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A dostoevskii companion
The powerful prose of Dostoevsky continues to fascinate readers today. A Dostoevsky Companion: Texts and Contexts aims to help students and readers navigate the writer’s fiction and world and to better understand the cultural and sociopolitical milieu in which he lived and wrote, offering new pat...
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A history of modern french literature
An accessible and authoritative new history of French literature, written by a highly distinguished transatlantic group of scholarsThis book provides an engaging, accessible, and exciting new history of French literature from the Renaissance through the twentieth century, from Rabelais and Margue...
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A king and no king
This fully annotated version makes available on one of the most popular and influential plays by Beaumont and Fletcher, young contemporaries of Shakespeare. In discussing sources and stage history, the critical introduction challenges the common modern devaluation of these playwrights and offers ...
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A/z
This bilingual collection in honor of the great scholar and writer Alexander Zholkovsky brings together new work from forty-four leading scholars in nine countries. Like Zholkovsky’s oeuvre, this volume covers a broad range of subjects and employs an array of approaches.
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Addiction and devotion in early modern england
Rebecca Lemon illuminates a previously-buried conception of addiction, as a form of devotion at once laudable, difficult, and extraordinary, that has been concealed by the persistent modern link of addiction to pathology. Surveying sixteenth-century invocations, she reveals how early moderns migh...
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American sophistication
The fascinating story of sophistication in the United States, from the founding to the presentIs there such a thing as “American sophistication”—or is it a contradiction in terms? Those questions have been up for grabs since America’s founding. The idea of sophistication has always left Americans...
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Antonio and mellida
A new in paperback edition of this first play by John Marston to be performed by the revived Paul's Company in 1599. Fully annotated with critical introduction and full commentary.
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Beginning shakespeare
Introduces students to the study of Shakespeare and grounds their understandings of his work in theoretical discourses. By addressing what is primarily at stake in the major theoretical approaches to Shakespeare's works, the book breaks down both fears and preconceptions to offer students a map ...
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Beginning theory
Beginning theory has been helping students navigate through the thickets of literary and cultural theory for over two decades. This new and expanded fourth edition continues to offer readers the best single-volume introduction to the field. The bewildering variety of approaches, theorists and tec...
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Close reading for the twenty-first century
A user’s guide to the fundamental practice of literary studies, providing context, examples, and practical exercises Close reading—making an argument based in close attention to a text—is the foundation of literary studies. This book offers a guide to close reading, treating it as a skill that ca...
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Conversations with trotsky
Conversations with Trotsky provides a unique insight into Canadian Trotskyism during the Radical 1930s through an original collection of Birney’s work.
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Doing kyd
Doing Kyd reads Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy, the box-office and print success of its time, as the play that established the revenge genre in England and served as a ‘pattern and precedent’ for the golden generation of early modern playwrights.
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Doing sociology through film and literature
This book is primarily a research-informed textbook aimed at any reader with an interest in using film and literature in sociological and social science research.
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El castigo sin venganza
An authoritative new critical edition of Lope de Vega’s best and best-known play that includes an introduction, commentary, selected vocabulary and footnotes for the English-speaking student.
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Émigrés
The fascinating history of French words that have entered the English language and the fertile but fraught relationship between English- and French-speaking cultures across the worldEnglish has borrowed more words from French than from any other modern foreign language. French words and phrases—s...
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Extinction and the human
A reflection on the realities of animal extinction and endangerment, focusing especially on the force of human impact on megafauna—mammoths, whales, and the North American bisonThe Americas have been the site of two distinct waves of human migration, each associated with human-caused extinctions....
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Far calls
An inquiry into the theories and practices of overhearing When words are not heard but overheard, when phrases are perceived in bits and pieces, and when speakers, failing to do as they intend, state things that they never meant to say, the saying, in its unsteady relation to understanding, becom...
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Fictions of consent
In Fictions of Consent Urvashi Chakravarty excavates the ideologies of slavery that took root in early modern England in the period that preceded the development of an organized trade in enslaved persons.Despite the persistent fiction that England was innocent of racialized slavery, Chakravarty a...
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Founded in fiction
An original account of the importance of diverse forms of fiction in the early American republic—one that challenges the “rise of the novel” narrativeWhat is the use of fiction? This question preoccupied writers in the early United States, where many cultural authorities insisted that fiction-rea...
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Graveyards
From the author of Gothic, a marvelously illustrated cultural history of graves and graveyards, from the earliest known burial sites to today’s green burialsWhy, how, and where do we inter our dead? How have people throughout history responded to the problem of laying their dead to rest? Roger Lu...
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Haunted by the civil war
How the legacy of the Civil War—as presented by writers, poets, and artists of the time—has shaped American visions of democracyIn Haunted by the Civil War, Shirley Samuels explores the work of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville, Frederick Douglass, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and other...
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How to draw a novel
Finalist for the Big Other Book Award for Translation From the acclaimed author of The Black Minutes and Don’t Send Flowers, How to Draw a Novel is an ingenious and visually stimulating exploration of narrative and craft from master storyteller and former publisher Martín Solares In this finely...
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I, wandering jew
Combining history, detective story, and memoir, a surprising and revealing account of the antisemitic myth of “the Wandering Jew”The story behind the mythical figure of “the Wandering Jew” is one of the most fascinating tales in European history. In I, Wandering Jew, National Jewish Book Award–wi...
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Insomniac dreams
Nabokov's dream diary—published for the first timeOn October 14, 1964, Vladimir Nabokov, a lifelong insomniac, began a curious experiment. Over the next eighty days, immediately upon waking, he wrote down his dreams, following the instructions in An Experiment with Time by British philosopher Joh...
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Inspired by bakhtin
The revisionist approach in this book, based on Mikhail Bakhtin’s work, traces the search for common and specific grounds of the humanities, beginning with psychologism through hermeneutics and semiotics up to the present state of self-annihilation. As an alternative, the book seeks to define hum...
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Late and post soviet russian literature
The second volume of Late Soviet and Post-Soviet Literature: A Reader treats the literature of the Thaw and Stagnation periods (1954-1986). It includes translations of poetry and prose as well as scholarly texts that provide additional material for discussion. The goal of this volume is to presen...
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Libraries of the mind
How we build our invisible libraries Erich Auerbach wrote his classic work Mimesis, a history of narrative from Homer to Proust, based largely on his memory of past reading. Having left his physical library behind when he fled to Istanbul to escape the Nazis, he was forced to rely on the invisibl...
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Literature for a changing planet
Why we must learn to tell new stories about our relationship with the earth if we are to avoid climate catastropheReading literature in a time of climate emergency can sometimes feel a bit like fiddling while Rome burns. Yet, at this turning point for the planet, scientists, policymakers, and act...
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Literatures, communities, and learning
Literatures, Communities, and Learning contextualizes Indigenous literatures through pedagogical and social justice perspectives. Gathering conversations with nine Indigenous writers, the book explores the writers’ relationship to storytelling, Indigenous peoples’ well-being, and community-based ...
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Love in the time of self-publishing
Lessons in creative labor, solidarity, and inclusion under precarious economic conditionsAs writers, musicians, online content creators, and other independent workers fight for better labor terms, romance authors offer a powerful example—and a cautionary tale—about self-organization and mutual ai...
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Malcolm lowry's poetics of space
Malcolm Lowry’s Poetics of Space offers a collection of exciting, new, and often controversial readings which seek to readdress not only Lowry’s master work, Under the Volcano, but also many of his other writings.
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Marxism, orientalism, cosmopolitanism
Erudite, incisive, and innovative, the essays provide an insightful examination of key themes in Middle East and Marxist scholarship.
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Masques of difference
Masques of difference' presents an annotated edition of four seventeenth-century entertainments written by Ben Jonson, which reflect the royal court’s self-representation as moral and just, in contrast to stylised images of chaotically (and exotically) 'othered' groups: Africans, the Irish, witch...
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Microtravel
This volume explores and historicizes the phenomenon of ‘microtravel’, a term coined to designate slower journeys within a limited radius which allow, and sometimes necessitate, new forms of experiencing the world. The chapters study travelogues that recalibrate the scale of journeying, with trav...
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Persian parables
A major reassessment of the parable in Persian literature and its contribution to philosophical and creative thinkingIn this book, Hamid Dabashi offers a radical reconsideration of the parable in Persian literature, arguing that parabolic thinking is a mode of philosophical reflection. Dabashi es...
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Reading old books
A wide-ranging exploration of the creative power of literary tradition, from Chaucer to the presentIn literary and cultural studies, "tradition" is a word everyone uses but few address critically. In Reading Old Books, Peter Mack offers a wide-ranging exploration of the creative power of literary...
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Shakespeare's first reader
Richard Stonley has all but vanished from history, but to his contemporaries he would have been an enviable figure. A clerk of the Exchequer for more than four decades under Mary Tudor and Elizabeth I, he rose from obscure origins to a life of opulence; his job, a secure bureaucratic post with a ...
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Shakespeare's scholars
What Love’s Labor’s Lost, Hamlet, and The Tempest can teach us about discovery, growth, and changeShakespeare was a keen and discerning reader who was mocked by writers who, unlike him, had been to university—so it’s not surprising that his portrait of scholarly life is critical. As Sean Keilen s...
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Southern imagining
A new compass for global reading: looking at the world from the far southern latitudesA northern viewpoint is most often the default, while the south—the far southern latitudes occupied by Australia, New Zealand, Argentina and southern Africa, among others—seems far away and ignorable. In Souther...
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Spaces of creativity (eng)
Blank demonstrates that the borders of authorial creativity are not stable and absolute, that talented artists often transcend the classifications and paradigms established by critics. Featured in the volume are works by Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Nabokov, Kharms, Malevich, Dobuzhinsky, and Sh...
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State of ridicule
A history of political satire in English literature from its Roman foundations to the present day Satire is a funny, aggressive, and largely oppositional literature which is typically created by people who refuse to participate in a given regime’s perception of itself. Although satire has always ...
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Summer haven
This volume provides for the first time a collection of writing that investigates the stories and struggles of survivors in the context of the Jewish resort culture of the Catskills, through new and existing works of fiction and memoir by writers who spent their youths there. It explores how vaca...
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The crossroads of crime writing
This volume argues that we must examine the boundaries in fiction and non-fiction crime writing with an awareness of and turn toward the unseen structures and spatial uncertainties that so often lead to and reflect collective fears and anxieties. The chapters within utilize theories of cultural m...
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The frankfurt kabuff critical edition
An experimental and radical commentary on the publishing industry, the centrepiece of this book is an autoethnographic comic erotic thriller about the Frankfurt Book Fair, self-published under the pseudonym Blaire Squiscoll. The critical edition enriches the novella with essays, annotations, and ...
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The good life and other fictions
How novels attune us to the broader role of fiction in our lives—our everyday yet remarkable ability to think and live “as if” Why do we weep at fictitious things? How do we act on the basis of them? How much of moral life revolves around make-believe? In The Good Life and Other Fictions, David D...
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