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Raphael Magarik
Fictions of God

A new history of literary narration rooted in the turmoil of the Protestant Reformation. We often identify secularization's characteristic literary form as the modern novel: out with divine scripture, in …

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John Edgar Wideman
Slaveroad

"Master of language" (The New York Times ) John Edgar Wideman uses his unique generational position to explore what he calls the "slaveroad," offering "a fresh perspective of slav…

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Amaranth Feuth
Metaliterary Katabasis in the Writings of Eavan Boland, Derek Walcott and Gloria Naylor

Focusing on the ancient motif of the descent into the underworld (katabasis), this book examines how three 20th-century writers - Eavan Boland, Gloria Naylor and Derek Walcott - articulate their poetics a…

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Tragedy as a Travelling Form

Covering a broad historical spectrum from Greek Antiquity to the 21st century, this open access book asks how tragedy's formal features have impacted its travels, and how these travels have shaped its for…

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Julian Richards,
Shakespeare in the Theatre Glen Byam Shaw and the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre

Glen Byam Shaw was a pivotal but overlooked figure in the development of Shakespearean performance in 20th century Britain. This book serves as the first full analysis of Shaw's work as Director of the Sh…

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Tony Hsu
Chasing the Modern

At the height of his literary prowess, Xu Zhimo was the most famous living poet in all of China. With his round spectacles and aristocratic profile, Xu had a face that became as iconic as his poetry. Duri…

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Virginia Woolf,
A Room of One's Own

Penguin Publishing Group

Virginia Woolf's pioneering work of feminism, "probably the most influential piece of non-fictional writing by a woman in [the twentieth] century" (Hermione Lee), featuring a new introduction by…

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Kristen Lopez
But Have You Read the Book? Romance Edition

For film buffs and literature lovers alike, Turner Classic Movies presents an essential guide to 40 cinema classics and the enduring love stories that served as their heart-tugging inspiration.What makes …

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Eddie B Allen
Low Road

FOREWORD BY THE LATE, GREAT DMX The riveting biography of Donald Goines---one of the most authentic Black voices in American fiction---that explores the raw world of the street-smart literary icon and his…

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Lloyd Whitesell
Queer and Trans Aesthetics

If a creative individual identifies as queer or trans, does that fact belong solely to the realm of biography, or does it pertain to their artistic achievement? In Queer and Trans Aesthetics, Lloyd Whites…

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Tony Hsu
Chasing the Modern

At the height of his literary prowess, Xu Zhimo was the most famous living poet in all of China. With his round spectacles and aristocratic profile, Xu had a face that became as iconic as his poetry. Duri…

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Teaching Politically

"Teaching Politically addresses a pair of important and resonant issues in universities in the U.S. and elsewhere: how one teaches and learns under political pressure and surveillance, and how one ta…

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Kendra Strand
An Unfamiliar Place

In mid-fourteenth-century Japan, amid decades of civil unrest caused by a violent rivalry over imperial succession, three men embarked on journeys that would lead them to reimagine their world: the second…

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Laozi,
Daodejing

Grounded in a lifetime of research and interpretive work and informed by careful study of recent archeological discoveries of alternate versions of the text, Brook Ziporyn, one of the preeminent explicato…

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Evelyn McDonnell
The World According to Joan Didion

**INDIE BESTSELLER**A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2023 by The Millions • B&N Best Books of 2023 •"Shaped by intellectual rigor and artistic grace ... McDonnell's portrait is vibrant, fluent, sensiti…

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Ryann Donnelly
Body High

How do we medicate ourselves, and why can't we cure the people we love? In Body High, encounters with lurid bodily sculptures from the '60s offer remedies to the author's own illness and malaise.In Body H…

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Shakespeare and Italy

Examining the relationship between Shakespeare and Italy, this collection considers how Shakespeare was inspired by Italian history, culture and literature, as well as the ways that Italy has, in turn, be…

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Ciudadanos Por Tratado

Texts that highlight the cultural and literary legacy of Hispanic New MexicansThis volume gathers works produced by Spanish-speaking people of Mexican descent who became US citizens by virtue of the Treat…

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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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Bob Dylan
The Nobel Lecture

On October 13, 2016, Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, recognizing his countless contributions to music and letters over the last fifty years. Some months later, he delivered an accepta…

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