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Vita Nuova - Paperback
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by Dante Alighieri (Author), Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Translator), Cassidy Hughes (Editor)DANTE ALIGHIERI: THE VITA NUOVA Translated by Dante Gabriel RossettiEdited by Cassidy Hughes Dante Alighieri's Vita Nuova is his 'Book of Memory', the poetic account of his love for Beatrice Portinari. It is one of the great poetry books of love in world literature. This edition is translated by the celebrated Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti, with notes and introduction by Rossetti. The...
Memory Spaces: Visualizing Identity in Jewish Women's Graphic Narratives - Paperback
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by Victoria Aarons (Author) Jewish identity, memory, and place deftly revealed through the lens of Jewish women's graphic narratives. An exploration of the work of Jewish women graphic novelists and the intricate Jewish identity is complicated by gender, memory, generation, and place--that is, the emotional, geographical, and psychological spaces that women inhabit. Victoria Aarons argues that Jewish women graphic novelists are preoccupied with embodied memory: the way the body materializes m...
In the Company of Wolves: Werewolves, Wolves and Wild Children - Paperback
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by Sam George (Editor), Bill Hughes (Editor)In the company of wolves presents further research from the Open Graves, Open Minds Project. It connects together innovative research from a variety of perspectives on the cultural significance of wolves, wild children and werewolves as portrayed in different media and genres. We begin with the wolf itself as it has been interpreted as a cultural symbol and how it figures in contemporary debates about wilderness and nature. Alongside this, we consid...
Atrocity and Early Modern Drama - Hardcover
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by Sarah Johnson (Editor), Georgina Lucas (Editor), Lisa Hopkins (Editor)Extreme violence scarred the early modern period. Contemporary commentators grappled to find language to categorize the massacres, genocides, assassinations, enslavements, sacks, rapes, riots and regicides that characterized the period. Some used 'outrages', others 'cruelties', but, significantly, the term 'atrocity' that we use today gained the most currency.Atrocity in Early Modern English Drama intervenes in the broad...
The History of German Literature on Film - Paperback
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by Christiane Sch?nfeld (Author), Greg M. Col?n Semenza (Editor), Bob Hasenfratz (Editor)A 2024 CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE This book tells the story of German-language literature on film, beginning with pioneering motion picture adaptations of Faust in 1897 and early debates focused on high art as mass culture. It explores, analyzes and contextualizes the so-called 'golden age' of silent cinema in the 1920s, the impact of sound on adaptation practices, the abuse of literary heritage by...
King Lear: The 1608 Quarto and 1623 Folio Texts - Paperback
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by William Shakespeare (Author), Stephen Orgel (Introduction by), Stephen Orgel (Editor)The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare's time, an introduction to the individual play, and a detailed note on the text used. Updated by general...
All's Well That Ends Well - Paperback
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by William Shakespeare (Author), Claire McEachern (Editor), Claire McEachern (Introduction by)The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare's time, an introduction to the individual play, and a detailed note on the text used. Updated by g...
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A Play - Paperback
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by August Wilson (Author)NOW A NETFLIX FILM STARRING VIOLA DAVIS AND CHADWICK BOSEMAN From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Piano Lesson comes the extraordinary Ma Rainey's Black Bottom--winner of the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play. The time is 1927. The place is a run-down recording studio in Chicago. Ma Rainey, the legendary blues singer, is due to arrive with her entourage to cut new sides of old favorites. Waiting for her are her Black musician sidem...
Six Characters in Search of an Author - Paperback
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by Luigi Pirandello (Author), Eric Bentley (Translator), Eric Bentley (Introduction by)Winner of the Nobel Prize in 1934, Luigi Pirandello was one of the most original and powerful dramatists of his time--the playwright par excellence of the conflict between illusion and reality. His plays dramatize with force and eloquence the loneliness and isolation of the individual both from society and from himself. In Six Characters in Search of an Author, his greatest work, these themes are played ou...
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror - Paperback
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by Thomas Ligotti (Author)In Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction outing, an examination of the meaning (or meaninglessness) of life through an insightful, unsparing argument that proves the greatest horrors are not the products of our imagination but instead are found in reality. "There is a signature motif discernible in both works of philosophical pessimism and supernatural horror. It may be stated thus: Behind the scenes of life lurks something pernicious that makes a nightmare of our world....
Year of the Monkey - Paperback
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by Patti Smith (Author)NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Riveting, elegant, humorous--this "picaresque voyage through Patti Smith's dreams and life, blending fiction and reality, conjured characters and actual ones" (The New York Times) is a moving and original work, a touchstone for our turbulent times. Illustrated by Smith's signature Polaroids. Following a run of new year's concerts at San Francisco's legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herself tramping the coast of Santa Cruz, about to embark on a ...
English Literature for Boys and Girls - Paperback
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by Henrietta E. Marshall (Author)From the hand of H. E. Marshall, one of the greatest authors of juvenile history comes this introduction to English literature. From early Gaelic tales and Beowulf though to Spenser, Shakespeare, Dickens, and Thackeray, Marshall introduces us to the times and personalities that have shaped western thought and storytelling. Read excerpts from many pieces, learn of the authors and their influences, then explore your favorites further with the recommended reading...
English Literature for Boys and Girls - Hardcover
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by Henrietta E. Marshall (Author)From the hand of H. E. Marshall, one of the greatest authors of juvenile history comes this introduction to English literature. From early Gaelic tales and Beowulf though to Spenser, Shakespeare, Dickens, and Thackeray, Marshall introduces us to the times and personalities that have shaped western thought and storytelling. Read excerpts from many pieces, learn of the authors and their influences, then explore your favorites further with the recommended reading...
The Wilderness - Paperback
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by Ayşeg?l Savaş (Author)A deeply felt chronicle into the wilderness of the first forty days of new motherhood.In the final weeks of her pregnancy, Ayşeg?l Savaş becomes fascinated by the mythology around the first forty days after giving birth, and the invisible beings that are said to surround the mother. "In Turkish, we speak of extracting the forty days, like a sort of exorcism. My grandmothers assure me that it will all get better after forty days are out." A friend lends a book that sug...
Nld 13: Newman: Letters & Diaries Nld 13 C - Hardcover
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by Dessain (Author)A scholarly edition of the letters and diaries of John Henry Newman. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.Author BiographyJohn Henry Newman
Number of Pages: 536
Dimensions: 1.19 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN
Publication Date: July 15, 2016
Nld 12: Newman: Letters & Diaries Nld 12 C - Hardcover
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by Dessain (Author)A scholarly edition of the letters and diaries of John Henry Newman. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.
Number of Pages: 456
Dimensions: 1 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN
Publication Date: October 18, 2016
Poor Folk and Other Stories - Paperback
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by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Author), David McDuff (Translator), David McDuff (Introduction by)With their penetrating psychological insight and their emphasis on human dignity, respect and forgiveness, Dostoyevsky's early short stories contain the seeds of the themes that came to his major novels. Poor Folk, the author's first great literary triumph, is the story of a tragic relationship between an impoverished copy clerk and a young seamstress, told through their passionate letters to each other. ...
What Is Existentialism? - Paperback
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by Simone de Beauvoir (Author), Marybeth Timmermann (Translator)The groundbreaking writings on the philosophy of the individual by iconic feminist and social thinker, Simone de Beauvoir How should we think and act in the world? These writings on the human condition by one of the twentieth century's great philosophers explore the absurdity of our notions of good and evil, and show instead how we make our own destiny simply by being. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They h...
Epistemic Ruptures, Insurgent Philosophy - Paperback
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by A. Shahid Stover (Author)What happens when philosophy refuses to limit the horizon of emancipatory thought to the academic systematization of specialized knowledge? Brimming with literary originality, polemic depth and a startling range of philosophical insight, Epistemic Ruptures, Insurgent Philosophy is a powerful work of existential liberation critique that compels the reader towards a discursive reckoning with philosophy, intellectual engagement and the Black radical imagination.A. Sha...
Women of Myth: From Deer Woman and Mami Wata to Amaterasu and Athena, Your Guide to the Amazing and Diverse Women from World Mytholog - Hardcover
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by Jenny Williamson (Author), Genn McMenemy (Author), Sara Richard (Illustrator)Uncover the fascinating and complex women from mythology and folklore with this collection of stories profiling powerful goddesses, mighty queens, and legendary creatures. Get inspired with 50 fascinating stories of powerful female figures from mythologies around the world. From heroines and deities to leaders and mythical creatures, this collection explores figures of myth who can inspire modern readers with thei...
Pity, Power, and Tolkien's Ring: To Rule the Fate of Many - Paperback
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by Thomas P. Hillman (Author)Back JacketIlluminating the central struggle in The Lord of the Rings to deepen understanding of the whole of Tolkien's legendarium In this remarkable work of close reading and analysis, Thomas P. Hillman gets to the heart of the tension between pity and the desire for power in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. As the book traces the entangled story of the One Ring and its effects, we come to understand Tolkien's central paradox: while pity is necessary ...
The Collective Voice of Silence: A Critical Study of "La Greve Des Battu" - Paperback
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by Bruno Wambi (Author)Aminata Sow Fall marks a transition from the autobiography to the novel in African feminine literature. Her first novel Le Revenant (1976), is the first work of fiction written by a sub-Saharan female writer. Her second novel, La Gr ve des b ttu (1979), gave rise to an era of subversive writing which constitutes the point of separation between masculine and feminine discourse in francophone sub-Saharan literature. Indeed, the female characters in the microcosm of La Gr ...
Playing Games in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America - Hardcover
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by Ann R. Hawkins (Editor), Erin N. Bistline (Editor), Catherine S. Blackwell (Editor)A vital part of daily life in the nineteenth century, games and play were so familiar and so ubiquitous that their presence over time became almost invisible. Technological advances during the century allowed for easier manufacturing and distribution of board games and books about games, and the changing economic conditions created a larger market for them as well as more time in which to play them. These ch...
City Crimes; or Life in New York and Boston - Paperback
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by Greenhorn (Author)The book "" City Crimes; or Life in New York and Boston, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable.
Number of Pages: 264
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The Arden Research Handbook of Contemporary Shakespeare Criticism - Paperback
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by Evelyn Gajowski (Editor)The Arden Research Handbook of Contemporary Shakespeare Criticism is a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on critical approaches to Shakespeare by an international team of leading scholars. It contains chapters on 20 specific critical practices, each grounded in analysis of a Shakespeare play. These practices range from foundational approaches including character studies, close reading and genre studies, through those that emerged in the 1970s and 1980s t...
Aetna - Paperback
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by Virgil (Author)One of the founding works of Latin literature, Aetna is a poem written in 40 hexameters that describes the eruption of Mount Etna. While the poem was widely popular in ancient times, its authorship is still debated today. Nevertheless, Aetna remains an important work of ancient literature, notable for its vivid descriptions of natural phenomena.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know ...
Myths and Ancient Stories: Narrative, Meaning and Influence in the West - Hardcover
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by Kevin Mills (Author)An introduction to ancient myths and the critical discussions that surround them, this book dives into the stories of pre-modern culture, taking a comparative look at how they have shaped the West and modern storytelling as we have come to understand it today.It makes texts and scholarship from near Eastern, Classical and Celtic disciplines engaging and accessible, and traces narrative meaning through stories from ancient Mesopotamia to the BritishMedieval Period, offer...
Zombie Futures in Literature, Media and Culture: Pandemics, Society and the Evolution of the Undead in the 21st Century - Hardcover
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by Simon Bacon (Editor)An innovative investigation into how zombie narratives over the past ten years have been specifically leading up to a unique intersection with the world as it exists in the 2020s, this book posits the undead as a vehicle to communicate humanity's pathway into, and out of, the ideological, health and environmental pandemics of our time. Exploring depictions of zombies across literature, poetry, comics, television, film and video games, Simon Bacon brings together this ti...
The Cambridge Companion to Gulliver's Travels - Paperback
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by Daniel Cook (Editor), Nicholas Seager (Editor)
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Publication Date: October 19, 2023
Literature and Philosophy in Nineteenth-Century British Culture: Volume II: The Mid-Nineteenth Century - Hardcover
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by Peter Garratt (Editor), Giles Whiteley (Editor)This three-volume collection of primary sources examines philosophy and literature in the nineteenth-century Britain. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great interest to students and scholars of British Literature and Philosophy.Author BiographyPeter Garratt, Durham University, has worked extensively on mid-Victorian philosophy and literature at the intersection of the cognitive and empirical sciences. H...
Literature and Philosophy in Nineteenth-Century British Culture: Volume III: Literature and Philosophy in the 'Long-Late-Victorian' Period - Hardcover
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by Andrea Selleri (Editor)This is the third in a three-volume collection of primary sources which examines philosophy and literature in nineteenth-century Britain. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great interest to students and scholars of British Literature and Philosophy.Author BiographyAndrea Selleri, University of Warwick, is the editor of a recent book on Literary Studies and the Philosophy of Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). He has publishe...
Karl Kraus 1933: Citing Violence, Inciting Critique - Hardcover
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by Gal Hertz (Editor), Ron Mieczkowski (Editor), Ari Linden (Editor) The book provides new perspectives on the historical context surrounding Kraus's writings during the Third Reich as well as an analysis of the Third Walpurgnis Night. The contributions place Kraus's work in dialogue with a broader spectrum of critical voices, including Adorno and Arendt. Revisiting Kraus from these new perspectives contributes to a better understanding of this major intellectual of the first half of the 20t...
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