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Kerstin Hensel

Kerstin Hensel is one of the most prolific, versatile and influential authors in contemporary Germany. Her unique literary voice owes as much to her character, background and biography as it does to its d…

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Victoria Wohl
The Poetry of Being and the Prose of the World in Early Greek Philosophy

"This hauntingly beautiful study recovers the boundlessness of Presocratic thought. In close readings of five early Greek cosmologists--Parmenides, Heraclitus, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, and Democritus-…

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Dianna N. Watkins-Dickerson
A Black Woman for President

Throughout US history, only three Black women---Shirley Chisholm, Carol Moseley Braun, and Kamala Harris---have given successfully recognized bids for the office of president of the United States. In A Bl…

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Gary Wade
Seamus Heaney and Catholicism

Seamus Heaney and Catholicism makes extensive use of unpublished material to offer fresh insights into Heaney's complex engagement with Catholicism. Gary Wade explores how Catholicism operates in ways oth…

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Nikitas Fessas
Animals and Greek Cinema

This book offers a non-anthropocentric account of a national cinema. Drawing on cutting-edge developments in Animal (film) studies, the book gathers a wide range of species and genres to discuss the Greek…

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Character Studies in the Gospel of Matthew

This volume examines a multitude of characters in Matthew's gospel and provides an in-depth look at the different approaches currently employed by scholars working with literary and reader-oriented method…

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Heike Schaefer
American Literature and Immediacy

The search for immediacy, the desire to feel directly connected to people or events, has been a driving force in American literature and media culture for the past two centuries. This book offers the firs…

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Queer Kinship and Comparative Literature

This edited collection provides a critical forum for scholars to examine the evolution of queer kinship-encompassing the wide range of relationships, both biological and nonbiological, that queer individu…

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Chelsea Burns
The Exotic Self

When Europeans and North Americans listen to music by Latin American composers, what do they hear? What, for that matter, do these composers' compatriots hear? The answer, historically, has been the sound…

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Pamela Bickley, Jenny Stevens
Essential Shakespeare

Addressing the transition from pre-university to undergraduate Shakespeare studies, this introductory critical guide examines 16 key plays. Each chapter focuses on modern theoretical methods, close readin…

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Rob Harris
After Impressionism

Impressionist painting was the dominant art form of its time, and one to which English-speaking poets were profoundly responsive. Yet the relationship between impressionism and poetry has largely been ove…

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After the Broken Spears

Following Hernando Cortés's conquest of Tenochtitlan in 1521, the Aztec empire became the center of the largest European colony in the Americas. It has long been assumed that Indigenous people's personal …

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Jeremiah R. Mercurio, Daniel Gabelman
The Form and Theory of Literary Doodling

This Element investigates the phenomenon of literary doodling-the making of playful verbal and visual creations by professional authors while engaged in another activity. The first part focuses on definin…

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Kai Horstmannshoff
The Loop

American Culture Studies - Band 21

The Loop: Chicago Architecture and the Social Imaginary discusses the social function of architecture. Through close readings of skyscrapers, opera houses and urban parks in Chicago, Kai Horstmannshoff de…

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Shannon Lambert,
Science and Affect in Contemporary Literature

Moving from the micro world of quantum physics to the macro scales of earth science and ecology, this book considers how, in contemporary literature, affective experiences like desire, suffering, anxiety,…

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After the Broken Spears

Following Hernando Cortés's conquest of Tenochtitlan in 1521, the Aztec empire became the center of the largest European colony in the Americas. It has long been assumed that Indigenous people's personal …

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Therese Grisham, Julie Grossman
Ida Lupino, Director, 2nd Edition

The updated edition of Ida Lupino, Director: Her Art and Resilience in Times of Transition , an in-depth exploration of Lupino's film and television directing work, provides close readings of the films an…

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Form and Transformation in Soviet Underground Writing

Form and Transformation in Soviet Underground Writing examines the rich literary and cultural innovation that thrived under Soviet censorship in the post-Stalin era. Moving beyond the idea of the undergro…

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Marilyn Mcentyre
Start with a Word

A creative masterclass for aspiring and established writers alikeAfter decades of writing award-winning books on subjects ranging from poetry to art to liturgical seasons, celebrated author Marilyn McEnty…

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Therese Grisham, Julie Grossman
Ida Lupino, Director, 2nd Edition

The updated edition of Ida Lupino, Director: Her Art and Resilience in Times of Transition , an in-depth exploration of Lupino's film and television directing work, provides close readings of the films an…

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