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Updated July 23, 2024
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Justin Harrison, Humanities Librarian, University of Victoria
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"Loosen the fetters of thy tongue woman" : the poetry and poetics of Yona Wallach
Cohen, Zafrira Lidovsky
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Maverick Israeli poet Yona Wallach (1944-1985) is often remembered for her outrageous and unconventional personality and the controversies engendered by her sometimes shamelessly erotic verse. But she is regarded by many of her friends and colleagues as the most important among the Israeli poets of...
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The ancient lives of Virgil : literary and historical studies
Hardie, Philip
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The Ancient Lives of the poet Virgil, written in prose (and sometimes in verse), have long enjoyed great, though controversial, influence. Modern critics have often been scornful of these Lives, for trying to construct biography of the poet from allegorical reading of his verse. Yet some elements of...
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Anubis : a desert novel
Ku ni , Ibra hi m
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A Tuareg youth ventures into trackless desert on a life-threatening quest to find the father he remembers only as a shadow from his childhood, but the spirit world frustrates and tests his resolve. For a time, he is rewarded with the Eden of a lost oasis, but eventually, as new settlers crowd in,...
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Asian interventions in global Shakespeare : 'all the world's his stage'
Trivedi, Poonam
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This volume critically analyses and theorises Asian interventions in the expanding phenomenon of Global Shakespeare. It interrogates Shakespeare's 'universality' from Asian perspectives: how this has been modified or even replaced by the 'global bard' as a recognisable brand, and how Asian...
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Bold Conscience : Luther to Shakespeare to Milton
Held, Joshua Raymond
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How the conscience in early modern England emerged as a fulcrum for public action Bold Conscience chronicles the shifting conception of conscience in early modern England, as it evolved from a faculty of restraint--what Shakespeare labels "coward...
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The Butcher of Casablanca : A Detective Hanash Crime Novel
Hamdouchi, Abdelilah.
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Butterfly wings : an Egyptian novel
Salmāwī, Muḥammad
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A chance encounter on a plane throws together Doha, a fashion designer unhappily married to a leading figure in the Mubarak regime, and Ashraf, an academic and leading dissident. The story of their relationship and Doha's self-discovery runs alongside a young Egyptian's search for the mother he...
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Chapter 7 Welsh Women's Industrial Fiction 1880-1910
Bohata, Kirsti
This essay collection rediscovers and reassesses a host of still little-known, pre-1914, Welsh women writers. In the last few decades considerable advances have been made towards rediscovering, contextualising, and analysing women's writing from Wales. The combined influences of the post...
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Children of globalization : diasporic coming-of-age novels in Germany, England, and the United States
Quintana Vallejo, Ricardo
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Children of Globalization is the first book-length exploration of contemporary Diasporic Coming-of-age Novels in the context of globalized and de facto multicultural societies. Diasporic Coming-of-age Novels subvert the horizon of expectations of the originating and archetypal form of the genre,...
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Ciris : a poem from the Appendix Vergiliana
Kayachev, Boris
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The Ciris is a small scale epic poem which relates the myth of Scylla, daughter of king Nisus of Megara, who betrayed her homeland for love, and was transformed into a sea-bird. It is one of the poems in the Appendix Vergiliana, a collection that has been ascribed to Virgil as his carmina minora....
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Climate change, ecological catastrophe, and the contemporary postcolonial novel
Poray-Wybranowska, Justyna
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Climate Change, Ecological Catastrophe, and the Contemporary Novel responds to the critical need for transdisciplinary research on the relationship between colonialism and catastrophe. It represents the first sustained analysis of the connection between colonial legacy and present-day ecological...
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Collaborative Poetry Translation : Processes, Priorities, and Relationships in the Poettrio Method
Herbert, W. N.
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Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction : Repairing the Past, Repurposing History
Teo, Hsu-Ming.
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Contemporary French and Scandinavian crime fiction : citizenship, gender and ethnicity
Grydehøj, Anne
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The Critical Case of a Man Called K : A Novel
Mohammad, Aziz.
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The damned and the dead : the Eastern Front through the eyes of Soviet and Russian novelists
Ellis, Frank
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The confrontation between the Wehrmacht and the Red Army on the Eastern Front of World War II was defined by incalculable suffering, destruction, casualties, and heroism. While many historians have chronicled the epic nature of that arena of war, it has largely been left to Russian novelists to...
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Dates on my fingers : an Iraqi novel
Ramlī, Muḥsin
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Saleem, fed up with all the violence, religiosity, and strict family hierarchies of his Iraqi village, flees to Spain to establish a new life for himself. But his lonely exile is turned upside down when he encounters his father, Noah, in a Madrid nightclub after not seeing him in more than a decade....
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Diary of a Jewish Muslim : A Novel
Ruhayyim, Kamal.
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Didactic Poetry of Greece, Rome and Beyond : Knowledge, Power, Tradition
Canevaro, Lilah Grace
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Here a team of established scholars offers new perspectives on poetic texts of wisdom, learning and teaching related to the great line of Greek and Latin poems descended from Hesiod. In previous scholarship, a drive to classify Greek and Latin didactic poetry has engaged with the near-total absence...
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Disraeli and the politics of fiction : some reconsiderations
Cousins, A. D.
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How do Disraeli's fictions represent, uncover and express the interplay of his roles as political theorist and practitioner, social commentator and author? Travelling well beyond his political trilogy of Coningsby (1844), Sybil (1845), and Tancred (1847), this volume examines...
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Dog With No Tail: A Modern Arabic Novel
Golayyel, Hamdi Abu
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In a world with no meaning, meaning is an act . . . This is a story about building things up and knocking them down. Here are the campfire tales of Egypt's dispossessed and disillusioned, the anti-Arabian Nights. Our narrator, a rural immigrant from the Bedouin villages of the Fayoum, an aspiring...
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Early Novels of Benjamin Disraeli
Hawkins, Ann
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Earth weeps, Saturn laughs : a modern Omani novel
Fārisī, ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz
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Earth Weeps, Saturn Laughs opens with the return of Khalid Bakhit, a government employee, to his hometown in Oman after a time away in the big city, and concludes with his return to the city with a new maturity born of a series of wrenching encounters with reality. Khalid's return home, sparked by...
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The essential Tawfiq al-Hakim plays, fiction, autobiography
Ḥakīm, Tawfīq.
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The importance of Tawfiq al-Hakim (1898 to 1989) to the emergence of a modern Arabic literature is second only to that of Naguib Mahfouz. If the latter put the novel among the genres of writing that are now an accepted part of literary production in the Arab world today, Tawfiq al-Hakim is...
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A European television fiction renaissance : premium production models and transnational circulation
Barra, Luca
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This book maps the landscape of contemporary European premium television fiction, offering a detailed overview of both the changes in the digital production and distribution and the emergence of specific national and transnational case histories. Combining a media-production approach with...
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Footprints in the Snow: A Novel of Meiji Japan
Kenjiro Tokutomi
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Fractured destinies : a novel
Al-Madhoun, Rabai
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Palestinian-Armenian Ivana eloped with a British doctor in the 1940s, in the midst of the Nakba, and emigrated to England. Over half a century later, her daughter Julie has been tasked with Ivana's dying wish: to take her ashes back to their old home in Acre. She and her husband Walid leave London...
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From fiction to the novel
Day, Geoffrey
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Originally published in 1987, this title is a comprehensive study focused on experimental forms in eighteenth-century fiction. It suggests that the eighteenth-century novel is misread because it is judged with the templates of nineteenth and twentieth century versions of 'the novel' in mind,...
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Gaza weddings : a novel
Naṣr Allāh, Ibrāhīm
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From the author of Time of White Horses and The Lanterns of the King of Galilee Twin sisters Randa and Lamis live in the besieged Gaza Strip. Inseparable to the point that even their mother cannot tell them apart, they grow up surrounded by the...
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Genesis Myth in Beowulf and Old English Biblical Poetry
St. John, Joseph.
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Gifts and Graces : Prayer, Poetry, and Polemic from Lancelot Andrewes to John Bunyan
Gay, David
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The graying of the raven : cultural and sociopolitical significance of Algerian folk poetry
Bamia, Aida A.
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The Hashish Waiter : A Novel
Shalaby, Khairy.
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House of the wolf : an Egyptian novel
Qamḥāwī, ʻIzzat
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Winner of the 2012 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature, this novel is set in an idyllic Egyptian village from the time it was discovered by Muhammad Ali's mission in the early nineteenth century to the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, movingly intertwining events on the world scene with the life dramas of...
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How to Stop Being Stuck with Your Academic Writing
McDonald, Seonaidh.
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Identity in progress : tracing the processes of value construction in Kazuo Ishiguro's fiction
Yazgi, Cihan
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In the illuminated dark : selected poems of Tuvia Ruebner
Back, Rachel Tzvia
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Loss defines the crossbeams and chronicles of Tuvia Ruebner's life. Born in 1924 into a semi-secular Jewish family in Slovakia, Ruebner was also born into the catastrophe that would follow-the extermination of European Jewry and of his own family in the Holocaust. Hitler became chancellor of Germany...
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Indian science fiction : patterns, history and hybridity
Banerjee, Suparno
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James Malcolm Rymer, Penny Fiction, and the Family
Nesvet, Rebecca.
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The lanterns of the King of Galilee : a novel of 18th-century Palestine
Nas Đr Alla h, Ibra hi m
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In eighteenth-century Palestine, on the shores of Galilee's Lake Tiberias, visionary political and military leader Dahir al-Umar al-Zaydani undertakes a journey toward the greatest aim anyone could hope to achieve in his day: the establishment of an autonomous Arab state. To do so he must...
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Latin Epic and Didactic Poetry : Genre, Tradition and Individuality
Gale, Monica.
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How is it possible for a poet to find his own individual voice, when he is writing in a tradition so venerable and so constrained by convention as Roman epic? How do poets working in related genres - particularly didactic - conceptualize their relationship to the main epic tradition? The eleven...
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Like a dark rabbi : modern poetry & the Jewish literary imagination
Finkelstein, Norman
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Wallace Stevens' "dark rabbi," from his poem "Le Monocle de Mon Oncle," provides a title for this collection of essays on the "lordly study" of modern Jewish poetry in English. Including chapters on such poets as Charles Reznikoff, Allen Grossman, Chana Bloch, and Michael Heller, this volume...
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Litcomix : graphic novels, comix, and literary theory
Geczy, Adam
Critical studies of the graphic novel have often employed methodologies taken from film theory and art criticism. Yet, as graphic novels from Maus to Watchmen have entered the literary canon, perhaps the time has come to develop theories for interpreting...
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The Literary Life of Cairo: One Hundred Years in the Heart of the City
Mehrez, Samia
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Readings from literary works that re-construct a century of Cairo's changing social life.Unlike The Literary Atlas of Cairo, which focuses on the literary geopolitics of the cityscape, this companion volume immerses the reader in the complex network of socioeconomic and cultural lives in the city....
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London. Volume 4
Knight, Charles
Ebook
The publisher and writer Charles Knight (1791-1873) was apprenticed to his printer father, but later became a journalist and then proprietor of various periodicals and magazines, many of which were driven by his concern for the education of the poor. As an author, he published a variety of works,...
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Menorahs and minarets : a novel
Rah Đi m, Kama l S Đala h Đ Muh Đammad
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After ten years in Paris, Galal returns to Cairo, where he finds a society in transformation. Egypt is Galal's home, but he feels he no longer belongs there. He is caught between his two identities: his Jewish mother's family are cosmopolitan business people, while his father's family are rural...
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Mevlido's Dreams : A Post-Exotic Novel
Volodine, Antoine.
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A postapocalyptic noir that asks if love and political ideals can survive civilizational collapse A meditative, postapocalyptic noir, Mevlido's Dreams is an urgent communiqué from a far-future reality of irreversible environmental damage and civilizational...
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Modern ecopoetry : reading the palimpsest of the more-than-human world
Marti nez Serrano, Leonor Mari a
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Modern Ecopoetry: Reading the Palimpsest of the More-Than-Human World interrogates how humans' relation to and confrontation with the nonhuman world is captured in or through poetry. It brings together contributions that explore how modern poetry addresses human beings' relationship with the...
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Modernism from the margins : the 1930s poetry of Louis MacNeice and Dylan Thomas
Wigginton, Chris
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"Modernism from the Margins" is an accessible and challenging account of the 1930s writing of two of the most popular authors of the time. Locating the work of Louis MacNeice and Dylan Thomas historically, the book questions standard accounts of the period as Auden-dominated and offers an inclusive...
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Montaigne and Shakespeare : The Emergence of Modern Self-Consciousness
Ellrodt, Suzanne.
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This book is not merely a study of Shakespeare's debt to Montaigne. It traces the evolution of self-consciousness in literary, philosophical and religious writings from antiquity to the Renaissance and demonstrates that its early modern forms first appeared in the Essays and in Shakespearean...
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More than a game the computer game as fictional form
Atkins, Barry.
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This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The first academic work dedicated to the study of computer games in terms of the stories they tell and the manner of their telling. Applies practices of reading texts from literary and cultural...
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Neocolonial fictions of the global Cold War
Belletto, Steven
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Bringing together noted scholars in the fields of literary, cultural, gender, and race studies, this edited volume challenges us to reconsider our understanding of the Cold War, revealing it to be a global phenomenon rather than just a binary conflict between U.S. and Soviet forces. Shining a...
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Neoliberalism and cyberpunk science fiction : living on the edge of burnout
Alphin, Caroline
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Caroline Alphin presents an original exploration of biopolitics by examining it through the lens of cyberpunk science fiction. Comprised of five chapters, Neoliberalism and Cyberpunk Science Fiction is guided by four central themes: biopolitics, intensification, resilience, and...
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Now at the threshold : the late poems of Tuvia Ruebner
Ruebner, Tuvia
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In late 2013, preeminent Hebrew poet Tuvia Ruebner published his fifteenth poetry collection, which he titled Last Ones. But it was not his last; he continued writing and publishing, even into the summer of his death in 2019. The translated poems in Now at the Threshold: The Late Poems of Tuvia...
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Of sea and sand
Woods, Denyse
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Gabriel Sherlock arrives in Oman in 1982, fleeing shame and disaster back home in Ireland, and begins an intense affair with a woman whom no one else has seen. Locals insist she must be one of the jinn--a supernatural being--but Gabriel refuses to buy into the folklore, despite her sudden,...
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On the surface of silence : the last poems of Lea Goldberg
Goldberg, Leah
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On the Surface of Silence offers for the first time in English the final poems of Lea Goldberg, pre-eminent and central poet of modern Hebrew poetry. These extraordinary texts, composed in the last years and even last days of the poet's life and published posthumously after her untimely death,...
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The Poems of Shelley : 1821-1822
Adamson, Carlene.
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Poems of Shelley: Volume Six : 1822
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was one of the major poets of the English Romantic period. This is the final volume of a six-volume edition of The Poems of Shelley, which aims to present all of Shelley's poems in chronological order and with full annotation. Date and circumstances...
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Poems to the Child-God : Structures and Strategies in the Poetry of Surdas
Bryant, Kenneth E.
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Poems to the Child-God is the first full-length study in English of the verse of Surdas, or Sur, traditionally ranked among the three greatest poets writing in Hindi. Combining introduction, critical study, and annotated translation in a single volume, this work introduces the general reader...
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Poetry underpinning power : Vergil's Aeneid : the epic for Emperor Augustus : a recovery study
Stahl, Hans-Peter
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In recent decades, international research on Virgil has been marked, if not dominated, by the ideas of the 'Harvard School' and similar trends, according to which the poet was engaged in an elaborate work of subtle subversion, directed against the new ruler of the Roman world, Octavian-Augustus....
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Psychoanalysis and Narrative : Literature, Film and Autobiography
Corbatta, Jorgelina.
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Pulp fictions of medieval England essays in popular romance
McDonald, Nicola.
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This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Pulp Fictions of Medieval England demonstrates that popular romance not only merits and rewards serious critical attention, but that we ignore it to the detriment of our understanding of the...
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Revisiting Shakespeare's Italian Resources : Memory and Reuse
Bigliazzi, Silvia.
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The Routledge research companion to popular romance fiction
Kamble, Jayashree
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Popular romance fiction constitutes the largest segment of the global book market. Bringing together an international group of scholars, The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction offers a ground-breaking exploration of this global genre and its remarkable readership. In...
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Selected Writings on Visual Arts and Culture : Detour to the Imaginary
Hall, Stuart.
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Stuart Hall's work on culture, politics, race, and media is familiar to readers throughout the world. Equally important was his decades-long commitment to visual art. As the first collection to bring together Hall's work on the visual, this volume assembles two dozen of Hall's essays, lectures,...
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A Serpentine Gesture : John Ashbery's Poetry and Phenomenology
Joyce, Elisabeth W.
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Shakespeare
Sibony
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Shakespeare's book essay in reading, writing and reception
RICHARD MEEK; JANE RICKARD; RICHARD WILSON.
This collection of essays is part of a new phase in Shakespeare studies. The traditional view of Shakespeare is that he was a man of the theatre who showed no interest in the printing of his plays, producing works that are only fully realised in performance. This view has recently been challenged by...
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Shapes of Native nonfiction : collected essays by contemporary writers
Washuta, Elissa
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Just as a basket's purpose determines its materials, weave, and shape, so too is the purpose of the essay related to its material, weave, and shape. Editors Elissa Washuta and Theresa Warburton ground this anthology of essays by Native writers in the formal art of basket weaving. Using weaving...
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A Shimmering Red Fish Swims with Me : A Novel
Fadel, Youssef.
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Sound-emotion interaction in poetry rhythm, phonemes, voice quality
Tsur, Reuven
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This book is a collection of studies providing a unique view on two central aspects of poetry: sounds and emotive qualities, with emphasis on their interactions. The book addresses various theoretical and methodological issues related to topics like sound symbolism, poetic prosody, and voice quality...
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Speaking in Shakespeare's Voice A Guide for American Actors
Gates, Linda
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Speaking in Shakespeare's Voice: A Guide for American Actors is a book for undergraduate and graduate students of acting as well as for the professional who would like to perform Shakespeare with the skill of a classical actor. It is also valuable for European actors interested in...
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Teach This Poem, Volume I : The Natural World
Fuchs Holzer, Madeleine
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Temple bar : an Egyptian novel
ʻAbd al-Majīd, Bahāʼ
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Dublin is alien territory for young and impoverished Egyptian academic Moataz, who is preparing a PhD on Irish poet Seamus Heaney. Moataz has enough problems with his family's high expectations and the unrequited, idealized love that he left behind in Cairo. Now he has to deal with cantankerous...
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This earth, that sky poems by manuel bandeira
Bandeira, Manuel
This is a generous, long-overdue presentation of the major Brazilian poet Manuel Bandeira (1886-1968) to the English-speaking reader. Well over a hundred poems appear here in both Portuguese and English, together with a critical overview that introduces the poet and Brazilian poetry to the...
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Traveling in Mark Twain
Bridgman, Richard.
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Suffering from wanderlust like many of his countrymen, Mark Twain had the good fortune to be paid to offer his observations in a series of travel letters and books. Curious and indefatigable, he used his incomparable skills to produce the vivid descriptions and humorous commentaries that made his...
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The Turks in Egypt and their cultural legacy : an analytical study of the Turkish printed patrimony in Egypt from the time of Muhammad 'Ali with annotated bibliographies
İhsanoğlu, Ekmeleddin
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Though Egypt was ruled by Turkish-speakers through most of the period from the ninth century until 1952, the impact of Turkish culture there remains under-studied. This book deals with the period from 1805 to 1952, during which Turkish cultural patterns, spread through reforms based on those of...
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Vergil's Aeneid : Augustan epic and political context
Stahl, Hans-Peter
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This title features a collection of 14 papers in which contributors use diverging critical methods on a selection of extracts from Vergil's epic, with the examination of political references in the work being prominent, as well as the question of the Aeneid's central meaning. Contents include:...
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Victorian Social Activists' Novels
Lovesey, Oliver
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Virgil the Partisan A Study in the Re-Integration of Classics
Powell, Anton.
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Since its first appearance in 2008, this book has changed the landscape of Virgilian studies. Analysing closely the logic and the literary genres of Virgil's three poems, it politely confronts the modern orthodoxy that Virgil signalled distaste for the methods of his ruler, Octavian-Augustus. It...
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Virginia Woolf : Revaluation and Continuity
Freedman, Ralph.
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The renaissance of Virginia Woolf reflects a reassessment not only of Woolf as a writer but also of our social and political life as a whole. It points up differences between English and American readers, between older and younger critics, between men and women. Particularly striking in the...
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What Catullus wrote : problems in textual criticism, editing and the manuscript tradition
Kiss, Da niel
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The poems of Catullus barely managed to survive the Middle Ages. All surviving copies of the collection derive from an extremely corrupt manuscript, and scholars have been working since the Renaissance to reconstruct the original text. This volume aims to contribute to this effort with a substantive...
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What's in a name? : the significance of proper names in classical Latin literature
Booth, Joan
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Latin poets and prose writers of the classical period and later used - and withheld - names subtly and to important effect. Here, in eleven new essays, an eminent international cast explore themes which include 'speaking' names, often involving bilingual Latin/Greek play; the ways in which persons...
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Words in collision : multilingualism in English-language fiction
Ross, Michael L.
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For centuries, English-language writers have borrowed words and phrases from other languages in their fictional works. Words in Collision explores consequences of this tradition of language-mixing, asking why writers employ "foreign" phrases in their English-language texts and how this...
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