The story.one Bestseller Formula: Life is a story - story.one (the library of life - story.one) by Hannes Steiner (2 Reviews)    Price verified 11 hours ago

Unleash the best-selling author in you - using the "Hannes Steiner story.one method" "There's a great book inside each of us, just waiting to conquer the world. And it's never been easier to publish it than today. So if you've ever dreamed of writing a book, I'm telling you: the perfect moment is now." Hannes Steiner "The story.one Bestseller Formula" takes you through the exciting adventure of coming up with ideas, publishing and marketing a book. What you will learn: • The Art of Storytelling: how to develop a compelling ...

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Environmental Knowledge, Race, and African American Literature (Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment) by Matthias Klestil (Palgrave Macmillan) (1 Review)    Price verified 4 hours ago

This open access book suggests new ways of reading nineteenth-century African American literature environmentally. Combining insights from ecocriticism, African American studies, and Foucauldian theory, Matthias Klestil examines forms of environmental knowledge in African American writing ranging from antebellum slave narratives and pamphlets to Charlotte Forten's journals, Booker T. Washington's autobiographies, and Charles W. Chesnutt's short fiction. The volume highlights how literary forms of environmental knowledge in the ...

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Precarious Times: Temporality and History in Modern German Culture (Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought) by Anne Fuchs (Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library) Price verified 12 hours ago

In Precarious Times, Anne Fuchs explores how works of German literature, film, and photography reflect on the profound temporal anxieties precipitated by contemporary experiences of atomization, displacement, and fragmentation that bring about a loss of history and of time itself and that is peculiar to our current moment. The digital age places premiums on just-in-time deliveries, continual innovation, instantaneous connectivity, and around-the-clock availability. While some celebrate this 24/7 culture, others see it as profoundly ...

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The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 357, October 30, 1886 by Various (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

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Charles Dickens and the Image of Women by David K. Holbrook (NYU Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 6 hours ago

How successful is Dickens in his portrayal of women? Dickens has been represented (along with William Blake and D.H. Lawrence) as one who championed the life of the emotions often associated with the "feminine." Yet some of his most important heroines are totally submissive and docile. Dickens, of course, had to accept the conventions of his time. It is obvious, argues Holbrook, that Dickens idealized the father-daughter relationship, and indeed, any such relationship that was unsexual, like that of Tom Pinch and his sister—but ...

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Neither Fugitive nor Free: Atlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, and the Legal Culture of Travel (America and the Long 19th Century Book 8) by Edlie L. Wong (NYU Press) Price verified 3 hours ago

Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series Neither Fugitive nor Free draws on the freedom suit as recorded in the press and court documents to offer a critically and historically engaged understanding of the freedom celebrated in the literary and cultural histories of transatlantic abolitionism. Freedom suits involved those enslaved valets, nurses, and maids who accompanied slaveholders onto free soil. Once brought into a free jurisdiction, these attendants became informally free, even if they were taken back to a slave ...

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An Imperialist Love Story: Desert Romances and the War on Terror by Amira Jarmakani (NYU Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 11 hours ago

A curious figure stalks the pages of a distinct subset of mass-market romance novels, aptly called "desert romances." Animalistic yet sensitive, dark and attractive, the desert prince or sheikh emanates manliness and raw, sexual power. In the years since September 11, 2001, the sheikh character has steadily risen in popularity in romance novels, even while depictions of Arab masculinity as backward and violent in nature have dominated the cultural landscape. An Imperialist Love Story contributes to the broader conversation about ...

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Undisciplined: Science, Ethnography, and Personhood in the Americas, 1830-1940 (America and the Long 19th Century Book 9) by Nihad Farooq (NYU Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 6 hours ago

In the 19th century, personhood was a term of regulation and discipline in which slaves, criminals, and others, could be "made and unmade." Yet it was precisely the fraught, uncontainable nature of personhood that necessitated its constant legislation, wherein its meaning could be both contested and controlled. Examining scientific and literary narratives, Nihad M. Farooq's Undisciplined encourages an alternative consideration of personhood, one that emerges from evolutionary and ethnographic discourse. Moving chronologically from ...

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Ethnology and Empire: Languages, Literature, and the Making of the North American Borderlands (America and the Long 19th Century Book 6) by Robert Lawrence Gunn (NYU Press) Price verified 4 hours ago

Winner, The Early American Literature Book Prize Ethnology and Empire tells stories about words and ideas, and ideas about words that developed in concert with shifting conceptions about Native peoples and western spaces in the nineteenth-century United States. Contextualizing the emergence of Native American linguistics as both a professionalized research discipline and as popular literary concern of American culture prior to the U.S.-Mexico War, Robert Lawrence Gunn reveals the manner in which relays between the developing ...

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Critical Rhetorics of Race (Critical Cultural Communication Book 12) by Kent A. Ono (NYU Press) (5 Reviews)    Price verified 12 hours ago

According to many pundits and cultural commentators, the U.S. is enjoying a post-racial age, thanks in part to Barack Obama's rise to the presidency. This high gloss of optimism fails, however, to recognize that racism remains ever present and alive, spread by channels of media and circulated even in colloquial speech in ways that can be difficult to analyze. In this groundbreaking collection edited by Michael G. Lacy and Kent A. Ono, scholars seek to examine this complicated and contradictory terrain while moving the field of ...

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Green Voices: Defending Nature and the Environment in American Civic Discourse (SUNY Press Open Access) by Richard D. Besel (SUNY Press) Price verified 12 hours ago

The written works of nature's leading advocates -- from Charles Sumner and John Muir to Rachel Carson and President Jimmy Carter, to name a few -- have been the subject of many texts, but their speeches remain relatively unknown or unexamined. Green Voices aims to redress this situation. After all, when it comes to the leaders, heroes, and activists of the environmental movement, their speeches formed part of the fertile earth from which uniquely American environmental expectations, assumptions, and norms germinated and grew. Despite ...

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Theresa Marchmont or, the Maid of Honour by Mrs. (Catherine Grace Frances) Gore (8 Reviews)    Price verified 11 hours ago

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It Came From Beneath the Slush Pile: 20 Kinds of Stupid: An Anthology of Idiot Heroes and Ridiculous Heroines by Holly Lisle (Independent Bookworm) (31 Reviews)    Price verified 12 hours ago

twenty fatally flawed flash stories by Holly Lisle and students If there's one thing more fun than writing awesome stories, it's occasionally indulging in the worst excesses and writing awesomely bad stories. Holly Lisle and a group of her students put all of the most clichéd, badly formed, and just plain wrong techniques into as few words as they could, and gathered them together as a way of leading by (horrific) example and illustrating why sometimes, the rules really are there to help (and yes, run-on sentences are bad ...

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Afropolitan Horizons: Essays toward a Literary Anthropology of Nigeria by Ulf Hannerz (Berghahn Books) (1 Review)    Price verified 12 hours ago

Nigeria is a country shaped by internal diversity and transnational connections, past and present. Leading Nigerian writers from Chinua Achebe, Amos Tutuola and Wole Soyinka to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Teju Cole have portrayed these Nigerian issues, and have also written about some of the momentous events in Nigerian history. Afropolitan Horizons discusses their work alongside other novelists and commentators, as well as describing the ways in which Nigeria has appeared in foreign news reporting. It is all interwoven with the ...

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Nimble Tongues: Studies in Literary Translingualism (Comparative Cultural Studies) by Steven G. Kellman (Purdue University Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 10 hours ago

Nimble Tongues is a collection of essays that continues Steven G. Kellman's work in the fertile field of translingualism, focusing on the phenomenon of switching languages. A series of investigations and reflections rather than a single thesis, the collection is perhaps more akin in its aims -- if not accomplishment -- to George Steiner's Extraterritorial: Papers on Literature and the Language Revolution or Umberto Eco's Travels in Hyperreality. Topics covered include the significance of translingualism; translation and its ...

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Shakespeare's Bones by C. M. (Clement Mansfield) Ingleby (2 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

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Novelsmithing, The Structural Foundation of Plot, Character, and Narration by David Sheppard (Tragedy's Workshop) (43 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

Novelsmithing, The Structural Foundation of Plot, Character, and Narration provides the beginning novelist, or perhaps even the experienced novelist who has lost his way, with a discussion of the underlying structure and methods of novel writing. Nowhere else can the aspiring author learn the skills necessary to achieve the organic unity of the novelist's divine trinity: character, conflict and theme, so necessary to a fine work of literature. He will also learn the art of narration, how to lock the conflict, resolve the conflict, ...

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Data Information Literacy: Librarians, Data and the Education of a New Generation of Researchers (Purdue Information Literacy Handbooks) by Jake Carlson (Purdue University Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 11 hours ago

Given the increasing attention to managing, publishing, and preserving research datasets as scholarly assets, what competencies in working with research data will graduate students in STEM disciplines need to be successful in their fields? And what role can librarians play in helping students attain these competencies? In addressing these questions, this book articulates a new area of opportunity for librarians and other information professionals, developing educational programs that introduce graduate students to the knowledge and ...

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Proofs of Genius: Collected Editions from the American Revolution to the Digital Age (Editorial Theory And Literary Criticism) by Amanda Gailey (University of Michigan Press) (4 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

Proofs of Genius: Collected Editions from the American Revolution to the Digital Age is the first extensive study of the collected edition as an editorial genre within American literary history. Unlike editions of an author's "selected works" or thematic anthologies, which clearly indicate the presence of non-authorial editorial intervention, collected editions have typically been arranged to imply an unmediated documentary completeness. By design, the collected edition obscures its own role in shaping the cultural reception of the ...

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Reflections on Enchantress from the Stars and Other Essays by Sylvia Engdahl (3 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

In the title essay of this ebook science fiction author Sylvia Engdahl discusses her Newbery Honor book Enchantress from the Stars--which she intended for teens rather than children--pointing out reactions to it that she finds disturbing. The story is literally about relations between species that have evolved in different time frames on separate planets, she says, and to interpret it as an allegory about intercultural relations on Earth implies that some cultures of our world are more "primitive" than others, a view long ago ...

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Summary Of The Mueller Report: Summary Of The Full Report On Collusion, Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump And Russian Interference (United ... by Aryeh Ksah (16 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Extra! Extra! Extra! Is This The End For The United States Democracy?!!!! During the 2016 election campaigns, President Donald Trump jokingly and publicly made a call to Russian Hackers for assistance. The Russians responded. American and Russia had long been wary of each other even when they had a chummy relationship. One of the reasons was because of the communist system of government that the Russian had adopted. Russia had its own set of reservations about the United States especially with America's failure to treat the ...

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Ideal Commonwealths by Various (1 Review)    Price verified 2 hours ago

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Political Pamphlets by George Saintsbury (1 Review)    Price verified 7 hours ago

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The Vitamine Manual by Walter H. Eddy (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

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Women in German Expressionism: Gender, Sexuality, Activism (Social History, Popular Culture, And Politics In Germany) by Anke Finger (University of Michigan Press) (3 Reviews)    Price verified 11 hours ago

This collection, for the first time, explores women's self-conceptions and representations of women's and gender roles in society in their own Expressionist works. How did women approach themes commonly considered to be characteristic of the Expressionist movement, and did they address other themes or aesthetics and styles not currently represented in the canon? Women in German Expressionism centers its analysis on gender, together with difference, ethnicity, intersectionality, and identity, to approach artworks and texts in more ...

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The Craft of Poetry: Dialogues on Minimal Interpretation by Derek Attridge (Routledge) (26 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

This book presents an innovative format for poetry criticism that its authors call "dialogical poetics." This approach shows that readings of poems, which in academic literary criticism often look like a product of settled knowledge, are in reality a continual negotiation between readers. But Derek Attridge and Henry Staten agree to rein in their own interpretive ingenuity and "minimally interpret" poems - reading them with careful regard for what the poem can be shown to actually say, in detail and as a whole, from opening to ...

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Historical Miniatures by August Strindberg (5 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

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Notes and Queries, Number 23, April 6, 1850 by Various (1 Review)    Price verified 2 hours ago

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Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 90, June, 1875 by Various (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

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Moral by Ludwig Thoma (2 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

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Druidry for Beginners: Discover Herbs, Ogham, Rituals, Divination, and Druid Tarot Reading in the Ancient Wisdom of Druidry by Alfreda J. Anderson (5 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Druidry for Beginners The book Druidry for Beginners tells you everything you need to know about Druidry, an ancient Celtic spiritual practice. Alfreda J. Anderson, an author who is also an experienced druid, wrote this book. It gives a clear overview of this powerful and spiritual practice. From its origins and history to its gods, rituals, and modern uses, Druidry for Beginners is a great book for anyone who wants to learn more about this ancient and deep religion. The first part of the book tells the reader about Druidry's ...

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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 326, August 9, 1828 by Various (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

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Shipwrecked: Disaster and Transformation in Homer, Shakespeare, Defoe, and the Modern World by James Morrison (University of Michigan Press) Price verified 11 hours ago

Shipwrecked: Disaster and Transformation in Homer, Shakespeare, Defoe, and the Modern World presents the first comparative study of notable literary shipwrecks from the past four thousand years, focusing on Homer's Odyssey, Shakespeare's The Tempest, and Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. James V. Morrison considers the historical context as well as the "triggers" (such as the 1609 Bermuda shipwreck) that inspired some of these works, and modern responses such as novels (Golding's Lord of the Flies, Coetzee's Foe, and Gordon's First on Mars, a ...

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Revisiting Renoir, Manet and Degas: Impressionist Figure Paintings in Contemporary Anglophone Art Fiction (Schweizer Anglistische Arbeiten (SAA) Book ... by Lyutsiya Staub (Narr Francke Attempto Verlag) (1 Review)    Price verified 12 hours ago

This work analyses the relationship between visual art and contemporary art fiction by addressing the problem of the ekphrastic re-presentation and re-interpretation of an Impressionist figure painting through its composition, selected details of the painting and allusion to specific techniques used in the process of creating the masterpiece based on the examples of the following novels: Luncheon of the Boating Party (LOTBP) by Susan Vreeland (2007), Mademoiselle Victorine (MV) by Debra Finerman (2007), With Violets (WV) by Elizabeth ...

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The Challenge of Change (Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature (SPELL) Book 36) by Margaret Tudeau-Clayton (Narr Dr. Gunter) (1 Review)    Price verified 6 hours ago

Change is a powerful idea which inspires hope and fear, excitement and dread. From the panta rhei of Heraclitus to Darwinian evolutionary theory, nobel laureate Bob Dylans The times they are a-changin, the Obama campaign slogan Change we can believe in, and the current advertising mantra change is good, it recurs as a challenge to the status quo. The present volume contains essays on the topic of change in English language, literature and culture. Some are based on papers presented at the 2017 SAUTE conference, which took place at ...

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Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882 by Various Price verified 12 hours ago

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Empire and Environment: Ecological Ruin in the Transpacific by Jeffrey Santa Ana (University of Michigan Press) Price verified 12 hours ago

Empire and Environment argues that histories of imperialism, colonialism, militarism, and global capitalism are integral to understanding environmental violence in the transpacific region. The collection draws its rationale from the imbrication of imperialism and global environmental crisis, but its inspiration from the ecological work of activists, artists, and intellectuals across the transpacific region. Taking a postcolonial, ecocritical approach to confronting ecological ruin in an age of ecological crises and environmental ...

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Imagining Iberia in English and Castilian Medieval Romance by Emily Houlik-Ritchey (University of Michigan Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 12 hours ago

Imagining Iberia in English and Castilian Medieval Romance offers a broad disciplinary, linguistic, and national focus by analyzing the literary depiction of Iberia in two European vernaculars that have rarely been studied together. Emily Houlik-Ritchey employs an innovative comparative methodology that integrates the understudied Castilian literary tradition with English literature. Intentionally departing from the standard "influence and transmission" approach, Imagining Iberia challenges that standard discourse with modes drawn ...

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Wittgenstein's Novels by Martin Klebes (Routledge) (20 Reviews)    Price verified 10 hours ago

Analyzing features of Wittgenstein's philosophical work and including in-depth textual analyses, this study investigates the impact of Ludwig Wittgenstein's work on contemporary German and French novelists. Drawing upon aesthetics, architectural history, philosophy of science, and photography, the book seeks to explain why references both to Wittgenstein as a person, as well as to his work are more pervasive than other equally renowned twentieth century philosophers and asks why some authors such as Händler and Roubaud, are less ...

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Deus e o diabo no humor das mulheres: contos, casos e crônicas com humor escritos por mulheres (Portuguese Edition) by Alba Valeria Tinoco Alves Silva (SciELO - EDUFBA) (531 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

Com o intuito de problematizar o lugar da mulher na produção humorística, a autora tece considerações a respeito da relação mulher/humor, sob diversas óticas do pensamento, como a psicanálise, a antropologia, a filosofia e a linguística. O livro surge com a premissa de descontruir a lógica de que a via cômica é uma forma de expressão exclusivamente masculina.

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The Worlding of Arabic Literature: Language, Affect, and the Ethics of Translatability by Anna Ziajka Stanton (Fordham University Press) (3 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

Critics have long viewed translating Arabic literature into English as an ethically fraught process of mediating between two wholly incommensurable languages, cultures, and literary traditions. Today, Arabic literature is no longer "embargoed" from Anglophone cultural spaces, as Edward Said once famously claimed that it was. As Arabic literary works are translated into English in ever-greater numbers, what alternative model of translation ethics can account for this literature's newfound readability in the hegemonic language of the ...

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Acquired Alterity: Migration, Identity, and Literary Nationalism (New Interventions in Japanese Studies Book 3) by Edward Mack (University of California Press) (6 Reviews)    Price verified 12 hours ago

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. This is the first book-length study in English of the Japanese-language literary activities of early Japanese migrants to Brazil. It provides a detailed history of Japanese-language bookstores, serialized newspaper fiction, original creative works, and critical apparatuses that existed in Brazil prior to World War II. This case study of the reading and writing of one diasporic population challenges the dominant mode of literary study, in which ...

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Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891 by Various (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

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New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915 by Various Price verified 35 minutes ago

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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, November 10, 1920 by Various Price verified 12 hours ago

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The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland by Various Price verified 3 hours ago

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The Lives of Machines: The Industrial Imaginary in Victorian Literature and Culture by Tamara S. Ketabgian (University of Michigan Press) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

"The Lives of Machines is intelligent, closely argued, and persuasive, and puts forth a contention that will unsettle the current consensus about Victorian attitudes toward the machine." ---Jay Clayton, Vanderbilt University Today we commonly describe ourselves as machines that "let off steam" or feel "under pressure." The Lives of Machines investigates how Victorian technoculture came to shape this language of human emotion so pervasively and irrevocably and argues that nothing is more intensely human and affecting than the ...

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Writing With Soft Worldbuilding: Write Amazing Books With the Easy Way of Worldbuilding (Writing Series) by Hans Arthur (5 Reviews)    Price verified 10 hours ago

Worldbuilding breathes life into a story that would otherwise be monotonous. It is one of the most essential points in determining whether a book or film is successful. Some books and movies examined here are: The Hobbit, The Hunger Games, Harry Potter, and Spirited Away. Fictional worlds are the perfect place to lose yourself, whether it be a fantastical dreamland or an alternate universe. But to captivate an audience, you need the right tools to set their imaginations free. And in Writing with Soft Worldbuilding, you will be ...

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Novel Translations: The European Novel and the German Book, 1680–1730 (Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought) by Bethany Wiggin (Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library) (1 Review)    Price verified 7 hours ago

Many early novels were cosmopolitan books, read from London to Leipzig and beyond, available in nearly simultaneous translations into French, English, German, and other European languages. In Novel Translations, Bethany Wiggin charts just one of the paths by which newness -- in its avatars as fashion, novelties, and the novel -- entered the European world in the decades around 1700. As readers across Europe snapped up novels, they domesticated the genre. Across borders, the novel lent readers everywhere a suggestion of ...

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Formative Fictions: Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Bildungsroman (Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought) by Tobias Boes (Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 11 hours ago

The Bildungsroman, or "novel of formation," has long led a paradoxical life within literary studies, having been construed both as a peculiarly German genre, a marker of that country's cultural difference from Western Europe, and as a universal expression of modernity. In Formative Fictions, Tobias Boes argues that the dual status of the Bildungsroman renders this novelistic form an elegant way to negotiate the diverging critical discourses surrounding national and world literature. Since the late eighteenth century, authors have ...

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Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany: Toward a Public Discourse on the Holocaust (Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought) by Sonja Boos (Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library) (11 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany is an interdisciplinary study of a diverse set of public speeches given by major literary and cultural figures in the 1950s and 1960s. Through close readings of canonical speeches by Hannah Arendt, Theodor W. Adorno, Ingeborg Bachmann, Martin Buber, Paul Celan, Uwe Johnson, Peter Szondi, and Peter Weiss, Sonja Boos demonstrates that these speakers both facilitated and subverted the construction of a public discourse about the Holocaust in postwar West Germany. The author's analysis of ...

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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 366, April 18, 1829 by Various Price verified 12 hours ago

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Collecting Lives: Critical Data Narrative as Modernist Aesthetic in Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Literatures (Digital Culture Books) by Elizabeth Rodrigues (University of Michigan Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 7 hours ago

On a near-daily basis, data is being used to narrate our lives. Categorizing algorithms drawn from amassed personal data to assign narrative destinies to individuals at crucial junctures, simultaneously predicting and shaping the paths of our lives. Data is commonly assumed to bring us closer to objectivity, but the narrative paths these algorithms assign seem, more often than not, to replicate biases about who an individual is and could become. While the social effects of such algorithmic logics seem new and newly urgent to ...

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Different Dispatches: Journalism in American Modernist Prose (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory) by David T. Humphries (Routledge) (17 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

In "Different Dispatches", David Humphries brings together in a new way a diverse group of well-known American writers of the inter-war period including: Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemmingway, Zora Neale Hurston, James Agee and Robert Penn Warren. He demonstrates how these writers engage journalism in creating innovative texts that address mass culture as well as underlying cultural conditions. The book will be of interest to readers approaching these well-known authors for the first time or for scholars grappling with ...

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Literature, Ethics, Morality: American Studies Perspectives (Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature (SPELL) Book 32) by Ridvan Askin (Narr Francke Attempto Verlag) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

This timely volume explores a wealth of North American literary texts that engage with moral and ethical dilemmas. It ranges from William Dean Howells's and Henry James's realist novels to Edward Sapir's intermedial poems, and from John Muir's unpublished letters and journal of his 1893 tour of the Swiss Alps to Rudy Wiebe's A Discovery of Strangers and the poetry of Robert Lowell. Many of the contributions also critically engage with and re?ect on some of the most prominent voices in contemporary theoretical debates about ethics ...

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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, January 9, 1892 by Various (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 11, 1917 by Various Price verified 11 hours ago

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Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, January 30, 1892 by Various (1 Review)    Price verified 11 hours ago

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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 15, 1917 by Various Price verified 3 hours ago

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Dreams for Dead Bodies: Blackness, Labor, and the Corpus of American Detective Fiction (Class : Culture) by Miriam Michelle Robinson (University of Michigan Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Dreams for Dead Bodies: Blackness, Labor, and the Corpus of American Detective Fiction offers new arguments about the origins of detective fiction in the United States, tracing the lineage of the genre back to unexpected texts and uncovering how authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Pauline Hopkins, and Rudolph Fisher made use of the genre's puzzle-elements to explore the shifting dynamics of race and labor in America. The author constructs an interracial genealogy of detective fiction to create a nuanced picture of the ...

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Authoring the Self: Self-Representation, Authorship, and the Print Market in British Poetry from Pope through Wordsworth (Literary Criticism and ... by Scott Hess (Routledge) (3 Reviews)    Price verified 12 hours ago

Drawing upon historicist and cultural studies approaches to literature, this book argues that the Romantic construction of the self emerged out of the growth of commercial print culture and the expansion and fragmentation of the reading public beginning in eighteenth-century Britain. Arguing for continuity between eighteenth-century literature and the rise of Romanticism, this groundbreaking book traces the influence of new print market conditions on the development of the Romantic poetic self.

Genre: Literary Criticism

Oral Literature in Africa (World Oral Literature Series Book 1) by Ruth Finnegan (Open Book Publishers) (27 Reviews)    Price verified 12 hours ago

Ruth Finnegan's Oral Literature in Africa was first published in 1970, and since then has been widely praised as one of the most important books in its field. Based on years of fieldwork, the study traces the history of storytelling across the continent of Africa. This revised edition makes Finnegan's ground-breaking research available to the next generation of scholars. It includes a new introduction, additional images and an updated bibliography, as well as its original chapters on poetry, prose, "drum language" and drama, and an ...

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Bandits in Print: "The Water Margin" and the Transformations of the Chinese Novel by Scott W. Gregory (Cornell East Asia Series) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Bandits in Print examines the world of print in early modern China, focusing on the classic novel The Water Margin (Shuihu zhuan). Depending on which edition a reader happened upon, The Water Margin could offer vastly different experiences, a characteristic of the early modern Chinese novel genre and the shifting print culture of the era. Scott W. Gregory argues that the traditional novel is best understood as a phenomenon of print. He traces the ways in which this particularly influential novel was adapted and altered in the early ...

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Heaven's Interpreters: Women Writers and Religious Agency in Nineteenth-Century America by Ashley Reed (Cornell University Press) (3 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

In Heaven's Interpreters, Ashley Reed reveals how nineteenth-century American women writers transformed the public sphere by using the imaginative power of fiction to craft new models of religious identity and agency. Women writers of the antebellum period, Reed contends, embraced theological concepts to gain access to the literary sphere, challenging the notion that theological discourse was exclusively oppressive and served to deny women their own voice. Attending to modes of being and believing in works by Augusta Jane Evans, ...

Genre: Literary Criticism

Framed: The New Woman Criminal in British Culture at the Fin de Siecle by Elizabeth Carolyn Miller (U OF M DIGT CULT BOOKS) (1 Review)    Price verified 12 hours ago

Framed uses fin de siècle British crime narrative to pose a highly interesting question: why do female criminal characters tend to be alluring and appealing while fictional male criminals of the era are unsympathetic or even grotesque? In this elegantly argued study, Elizabeth Carolyn Miller addresses this question, examining popular literary and cinematic culture from roughly 1880 to 1914 to shed light on an otherwise overlooked social and cultural type: the conspicuously glamorous New Woman criminal. In so doing, she breaks with ...

Genre: Literary Criticism

Fragments of Ancient Poetry by James MacPherson (29 Reviews)    Price verified 12 hours ago

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Chinese Sympathies: Media, Missionaries, and World Literature from Marco Polo to Goethe (Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought) by Daniel Leonhard Purdy (Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library) (1 Review)    Price verified 11 hours ago

Chinese Sympathies examines how Europeans -- German-speaking writers and thinkers in particular -- identified with Chinese intellectual and literary traditions following the circulation of Marco Polo's Travels. This sense of affinity expanded and deepened, Daniel Leonhard Purdy shows, as generations of Jesuit missionaries, baroque encyclopedists, Enlightenment moralists, and translators established intellectual regimes that framed China as being fundamentally similar to Europe. Analyzing key German literary texts -- theological ...

Genre: Literary Criticism

Keeping up Her Geography: Women's Writing and Geocultural Space in Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture (Literary Criticism and ... by Tanya Ann Kennedy (Routledge) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

Recently, literary critics and some historians have argued that to use the language of separate spheres is to "mistake fiction for reality." However, the tendency in this criticism is to ignore the work of feminist political theorists who argue that a range of ideologies of the public and private consistently work to mask gender inequalities. In Keeping Up Her Geography, Tanya Ann Kenedy argues that these inequalities are shaped by multiple, but interconnected, spatial constructions of the public and private in US culture. Moreover, ...

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Fire and Snow: Climate Fiction from the Inklings to Game of Thrones (SUNY Press Open Access) by Marc DiPaolo (SUNY Press) (4 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

Fellow Inklings J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis may have belonged to different branches of Christianity, but they both made use of a faith-based environmentalist ethic to counter the mid-twentieth-century's triple threats of fascism, utilitarianism, and industrial capitalism. In Fire and Snow, Marc DiPaolo explores how the apocalyptic fantasy tropes and Christian environmental ethics of the Middle-earth and Narnia sagas have been adapted by a variety of recent writers and filmmakers of "climate fiction," a growing literary and ...

Genre: Literary Criticism

On Self-Translation: Meditations on Language (SUNY Press Open Access) by Ilan Stavans (SUNY Press) Price verified 3 hours ago

Finalist for the 2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards in the Essay category From award-winning, internationally known scholar and translator Ilan Stavans comes On Self-Translation, a collection of essays and conversations on language in its multifaceted forms. Stavans discusses the way syntax is being restructured by texting and other technologies. He examines how the alphabet itself is being forgotten by the young, how finger snapping has taken on a new meaning, how the use of ellipses has lapsed, and how autocorrect is ...

Genre: Literary Criticism

Death Rights: Romantic Suicide, Race, and the Bounds of Liberalism (SUNY Press Open Access) by Deanna P. Koretsky (SUNY Press) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

Death Rights presents an antiracist critique of British romanticism by deconstructing one of its organizing tropes -- the suicidal creative "genius." Putting texts by Olaudah Equiano, Mary Shelley, John Keats, and others into critical conversation with African American literature, black studies, and feminist theory, Deanna P. Koretsky argues that romanticism is part and parcel of the legal and philosophical discourses underwriting liberal modernity's antiblack foundations. Read in this context, the trope of romantic suicide serves a ...

Genre: Literary Criticism

The Supplement of Reading: Figures of Understanding in Romantic Theory and Practice by Tilottama Rajan (Cornell University Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 12 hours ago

Tilottama Rajan illuminates a crisis of representation within romanticism, evident in the proliferation of stylistically and structurally unsettled literary texts that resist interpretation in terms of a unified meaning. The Supplement of Reading investigates the role of the reader both in romantic literary texts and in the hermeneutic theory that has responded to and generated such texts. Rajan considers how selected works by Coleridge, Wordsworth, Blake, Shelley, Godwin, and Wollstonecraft explore the problem of understanding in ...

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Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City": Reshaping Justice, Social Hierarchy, and Political Culture in Colonial Peru by Alcira Duenas (University Press of Colorado) (1 Review)    Price verified 7 hours ago

Through newly unearthed texts virtually unknown in Andean studies, Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City" highlights the Andean intellectual tradition of writing in their long-term struggle for social empowerment and questions the previous understanding of the "lettered city" as a privileged space populated solely by colonial elites. Rarely acknowledged in studies of resistance to colonial rule, these writings challenged colonial hierarchies and ethnic discrimination in attempts to redefine the Andean role in colonial ...

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Authorship and Text-making in Early China (Library of Sinology [LOS] Book 2) by Hanmo Zhang (De Gruyter Mouton) (1 Review)    Price verified 6 hours ago

This book is a timely response to a rather urgent call to seek an updated methodology in rereading and reappraising early Chinese texts in light of newly discovered early writings. For a long time, the concept of authorship in the formation and transmission of early Chinese texts has been misunderstood. The nominal author who should mainly function as a guide to text formation and interpretation is considered retrospectively as the originator and writer of the text. This book illustrates that although some notions about the text as ...

Genre: Literary Criticism

Contemporary Nordic Literature and Spatiality (Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies) by Kristina Malmio (Palgrave Macmillan) (3 Reviews)    Price verified 12 hours ago

This open access collection offers a detailed mapping of recent Nordic literature and its different genres (fiction, poetry, and children's literature) through the perspective of spatiality. Concentrating on contemporary Nordic literature, the book presents a distinctive view on the spatial turn and widens the understanding of Nordic literature outside of canonized authors. Examining literatures by Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, and Finnish authors, the chapters investigate a recurrent theme of social criticism and analyze this ...

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Race Characters: Ethnic Literature and the Figure of the American Dream by Swati Rana (The University of North Carolina Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 12 hours ago

A vexed figure inhabits U.S. literature and culture: the visibly racialized immigrant who disavows minority identity and embraces the American dream. Such figures are potent and controversial, for they promise to expiate racial violence and perpetuate an exceptionalist ideal of America. Swati Rana grapples with these figures, building on studies of literary character and racial form. Rana offers a new way to view characterization through racialization that creates a fuller social reading of race. Situated in a nascent period of ...

Genre: Literary Criticism

Narrating Nonhuman Spaces: Form, Story, and Experience Beyond Anthropocentrism (Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment) by Marco Caracciolo (Routledge) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 11 hours ago

Recent debates about the Anthropocene have prompted a re-negotiation of the relationship between human subjectivity and nonhuman matter within a wide range of disciplines. This collection builds on the assumption that our understanding of the nonhuman world is bound up with the experience of space: thinking about and with nonhuman spaces destabilizes human-scale assumptions. Literary form affords this kind of nonanthropocentric experience; one role of the critic in the Anthropocene is to foreground the function of space and ...

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No and Yes by Mary Baker Eddy (12 Reviews)    Price verified 12 hours ago

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Santo Domingo A Country with a Future by Otto Schoenrich (5 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

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Symptoms of an Unruly Age: Li Zhi and Cultures of Early Modernity by Rivi Handler-Spitz (University of Washington Press) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

Symptoms of an Unruly Age compares the writings of Li Zhi (1527-1602) and his late-Ming compatriots to texts composed by their European contemporaries, including Montaigne, Shakespeare, and Cervantes. Emphasizing aesthetic patterns that transcend national boundaries, Rivi Handler-Spitz explores these works as culturally distinct responses to similar social and economic tensions affecting early modern cultures on both ends of Eurasia. The paradoxes, ironies, and self-contradictions that pervade these works are symptomatic of the ...

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