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Rebecca Davis
Graceful Narratives

Graceful Narratives argues that the concept of grace functions as a form of literary theory in late-medieval English texts, generating dilated, deliberative narratives that resist linear plotting and crea…

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Jonathan S Burgess
The Travels of Odysseus

The Travels of Odysseus employs the theme of travel to explore the Odyssey and its contexts. After an introductory chapter, Chapter 2 provides analysis of the "wanderings" or Apologos of Odysseu…

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Daniel Heller-Roazen
Far Calls

"Moving from the divinatory rituals of the ancient world to Freud and Lacan, from Homer and Augustine to Edgar Allan Poe and Mallarmâe, the Surrealists, Yeats, and Proust, Far Calls explores the pers…

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Sarah Bowden
Writing Sin in the German Lands, 1050-1215

This book is about the relationship between dealing with sin and writing poetry in the Middle Ages; focusing particularly on twelfth-century Germany, it discusses how people performed penance and thought …

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Joel P Christensen
The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Odyssey

The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Odyssey brings together internationally recognized experts to provide commentary style essays for non-specialists on each book of the Homeric epic. The introduction pr…

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Julian Richards,
Shakespeare in the Theatre Glen Byam Shaw and the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre

Glen Byam Shaw was a pivotal but overlooked figure in the development of Shakespearean performance in 20th century Britain. This book serves as the first full analysis of Shaw's work as Director of the Sh…

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Asiya Bulatova
Viktor Shklovsky's Involuntary Modernism

One of the founders of Russian Formalism, Viktor Shklovsky is a key figure within twentieth-century literary history. This book explores Shklovsky's participation in early-Soviet debates about the relatio…

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Madeline Lee Zehender
Print for the Pocket

In Print for the Pocket, Madeline Zehnder examines how nineteenth-century Americans understood a common but often overlooked feature of their publishing landscape: the pocket-sized book.Analyzing archival…

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Benjamin Mangrum
The Comedy of Computation

"In this cultural history of the computer, Benjamin Mangrum shows that comedy has been central to how we've made sense of the technology's sweeping effects on public life and private experience. From…

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Benjamin Mangrum
The Comedy of Computation

"In this cultural history of the computer, Benjamin Mangrum shows that comedy has been central to how we've made sense of the technology's sweeping effects on public life and private experience. From…

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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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Andrea Brondino
Narrative and History in the Works of Umberto Eco, Carlo Ginzburg, and Wu Ming

Using the works of prominent Italian authors of both fiction and nonfiction, this book challenges the established critical accounts of hybrid narratives and examines the shared influence in terms of style…

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Oliver Rendle
Cosmic Humour and Philosophical Pessimism in Contemporary Culture

An in-depth look at the concept of cosmic humour, a politically influential, philosophically pessimistic form of humour, exploring the popularity of this comedic form across Anglophone culture since 1969 …

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Kim Wheatley
John Cowper Powys and the Afterlife of Romanticism

This study bridges the chronological divide between the Romantic era and the first six decades of the 20th century, interpreting John Cowper Powys (1872 -1963) as a major, under-recognized contributor to …

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Douglas A Jones
Pragmatics of Democracy

This study argues early African American literature constitutes an abiding repository of modern democratic thought that is lacking in the political philosophy we normally analyze. Douglas A. Jones's Pragm…

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Literary Manifestations of Metamodernism

A collection of literary essays investigating how diverse aspects of metamodernism manifest in 21st century English-language fiction.Magdalena Sawa and Joanna Klara Teske analyze how various theories of m…

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Lorenzo Casini
Occidentalism and the Egyptian Novel

This book examines Occidentalism, or the set of cultural, literary and political uses of 'the West', in the works of canonical 20th and 21st century Egyptian novelists . Beginning with the writings of Muh…

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Kevin Ohi
Narrative Personae and Desire in Modernist Fiction

Narrative Personae and Desire in Modernist Fiction explores how narrative language renders subjective states of interiority and desire. Its detailed readings consider seminal modernists-Ford, Woolf, Faulk…

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Emily Gowers
Rome's Patron

The story of Maecenas and his role in the evolution and continuing legacy of ancient Roman poetry and cultureAn unelected statesman with exceptional powers, a patron of the arts and a luxury-loving friend…

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Nathan Lefler
Tale of a Criminal Mind Gone Good

In this concise and creative book, Nathan Lefler places G. K. Chesterton and René Girard in conversation on the art of being deceived. The campaign to get rid of (or mythicize) the Judaic and the Christia…

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