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  • Sexual Violence and Literary Art
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    Sexual Violence and Literary Art

    Written by a practising poet and novelist who has close experience of the subject matter and has published creative work in the areas being examined, Sexual Violence and Literary Art is a...
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  • Shakespeare's Theater of Nature Shakespeare's Theater of Nature
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    Shakespeare's Theater of Nature

    Shakespeare's Theater of Nature argues that Shakespeare combined art and nature in new ways while experimenting with relations between words, images, and objects as sources of knowledge and pleasure...
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  • Poetry and Philosophy from Homer to Rousseau Poetry and Philosophy from Homer to Rousseau
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    Poetry and Philosophy from Homer to Rousseau

    This accessible and jargon-free book features readings of over 20 key texts and authors in Western poetry and philosophy, including Homer, Plato, Beowulf , Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare and Rousseau...
    $184.00

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  • Literature and the Peripheral City Literature and the Peripheral City
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    Literature and the Peripheral City

    Cities have always been defined by their centrality. But literature demonstrates that their diverse peripheries define them, too: from suburbs to slums, rubbish dumps to nightclubs and entire failed...
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  • Crime Fiction and the Law Crime Fiction and the Law
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    Crime Fiction and the Law

    This book opens up a range of important perspectives on law and violence by considering the ways in which their relationship is formulated in literature, television and film. Employing critical legal...
    $121.00

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    From Fiction to Psychoanalysis

    How can reading literary fiction shed light on the way we speak ourselves within psychoanalysis? Rather than offering psychoanalytic insights into literature, Rosemary Rizq, a practicing psychologist...
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  • Musically Sublime Musically Sublime
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    Musically Sublime

    Musically Sublime rewrites musically the history and philosophy of the sublime. Music enables us to reconsider the traditional course of sublime feeling on a track from pain to pleasure. Resisting...
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  • Native American Women's Studies Native American Women's Studies
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    Native American Women's Studies

    This introduction to the fundamentals of Native American women's studies first looks at several definitive topics created by the western cultural notion of feminism, and western historical and...
    $66.00

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  • Hoelderlin and Blanchot on Self-Sacrifice Hoelderlin and Blanchot on Self-Sacrifice
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    Hoelderlin and Blanchot on Self-Sacrifice

    A scene of self-sacrifice can never be staged or secured. The work of Friedrich Hölderlin, arguably one of the most profound writers of the German Enlightenment, supports this idea in fascinating...
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  • Southwestern American Indian Literature Southwestern American Indian Literature
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    Southwestern American Indian Literature

    Southwestern American Indian Literature: In the Classroom and Beyond addresses several challenges that teaching Southwestern American Indian literature presents, and suggests innovative ways of...
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  • The Elusive I in the Novel
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    The Elusive I in the Novel

    Hippel, author of Die Lebensläufe nach aufsteigender Linie (1778-1781), has been widely recognized as one of the best German authors to write in the manner of Laurence Sterne. This study places...
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    Semiotic Investigations

    In Semiotic Investigations, Alec McHoul develops a theory of meaning that he calls "effective semiotics"-a theory that investigates "the ways in which signs have meaning by virtue of their actual...
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  • Cartographies of Exile Cartographies of Exile
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    Cartographies of Exile

    This book proposes a fundamental relationship between exile and mapping. It seeks to understand the cartographic imperative inherent in the exilic condition, the exilic impulses fundamental to...
    $424.00

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  • Kangaroo Courts and the Rule of Law Kangaroo Courts and the Rule of Law
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    Kangaroo Courts and the Rule of Law

    Kangaroo Courts and the Rule of Law -The Legacy of Modernism addresses the legacy of contemporary critiques of language for the concept of the rule of law. Between those who care about the rule of...
    $385.00

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  • Knowledge and Censorship Knowledge and Censorship
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    Knowledge and Censorship

    This collection uses the transnational activities of municipal urban governments to historicize the origins and development of the global city, focusing on how urban problems were addressed with...
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  • Radiant Textuality Radiant Textuality
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    Radiant Textuality

    Jerome McGann has been at the forefront of the digital revolution in the humanities. His pioneering critical projects on the World Wide Web have redefined traditional notions about interpreting...
    $119.00

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  • Ioannis Zonarae Annales V1 (1841) Ioannis Zonarae Annales V1 (1841)
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    Ioannis Zonarae Annales V1 (1841)

    Liber Ioannis Zonarae Annales V1, editus a Mauricio Pinderi, anno MDCCCXLI, continet historiam ab origine mundi usque ad annum Domini MCVI. Zonaras, scriptor Graecus saeculi XII, narrat res gestas...
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  • Commentarii Critici In Thvcydidis (1815) Commentarii Critici In Thvcydidis (1815)
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    Commentarii Critici In Thvcydidis (1815)

    Commentarii Critici In Thvcydidis (1815) est liber a Benedicto Travgott Frederico scriptus, qui commentarios criticos in Thucydidis historiam Graecam scripsit. Thucydidis historia de Peloponnesiaco...
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  • Caii Crispi Sallustii Opera Caii Crispi Sallustii Opera
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    Caii Crispi Sallustii Opera

    Caii Crispi Sallustii Opera: Novissime Recognita (1807) est liber qui continet opera Gaii Sallustii Crispi, historici Romani, qui vixit in saeculo primo a.C.n. In hoc libro continentur opera eius,...
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  • The Difficulties of Modernism The Difficulties of Modernism
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    The Difficulties of Modernism

    In The Difficulties of Modernism, Leonard Diepeveen examines how difficulty became central to our encounters with modern literature and culture. Literary modernism's first readers often complained...
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  • Theory After 'Theory' Theory After 'Theory'
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    Theory After 'Theory'

    This volume argues that theory, far from being dead, has undergone major shifts in order to come to terms with the most urgent cultural and political questions of today. Offering an overview of...
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  • Studying British Cultures Studying British Cultures
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    Studying British Cultures

    'British Studies' and 'British Cultural Studies' cover a wide range of facets of contemporary Britain. Studying British Cultures: An Introduction is a unique collection of essays which examine the...
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  • Race and Identity in Hemingway's Fiction Race and Identity in Hemingway's Fiction
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    Race and Identity in Hemingway's Fiction

    Race and Identity in Hemingway s Fiction explores how Hemingway negotiates race as a defining element of American identity. His interest in race and racial identity emerged in his writing and his...
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  • Theology and Literature Theology and Literature
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    Theology and Literature

    By examining theological and literary narratives through an engagement with well-known theorists of reading and religion, this collection of essays, international in perspective, brings together...
    $92.00

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  • Women and Race in Contemporary U.S. Writing Women and Race in Contemporary U.S. Writing
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    Women and Race in Contemporary U.S. Writing

    This study discovers how contemporary writers have imagined possible relationships between African American and white women that overcome the stereotypical patterns of racism, using novels and...
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  • Beyond Arthurian Romances Beyond Arthurian Romances
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    Beyond Arthurian Romances

    Leaving the traditional focus on Arthurian romance and Gothic tales, the essays in this collection address how the Victorians looked back to the Middle Ages to create a sense of authority for their...
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  • The Legacy of Primo Levi The Legacy of Primo Levi
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    The Legacy of Primo Levi

    This collection represents some of the latest research on Primo Levi, the famous Auschwitz survivor Italian author, in the field of Italian Studies, Holocaust Studies, Jewish Studies, literary...
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  • Late Postmodernism Late Postmodernism
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    Late Postmodernism

    Does the novel have a future? Questions of this kind, which are as old as the novel itself, acquired a fresh urgency at the end of the twentieth-century with the rise of new media and the relegation...
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  • Territories of the Psyche Territories of the Psyche
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    Territories of the Psyche

    Jean Rhys is widely credited for exposing issues of gender, nationality, race, and class in technically sophisticated, arresting narratives. Her lifelong exploration of the dynamics of the human...
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  • Langland's Early Modern Identities Langland's Early Modern Identities
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    Langland's Early Modern Identities

    This book uses the methodologies of cultural studies and the history of the book to show how editors and readers of the Sixteenth through the early Nineteenth century successively remade Piers...
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  • Revisionist Shakespeare Revisionist Shakespeare
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    Revisionist Shakespeare

    Revisionist Shakespeare appropriates revisionist history in order to both criticize traditional transitional interpretations of Shakespearean drama and to offer a new methodology for understanding...
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  • Citizen Shakespeare Citizen Shakespeare
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    Citizen Shakespeare

    Shakespeare was not a citizen of London. But the language of his plays is shot through with the concerns of London 'freemen' and their wives, the diverse commercial class that nevertheless excluded...
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  • Narrative Bodies Narrative Bodies
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    Narrative Bodies

    Although the body has recently emerged throughout the humanities and social sciences as an object revealing the power and limits of representation, the study of narrative has almost entirely ignored...
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  • Authorship in Context Authorship in Context
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    Authorship in Context

    Theories of authorship and material culture provide the framework for this study. It maps Anglo-American authorship as it shifts from a theoretical to a more material approach to its study in...
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