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New English Titles UVic Libraries - July 2024 (part II)
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Here are the new titles purchased by UVic Libraries related to English.
Updated July 23, 2024
University of Victoria Libraries
Justin Harrison, Humanities Librarian, University of Victoria
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Blotted lines early modern English literature and the poetics of discomposition
Desai, Adhaar Noor
Ebook
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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Fantasy Literature
Fabrizi, Mark A.
Ebook
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
Ebook
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. 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...
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Marvel comics in the 1970s the world inside your head
Borenstein, Eliot
Ebook
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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Moral communities the culture of class relations in the Russian printing industry, 1867-1907
Steinberg, Mark.
Ebook
This 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 and the...
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Novel medicine healing, literature, and popular knowledge in early modern China
Schonebaum, Andrew
Ebook
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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Popular Chinese literature and performing arts in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1979
McDougall, Bonnie S.
Paper Book
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Quixotic Memories : Cervantes and Memory in Early Modern Spain
Dominguez, Julia.
Ebook
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Reading Walter Benjamin : writing through the catastrophe
Lane, Richard J.
Paper Book
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 Benjamin from two main...
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Transforming loss into beauty essays on Arabic literature and culture in honor of Magda Al-Nowaihi
Hammond, Marle.
Paper Book
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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Women's voices in digital media the sonic screen from film to memes
O'Meara, Jennifer
Ebook
2023 Publication Award Honorable Mention, British Association for Film, Television and Screen Studies An examination of the sound and silence of women in digital media. In today's digital era, women's voices are heard everywhere--from...
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Women's writing in contemporary France new writers, new literature in the 1990s
Rye, Gill
Ebook
The 1990s witnessed an explosion in women's writing in France, with a particularly exciting new generation of writer's coming to the fore, such as Christine Angot, Marie Darrieussecq and Regine Detambel. Other authors such as Paule Constant, Sylvie Germain, Marie Redonnet and Leila Sebbar, who had...
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