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Here are the new titles purchased by UVic Libraries related to English.
Updated July 23, 2024
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Justin Harrison, Humanities Librarian, University of Victoria
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(Re)Writing War in Contemporary Literature and Culture : Beyond Post-Memory
Pividori, Cristina.
(Re)Writing War in Contemporary Literature and Culture: Beyond Post-Memory is an exploration of war narratives through the lens of postmemory, offering a critical re-evaluation of how contemporary literature and cultural products reshape our understanding of past conflicts. This volume presents a...
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A. Mary F. Robinson : Victorian poet and modern woman of letters
Rigg, Patricia
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Aesthetic Dilemmas : Encounters with Art in Hugo Von Hofmannsthal's Literary Modernism
Burks, Marlo Alexandra
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Affect, Emotion and Sensibility in Modern Japanese Literature : From Natsume Sôseki to Ishimure Michiko
Auestad, Reiko Abe.
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Bibliophiles, Murderous Bookmen, and Mad Librarians : The Story of Books in Modern Spain
Ellis, Robert Richmond.
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The word "bibliophilia" indicates a love of books, both as texts to be read and objects to be cherished for their physical qualities. Throughout the history of Iberian print culture, bibliophiles have attempted to explain the psychological experiences of reading and collecting books, as well as...
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Blotted lines : early modern English literature and the poetics of discomposition
Desai, Adhaar Noor
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Blotted Lines rebuffs centuries of mythologization about the creative process?the idea that William Shakespeare "never blotted out line"?to argue that by studying how early modern writers faced the challenges of writing poetry, instructors today can empower their students'...
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Bondarchuk's War and Peace Literary Classic to Soviet Cinematic Epic
Youngblood, Denise J.
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Sergei Bondarchuk's War and Peace, one of the world's greatest film epics, originated as a consequence of the Cold War. Conceived as a response to King Vidor's War and Peace, Bondarchuk's surpassed that film in every way, giving the USSR one small victory in the cultural Cold War for...
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Brussels 1900 Vienna : networks in literature, visual and performing arts, and other cultural practices
Defraeye, Piet
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This co-edited volume offers new insights into the complex relations between Brussels and Vienna in the turn-of-the-century period (1880-1930). Through archival research and critical methods of cultural transfer as a network, it contributes to the study of Modernism in all its complexity.
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A century of Chinese literature in translation (1919-2019) : English publication and reception
Gerber, Leah
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This book delves into the Chinese literary translation landscape over the last century, spanning critical historical periods such as the Cultural Revolution in the greater China region. Contributors from all around the world approach this theme from various angles, providing an...
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The Comic Self : Toward Dispossession
Campbell, Timothy C.
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A provocative and unconventional call to dispossess the self of itself Challenging the contemporary notion of "self-care" and the Western mania for "self-possession," The Comic Self deploys philosophical discourse and literary expression to...
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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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Constructions of masculinity in the Middle East and North Africa : literature, film, and national discourse
Kahf, Mohja
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Creating games with unreal engine, substance painter, and maya : models, textures, animation, and blueprint
Li, Jingtian
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Description: This tutorial-based book allows readers to create a first-person game from start to finish using industry-standard (and free to student) tools of Maya, Substance Painter, and Unreal Engine. The first half of the book lays out the basics of using Maya and Substance Painter to...
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Danish Literature from 1000 To 1900
Mai, Anne-Marie.
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Disability, the Body, and Radical Intellectuals in the Literature of the Civil War and Reconstruction
Chinn
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The Edinburgh dictionary of modernism
Kolocotroni, Vassiliki
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Embodied differences : the Jew's body and materiality in Russian literature and culture
Mondry, Henrietta
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This book analyzes the ways in which literary works and cultural discourses employ the construct of the Jew's body in relation to the material world in order either to establish and reinforce, or to subvert and challenge, dominant cultural norms and stereotypes. It examines the use of physical...
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Eros and Noesis : a cognitive approach to the courtly love literature of medieval France
Monson, Don A.
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This is the first study to apply the results of modern cognitive science to medieval love literature. Covering the entire corpus of Occitan, French and Latin love literature of twelfth- and thirteenth-century France, it explores the universal and the culturally specific in medieval poetic attitudes...
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Exploring imaginary worlds : essays on media, structure, and subcreation
Wolf, Mark J. P.
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From The Brothers Karamazov to Star Trek to Twin Peaks, this collection explores a variety of different imaginary worlds both historic and contemporary. Featuring contributions from an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars, each essay looks at a...
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Fantasy Literature Challenging Genres
Fabrizi, Mark A.
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Fantasy literature, often derided as superficial and escapist, is one of the most popular and enduring genres of fiction worldwide. It is also--perhaps surprisingly--thought-provoking, structurally complex, and relevant to contemporary society, as the essays in this volume attest. The scholars,...
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Fragmenting modernism : Ford Madox Ford, the novel, and the Great War
Haslam, Sara.
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Fragmenting modernism' is about Ford Madox Ford, a hero of the modernist literary revolution. Ford is a fascinating and fundamental figure of the time; not only because as a friend and critic of Ezra Pound and Joseph Conrad, editor of the 'English Review', and author of 'The Good Soldier', he shaped...
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Freedom's Ring : Literatures of Liberation from Civil Rights to the Second Wave
Foertsch, Jacqueline.
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Freedom's Ring begins with the question of how the American ideal of freedom, which so effectively defends a conservative agenda today, from globally exploitative free trade to anti-French "freedom fries" during the War in Iraq, once bolstered the progressive causes of Freedom Summer,...
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From Mammies to Militants : Domestics in Black American Literature from Charles Chesnutt to Toni Morrison
Harris, Trudier
Welfare queen, hot momma, unwed mother: these stereotypes of Black women share their historical conception in the image of the Black woman as domestic. Focusing on the issue of stereotypes, the new edition of Trudier Harris's classic 1982 study From Mammies to Militants examines the...
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George Buchanan : poet and dramatist
Ford, Philip
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Educated in Scotland and France, George Buchanan became one of the most influential writers of 16th century Europe. Writing in the lingua franca of his time - Classical Latin - he was to be hailed internationally as 'easily the prince of poets'. Here fifteen scholars, from many countries, analyse...
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A History of American Literature 1900 - 1950
MacGowan, Christopher.
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A look at the first five decades of 20th century American literature, covering a wide range of literary works, figures, and influences A History of American Literature 1900-1950 is a current and well-balanced account of the main literary figures, connections, and ideas that...
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Imagining Urban Complexity: A Humanities Approach in Tropes, Media, and Genres
Frans-Willem Korsten
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In a fertile desert modern writing from the United Arab Emirates
Johnson-Davies, Denys.
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Here, for the first time, is a volume of short stories from this commercially and culturally vital and vibrant center of the Arab world. Life before oil in this region was harsh, and many of the stories in this collection by both men and women from all corners of the country tell of those times and...
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Introduction to contemporary print culture books as media
Murray, Simone
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Introduction to Contemporary Print Culture examines the role of the book in the modern world. It considers the book's deeply intertwined relationships with other media through ownership structures, copyright and adaptation, the constantly shifting roles of authors, publishers and readers...
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Introduction to interactive digital media : concept & practice
Griffey, Julia
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This book offers a clearly written and engaging introduction to the basics of interactive digital media. As our reliance on and daily usage of websites, mobile apps, kiosks, games, VR/AR and devices that respond to our commands has increased, the need for practitioners who understand these...
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Invisible presence : the representation of women in French-language comics
MacLeod, Catriona
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In this groundbreaking study of French-language comic strips, Catriona MacLeod looks at the representation of women across three distinct categories: as main characters and as secondary figures created by male artists, and as characters created by women artists. Drawing from feminist scholarship,...
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Jungian metaphor in modernist literature exploring individuation, alchemy and symbolism
Dib, Roula-Maria.
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Jungian Metaphor in Modernist Literature argues for the centrality of Carl Jung's theory of individuation and alchemy in modernist poetics. Through analysis of the uses of a mythic method in modernist literary works, the book develops a related alchemical model which serves to expand...
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Legacies of the Stone Guest : The Don Juan Legend in Russian Literature
Burry, Alexander
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The story of Don Juan first appeared in writing in seventeenth-century Spain, reaching Russia about a century later. Its real impact, however, was delayed until Russia's most famous poet, Alexander Pushkin, put his own, unique, and uniquely inspirational, spin on the tale. Published in 1830, ...
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Literature and Ecotheology : From Chaos to Cosmos
Handley, George B.
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Literature and understanding : the value of a close reading of literary texts
Phelan, J. W.
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Literature and Understanding investigates the cognitive gain from literature by focussing on a reader's close analysis of a literary text. It examines the meaning of 'literature', outlines the most prominent positions in the literary cognitivism debate, explores the practice of close reading from...
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Major Literary Seminars of Jacques Lacan : Literature, Lituraterre, Litterature
Biswas, Santanu
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Marvel Comics in the 1970s : The World inside Your Head
Borenstein, Eliot
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Marvel Comics in the 1970s explores a forgotten chapter in the story of the rise of comics as an art form. Bridging Marvel's dizzying innovations and the birth of the underground comics scene in the 1960s and the rise of the prestige graphic novel and postmodern superheroics...
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Media culture : cultural studies, identity, and politics in the contemporary moment
Kellner, Douglas
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In this thorough update of one of the classic texts of media and cultural studies, Douglas Kellner argues that media culture is now the dominant form of culture that socializes us and provides and plays major roles in the economy, polity, and social and cultural life. The book includes a...
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Memories in translation : a life between the lines of Arabic literature
Johnson-Davies, Denys
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Nobody has done more for modern Arabic literature in translation than Denys Johnson-Davies, described by the late Edward Said as "the leading Arabic-English translator of our time." With more than twenty-five volumes of translated Arabic novels, short stories, plays, and poetry to his name, and a...
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Milestones in African Literature
Toyin Falola
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Modernism and cultural transfer : Gabriel Preil and the tradition of Jewish literary bilingualism
Feldman, Yael S.
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It was twentieth-century Modernism that introduced bilingualism into the literary arena. Used as a means for the contradictory aims of universalizing or individualizing the literary idiom, this practice was clearly part of the revolt against nineteenth-century Romanticism and nationalism. In...
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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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Moral Communities: The Culture of Class Relations in the Russian Printing Industry 1867-1907
Mark D. Steinberg
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This valuable study offers a rare perspective on the social and political crisis in late Imperial Russia. Mark D. Steinberg focuses on employers, supervisors, and workers in the printing industry as it evolved from a state-dependent handicraft to a capitalist industry. He explores class relations...
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Not seeing Auschwitz : memory, generation and representations of the Holocaust in twenty-first century French comics
Gorrara, Claire
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This book analyses the portrayals of the Holocaust in newspaper cartoons, educational pamphlets, short stories and graphic novels. Focusing on recognised and lesser-known illustrators from Europe and beyond, the volume looks at autobiographical and fictional accounts and seeks to paint a broader...
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Novel Medicine : Healing, Literature, and Popular Knowledge in Early Modern China
Schonebaum, Andrew
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By examining the dynamic interplay between discourses of fiction and medicine, Novel Medicine demonstrates how fiction incorporated, created, and disseminated medical knowledge in China, beginning in the sixteenth century. Critical readings of fictional and medical texts provide a...
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Ocean Passages : Navigating Pacific Islander and Asian American Literatures
Suzuki, Erin.
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In her pathbreaking book, Ocean Passages, Erin Suzuki explores how movement through--and travel across--the ocean mediates the construction of Asian American and Indigenous Pacific subjectivities in the wake of the colonial conflicts that shaped the modern transpacific. Ocean Passages<...
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Performing Ethics in English Revenge Drama: Wild Play
Reisner
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Adapting Francis Bacon's notion of revenge as a 'kind of wild justice', Noam Reisner shows how English Renaissance revenge drama takes the form of 'wild play'. These plays drew on complicated modes of audience participation and devices of metatheatricality, allowing audiences to test how abstract...
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Poetic Rituality in Theater and Literature
Domokos, Johanna.
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Popular Chinese Literature and Performing Arts in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1979
McDougall, Bonnie S.
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The essays in this volume constitute an exceptionally broad and inclusive account of Chinese literature and performing arts since 1949. Extending beyond fiction to poetry and drama, and covering song, opera, and film as well, these essays reveal a more lively and varied cultural life than that...
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Postmodernism. What moment?
PELAGIA GOULIMARI.
This collection assembles many of the major theorists of postmodernism, across the humanities and the social sciences, to reconsider the nature and significance of the postmodern moment, as historical phase and as theoretical field. The authors look back on their own contributions to the...
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Prayer After the Death of God : A Phenomenological Study of Hebrew Literature
Sagi, Abraham
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The book offers a new theory of prayer, based on an analysis of the actual experience of praying individuals rather than on the relationship with God. The thesis is that prayer is a primary phenomenon conveying that humans are praying beings.
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Quixotic Memories : Cervantes and Memory in Early Modern Spain
Dominguez, Julia.
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Reading Walter Benjamin: Writing Through the Catastrophe
Richard Lane
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'Reading Walter Benjamin' explores the persistence of absolute in Benjamin's work by sketching-out the relationship between philosphy and theology apparent in his diverse writings, from the early youth-movement essays to the later books, essays and fragments. The book examines...
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Required reading : literature in Australian schools since 1945
Dolin, Tim
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Required Reading examines for the first time what students have read and studied in the disciplines of English and literary studies at Australian schools and Universities after 1945. On the basis of this primary evidence the authors challenge enduring myths of curriculum...
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The return of print : contemporary Australian publishing
Mannion, Aaron
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This collection of essays by established and emergingscholars of Australian publishing examines the industry in the wake of both theGlobal Financial Crisis of 2008 and the various shocks and upheavals associatedwith the rise of ebooks. The authors here look beyond the digital, so prominentin many...
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Satyr Drama : Tragedy at Play
Harrison, George W. M.
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The esteem in which satyr drama was held in antiquity still arouses curiosity and controversy. Twelve new papers, generated in North America by a distinguished cast of scholars, explore questions central to the genre. How did satyr drama relate to comedy and tragedy; how closely was it tied to its...
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Spaces of creativity : essays on Russian literature and the arts
Blank, Ksana
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In the six essays of this book, Ksana Blank examines affinities among works of nineteenth and twentieth-century Russian literature and their connections to the visual arts and music. Blank demonstrates that the borders of authorial creativity are not stable and absolute, that talented artists often...
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Swift, Pope and the doctors : medicine and writing in the early eighteenth century
Ingram, Allan
This book explores the impacts, particularly on their writing, of the serious illnesses of Swift and Pope, alongside their respective understandings of health issues and within their period context. Both Swift and Pope spent most of their lives suffering from serious illness, Ménière's...
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Transcultural Insights into Contemporary Irish Literature and Society : Breaking New Ground
Barros-del Río, María Amor.
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Transforming loss into beauty essays on Arabic literature and culture in honor of Magda Al-Nowaihi
Hammond, Marle .
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The contributors to this wide-ranging work of scholarship and analysis include mentors, colleagues, friends, and students of the late Magda al-Nowaihi, an outstanding scholar of Middle East studies whose diverse interests and energy inspired numerous colleagues. The book's first part is devoted to...
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Unveiling Desire : Fallen Women in Literature, Culture, and Films of the East
Azim, Firdous.
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In Unveiling Desire, Devaleena Das and Colette Morrow show that the duality of the fallen/saved woman is as prevalent in Eastern culture as it is in the West, specifically in literature and films. Using examples from the Middle to Far East, including Iran, India, Pakistan,...
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Victorian Social Activists' Novels
Lovesey, Oliver
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The visual story : creating the visual structure of film, TV and digital media
Block, Bruce A.
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If you can't make it to one of Bruce Block's legendary visual storytelling seminars, then you need his book! Now in full color for the first time, this best-seller offers a clear view of the relationship between the story/script structure and the visual structure of a film, video, animated piece, or...
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Women's voices in digital media : the sonic screen from film to memes
O'Meara, Jennifer
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In today's digital era, women's voices are heard everywhere--from smart home devices to social media platforms, virtual reality, podcasts, and even memes--but these new forms of communication are often accompanied by dated gender politics. In Women's Voices in Digital Media, Jennifer O...
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Women's writing in contemporary France new writers, new literature in the 1990's
Rye, Gill
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The 1990s witnessed a veritable explosion in women's writing in France, with a particularly exciting new generation of writers coming to the fore, names like Christine Angot, Marie Darrieussecq and Regine Detambel. Other authors such as Paule Constant, Sylvie Germain, Marie Redonnet and Leila Sebbar...
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World literature after empire : rethinking universality in the long Cold War
Vanhove, Pieter
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This book makes the case that the idea of a "world" in the cultural and philosophical sense is not an exclusively Western phenomenon. During the Cold War and in the wake of decolonization a plethora of historical attempts were made to reinvent the notions of world literature, world art, and...
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World Literature Decentered: Beyond the West Through Turkey, Mexico and Bengal
Almond, Ian
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What would world literature look like, if we stopped referring to the "West"? Starting with the provocative premise that the "'West' is ten percent of the planet", World Literature Decentered is the first book to decenter Eurocentric discourses of global literature and global history - not...
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Writing Fear : Russian Realism and the Gothic
Bowers, Katherine.
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Writing Fear examines how nineteenth-century Russian writers borrowed from European gothic fiction, demonstrating the ways in which this helped transform literary realism.
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Writing Islands : Space and Identity in the Transnational Cuban Archipelago
Lahr-Vivaz, Elena
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Howcontemporary Cuban writers build transnational communities In Writing Islands, ElenaLahr-Vivaz employs methods from archipelagic studies to analyze works ofcontemporary...
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Writing using sources for academic purposes : theory, research and practice
Wette, Rosemary
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Writing Using Sources for Academic Purposes: Theory, Research and Practice provides research-based information about key components of source-based writing, and the challenges it presents for novices. Proficiency in source-based writing is an essential and challenging goal for all inexperienced...
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