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Brett Biebel
Mason & Dixon Companion

Mason & Dixon might be Thomas Pynchon's most human book. Its main characters are richly drawn, and they center the narrative. Yet the novel is also packed with historical allusions and an eighteenth-c…

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Rosalind O'Hanlon
Lineages of Brahman Power

Traces the role that western India's influential Brahman communities played in shaping India's modern caste system. Western India's Brahman communities have played a key role in the shaping of India's mod…

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Marco Faini
Standing at the Crossroads

Imagined as an armed old man leaping like a locust or as a young man walking in the dark, doubt occupies a prominent place in the mental landscape of Renaissance Italians. Intriguing stories of doubters, …

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A Matter of Detail

A Matter of Detail inspires new ways of thinking about detail by bringing anthropology, philosophy, art history, and aesthetics into direct conversation. Co-editors Brandel, Das, Laugier, and Pitrou chall…

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Sean Williams
Music at the Threshold from the Sacred to the Dangerous

The erotic allure of the female-coded being who sings men to a watery death differs from the nostalgic allure evoked in the hearts and minds of immigrants by the music and foods of home, but an internal a…

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Sean Williams
Music at the Threshold from the Sacred to the Dangerous

The erotic allure of the female-coded being who sings men to a watery death differs from the nostalgic allure evoked in the hearts and minds of immigrants by the music and foods of home, but an internal a…

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Myrna Combellack
Beunans Meriasek - The Life of St Meriasek

Beunans Meriasek is one of only two surviving medieval saints' plays in the British Isles, making it of central importance for the study of early vernacular drama. The surviving manuscript was written in …

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Zora Neale Hurston
The Mule-Bone

The Mule-Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life is a play written in 1930 by Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes. It is a lighthearted, folk-based comedy set in an all-Black Southern town. The play was meant to …

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Dante Alighieri
Inferno

There is no greater sorrow than to recall our times of joy in wretchedness.Considered one of the greatest medieval poems written in the common vernacular of the time, Dante's Inferno begins on Good Friday…

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Zora Neale Hurston
The Mule-Bone

The Mule-Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life is a play written in 1930 by Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes. It is a lighthearted, folk-based comedy set in an all-Black Southern town. The play was meant to …

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Eoghan Walls
Field Notes from an Extinction

Fast-paced and funny. Scientific and tender. A literary thriller featuring Auks. As if Hilary Mantel's The Giant, O'Brien metRobinson Crusoe, here is a story of one man's growing humanity amidst famine an…

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Timothy Dodge
Dodge, T: African American Covers of Country Music Before Ra

Timothy Dodge explores African American interest in and participation in country music dates from the earliest days of the recording industry's racial segregation of vernacular music into African American…

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