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Haiku before haiku
While the rise of the charmingly simple, brilliantly evocative haiku is often associated with the seventeenth-century Japanese poet Matsuo Basho, the form had already flourished for more than four hundred years before Basho even began to write. These early poems, known as hokku, are identical to ...
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The shape of sex
The Shape of Sex is a pathbreaking history of nonbinary sex, focusing on ideas and individuals who allegedly combined or crossed sex or gender categories from 200–1400 C.E. Ranging widely across premodern European thought and culture, Leah DeVun reveals how and why efforts to define “the human” s...
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The problem with pleasure
A revealing study of the sensual tensions powering the period’s formal and ideological innovations.
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Making waste
The obsession with waste in eighteenth-century English literatureWhy was eighteenth-century English culture so fascinated with the things its society discarded? Why did Restoration and Augustan writers such as Milton, Dryden, Swift, and Pope describe, catalog, and memorialize the waste matter tha...
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The poetics of early chinese thought
The modern imagination of classical Chinese thought has long been dominated by Confucius, Mozi, Mencius, and other “Masters” of the Warring States period. Michael Hunter argues that this approach neglects the far more central role of poetry, and the Shijing (Classic of Poetry) in particular, in t...
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Finding ferrante
Alessia Ricciardi revisits questions about Elena Ferrante’s identity to show how the problem of authorship is deeply intertwined with the novels’ literary ambition and politics. Ricciardi reads Ferrante’s fiction as world literature, foregrounding the alleged writer Anita Raja’s work as a transla...
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Power relations in black lives
According to relational sociology, power imbalances are at the root of human conflicts and consequently shape the physical and symbolic struggles between interdependent groups or individuals. This volume highlights the role of power relations in the African American experience by applying key con...
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Far beyond the field
Far Beyond the Field is a first-of-its-kind anthology of haiku by Japanese women, collecting translations of four hundred haiku written by twenty poets from the seventeenth century to the present. By arranging the poems chronologically, Makoto Ueda has created an overview of the way in which this...
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Antidemocracy in america
Antidemocracy in America is a collective effort to understand the fragility of American democracy and how to protect it from the buried contradictions that Trump’s victory brought into view. It offers essays from leading scholars on topics including race, religion, gender, civil liberties, protes...
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The last samurai reread
Lee Konstantinou combines a riveting reading of The Last Samurai with a behind-the-scenes look at Helen DeWitt’s fraught experiences with corporate publishing. He shows how interpreting the ambition and richness of DeWitt’s work in light of her struggles with literary institutions provides a pote...
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Humanist reason
Eric Hayot argues that it is time to make a positive case for what the humanities are and what they can become. Humanist Reason lays out a new vision that moves beyond traditional disciplines to demonstrate what the humanities can tell us about our world.
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Commerce with the universe
Gaurav Desai builds a new history of Africa’s encounter with slavery, colonialism, migration, nationalism, development, and globalization.
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Poetry unbound
Mike Chasar rebuts claims that poetry has become a marginal art form, exploring how it has played a vibrant and culturally significant role by adapting to and shaping new media technologies. Beginning with the magic lantern and continuing through the dominance of the internet, he follows poetry’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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The matter of virtue
A feminist approach to gendered virtues and female agency in medieval and early modern literatureIf material bodies have inherent, animating powers—or virtues, in the premodern sense—then those bodies typically and most insistently associated in the premodern period with matter—namely, women—cann...
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Philosophical siblings
A collective study of the James siblings—Alice, William, and Henry—that shows how minds meet in a world teeming with possibilities and risksAlice James: an exemplary nineteenth-century neurasthenic and diarist. William James: a foundational figure for American psychology and philosophy. Henry Jam...
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Reading better states
Reading Better States traces the persistence of desires for the postcolonial state in an era of environmental harms and climate catastrophe.
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Meet me on the barricades
Meet Me on the Barricades is a hallucinatory, comic novel about leftism, modernism, and the Spanish Civil War. It features a “guileless” protagonist whose weak heart means that, instead of fighting on the battlefields of Spain, he daydreams about life as a soldier.
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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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Translocated modernisms
Translocated Modernisms focuses on the other lost generations of expatriates from modernism’s global peripheries—principally but not exclusively from Canada—who travelled to and through Paris in the early to mid-20th century.
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Swinging the maelstrom
An annotated scholarly edition including versions of the Malcolm Lowry novella that at different times was titled “The Last Address”, “Swinging the Maelstrom” and “Lunar Caustic.”
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A journey in translation
This book explores the amazing journey of Anne Hébert’s writing into English by people “in the middle” of the process of editing, publishing, distributing, and preservation.
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The canadian guide to creative writing and publishing
The essential reference for writers in Canada describes standards for publishable writing, shows writers how to get there, and reveals how publishing in Canada works. Filled with Canadian references and examples, it supplies Canadian writers with the practical, insider information they need to re...
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Silences
Special 25th anniversary edition of the landmark survey that revolutionized the view of literary history.
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Brighter than you think: 10 short works by alan moore
Collection and analysis of Alan Moore's difficult to find short comics stories.
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Transmedial resonance
Introduces a new way of understanding influence, reception, and adaptation via the work of Italy’s most famous modern writer In Transmedial Resonance, Robert A. Rushing addresses the remarkable and ongoing responses to the imagination of Italo Calvino, Italy’s most important modern writer. Since ...
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Selling out santa
Christmas is not just a day or a frame of mind as Kris Kringle (Edmund Gwenn) imparts in Miracle on 34th Street (1947); Christmas is also a vehicle for national mythmaking as an idealising mirror for American cultural and political attitudes of a given moment. Via a case study on Hollywood Chris...
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Dale carnegie's public speaking
The Unparalleled Classic on how to Speak With Confidence and PowerPublic Speaking: A Practical Course For Business is Dale Carnegie's master class on how to speak so that people listen. This comprehensive guide, written in a clear and concise manner, is designed to help you improve your public sp...
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Writing the sacred journey
“Here is the definitive handbook for those courageous souls taking on the creative and ethical challenge of writing a spiritual memoir.—Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality & Practice In Writing the Sacred Journey, readers will discover how to construct a well-crafted spiritual memoir...
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Expanding literacy practices across multiple modes and languages for multilingual students
This book explores integrating an expanded view of literacy in classrooms, incorporating visual, aural, and textual modes. It focuses on supporting multilingual students and highlights instructional strategies for diverse classrooms. The book aims to empower educators as agents of social change a...
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Sweet little cunt
Julie Doucet, one of the most influential women in comics finally receives a full-length critical overview.
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The binding vine
From one of India's most acclaimed writers--a radiant novel, now available in paperback.
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On book banning
A Finalist for the 2026 Writers' Trust Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing • A Winnipeg Free Press Best Book of 2025The freedom to read is under attack.From the destruction of libraries in ancient Rome to today’s state-sponsored efforts to suppress LGBTQ+ literature, book bans arise fro...
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The release
The release is the stage when writers share the soul of their project—its gift. Here’s how to thrive and best serve your work once the writing is done. In The Release, award-winning author and teacher Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew invites writers to lift their heads out of the product-oriented sandb...
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Audiofuturism
A revelatory history of Black radio productions from the 1950s to the presentAudiofuturism uncovers the vibrant, overlooked history of radio adaptations that placed Black speculative writing before mass audiences, showing how sound shaped the politics and pleasures of twentieth- and twenty-first-...
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Paranoid publics
Exploring the psychosocial realities of the assault on truth.
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Peculiar satisfaction
How Thomas Jefferson’s vision for knowledge shapes what we know and how we access it—and why that matters more than ever As the United States approaches the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Peculiar Satisfaction examines how the ideals and contradictions of the nation’s found...
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Inquiries into literacy learning and cultural competencies in a world of borders
This book aims to move education beyond traditional language study and cultural awareness to more inclusive global interactions. It emphasizes the living nature of language and its role in culture, promoting literacy learning and cultural competence. Practical approaches for engaging learners of ...
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The answer / la respuesta (expanded edition)
New materials in the classic bilingual literary and critical edition of extraordinary Mexican 17th-century feminist nun.
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Moving archives
The image of the dusty, undisturbed archive has been swept away in response to growing interest across disciplines in the materials they house and the desire to find and make meaning through an engagement with those materials. Archival studies scholars and archivists are developing related theore...
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Dostoevsky’s "crime and punishment"
A chapter-by-chapter guide to Dostoevsky’s most popular novel that reveals how Crime and Punishment works. Narrative strategy, why the novel is not a whodunit but whydunit, and clear explanations of the novel’s ideological debates.
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The global novel
What is the future of fiction in an age of globalization? In The Global Novel, acclaimed literary critic Adam Kirsch explores some of the 21st century’s best-known writers—including Margaret Atwood, Haruki Murakami, and Elena Ferrante—and how they each have a way of imagining the world that sees...
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Lecture
An energetic and irreverent essay on the forgotten art of the lecture, part of Transit’s new Undelivered Lectures series.
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Why indigenous literatures matter
Asserts the vital significance of literary expression to the political, creative, and intellectual efforts of Indigenous peoples. Challenges readers to critically consider & rethink assumptions about Indigenous literature, history, and politics, never forgetting the emotional connections of o...
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Companion to victor pelevin
Companion to Victor Pelevin, a collaborative undertaking by a group of emerging Russianist scholars, focuses on the work of one of the most important and hotly debated post-Soviet writers. The contributors offer new readings of Pelevin texts that cover a broad time span and pay due attention to t...
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Bookshops
Love letter, travel-memoir, manifestoBookshops is a diverting cultural history of bookstores as spaces of creative energy and social change.
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Teaching english language learners in secondary subject matter classes
This book aids secondary teachers and administrators working with ELLs, offering insights from various perspectives and concrete strategies. The 2nd edition includes new chapters on ELLs' prior educational experiences, lesson planning, and effective instructional and assessment strategies.
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