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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Limits to Interpretation The Meanings of Anna
Book SynopsisVladimir E. Alexandrov advocates a broad revision of the academic study of literature, proposing an adaptive, text-specific approach designed to minimize the circularity of interpretation inherent in the act of reading. He illustrates this method with the example of Tolstoy's classic novel, Anna Karenina, via a detailed “map” of the different possible readings that the novel can support.Trade ReviewA major contribution to Tolstoy studies. ... Essential."" - Choice""I find this book particularly attractive because it is rooted in formalist and structuralist theory, skeptical about both the premises and the results of much (especially American) later criticism, and respectful of the text of Anna Karenina."" - Slavic Review""Alexandrov does not insist on the resolution of the novel's basic contradictions but leaves it to his reader what to make of Anna Karenina: a work whose tumult of meanings ultimately undoes it or makes it mysterious and rich, like life."" - Modern Philology
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Houghton Mifflin Languages of Tolkiens Middleearth A Complete
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas The American Dream In History Politics and Fiction
Book SynopsisThe decline of social mobility and the rise of income inequality - to say nothing of the extraordinary social, political, and economic developments of the Bush and Obama presidencies - have convinced many that the American Dream is no more. This is the concern that Cal Jillson addresses in The American Dream: In History, Politics, and Fiction.
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Random House USA Inc The New York Times Footsteps From Ferrantes
Book SynopsisA curated collection of the New York Times' travel column, Footsteps, exploring iconic authors' relationships to landmarks and cities around the world Before Nick Carraway was drawn into Daisy and Gatsby’s sparkling, champagne-fueled world in The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald vacationed in the French Riviera, where a small green lighthouse winked at ships on the horizon. Before the nameless lovers began their illicit affair in The Lover, Marguerite Duras embarked upon her own scandalous relationship amidst the urban streets of Saigon. And before readers were terrified by a tentacled dragon-man called Cthulhu, H.P. Lovecraft was enthralled by the Industrial Trust tower-- the 26-story skyscraper that makes up the skyline of Providence, Rhode Island. Based on the popular New York Times travel column, Footsteps is an anthology of literary pilgrimages, exploring the geographic muses behind some of hist
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LSU Press Wallace Stevens A Poets Growth
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LSU Press Circles of Sorrow Lines of Struggle
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LSU Press The Contemporary American ShortStory Cycle The Ethnic Resonance of Genre
Book SynopsisOffers the first systematic history and definition of the short-story cycle as exemplified in contemporary American fiction, bringing attention to the format's wide appeal among various ethnic groups. James Nagel examines in detail eight recent manifestations of the genre, all praised by critics while uniformly misidentified as novels.Trade Review"Whether one reads the book in its entirety or goes to a particular chapter to gain an understanding of a specific writer, the reader is rewarded with a plenitude of original and astute local insights. Nagel's study is to be recommended for students and instructors alike." - Contemporary Literature"
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina My Southern Home The South and Its People
Book SynopsisThe culmination of William Wells Brown's long writing career, My Southern Home is the story of Brown's search for a home in a land of slavery and racism. Brown (1814-84), a prolific and celebrated abolitionist and writer often recognised as the first African American novelist for Clotel (1853), was born enslaved in Kentucky and escaped to Ohio in 1834.
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Lope de Vega El Peregrino en Su Patria
Book SynopsisThis critical, annotated edition and study of a long-neglected work by Lope de Vega reveals the philosophical seriousness that the author in his early maturity, anticipating Cervantes' Persiles y Segismunda by more than a decade, brought to his treatment of the Byzantine novel or novel-of-adventures.
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Northwestern University Press Furious Flower
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University Press of Florida Panepiphanal World James Joyces Epiphanies The Florida James Joyce Series
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Did Pocahontas Save Captain John Smith
Book SynopsisLemay offers the first full analysis of the historiography of the debate over whether or not Pocahontas saved Captain John Smith from execution by her tribe. Examining all of the primary and secondary evidence, he persuasively demonstrates that the incident did in fact occur.Trade ReviewLemay has provided the most thorough study to date of the crucial documents concerning Pocahontas’s supposed rescue of John Smith.|His examination of his sources is quite thorough and illuminates both the time period in which the Smith/Pocahontas episode occurred and the process of nineteenth-century historical debate.
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MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Puppet A Chicano Novella
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Vanderbilt University Press Cyborgs Sexuality and the Undead
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Vanderbilt University Press Cyborgs Sexuality and the Undead
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Vanderbilt University Press The Restless Dead
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Vanderbilt University Press The Restless Dead
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Vanderbilt University Press Womens Work
Book SynopsisWe are living a moment in which famous chefs, Michelin stars, culinary techniques, and gastronomical accolades attract moneyed tourists to Spain from all over the world. This has prompted the Spanish government to declare its cuisine as part of Spanish patrimony. Yet even with this widespread global attention, we know little about how Spanish cooking became a litmus test for demonstrating Spain's modernity and, in relation, the roles ascribed to the modern Spanish women responsible for daily cooking. Efforts to articulate a new, modern Spain infiltrated writing in multiple genres and media. Women's Work places these efforts in their historical context to yield a better understanding of the roles of food within an inherently uneven modernization process. Further, the book reveals the paradoxical messages women have navigated, even in texts about a daily practice that shaped their domestic and work lives. This argument is significant because of the degree to which domestic activities, Trade ReviewThis book moves existing scholarship to not only value women's and gendered work and the bodies (and subjectivities) that perform this labor, but also calls our attention to how the study and acknowledgment of feminist movements and feminist studies in Spain are not aligned with first-wave feminism."—H. Rosi Song, coauthor of A Taste of Barcelona: The History of Catalan Cooking and Eating"Clean and concise; it's a tight book without any filler that does what it sets out to do. This is great cultural studies work and rich scholarship. Ingram is to be congratulated for expanding our understanding of gendered (food)work in Spain during the early twentieth century."—Robert A. Davidson, author of Jazz Age BarcelonaTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Emilia Pardo BazÁn: Culinary Nationalist and Ambivalent Feminist 2. Frivolous and Feminist: Carmen de Burgos’s Culinary-Political Platform 3. Mythologies of Culinary Modernity: Gregorio MaraÑÓn and Nicolasa Pradera 4. Cooking and Civic Virtue: Women, Work, and Barcelona Conclusion: Feminist Food Studies and Spain Bibliography Index
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Vanderbilt University Press Understanding Les Fleurs du Mal
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Vanderbilt University Press The Legacy of Christopher Columbus in the Americas New Nations and a Transatlantic Discourse of Empire
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Vanderbilt University Press In and Of the Mediterranean
Book SynopsisThe Iberian Peninsula has always been an integral part of the Mediterranean world, from the age of Tartessos and the Phoenicians to our own era and the Union for the Mediterranean. The cutting-edge essays in this volume examine what it means for medieval and early modern Iberia and its people to be considered as part of the Mediterranean.
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Vanderbilt University Press The Merchant of Havana The Jew in the Cuban Abolitionist Archive
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Vanderbilt University Press The Moral Electricity of Print
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Beatdom Books High White Notes
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Beatdom Books A Remarkable Collection of Angels
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Robinson Crusoe
Book SynopsisAn instant success in its own time, Daniel Defoe''s The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe has for three centuries drawn readers to its archetypal hero, the man surviving alone on an island. This Companion begins by studying the eighteenth-century literary, historical and cultural contexts of Defoe''s novel, exploring the reasons for its immense popularity in Britain and in its colonies in America and in the wider European world. Chapters from leading scholars discuss the social, economic and political dimensions of Crusoe''s island story before examining the ''after life'' of Robinson Crusoe, from the book''s multitudinous translations to its cultural migrations and transformations into other media such as film and television. By considering Defoe''s seminal work from a variety of critical perspectives, this book provides a full understanding of the perennial fascination with, and the enduring legacy of, both the book and its iconic hero.Table of ContentsPreface John Richetti; Part I. Robinson Crusoe and Daniel Defoe: The Eighteenth Century: 1. Genre, nature, Robinson Crusoe J. Paul Hunter; 2. Robinson Crusoe and the form of the new novel Rivka Swenson; 3. Robinson Crusoe and Defoe's career as a writer Maximillian E. Novak; 4. Robinson Crusoe: housekeeping, gentility and property Pat Rogers; 5. Robinson Crusoe and its sequels: the farther adventures and serious reflections George A. Starr; 6. Politics, history, and the Robinson Crusoe story Rebecca Bullard; Part II. Robinson Crusoe in the Wider World: 7. Innovation and imitation in the eighteenth-century Robinsonade Carl Fisher; 8. The Crusoe story: philosophical and psychological implications Helen Thompson; 9. Robinson Crusoe and travel writing: the transatlantic world Eve Tabor Bannet; 10. Robinson Crusoe and colonialism Dennis Todd; Part III. Robinson Crusoe over Three Hundred Years: 11. The iconic Crusoe: illustrations and images of Robinson Crusoe David Blewett; 12. Robinsonades for young people Jill Campbell; 13. Anti-Crusoes, alternative Crusoes: revisions of the island story in the twentieth century Ann Marie Fallon; 14. Robinson Crusoe in the screen age Robert Mayer.
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Gale, Study Guides A Study Guide for G H Hardys A Mathematicians Apology
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Gale, Study Guides A Study Guide for Carlo Goldonis A Servant of Two Masters
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Gale, Study Guides A Study Guide for Shelagh Delaneys A Taste of Honey
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Gale, Study Guides A Study Guide for Khaled Hosseinis a Thousand Splendid Suns
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Gale, Study Guides A Study Guide for Margaret Atwoods Alias Grace
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Gale, Study Guides A Study Guide for Peter Shaffers Amadeus
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Gale, Study Guides A Study Guide for Piri Thomass Amigo Brothers
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Gale, Study Guides A Study Guide for Oscar Wildes An Ideal Husband
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Gale, Study Guides A Study Guide for Wilfred Owens Anthem for Doomed Youth
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Gale, Study Guides A Study Guide for Tom Stoppards Arcadia
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Gale, Study Guides A Study Guide for E H Gombrichs Art and Illusion A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation
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Gale, Study Guides A Study Guide for Ayn Rands Atlas Shrugged
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Gale, Study Guides A Study Guide for Federico Garcia Lorcas Blood Wedding
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Gale, Study Guides A Study Guide for Rebecca Gilmans Blue Surge
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Gale, Study Guides A Study Guide for Pearl Cleages Blues for an Alabama Sky
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Gale, Study Guides A Study Guide for Guy De Maupassants Boule De Suif
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Gale, Study Guides A Study Guide for Mark Reisners Cadillac Desert The American West and Its Disappearing Water
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Gale, Study Guides A Study Guide for Shirley Jacksons Charles
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Creative Media Partners, LLC A Study Guide for Gabriel Garcia Marquezs Chronicle of a Death Foretold
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Gale, Study Guides A Study Guide for Brian Friels Dancing at Lughnasa
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Creative Media Partners, LLC A Study Guide for Ariel Dorfmans Death and the Maiden
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Gale, Study Guides A Study Guide for Graham Greenes Destructors
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