New English Titles UVic Libraries - August 2024

Updated September 17, 2024
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Adaptable English Language Teaching : Advances and Frameworks for Responding to New Circumstances
Ebook
Alice Munro
Howells, Coral Ann.
Ebook
This is the first full-length study of Alice Munro's work to be published in Britain. Highlights Munro's distinctive storytelling methods where everything becomes both 'touchable and mysterious'.
Analyzing Ideology and Narratology in Film Series, Sequels, and Trilogies
Seçmen, Emre Ahmet.
Ebook
The study of ideology and narratology in film reveals intricate layers of meaning and cultural significance embedded within cinematic narratives. This exploration delves into how ideologies are conveyed, reinforced, or challenged across multiple installments of a film franchise. By analyzing the...
Between Resistance and Conformity : Premchand's Fiction in Colonial North India
Singh, Shailendra Kumar.
Ebook
Bourdieusian Media Studies
Lindell, Johan.
Ebook
Bring now the angels : poems
Ahmed, Dilruba
Ebook
This collection juxtaposes text from Google Search autocomplete with the intimate language of prayer. Corporate jargon coexists with the incantatory and ancient ghazal form. Ahmed's second book of poetry explores the terrain of loss--of a beloved family member, of human dignity and potential, of the...
British Socialist Fiction, 1884-1914
Mutch, Deborah
Ebook
Cease
Bachmann, Beth
Ebook
CEASE begins with the words, "to keep the peace/we need a wall/to fall to our knees before...." Framed by the long poem, "wall," Beth Bachmann's new collection of poetry wildly upturns the boundaries between bodies at peace and bodies at war, between the human territory of border walls and...
Cinema Love
Tang, Jiaming.
Ebook
Shortlisted for the 2025 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction A Dakota Johnson x TeaTime Book Club Pick "Exceptional, moving, and not to be missed."--Alice Hoffman "Gentle and fierce, heartbreaking without sacrificing its sense of humor . . . I have...
The Conscious Style Guide
Yin, Karen
Ebook
A timeless, indispensable guide for anyone who wants to communicate with sensitivity and compassion. Most of us want to choose inclusive, respectful, and empowering language. But language--and how we use it--continually evolves, along with cultural norms. When contradictory...
Decolonising Digital Media and Indigenisation of Participatory Epistemologies : Languages of the Global South
Makananise, Fulufhelo Oscar.
Ebook
Digital Media Production for Beginners
Griffey, Julia V.
Ebook
Eco-Teen Films
Murray, Robin L.
Ebook
English Convents in Exile, 1600-1800, Part I, Vol 1
Bowden, Caroline.
Ebook
English Convents in Exile, 1600-1800, Part I, Vol 2
Bowden, Caroline.
Ebook
Film Theory : An Introduction
Lapsley, Robert.
Ebook
Film theory: an introduction offers a highly readable account of film theory and is an indispensable resource for students. The discussion ranges from the late 1960s to the present, a period in which a number of conceptual strands, notably politics, semiotics and psychoanalysis were woven...
G K Chesterton at the Daily News, Part I, Vol 2 : Literature, Liberalism and Revolution, 1901-1913
Stapleton, Julia.
Ebook
G K Chesterton at the Daily News, Part I, Vol 3 : Literature, Liberalism and Revolution, 1901-1913
Stapleton, Julia.
Ebook
G K Chesterton at the Daily News, Part I, Vol 4 : Literature, Liberalism and Revolution, 1901-1913
Stapleton, Julia.
Ebook
G K Chesterton at the Daily News, Part II, Vol 5 : Literature, Liberalism and Revolution, 1901-1913
Stapleton, Julia.
Ebook
G K Chesterton at the Daily News, Part II, Vol 6 : Literature, Liberalism and Revolution, 1901-1913
Stapleton, Julia.
Ebook
G K Chesterton at the Daily News, Part II, Vol 7 : Literature, Liberalism and Revolution, 1901-1913
Stapleton, Julia.
Ebook
G K Chesterton at the Daily News, Part II, Vol 8 : Literature, Liberalism and Revolution, 1901-1913
Stapleton, Julia.
Ebook
Handbook of Czech Prose Writings, 1940-2005
Bradbrook, Bohuslava
Ebook
The turbulent events of World War II and the subsequent communist regime in Czechoslovakia strongly restricted Czech writers' freedom of expression. Many sought and found literary freedom in exile. As Czech literature was developing in two very different locations and conditions, writers on both...
Handbook of Media and Communication Governance
Paper Book
The Historicization of Contemporary Literature
Guangwei, Cheng.
Ebook
Holiday in the islands of grief
McDaniel, Jeffrey
Ebook
In his new collection, Jeffrey McDaniel confronts the insular and expansive qualities of loss. With electric language and surrealistic imagery, McDaniel's poems deliver the quotidian elements of middle-age life while weaving us in & out of childhood and adulthood alongside body and mind. The tragic...
Horror and Science Fiction Cinema and Society : American Culture and Politics in the Cold War and After Through the Projector Lens
Harris, Martin
Ebook
Invisible Lives
Smith, Cristalle
Ebook
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Ira Aldridgev : the last years, 1855-1867
Lindfors, Bernth
Ebook
This final volume of Bernth Lindfors's definitive biography records the remarkable achievements and experiences of Ira Aldridge in the last years of his life, when he performed at theaters throughout Europe. Ira Aldridge The Last Years, 1855-1867, the fourth volume of...
Jungian Inspired Holocaust Writings of Etty Hillesum : To Write is to Act
Morrill, Barbara
Ebook
Karankawa
Rocha, Iliana
Ebook
Karankawa is a collection that explores some of the ways in which we (re)construct our personal histories. Rich in family narratives, myths, and creation stories, these are poems that investigate passage--dying, coming out, transforming, being born--as well as the gaps that also reside in our...
Living Death in Early Modern Drama
Alsop, James.
Ebook
This book explores historical, socio-political, and metatheatrical readings of a whole host of dying bodies and risen corpses, each part of a long tradition of living death on stage. Just as zombies, ghouls, and the undead in modern media often stand in for present-day concerns, early...
Mary Butts : Necessary Contradictions and Feminist Reconstructions
Hawkes, Joel
Ebook
Mediating Spaces : Literature, Politics, and the Scales of Yugoslav Socialism, 1870-1995
Robertson, James M.
Ebook
Medievalisms in a global age
Weisl, Angela Jane
Discusses contemporary medievalism in studies ranging from Brazil to West Africa, from Manila to New York. Across the world, revivals of medieval practices, images, and tales flourish as never before. The essays collected here, informed by approaches from Global Studies and the...
New Essays on History and Form in Early Modern English Literature
Moschovakis, Nick.
Ebook
On the Poetry of Spenser and the Form of Romances
Arthos, John.
Ebook
Originally published in 1956, this scholarly study of Spenser's poetry shows how the conceptions of his earlier work in complaints, visions and pastorals were of continuing importance to the development of The Faerie Queene. Following on from Bishop Hurd's Letters on Chivalry and Romance, John...
The Origins of Literary Studies in America : A Documentary Anthology
Graff, Gerald.
Ebook
Performing Ethics in English Revenge Drama: Wild Play
Reisner
Ebook
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...
The Political and Economic Writings of Daniel Defoe Vol 1
Owens, W. R.
Ebook
Political Future Fiction Vol 1 : Speculative and Counter-Factual Politics in Edwardian Fiction
Macdonald, Kate.
Ebook
Political Future Fiction Vol 2 : Speculative and Counter-Factual Politics in Edwardian Fiction
Macdonald, Kate.
Ebook
Popular Victorian Women Writers
Boardman, Kay.
Ebook
Popular Victorian women writers considers a diverse group of women writers within the Victorian literary marketplace. It looks at authors such as Ellen Wood, Mary Braddon, Rhoda Broughton and Charlotte Yonge as well as less well-known writers including Jessie Fothergill and Eliza Meteyard. ...
Questions About Angels
Collins, Billy.
Ebook
Over the past decade, Billy Collins has emerged as the most beloved American poet since Robert Frost, garnering critical acclaim and broad popular appeal. Annie Proulx admits, "I have never before felt possessive about a poet, but I am fiercely glad that Billy Collins is ours."This special, limited...
Reading John Milton : An Introduction
Currell, David
Ebook
Reading Richard III and the Tower of London
Deiter, Kristen.
Ebook
Religious and Didactic Writings of Daniel Defoe, Part I Vol 1
Owens, W. R.
Ebook
Religious Belief and the Will
Pojman, Louis P.
Ebook
Routledge Handbook of Mobile Technology, Social Media and the Outdoors
Beames, Simon Kennedy.
Ebook
Sara Paretsky : Detective Fiction As Trauma Literature
Hamilton, Cynthia.
Ebook
Sara Paretsky is known for her influential V.I. Warshawski series, which transformed the masculine hard-boiled detective formula into a vehicle for feminist values. But Paretsky does more than this. Her novels also illustrate the extent to which detective fiction acts as a literature of trauma,...
The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part III Volume 11 : Short (Domestic) Fiction
O'Cinneide, Muireann.
Ebook
The Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce
Woodruff, Stuart C.
Ebook
One of the most interesting figures to emerge at the turn of the twentieth century was Ambrose Bierce, whose acerbic columns in the San Francisco Examiner spread his fame as America's most bitter cynic and misanthrope, and whose disappearance into Mexico surrounded his name with an aura of mystery....
Text and Social Media Analytics for Fake News and Hate Speech Detection
Kumar Soni, Hemant.
Ebook
Their Majesty : Drag Performance and Queer Communities in London
Parslow, Joe.
Ebook
This book explores drag performance in London since 2009 via the pubs, bars and clubs that make LGBTQ+ communities thrive. It studies the complex relationship between drag performance, LGBTQ+ venues and queer communities. In exploring drag performance, the book develops a greater...
Time and Nature in the Poetry of Niyi Osundare : Poetics of Animism, Anthropocene, and Capitalocene
Anolue, Chukwunwike.
Ebook
Transmedia Applications in Literacy Fields
Jason D. DeHart
Ebook
In the ever-changing digital age, storytelling and literacy are constantly evolving, presenting new and exciting challenges and opportunities for educators, researchers, and students alike. As audiences continue to interact with stories across numerous media platforms, from traditional print to...
TV Writing On Demand : What's Now + What's Next
Landau, Neil
Ebook
Unbound Queer Time in Literature, Cinema, and Video Games
Belmonte Ávila, Juan Francisco.
Ebook
The Unpublished Writings of Edith Wharton Vol 2
Rattray, Laura.
Ebook
Victorian Science and Literature, Part I Vol 1
Dawson, Gowan.
Ebook
A way of being free
Okri, Ben
Ebook
From Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri: twelve of his most controversial non-fiction pieces form this collection on the theme of freedom. Ranging from the personal to the analytical, covering subjects such as art, politics, storytelling and creativity, A WAY OF BEING FREE...
The woman in the corner
Krygowski, Nancy
Ebook
The Woman in the Corner keenly observes and gives voice to the ambiguities and astonishments that we often turn away from--in human relationships and in our own unruly hearts. In poems that speak fearlessly about sex and grief, mothers and daughters, and friendships and marriage, Krygowski...
Women's Political Writings, 1610-1725 Vol 3
Smith, Hilda L.
Ebook
Works of Thomas De Quincey. Articles from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 1842-3Volume 14
Quincey, Thomas De
Ebook
The writers' state : constructing East German literature 1945-1959
Brockmann, Stephen
Ebook
Examines the literature produced from the very beginnings of what became the GDR through the 1950s, redressing a tendency of literary scholarship to focus on the later GDR. Twenty-five years after the demise of the German Democratic Republic, there is perhaps more...
Writings on Travel, Discovery and History by Daniel Defoe, Part I Vol 4
Owens, W. R.
Ebook

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