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Kir Kuiken
Adrift on the Earth

Kir Kuiken argues for the existence of a geo-poetic literary genre extending from the late eighteenth century to the present and addresses its legacies through works of European Romantic authors and conte…

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Will Tattersdill,
The Social Dinosaur

A history of Dinosaurs in popular literature and culture, from the Victorian age to the present, this book is the first to explore the many ways in which the prehistoric creatures have seized the public i…

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Fintan O'Toole
Shakespeare is Hard, but so is Life

The works of Shakespeare have become staples of literature. They are everywhere, from our early schooling to the lecture rooms of academia, from classic theatre to modern adaptations on stage and screen. …

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Garrett Stewart,
Closer Reading

Perhaps the most prolific and exacting reader of his generation, Garrett Stewart's first book of essays - on close analysis of novels, literary theory, conceptual art, and cinema - is joined by a new inte…

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The Rise of Rhythm Studies

Rhythm is everywhere. Its ability to focus and unify interdisciplinary conversation begs the questions: What is rhythm and can different disciplines agree on its definition?Rhythm studies have emerged as …

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Gilbert Shang Ndi
Corporeality in the Novels of Gabriel García Márquez and Sony Labou Tansi

"This project is an important intervention into comparative readings of African and Latin American culture. It reads Tansi and García Márquez for the various ways in which bodies and physicality bear…

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Socialist Transnationality in Translation

The first study examining the translation and reception of Dutch literature in Eastern and Central Europe during the restrictive era of socialist and totalitarian political systems.

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Renée Bergland
Natural Magic

A captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of natureEmily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was known a…

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Robert Harvey
The Rhetoric of Manipulation

A provocative and timely look at how language is used to manipulate the truth, how our gullibility leaves us susceptible to manipulation, and what we can do to reverse these trends.The Rhetoric of Manipul…

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Christopher Booker
The Seven Basic Plots

This remarkable and monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small number of 'basic stories' in the world.Using a wealth of examples, from …

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Ryan Engley,
Seriality

This material and theoretical history of seriality shows it to be the dominant form of culture since its inception within 19th-century print culture, as both a media structure and a psychic one.The serial…

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Haun Saussy
The Making of Barbarians

A groundbreaking account of translation and identity in the Chinese literary tradition before 1850—with important ramifications for today Debates on the canon, multiculturalism, and world literature ofte…

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Chris Holmes,
Kazuo Ishiguro Against World Literature

A study of how Kazuo Ishiguro's novels respond to and represent the world through characters that are profoundly limited in their understanding of the systems that bind them.How has a writer known princip…

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Ecologies of Writing

Uses case studies from 20th-century German literature and theory to explore the material, social, economic, and environmental bases of writing and its craft.

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Understanding Sade, Understanding Modernism

The most current multidisciplinary and multivocal engagement with Sade's enduring influences on modernism and the philosophical need for continued analysis of his work and the questions it raises.From Lac…

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Ryan Engley,
Seriality

This material and theoretical history of seriality shows it to be the dominant form of culture since its inception within 19th-century print culture, as both a media structure and a psychic one.The serial…

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Maggie Nelson
Pathemata, Or, the Story of My Mouth

Pathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth is an experiment in interiority written in the pandemic studio. Something of a companion piece to 2009'sBluets , Pathematamerges a pain diary chronicling a decade of j…

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Understanding Cixous, Understanding Modernism

Hélène Cixous is well-known as a reader of 'modernist' writers: Joyce, Beckett, Kafka, Faulkner, Bachmann and others, while her own fiction writing forges many new directions in literature.Foremost reader…

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Short Story as World Literature

Global in scope, this volume uncovers the deep history of the short story as an "impure" genre by challenging the commonplace understanding in contemporary literary studies that the short story …

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Geography with John Berger

This book captures the significance of John Berger's political and creative praxis for scholarship on space, place, landscape, and spatial experience.

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