Clean Fiction: Winter Edition 2023 (Clean Fiction Magazine Book 8) by Amy Lynn McConahy (7 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

Wonderful Reads for the Quirky & Discerning Book Lover Clean Fiction magazine strives to place amazing CLEAN FICTION in the hands of those who would enjoy it. We specialize in Indie Fiction and Small Presses which means that the books you find here you may not find anywhere else. If you are interested in reading a Christian-based publication that reviews and promotes both religious fiction as well as clean secular fiction, you have found the right magazine. IN THIS EDITION YOU WILL FIND: Fantasy & Fairy Tale Science Fiction, Steampunk, & Superheroes Romance & Real Life Mystery & History Illustrative Fiction Audio Dramas Find Clean Fiction Magazine Online! Website: cleanfictionmagazine.com Facebook: Clean Fiction Magazine (Group) Instagram: @cleanfiction Goodreads: Clean Fiction (Group) YouTube: @CleanFiction Patreon: cleanfiction Discord: Clean Fiction Community

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The Complete Beatrix Potter Collection vol 5 : Tales & Original Illustrations: Mischief, Friendship, and More! by Beatrix Potter (Pocket Classic) Price verified 8 hours ago

Dive into 3 captivating tales of unforgettable characters in Beatrix Potter's beloved collection! Unfold a world of wonder with Volume 5 in The Complete Beatrix Potter Collection! This charming ebook treasury features three delightful stories brimming with mischief, friendship, and exciting escapades: • The Tale of Mr. Tod: Will sly Mr. Tod outsmart the brave heroine, Mrs. Foxy? • The Tale of Pigling Bland: Embark on a whimsical journey with the forgetful Pigling Bland as he searches for his lost button. • The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse: Join Johnny Town-Mouse for a visit to his country cousin. Will city life or country charm win him over? Timeless Tales for Every Generation: Beatrix Potter's classic stories, paired with her iconic illustrations, continue to spark imaginations and create lasting memories for readers of all ages. This captivating collection is a perfect addition to any child's bookshelf, fostering a love of reading and encouraging a sense of adventure. The Gift of Storytelling: Share the magic of Beatrix Potter with your loved ones! This delightful volume is a wonderful present for young readers and Beatrix Potter fans alike. Don't Miss Out! Complete your Beatrix Potter collection today and continue the journey with Volume 5!

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The Shakespeare Quiz: 425 Questions with Answers, Commentary, and Essays by Steffy Sota (Twain Publications) Price verified 6 hours ago

I am a ghost writer. I died of COPD in 2017. In life, I was an American academic and literary scholar best known for my seven-volume work Britannia, a masterpiece of historical writing tracing the history of England from the Birth of Christ in The Year Zero to the death of William Shakespeare in 1616. My four-volume work Revelations of William Shakespeare has become a standard and essential reference work on Tudor and Stuart drama. I was born in Gary, Indiana in 1948, the daughter of an Evangelical clergyman. Originally intending to be a creative writer, I changed my career to literary scholarship during my graduate studies at Hudson University. I earned my B.A. with honors in English at Bloomsbury State University (1969), my M.A. in English at Hudson University (1971), my M.Phil in Philosophy at Oxford University (1973), my Ph.D. at Olinger University (1975), and my D.Litt. in English and Comparative Literature [in the first column] at New Tammany University studying under Professor Samuel Johnson (1978). In a highly unusual development, I wrote two dissertations simultaneously: The Strange Allegories of William Shakespeare and The Professors of Jocularity: A Study of Black Comedy. I taught at Hudson University from 1976 to 1992 before accepting a position as University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Olinger University in 1993 -- where I taught until my retirement in 2011. During my tenure, I supervised 90 dissertations, 15 theses, and 21 satires and served as Chairperson of the Department of English from 2000 to 2005. I wrote a wide range of essays on Shakespeare. My essay "I Spit My Last Breath at Thee," originally published in the inaugural issue of the New and Improved Shakespeare Survey With Textual Analysis in 2003, was widely reprinted and frequently pirated. I edited several works for modern readers including The Lover's Tragedy and The Luck of the Tristero. My work has been cited by scholars in 15 fields of endeavor 1,010 ...

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The Case of Literature: Forensic Narratives from Goethe to Kafka (Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought) by Arne Höcker (Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library) (1 Review)    Price verified 9 hours ago

In The Case of Literature, Arne Höcker offers a radical reassessment of the modern European literary canon. His reinterpretations of Goethe, Schiller, Büchner, Döblin, Musil, and Kafka show how literary and scientific narratives have determined each other over the past three centuries, and he argues that modern literature not only contributed to the development of the human sciences but also established itself as the privileged medium for a modern style of case-based reasoning. The Case of Literature deftly traces the role of narrative fiction in relation to the scientific knowledge of the individual from eighteenth-century psychology and pedagogy to nineteenth-century sexology and criminology to twentieth-century psychoanalysis. Höcker demonstrates how modern authors consciously engaged casuistic forms of writing to arrive at new understandings of literary discourse that correspond to major historical transformations in the function of fiction. He argues for the centrality of literature to changes in the conceptions of psychological knowledge production around 1800; legal responsibility and institutionalized forms of decision-making throughout the nineteenth century; and literature's own realist demands in the early twentieth century.

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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 7 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 destructive to the natural rhythm of day and night -- and to human happiness. Have we entered an era of a perpetual present that depletes the future and erodes our grasp of the past? Beginning its examination around 1900, when rapid modernization was accompanied by comparably intense reflection on changing temporal experience, Precarious Times provides historical depth and perspective to current debates on the "digital now." Expanding the modern discourse on time and speed, Fuchs deploys such concepts as attention, slowness and lateness to emphasize the uneven quality of time around the world.

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The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 357, October 30, 1886 by Various (1 Review)    Price verified 14 hours ago

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The Violence of the Letter: Toward a Theory of Writing by Melanie McMahon (University of Michigan Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 14 hours ago

The emergence of the alphabet in ancient Greece, usually heralded as the first step in the inexorable march toward reason and progress, in fact signaled the introduction of a chance technology that hijacked the future, with devastating consequences for humanity. By investigating an array of cultural artifacts, ranging from Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey to the Oracle at Delphi to Luther's challenge to the Church, this book demonstrates how the apparently benign emergence of writing made possible far-ranging systems of organized domination and unprecedented levels of violence. The Violence of the Letter considers how a twenty-six-letter code changed the face of the world, and not always for the better.

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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 8 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 jurisdiction -- at least according to abolitionists and the enslaved themselves. In order to secure their freedom formally, slave attendants or others on their behalf had to bring suit in a court of law. Edlie Wong critically recuperates these cases in an effort to reexamine and redefine the legal construction of freedom, will, and consent. This study places such historically central anti-slavery figures as Frederick Douglass, Olaudah Equiano, and William Lloyd Garrison alongside such lesser-known slave plaintiffs as Lucy Ann Delaney, Grace, Catharine Linda, Med, and Harriet Robinson Scott. Situated at the confluence of literary criticism, feminism, and legal history, Neither Fugitive nor Free presents the freedom suit as a "new" genre to African American and American literary studies.

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An Imperialist Love Story: Desert Romances and the War on Terror by Amira Jarmakani (NYU Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 9 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 the legacy of orientalist representations of Arabs in Western popular culture. Combining close readings of novels, discursive analysis of blogs and forums, and interviews with authors, Jarmakani explores popular investments in the war on terror by examining the collisions between fantasy and reality in desert romances. Focusing on issues of security, freedom, and liberal multiculturalism, she foregrounds the role that desire plays in contemporary formations of U.S. imperialism. Drawing on transnational feminist theory and cultural studies, An Imperialist Love Story offers a radical reinterpretation of the war on terror, demonstrating romance to be a powerful framework for understanding how it works, and how it perseveres.

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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 9 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 1830 to 1940, Farooq explores the scientific and cultural entanglements of Atlantic travelers in and beyond the Darwin era, and invites us to attend more closely to the consequences of mobility and contact on disciplines and persons. Bringing together an innovative group of readings -- from field journals, diaries, letters, and testimonies to novels, stage plays, and audio recordings -- Farooq advocates for a reconsideration of science, personhood, and the priority of race for the field of American studies. Whether expressed as narratives of acculturation, or as acts of resistance against the camera, the pen, or the shackle, these stories of the studied subjects of the Atlantic world add a new chapter to debates about personhood and disciplinarity in this era that actively challenged legal, social, and scientific categorizations.

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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 5 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 research practices of ethnology, works of fiction, autobiography, travel narratives, Native oratory, and sign languages gave imaginative shape to imperial activity in the western borderlands. In literary and performative settings that range from the U.S./Mexico borderlands to the Great Lakes region of Tecumseh's Pan-Indian Confederacy and the hallowed halls of learned societies in New York and Philadelphia, Ethnology and Empire models an interdisciplinary approach to networks of peoples, spaces, and communication practices that transformed the boundaries of U.S. empire through a transnational and scientific archive. Emphasizing the culturally transformative impacts western expansionism and Indian Removal, Ethnology and Empire reimagines U.S. literary and cultural production for future conceptions of hemispheric American literatures.

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Chicano Nations: The Hemispheric Origins of Mexican American Literature (American Literatures Initiative Book 4) by Marissa K. López (NYU Press) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 13 hours ago

Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series Chicano Nations argues that the transnationalism that is central to Chicano identity originated in the global, postcolonial moment at the turn of the nineteenth century rather than as an effect of contemporary economic conditions, which began in the mid nineteenth century and primarily affected the laboring classes. The Spanish empire then began to implode, and colonists in the "new world" debated the national contours of the viceroyalties. This is where Marissa K. López locates the origins of Chicano literature, which is now and always has been "postnational," encompassing the wealthy, the poor, the white, and the mestizo. Tracing its long history and the diversity of subject positions it encompasses, Chicano Nations explores the shifting literary forms authors have used to write the nation from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. López argues that while national and global tensions lie at the historical heart of Chicana/o narratives of the nation, there should be alternative ways to imagine the significance of Chicano literature other than as a reflection of national identity. In a nuanced analysis, the book provides a way to think of early writers as a meaningful part of Chicano literary history, and, in looking at the nation, rather than the particularities of identity, as that which connects Chicano literature over time, it engages the emerging hemispheric scholarship on U.S. literature.

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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 communication in a more intellectually productive direction. An outstanding group of contributors from a range of academic backgrounds challenges traditional definitions and applications of rhetoric. From the troubling media representations of black looters after Hurricane Katrina and rhetoric in news coverage about the Columbine and Virginia Tech massacres to cinematic representations of race in Crash, Blood Diamond, and Quentin Tarantino's films, these essays reveal complex intersections and constructions of racialized bodies and discourses, critiquing race in innovative and exciting ways. Critical Rhetorics of Race seeks not only to understand and navigate a world fraught with racism, but to change it, one word at a time.

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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 14 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 having in common a definitively rhetorical focus, the contributions in this book reflect a variety of methods and approaches. Some concentrate on a single speaker and a single speech. Others look at several speeches. Some are historical in orientation, while others are more theoretical. In other words, this collection examines the broad sweep of US environmental history from the perspective of our most famous and influential environmental figures. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to Knowledge Unlatched -- an initiative that provides libraries and institutions with a centralized platform to support OA collections and from leading publishing houses and OA initiatives. Learn more at the Knowledge Unlatched website at: https://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/, and access the book online at the SUNY Open Access Repository at http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/7126.

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Theresa Marchmont or, the Maid of Honour by Mrs. (Catherine Grace Frances) Gore (8 Reviews)    Price verified 5 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 7 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 too). For learning should always be fun. This anthology contains stories by Holly Lisle, Bill Bush, Erica Damon, Danger Dave, DB Eldridge, Ava Fairhall, Peg Fisher, Katharina Gerlach, Gloria Hanlon, Madison Keller, K.V. Moffet, Ruth Sard, Laura Thurston, Tom Vetter

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Afropolitan Horizons: Essays toward a Literary Anthropology of Nigeria by Ulf Hannerz (Berghahn Books) (1 Review)    Price verified 7 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 author's own anthropological field research in a town in Central Nigeria.

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Debunking Sam Harris: A Christian Response (Debunking Atheists Series) by Dr Samuel James (1 Review)    Price verified 14 hours ago

In recent years, the intellectual landscape has seen an increasing influence of atheistic thinkers who rigorously challenge religious beliefs. Among these voices, Sam Harris stands out for his wide-ranging critique that spans issues from free will to morality, and from consciousness to religion. His ideas, extensively publicized in best-selling books like "The End of Faith," "The Moral Landscape," and others, have garnered a significant following. For the average Christian who may not be familiar with complex theological or philosophical concepts, Harris's arguments may seem insurmountable. But is the case against Christianity that Harris presents truly undefeatable? This book, "Refuting Sam Harris: A Christian Apologist's Guide," aims to delve into the primary assertions made by Harris and to scrutinize them from a Christian worldview. This is not just another book that preaches to the choir. Instead, we will objectively analyze Harris's arguments and counter them where they fall short, providing a robust defense for the Christian faith. The Christian religion has survived for over two millennia not just on the back of blind faith, but also because of its intellectual rigor. Some of the greatest thinkers in history were devout Christians, including Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, and more recently, C.S. Lewis and Alvin Plantinga. These scholars have presented reasoned arguments for Christianity that have withstood the test of time and scrutiny.

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Nimble Tongues: Studies in Literary Translingualism (Comparative Cultural Studies) by Steven G. Kellman (Purdue University Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 9 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 challenges; immigrant memoirs; the autobiographies that Ariel Dorfman wrote in English and Spanish, respectively; the only feature film ever made in Esperanto; Francesca Marciano, an Italian who writes in English; Jhumpa Lahiri, who has abandoned English for Italian; Ilan Stavans, a prominent translingual author and scholar; Hugo Hamilton, a writer who grew up torn among Irish, German, and English; Antonio Ruiz-Camacho, a Mexican who writes in English; and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a multilingual text.

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Shakespeare's Bones by C. M. (Clement Mansfield) Ingleby (2 Reviews)    Price verified 7 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, all the while, laying out the integral chapter structure. This approach to novel writing is not about the art of creative writing. It's about the craft, the novelsmithing, of making a story into a novel. The aspiring screenwriter will also find most of the chapters useful. Completing the first nine chapters of Novelsmithing will provide the author with a rough draft for his novel.

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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 13 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 skills needed to work with research data. The term "data information literacy" has been adopted with the deliberate intent of tying two emerging roles for librarians together. By viewing information literacy and data services as complementary rather than separate activities, the contributors seek to leverage the progress made and the lessons learned in each service area. The intent of the publication is to help librarians cultivate strategies and approaches for developing data information literacy programs of their own using the work done in the multiyear, IMLS-supported Data Information Literacy (DIL) project as real-world case studies. The initial chapters introduce the concepts and ideas behind data information literacy, such as the twelve data competencies. The middle chapters describe five case studies in data information literacy conducted at different institutions (Cornell, Purdue, Minnesota, Oregon), each focused on a different disciplinary area in science and engineering. They detail the approaches taken, how the programs were implemented, and the assessment metrics used to evaluate their impact. The later chapters include the "DIL Toolkit," a distillation of the lessons learned, which is presented as a handbook for librarians interested in developing their own DIL programs. The book concludes with recommendations for future directions and growth of data information literacy. More information about the DIL project can be found ...

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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 2 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 author. In Proofs of Genius, Amanda Gailey argues that decisions to re-edit major authorial corpora are acts of canon-formation in miniature that indicate more foundational shifts in the way a culture views its literature and itself. By combining a theoretically-informed approach with a broad historical view of collected editions from the late eighteenth century to the present (including the rise of digital editions), Gailey fills a gap in the textual scholarship of the editing history of major figures like Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman and of the American literary canon itself.

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Reflections on Enchantress from the Stars and Other Essays by Sylvia Engdahl (3 Reviews)    Price verified 14 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 rejected by anthropolgists. Though there is much in the book that does indeed apply to people of our own world, the elder species' attitude toward younger ones does not, since we of Earth are all members of the same species. It is relevant not to how we view each other, but to how we view our relation to the rest of the universe--for example, whether we should expect extraterrestrial civiliations to send the radio messages across space that many scientists now hope to receive, or to arrive here in UFOs either as invaders or to solve Earth's problems for us. How young people picture aliens is important whether or not we ever meet any, for it affects society's outlook toward the future of Earth. Other essays in this ebook are about Engdahl's five other Young Adult novels, her five adult science fiction novels, and her viewa on writing for young people. Also included are two autobiographical essays illustrated with photos. Please note: This ebook is one of three that replace Reflections on the Future, which dealt with several different topics that have now been separated. Most of the essays in this one were in that book. A paperback book containing a few essays from each of the three current collections is available under the title Selected Essays on Enchantress from the Stars and More.

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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 7 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 newly formed USSR as a legitimate member of the international community. They also hated that America which they considered a strong ally, failed to join the Second World War early enough, and by the time America did intervene, more than 10 million Russians had already lost their lives to the war. After Trump became President, a British Intelligence official who is an expert on Russia, released a report detailing how Trump had indeed colluded with Russia to win the elections. This and many other actions of the President and his aides during the campaign led the FBI to investigate if President Trump had indeed colluded with Russia to win the elections. After 2 years, the reports of the investigations have now been released but it has not been made public. But in this book, we discuss the contents of the reports in details; details you will not find anywhere else. This conspicuously threatens the very foundation of US based upon which is democracy!!! The Hypocrisy Of United States Will Be Discuss In Detailed In This Shocking Revelation • Chapter 1: So, President Trump Is Talking To Russia; What Is The Big Deal? • Chapter 2: Collusion With Russia - President Trump Invited Russian Hackers To Find Hillary Clinton's Deleted Emails • Chapter 3: Obstruction of Justice • Chapter 4: What's Going To Happen To Trump? Indictments And Impeachments • Attorney General William Barr and Deputy Rod Rosenstein Clears Trump of All ...

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Ideal Commonwealths by Various (1 Review)    Price verified 9 hours ago

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Reimagining Nabokov: Pedagogies for the 21st Century by José Vergara (Amherst College Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 9 hours ago

In Reimagining Nabokov: Pedagogies for the 21st Century, eleven teachers of Vladimir Nabokov describe how and why they teach this notoriously difficult, even problematic, writer to the next generations of students. Contributors offer fresh perspectives and embrace emergent pedagogical methods, detailing how developments in technology, translation and archival studies, and new interpretative models have helped them to address urgent questions of power, authority, and identity. Practical and insightful, this volume features exciting methods through which to reimagine the literature classroom as one of shared agency between students, instructors, and the authors they read together. "It is both timely and refreshing to have an influx of teacher-scholars who engage Nabokov from a variety of perspectives... this volume does justice to the breadth of Nabokov's literary achievements, and it does so with both pedagogical creativity and scholarly integrity." -- Dana Dragunoiu, Carleton University "[A] valuable study for any reader, teacher, scholar, or student of Nabokov. Amongst specific and urgent insights on the potential for digital methods, the relevance of Nabokov for students today, and how to reconcile issues of identity with an author who disavowed history and politics, are much wider and timeless questions of authorial control and the ability to access reality." -- Anoushka Alexander-Rose, Nabokov Online Journal Reimagining Nabokov takes a holistic approach to the many stumbling blocks in teaching Nabokov today. Especially intriguing about this volume is that through its essays a fresh picture of Nabokov emerges, not as an authoritarian and paranoid world-creator (an image long entrenched in Nabokov scholarship), but as someone who is tentative, hopeful, socially conscious, compassionate, and traumatized by the experience of exile... Reimagining Nabokov models pedagogical concepts that can be applied to teaching any literary text with a social conscience. -- ...

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Political Pamphlets by George Saintsbury (1 Review)    Price verified 9 hours ago

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The Vitamine Manual by Walter H. Eddy (1 Review)    Price verified 2 hours ago

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Fanny, the Flower-Girl, or, Honesty Rewarded by Selina Bunbury (1 Review)    Price verified 9 hours ago

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Two Years Ago, Volume I by Charles Kingsley (2 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

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The Craft of Poetry: Dialogues on Minimal Interpretation by Derek Attridge (Routledge) (26 Reviews)    Price verified 7 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 closure. Based on a series of emails, the book explores a number of topics in the reading of poetry, including historical and intellectual context, modernist difficulty, the role of criticism, and translation. This highly readable book will appeal to anyone who enjoys poetry, offering an inspiring resource for students whilst also mounting a challenge to some of the approaches to poetry currently widespread in the academy.

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Historical Miniatures by August Strindberg (5 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

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Notes and Queries, Number 23, April 6, 1850 by Various (1 Review)    Price verified 5 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 9 hours ago

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Moral by Ludwig Thoma (2 Reviews)    Price verified 9 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 13 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 ancient Celtic roots and how it has been changed for the modern world. It talks about how Druidry is a spiritual practice that tries to honor the Earth and its energies. It also talks about how it tries to teach people to have a deep respect for nature and how everything is connected. Alfreda J. Anderson also looks at Druidry's theological and philosophical underpinnings , as well as its rituals, holidays, and festivals. Druidry for Beginners gives an in-depth look at the many tools and methods that modern Druids use. It tells how to connect with the energies of the Earth and honor the gods and goddesses by using sacred objects, rituals, and ceremonies. It also talks about how important it is to be part of a community and how to use divination, meditation, and other spiritual practices to get closer to the divine and understand it better. Also in the book are tips on how to practice Druidry in the modern world. From setting up an altar and choosing sacred objects to making a sacred space and connecting with the gods and goddesses, Druidry for Beginners has all the information you need to start a spiritual practice based on this ancient faith. Alfreda J. Anderson shows how Druidry can be used to help make the world a better place. She tells the reader to use their own spiritual practice to join the larger "Druidry for Peace" movement and help bring about peace and understanding between people and the planet. There are many reasons to learn ...

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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 326, August 9, 1828 by Various (1 Review)    Price verified 5 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 14 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 science fiction version of the Crusoe story), movies, television (Forbidden Planet, Cast Away, and Lost), and the poetry and plays of Caribbean poets Derek Walcott and Aimé Césaire. The recurrent treatment of shipwrecks in the creative arts demonstrates an enduring fascination with this archetypal scene: a shipwreck survivor confronting the elements. It is remarkable, for example, that the characters in the 2004 television show Lost share so many features with those from Homer's Odyssey and Shakespeare's The Tempest. For survivors who are stranded on an island for some period of time, shipwrecks often present the possibility of a change in political and social status -- as well as romance and even paradise. In each of the major shipwreck narratives examined, the poet or novelist links the castaways' arrival on a new shore with the possibility of a new sort of life. Readers will come to appreciate the shift in attitude toward the opportunities offered by shipwreck: older texts such as the Odyssey reveals a trajectory of returning to the previous order. In spite of enticing new temptations, Odysseus -- and some of the survivors in The Tempest -- revert to their previous lives, rejecting what many might consider paradise. Odysseus is reestablished as king; Prospero travels back to Milan. In such situations, we may more properly speak of potential transformations. In contrast, many recent shipwreck narratives instead embrace the ...

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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 7 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 Robards (2008), Dancing for Degas (DFD) by Kathryn Wagner (2010) and The Painted Girls (TPG) by Cathy Marie Buchanan (2013).

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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 14 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 the Université de Neuchâtel, while others have been specially written for this volume.

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Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882 by Various Price verified 13 hours ago

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Empire and Environment: Ecological Ruin in the Transpacific by Jeffrey Santa Ana (University of Michigan Press) Price verified one hour 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 catastrophes on a global scale, the collection demonstrates how Asian North American, Asian diasporic, and Indigenous Pacific Island cultural expressions critique a de-historicized sense of place, attachment, and belonging. In addition to its thirteen chapters from scholars who span the Pacific, each part of this volume begins with a poem by Craig Santos Perez. The volume also features a foreword by Macarena Gómez-Barris and an afterword by Priscilla Wald.

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Imagining Iberia in English and Castilian Medieval Romance by Emily Houlik-Ritchey (University of Michigan Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 13 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 from Neighbor Theory to reveal and navigate the relationships among three selected medieval romance traditions. This welcome volume uncovers an overemphasis in prior scholarship on the relevance of "crusading" agendas in medieval romance, and highlights the shared investments of Christians and Muslims in Iberia's political, creedal, cultural, and mercantile networks in the Mediterranean world.

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Wittgenstein's Novels by Martin Klebes (Routledge) (20 Reviews)    Price verified 9 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 well-known and only partially translated into English.

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Sustaining New Orleans: Literature, Local Memory, and the Fate of a City by Barbara Eckstein (Routledge) (7 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

This is an expansive interpretation of New Orleans - America's most unique city. Eckstein pursues meanings of the phrase 'sustaining New Orleans' from the images that remain through media activities to the competing demands of social justice.

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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 9 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 world literary system? The Worlding of Arabic Literature argues that an ethical translation of a work of Arabic literature is one that transmits the literariness of the source text by engaging new populations of readers via a range of embodied and sensory effects. The book proposes that when translation is conceived of not as an exchange of semantic content but as a process of converting the affective forms of one language into those of another, previously unrecognized modalities of worldliness open up to the source text. In dialogue with a rich corpus of Arabic aesthetic and linguistic theory as well as contemporary scholarship in affect theory, translation theory, postcolonial theory, and world literature studies, this book offers a timely and provocative investigation of how an important literary tradition enters the world literary system. The Worlding of Arabic Literature: Language, Affect, and the Ethics of Translatability is available from the publisher on an open-access basis.

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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 by Various (3 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

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O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 by Various (7 Reviews)    Price verified 13 hours ago

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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 4 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 texts are often explicitly or implicitly understood through a framework of ethno-nationalism. Self-representations by writers in the diaspora reveal flaws in this prevailing framework through what Edward Mack calls "acquired alterity," in which expectations about the stability of ethnic identity are subverted in surprising ways. Acquired Alterity encourages a reconsideration of the ramifications (and motivations) of cultural analyses of texts and the constructions of peoplehood that are often the true objects of literary knowledge production.

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Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891 by Various (1 Review)    Price verified 8 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 10 hours ago

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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, November 10, 1920 by Various Price verified 14 hours ago

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The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland by Various Price verified 5 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 9 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 nonhuman. Tamara Ketabgian explores the emergence of a modern and more mechanical view of human nature in Victorian literature and culture. Treating British literature from the 1830s to the 1870s, this study examines forms of feeling and community that combine the vital and the mechanical, the human and the nonhuman, in surprisingly hybrid and productive alliances. Challenging accounts of industrial alienation that still persist, the author defines mechanical character and feeling not as erasures or negations of self, but as robust and nuanced entities in their own right. The Lives of Machines thus offers an alternate cultural history that traces sympathies between humans, animals, and machines in novels and nonfiction about factory work as well as in other unexpected literary sites and genres, whether domestic, scientific, musical, or philosophical. Ketabgian historicizes a model of affect and community that continues to inform recent theories of technology, psychology, and the posthuman. The Lives of Machines will be of interest to students of British literature and history, history of science and of technology, novel studies, psychoanalysis, and postmodern cultural studies. Cover image: "Power Loom Factory of Thomas Robinson," from Andrew Ure, The Philosophy of Manufactures (London: Charles Knight, 1835), frontispiece. DIGITALCULTUREBOOKS: a collaborative imprint of the University of Michigan Press and the University of Michigan Library

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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 14 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 given those tools to write amazing books using the easy, unique way of worldbuilding. If you want to create a story that will live inside your readers' minds forever, then you need to read this book. Inside Writing with Soft Worldbuilding, you will discover: • The types of worldbuilding • How to work with setting and tone • How to advance a story with characters and dialogue • The elements of a great plot and pacing • The benefits of hard and soft worldbuilding Along with so many more tips and inspiration that will guide you on your journey to creating worlds that will always be remembered. From taking your first steps in worldbuilding to examples from famous books and movies, Writing with Soft Worldbuilding provides you with all the tools and resources you need to write unforgettable books. Get your copy today and transform simple stories that are read into worlds that readers experience!

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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 2 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 sophistication, a familiarity with circumstances beyond their local ken. Into the eighteenth century, the modern German novel was not German at all; rather, it was French, as suggested by Germans' usage of the French word Roman to describe a wide variety of genres: pastoral romances, war and travel chronicles, heroic narratives, and courtly fictions. Carried in large part on the coattails of the Huguenot diaspora, these romans, nouvelles, amours secrets, histoires galantes, and histories scandaleuses shaped German literary culture to a previously unrecognized extent. Wiggin contends that this French chapter in the German novel's history began to draw to a close only in the 1720s, more than sixty years after the word first migrated into German. Only gradually did the Roman go native; it remained laden with the baggage from its "French" origins even into the nineteenth century.

Genre: Literary Criticism

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 12 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 employed the story of a protagonist's journey into maturity as a powerful tool with which to facilitate the creation of national communities among their readers. Such attempts always stumble over what Boes calls "cosmopolitan remainders," identity claims that resist nationalism's aim for closure in the normative regime of the nation-state. These cosmopolitan remainders are responsible for the curiously hesitant endings of so many novels of formation. In Formative Fictions, Boes presents readings of a number of novels-Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, Karl Leberecht Immermann's The Epigones, Gustav Freytag's Debit and Credit, Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz, and Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus among them-that have always been felt to be particularly "German" and compares them with novels by such authors as George Eliot and James Joyce to show that what seem to be markers of national particularity can productively be read as topics of world literature.

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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 14 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 original audio recordings of the speech events (several of which will be available on a companion website) improves our understanding of the spoken, performative dimension of public speeches. Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany emphasizes the social constructedness of discourse, experience, and identity, but does not neglect the pragmatic conditions of aesthetic and intellectual production -- most notably, the felt need to respond to the breach in tradition caused by the Holocaust. The book thereby illuminates the process by which a set of writers and intellectuals, instead of trying to mend what they perceived as a radical break in historical continuity or corroborating the myth of a "new beginning," searched for ways to make this historical rupture rhetorically and semantically discernible and literally audible.

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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 366, April 18, 1829 by Various Price verified 6 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 13 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 consider, Collecting Lives looks to the late nineteenth and early twentieth century U.S. to provide an instructive prehistory to the underlying question of the relationship between data, life, and narrative. Rodrigues contextualizes the application of data collection to human selfhood in order to uncover a modernist aesthetic of data that offers an alternative to the algorithmic logic pervading our sense of data's revelatory potential. Examining the work of W. E. B. Du Bois, Henry Adams, Gertrude Stein, and Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Rodrigues asks how each of these authors draw from their work in sociology, history, psychology, and journalism to formulate a critical data aesthetic as they attempt to answer questions of identity around race, gender, and nation both in their research and their life writing. These data-driven modernists not only tell different life stories with data, they tell life stories differently because of data.

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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 13 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 larger issues of cultural production and reception.

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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 9 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 such as Ludwig Wittgenstein, Jürgen Habermas, Em-manuel Levinas, Axel Honneth, Hannah Arendt, John Rawls, and Julia Kristeva. This volume thus aptly covers the panoply of contemporary ethical and moral interventions while at the same time providing distinctively American Studies perspectives.

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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, January 9, 1892 by Various (1 Review)    Price verified 7 hours ago

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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 11, 1917 by Various Price verified 5 hours ago

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Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, January 30, 1892 by Various (1 Review)    Price verified 8 hours ago

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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 15, 1917 by Various Price verified 14 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 9 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 ways that black and white authors appropriated and cultivated literary conventions that coalesced in a recognizable genre at the turn of the twentieth century. These authors tinkered with detective fiction's puzzle-elements to address a variety of historical contexts, including the exigencies of chattel slavery, the erosion of working-class solidarities by racial and ethnic competition, and accelerated mass production. Dreams for Dead Bodies demonstrates that nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature was broadly engaged with detective fiction, and that authors rehearsed and refined its formal elements in literary works typically relegated to the margins of the genre. By looking at these margins, the book argues, we can better understand the origins and cultural functions of American detective fiction.

Genre: Literary Criticism

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 7 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 14 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 overview of the social, linguistic and historical background of oral literature in Africa. This volume is complemented by original recordings of stories and songs from the Limba country (Sierra Leone), collected by Finnegan during her fieldwork in the late 1960s, which are freely accessible here. The book is available as a free pdf and ebook download thanks to the generous support of interested readers and organisations, who made donations using the crowd-funding website unglue.it. Oral Literature in Africa is part of our World Oral Literature Series in conjunction with the World Oral Literature Project.

Genre: Literary Criticism

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 7 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 modern era as it crossed the boundaries of elite and popular, private and commercial, and civil and martial. Moving away from ultimately unanswerable questions about authorship and urtext, Gregory turns instead to the editor-publishers who shaped the novel by crafting their own print editions. By examining the novel in its various incarnations, Bandits in Print shows that print is not only a stabilizing force on literary texts; in particular circumstances and with particular genres, the print medium can be an agent of textual change.

Genre: Literary Criticism

Heaven's Interpreters: Women Writers and Religious Agency in Nineteenth-Century America by Ashley Reed (Cornell University Press) (3 Reviews)    Price verified 5 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, Harriet Jacobs, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Elizabeth Oakes Smith, Elizabeth Stoddard, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Susan Warner, Reed illuminates how these writers infused the secular space of fiction with religious ideas and debates, imagining new possibilities for women's individual agency and collective action. Thanks to generous funding from Virginia Tech and its participation in TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem), the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.

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 the many Foucauldian studies of crime to emphasize the genuinely subversive aspects of these popular female figures. Drawing on a rich body of archival material, Miller argues that the New Woman Criminal exploited iconic elements of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century commodity culture, including cosmetics and clothing, to fashion an illicit identity that enabled her to subvert legal authority in both the public and the private spheres. "This is a truly extraordinary argument, one that will forever alter our view of turn-of-the-century literary culture, and Miller has demonstrated it with an enrapturing series of readings of fictional and filmic criminal figures. In the process, she has filled a gap between feminist studies of the New Woman of the 1890s and more gender-neutral studies of early twentieth-century literary and social change. Her book offers an extraordinarily important new way to think about the changing shape of political culture at the turn of the century." ---John Kucich, Professor of English, Rutgers University "Given the intellectual adventurousness of these chapters, the rich material that the author has brought to bear, and its combination of archival depth and disciplinary range, any reader of this remarkable book will be amply rewarded." ---Jonathan Freedman, Professor of English and American Culture, University of Michigan Elizabeth Carolyn Miller is Assistant Professor of English at the University ...

Genre: Literary Criticism

Fragments of Ancient Poetry by James MacPherson (29 Reviews)    Price verified one hour ago

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Genre: Literary Criticism

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 14 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 treatises, imperial histories, tragic dramas, moral philosophies, literary translations, and poetic cycles -- Chinese Sympathies traces the paths from baroque-era missionary reports that accommodated Christianity with Confucianism to Goethe's concept of world literature, bridged by Enlightenment debates over cosmopolitanism and sympathy, culminating in a secular principle that allowed readers to identify meaningful similarities across culturally diverse literatures based on shared human experiences. Thanks to generous funding from Penn State University, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellopen.org) and other repositories.

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 9 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, the early twentieth century when key spatial concepts - the nation, the urban, the regional, and the domestic - were being redefined is a pivotal era for understanding how the public-private binary remains tenaciously central to the defining of gender. Keeping Up Her Geography shows that this is the case in a range of literary and cultural contexts: in feminist speeches at the World's Columbian Exposition, in middle-class women's urban reform texts, in southern writer Ellen Glasgow's novels, and in the autobiographical narratives of Zora Neale Hurston and Agnes Smedley.

Genre: Literary Criticism

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 14 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 cinematic genre that grapples with the real-world concerns of climate change, endless wars, and fascism, as well as the role religion plays in easing or escalating these apocalyptic-level crises. Among the many other well-known climate fiction narratives examined in these pages are Game of Thrones, The Hunger Games, The Handmaid's Tale, Mad Max, and Doctor Who. Although the authors of these works stake out ideological territory that differs from Tolkien's and Lewis's, DiPaolo argues that they nevertheless mirror their predecessors' ecological concerns. The Christians, Jews, atheists, and agnostics who penned these works agree that we all need to put aside our cultural differences and transcend our personal, socioeconomic circumstances to work together to save the environment. Taken together, these works of climate fiction model various ways in which a deep ecological solidarity might be achieved across a broad ideological and cultural spectrum. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to Knowledge Unlatched -- an initiative that provides libraries and institutions with a centralized platform to support OA collections and from leading publishing houses and OA initiatives. Learn more at the Knowledge Unlatched website at: https://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/, and access the book online at the SUNY Open Access Repository at http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/7137 .

Genre: Literary Criticism

On Self-Translation: Meditations on Language (SUNY Press Open Access) by Ilan Stavans (SUNY Press) Price verified 13 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 shaping the way we communicate. In an incisive meditation, he shows how translating one's own work reinvents oneself in another tongue. The volume includes tête-à-têtes with Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Wilbur and short-fiction master Lydia Davis, as well as dialogues on silence, multilingualism, poetry, and the durability of the classics. Stavans's explorations cover Spanish, English, Hebrew, Yiddish, and the hybrid lexicon of Spanglish. He muses on the meaning of foreignness and on living and dying in different languages. Among his primary concerns are the role and history of dictionaries and the extent to which the authority of language academies is less a reality than a delusion. He concludes with renditions into Spanglish of portions of Hamlet, Don Quixote, and The Little Prince. The wide range of themes and engaging yet informed style confirm Stavans's status, in the words of the Washington Post, as "Latin America's liveliest and boldest critic and most innovative cultural enthusiast." This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to Knowledge Unlatched -- an initiative that provides libraries and institutions with a centralized platform to support OA collections and from leading publishing houses and OA initiatives. Learn more at the Knowledge Unlatched website at: https://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/, and access the book online at the SUNY Open Access Repository at http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/7137 .

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 9 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 distinct political function, indexing the limits of liberal subjectivity and (re)inscribing the rights and freedoms promised by liberalism as the exclusive province of white men. The first book-length study of suicide in British romanticism, Death Rights also points to the enduring legacy of romantic ideals in the academy and contemporary culture more broadly. Koretsky challenges scholars working in historically Eurocentric fields to rethink their identification with epistemes rooted in antiblackness. And, through discussions of recent cultural touchstones such as Kurt Cobain's resurgence in hip-hop and Victor LaValle's comic book sequel to Frankenstein, Koretsky provides all readers with a trenchant analysis of how eighteenth-century ideas about suicide continue to routinize antiblackness in the modern world. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships Open Book Program -- a limited competition designed to make outstanding humanities books available to a wide audience. Learn more at the Fellowships Open Book Program website at: https://www.neh.gov/grants/odh/FOBP, and access the book online at the SUNY Open Access Repository at http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/1712.

Genre: Literary Criticism