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Teaching Post-1945 American Short Fiction

New frontiers in American fictionAfter 1945, women, people of color, and queer writers remade American short fiction, rejecting the modernist dogmas of impersonality and universalism that had long exclude…

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Jesse Zuba
The First Book

"A fascinating story of poetic debuts. With nuanced understanding as well as clear-eyed realism, Jesse Zuba traces the self-fashioning that goes into the making of careers, allowing poets to strike a…

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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." Chal…

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Richard Sperber,
Intertextual Exoticism

Intertextual Exoticism reads a body of non-canonical German exoticist literature published after imperial Germany's loss of colonial Oceania in 1914, applying theories of "intertextuality" (Kris…

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Angela Carter's Pasts

This book provides a fresh look at Angela Carter's critical and intertextual engagements with the past.Examining a broad range of Carter's work (novels, short stories, poetry, as well as stage plays), the…

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David Faflik
The Literary Gift in Early America

Some of the most meaningful moments in early American literature relied on historical patterns of gift exchange, David Faflik argues in this compelling book. Gift exchange kept a surprising variety of lit…

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Davis Smith-Brecheisen
Mode of Address

Shows how competing ideas about the reader in US literature and literary theory of the late 1960s and '70s reconfigured both reading practices and our understanding of the novel as art.Despite claims that…

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Tobias William Harris,
Flann O'Brien and the European Avant-Garde, 1934-45

Crossing the boundaries of a single-author study, this book uncovers Flann O'Brien's attempt to forge a commercially successful Irish literary project from international avant-garde influences.Situating O…

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Oliver Haslam
Minimalism and Affect in American Literature, 1970-2020

"Building upon theories of affect and the everyday, Minimalism and Affect in American Literature provides a more inclusive and precise definition of minimalism that enables further inquiry into the m…

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Ignacio Navarrete
Sneaking Into Print

Sneaking into Print explores how early printing technology shaped a distinct "narrative culture" in Spain.

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Michael Gorra
The Storytellers

Tracing the origins of the modern short story, Michael Gorra provides the first fully realized picture of a century's worth of great tales.The Storytellers offers a far-reaching account of the rich tradit…

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Natalia I Petrovskaia
The Modern Afterlives of Old Irish Travel Narratives

This book explores the reception of the medieval Irish tradition of fantastic journey tales in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels , C.S. Lewis's The Voyage of the Dawn Treader , Umberto Eco's Baudolino ,…

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L M Montgomery,
Schooled with Briars

Out of the roughly five hundred shorter works of fiction that L.M. Montgomery published in periodicals between 1895 and 1940, about a dozen consisted of multi-chapter serials. As a form of print storytell…

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Sandra Logan,
Shakespeare and Theories of Political Theology

Sandra Logan's Shakespeare and Theories of Political Theology provides a clear, nuanced explication of modern theories of political theology and the early modern theories that ground them. This accessible…

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Hungarian Literature as World Literature

Synthesizes contemporary research on world literature while introducing Hungarian literature's 'worldliness' to an international readership.Hungarian Literature as World Literature provides readers less f…

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L M Montgomery,
Schooled with Briars

Out of the roughly five hundred shorter works of fiction that L.M. Montgomery published in periodicals between 1895 and 1940, about a dozen consisted of multi-chapter serials. As a form of print storytell…

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D Venkat Rao
Envisioning Voice and the Aphasic Ears

The book attempts to configure the distinctive and enduring reflective ethos of Sanskrit traditions - an ethos which barely receives attention in the prevailing approaches to these reflective traditions.

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Eli Zaretsky
Walter Benjamin

Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) is now generally recognized as one of the most influential thinkers of the last century. This Very Short Introduction explores his extraordinary life and thought. His complex s…

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Patrick Jones
Henry James and the Question of Living

A bold reinterpretation of Henry James's fictional universe that shows how characters who desire to "live" but struggle to translate that desire into reality actually have much to teach us about…

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Agata Szczeszak-Brewer,
Sex and Nation in Transatlantic Literatures

Nationalist and tribal cohesion in Ireland, South Africa, the US, and elsewhere often relies on an absence of female and gender-nonconforming bodies in the public life. Staging a vital counter-narrative t…

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