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John M Bowers, Peter Steffensen
Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913-1959

Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913-59 traces Tolkien's career-long engagement with the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and shows how Chaucer was a major source of inspiration for all of Tolkien's creative works, most not…

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Jonathan Seelye Martin
By Consent Alone

The twelfth and early thirteenth centuries saw some of the most important changes to marriage laws in European history, the foremost being the decision of the Catholic Church to recognize consent as an ov…

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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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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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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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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 in the relations …

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The Poetry Reader

A compact, eclectic, and teachable collection of poems based not on aesthetic, geographic, or historical parameters, but on specific aspects of poetry and poetic practices, ranging from identity and metap…

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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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Chielozona Eze,
Zora Neale Hurston and the Legacy of Black Feminism

The first extended examination into the structure of influence of Zora Neale Hurston's work on major Black women writers, an idea that has been widely accepted, this book explores Hurston's impact on such…

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Nicholas Morrow Williams
Dialogues in the Dark

Dialogues in the Dark traces how Chinese readers and scholars since the Han dynasty have variously interpreted the ancient poem "Heavenly Questions" (Tianwen), an enigmatic work attributed to Qu…

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Tovi Bibring
Pilosity, Prejudice, and Passion in The Tale of Old Bearded Achbor by Yaakov ben El'azar of Toledo

In Pilosity, Prejudice, and Passion in The Tale of Old Bearded Achbor by Yaakov ben El'azar of Toledo, Tovi Bibring argues that behind the restless parody and the sour tone of the tale, lies a fierce disc…

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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 First Lady in Contemporary Popular Culture

From Martha Washington to Jill Biden, Mars Attacks! to Scandal, and the Ladies' Home Journal to Vogue this diverse collection examines how the nation's First Lady has become an important cultural icon wit…

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Alexander Menrisky
Wild Abandon

The American wilderness narrative, which divides nature from culture, has remained remarkably persistent despite the rise of ecological science, which emphasizes interconnection between these spheres. Wil…

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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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The Irish Proust

This collection of essays is the first book devoted to exploring Marcel Proust's influence on Irish literature and Irish themes within his work. Featuring contributions from eleven scholars of French and …

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Elisha Jane Cohn
Milieu

In this creaturely theory of the novel, Elisha Cohn rethinks the status of animals in recent global fiction, arguing that literary representation of animals should matter to any reader invested in the nov…

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Decolonizing Knowledge

Interdisciplinary scholars rethink strategies for moving contemporary decolonization politics forward by revisiting the writings of the mid-20th century anti-colonial movements' leading intellectuals.

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Matthias Stephan,
Anglophone Literature and the Fight Against Climate Change

Offering a methodology for identifying particularly impactful literary narratives of climate change, this open access book examines a range of Anglophone fiction authors such as Margaret Atwood, Paolo Bac…

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