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Book SynopsisFirst Published in 1993.This study seeks to analyze shamanism and initiation from the perspective of shamans, rather than from the laity''s point of view. One of the aims of this research has been to get behind the shamans'' language in order to understand their experiences.Table of ContentsChapter 1 A Study in Esoterica; Chapter 2 The Fiction of the Healed Healer; Chapter 3 The Ecstasies of Inuit Laity; Chapter 4 The Varieties of Ecstatic Seance; Chapter 5 The Pattern of Shamanic Initiations; Chapter 6 The Initiator’s Role; Chapter 7 The Vision Quest; Chapter 8 The Journey to the Moon and the Sun; Chapter 9 Helping Spirits and Shamanic Power; Chapter 10 The Seances of Commencement;

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Book SynopsisStories that capture our times by a young author who has already established himself as a unique American voice (Elle)Trade Review"[An] excellent new collection…[Sayrafiezadeh] writes with a veteran’s swagger and discipline…[T]he collection joins a list that includes Leonard Michaels’s “I Would Have Saved Them if I Could,” Lorrie Moore’s “Like Life” and Charles D’Ambrosio’s “The Dead Fish Museum” as a second book of stories that exceeds and expands upon the promise of the first, confirming the writer as a major, committed practitioner of a difficult form." -- Andrew Martin - The New York Times Book Review"A dark and exhilarating collection." -- David L. Ulin - The Los Angeles Times"Skillful and controlled…[The stories in American Estrangement] speak, at times quite powerfully, to an overriding feeling of cultural and personal loneliness." -- Sam Sacks - The Wall Street Journal"[A] stellar new collection… Sayrafiezadeh is a master… His prose has a rhythm that is startlingly original and an intense quirkiness that catches you unaware." -- Elaine Margolin - Los Angeles Review of Books

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Book SynopsisA posthumous collection of beloved and never-before-read stories from a titan of contemporary Southern fiction

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Book SynopsisA dynamic French-Syrian translator, lauded for her lively poetic voice, tackles the enchanted world of Aladdin in this sparkling new translation.Trade Review"It’s not every day you come across a new translation of The Arabian Nights, but the French Syrian writer, Yasmine Seale, has rendered afresh the 18th-century version of Aladdin by Antoine Galland, and has done a cracking job…" -- Family favourites: children’s books for Christmas reviewed - The Spectator"Elegant... Seale is careful to frame her translation with an account of Shahrazad herself, which not only gives it a sense of urgency, but also reminds us that the narrative voice is a female one—a fact that other adaptations and translations often miss. This world is one in which a woman can use the gift of story-telling to navigate the power of men. And this framing breathes new life into the female cast of Aladdin’s story." -- Hetta Howes - Times Literary Supplement"This new translation of the classic tale is, like the lamp at its center, darker, grubbier, and more twisted than its Disneyfied iteration, emphasizing its transgressive qualities.... Seale’s text has a fluidity and an elegance that give even this diet of “dreams, smoke, and visions” a satisfying heft." -- The New Yorker"... a charming rendition of Aladdin…" -- The National"In her new translation of Aladdin, Seale provides a scintillating lens through which to view ‘the tale that has never stopped travelling’: the story of a boy and his magical lamp. Paired with a riveting introduction by Paulo Lemos Horta, Seale’s work acknowledges the tangled history of Aladdin, from its initial appearance in French literature in 1709 to its controversial Disney adaptation in 1992..." -- Madeline Day - The Paris Review

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses upon the breaking of rules and taboos involved in 'doing crime', including violent crime as represented in fictive texts and ethnographic research. It includes chapters on topics of urgent contemporary interest such as asylum seekers, sex work, serial killers, school shooters, crimes of poverty and understandings of 'madness'.Trade Review"[This book] clearly locates itself within the field of cultural criminology and makes a distinctive and fresh contribution to the field. Given the authors' trans-disciplinary approach, researchers and students of working in gender, media and film studies will also find a host of important insights here." - British Journal of CriminologyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Transgressive Imaginations: Crime, Deviance and Culture Children as Victims and Villains: The School Shooter Violent Female Avengers in Popular Culture Transgressing Sex Work: Ethnography, Film and Fiction Madness and Liminality: Psychosocialand Fictive Images Serial Killers and the Ethics of Representation Outlaws, Borders and Folk Devils Crime, Poverty and Resistance on Skid Row Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA wide-ranging introductory guide for readers making their first steps into the world of manga, this book helps readers explore the full range of Japanese comic styles, forms and traditions from its earliest texts to the internationally popular comics of the 21st century. In an accessible and easy-to-navigate format, the book covers: The history of Japanese comics, from influences in early visual culture to the global Manga Boom' of the 1990s to the present Case studies of texts reflecting the range of themes, genres, forms and creators, including Osamu Tezuka, Machiko Hasegawa and Katsuhiro Otomo Key themes and contexts from gender and sexuality, to history and censorship Critical approaches to manga, including definitions, biography and reception and global publishing contextsThe book includes a bibliography of essential critical writing on manga, discussion questions for classroom use and a glossary of key critical terms.Trade ReviewAs someone who works on mostly the western tradition in comics I have long wanted to have an up to date work that provides both a historical overview of manga and deals with its social and cultural impact both in Japan and globally. Suzuki and Stewart have delivered that work. It will be both a useful reference work for comics scholars wishing to engage with manga and a useful text book for classroom teaching that wishes to encompass the global forms of comics. * Ian Gordon, National University of Singapore, Singapore *Japanese manga culture is a vast universe in terms of both its scale and diversity. To the uninitiated, the question of where and how to best enter this universe is often hard to answer. To existing fans of specific artists and works, the question is often how to break through a type of tunnel vision and place one’s own interests in some sort of larger context. And as more and more people need to teach, or want to write, about manga, the need for an updated guide becomes essential. Kudos to scholars Shige (CJ) Suzuki and Ronald Stewart for their stellar work with Manga: A Critical Guide. * Frederik L. Schodt, author of Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics (1983) *Table of ContentsSeries Editor’s Preface List of Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Japanese Names and Terms 1. Introduction 2. Historical Overview Part I: The Emergence of Manga to 1945 The Problem of Start Points and Definitions Manga’s Emergence in Modern Periodical Print Media Towards Character-Driven Narratives and a Profession Children’s Manga Growth, Media Interplay, and the Dark Valley of War Part II: 1945 to the Present From Ashes and Ruins Expanding and Diversifying Readerships Manga Goes Mainstream After the Death of “God” 3. Social and Cultural Impact Controversy and Censorship Gender and Sexuality Historical Representation Media Mix and Dojinshi Participatory Culture Cultural Status and Institutions 4. Critical Uses Bounds of Manga Formal and Visual Analysis Biographical Approaches Gender and Sexuality Studies Approaches Historical Questions and Historical Representation 5. Key Texts Appendix: Glossary List of Museums Resources Index

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Book SynopsisLeading and emerging, early career scholars in Classical Reception Studies come together in this volume to explore the under-represented area of the Australasian Classical Tradition. They interrogate the interactions between Mediterranean Antiquity and the antipodean worlds of New Zealand and Australia through the lenses of literature, film, theatre and fine art.Of interest to scholars across the globe who research the influence of antiquity on modern literature, film, theatre and fine art, this volume fills a decisive gap in the literature by bringing antipodean research into the spotlight. Following a contextual introduction to the field, the six parts of the volume explore the latest research on subjects that range from the Lord of the Rings and Xena: Warrior Princess franchises to important artists such as Sidney Nolan and local authors whose work offers opportunities for cross-cultural and interdisciplinary analysis with well-known Western authors and artists.Trade ReviewThis is a timely book, given current debates about teaching ‘western civilisation’ in our universities. It represents a coming-of-age particularly in Australian classical reception studies, and it will surely be a stimulus to bring less descriptive and more theoretically innovative approaches to bear on the myriad forms of classical reception that saturate Australasia. * The Classical Review *Marguerite Johnson has curated a formidable and impressively diverse collection of essays … The volume showcases a rich variety of theoretical and methodological approaches, and has the added benefit of presenting familiar classical materials in distinctly unfamiliar contexts, replete with their own unique social and cultural pressures and local systems of scholarship. * Greece & Rome *A well-rounded study highlighting the importance of Greco-Roman history and culture for many Australians and New Zealanders, from convicts to colonisers, ranging from novelists to poets to painters and film-makers. This is exemplary Classical Reception practice. -- Maxine Lewis, Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, University of Auckland, New ZealandTable of ContentsList of Figures List of Contributors Introduction (Marguerite Johnson, University of Newcastle, Australia) Part 1: The Colonial Past – Classical Influences in White Australasia 1. Marguerite Johnson (University of Newcastle, Australia): Black Out: Classicizing Indigeneity in Australia and New Zealand 2. Rachael White (University of Oxford, UK): Australia as Underworld: Convict Classics in the Nineteenth Century Part 2: Theatre – Then and Now 3. Laura Ginters (University of Sydney, Australia): Agamemnon comes to the Antipodes: The Origins of Student Drama at the University of Sydney 4. John Davidson (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand): Salamis and Gallipoli: The Campaigns of Phillip Mann 5. Michael Ewans (University of Newcastle, Australia) and Marguerite Johnson (University of Newcastle, Australia): Wesley Enoch's Black Medea 6. Jane Montgomery Griffiths (Monash University, Australia): What Women Critics Know that Men Don't Part 3: Poetry and Classical Echoes in New Zealand 7. Geoffrey Miles (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand): James K. Baxter and the Gorgon Moon 8. Anna Jackson (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand): Clodia Through the Looking Glass Part 4: Fictionalizing Antipodean Antiquities 9. Nicolas Liney (University of Oxford, UK): Parilia Poscor - David Malouf Remembers the Parilia (Fasti 4.721) 10. Elizabeth Hale (University of New England, Australia): Imaginative Displacement: Classical Reception in the Young Adult Fiction of Margaret Mahy 11. Babette Pütz (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand): Classical Influences in Bernard Beckett's Genesis, August, and Lullaby 12. Anne Rogerson (University of Sydney, Australia): Displaced Persons and Displaced Narratives in S. D. Gentill's Hero Trilogy Part 5: Australasia, Greece and Rome - Paper and Canvas 13. Sarah Midford (La Trobe University, Australia): Painting Anzacs in an Epic Landscape: Greek Myth, the Trojan War and Sidney Nolan’s Gallipoli Series 14. Melinda Johnston (independent scholar) and Thomas Köntges (University of Leipzig, Germany): Of Heroes and Humans: Marian Maguire's Colonization of Herakles' Mythical World Part 6: Antiquity on the Australasian Screen 15. Ika Willis (University of Wollongong, Australia): Temporal Turbulence: Reception Studies(') Now 16. Hannah Parry (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand): Classical Epic in Peter Jackson's Middle-Earth Trilogies 17. Leanne Glass (University of Newcastle, Australia): Shifting Paradigms in Ben Ferris’ Penelope Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisUncovering the role of literature, late imperialism, and the rise of new models of internationalism as integral to the invention of Global English, this book focuses on three key figures from the Vocabulary Control Movement - C.K. Ogden, Harold Palmer, and Michael West - who competed for market share for their respective language teaching systems - Basic English, the Palmer Method, and the New Method - through battles over word lists and teaching methods in the 1920s and 30s. Drawing on archives from the Carnegie Corporation and considering language teaching in eight global sites, this book analyzes how a series of conferences in New York and London resolved their conflicts and produced a consolidated, international standard form of English. As a postcolonial approach to the development of the field of English Language Teaching, it reveals how these language debates were proxy battles over an idealized global subject: an urban, secular, consumer moving seamlessly between the tribal andTrade ReviewMaking World English is a bracing study of the deliberate manner in which English became a world language. Michael Malouf goes far beyond critique to reveal the historical debates and policy moves that contributed to Anglophone dominance. With exemplary care and precision, he uncovers the hierarchies embedded in standardized English, tracing them back to the Basic English debates in the interwar years. Malouf challenges Global English as a natural development from the language’s cultural capital by locating its hegemony in the aftereffects of empire. This important book is essential reading for students and scholars of modern linguistics, literary history, and British modernism. * Gauri Viswanathan, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, USA and author of 'Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India' *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Debating English Part One: Managing English Chapter One: Pioneers and Heretics Chapter Two: Vocabulary Control and Colonialism Chapter Three: Literary Simplification and the Global Subject Part Two: Making English Chapter Four: Basic’s Critics and World English Chapter Five: The Carnegie Conference and Its Discontents Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisJane Austen''s richly textured worlds have enchanted readers for centuries and this neatly organised, playful book provides Austen enthusiasts and students alike with a unique insight into the much-loved writer''s way with words. Using a lively A-Z structure, Greaney provides fresh angles on familiar Austen themes (D is for dance; M is for matchmaking), casts light on under-examined corners of her imagination (R is for risk; S is for servant), and shows how current social and cultural concerns are re-shaping our understanding of her work (Q is for queer; W is for West Indies). Through this approach, we learn how attention to the tiniest linguistic detail in Austen''s work can yield rewarding new perspectives on the achievements of one of our most celebrated authors.Sharply focused on textual detail but broad in scope it broaches questions that, like Austen''s work, will intrigue, delight and inspire: Why are children so marginal in her storylinTrade ReviewThe 26 pint-sized essays comprising A Jane Austen A-Z are stuffed full of insights. Each is a masterpiece in miniature. Learned yet playful, Michael Greaney teaches readers new things about the forms and preoccupations of Austen’s fiction. * Deidre Lynch, Professor of Literature, Harvard University, USA *A unique guide to the life and career of a much-loved author. … It sheds new light on key images, ideas, objects, people and places in Jane Austen’s writings. … This neatly organised book provides Austen enthusiasts and students alike with a unique insight into the much-loved writer’s way with words. * Lancashire Life *Michael Greaney’s Jane Austen A to Z is a perfectly judicious and highly entertaining atlas of the great novelist’s life and writings. Each short chapter is an informative delight, from A for Accident to Z for Zig-Zag, in a book cleverly written both for those in want of an engaging first primer, as well as those who already know Austen down to a T. * Devoney Looser, Regents Professor of English and Global Sport Scholar, Arizona State University, USA *Table of ContentsTexts and abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction A is for Accident B is for Bath C is for Children D is for Dance E is for Eye F is for Friend G is for Gift H is for Horse I is for Ill J is for Jane K is for Kindness L is for Letter M is for Matchmaking N is for No O is for Obstacle P is for Poor Q is for Queer R is for Risk S is for Servant T is for Theatre U is for Unexpected V is for Visit W is for West Indies X is for Xis Y is for Young Z is for Zigzag Works cited

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Book SynopsisIf eugenics -- the science of eliminating kinds of undesirable human beings from the species record -- came to overdetermine the late 19th century in relation to disability, the 20th century may be best characterized as managing the repercussions for variable human populations. A Cultural History of Disability in the Modern Age provides an interdisciplinary overview of disability as an outpouring of professional, political, and representational efforts to fix, correct, eliminate, preserve, and even cultivate the value of crip bodies. This book pursues analyses of disability's deployment as a wellspring for an alternative ethics of living in and alongside the body different while simultaneously considering the varied social and material contexts of devalued human differences from World War I to the present. In short, this volume demonstrates that, in Ozymandias-like ways, the Western Project of the Human with its perpetuation of body-mind hierarchies lies crumbling in the dese

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Book SynopsisThe long 19th centurystretching from the start of the American Revolution in 1776 to the end of World War I in 1918was a pivotal period in the history of disability for the Western world and the cultures under its imperial sway. Industrialization was a major factor in the changing landscape of disability, providing new adaptive technologies and means of access while simultaneously contributing to the creation of a mass-produced environment hostile to bodies and minds that did not adhere to emerging norms. In defining disability, medical views, which framed disabilities as problems to be solved, competed with discourses from such diverse realms as religion, entertainment, education, and literature. Disabled writers and activists generated important counternarratives, made increasingly available through the spread of print culture.An essential resource for researchers, scholars and students of history, literature, culture and education, A Cultural History of Disability in t

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Book Synopsis18th century philosopher Edmund Burke wrote, deformity is opposed, not to beauty, but to the complete, common form. If one of the legs of a man be found shorter than the other, the man is deformed; because there is something wanting to complete the whole idea we form of a man'. During the long 18th century, new ideas from aesthetics and the emerging scientific disciplines of physics, biology and zoology contributed to changing fundamental notions about human form, function and ability. The interrelated concepts of the natural and the beautiful coalesced into a hegemonic ideology of form, one which defined communal standards regarding which aspects of human appearance and ability would be considered typical and socially acceptable and which would not.An essential resource for researchers, scholars and students of history, literature, culture and education, A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Eighteenth Century explores such themes and topics as: atypical bodie

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Book SynopsisIn Renaissance humanism, difference was understood through a variety of paradigms that rendered particular kinds of bodies and minds disabled. A Cultural History of Disability in the Renaissance, covering the period from 1450 to 1650, explores evidence of the possibilities for disability that existed in the European Renaissance, observable in the literary and medicinal texts, and the family, corporate, and legal records discussed in the chapters of this volume. These chapters provide an interdisciplinary overview of the configurations of bodies, minds and collectives that have left evidence of some of the ways that normativity and its challengers interacted in the Renaissance.An essential resource for researchers, scholars and students of history, literature, culture and education, A Cultural History of Disability in the Renaissance explores such themes and topics as: atypical bodies; mobility impairment; chronic pain and illness; blindness; deafness; speech; learn

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Book SynopsisThe Middle Ages was an era of dynamic social transformation, and notions of disability in medieval culture reflected how norms and forms of embodiment interacted with gender, class, and race, among other dimensions of human difference. Ideas of disability in courtly romance, saints' lives, chronicles, sagas, secular lyrics, dramas, and pageants demonstrate the nuanced, and sometimes contradictory, relationship between cultural constructions of disability and the lived experience of impairment.An essential resource for researchers, scholars, and students of history, literature, visual art, cultural studies, and education, A Cultural History of Disability in the Middle Ages explores themes and topics such as atypical bodies; mobility impairment; chronic pain and illness; blindness; deafness; speech; learning difficulties; and mental health.

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Book SynopsisThe most substantial collection of critical essays on Morrison to appear since her death in mid-2019, this book contains previously unpublished essays which both acknowledge the universal significance of her writing even as they map new directions. Essayists include pre-eminent Morrison scholars, as well as scholars who work in cultural criticism, African American letters, American modernism, and women's writing. The book includes work on Morrison as a public intellectual; work which places Morrison's writing within today's currents of contemporary fiction; work which draws together Morrison's trilogy of Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise alongside Dos Passos' USA trilogy; work which links Morrison to such Black Atlantic artists as Lubaina Himid and others as well as work which offers a reading of influence that goes both directions between Morrison and Faulkner. Another cluster of essays treats seldom-discussed works by Morrison, including an essay on Morrison as writer of childre

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Book SynopsisDiscover (or rediscover!) history's greatest myths and legends From Grendel and Beowulf to Poseidon, Medusa, and Hercules, the gods, monsters, and heroes of mythology are endlessly weird and fascinating. And if you're looking for a helpful companion to this wild collection of creatures, humans, and deities, you've found it! Mythology For Dummies delivers the straight goods on history's most popular myths, helping you make sense of even the most complicated ancient stories. You'll learn about the origins of your favorite myths, their cultural impact, and more. Discover: The coolest mythological characters, including intrepid Odysseus, the volatile gods of Mount Olympus, and Thor and LokiHow ancient mythology intersects with our daily lives in pop culture, high culture, and everything in betweenMythological destinations, like Atlantis, and famous sites from Greek, Roman, and Norse mythologyAn engrossing guide to some of the most enduring and interesting tales from throughout history, MytTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Part 1: Mythology Basics and Why the Stories Endure 5 Chapter 1: The Truth About Myths 7 Chapter 2: Ancient Myths in Modern Culture: The Legacy 19 Part 2: Thunder and Lightning: Greek Mythology 29 Chapter 3: Greek Creation Myths and Really Ancient Greek Gods 31 Chapter 4: Taller, Younger, and Better Looking Than You: The Olympian Gods 45 Chapter 5: The Fairest and Meanest of Them All: The Greek Goddesses 61 Chapter 6: So Fine and Half Divine: Heroes 77 Chapter 7: The Trojan War, the Iliad, and the Odyssey 95 Chapter 8: Of Chorus They’re so Dramatic: Greek Tragedy 115 Part 3: The Cultural Spoils of an Empire: Roman Mythology 131 Chapter 9: Will the Real Roman Mythology Please Stand Up? 133 Chapter 10: Virgil’s Aeneid and the Founding of Rome 149 Chapter 11: Time to Change Things Up: Ovid’s Metamorphoses 159 Part 4: One Big Family Feud: Norse and Northern European Mythology 169 Chapter 12: Snow, Ice, and Not Very Nice: Norse Deities 171 Chapter 13: Heroes and Monsters: The Big Northern European Sagas 189 Chapter 14: A Seat at the Round Table: King Arthur and His Court 201 Chapter 15: Myths from the Emerald Isle: Ireland and Celtic Mythology 217 Part 5: The Cradle(s) of Civilization: African and Near-Eastern Mythology 225 Chapter 16: Central and Southern Africa: The Bantu’s Eternal Earth and Sly Animals 227 Chapter 17: Floods, Mud, and Gods: Mesopotamian and Hebrew Mythology 235 Chapter 18: Three Cheers for Egypt: Ra, Ra, Ra! 249 Chapter 19: North African Mythology: A Real Melting Pot 261 Chapter 20: One Thousand Tales: Persian Mythology 269 Part 6: Kashmir to Kyoto, and a Lot in Between: South- and East Asian Mythology 279 Chapter 21: Land of a Thousand Gods: India 281 Chapter 22: Get out the Fine China: Early Chinese Myth and the Three Teachings 293 Chapter 23: Japan: Myths from the Land of the Rising Sun 305 Part 7: “New World”? Says Who? Mythology of the Americas 317 Chapter 24: Central and South American Mythology: Civilizations, Cities, and Ball Games 319 Chapter 25: Sea to Sea, and Lots of Animals in Between: Indigenous Myths of North America 333 Part 8: The Part of Tens 349 Chapter 26: Ten Mythological Monsters 351 Chapter 27: Ten (Plus One) Mythological Places 357 Index 365

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Book SynopsisThe fascinating history of Cornwallâs remarkable literary heritage as well as being a guide to the locations where that heritage can still be found.

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Book SynopsisThis collection takes informed and scholarly readers to the utmost frontier of children's literature criticism, from the intricate worlds of children's poetry, picturebooks and video games to the new theoretical constellations of critical plant studies, non-fiction studies and big data analyses of literature.

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Book SynopsisThis is the first volume to comprehensively introduce the ways in which interdisciplinary thinking across the humanities and social sciences might contribute to, critique and develop medical understanding of the human individually and collectively.

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Book SynopsisExplores the role of gender in shaping premodern Scottish identity and history

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Book SynopsisDemonstrates Blanchot's ongoing importance for contemporary philosophical debate about technology, the post-human, and ecological thinking

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Book SynopsisExplores how espionage fiction captures the most significant political conflicts and crises of the last hundred years

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Book SynopsisExplores queer reading as a disruptive and generative practice

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Book SynopsisIdentifies philosophical scepticism as a major theme across Wallace's oeuvre, in both fiction and non-fiction.

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Book SynopsisNarrating Irish Female Development, 1916-2018 studies narratives of Irish female and feminized development, arguing that these postmodern narratives present Irish female maturation as disordered and often deliberately disorderly. The first full-length study of the Irish female coming of age story, the book develops a feminist psychoanalytic narratology, derived from the belated oedipalization of Joyce?s bildungsheld, to read these stories. This study argues that all Irish maturation stories are shaped by the uneven and belated maturation story of the Irish republic itself, which took as its avatar the Irish woman, whose citizenship in that republic was unrealized, as indeed was her citizenship in an Irish republic of letters. Dougherty takes the writing of Irish women as seriously as other critics have taken Joyce?s work.

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Book SynopsisArgues that Victorian literature uses traces of a lingering past to theorise time as non-progressive and discontinuous

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Book SynopsisUncovers the nonhuman turn's unexpected roots in the avant-gardes and mysticisms of nineteenth-century France.

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Book SynopsisTable of Contents Part 1: Introduction Part 2: The Text Part 3: Critical Approaches Part 4: Critical History Part 5: Background Further Reading Literacy Terms

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Book SynopsisDo you want a better understanding of the text? Do you want to know what the critics say? Do you want to know how to improve your grade?   Whatever you want, York Notes can help.   York Notes Advanced offers a fresh and accessible approach to English Literature. This market-leading series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts, York Notes Advanced introduce students to more sophisticated analysis, a range of critical perspectives and wider contexts.   Key Features: Summaries with detailed commentaries Extended commentaries on key passages Discussion of themes and literary techniques Author biography Historical and literary background Check the net/film/book features Glossary of literary terms Self-test questions

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Book SynopsisThe Complete Book of Hymns brings to life the stories behind more than 600 hymns and worship songs. With background on the composer, the inspiration behind the lyrics, scriptural references for devotional consideration, and a sampling of the song lyrics, this book brings forth the message of these great songs of the faith like never before!

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Brian Doherty’s Dirty Pictures is coming out right when it’s needed. As creative expression is increasingly attacked from across the political spectrum, this wonderful book is a reminder of how art, unrestricted and free, helps us process the mess. It’s impeccably researched, sharply written, and opens a portal back to that old, weird America that found its mind by losing it a little.” -- Reid Mitenbuler, author of Wild Minds: The Artists and Rivalries That Inspired the Golden Age of Animation“Tune in, read on, and know all. Brian Doherty's heroic and hilarious Dirty Pictures is a detail-rich history with insight from the giants—Robert Crumb through Art Spiegelman. The story of underground comix is not just important, it's as American as an apple pie laced with LSD.” -- Kliph Nesteroff, author of We Had a Little Real Estate Problem and The ComediansIn order to develop the vast field of indie comics available today, where every style and subject under the sun is available to a reader, you need the foundation laid by the underground comix scene of the 60s and 70s. In Dirty Pictures, author Brian Doherty expertly details the players and events that led to an artistic renaissance. -- Ho Che Anderson, creator of King, Sand & Fury, and Godhead“Dirty Pictures is a fascinating deep dig into a unique subculture populated by screwball eccentrics, whose rude, jarring, and far-out works of art changed the face of American humor in all its incarnations.” -- Gregg Turkington, comedian/actor (Entertainment, Ant-Man, On Cinema at the Cinema)". . .given the exponential reach of this initially tiny cluster of transgressive artists, Doherty’s book is a welcome addition to an under-analyzed legacy of the free-spirited 1960s.” -- James Sullivan * San Francisco Chronicle *"A free-wheeling, frank account of the rise and fall of the underground comic scene. . . . Lively, well researched, and full of telling anecdotes; just the thing for comix aficionados and collectors.” * Kirkus Reviews *As Doherty entertainingly traces the movement’s rise—from its humble beginnings in the 1960s to its uphill battle to be recognized as an art form—he captures how it perfectly reflected the rapidly changing norms of the baby boomer generation and its enduring impact on pop culture today. Comix fans and artists should make room on their shelves for this one. * Publishers Weekly *...shines a light on a corner of the comics business that still hasn't received its due . . . If this topic interests you at all, Dirty Pictures is likely to be the most complete and authoritative account we’re going to get. -- Rob Salkowitz * ICv2 *Dirty Pictures is a riveting look at the raunchy history of underground comix -- Thom Dunn * Boing Boing *The book is simply the best and most comprehensive look at underground comics published to date. -- Alex Dueben * Smash Pages *Indispensable. * Shelf Awareness, starred review *An immense work of comics fandom and a labor of love ... the most far-reaching history of underground comix that anyone will ever likely write. -- Keith A. Gordon * Book & Film Globe *

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Book SynopsisNeoliberalism and Contemporary Literary Culture is essential reading for anyone invested in the ever-changing state of literary culture.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Neoliberalism and Literature, by Mitchum Huehls and Rachel Greenwald SmithPart I1. Fifty Shades of Neoliberal Love, by Walter Benn Michaels2. The Microeconomic Mode, by Jane Elliott3. The New Materialism and Neoliberalism, by Min Hyoung Song4. Realisms Redux; or, Against Affective Capitalism, by Jeffrey T. Nealon5. The Surfaces of Contemporary Capitalism, by Jeffrey T. BaskinPart II6. Fictions of Neoliberalism, by Mathias Nilges7. Totaling the Damage, by Jennifer Ashton8. Against Omniscient Narration, by Marcial González9. The Memoir in the Age of Neoliberal Individualism, by Daniel WordenPart III10. The Perpetual Fifties of American Fiction, by Matthew Wilkens11. The Neoliberal Novel of Migrancy, by Sheri-Marie Harrison12. Neoliberal Childhoods, by Caren Irr13. Post-recession Realism, by Andrew HoberekPart IV14. The Author as Executive Producer, by Michael Szalay15. Neoliberalism and the Demise of the Literary, by Sarah Brouillette16. The Humanist Fix, by Leigh Claire La BergeList of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisCan the university solve the social and political crisis in America?Higher education occupies a difficult place in twenty-first-century American culture. Universitiesthe institutions that bear so much responsibility for the future health of our nationare at odds with the very publics they are intended to serve. As Kathleen Fitzpatrick asserts, it is imperative that we re-center the mission of the university to rebuild that lost trust. Critical thinkingthe heart of what academics docan today often negate, refuse, and reject new ideas. In an age characterized by rampant anti-intellectualism, Fitzpatrick charges the academy with thinking constructively rather than competitively, building new ideas rather than tearing old ones down. She urges us to rethink how we teach the humanities and to refocus our attention on the very human endsthe desire for community and connectionthat the humanities can best serve. One key aspect of that transformation involves fostering an atmosphere of what FitzTrade ReviewAn inspiring and convincing look at how anyone involved in higher education can nurture generosity and help integrate their institutions into their communities to further the public good. With its call for generosity and community-building that is potentially revolutionary, Kathleen Fitzpatrick's Generous Thinking is an indispensable addition to conversations on the state of higher education today.—Foreword ReviewsFor anyone concerned with the future of higher education, Fitzpatrick makes a passionate argument for a simple yet potentially revolutionary idea.—Library JournalGenerous Thinking offers us a plan to move our national thinking about higher education in a way that enlivens our democracy.—The BafflerGenerous Thinking is one important step toward recovering the lost value of the university. [Fitzpatrick's] work, which clearly demonstrates how to think generously in the academy, can help make the case for increased public investment in higher education.—Public BooksTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionChapter 1. On GenerosityChapter 2. Reading TogetherChapter 3. Working in PublicChapter 4. The UniversityConclusion. The Path ForwardAcknowledgmentsReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisExamines representations of sexual violence in modern Hebrew literature, focusing on the ways in which sexual aggression relates to Zionism, gender, ethnicity, and disability.Finalist for the 2021 Best Book in Israel Studies presented by the Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies and Concordia University Library Flesh of My Flesh looks at one of the most silenced and repressed aspects of Israeli culture by examining the trope of sexual violence in modern Hebrew literature. Ilana Szobel explores how sexual violence participates in, encourages, or resists concurrent ideologies in Jewish and Israeli culture, and situates the rhetoric of sexual aggression within the contexts of gender, ethnicity, disability, and national identity. Focusing on writings of incest survivors, Sepharadi authors, wounded soldiers, and Hebrew authors such as Shoshana Shababo, Gershon Shofman, Hayim Nahman Bialik, Yoram Kaniuk, Amalia Kahana-Carmon, and Tsvia Litevsky, Szobel unveils the various roles of sexual violence in destabilizing hegemonic notions or reinforcing norms and modes of conduct. Thus, while the book looks at poetic and social possibilities of action in relation to sexual violence, it also exposes the Gordian knot of sexualized gender-based violence and the interests of patriarchy, heteronormativity, nationalism, racism, and ableism.

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Book SynopsisThe Times Best Literary Non-fiction Books 2021 - ''a super yarn'' ''Rick Gekoski''s encyclopaedic knowledge of rare books is matched only by the enthusiasm and brio with which he writes about them'' Ian Rankin Rick Gekoski has been traversing the rocky terrain of the rare book trade for over fifty years. The treasure he seeks is scarce, carefully buried and often jealously guarded, knowledge of its hiding place shared through word of mouth like the myths of old. In Guarded by Dragons, Gekoski invites readers into this enchanted world as he reflects on the gems he has unearthed throughout his career. He takes us back to where his love of collecting began - perusing D.H. Lawrence first editions in a slightly suspect Birmingham carpark. What follows are dizzying encounters with literary giants as Gekoski publishes William Golding, plays ping-pong with Salman Rushdie and lunches with Graham Greene. A brilliant stroke ofTrade ReviewRick Gekoski's encyclopaedic knowledge of rare books is matched only by the enthusiasm and brio with which he writes about them * Ian Rankin *Feisty, astutely dry, intellectually adroit - an intensely pleasurable and rewarding read * William Boyd *Shrewd and gossipy memoir * Observer *The great, renowned rare-book dealer Rick Gekoski is . . . like something out of a Raymond Chandler . . . an absorbing read . . . such fun * Spectator *Gekoski, a fine raconteur, does for bibliomania what James Herriot did for vets. As his previous books, such as Tolkien's Gown, remind us, he has a wealth of quirky stories, and you feel he could keep entertaining his readers for ever * The Times *Entertaining, beautifully written and deeply personal * The Critic *Combines a relish for commerce with tremendous joie de vivre. He loves literature . . . Guarded by Dragons is fresh and fun and bursting with good stories -- Craig Brown * Mail on Sunday *Many entertaining anecdotes . . . Gekoski - a larger-than-life character both on and off the page - writes with style,verve and just the right amount of self-deprecation . . . Gekoski proves a genial companion in the thrill of the chase * Financial Times *Gekoski is wonderful company on the page, with a fine flair for storytelling and an eye for fascinating eccentricities among his colleagues and customers . . . Gekoski lets us in on the intricacies of the trade with candour and insouciance -- John Banville * Irish Times *A cache of engaging tales . . . He is an incredibly gifted storyteller who spins yarns with broad literary appeal . . . Gekoski never fails to amuse and to amaze. Guarded by Dragons is a bibliophilic treasure * Fine Books & Collections magazine *Highly entertaining and frequently very funny * Jewish Chronicle *Wonderfully gossipy, sharply written memoir . . . Gekoski's swashbuckling stories reveal a trade that is certainly not for cissies. That's precisely what makes this book as engrossing as it is entertaining -- Bel Mooney * Daily Mail *Entertaining and revelatory * The Chap *Gekoski, possibly the most important book dealer of the last 50 years, fills page after page with witty anecdotes on dealing with the rarest books in the world, the people who wrote them, and the people that collect them. Beyond great stories well told, it's an education on the book trade itself. An absolute must-read for book lovers. -- Mark Galeotti * War on the Rocks *

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Book SynopsisWhat caused Dickens to leap out of bed one night and walk 30 miles from London to Kent?How did a small town on the Welsh borders become the second-hand bookshop capital of the world?Why did a jellyfish persuade Evelyn Waugh to abandon his suicide attempt in North Wales? A multitude of curious questions are answered in Britain by the Book, a fascinating travelogue with a literary theme, taking in unusual writers'' haunts and the surprising places that inspired some of our favourite fictional locations. We''ll learn why Thomas Hardy was buried twice, how a librarian in Manchester invented the thesaurus as a means of coping with depression, and why Agatha Christie was investigated by MI5 during the Second World War. The map of Britain that emerges is one dotted with interesting literary stories and bookish curiosities.

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Book SynopsisDidier Debaise focuses in on Whitehead s attempt to construct a metaphysical system of everything in the universe that exists whilst simultaneously claiming that it can account for every element of our experience, giving us a radically new way of conceiving the relations between experience and speculation.Trade Review'In Speculative Empiricism, Didier Debaise expertly guides the reader on a remarkable voyage through Whitehead's metaphysical masterpiece, Process and Reality. The juxtaposition of the two title words sets the agenda, giving notice from the start that we will be heading into unexpected territory. Here, speculation will become a matter of experience, and experience, reciprocally, will be imbued with the futurity of potential. The result is a novel pragmatics of becoming which Debaise maps with unerring lucidity and precision, providing both an introduction to key Whiteheadian concepts and a major contribution to the scholarship that will be of equal interest to specialists.' - Brian Massumi, University of Montreal

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Book SynopsisThis resource in contemporary Gothic literature, film and television takes a thematic approach, providing insights into the many forms the Gothic has taken in the twenty-first century.

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Book SynopsisThrough a rethinking of the relationship between the subject and object, the human and the nonhuman, this volume shows how literature and post-anthropocentric theory can illuminate each other in mutually productive ways.

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Book SynopsisA state of the field essay collection that offers new models for analysing time, space, self and politics in nineteenth-century American culture.

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Book SynopsisThe first major study of one of the most influential periodicals of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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Book SynopsisExplores the only known private book collection from medieval JerusalemTrade Review"Hirschler and Aljoumani transform a seemingly humble library inventory into a window on a lost written culture - a window that allows us to glimpse a wide network of social exchange. The important findings of this book and the provocative questions it raises will keep historians busy for a long time." -Ahmed El Shamsy, University of Chicago

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Book SynopsisAn atmospheric narrative account of young writers working together in wartime London by an exciting new voice in literary non-fictionTrade ReviewWorld War Two saw a boom in literary writing in black-out Britain of which the brightest star was the magazine Horizon. Will Loxley has a deft touch, wit, and a panoramic eye which would have pleased Cyril Connolly himself. * John Sutherland, author of Monica Jones, Philip Larkin and Me *A marvellous tour d'Horizon, written with energy and an eye for the spot-on detail, and creating a rich picture of culture, art, work, friendship and love in a London going through extraordinary times. * Sarah Bakewell, author of At the Existentialist Cafe *A consistently well-researched and highly illuminating take on an undersung era in British literary life * D.J. Taylor author of Lost Girls: Love, War and Literature 1939-1951 *I enjoyed being transported, through Loxley's vignettes, to various corners of London...Loxley's first chapter, on Isherwood, [is] one of the most engaging I've read...a measured and thoughtful debut -- Daisy Dunn * The Literary Review *An army of bitchy, backstabbing, rivalrous literary greats inhabit this energetic history... Loxley's voice is energetic and enthused * The Times *Writing in the Dark by Will Loxley charts Horizon's story in absorbing, novel-like form, across a tight and well-researched 352 pages.... It chronicles the capacity for art to bend with the winds of change and celebrates the importance of the printed word...What we learn from Writing in the Dark is that the right words can - and should - always be sought * Monocle *This is Loxley's first book ... he is clearly a gifted writer * The Sunday Times *A bombshell of a first book...we can, thanks to Loxley's sinuous prose and ingenious imagination, experience the vicarious trauma of being bombed out in the Blitz... irresistible * The Critic *[A] lively account... London itself could be said to be the other major character in Writing in the Dark, which is particularly good at describing buildings, both ruined and surviving, so that members of the large cast are located solidly and vividly in their homes and offices. * The Spectator *Loxley does a fine job of keeping this work of literary history lively...He knows how to keep a narrative going, and his critical asides are often incisive and memorably expressed. At his best, he is excellent. His concluding chapter, taking the unusual viewpoint that the poets of the Second World War are a match for their Great War counterparts, is so vigorously argued and marries criticism, history and biography together so well, that I read it again as soon as I finished it. * Sunday Telegraph *Loxley has an engaging style... packed with intriguing, often hilarious, anecdotes. * Observer *An enthralling overview of how a dozen London-based writers experienced the war. Well-chosen extracts from their work vividly capture the capital's changing moods. * The Tablet *A deft, novelistic survey of London's entwined, sometimes incestuous, world of letters during the second world war. * Financial Times *Highly entertaining and compulsively readable, Loxley's stylishly written debut brings literary London during the Blitz back to life. * The Lady *

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