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How Fiction Works
by James Wood  Publisher Comments What makes a story a story? What is style? What's the connection between realism and real life? These are some of the questions James Wood answers in How Fiction Works, the first book-length essay by the preeminent critic of his generation. Ranging...
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Violence: Big Ideas/Small Books
by Slavoj Zizek Publisher Comments Philosopher, cultural critic, and agent provocateur Slavoj Žižek constructs a fascinating new framework to look at the forces of violence in our world. Using history, philosophy, books, movies, Lacanian psychiatry, and jokes, Slavoj Ži...
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Unfinished Masterpiece: The Harlem Renaissance Fiction of Anita Scott Coleman
by Laurie (edt) Champion Publisher Comments An edition of the short fiction of New Mexio-born Harlem Renaissance writer Anita Scott Coleman....
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Collections of Nothing
by William Davies King Publisher Comments Nearly everyone collects something, even those who don’t think of themselves as collectors. William Davies King, on the other hand, has devoted decades to collecting nothing—and a lot of it. Captivated by the detritus of everyday life, King...
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A Theory of Narrative
by Rick Altman Publisher Comments Narrative is a powerful element of human culture, storing and sharing the cherished parts of our personal memories and giving structure to our laws, entertainment, and history. We experience narrative in words, pictures, and film, yet regardless of how...
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Tragedies of Sophocles (Greece and Rome Live)
by Jamesmorwood Synopsis This volume provides separate discussions of each of Sophocles' seven plays: Ajax, Women of Trachis, Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra, Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus. It sets these between an essay that outlines modern approaches to Greek tragedy...
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Anglophilia: Deference, Devotion, and Antebellum America
by Elisa Tamarkin Review "Anglophilia takes a commonsensical subject-nineteenth-century adulation for and emulation of British culture-and shows us both why it doesn't mean what we thought and why it's worthy of closer study and more careful attention. This is a rare gem of a...
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Poetry and the Pre-Raphaelite Arts: Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris
by Elizabeth Helsinger Publisher Comments Focusing on two of the most influential figures in the Pre-Raphaelite movement, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris, this book explores new ways of considering art and literature together. Elizabeth Helsinger traces the unusually close ...
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The Trophies of the Martyrs: An Art Historical Study of Early Christian Silver Reliquaries
by Galit Noga-banai Synopsis In this pioneering study, the first of its kind, Galit Noga-Banai analyses silver reliquaries decorated with Christian figurative themes. She offers a clearer and more detailed picture of the beginnings of the cult of relics, which were an essential...
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Motivation and Narrative in Herodotus (Oxford Classical Monographs)
by Emily Baragwanath Publisher Comments In his extraordinary story of the defence of Greece against the Persian invasions of 490-480 BC Herodotus sought to communicate not only what happened, but also the background of thoughts and perceptions that shaped those events and became critical to...
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Dorsality: Thinking Back Through Technology and Politics (Posthumanities)
by David Wills Publisher Comments In this highly original book David Wills rethinks not only our nature before all technology but also what we understand to be technology. Rather than considering the human being as something natural that then develops technology, Wills argues, we should...
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Chaucerian Spaces: Spatial Poetics in Chaucer's Opening Tables (Suny Series in Medieval Studies)
by William F. Woods Synopsis Examines affect and the significance of space and place in the first six Canterbury Tales....
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Enemies of Promise
by Cyril Connolly Publisher Comments “Whom the gods wish to destroy,” writes Cyril Connolly, “they first call promising.” First published in 1938 and long out of print, Enemies of Promise, an “inquiry into the problem of how to write a book that lasts ten...
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Why You Should Read Kafka Before You Waste Your Life
by James Hawes Publisher Comments Everybody knows the face of Franz Kafka, whether they have read any of his works or not. And that brooding face carries instant images: bleak and threatening visions of an inescapable bureaucracy, nightmarish transformations, uncanny predictions of the...
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Cultural Diversity in the British Middle Ages: Archipelago, Island, England (New Middle Ages)
by Jeffrey J. Cohen Publisher Comments Through close readings of both familiar and obscure medieval texts, the contributors to this volume attempt to read England as a singularly powerful entity within a vast geopolitical network. This capacious world can be glimpsed in the cultural flows...
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Popular Feminist Fiction as American Allegory: Representing National Time
by Jane Elliott Publisher Comments Offering a strikingly original treatment of feminist literature, Popular Feminist Fiction as American Allegory argues that feminist novels served as a means of narrating and negotiating the perceived decline of American progress after the 1960s. Elliott...
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Derrida's "Of Grammatology" (Indiana Philosophical Guides)
by Arthur Bradley Synopsis Everything you need to know about Derrida's "Of Grammatology" in one volume...
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Inventing the New Negro: Narrative, Culture, and Ethnography
by Daphne Lamothe Publisher Comments It is no coincidence, Daphne Lamothe writes, that so many black writers and intellectuals of the first half of the twentieth century either trained formally as ethnographers or worked as amateur collectors of folklore and folk culture. In Inventing the...
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Literary Societies of Republican China
by Kirk A. (edt) Denton Synopsis Denton and Hockx present thirteen essays treating a variety of literary organizations from China's Republican era (1911-1949). Interdisciplinary in approach, the essays are primarily concerned with describing and analyzing the social and cultural...
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Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Dracula (Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companions)
by Mark Dawidziak Synopsis This Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to the worldThis Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to the worlds most famous vampire looks at all aspects of the Dracula phenomenon in often unexpected ways in true Bedside tradition including entries on t...
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