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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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Charles C. Chiasson
Herodotus and the Greek Poetic Tradition

This is the first comprehensive analysis in any language of Herodotus' interaction with the Greek poetic tradition, including epic, lyric, and tragic poetry. It is essential reading for scholars of ancien…

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Christian R. Gelder
The Search for a Science of Verse, 1880 to the Present

From large-scale quantitative studies in the digital humanities to AI-generated poetry, scientific reading seemingly reigns supreme. However, these reading practices preceded, and often shaped, modern lit…

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Rachel R. Rosner
Adorno and the Question of Theology

The Frankfurt School in New Times

Can we move beyond the religious-secular divide and live together ethically in a shared political world? Adorno and the Question of Theology: Religion and Reason Beyond Foundations says yes-and shows how.…

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Essaka Joshua
Disability and the Gothic

Disability is central to the Gothic imagination. This Element draws together disability and Gothic literature in ways that show the interplay between them. The first chapter offers a brief history of Crit…

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Essaka Joshua
Disability and the Gothic

Disability is central to the Gothic imagination. This Element draws together disability and Gothic literature in ways that show the interplay between them. The first chapter offers a brief history of Crit…

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Lena Ahlin, Maria Freij
Transnational Adoption Memoirs

This book connects the memoir boom of recent decades with the growing public debate about transnational adoption. Through the close reading of a range of American and Swedish memoirs by transnationally ad…

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Jason Aleksander
Redefining Faith in Dante's "Divine Comedy"

The New Middle Ages

Redefining Faith in Dante's "Divine Comedy" offers a bold reinterpretation of one of the world's most studied poems. Through close readings of all three canticles, Jason Aleksander shows how Dan…

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Elen Caldecott
Writing for Young People

Applying the approach of 'reading-as-a-writer' to the craft of writing for young people, this textbook combines critical analysis, unique author-insight and practical application of ideas to give writers …

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Irene Mata
Beyond the Moment

Exploring cultural resistance by creating and archiving Latinx performance artPerformance is often seen as ephemeral, a condition that seemingly reduces its activist possibilities. After all, not everyone…

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Ted Widmer
The Living Declaration: A Biography of America's Founding Text

INDEPENDENCE WAS ONLY THE BEGINNING: A historian and former presidential speechwriter traces the origins and legacy of the words and ideas that made America.Illustrations and close readings of 68 original…

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After the Broken Spears

Following Hernando Cortés's conquest of Tenochtitlan in 1521, the Aztec empire became the center of the largest European colony in the Americas. It has long been assumed that Indigenous people's personal …

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Simone Stirner
Poetic Grief

Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics

Grief is non-linear and destabilizing. It can unravel our sense of time and relation to the world. Poetic Grief follows these effects across poems written in the wake of National Socialism. Moving beyond …

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Amy De'Ath
Behind Our Backs

Post*45

In this daring study, Amy De'Ath develops a new type of literary criticism attuned to the way our lives are shaped by capital's impersonal compulsions -- by what happens "behind our backs." Chal…

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Simone Stirner
Poetic Grief

Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics

Grief is non-linear and destabilizing. It can unravel our sense of time and relation to the world. Poetic Grief follows these effects across poems written in the wake of National Socialism. Moving beyond …

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Estella Tincknell
Reframing the Long 1960s on British Screens

In Reframing the Long 1960sEstella Tincknell explores the way British crime films and television series made during or about that extended decade have been marked by ongoing tensions between nostalgic myt…

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Rob Harris
After Impressionism

Impressionist painting was the dominant art form of its time, and one to which English-speaking poets were profoundly responsive. Yet the relationship between impressionism and poetry has largely been ove…

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Pamela Bickley, Jenny Stevens
Essential Shakespeare

Addressing the transition from pre-university to undergraduate Shakespeare studies, this introductory critical guide examines 16 key plays. Each chapter focuses on modern theoretical methods, close readin…

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Dianna N. Watkins-Dickerson
A Black Woman for President

Throughout US history, only three Black women---Shirley Chisholm, Carol Moseley Braun, and Kamala Harris---have given successfully recognized bids for the office of president of the United States. In A Bl…

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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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