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Power lines electricity in American life and letters 1882-1952
How electricity became a metaphor for modernity in the United States, inspiring authors from Mark Twain to Ralph Ellison.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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A Grammar of Kham
First published in 2002, this is a comprehensive grammatical documentation of Kham, a previously undescribed language from west-central Nepal, belonging to the Tibeto-Burman language family. The language contains a number of grammatical systems that are of immediate relevance to current work on linguistic theory, including split ergativity, a mirative system, and a rich class of derived adjecti…
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The Metabolism of Desire the Poetry of Guido Cavalcanti
It is chiefly through the translations of Rossetti and Pound that English-speaking readers have encountered Cavalcanti’s work. Pound’s famous translation, now viewed by some as antiquated, is remarkably different from the translation provided here in the graceful voice of poet David Slavitt. Working under the significant restraints of Cavalcanti’s elaborate formal structures, Slavitt rend…
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Portrait of the manager as a young author :on storytelling, business, and lit…
Originally published in German in 2016.What happens to the relationship between business and literature when storytelling becomes a privileged form of communication for organizations.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Traversals the use of preservation of early electronic writing
Many pioneering works of electronic literature are now largely inaccessible because of changes in hardware, software, and platforms. The virtual disappearance of these works--created on floppy disks, in Apple's defunct HyperCard, and on other early systems and platforms--not only puts important electronic literary work out of reach but also signals the fragility of most works of culture in the …
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Voices of the Land the Seed Savers and Other Plays
The land and those who live in intimate terms with it are the focus of Koller’s plays. In The Seed Savers, farmers face pressure to purchase genetically modified seed; a protagonist refuses to sell untilled land for development in Cowboy Boots and a Corsage; a dying woman sees a lake as her final resting place in Abby’s Place; and in The Early Worm Club, Millie realizes a deep sense of belo…
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- Canadian Plays
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Memo for Nemo
"Originally published in 2016 by Architectural Association.""An architectural, social, and cultural history of the undersea, using Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and more especially his charasmatic villain Captain Nemo, as his prompt"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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The secret life of literature
"A leading practitioner of 'cognitive aesthetics' shows how narrative literature works its magic on readers by drawing surreptitiously on patterns developed over four thousand years ago"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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The body fantastic
"An original view of human corporeality linking myths, legends, and fables with biomedical concepts about some bodily parts"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262365693
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Uneven futures :strategies for community survival from speculative fiction
"Uneven Futures reimagines the SF megatext as a vibrantly dialogical and enduringly ethical methodology for our living political futures"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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