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NavPress Publishing Group Hollywood Heroes
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University of Delaware Press Frankenstein and STEAM: Essays for Charles E.
Book SynopsisCharles E. Robinson, Professor Emeritus of English at The University of Delaware, definitively transformed study of the novel Frankenstein with his foundational volume The Frankenstein Notebooks and, in nineteenth century studies more broadly, brought heightened attention to the nuances of writing and editing. Frankenstein and STEAM consolidates the generative legacy of his later work on the novel's broad relation to topics in science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM). Seven chapters written by leading and emerging scholars pay homage to Robinson's later perspectives of the novel and a concluding postscript contains remembrances by his colleagues and students. This volume not only makes explicit the question of what it means to be human, a question Robinson invited students and colleagues to examine throughout his career, but it also illustrates the depth of the field and diversity of those who have been inspired by Robinson's work. Frankenstein and STEAM offers direction for continuing scholarship on the intersections of literature, science, and technology.Published by the University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Robin Hammerman 1 Frankenstein, Frankenstein, and the Dream of Science Susan J. Wolfson 2 Frankenstein Meets the FAANG Five: Figures of Monstrous Technology in Digital Media Discourse Mark A. McCutcheon 3 “the history of gods”: Singularity and Gender in Ex Machina Lisa Crafton 4 “My food is not that of man”: Food as Posthuman Phenomenon Siobhan Watters 5 Reading Frankenstein’s Ecological Legacy Lisbeth Chapin 6 Playing Devil’s Advocate: Defending the Criminal Justice System in Frankenstein L. Adam Mekler 7 Teaching Frankenstein as Pastiche, Parody, and Adaptation in the General Education Classroom Brian Bates Postscript: Remembrances of Charles E. Robinson Robin Hammerman Notes on Contributors Index
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Fulcrum Publishing Encyclopedia of Black Comics
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Verso Books Bluebeard's Chamber: Guilt and Confession in
Book SynopsisOver the last twenty years, critical discussion of Thomas Mann has highlighted the role of his homosexuality for his creative work. This not only is presented as a dynamic underlying Mann's creative work, but also is the supposed reason for the theme of guilt and redemption that grew ever stronger in Mann's fiction.Michael Maar mounts a devastating forensic challenge to this consensus: Mann was remarkably open about his sexual orientation, which he saw as no reason for guilt. But sexuality in Mann's work is inextricably bound up with an eruption of violence. Maar pursues this trail through Mann's writings and traces its origins back to Mann's second visit to Italy, during which the Devil appeared to him in Palestrina. Something happened to the twenty-one-year-old Thomas Mann in Naples that marked him for life with a burdensome sense of guilt...but what exactly was it?Trade ReviewMichael Maar is an acute analyst and elegant stylist. He has brought out how disturbed and disturbing a writer Thomas Mann can appear again when read with such close and ingenious attention. -- T.J. Reed * Times Literary Supplement *Germany's most gifted literary critic of the younger generation. -- Perry Anderson * London Review of Books *Maar is a fine literary sleuth. -- John Banville, Man Booker Prize Winner 2005
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Canongate Books The Cut Up
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Hesperus Press Ltd On Fiction
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Four Courts Press Ltd J.G. Farrell’s Empire Novels: The decline and
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Carcanet Press Ltd The Good Soldier
Book SynopsisFor nine years, John Dowell and his wife spend the summer season at a German spa town in the company of the respectable Ashburnhams. Behind the placid exteriors lie the destructive passions of men and women. This text includes biographical and critical apparatus.
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The Library of America Reporting World War II Vol. 1 (LOA #77): American
Book SynopsisThis Library of America volume is the first of a unique two-volume anthology. Drawn from original newspaper and magazine reports, radio transcripts, and wartime books, Reporting World War II captures the intensity of the war’s unfolding drama as recorded by the best of a remarkable generation of journalists, whose talents, sense of purpose, and physical courage remain unsurpassed in the annals of war reporting. Here in one collection, over eighty writers, famous and forgotten alike, confront the crucial events of those years in writing of exceptional skill and emotional force.The first volume traces the buildup to war and the first years of fighting: the Munich crisis, Kristallnacht, the fall of Poland and France, Pearl Harbor and Bataan, Guadalcanal and Salerno. William L. Shirer, Sigrid Schulz, and Howard K. Smith observe Nazi Germany from the inside; Edward R. Murrow and Ernie Pyle report from London during the Blitz; A.J. Liebling chronicles the Tunisian campaign; Margaret Bourke-White casts her eye on the Russian and Italian fronts. In a time when public perceptions were shaped mainly by the written word, correspondents like these were often as influential as politicians and as celebrated as movie stars.Writers who covered the home front are included as well: E.B. White at a bond rally in Maine, Brendan Gill on gas rationing, James Agee’s caustic reviews of Hollywood war movies. And so are the famous literary figures who covered the war: Gertrude Stein in occupied France, John Steinbeck on a troopship bound for Italy. Here too are writers on aspects of the war still often neglected: George S. Schuyler and other African-American journalists attacking racism and segregation in the armed forces; Mary Heaton Vorse on the women working in the defense industries; a firsthand account of the internment of Japanese-Americans.This volume contains a detailed chronology of the war, historical maps, biographical profiles of the journalists, explanatory notes, a glossary of military terms, and an index. Also included are thirty-two pages of photographs of the correspondents, many from private collections and never seen before. A companion volume covers 1944–1946.LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
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The Library of America John Muir: Nature Writings (LOA #92): The Story
Book SynopsisKnown as the "Father of the National Parks," John Muir wrote about the American West with unmatched passion and eloquence—as seen in this stunning, one-volume collectionIn a lifetime of exploration, writing, and passionate political activism, John Muir became America''s most eloquent spokesman for the mystery and majesty of the wilderness. A crucial figure in the creation of our national parks system and a far-seeing prophet of environmental awareness who founded the Sierra Club in 1892, he was also a master of natural description who evoked with unique power and intimacy the untrammeled landscapes of the American West. Nature Writings collects Muir''s most significant and best-loved works in a single volume, including: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth (1913), My First Summer in the Sierra (1911), The Mountains of California (1894) and Stickeen (1909). Rounding out the volume is a rich selection of essays—including "Yosemite Glaciers," "God''s First Temples," "Snow-Storm on Mount Shasta," "The American Forests," and "Save the Redwoods"—that highlight various aspects of his career: his exploration of the Grand Canyon and of what became Yosemite and Yellowstone national parks, his successful crusades to preserve the wilderness, his early walking tour to Florida, and the Alaska journey of 1879.LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
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Aqueduct Press Cheek by Jowl
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Mad Norwegian Press Queers Dig Time Lords: A Celebration of Doctor
Book SynopsisIn Queers Dig Time Lords, editors Sigrid Ellis (Chicks Dig Comics) and Michael Damian Thomas (Apex Magazine) bring together essays by award-winning writers to celebrate the phenomenon that is Doctor Who, in the tradition of the Hugo Award-winning Chicks Dig Time Lords. Tanya Huff (Blood Ties) wears her bi-focals as she analyzes the Doctor's fluid sexuality, former Doctor Who script editor Gary Russell explores the show's effect on his teenage years, Paul Magrs (Doctor Who: Hornets' Nest) defends and celebrates the camp qualities of the series, and Melissa Scott (Trouble and Her Friends) describes Doctor Who's impact on her greatest love and loss. Other contributors include David Llewellyn (Doctor Who: Night of the Humans), Rachel Swirsky (Through the Drowsy Dark), Hal Duncan (Ink: The Book of All Hours), Nigel Fairs (Big Finish Productions), Amal El-Mohtar (The Honey Month), Brit Mandelo (Beyond Binary), Mary Anne Mohanraj (Bodies in Motion), and Jed Hartman (Strange Horizons). This book features an introduction by John Barrowman (star of Doctor Who and Torchwood) and Carole E Barrowman (Hollow Earth, Torchwood: Exodus Code). The cover art is by Colleen Coover (Small Favors).
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Square Halo Books A Compass for Deep Heaven: Navigating the C. S.
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Les Belles Lettres Stups Et Fiction: Drogue Et Toxicomanie Dans La
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Les Belles Lettres Dictionnaire Du Roman Policier Nordique
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Classiques Garnier La Revue Des Lettres Modernes: Humour, Ironie,
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Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin La Science-Fiction
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Bohlau Verlag Franz Kafka im interkulturellen Kontext
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Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Thomas Mann Jahrbuch: 2020
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Brill Schoningh Ambiguity in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights
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Brill Fink Transformationen Schöpferischer Vernunft: Kant -
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Brill Deutschland Verschlungene Vorbilder
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Universitatsverlag Winter The Body of Work: John Rechy's Sensual Poetics
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Universitatsverlag Winter Genrevisions: Genre Experimentaton and
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Universitatsverlag Winter Approaching Whiteness: Acknowledging Native
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Universitatsverlag Winter Conflicting Discourses of Sovereignty,
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Universitatsverlag Winter Time(s) of Lives: (Non-)Normative Temporalities,
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Universitatsverlag Winter Ungarn ALS Gegenstand Und Problem Der Fiktionalen
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Universitatsverlag Winter Die Regierung Des Mangels: Hunger in Den
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Universitatsverlag Winter Mapping the Imaginative II: Teaching Fantasy and
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Universitatsverlag Winter Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Baudelaire's
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Universitatsverlag Winter World War I and Beyond: Human Tragedies, Social
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Universitatsverlag Winter The World Beyond: Developing Critical
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Universitatsverlag Winter Lazaro-Variationen: Der 'Lazarillo de Tormes' Und
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Universitatsverlag Winter Data Imaginary
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Universitatsverlag Winter 'a Feast That Lasts a Year or Two': Writing,
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Universitatsverlag Winter Erzahlen Und Implizite Anthropologie:
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Universitatsverlag Winter Sensational Things: Souvenirs, Keepsakes, and
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Universitatsverlag Winter Sounding the Novel: Voice in Twenty-First Century
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Universitatsverlag Winter Trans / Intifada: The Politics and Poetics of
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Universitatsverlag Winter A Different Earth: Literary Space in Mary
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Universitatsverlag Winter Teaching the Posthuman
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V&R unipress GmbH Deutschsprachige Pop-Literatur von Fichte bis
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V&R unipress GmbH Alles ist nur Symbol: Symbolisches Kapital und
Book SynopsisBontempelli analyses important motives and situations of the novel by examining Manns strategy of positioning within the literary field of his time. In his socio-analysis he offers a critical reading of selected episodes, figures and conflicts of the novel and thus summarizes Manns complex network of distinctions, social classifications and ruler dynamics. Furthermore, the symbolical order of the novel is analysed with regard to the work ethics, putting the Buddenbrooks in the context of two masters of the protestant Bourgeoisie of their time: Max Weber and Werner Sombart.
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V&R unipress GmbH … sind noch in der Mache: Zur Bedeutung der
Book SynopsisWie kaum einem anderen Autor haftet Johann Georg Hamann der Vorwurf des ›dunklen Stils‹ an. Dieser Vorwurf avancierte regelrecht zu einem Topos der Hamann-Lektüre und -Kritik, der bis heute unvermindert anhält und in Goethe und Hegel nur seine prominentesten Vertreter findet. Hamann hat sich immer wieder mit Fragen der Rhetorik und der ›richtigen‹ Schreibart beschäftigt. Zahlreich nimmt er in Schriften und Briefen explizit Bezug auf den Vorwurf der Dunkelheit, rechtfertigt seine besondere Schreibart und erläutert seine Vorstellungen zum Stilbegriff. Jedoch ist es vor allem die ›Mache‹ seiner Schriften selbst, die sich auf den Grenzen der klassischen Rhetorik oder jenseits davon bewegt und den Lesenden mit Texten konfrontiert, welche die sprachlichen Möglichkeiten individueller Darstellung und Textualität auszuschöpfen suchen. Rhetorische Mittel dienen Hamann dabei nicht als bloße Einkleidung der Gedanken, sondern sind untrennbarer Ausdruck der Eigentümlichkeit des Schreibenden und betonen die unauflösbare Spannung zwischen der Allgemeinheit der Sprache und dem individuellen Ausdrucksbedürfnis des Einzelnen. Johann Georg Hamann is notorious for his obscure writing style. This characterisation somehow advanced both to a lasting topos of Hamann lecture and criticism of which Goethe and Hegel are the most prominent representatives. Hamann repeatedly concerned himself with rhetoric issues and correct writing styles. In various writings and letters, he explicitly commented on the reproach of obscurity, defended his particular writing style and explained his concept of style. However, it is the design of his writing which pushes the limits of classic rhetoric or even moves them far beyond, thus confronting the reader with writings that try to exhaust both the linguistic means of individual presentation and textuality. Rhetoric means here not only serve Hamann as a pure incorporation of his thoughts but are an inseparable expression of the individuality of the author and emphasize the indissoluble tension between the generality of language and the individual’s need for expression.
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V&R unipress GmbH Rede, dass ich dich sehe
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V&R unipress GmbH Land Deep in Time: Canadian Historiographic
Book SynopsisLiterary exploration of what remains deep in ethnic memory in the land that remains deep in time
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Ediciones Catedra, S.A. La Gaviota
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