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Book SynopsisThrough systematic and detailed readings of Futurist texts, James Rann offers the first book-length study of the tensions between the outspoken literary group and Aleksandr Pushkin. Rann's analysis contributes to the understanding of both the Futurists and Pushkin's complex legacy.Trade ReviewElegantly written and convincingly argued. The Unlikely Futurist provides for the first time a comprehensive account of the complex relationship between Russian Futurism, on the one hand, and Pushkin and his myth, on the other." - Daria Khitrova, Harvard University"An extremely intelligent, well-polished study of Russian Futurism's treatment of Pushkin as both a historical burden to be thrown from the 'steamship of modernity' and a source of inspiration for the Futurist, avant-garde project of reinvigorating Russian and Soviet poetry. The Unlikely Futurist dazzles." - Tim Harte, Bryn Mawr College

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Book SynopsisIn this comprehensive and accessible book, Dean Krouk examines a significant public figure in Scandinavian literature and a critical period in modern European history through original readings of the political, ethical, and gender issues in Nordahl Grieg’s works.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Seas of Empire and Despair: 1902–1924 2 Anti-Imperialist Awakening: 1925–1927 3 Death in the Machine Age: 1928–1932 4 Polemical Confrontations: 1933–1935 5 Hope and Defeat: 1936–1937 6 Satire and Purge: 1937–1938 7 Becoming a Resistance Poet: 1939–1941 8 A Modern Wergeland: 1941–1943 Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA must-have for every fan of literature, Booked inspires readers to follow in their favorite characters footsteps by visiting the real-life locations portrayed in beloved novels including the Monroeville, Alabama courthouse in To Kill a Mockingbird, Chatsworth House, the inspiration for Pemberley in Pride and Prejudice, and the Kyoto Bridge from Memoirs of a Geisha. The full-color photographs throughout reveal the settings readers have imagined again and again in their favorite books. Organized by regions all around the world, author Richard Kreitner explains the importance of each literary landmark including the connection to the author and novel, cultural significance, historical information, and little-known facts about the location. He also includes travel advice like addresses and must-see spots.Booked features special sections on cities that inspired countless literary works like a round of locations in Brooklyn from Be

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Book SynopsisAn addictively readable day-by-day literary companion and guide from a former bookseller and eight-time Jeopardy! Champion.Trade Review" It's a lovely book to curl up with, and suggests appropriate books for each month... " -- The Herald

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Book SynopsisGreen Studies is a booming area for study and The Green Studies Reader is a fantastically comprehensive selection of critical texts which address the connection between ecology, culture, and literature. It offers a complete guide to the growing area of 'ecocriticism' and a wealth of material on green issues from the romantic period to the present. Included are extracts from today's leading ecocritics and figures from the past who pioneered a green approach to literature and culture. This Reader sets the agenda for Green Studies and encourages a reassessment of development of criticism and offers readers a radical view of its future.Trade Review'Laurence Coupe's Green Studies Reader provides an excellent overview of achievements to date in this emerging field . . . Coupe's anthology is a wide-ranging introduction to a thriving branch of literary study. The extracts are brief and well-chosen, and the wealth of introductory material is always informative. It should make a very good textbook, but it is also a stimulating collection for anyone interested in the fruitful intersection between environmentalism and literature.' - Annotated Bibliography for English Studies

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Book SynopsisThis volume is a broad-ranging guide to Othello, providing an introduction to the contexts of the play, the range of critical responses to the play and the play in performance.Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction 1. Contexts Contextual Overview Chronology Contemporary Documents: Giraldi Cinthio, Gli Hecatommithi (1566) Leo Africanus (John Leo) The History and Description of Africa, trans. John Pory (1600) Fynes Moryson An Itinery Containing His Ten Yeeres Travell (1617) Thomas Coryat Coryat's Crudities (1611) Christopher Marlowe The Jew of Malta (c. 1590) Robert Greene Selimus, Emporer of the Turks (1594) William Shakespeare Titus Andronicus (c.1594) 2. Interpretations Critical History Early Reception: Thomas Rymer, from A Short View of Tragedy (1693) Samuel Johnson, from The Plays of Shakespeare (1765) Samuel Taylor Coleridge, from 'Notes on the Tragedies' (published 1836-9) from Table Talk (1835) Edward Dowden, from Shakespeare: A Critical Study of His Mind and Art (1875) A. C. Bradley, from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth (1904) Twentieth-Century Criticism: G. Wilson Knight The Othello Music E. E. Stoll 'Iago' (1940) William Empson Honest in Othello (1951) F. R. Leavis, from Diabolic Intellect and the Noble Hero (1952) Marvin Rosenberg from The Masks of Othello (1961) G. K. Hunter, Othello and Colour Prejudice (1967) Terry Eagleton Nothing (1986) Karen Newman 'And wash the Ethiop white': femininity and the monstrous in Othello (1987) David McPherson Othello and the Myth of Venice (1990) Lisa Jardine 'Why should he call her a whore?': Defamation and Desdemona's case (1990) Andrew Hadfield The 'gross clasps of a lascivious Moor': The Domestic and Exotic Contexts of Othello (1998) The Work in Performance: Virginia Mason Vaughan Othello on the English Stage 1604-1754 Sir Richard Steele The Tatler, no. 167 (2 May 1710) William Hazlitt 'Mr Macready's Othello' (13 October 1816) Virginina Mason Vaughan 'Paul Robeson's Othello' (1930, 1943) Patricia Tatspaugh 'Orson Welles Othello' (1952) Stanley Wells 'Trevor Nunn's Othello' (1989) 3. Key Passages Introduction Key Passages: Act 1, scene 1, lines 81-80, Act 1, scene 3, lines 1-294, Act 2, scene 3, lines 255-357, Act 3, scene 3, lines 90-281, Act 3, scene 3, lines 333-482, Act 4, scene 1, lines 60-142, Act 4, scene 2, lines 30-92, Act 5, scene 2, lines 257-369 Further Reading Editions and Text Collections of Essays Background Reading Critical Interpretations Stage History Index

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Book SynopsisWilliam Shakespeareâs Macbeth is a timeless tale of love, greed and power, which has given rise to heated debates around such issues as the representation of gender roles, political violence and the dramatisation of evil.Taking the form of a sourcebook, this guide to Shakespeareâs play presents: extensive introductory comment on the contexts, critical history and performance of the text, from publication to present annotated extracts from key contextual documents, reviews, critical works and the text itself cross-references between documents and sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism suggestions for further reading. Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of Macbeth and seeking not only a guide to the play, but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds Shakespeareâs text.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Contexts, Introduction, Chronology, Source Part 2: Interpretations, Critical History, Early Critical Reception Part 3: Key Passages Part 4: Further Reading Recommended Editions of Macbeth. Contexts. The Play in Performance. Film Versions. Criticism

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Book SynopsisNo book is more central to the study of nineteenth-century American literature than Herman Melville's Moby-Dick; or The Whale. First published it 1851, it still speaks powerfully to readers today. Combining reprinted documents with clear introductions for student readers, this volume examines the contexts of and critical responses to Melville's work. It draws together:*an introduction to the contexts in which Melville was writing and relevant contextual documents, including letters*chronology of key facts and dates*critical history and extracts from early reviews and modern criticism*fully annotated key passages from the novel*a list of biblical allusions*an annotated guide to further reading. Extensive cross-references link contextual information, critical materials and passages from the novel providing a wide-ranging view of the work and ensuring a successful and enjoyable encounter with the world of Moby-Dick.

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Book SynopsisThe Victorian Age introduces students of nineteenth-century literary and cultural history to the main areas of intellectual debate in the Victorian period. Bringing together for the first time in one volume a wide range of primary source material, this anthology gives readers a unique insight into the ways in which different areas of Victorian intellectual debate were interconnected.The Victorian Age covers developments in social and political theory, economics, science and religion, aesthetics, and sexuality and gender, and provides access to a range of documents which have hitherto been highly inaccessible - both difficult to locate and difficult to interpret and understand. This authoritative anthology contains:* a general introduction which explains the various ways in which the relationships between literary and intellectual culture can be theorised* essays describing the background to the areas of debate illustrated by the selected source documents* bibliographical notes on all the documents included* brief accounts of the reputation and career of the documents' authors.This volume will enable humanities students, as well as the general reader, to understand complex areas of debates in an unusually wide range of disciplines, several of which will be unfamiliar.

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Book SynopsisThis guidebook offers the ideal introduction to one of the most enduringly popular works of the nineteenth century. Richard J. Dunn first places David Copperfield in its social, biographical and literary contexts, touching upon such fascinating issues as autobiography and Victorian social conditions, before offering a handy chronology and reprinted documents from the period. In a second section, ''Interpretations'', he traces responses to the novel from the first reviews to modern criticism and reprints extracts from key critical works. The overview and extracts together offer insight into a remarkable range of issues, from the novel''s humour to its reflections of class and gender structures. The section also considers the long history of stage and screen interpretations of Dickens''s highly dramatic text. The third major section pulls together text and context by reprinting key passages of the novel, carefully cross-referenced to materials in the previous sections. The links

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Book SynopsisJohn Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost (1667) is a literary landmark. His reworking of Biblical tales of the loss of Eden constitutes not only a gripping literary work, but a significant musing on fundamental human concerns ranging from freedom and fate to conscience and consciousness.Designed for students new to Milton's complex, lengthy work, this sourcebook:* outlines the often unfamiliar contexts of seventeenth-century England which are so crucial to Paradise Lost* completes the contextual study with a chronology and reprinted documents from the period* examines and reprints a broad range of responses to the poem, from early reactions to recent criticism* reprints the most frequently studied passages of the poem, along with extensive commentary and annotation of unfamiliar or significant terms used in Milton's work* provides cross-references between the textual, contextual and critical sections of the sourcebook, to show how all the materials can be called upon in an individual reader's encounter with the text* suggests further reading for those facing the huge array of critical work on the poem.With an emphasis on enjoying as well as understanding what can be a somewhat daunting work, this sourcebook will be a welcome resource for anyone new to Paradise Lost.

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Book SynopsisWilliam Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (c.1600) is one of his most captivating plays. A comedy of mistaken identities, it has given rise to thought-provoking debates around such issues as gender identity and role-playing, manipulation and deception.Taking the form of a sourcebook, this guide to Shakespeare's spirited play offers: extensive introductory comment on the contexts, critical history and performance of the text, from publication to the present annotated extracts from key contextual documents, reviews, critical works and the text itself cross-references between documents and sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism suggestions for further reading. Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of Twelfth Night and seeking not only a guide to the play, but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds Shakespeare's text.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Contexts 2. Interpretations 3. Key Passages 4. Further Reading Index

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Book SynopsisEcocriticism: The Essential Reader charts the growth of this important field. The first-wave ecocriticism section focuses on key readings from the 1960s to the 1990s. The second-wave ecocriticism section goes on to consider a range of exciting contemporary trends, including environmental justice, aesthetics and philosophy, and globalization.Readings include the work of: Raymond Williams Jonathan Bate Timothy Morton Ursula Heise Lawrence Buell Kate Soper Cary Wolfe and Kate Rigby. Containing seminal, representative, and contemporary work in the field, this volume and the editorial commentary is designed for use on both undergraduate and postgraduate ecocritical literature courses.Table of ContentsPart 1: First-Wave Ecocriticism 1. Shakespeare’s American Fable, Leo Marx 2. Nature As Female, Carolyn Merchant 3. Country and City, Raymond Williams 4. The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis, Lynn White Jr. 5. The Deep Ecological Movement: Some Philosophical Aspects, Arne Naess 6. Introduction: Ecology and Man—A Viewpoint, Paul Shepard 7. The Etiquette of Freedom, Gary Snyder 8. The Economy of Nature, Jonathan Bate 9. Representing the Environment, Lawrence Buell 10. The Trouble with Wilderness; or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature, William Cronon 11. Introduction: Literary Studies in an Age of Environmental Crisis, Cheryll Glotfelty Part 2: Second-Wave Ecocriticism 12. The Environmental Justice Reader: Politics, Poetics & Pedagogy, Joni Adamson, Mei Mei E.vans, and Rachel Stein 13. Introduction: Emerging Models of Materiality in Feminist Theory, Stacy Alaimo 14. Race, Class, and the Politics of Place, Robert D. Bullard 15. Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire, Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands 16. The Hitchhiker's Guide to Ecocriticism, Ursula K. Heise 17. Introduction, Graham Huggan 18. Environmentalism and Postcolonialism, Rob Nixon 19. Natural Universal and the Global Scale, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing 20. Conclusion: What Is to Be Done? Political Ecology!, Bruno Latour 21. Imagining Ecology Without Nature, Timothy Morton 22. The Truth of Ecology: Nature, Culture and Literature in America, Dana Phillips 23. What is Nature? Culture, Politics and the non-Human, Kate Soper 24. Ecopolitics/ Ecocriticism, Gabriel Egan 25. Reading The Otherworld Environmentally, Alfred Siewers 26. Introduction: Troping the Tropics and Aestheticizing Labor, Beth Tobin 27. Ecology, Epistemology, and Empiricism, Robert N. Watson 28. The Climate of History: Four Theses, Dipesh Chakrabarty 29. The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, Ursula LeGuin 30. Writing After Nature, Kate Rigby

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Book SynopsisIncluding classic essays and lively debates, British Romanticism shows that Romantic literature is an interesting and exciting topic to read and study. Combining key pieces from the last 25 years alongside newly written essays offering fresh takes on the area, this book covers the essential topics but with a contemporary and dynamic twist. Each section includes a detailed introduction and covers issues which are as relevant to current readers as to those in the romantic period, such as media, science, religion, politics, ethics, gender, sexuality, race, nationalism and ethics. The book contains additional features such as suggestions for further reading and an introduction to the history of interpreting Romantic Literature. Designed to appeal to both undergraduate and postgraduate readers, this distinctive volume reflects the vibrant debates across Romantic Studies from the 1990s to the present.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1 Politics, Ideology, and the Literary 1. Insight and Oversight: Reading Tintern Abbey, Marjorie Levinson 2. Keats and Critique, Paul Hamilton 3. Βyron’s Causes: The Moral Mechanics of Don Juan, James Chandler 4. Stealing Culture in the Shadow of Revolutions, Daniel O’Quinn Part 2 Aesthetics and Literary Form 5. Local Transcendence: Cultural Criticism, Postmodernism, and the Romanticism of Detail, Alan Liu 6. Historicism, Deconstruction, and Wordsworth, Frances Ferguson 7. Legislators of the Post-Everything Word: Shelley’s Defence of Adorno, Robert Kaufman 8. Utility, Retribution, and Godwin’s Caleb Williams, Mark Canuel Part 3 Audiences and Reading Publics 9. The Sense of an Audience, Lucy Newlyn 10. Theater as the School of Virtue, Ann K. Mellor 11. Study to be Quiet, Kevin Gilmartin 12. Audience, Irony, and Shelley, Andrew Franta Part 4 Authorship and Authority 13. From ‘National Tale’ to ‘Historical Novel’: Edgeworth, Morgan, and Scott, Ina Ferris 14. Keats’s Prescience, Andrew Bennett 15. DeQuincey’s Imperial Systems, Anne Frey 16. Milton Unbound, Margaret Russett Part 5 Gender, Sexuality, and the Body 17. Gendering the Soul, Susan Wolfson 18. The Domestication of Genius: Cowper and the Rise of the Suburban Man, Andrew Elfenbein 19. Sensibility, Free Indirect Style, and the Romantic Technology of Discretion, Clara Tuite 20. Writing/Righting Gender, Jacqueline M. Labbe Part 6 Racism, Nationalism, Imperialism 21. Was Frankenstein’s Monster ‘a Man and a Brother’?, H.L. Malchow 22. Blake and Romantic Imperialism, Saree Makdisi 23. "Voices of Dead Complaint" Colonial Military Disease Narratives, Alan Bewell 24. Anna Barbauld and the Ethics of Free Trade Imperialism, E.J. Clery Part 7 Affects 25. Phantom Feelings, Emotional Occupation in The Mysteries of Udolpho, Adela Pinch 26. Female Authorship, Public Fancy, Julie Ellison 27. The Art of Knowing Nothing, Jacques Khalip 28. The Force off Indirection: ‘Tintern Abbey’ in the Literary History of Mood, David Collings Part 8 Religion and Secularization 29. The Unknown God, Robert Ryan 30. Wordsworth’s Chastened Enthusiasm, Jon Mee 31. Godwin, Wollstonecraft, and the Legacies of Dissent, Daniel E. White 32. The Entangled Spirituality of ‘The Thorn’, Colin Jager Part 9 Modernity and Postmodernity 33. The Romantic Movement at the End of History, Jerome Christensen 34. Everyday War, Mary Favret 35. Modernity’s Other Worlds, Ian Duncan 36. The Two Pipers: Romanticism, Postmodernism, and the Cliché, Orrin N. C. Wang Part 10 Sciences of Mind, Body, and Nature 37. Coleridge and the New Unconscious, Alan Richardson 38. John Clare’s Dark Ecology, Timothy Morton 39. The Monster in the Rainbow: Keats and the Science of Life, Denise Gigante 40. Romantic Transformation: Literature and Science, Sharon Ruston Part 11 Literature, Media, Mediation 41. Ballads and Bards: British Romantic Orality, Maureen McLane 42. Processing, Andrew Piper 43. If This is Enlightenment Then What is Romanticism?, Clifford Siskin and William Warner 44. Romantic Long Poems in Victorian Anthologies, Tom Mole

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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Queer Studies Reader provides a comprehensive resource for students and scholars working in this vibrant and interdisciplinary field.The book traces the emergence and development of Queer Studies as a field of scholarship, presenting key critical essays alongside more recent criticism that explores new directions. The collection is edited by leading scholars in the field and presents: individual introductory notes that situate each work within its historical, disciplinary and theoretical contexts essays grouped by key subject areas including Genealogies, Sex, Temporalities, Kinship, Affect, Bodies, and Borders writings by major figures including Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Judith Butler, David M. Halperin, Josà Esteban MuÃoz, Elizabeth Grosz, David Eng, Judith Halberstam and Sara Ahmed. The Routledge Queer Studies Reader is a field-defining volume and presents an illuminating guide for established scholars and also those new to Queer Studies.Trade Review'It is hard to imagine a volume that could represent the field more knowingly!' Robyn Wiegman, Duke University, USA'This fresh, innovative, and significant volume demonstrates convincingly the queer moment is by no means over.' Laura Doan, University of Manchester, UK'Get prepared to enter a scene of provocation, a sexy sort of maelstrom, where trans meets butch meets brown meets "quare" meets intersex, racial, post-colonial, and disabled matters in juxtaposition, in telling combinations. Even subtleties and biting formulations appear side by side, in a queer cubism, leading both students and scholars to thoughts that will startle and seduce them.' Kathryn Bond Stockton, University of Utah, USA"The Queer Studies Reader will serve as an official and unofficial textbook for those interested in overthrowing the patriarchal gender binary and interrupting heteronormativity." — Rachel Wexelbaum, Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women’s Studies Resources, Vol 34 No 3-4 2013Table of ContentsPart 1: Genealogies 1. Queer And Now Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 2. Critically Queer Judith Butler 3. Judith Butler: Queer Feminism, Transgender, and The Transubstantiation Of Sex Jay Prosser 4. The Queer Intervention Steven Angelides 5. Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics? Cathy J. Cohen 6. ‘Quare’ Studies, Or (Almost) Everything I Know About Queer Studies I Learned From My Grandmother E. Patrick Johnson 7. Introduction: Queer of Color Critique, Historical Materialism, And Canonical Sociology Roderick A. Ferguson 8. The Material of Sex (Excerpts) Rosemary Hennessy 9. Lacan Meets Queer Theory Tim Dean Part 2: Sex 10. Sex in Public Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner 11. Viral Sex and The Politics Of Life Gregory Tomso 12. Experimental Desire: Rethinking Queer Subjectivity Elizabeth Grosz 13. Dinge Robert Reid-Pharr Part 3: Temporalities 14. Do you want queer theory or do you want the truth? Intersections of punk and queer in the 1970s Tavia Nyong’o 15. Turn the Beat Around: Sadomasochism, Temporality, History Elizabeth Freeman 16. How to Do the History of Male Homosexuality David M. Halperin 17. The Future Is Kid Stuff: Queer Theory, Disidentification and the Death Drive Lee Edelman Part 4: Kinship 18. Transnational Adoption and Queer Diasporas David Eng 19. Making Queer Familia Richard T. Rodríguez 20. Romancing Kinship: A Queer Reading of Indian Education and Zitkala-Sa’s American Indian Stories Mark Rifkin 21. Notes on Gridlock: Genealogy, Intimacy, Sexuality Elizabeth A. Povinelli Part 5: Affect 22. AIDS Activism And Public Feelings Ann Cvetkovich 23. Archiving Queer Feelings in Hong Kong Helen Hok-Sze Leung 24. Feeling Brown, Feeling Down: Latina Affect, the Performativity of Race, And the Depressive Position José Esteban Muñoz 25. Queer Feelings Sara Ahmed Part 6: Bodies 26. What can queer theory do for intersex? Iain Morland 27. Transgender Butch: Butch/ FTM Border Wars And The Masculine Continuum Judith Halberstam 28. Compulsory Able-Bodiedness And Queer/Disabled Existence Robert McRuer 29. Hypothalamic Preference: Levay’s Study Of Sexual Orientation Elizabeth A. Wilson Part 7: Borders 30. Queer Times, Queer Assemblages Jasbir Puar 31. Queer Intersections: Sexuality and Gender In Migration Studies Martin F. Manalansan IV 32. Border/line Sex: Queer Postcolonialities or How Race Matters Outside the U.S. Anjali Arondekar 33. Transgender without Organs? Mobilizing a Geo-affective Theory of Gender Modification Lucas Cassidy Crawford

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Book SynopsisRanging from classical times to pop culture, this collection will appeal to art historians, feminists, classicists, cultural critics, and anyone interested in mythology.Trade Review"A valuable addition to all mythology and folklore collections and even art collections." -- Library Journal"Marjorie Garber and Nancy J. Vickers have assembled an anthology of seventy-three references to Medsa in literature, philosophy, advertising, and eclectic...the choice of images and artifacts is creative, provocative, and playful." --Woman's Art JournalTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 HOMER 2 HESIOD 3 PINDAR 4 EURIPIDES 5 PALAEPHATUS 6 APOLLODORUS 7 DIODORUS SICULUS 8 OVID 9 LUCAN 10 LUCIAN 11 PAUSANIAS 12 ACHILLES TATIUS 13 FULGENTIUS 14 JOHN MALALAS 15 DANTE ALIGHIERI 16 PETRARCH 17 COLUCCIO SALUTATI 18 CHRISTINE DE PIZAN 19 LEONE EBREO 20 GIORGIO VASARI 21 NATALE CONTI 22 VINCENZO CARTARI 23 JOHN HARINGTON 24 FRANCIS BACON 25 WILLIAM DRUMMOND 26 JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE 27 PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY 28 KARL MARX 29 DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI 30 FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE 31 DAVID STARR JORDAN 32 LOUISE BOGAN 33 SIGMUND FREUD 34 SÁNDOR FERENCZI 35 COUNTEE CULLEN 36 WALTER BENJAMIN 37 PHILIP WYLIE 38 JEAN-PAUL SARTRE 39 JAMES MERRILL 40 ERICH NEUMANN 41 SYLVIA PLATH 42 ROGER CAILLOIS 43 DARYL HINE 44 MAY SARTON 45 JOHN FRECCERO 46 JO SPRINGER 47 HAZEL BARNES 48 JACQUES DERRIDA 49 ROLAND BARTHES 50 HÉLÈNE CIXOUS 51 COLLEEN J. MCELROY 52 LOUIS MARIN 53 ANN STANFORD 54 STEPHEN HEATH 55 SARAH KOFMAN 56 GANANATH OBEYESEKERE 57 NEIL HERTZ 58 TOBIN SIEBERS 59 TERESA DE LAURETIS 60 PATRICIA KLINDIENST JOPLIN 61 CRAIG OWENS 62 JEAN-PIERRE VERNANT 63 NANCY J. VICKERS 64 EMILY ERWIN CULPEPPER 65 AMY CLAMPITT 66 MARJORIE GARBER 67 RITA DOVE 68 BARBARA FRISCHMUTH 69 SANDER GILMAN 70 FRANÇOISE FRONTISI-DUCROUX 71 DIANA FUSS AND JOEL SANDERS 72 LIZBETH GOODMAN 73 GIANNI VERSACE

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAs a literary-historical study of postwar Germany, this book makes a substantial contribution to German Studies, offering a much-needed critique of ‘melancholic scholarship’ in favour of work that wrestles with the often complex emotionality of the postwar era."" - German History""An Emotional State thus innovatively presents highly productive building blocks toward a complexified historical study of emotion"" - The Germanic Review""Offers a truly original, even pathbreaking, contribution to the study of postwar West German culture, while making a very important intervention in the theoretical debate on the study of emotions. Its potential audience includes not only historians and literary critics but the rapidly growing, strongly interdisciplinary community of ‘emotion scholars"" - Frank Biess, University of California, San Diego.

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Book SynopsisCollects writing by one of America's most gifted and revered poets, Yusef Komunyakaa. While themes from his earlier prose collection, Blue Notes, run through Condition Red, this volume expresses a greater sense of urgency about the human condition and the role of the artist.Trade Review[Komunyakaa] has not only displayed a profound understanding of the human condition, but also a craftsman's ability to durably articulate it . . . a major poet of our generation."" - Laurence Goldstein, in Callaloo

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Book SynopsisExplores the history of cross-cultural teaching approaches, to highlight how women writer-educators used stories about their collaborations to promote community-building. Robbins demonstrates how educators used stories that resisted dominant conventions and expectations about learners to navigate cultural differences.Trade ReviewRobbins pushes the envelope on the normative uses and perspectives about the Archive, using literal archives of educational practice recorded in counter-narratives from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Educators will find value in using this book to help train emerging teachers to be reflective about their practice and for models of how to use texts, archives, and stories as powerful teaching tools . . . "" - Timothy K. Eatman, Associate Professor of Higher Education, Syracuse University, Faculty Co-director Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life""[Learning Legacies] combines knowledge about teacher training and the history of education in the United States gained from extensive research into many formal archives, numerous site visits, and interviews with educators, archivists and others. Robbins’s own autoethnographic reflections also form a crucial and welcome element of her research."" - Sandra A. Zagarell, Donald R. Longman Professor of English at Oberlin College and scholar of American Literature and Culture

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Book SynopsisMaps connections across performances that question the borders of the human whose neurodiverse experiences have been shaped by the diagnostic label of autism, and animal-human performance relationships that dispute and blur anthropocentric edges. The book treats a diverse selection of live performance and archival video and analyzes the ways in which they affect their audiences.Trade ReviewProvocative, timely, and well-written, Affect, Animals, and Autists raises challenging questions that will be of interest to affect theorists as well as a broad complement of interdisciplinary scholars working in disability, performance, theatre, and/or animal studies."" -Kirsty Johnston, University of British Columbia""A timely, exciting and important book that is evidently the manifestation of years of in-depth research and reflection. The evaluation of performances is admirably measured, whilst not underestimating the risks of perpetuating conventional paradigms of animals or autism by influential ‘hits’ like War Horse or Curious Incident."" - Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca, University of Surrey

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Book SynopsisAutism is typically characterized as impoverished or defective when it comes to language. Autistic Disturbances reveals the ways interpreters have failed to register the real creative valence of autistic language and offers a theoretical framework for understanding the distinctive aesthetics of autistic rhetoric and semiotics.

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Book SynopsisExplores the cultural history of what underlies popular conceptions of "proper" mothering

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Book SynopsisCapitalizes on the ripeness of the German case for interdisciplinary investigation

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Book SynopsisA master of American letters collects forty years of writings on poetry in one essential volume

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Book SynopsisExplores the polit (“fugitive”), a literary type - an “unheroic hero” - who is rather like the picaro (“rogue”) from whom the Picaresque genre takes its name. Focusing primarily, but not exclusively, on Yiddish literature, Udel puts that literature into productive conversation with European and American texts, as well as critical and theoretical sources.Trade ReviewAn intellectually mature, subtle work that illuminates with the use of a vast array of primary and interpretive literature so many crucial moments in the shaping of modern Yiddish, Hebrew, German and American- Jewish letters. Udel is a literary scholar with a sureness of touch and consummate scholarly command.” —Steven J. Zipperstein, Stanford University “Never Better! is just that: a theoretically exciting study of the way in which Jewish writers translated and adapted a familiar European genre to create a distinctly modernist poetics of the picaresque.” —Justin Cammy, Smith College

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe analysis, presentation and interdisciplinary connections here are scintillating; the organization and writerly vision superb—as in all of Joanna Page’s work. This critically grounded walk through an eclectic range of cultural products is pursued with grit and panache in equal parts . . . a complex meditation on the many faces of Argentine science fiction.” —Benjamin Fraser, East Carolina University “Beyond its contribution to cultural theory, Science Fiction in Argentina has much to offer media-specific studies of the textuality of comics and cinema.”—Derek Johnson, University of Wisconsin–Madison, author of Media Franchising

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Book SynopsisBrings a new and exciting analytical lens to modernist literature, that of critical disability studies. The book offers new readings of canonical and non-canonical writers from both sides of the Atlantic. Through readings of this wide range of texts, the study reveals both modernism's scepticism about and dependence on fantasies of whole, ""normal"" bodies.Trade ReviewA nuanced view of disability as it intertwines with modernist aesthetics. Linett concentrates on disabled protagonists but expands her study from mere character analysis to a thoroughgoing critique and understanding of modernism itself. An important contribution to the field of literary and disability studies."" - Lennard Davis, University of Illinois at Chicago""In a wide-ranging, lively, and convincingly argued study of an array of modernist works, Maren Linett shows how various are the attitudes towards disabled bodies but also, paradoxically, how the attitudes towards specific disabilities fall into distinct broad patterns. Anyone interested in modernism will find challenging and valuable new insights on the literature of the period in Linett’s crucial and stunning view of it through the lens of disability studies."" - Michael Groden, University of Western Ontario""Linnett’s unflinching, sometimes mortifying exposé of writers’ and readers’ misconceptions about blindness, deafness, and locomotive difficulties, together with her intricate analyses of modernist texts, will ensure the resounding impact of this study."" - Maud Ellmann, University of Chicago

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Book SynopsisCollects writing by one of America's most gifted and revered poets, Yusef Komunyakaa. While themes from his earlier prose collection, Blue Notes, run through Condition Red, this volume expresses a greater sense of urgency about the human condition and the role of the artist.Trade Review[Komunyakaa] has not only displayed a profound understanding of the human condition, but also a craftsman's ability to durably articulate it . . . a major poet of our generation."" - Laurence Goldstein, in Callaloo

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Book SynopsisExplores the history of cross-cultural teaching approaches, to highlight how women writer-educators used stories about their collaborations to promote community-building. Robbins demonstrates how educators used stories that resisted dominant conventions and expectations about learners to navigate cultural differences.Trade ReviewRobbins pushes the envelope on the normative uses and perspectives about the Archive, using literal archives of educational practice recorded in counter-narratives from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Educators will find value in using this book to help train emerging teachers to be reflective about their practice and for models of how to use texts, archives, and stories as powerful teaching tools . . . "" - Timothy K. Eatman, Associate Professor of Higher Education, Syracuse University, Faculty Co-director Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life""[Learning Legacies] combines knowledge about teacher training and the history of education in the United States gained from extensive research into many formal archives, numerous site visits, and interviews with educators, archivists and others. Robbins’s own autoethnographic reflections also form a crucial and welcome element of her research."" - Sandra A. Zagarell, Donald R. Longman Professor of English at Oberlin College and scholar of American Literature and Culture

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Book SynopsisDisability is not always central to claims about diversity and inclusion in higher education, but should be. This collection reveals the pervasiveness of disability issues and considerations within many higher education populations and settings, from classrooms to physical environments to policy impacts on students, faculty, administrators, and staff.Trade ReviewJoins a growing body of literature on disclosure, passing, and disability identity. Its focus on higher education allows for a deep exploration of theory while also illuminating the processes and implications of disclosure in this setting."" - Allison C. Carey, Shippensburg University""Remarkably thorough and bold . . . the book will inform higher education administrators, staff and faculty who reify the ‘progress narrative’ retold about diversity and inclusion, when such accounts rarely consider disabled faculty and students. This book is sure to become a classic resource for many in higher education."" - Linda Ware, State University of New York at Geneseo

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Book SynopsisMaps connections across performances that question the borders of the human whose neurodiverse experiences have been shaped by the diagnostic label of autism, and animal-human performance relationships that dispute and blur anthropocentric edges. The book treats a diverse selection of live performance and archival video and analyzes the ways in which they affect their audiences.Trade ReviewProvocative, timely, and well-written, Affect, Animals, and Autists raises challenging questions that will be of interest to affect theorists as well as a broad complement of interdisciplinary scholars working in disability, performance, theatre, and/or animal studies."" -Kirsty Johnston, University of British Columbia""A timely, exciting and important book that is evidently the manifestation of years of in-depth research and reflection. The evaluation of performances is admirably measured, whilst not underestimating the risks of perpetuating conventional paradigms of animals or autism by influential ‘hits’ like War Horse or Curious Incident."" - Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca, University of Surrey

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Book SynopsisAutism is typically characterized as impoverished or defective when it comes to language. Autistic Disturbances reveals the ways interpreters have failed to register the real creative valence of autistic language and offers a theoretical framework for understanding the distinctive aesthetics of autistic rhetoric and semiotics.Trade ReviewJulia Rodas rejects ableist repertoires of what language is and can mean, notably the understanding that language necessitates understanding or intelligibility . . . readers are viscerally confronted with autism's many possibilities, are given neurodivergent mechanisms through which to re-see Villette, Frankenstein, Robinson Crusoe, and more . . . What Autistic Disturbances offers is at once a method and a style for apprehending aesthetic autism, across genre and mode. This is an incomparable book, one brimming with ideas for how to reclaim autistic echoes in a morass of literary expression."" - Melanie Yergeau, author of Authoring Autism

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Book SynopsisExplores the complex relationship between avant-garde art and politics to reveal links with right-wing or fascist causes

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Book SynopsisArgues that US multi-ethnic cultural movements helped construct a common sense of international solidarity that critiqued ideas of nationalism and essentialized racial identity. The book thus moves beyond accounts that have tended to view the pre-war “Popular Front” through tropes of national belonging or an abandonment of the cosmopolitanism of previous decades.

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