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Tom Jenks
James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues"

My Reading

A close reading of James Baldwin's short story "Sonny's Blues" with references to Baldwin's famous essay The Fire Next Time, which provides insight into his life and ideas about art. Jenks unpac…

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James Gabrillo
Pop Convergence

Pop Convergence explores the dynamic and fascinating history of Manila's entertainment industry at the turn of the twenty-first century. Taking a close look at the production and reception of popular medi…

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Shakespeare and the Political

Shakespeare and the Political: Elizabethan Politics and Asian Exigenciesis a collection of essays which show how selected Shakespearean plays and later adaptations engage with the political situations of …

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William M. Schniedewind
Who Really Wrote the Bible

Schniedewind draws on ancient inscriptions, archaeology, and anthropology, as well as a close reading of the biblical text itself, to trace the communal origin of biblical literature. Scribes were educate…

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Rahman
Honor and Political Imagination

In Honor and Political Imagination, Smita A. Rahman reckons with the enduring power of honor in contemporary political and popular culture and the desire for heroism that accompanies it, while attending t…

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Renewed Hasidism

This groundbreaking volume bridges ancient wisdom and contemporary Jewish spirituality, offering fresh insights into Hasidic homilies as dynamic sources of meaning and renewal. Featuring nineteen scholars…

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Helen Kapstein
Petroforms

Petroforms contributes a much-needed theory of form and genre to the cutting-edge field of petrocriticism, itself an offshoot of developments in postcolonial ecocriticism. Studies of resource fiction and …

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Rose Casey
Aesthetic Impropriety

"Aesthetic Impropriety reconceives the aesthetic force of literature to theorize justice. Casey's gorgeous close readings and keen attention to the histories of English-derived property law generate …

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Rose Casey
Aesthetic Impropriety

"Aesthetic Impropriety reconceives the aesthetic force of literature to theorize justice. Casey's gorgeous close readings and keen attention to the histories of English-derived property law generate …

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Victoria Wohl
The Poetry of Being and the Prose of the World in Early Greek Philosophy

"This hauntingly beautiful study recovers the boundlessness of Presocratic thought. In close readings of five early Greek cosmologists--Parmenides, Heraclitus, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, and Democritus-…

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Atsuko Sakaki
Train Travel as Embodied Space-Time in Narrative Theory

Train Travel as Embodied Space-Time in Narrative Theory argues that the train is a loaded trope for reconfiguring narrative theories past their ¿spatial turn.¿ Atsuko Sakaki¿s method exploits intensive an…

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Swedish Children's Cinema

Swedish children¿s cinema has a long and rich history. It encompasses the rascal films of the 1920s, the realism of the 1940s, the ambitious artistic renewal of the 1970s, the child empowering films of th…

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Thomas Devere Wolsey, Diane Lapp
Literacy in the Disciplines

"This book gives all teachers in grades 5-12 practical strategies for building the unique literacy skills that students need for success in their respective subject areas. Drawing from interviews wit…

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Roland Weidle
A Comprehensive Guide to Shakespeare's Sonnets

"This comprehensive guide provides readers with the necessary tools to unravel the complexities of one of the most difficult sonnet sequences. It combines close readings of more than 100 sonnets with…

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Hafiz,
The Green Sea of Heaven

"The authoritative Hafiz, including original Persian and brilliant English translations. Recent translations of Hafiz have been controversial. Omid Safi notes "there are so many fake translation…

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Jens Klenner,
Writing the Mountains

"Writing the Mountains reveals how landscape and discourses of environmental formation impress themselves on the literary imagination and argues that mountains serve as dynamic spaces of material cha…

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Stephan Hilpert, Andrew J. Webber
Screening Work

Christian Petzold (b. 1960) is arguably the most prominent filmmaker working in Germany today, with a growing international reputation for his carefully fashioned narrative studies of identity and relatio…

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Jônadas Techio
The Threat of Solipsism

Much attention has been paid to Wittgenstein's treatment of solipsism and to Cavell's treatment of skepticism. But comparatively little has been made of the striking connections between the early Wittgens…

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Jeremiah R. Mercurio, Daniel Gabelman
The Form and Theory of Literary Doodling

This Element investigates the phenomenon of literary doodling-the making of playful verbal and visual creations by professional authors while engaged in another activity. The first part focuses on definin…

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Queer Kinship and Comparative Literature

This edited collection provides a critical forum for scholars to examine the evolution of queer kinship¿encompassing the wide range of relationships, both biological and nonbiological, that queer individu…

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