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  • Opuscule, Ou Petit Traité Sceptique Sur Cette

    Hachette Livre - BNF Opuscule, Ou Petit Traité Sceptique Sur Cette

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  • Lettres Sur Les Ouvrages Et Le Caractère de J.-J.

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  • Oeuvres de Molière. Poésies Diverses

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  • Oeuvres Complètes de Eugène Scribe, Comédies,

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  • Oeuvres Complètes de Eugène Scribe, Comédies,

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  • Le Tartufe: Comédie En Cinq Actes Et En Vers

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  • La Nouvelle Atlantide de François Bacon,

    Hachette Livre - BNF La Nouvelle Atlantide de François Bacon,

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  • L'Année Terrible (Éd.1879)

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  • Le Roman Du Renard: MIS En Vers d'Après Les

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  • Nouvelles Histoires Extraordinaires (Nouv. Éd.)

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  • Oeuvres de Henri d'Andeli, Trouvère Normand Du

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  • L'enfant de volupté (Éd.1895)

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  • Épîtres de Boileau (Éd.1853)

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  • La Couronne Margaritique, Composée (Éd.1549)

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  • Le Roman de l'Avenir (Éd.1834)

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  • Les Chants Modernes (Éd.1860)

    Hachette Livre - BNF Les Chants Modernes (Éd.1860)

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  • Oeuvres Illustrées de Balzac. Ursule Mirouët. La

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  • Larousse Kingfisher Chambers Venus dIlle

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  • The Work of Reading: Literary Criticism in the

    Springer Nature Switzerland AG The Work of Reading: Literary Criticism in the

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    Book SynopsisThe Work of Reading: Literary Criticism in the 21st Century is a sustained critical examination of the developments in the field of literary studies from the early 2000s onwards within the context of the systematic problems in the humanities. This volume analyzes the origins of the current methods—including New Historicism, empiricism, New Formalism, postcritique, and others—and posits alternatives to the present state of literary studies. At a time when many aspects of current methods show a desire to adopt values from other disciplines to solve internal crises, this volume advocates a renewed focus on questions of form by means of the praxis of aesthetic study, close reading, and other modes of engaging directly with literary texts. Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction: “Criticism Today: Form, Critique, and the Experience of Literature”, Derek Attridge.- Chapter 2: “Is the Author Still Dead?”, Henry Staten.- Chapter 3: “Criticism and Attachment in the Neoliberal University”, Mir Ali Hosseini.- Chapter 4: “Darkness Visible: The Contingency of Critique”, Ellen Rooney.- Chapter 5: “Reading by Example: Disciplinary History for a Polemical Age”, Doug Battersby.- Chapter 6: “Does Knowledge Still Have a Home in the Humanities?”, William Rasch.- Chapter 7: “‘Our Beloved Codex’: Frank Kermode’s Modesty”, Ronan McDonald.- Chapter 8: “Polonius as Anti-Close-Reader: Towards a Poetics of the Putz”, Rachel Eisendrath.- Chapter 9: “What Kind of Person Should the Critic Be?”, Simon Grimble.- Chapter 10: “‘Slow time,’ ‘a Brooklet, scarce espied’: Close Reading, Cleanth Brooks, John Keats”, Susan J. Wolfson.- Chapter 11: “Poem as Field, Canon as Crystal”, Anirudh Sridhar.- Chapter 12: “Criticism and the Non-I, or, Rachel Cusk’s Sentences”, Tom Eyers.- Chapter 13: “Ecocide and Objectivity: Literary Thinking in How the Dead Dream”, Anna Kornbluh.- Chapter 14: Afterword, Heather Dubrow.

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  • Writing Cultures and Literary Media: Publishing

    Springer Nature Switzerland AG Writing Cultures and Literary Media: Publishing

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    Book SynopsisThis Pivot investigates the impact of the digital on literary culture through the analysis of selected marketing narratives, social media stories, and reading communities. Drawing on the work of contemporary writers, from Bernardine Evaristo to Patricia Lockwood, each chapter addresses a specific tension arising from the overarching question: How has writing culture changed in this digital age? By examining shifting modes of literary production, this book considers how discourses of writing and publishing and hierarchies of cultural capital circulate in a socially motivated post-digital environment. Writing Cultures and Literary Media combines compelling accounts of book trends, reader reception, and interviews with writers and publishers to reveal fresh insights for students, practitioners, and scholars of writing, publishing, and communications. Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Chapter 1 Convergence culture: new book concepts for new audiencesChapter 2 Futurebook critics and cultural curators in a socially networked ageChapter 3 Curses and verses: Social media and the shock of the new in poetry and criticismChapter 4 Authentic fictions: Marketing stick storiesChapter 5 Visual editions: The analogue renaissance in an age of storytellingConclusion

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  • Forms of List-Making: Epistemic, Literary, and

    Springer Nature Switzerland AG Forms of List-Making: Epistemic, Literary, and

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    Book SynopsisThis open access book attempts to show that an examination of the list’s formal features has the potential to produce genuine insights into the production of knowledge, the poetics of literature and the composition of visual art. Following a conceptual introduction, the twelve single-authored chapters place the list in a variety of well-researched contexts, including ancient Roman historiography, medieval painting, Enlightenment periodicals, nineteenth-century botanical geography, American Beat poetry and contemporary photobooks. With its interdisciplinary approach, this book is a unique contribution to an emerging field dedicated to the study of lists.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Epistemic and Artistic list-Making; Roman Alexander Barton, Julia Böckling, Sarah Link and Anne Rüggemeier. - 2. Between Narrativity, Memory and Administration: Lists in Roman Historiography; Martin Stöckinger.- 3. Lore and Order? Enlisting Rabbinic Epistemology; Lennart Lehmhaus.- 4. Moral Curiosity Cabinets: Listing and the Character Sketch in Addison and Steele’s Periodicals; Theresa Schön.- 5. The Lists of Alexander von Humboldt: On the Epistemology of Scientific Practice; Ottmar Ette.- 6. Don’t Trust the List: The Politics of Enumeration and Capitalist Discourse in the Novel; Eva von Contzen.- 7. More than a Canon: Lists of Contents in British Poetry Anthologies; Stefanie Lethbridge.- 8. Aesthetic Unrest: “Howl” and the Literary List; Alyson Brickey.- 9. Culinary list form in the experimental Poetry of 1960’s Finland: Literary Menus and Recipes; Juri Joensuu.- 10. Poetological Lists: Writing-Scences in Contemporary Literature; Ulrike Vedder.- 11. Between Order and Chaos: Lists in Children’s Literature; Agnes Blümer.- 12. Aesthetics of Enumeration: The Arma Christi in Medieval Visual Art; Daniela Wagner.- 13. Et cetera Photobooks? Reflections on Conceptual Documentary Photography as Visual Enumeration; Anja Schürmann.-

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  • Reformation Hermeneutics and Literary Language in

    Springer Nature Switzerland AG Reformation Hermeneutics and Literary Language in

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    Book SynopsisThe expressive and literary capacities of post-Reformation English were largely shaped in response to the Bible. Faith in the Language examines the convergence of biblical interpretation and English literature, from William Tyndale to John Donne, and argues that the groundwork for a newly authoritative literary tradition in early modern England is laid in the discourse of biblical hermeneutics. The period 1525-1611 witnessed a proliferation of English biblical versions, provoking a century-long debate about how and whether the Bible should be rendered in English. These public, indeed institutional accounts of biblical English changed the language: questions about the relation between Scripture and exegetical tradition that shaped post-Reformation hermeneutics bore strange fruit in secular literature that defined itself through varying forms of autonomy vis-a-vis prior tradition.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction: Reformation Hermeneutics and Literary Language in Early Modern England.- Part I: Reformation Hermeneutics and the Meaning of English.- Chapter 2: Biblical Authority and the Meaning of English in the More-Tyndale Polemics.- Chapter 3: The Roman Inkhorn: Literary and Religious Resistance to Latinism in the English Renaissance.- Part II: Reformation Hermeneutics and Sidneian Poiesis.- Chapter 4: Biblical Hermeneutics and Poiesis in Philip Sidney’s Apology and the Sidney Psalter.- Part III: Reformation Hermeneutics and Post-Petrarchan Poetics.- Chapter 5: Tradition and Tautology in Shakespeare’s Sonnets.- Chapter 6: Tradition and Invention in the Songs and Sonets and Sermons of John Donne.

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  • Unreliable Narration and Trustworthiness: Intermedial and Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    De Gruyter Unreliable Narration and Trustworthiness: Intermedial and Interdisciplinary Perspectives

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    Though the phenomenon known as “unreliable narration” or “narrative unreliability” has received a lot of attention during the last two decades, narratological research has mainly focused on its manifestations in narrative fiction, particularly in homodiegetic or first-person narration. Except for film, forms and functions of unreliable narration in other genres, media and disciplines have so far been relatively neglected. The present volume redresses the balance by directing scholarly attention to disciplines and domains that narratology has so far largely ignored. It aims at initiating an interdisciplinary approach to, and debate on, narrative unreliability, exploring unreliable narration in a broad range of literary genres, other media and non-fictional text-types, contexts and disciplines beyond literary studies. Crossing the boundaries between genres, media, and disciplines, the volume acknowledges that the question of whether or not to believe or trust a narrator transcends the field of literature: The issues of (un)reliability and (un)trustworthiness play a crucial role in many areas of human life as well as a wide spectrum of academic fields ranging from law to history, and from psychology to the study of culture.

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  • Springer International Publishing AG Books in Motion in Early Modern Europe: Beyond Production, Circulation and Consumption

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    Book SynopsisThis book presents and explores a challenging new approach in book history. It offers a coherent volume of thirteen chapters in the field of early modern book history covering a wide range of topics and it is written by renowned scholars in the field. The rationale and content of this volume will revitalize the theoretical and methodological debate in book history. The book will be of interest to scholars and students in the field of early modern book history as well as in a range of other disciplines. It offers book historians an innovative methodological approach on the life cycle of books in and outside Europe. It is also highly relevant for social-economic and cultural historians because of the focus on the commercial, legal, spatial, material and social aspects of book culture. Scholars that are interested in the history of science, ideas and news will find several chapters dedicated to the production, circulation and consumption of knowledge and news media. Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction - Books and Book History in Motion: Materiality, Sociality and Spaciality; Daniel Bellingradt and Jeroen Salman.- PART I: BEYOND PRODUCTION.- Chapter 2. Promoting the Counter-Reformation in Provincial France; Malcolm Walsby.- Chapter 3. Conrad Gessner and the Mobility of the Book; Paul Nelles.- Chapter 4. Paper Networks and the Book Industry; Daniel Bellingradt.- Chapter 5. Marketing a New Legal Code in Fifteenth Century Castile; Benito Rial Costas.- PART II: BEYOND CIRCULATION.- Chapter 6. Links between Newspapers and Books; Andreas Golob.- Chapter 7. Publishers, Editors, and Artists in the Marketing of News in the Dutch Republic circa 1700; Joop W. Koopmans.- Chapter 8. The Battle of Medical Books; Jeroen Salman.- Chapter 9. What killed Théodore Rilliet de Saussure?; Mark Curran.- PART III: BEYOND CONSUMPTION.- Chapter 10. Reading Strategies in Scotland circa 1750–1820; Vivienne Dunstan.- Chapter 11. Italian Books and French Medical Libraries in the Renaissance; Shanti Graheli.- Chapter 12. Printed in Europe, consumed in Ottoman lands; Geoffrey Roper.- Epilogue: Matter, Sociability and Space; Joad Raymond.

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  • Springer International Publishing AG Can We Talk Mediterranean?: Conversations on an Emerging Field in Medieval and Early Modern Studies

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  • Springer International Publishing AG In Collaboration with British Literary Biography: Haunting Conversations

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  • Helmbrecht

    de Gruyter Helmbrecht

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  • Language Death in the Isle of Man: An

    De Gruyter Language Death in the Isle of Man: An

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    Book SynopsisLanguage death is an aspect of language contact which has occupied the interest of linguists from the past twenty-five years or so. Although the phenomenon of language death is occuring all over the world very few instances of it have been dealt with both from a sociolinguistic and formal linguistic standpoint. Those that spring to mind are the works of Nancy Dorian on East Sutherland Gaelic and Hans-Jürgen Sasse on the Albanian dialect of Arvanítika in Greece. In both instances it is dialects of languages that are treated and not complete languages themselves. The study of language death in the Isle of Man deals with the decline and extinction of Manx Gaelic as a community language, and as a language in its own right. After setting the scenario of language death this study then looks into the sociolinguistic reasons which led to the decline and death of Manx in Man. There then follows a detailed look into the study of language and language use in Man, from early observations to the present day. This section includes a detailed description of phonetic and sound recordings made of Manx over the period. This leads to an in-depth study into the formal linguistic situation of Manx, tracing the development in its phonology, morphophonology, morphology, morphosyntax and syntax, idiom and lexicon, which ultimately led to its demise. As language revival is in itself a facet of language death, the study concludes with a short excursus into the various efforts at language revival and maintenance in Man, from the latter part of the 19th century to the present day. The appendices include Professor Carl Marstrander's diary of his visits to Man (1929-33) published for the first time. The diary contains percipient observations of the state of Manx in its final phase. In short, this study looks in some detail into the mechanics of language death on a once thriving and vibrant community language.

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  • transcript Verlag Autosociobiography

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  • V&R unipress GmbH Roots in the Air Construction of Identity in

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    Book SynopsisNew anglophone literature from Israel: self-reflexive, political, transcultural

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  • Pride and Prejudice 20 Interpretations

    V&R unipress GmbH Pride and Prejudice 20 Interpretations

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  • SURVIVE OR SINK: An Action Agenda for Sanitation,

    Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. SURVIVE OR SINK: An Action Agenda for Sanitation,

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  • Dattsons Publishers A Critique on NewAge Indian Writers

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    Book SynopsisLiterature is the mirror of society. We have a great tradition of literature since very ancient times. The English language entered India with the onset of European colonialists, especially the British. India has significantly contributed to the overall world literature. This contribution of India has been chiefly through Indian writing in English, with novelists being in the forefront in this respect. A number of novelists on the contemporary scene have given expression to their creative urge in no other language than English and have brought credit to Indian English fiction as a distinctive force in world fiction. In the present book, we have made an attempt to present a clear picture of Indian ethos, identity, modernity, and changing trends at the global level as portrayed in the novels of new generation writers.

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  • Brill Psychoanalysis in French and Francophone Literature and Film

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  • The Best American Book of the 20th Century

    Onomatopee The Best American Book of the 20th Century

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  • Television Series as Literature

    Springer Verlag, Singapore Television Series as Literature

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    Book SynopsisThis book explores how television series can be understood as a form of literature, bridging the gap between literary and television studies. It goes beyond existing adaptation studies and narratological approaches to television series in both its scope and depth. The respective chapters address literary works, themes, tropes, techniques, values, genres, and movements in relation to a broad variety of television series, while drawing on the theoretical work of a host of scholars from Simone de Beauvoir and Yuri Lotman to Ted Nannicelli and Jason Mittel, and on critical approaches ranging from narratology and semiotics to empirical sociology and phenomenology. The book fosters new ways of understanding television series and literature and lays the groundwork for future scholarship in a number of fields. By questioning the alleged divide between television series and works of literature, it contributes not only to a better understanding of television series and literary texts themselves, but also to the development of interdisciplinary scholarship in the humanities.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Block 1: TV Series as Literature in Theory.- Adapting Balzic for Television: Literariness and Authorial Identity on the Small Screen.- The Poetics of Screenwriting: Approaching the Teleplay from a Literary Perspective.- From Frenetic to Vivid: Phenomenological Reading to Immersive Television Narratives.- Literary Remediations of The Contemporary Television Series – From the Familiar to Storyttelling Originals.- The Literary in Television, or Why Should We Teach TV Series in Literature Departments.- Toward “Sphere Theory”: Redefining the Narrative Genres of the Novel and the TV Drama Series.- The Academic Canonization of Media and Its Connections to Industry.- Literary Value and the Case of the Teleserye in the Philippines.- Block 2: Television Literature as Literature in Pratice.- “It’s the Beauty that Hurts the Most”: Rectify as Televisual Novel.- Angry Old Men? Reading ITV’S Morse Through the Lends of the Campus Novel.- “Read a Fucking Book!”: Healing Trauma Through Reading in Boardwalk Empire.- Not Exactly Shakespeare? Shakespeare’S Plays, Ben Elton’s Upstart Crow and the Problem of Literature on Television.- A Shift in Storytelling: Television Series over the Garden Wall as a Literary Reconstruction of Dante’S Divine Comedy.- Breaking Bad: Reading Freedom Through the Fragility of Private Space.- Rat Phones, Alligators, Lemon Pepper Wet: The Poetic Absurd of Atlanta.- Reading a Police Procedural as a Lyrical Text.- Audible Paratexts: Song Lyrics in Television Series.- Adult Fables in the Digital Age: A Literary Approach to Black Mirror.- “Literature/Film/Mad Men”.- ‘Married at First Sight’: A TV Literature Experiment.

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  • State University of New York Press Mothers Mobility Narrative

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  • The Spanish Tragedy

    Broadview Press Ltd The Spanish Tragedy

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    Book SynopsisThe Spanish Tragedy became one of the most successful plays on the Elizabethan English stage and laid the foundation of the revenge tragedy, a genre that playwrights returned to throughout the early modern era and that endures even today. The story surrounds the civil servant Hieronimo who joins Bel-imperia of the royal family to take revenge on her own brother for murdering Hieronimo's son, the object of her affection. The work goes far beyond a story of intrigue and brings up questions about aristocratic privilege, the moral hazards of revenge, the spectacle of violence, and the agency of women at court.This Broadview Edition includes a freshly edited text based on the 1592 edition, notes designed to help first-time readers understand and enjoy the work, an extensive introduction that situates the play in its literary and historical context, and extensive historical documents. The documents open up avenues of inquiry for students interested in the life and work of Thomas Kyd, the construction of women at court, the question of revenge, violence and entertainment in Elizabethan England, and Spain in the Elizabethan imagination.Trade Review“This is a superb edition of The Spanish Tragedy — a work of exemplary scholarship and sensitive critical intelligence. The notes and annotations are admirably clear and informative, and the introduction to Thomas Kyd’s enigmatic life and work is enthralling and illuminating. As well as providing us with a fresh, updated play text, Patrick McHenry gives us a vivid account of the political and cultural background to this great, foundational work of revenge tragedy. Readers of this edition of the play will be rewarded with abundant critical insights and thought-provoking commentary.” — Stephen Regan, Durham University“This foundational text of Renaissance drama and cultural history has been conservatively edited, helpfully glossed, and well annotated. In addition, a judicious selection of background materials (on revenge, honor, and forgiveness; Elizabethan blood lust; female agency; and Elizabethan perception of the Spanish temperament) makes this an excellent all-round edition for classroom use.” — Raymond-Jean Frontain, University of Central ArkansasTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionThomas Kyd: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextThe Spanish TragedyAppendix A: Additional Passages of 1602Appendix B: Documents in the Life of Thomas Kyd From Richard Mulcaster, Positions (1581) Letter from Queen Elizabeth’s Privy Council (11 May 1593) Thomas Kyd, Two Letters to Sir John Puckering (1593) Thomas Kyd, Dedication to Robert Garnier’s Cornelia (1594) Appendix C: The Question of Revenge From the Epistle of the Apostle Paul to the Romans From Seneca, Thyestes (first century CE) From “A Sermon against Contention and Brawling” (1547) From Richard Jones, The Book of Honor and Arms (1590) From William Westerman, Two Sermons of Assize (1600) From Ben Jonson, Introduction to Bartholomew Fair (1614) Sir Francis Bacon, “Of Revenge” (1625) Appendix D: Violence and Entertainment in Elizabethan England From Robert Langham, A Letter (1575) From William Harrison, Description of England (1586) From Philip Stubbes, The Anatomy of Abuses (1595) John Norden, Map of London (1593) The Triple Tree at Tyburn Appendix E: The Social Construction of Women at Court From Baldesar Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier (1528) From Juan Luis Vives, Instruction of Christian Women (1529) Queen Elizabeth’s Armada Speech to the Troops at Tilbury (9 August 1588) Lady Arbella Stuart, Letter to King James (c. December 1610) From Elizabeth Cary, The Tragedy of Mariam (1613) Appendix F: Spain in Elizabethan Culture From Richard Hakluyt, A Discourse on Western Planting (1584) From A Fig for the Spaniard (1591) From Sir Walter Raleigh, A Report of the Truth of the Fight about the Iles of Azores (1591) Works Cited and Further Reading

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  • Kenneth Goldsmith: Against Translation:

    Jean Boite editions Kenneth Goldsmith: Against Translation:

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  • Seferis and Elytis as Translators

    Verlag Peter Lang Seferis and Elytis as Translators

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    Book SynopsisGeorge Seferis and Odysseus Elytis gave the Modern Greek language a substantial corpus of translations from poets working in French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, English and Ancient Greek. However, the translation practices of these two Nobel Prize-winning poets have long been inadequately observed. The present volume provides a close examination of Seferis’ and Elytis’ inter- and intra-lingual verse translations with the aim of discovering their translating techniques and their personal and public goals in pursuing the act of translation. Similarities and differences between the two poets are highlighted comparatively. The methodological approach, informed by recent findings in the field of descriptive translation studies and polysystem theories, investigates the function of translation in the target culture and the relation of translation to original poetic production. Throughout the book the study of translation is shown to be a powerful tool for the study of Modern Greek literature and its relation to other literatures and movements of the time, while the task of the translator and the task of the writer unfold as two components of the same endeavour.Table of ContentsContents: Seferis’ translation of The Waste Land – Translation as acclimatization: The intralingual verse translations of Seferis and Elytis – Translation and intertextuality – Seferis’ notes for an essay on translation – Two unpublished translations by George Seferis.

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  • Coming to Terms with a Crisis

    Transcript Verlag Coming to Terms with a Crisis

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    Book SynopsisThe COVID-19 pandemic hit the world as a (purportedly) novel situation with which people struggled to come to terms. The contributors to this volume show how various actors reacted to this pandemic through specific forms of representation and storytelling in popular culture, public discourse, and science communication. They demonstrate how these representations both leverage new media and resort to familiar scripts and characters to make sense of the situation, and uncover the transformative potential of narratives about epi-/pandemics across different domains and their contribution to the production of knowledge as well as the recalibration of norms and values.

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  • transcript Verlag Touching Spaces in Textures

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  • transcript Aquatic Environments

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  • Academic Studies Press Transit Culture and Postcolonical Trauma

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  • Hatred of Capitalism: A Semiotext(e) Reader

    MIT Press Ltd Hatred of Capitalism: A Semiotext(e) Reader

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  • Orlando

    McGill-Queen's University Press Orlando

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    Book SynopsisA film that transcends time, Sally Potter’s Orlando (1992) follows its titular character through nearly four hundred years of British history. Orlando starts life as a young man in the 1600s and then, mid-film, becomes a woman in the 1800s. Russell Sheaffer meticulously charts the distinct shift from lesbian feminist text to queer film classic.Trade Review“An original and timely reading of Sally Potter’s 1992 film. I was utterly captivated by Sheaffer’s reading of the ways in which the cinematic language and visual grammar of Potter’s film take up the call of Woolf’s ‘common sentence,’ with the film’s oscillating point of view, invitation to the audience through its use of direct address, and collaborative sharing of the filmic gaze suggesting ways in which women can queerly both originate and inherit each other’s stories. This culminates in a rich concluding discussion of the film’s final scene, when Orlando’s daughter turns the camera on her mother.” Peter Dickinson, author of My Vancouver Dance History: Story, Movement, Community

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  • The Divided States  Unraveling National

    University of Wisconsin Press The Divided States Unraveling National

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    Book SynopsisThe tension between populism and pluralism, between homogeneity and heterogeneity, has marked the United States since its inception. In The Divided States, leading scholars and critics argue that the US is, and has always been, a site where multiple national identities intersect in productive and challenging ways.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Contested Lives, Contesting Lives Ricia Anne Chansky and Laura J. Beard Section One: Tracing Patterns Dakobijigaade mii miinawaa Aaba’igaade Gichimookomaanakiing: Tied and Untied in America Margaret Noodin Negotiating National Identity and Well-Being in US Black Women’s Diaries Joycelyn K. Moody The Legacy of Conquest in Comics: Texas History Movies, Jack Jackson, and Revision Daniel Worden “Strange Juxtapositions”: Elliott Erwitt’s Visual Diary of Cold War America Steven Hoelscher We Have Never Been a Nation of Immigrants: Refugee Temporality as American Identity Elizabeth Rodrigues “A small flashlight in a great dark space”: Elizabeth Warren, Autobiography, and Populism Rachael McLennan Indians in Monumental Places: Heid Erdich and Jeff Thomas Laura J. Beard Juneteenth Angela Ards Archival Intervention: Surviving the “Savage Splintering” in Deborah Miranda’s Bad Indians Hertha D. Sweet Wong Section Two: Facing Forward Moving Beyond the Urban/Rural Divide in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home Katie Hogan White Privilege and J. D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy Stephanie Li) Getting Schooled: Responses to Education as Neoliberal Identity-Formation in US Life Narratives Megan Brown Disabling Birth: Prognostic Certainty and the Gestating Citizen of the Contemporary Midwifery Movement Ally Day Afterword Days of Reckoning: Prospects for Life Narrative 2020 Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson Contributors Index

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