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The tour of the world in eighty days
In the year 1872,-the house No. 7 Saville Row, _ Burlington Gardens—the house in which Sheridan dieu, in 1814—was inhabited by Phileas Fogg, Esq., one of the mdstajngular and most -noticed members Gi the Reform Club of London, although he seemed to take care to do nothing which might attract attention. This Phileas Fogg, then, an enig‘ matic personage, of whom nothing ‘was known but tha…
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- 176179226
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- ocdimenov; oberlincollegelibrary; americana; globallibraries
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How Comics Travel : Publication, Translation, Radical Literacies
n How Comics Travel: Publication, Translation, Radical Literacies, Katherine Kelp-Stebbins challenges the clichéd understanding of comics as a “universal” language, circulating without regard for cultures or borders. Instead, she develops a new methodology of reading for difference. Kelp-Stebbins’s anticolonial, feminist, and antiracist analytical framework engages with comics as sites o…
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- 9780814215043
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- 238 halaman
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- 700 KEL h
Francis Bacon's New Atlantis
The New Atlantis has fired the imaginations of its readers since its original appearance in 1627. Often regarded as the apotheosis of Bacon's ideas through its depiction of an advanced 'scientific' society, it is also read as a seminal work of science fiction. Standing at the threshold of early modern culture, this key text incorporates the practical and visionary, utility and utopia. This volu…
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- 9781526137388
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- 224 halaman
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- 900 FRA
Dickens's Working Notes for 'Dombey and Son'
"This critical edition of the working notes for Dombey and Son (1848) is ideal for readers who wish to know more about Dickensâs craft and creativity. Drawing on the authorâs manuscript in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Londonâand containing hyperlinked facsimilesâDickensâs Working Notes for Dombey and Son offers a new digital transcription with a fresh commentary by T…
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- 9781783742257
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- 224 halaman
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- 800 LAI d
Colonised by Wankers : Postcolonialism and Contemporary Scottish Fiction
"Has Scotland suffered from colonial oppression by England for the last 300 years? While historiography may give an answer in the negative, this study reveals that the contemporary Scottish novel is haunted by strong feelings, marked by perceptions of abjection and inferiorisation in response to constructing the English as dominating. Drawing from an unprecedented corpus of contemporary Scottis…
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- 9783946198284
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- 260 halaman
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- 800 HOM c
Affective Intellectuals and the Space of Catastrophe in the Americas
Most importantly, the book shows how literature constitutes an alternative public sphere for Black people. In a society largely controlled by white supremacist actors and institutions, Black authors have conjured fiction into a space where hard questions can be asked and answered and where the work of combatting collective, racist suppression can occur without replicating oppressive hierarchies…
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- 9780814254950
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Beyond Narrative: Exploring Narrative Liminality and Its Cultural Work
This book calls for an investigation of the ›borderlands of narrativity‹ — the complex and culturally productive area where the symbolic form of narrative meets other symbolic logics, such as data(base), play, spectacle, or ritual. It opens up a conversation about the ›beyond‹ of narrative, about the myriad constellations in which narrativity interlaces with, rubs against, or morphs i…
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- 9783839461303
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- 302.23 BEY b
Comics and Videogames; From Hybrid Medialities to Transmedia Expansions
This book offers the first comprehensive study of the many interfaces shaping the relationship between comics and videogames. It combines in-depth conceptual reflection with a rich selection of paradigmatic case studies from contemporary media culture
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- 1000224112, 9781000224115
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- 741.5 THO c
Comics and the Body; Drawing, Reading, and Vulnerability
Eszter Szép’s Comics and the Body is the first book to examine the roles of the body in both drawing and reading comics within a single framework.
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- 9780814214541
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- 741.5 SZE c
Text Genetics in Literary Modernism and other Essays
"This collection of essays from world-renowned scholar Hans Walter Gabler contains writings from a decade and a half of retirement spent in exploration of textual criticism, genetic criticism, and literary criticism. In these sixteen stimulating contributions, he develops theories of textual criticism and editing that are inflected by our advance into the digital era; structurally analyses arts…
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