Levine | Nancy Henry • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshThis second edition of The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot includes sever...
View full detailsCervantes en las antípodas
Ariel Núñez Sepúlveda
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• Author(s): Ariel Núñez Sepúlveda • Publisher: Editorial Universitaria de Chile • Publisher Imprint: Editorial Universitaria de Chile • BISAC: European - Spanish & PortugueseA m�s de cuatro siglos de su publicaci�n, Don Quijote de la Mancha ...
View full detailsHow and Why Books Matter: Essays on the Social Function of Iconic Texts
James W. Watts
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• Author(s): James W. Watts • Publisher: Equinox Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Equinox Publishing • BISAC: GeneralReligious and secular communities ritualize some books in one, two, or three dimensions. They ritualize the dimension of semantic ...
View full detailsHow and Why Books Matter: Essays on the Social Function of Iconic Texts
James W. Watts
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• Author(s): James W. Watts • Publisher: Equinox Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Equinox Publishing • BISAC: GeneralReligious and secular communities ritualize some books in one, two, or three dimensions. They ritualize the dimension of semantic ...
View full detailsRewriting Early America: The Prenational Past in Postmodern Literature
Christopher K. Coffman
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• Author(s): Christopher K. Coffman • Publisher: Lehigh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Lehigh University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralRewriting Early America argues the need for a subtler understanding of how post-1945 literary figures...
View full detailsCaptain Marvel and the Art of Nostalgia
Brian Cremins
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• Author(s): Brian Cremins • Publisher: University Press of Mississippi • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Mississippi • BISAC: Comics & Graphic NovelsBilly Batson discovers a secret in a forgotten subway tunnel. There the young man mee...
View full detailsBen Katchor: Conversations
Ian Gordon
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• Author(s): Ian Gordon • Publisher: University Press of Mississippi • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Mississippi • BISAC: Comics & Graphic NovelsAuthor Michael Chabon described Ben Katchor (b. 1951) as "the creator of the last great ...
View full detailsCanadian Alternative: Cartoonists, Comics, and Graphic Novels
Eric Hoffman
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• Author(s): Eric Hoffman • Publisher: University Press of Mississippi • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Mississippi • BISAC: Comics & Graphic NovelsContributions by Jordan Bolay, Ian Brodie, Jocelyn Sakal Froese, Dominick Grace, Eric ...
View full detailsOpenness of Comics: Generating Meaning Within Flexible Structures
Maaheen Ahmed
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• Author(s): Maaheen Ahmed • Publisher: University Press of Mississippi • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Mississippi • BISAC: Comics & Graphic NovelsNever before have comics seemed so popular or diversified, proliferating across a bro...
View full detailsHearing Voices: Aurality and New Spanish Sound Culture in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Sarah Finley
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• Author(s): Sarah Finley • Publisher: University of Nebraska Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Nebraska Press • BISAC: Modern - 17th CenturyHearing Voices takes a fresh look at sound in the poetry and prose of colonial Latin American poet...
View full detailsWalking on Ashes
Winifred Weir
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• Author(s): Winifred Weir • Publisher: Puncher & Wattmann • Publisher Imprint: Puncher & Wattmann • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh'These poems explore the horrors and effects of war with fierce, unrelenting attention. The poetry ...
View full detailsGoodbye Christ?: Christianity, Masculinity, and the New Negro Renaissance
Peter Kerry Powers
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• Author(s): Peter Kerry Powers • Publisher: University of Tennessee Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Tennessee Press • BISAC: American - African American Despite the proliferation of criticism on the cultural work of the Harlem Renaissan...
View full detailsTeaching Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature: Essays in Honor of Robert L. Belknap
Deborah a. Martinsen, Cathy Popkin, Irina Reyfman
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• Author(s): Deborah a. Martinsen | Cathy Popkin | Irina Reyfman • Publisher: Academic Studies Press • Publisher Imprint: Academic Studies Press • BISAC: Russian & SovietTeaching Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature: Essays in Honor of Rober...
View full detailsComics of Rutu Modan: War, Love, and Secrets
Kevin Haworth
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• Author(s): Kevin Haworth • Publisher: University Press of Mississippi • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Mississippi • BISAC: Comics & Graphic NovelsBest known for her Eisner Award-winning graphic novels, Exit Wounds and The Property,...
View full detailsEssays on Indian Writing in English
Iffat Maqbool
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• Author(s): Iffat Maqbool • Publisher: Partridge Publishing India • Publisher Imprint: Partridge Publishing India • BISAC: GeneralThis book is a collection of critical essays on Indian Writing in English- a literary area that has carved a foremo...
View full detailsThe Poetics and Politics of Sensuality in China: The "Fragrant and Bedazzling" Movement (1600-1930)
Xiaorong Li
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• Author(s): Xiaorong Li • Publisher: Cambria Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambria Press • BISAC: Asian - ChineseIn Chinese literary history, the construction of images of beautiful women by literati tended to reach a high tide during periods of po...
View full detailsStudies of Anglophone Literatures in Central Europe
Wieslaw Krajka
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• Author(s): Wieslaw Krajka • Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W • BISAC: European - FrenchThis book paints the landscape of major trends and achievements of...
View full detailsTexte komponieren, von Klaengen erzaehlen: Studien zu den Beziehungen von Literatur und Musik
Andrzej Kątny, Katarzyna Grzywka-Kolago, Malgorzata Filipowicz
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• Author(s): Andrzej Kątny | Katarzyna Grzywka-Kolago | Malgorzata Filipowicz • Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W • BISAC: European - GeneralDas Buch ist da...
View full detailsItalian World Heritage: Studi Di Letteratura E Cultura Italiana / Studien Zur Italienischen Literatur Und Kultur (1300-1650)
Christoph Mayer, Christoph Mayer, Susanne Gramatzki
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• Author(s): Christoph Mayer | Christoph Mayer | Susanne Gramatzki • Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W • BISAC: European - FrenchL'Italia comunale e rinasci...
View full detailsA Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1950-1975
Tania Ørum
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• Author(s): Tania Ørum • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: GeneralA Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1950-1975 is the first publication to deal with the postwar avant-garde in the Nordic countries fr...
View full detailsThe Value of Ecocriticism
Timothy Clark
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• Author(s): Timothy Clark • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryThe Value of Ecocriticism offers a brief, incisive overview of the fast-changing field of environmen...
View full detailsThe Value of Ecocriticism
Timothy Clark
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• Author(s): Timothy Clark • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryThe Value of Ecocriticism offers a brief, incisive overview of the fast-changing field of environmen...
View full detailsRepraesentationsweisen Des Anthropozaen in Literatur Und Medien: Representations of the Anthropocene in Literature and Media
Gabriele Dürbeck, Gabriele Dürbeck, Jonas Nesselhauf
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• Author(s): Gabriele Dürbeck | Gabriele Dürbeck | Jonas Nesselhauf • Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W • BISAC: European - FrenchDas Anthropoz�n mit der Id...
View full detailsMinderheiten in der slawischen Welt: Sprachkontakte und kulturelle Identitaeten
Anna Kretschmer, Anna Kretschmer, Gerhard Neweklowsky
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• Author(s): Anna Kretschmer | Anna Kretschmer | Gerhard Neweklowsky • Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W • BISAC: Russian & SovietDie im Buch versammelt...
View full detailsL'écriture à l'ère de l'indétermination: Études sur la critique génétique, la psychanalyse et la littérature
Jean Khalfa, Philippe Willemart
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• Author(s): Jean Khalfa | Philippe Willemart • Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis • BISAC: European - FrenchL'écriture à l'ère de l'indétermination considèr...
View full detailsFrancisco Delicado, 'Retrato de la Locana andaluza': Estudio y edicion critica
Rocio Diaz Bravo
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• Author(s): Rocio Diaz Bravo • Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association • Publisher Imprint: Modern Humanities Research Association • BISAC: European - Spanish & PortugueseEl Retrato de la Loçana andaluza, compuesto en Roma en 1524...
View full detailsDostoevsky Beyond Dostoevsky: Science, Religion, Philosophy
Vladimir Golstein, Svetlana Evdokimova
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• Author(s): Vladimir Golstein | Svetlana Evdokimova • Publisher: Academic Studies Press • Publisher Imprint: Academic Studies Press • BISAC: Russian & SovietThis volume deals with Dostoevsky's wide-ranging interests and engagement with philo...
View full detailsThe Literary Field Under Communist Rule
Ausra Jurgutiene, Dalia Satkauskyte
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• Author(s): Ausra Jurgutiene | Dalia Satkauskyte • Publisher: Academic Studies Press • Publisher Imprint: Academic Studies Press • BISAC: Russian & SovietThis volume widens the field of Soviet literature studies by interpreting it as a multi...
View full detailsKafka After Kafka: Dialogical Engagement with His Works from the Holocaust to Postmodernism
Iris Bruce, Mark H. Gelber, Alana Sobelman
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• Author(s): Iris Bruce | Mark H. Gelber | Alana Sobelman • Publisher: Camden House (NY) • Publisher Imprint: Camden House (NY) • BISAC: European - GermanThe topic of "Kafka after Kafka" is a fascinating one: the engagement of artists, philosophe...
View full detailsIs The United States Worth Saving?: For A More Perfect Union!
Charles Thompson
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• Author(s): Charles Thompson • Publisher: Lettra Press LLC • Publisher Imprint: Lettra Press LLC • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - Historical EventsThe book's premise spells out the dangers which our republic has encountered and how the 21st cent...
View full detailsBritish Avant-Garde Fiction of the 1960s
Kaye Mitchell, Nonia Williams
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• Author(s): Kaye Mitchell | Nonia Williams • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Modern - 20th CenturyExplores the trailblazing work of the British literary avant-garde of the 1960sThis ...
View full detailsThe Detective and the Artist: Painters, Poets and Writers in Crime Fiction, 1840s-1970s
J. K. Van Dover
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• Author(s): J. K. Van Dover • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mystery & Detective Fiction This book focuses on the distinctive role that artists have played in detective fiction--as de...
View full detailsCurious Encounters: Voyaging, Collecting, and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century
Adriana Craciun, Mary Terrall
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• Author(s): Adriana Craciun | Mary Terrall • Publisher: University of Toronto Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Toronto Press • BISAC: Modern - 18th CenturyWith contributions from historians, literary critics, and geographers, Curious Enc...
View full detailsThe American Photo-Text, 1930-1960
Caroline Blinder
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• Author(s): Caroline Blinder • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralFocuses on the intersections between text and photography in the twentieth-century American photo-tex...
View full detailsThe Rhythm Method, Razzamatazz, and Memory: How to Make Your Poetry Swing
Keith Flynn
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• Author(s): Keith Flynn • Publisher: Press 53 Carolina Classics Editions • Publisher Imprint: Press 53 Carolina Classics Editions • BISAC: PoetryPoems are made of words, not ideas. Those words are rhythmic and, when chosen and composed properly,...
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