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African Literature in Transition: Volume 5

This volume offers literary histories and analyses of a wide range of genres in African literature and verbal arts. It provides a holistic and accessible presentation of African literary history that inco…

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African Literature in Transition: Volume 1

"Offers a compelling new approach to African literatures as a collective memory built over the years by generations of authors. It considers what African writers assume readers know and need to know,…

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John Mullan
What Matters in Jane Austen?

"An Austen lover's greatest wish is for more of her novels. This intimate guide to the world of her books in the next best thing." -- The AtlanticMarking the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's b…

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Michèle Roberts
Colette

Prize-winning novelist, short-story writer, poet, and memoirist Michèle Roberts tells of her experience of reading the novels of French writer Colette, whose work has inspired and encouraged her throughou…

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Abdessalam Benabdelali,
Writings on Translation

An exploration of the philosophical dimensions of translation, celebrating it as a practice that preserves and proliferates cultural differences. Abdessalam Benabdelali is a revered Moroccan philosopher a…

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Yitzhak Lewis
Games of Inheritance

This book demonstrates the key relevance of Jewish literary and intellectual traditions for understanding Jorge Luis Borges' views on authorship and literary tradition. Yitzhak Lewis explores central them…

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Tom McCarthy
The Threshold and the Ledger

A timely exploration of Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann by Booker-shortlisted author Tom McCarthy.Since her untimely death in 1973, Ingeborg Bachmann has come to be regarded as one of the twentieth cent…

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Vin Nardizzi
Marvellous Vegetables in the English Renaissance

John Gerard's natural history of plants, The Herball (1597), is considered a failure in the history of science. Despite this reputation, it has endured as an aesthetic resource. Its illustrations were use…

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Maria Farland
Degraded Heartland

How did rural America come to be viewed as backward and inferior, and how did literary modernism respond to and critique this perception?What happens when rural America--long romanticized in pastoral lite…

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Edward Watts
Berserk Violence, Racial Vengeance, and Settler Colonialism in American Writing from Franklin to Melville

Berserk Violence, Racial Vengeance, and Settler Colonialism in American Writing from Franklin to Melville studies the literary and cultural tradition of the "Indian Hater" in American writing fr…

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Arthur Bahr
Chasing the Pearl-Manuscript

A unique study of the only physical manuscript containing Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as both a material and literary object.In this book, Arthur Bahr takes a fresh look at the four poems and twelve i…

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Susan L Roberson
Geographies of Travel

Travel writing was the most popular genre of writing in the nineteenth century. Initially published in newspapers and journals as dispatches from the road, these works allowed readers to join in on fabulo…

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Douglas A Jones
Pragmatics of Democracy

This study argues early African American literature constitutes an abiding repository of modern democratic thought that is lacking in the political philosophy we normally analyze. Douglas A. Jones's Pragm…

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Ekphrasis in Ancient and Modern Literature

**This volume examines the interaction between literary and visual representation through ekphrasis in contemporary poetry and ancient literature, viewing ekphrasis as a dynamic and evolving concept rathe…

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Howard Rambsy Ii,
Writing Black Panther

A timely look at contemporary African American creative works through the lens of Ta-Nehisi Coates's ground-breaking entry into the comic book industry.Writing Black Panther traces Ta-Nehisi Coates's pres…

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James Sallis
Difficult Lives Hitching Rides

James Sallis's (Drive) seminal biographical essays on crime fiction pioneers Jim Thompson, David Goodis, and Chester Himes restored to print and joined by a handpicked collection of essays, reviews, and i…

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Stephen Marino
Arthur Miller's New York

Take a tour of New York City as inspiration, place and context in the work of America's greatest playwright of the 20th century, brought to life with images from Miller's time and today.

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Yitzhak Lewis
Games of Inheritance

This book demonstrates the key relevance of Jewish literary and intellectual traditions for understanding Jorge Luis Borges' views on authorship and literary tradition. Yitzhak Lewis explores central them…

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Conversing with Chaos in Graeco-Roman Antiquity

How did ancient Greeks and Romans perceive their environments: did they see order or chaos, chance or control? And how do their views compare to modern perceptions? Conversing with Chaos in Graeco-Roman A…

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Stephen Marino
Arthur Miller's New York

Take a tour of New York City as inspiration, place and context in the work of America's greatest playwright of the 20th century, brought to life with images from Miller's time and today.

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