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Dick Davis
Plant Friendship's Tree

In this remarkable collection of essays and talks spanning four decades, acclaimed translator and poet Dick Davis explores the literary richness of Persian poetry and prose with a clarity, empathy, and ae…

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Antonio Sergio Bessa
Noigandres

The Noigandres group was one of the key movements in Brazilian modernism. Bessa's account works through the specific poetic innovations that are the hallmark of the concrete poetics the group developed. T…

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Caroline Rody
Writing the Great House

The great house is renowned as the setting for countless English novels and films. But Writing the Great House shows it to be not only an influential icon in the history of the European novel but also a t…

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Ágota Márton
Geometries of Empathy

What does it mean to empathize today?Virginia Woolf was convinced that 'the form of the novel, so clumsy, verbose, and undramatic, so rich, elastic, and alive, has been evolved', first and foremost, to 'e…

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Theodore Dalrymple
Agatha Christie and the Metaphysics of Murder

The twentieth-century literary critic Edmund Wilson chided Agatha Christie for her "mawkishness and banality" and declared her work "literally impossible to read." Even if this were so…

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Antonio Sergio Bessa
Noigandres

The Noigandres group was one of the key movements in Brazilian modernism. Bessa's account works through the specific poetic innovations that are the hallmark of the concrete poetics the group developed. T…

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Stephen Orgel
The Texts of Shakespeare

How did plays from the popular theatre, written by an author better known as a poet, become the greatest literary monument in English? Renowned Shakespearean Stephen Orgel reveals how the transformation o…

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Louis Klee
The Constellational Novel

A constellational novel is a novel that has an associative, essayistic, digressive, and densely patterned prose form. The Constellational Novel aims to shed light on the field of contemporary literature b…

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Emmy Waldman
Filial Lines

This is the first book to place the autobiographical projects of canonical comics authors Art Spiegelman and Alison Bechdel alongside each other, focusing on new and neglected works (and with an epilogue …

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Global King Lear

Global King Lear provides a kaleidoscopic view of multinational adaptations of King Lear with a focus on productions across Asia and Eastern Europe. By approaching Shakespeare's great tragedy as a global …

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Nathan Waddell
The Oxford Handbook of George Orwell

This book offers a comprehensive view of Orwell's thought and writing via forty-eight chapters written by an international team of Orwell specialists. It addresses familiar topics--such as Orwell's journa…

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Gabriel Hankins
The Cambridge Introduction to Digital Humanities

How are the humanities transformed in the digital era? This book describes the transformation of the humanities by the largest shifts in the production of knowledge since the printing press. It addresses …

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Katherine L Brown
Novel Foundations

Novel Foundations: Architecture and Literary Modernity in Cervantes' Prose Works is an interdisciplinary study of the narrative functions of architecture in Miguel de Cervantes' late prose fictions: Don Q…

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Vicente Lecuna
A Promising Past

Vicente Lecuna examines an array of fictions surrounding Parque Central, a high-rise development conceived and built by the Venezuelan government as a key component of a modernization and urban renewal pr…

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Petra Bjelica,
Dostoevsky's Hamlet in Nineteenth-Century Russia

Dostoevsky uses Hamlet to address some of the most important problems in Russian culture in the second half of the 19th century. Approaching Dostoevsky's engagement with Shakespeare through a focus on his…

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Nicola Simonetti,
Neurodiversity and the Contemporary in the 21st-Century Novel

Offering a provocative analysis of neurodivergent and twenty-first-century perspectives on time and some of its cultural expressions, this open access book is the first comparative study of the intersecti…

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Paul Menzer
The Complete Life of William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's extraordinarily ordinary life condenses into a charming but brief biography in this arresting tale of love, loss and return. Beginning with the early departure to the final homecoming, Paul …

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Gabriel Hankins
The Cambridge Introduction to Digital Humanities

How are the humanities transformed in the digital era? This book describes the transformation of the humanities by the largest shifts in the production of knowledge since the printing press. It addresses …

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Michèle Roberts
Colette

The power of Colette's work comes from its modernist storytelling. Colette was a pioneering, ground-breaking modernist writer, but has not always had her originality and worth recognized in Britain. Her w…

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Lucy Evans
Crime Fiction in the Caribbean

Covering novels set in Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Guyana, Barbados, Grenada, and Haiti, Lucy Evans explores how contemporary writers experiment with the crime genre in order to raise pressing questions…

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