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Willa Cather, Melissa J Homestead
The Professor's House

The Professor's House (1925) depicts the mid-life crisis of Godfrey St. Peter, a history professor at a midwestern state university who is disillusioned with his wife and daughters, his university, and th…

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Amy De'Ath
Behind Our Backs

In this daring study, Amy De'Ath develops a new type of literary criticism attuned to the way our lives are shaped by capital's impersonal compulsions - by what happens "behind our backs." Chall…

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Yitzhak Lewis
Games of Inheritance

This book demonstrates the key relevance of Jewish literary and intellectual traditions for understanding Jorge Luis Borges' views on authorship and literary tradition. Yitzhak Lewis explores central them…

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Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism

Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism shows that Wharton was highly engaged with global issues of her time, due in part to her extensive travel abroad. Examining both her canonical and lesser-known works and …

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Dana Gioia
Poetry as Enchantment

"Dana Gioia, one of America's leading poet-critics, explains why poetry exists and why we need it in this sparkling collection of essays. More personal than any of Gioia's earlier works, Poetry as En…

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Lisa Kleypas
Cold-Hearted Rake

Lisa Kleypas is back with a stunning new historical romance!Readers have long waited for the return of New York Times bestselling author Lisa Kleypas to historical romance---and now she's back with her mo…

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Hanna Sellheim
Tierwerden und Pflanzendenken in der Literatur

Literary Ecologies - Band 7

Franz Kafka und H.P. Lovecraft sind weltberühmt, aber bisher kaum Gegenstand gemeinsamer literaturwissenschaftlicher Forschung. Hanna Sellheim bringt die beiden Autoren zusammen und arbeitet vor dem Hinte…

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José Martí,
José Martí Reader

This anthology of the writing of José Martí's features bilingual poetry, political essays, writings on Latin American culture, and his letters.José Martí organized and unified the movement for Cuban indep…

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José Hernández, G J Racz
The Gaucho Martãn Fierro and Martãn Fierro's Return

'Some verses flow on out of men like headstreams course through a canal. The same holds true for mine, old pal- though I can't say they're worth a lick, they still pour out of me real quick, like sheep es…

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Lila Cain
The Blackbirds of St. Giles

From the brutal horrors of Jamaican plantations to the teeming streets of 19th century London, through lavish manor houses and across dangerous seas, escaped enslaved siblings survive the American War of …

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Thomas Jefferson,
The Quotable Jefferson

The most comprehensive book of quotations by the most quotable Founding Father

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Ishion Hutchinson
Fugitive Tilts

Ishion Hutchinson turns his poetic sensibility to questions of home, displacement, and memory in his beautiful and searingly brilliant prose debut.InFugitive Tilts , the poet Ishion Hutchinson turns to pr…

lieferbar ab 14.4.2026.

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Bill Hardwig
How Cormac Works

"Throughout a career that spanned six decades, Cormac McCarthy produced twelve novels that, while often quite different from one another, show a consistent commitment to formal experimentation motiva…

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Sarah Thankam Mathews,
All dies könnte anders sein

>>Das ist ein ganz großes, intensives Buch über eine riesige Lebenskrise. Das hat so einen großen Sog und macht so Spaß, weil es ein Lebensgefühl trifft.<< Stefan Mesch, Dlf KulturSnehas Absch…

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Wars We Never Fought

A collection of essays examining how armed conflict functions as a subject, theme, metaphor, symbol, or plot device in popular works of speculative fiction, including novels, films, television, and video …

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Sarah D Phillips,
Kurt Vonnegut in the USSR

Explores the cult status popularity of Kurt Vonnegut in the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War era, uncovering the work of translators, cultural diplomacy, and socio-political and literary con…

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Sarah D Phillips,
Kurt Vonnegut in the USSR

Explores the cult status popularity of Kurt Vonnegut in the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War era, uncovering the work of translators, cultural diplomacy, and socio-political and literary con…

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Emily McAvan
Divinity, Hospitality and the Posthuman in 21st-Century Literature

The first comprehensive look at the religious significance of this century's contemporary English literature, this book examines in detail important writers such as Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie from…

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Andrea Long Chu
Authority

Many worry that criticism is suffering from a crisis of authority. In a world where everyone's a critic, what is criticism for? Since her canonical essay "On Liking Women," the Pulitzer Prize-wi…

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Bill Hardwig
How Cormac Works

"Throughout a career that spanned six decades, Cormac McCarthy produced twelve novels that, while often quite different from one another, show a consistent commitment to formal experimentation motiva…

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