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Working-Class Literature(s) : Historical and International Perspectives
"The aim of this collection is to make possible the forging of a more robust, politically useful, and theoretically elaborate understanding of working-class literature(s). These essays map a substantial terrain: the history of working-class literature(s) in Russia/The Soviet Union, The USA, Finland, Sweden, The UK, and Mexico. Together they give a complex and comparative – albeit far from com…
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- 9789176350515
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- 800 WOR
Platonic Occasions : Dialogues On Literature, Art and Culture
In Platonic Occasions, Richard Begam and James Soderholm reflect upon a wide range of thinkers, writers and ideas from Plato, Descartes and Nietzsche to Shakespeare, the Romantics and the Moderns—from Evil, Love and Death to Art, Memory and Mimesis. The dialogues suggest that Percy Shelley was right when he claimed “We are all Greeks,” and yet what have we learned about the initiatives of…
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- 9789176350003
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- 800 BEG p
Off-Canon pleasures : A case study and a perspective
The inclusion of works in a canonical list creates a large body of exclusions. But among these neglected works there are not a few that nevertheless are worth reading. Literary worth is not necessarily aesthetic impeccability. A literary work recommends itself by a high degree of artistic achievement with elbowroom for historical importance. The present study focuses on Leo Rosten’s immigrati…
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- 9783941875951
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- 813 FRA o
Settlers of Unassigned Lands
In these seven stories spanning the Midwest to California, Charles McLeod brings us characters estranged from their homelands and locked in conflict with their past and present selves. In “How to Start Your Own Midwestern Ghost Town,” an unnamed narrator hatches a plan to capitalize on rural decay. A porn star trying to transition to the mainstream does an interview with a German reporter i…
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- 9780472900183
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- 823 MCL s
writing spaces : readings on writing spaces volume 1
Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing offer multiple perspectives on a wide-range of topics about writing, much like the model made famous by Wendy Bishop’s “The Subject Is . . .” series. In each chapter, authors present their unique views, insights, and strategies for writing by addressing the undergraduate reader directly. Drawing on their own experiences, these teachers-as-writers invite…
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- 978-1-60235-185-1
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The Most Dreadful Visitation : Male Madness in Victorian Fiction
Victorian literature is rife with scenes of madness, with mental disorder functioning as everything from a simple plot device to a commentary on the foundations of Victorian society. But while madness in Victorian fiction has been much studied, most scholarship has focused on the portrayal of madness in women; male mental disorder in the period has suffered comparative neglect. In ‘The Most D…
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- Liverpool English Texts and Studies
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- 808.83
The Transformative Power of the Copy : A Transcultural and Interdisciplinary …
This volume offers a fresh perspective on the copy and the practice of copying, two topics that, while the focus of much academic discussion in recent decades, have been underrepresented in the discourse on transculturality. Here, experts from a wide range of academic disciplines present their views on the copy from a transcultural perspective, seeking not to define the copy uniformly, but to r…
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- 9783946054146
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Phenomenology in a New Key: Between Analysis and History; Essays in Honor of …
Hubungan erat antara persahabatan dan percakapan yang meningkat kita ketahui dari buku kesembilan Etika Nicomachean Aristoteles. Dengan seorang teman yang baik, seseorang menjadi dirinya sendiri dengan nyaman, menikmati kekerabatan dalam cinta akan apa yang terbaik, dan merasa terpanggil untuk meningkatkan semua kebajikan. Mereka yang mengenal Richard Cobb-Stevens cenderung pertama-tama memikir…
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- Vol. 72
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- 978-3-319-02018-1
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- Contributions to Phenomenology (CTPH)
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The Transcultural Critic : Sabahattin Ali and Beyond
The central theme of this volume is the work of Sabahattin Ali, the Turkish author and translator from German into Turkish who achieved posthumous success with his novel Kürk Mantolu Madonna (The Madonna in the Fur Coat). Our contributors analyze this novel, which takes place largely in Germany, and several other texts by Ali in the context of world literature, (cultural) translation, and inte…
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- 9783863952976
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World Literature and Dissent
World Literature and Dissent reconsiders the role of dissent in contemporary global literature. Bringing together scholars of world and postcolonial literatures, the contributors explore the aesthetics of resistance through concepts including the epistemology of ignorance, the rhetoric of innocence, the subversion of paying attention, and the radical potential of everydayness. Add…
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