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Susan Sontag
Against Interpretation

"A reissue of Susan Sontag's classic first collection, featuring some of her most beloved writing-on art, life, camp, and criticism-that cemented her legacy as one of the brightest thinkers of, and b…

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Cicero,
Pro Quinctio. Pro Roscio Amerino. Pro Roscio Comoedo. Pro Tullio. de Lege Agraria

"Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician, and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, a…

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Imelda Whelehan,
Post-War Adaptations

Noted scholar Imelda Whelehan looks at key adaptations released during this period and considers the impact of social change, film consumption and film tastes, as well as noting the most popular genres at…

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Pil Ho Kim,
Polarizing Dreams

"Anyone genuinely curious about what makes South Korean pop culture tick should look no further than Gangnam. Celebrated in a song by an unlikely K-pop superstar named Psy in 2012, Gangnam is the epi…

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George Templeton Strong,
George Templeton Strong: Civil War Diaries (Loa #396)

A CLASSIC OF CIVIL WAR HISTORY: The Civil War comes alive in this fully restored, 900-page selected edition of the diaries of one of its keenest observers.Based on the original manuscripts, this new annot…

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Shakespeare, Race and Anglophone Popular Culture

This collection offers a theoretically robust interrogation of how the circulation of Shakespeare within popular culture modes and genres operates to craft, reify and/or contest existing racial imaginarie…

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Elizabeth Lesser
Cassandra Speaks

What story would Eve have told about picking the apple? Why is Pandora blamed for opening the box? And what about the fate of Cassandra who was blessed with knowing the future but cursed so that no one be…

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Anthony Sharwood
Kosciuszko

Heroes are hard to come by - but there's one man whose legend has stood the test of two centuries, and whose name sits on Australia's highest peak. Tadeusz Kosciuszko: freedom fighter, friend of Thomas Je…

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Pil Ho Kim,
Polarizing Dreams

"Anyone genuinely curious about what makes South Korean pop culture tick should look no further than Gangnam. Celebrated in a song by an unlikely K-pop superstar named Psy in 2012, Gangnam is the epi…

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Simon Jackson
George Herbert and Early Modern Musical Culture

"Described by one contemporary as the 'sweet singer of The Temple', George Herbert has long been recognised as a lover of music. Nevertheless, Herbert's own participation in seventeenth-century music…

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Liesl Yamaguchi
On the Colors of Vowels

On the Colors of Vowelsinvestigates the nineteenth-century emergence of discourses attributing visual properties (color, brightness) to vowels in linguistics, poetics, acoustics, opera, and experimental p…

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Stephanie Brown
Watching Women

Watching Women explores how female activists narrated their struggles with political policing in the early twentieth century.

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Citizens by Treaty

"An anthology of works originally in Spanish published in newspapers and produced by US citizens whose immediate and distant ancestors lived in the Republic of Mexico before 1846. Topics include the …

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John Freeman
California Rewritten

"Over fifty essays about California literature today, written by the host of Alta Journal's California Book Club"-- Provided by publisher.

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Jason O'Toole
Exploring Early Modern Sexualities

A study of homoerotic desire and friendship and between King James VI & I, Queen Anna and his favourites through an analysis of early modern literary texts and material culture.

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Fallou Ngom
Beyond African Orality

This book brings to English-speaking audiences the voice of one of sub-Saharan Africa's greatest Sufi poets: Sëriñ Mbay Jaxate of Senegal. Mbay Jaxate composed poems in his native Wolof tongue using an en…

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Anna Brickhouse
Earthquake and the Invention of America

Explores the central role of earthquake for disparate modes of critical engagement across a range of literary, philosophical, historical, and journalistic works from the seventeenth century through the la…

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Ruby Tandoh
All Consuming

Hype restaurants. Allrecipes. The Great British Bake Off . Food dominates our every waking minute. In this dazzling cultural history, acclaimed food writer Ruby Tandoh traces the story of how--and why--we…

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Philip Gould
War Power

Philip Gould examines nineteenth-century literature in light of the transformation of the federal state's power during the American Civil War. How do literary works engage the subjects of censorship, prop…

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Fakhr Al-Din Shadman,
Shadman Diaries

This volume contains nearly a decade of Shadman's diaries, spanning from his departure from Tehran in mid-December 1933 to March 1943 - almost two years before the end of his tenure as a delegate of the I…

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