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"When eyes upon Reynard he set, as now in the ring he appeared, With body clean shaven and smooth, and over and over bedaubedWith oil and perfidious fat, with laughter the king was convulsed.You fox, who that has you taught? he exclaimed.With justice, indeed,...

"We tell ourselves stories in order to live," Joan Didion observed in The White Album. Why is this? Michael Austin asks, in Useful Fictions. Why, in particular, are human beings, whose very survival depends on obtaining true information, so drawn to fictional narratives? After...

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Entanglements: Envisioning World Literature from the Global South scrutinizes current debates to bring historical and contemporary South-South entanglements to the fore and to develop a new understanding of world literature in a multipolar world of globalized modernity. The volume challenges established ideas of world...

A pathbreaking genealogy of queer theory that traces its roots to an unexpected source: sociological research on marginal communities in the era before Stonewall. The sociology of "social deviants" flourished in the United States at midcentury, studying the lives of outsiders such as homosexuals,...

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Author: N. P. LemcheISBN-10: 9004078533ISBN-13: 9789004078536Publisher: BrillLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/02/1985Pages: 529Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.95lbsSize: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.30d

Where does memory go when it cannot be spoken?Now we know: It goes on to haunt future generations. It passes unscathed through temperatures that can melt iron and reduce bone to ash. And somewhere far removed in space and decades into the future, a...

Many people want to understand what revolutions are and - especially - how they come about, from the academics who study them to the states that wish to prevent (or, in some cases, provoke) them. But it is arguably the US scholar Theda Skocpol...

Franz Boas's 1940 Race, Language and Culture is a monumentally important text in the history of its discipline, collecting the articles and essays that helped make Boas known as the 'father of American anthropology.' An encapsulation of a career dedicated to fighting against the...

Postcolonial Literatures in Context is a clear, accessible and concise introduction to postcolonial literatures in English (and English translation) and their wider contexts. It begins by introducing key issues involved in the study of postcolonial literature including old and new diasporas, postcolonial nationalisms, indigenous...

In various voices and with a range of strategies, these poems speak of and into the collisions we experience day in and day out--collisions with nature, art, language, religion, family, imagination, new and old ways of seeing and navigating the world--collisions that result in...

If reducing your college costs are appealing to you then CLEP offers a way to do that by testing out of a requirement or even an elective. When you answer 50% correct your college will not charge you for the course so that much...

This book spotlights the Old Testament's "supporting cast," the vast array of nameless characters wedged in the margins of biblical stories. Often categorized as literary props or aspects of scenery, these anonymous figures ("laborers," "a creditor," "the crowd," "servants," "elders," "a midwife," etc.) frequently...

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Combining formidable learning with theoretical sophistication that is at once philosophical, linguistic, and psychoanalytical, Fineman draws from the most familiar work verbal details that lead to startling new interpretations, challenging Freud or making original applications of Lacan.Author: Joel FinemanISBN-10: 0262561794ISBN-13: 9780262561792Publisher: MIT PressLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Author: Louis BertrandISBN-10: 1666728101ISBN-13: 9781666728101Publisher: Wipf & Stock PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/08/2021Pages: 404Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.36lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.94d

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Examines four discourses by Kierkegaard, arguing that they play a critical and surprising role in his oeuvre and contribute to the philosophy of figural language.Author: Frances Maughan-BrownISBN-10: 1438476345ISBN-13: 9781438476346Publisher: State University of New York PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2020Pages: 220Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x...

First published in 1987. Milton and Free Will is an incisive, ambitious and comprehensive analysis and defence of the concept of free will, using Milton as an example and exemplar. Written with passion, and out of a lifelong engagement with the poetry of Milton...

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This book captures the history of the South African Ismaili families and some of the people among whom they lived from 1894, when the first Ismaili, Jeevan Keshavjee, left Kathiawad (Gujarat) and arrived in South Africa, up to 1994, when the country attained its...

Erwin Panofsky's Meaning in the Visual Arts is considered a key work in art history. Its ideas have provoked widespread debate, and although it was first published more than sixty years ago, it continues to feature regularly on numerous university reading lists. Meaning in...

St. Augustine's Confessions is one of the most important works in the history of literature and Christian thought. Written around 397, when Augustine was the Christian bishop of Hippo (in modern-day Algeria), the Confessions were designed both to spiritually educate those who already shared...

"No one is safe from Nina Boutsikaris' gaze in this book-she looks at the world and people around her just as intensely as she turns her gaze inward, questioning her desires, her actions, and asking what it means to see something for what it...

The Fur Trader is a critical edition of Einar Odd Mortensen Sr.'s personal narrative detailing the years (1925-1928) he spent as a free trader at posts in Pine Bluff and Oxford Lake in Manitoba during the waning days of the fur trade. Mortensen's original...

"A creation of importance could be produced only when its author isolates himself." --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in Truth and Fiction Relating to my LifeThe Works of J.W. von Goethe, Vol. V--Truth and Fiction Relating to my Life Vol. II, by Johann Wolfgang von...

"A creation of importance could be produced only when its author isolates himself." --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in Truth and Fiction Relating to my LifeThe Works of J.W. von Goethe, Vol. IV--Truth and Fiction Relating to my Life Vol. I, by Johann Wolfgang von...

"Life belongs to the living, and those who live must be prepared for change." --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in Wilhelm Meister's TravelsThe Works of J.W. von Goethe, Vol. III--Wilhelm Meister's Travels and The Recreations of the German Emigrants, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, is...

I put together this anthology in 1967 while I was writing my doctoral dissertation "Wittgenstein's Conception of Philosophy". It was first published by Dell Publishing Co. in 1969.. It contains all the important memoirs, reminiscences and comments by people who knew him, including his...

John P. Kotter's Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail is a classic of business literature, and an example of high-level analysis and evaluation. In critical thinking, analysis is all about the sequence and features of arguments. When combined with evaluation of the strengths and...

In this compelling collection of essays contributors critically examine Creative Writing in American Higher Education. Considering Creative Writing teaching, learning and knowledge, the book recognizes historical strengths and weaknesses. Most of all it explores the possibilities for the future of Creative Writing as an...

This is a collection of leading research within corpus-based translation studies (CTS). CTS is now recognized as a major paradigm that has transformed analysis within the discipline of translation studies. It can be defined as the use of corpus linguistic technologies to inform and...

This book attempts a close reading of the fiction of Flannery O'Connor, story by story, with one eye on her use of the Bible, and her view of the Bible in relation to her own work. After introductory chapters on O'Connor's markings in her...

Structuralism began in linguistics and was enlarged by Claude Levi-Strauss into a new way of thinking that views our world as consisting of relationships between structures we create rather than of objective realities. The Age of Structuralism examines the work of seven writers who...

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From the late 1940s until the early 1990s, the Cold War was perhaps the most critical and defining aspect of American culture, influencing television, music, and movies, among other forms of popular entertainment. Films in particular were at the center of the battle for...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: Dorothy LathropISBN-10: 1406772747ISBN-13: 9781406772746Publisher: Mac...

This antiquarian volume contains "Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book". It comprises a vast collection of inspired and inspiring excerpts taken from the work of many different writers. Including some of the most profound aphorisms and quotes of all time, this fantastic compendium is highly recommended...

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Mental image, dream, fantasy, hallucination--all these are comprised in the psychoanalytic concept of the fantasm. Perhaps only such a multifarious concept is adequate to the range of visual elements involved in the experience of reading fiction, or of writing it. Soon after the birth...

A Stanford University Press classic.Author: Jill CampbellISBN-10: 0804725209ISBN-13: 9780804725200Publisher: Stanford University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/1995Pages: 340Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.80d

Author: Lewis CarrollISBN-10: 0791085864ISBN-13: 9780791085868Publisher: Chelsea House PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/15/2006Pages: 247Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.26lbsSize: 9.42h x 6.40w x 0.80d

Unlike many horror fiction and fantasy writers, Clive Barker is true to the literary heritage of the genre. Though aware of the importance of entertainment in his writing, he embraces the traditional formulas of horror fiction and builds upon them, all the while alluding...

For English instructors at every level, the task of producing a worthwhile, workable plan for each class period can prove challenging. This invaluable work offers a vast compilation of writing exercises and in-class activities collected from professors, graduate students and lecturers from colleges and...

This major new book offers a much-needed introduction to the work of Siegfried Kracauer, one of the main intellectual figures in the orbit of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. It is part of a timely revival and reappraisal of his unique contribution to...

This collection reappraises and retheorizes Marie Corelli's diverse fictional writings and locates them in their contemporary literary and social context. Marie Corelli (1855-1924) was a fabulously popular novelist in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Yet, in her day, critics railed against her taste for...