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  Frankenstein in Theory: A Critical Anatomy, Hardcover/Orrin N. C. Wang

  This collection provides new readings of Frankenstein from a myriad of established and burgeoning theoretical vantages including narrative theory, cognitive and affect theory, the new materialism, media theory, critical race…Catre Magazin
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  Echoes of Surrealism: Challenging Socialist Realism in East German Literature, 1945-1990, Hardcover/Gerrit-Jan Berendse

  For many artists and intellectuals in East Germany, daily life had an undeniably surreal aspect, from the numbing repetition of Communist Party jargon to the fear and paranoia engendered by…Catre Magazin
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  Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1800-1920: Volume 1, Hardcover/Evelyn O’Callaghan

  This volume examines what Caribbean literature looked like before 1920 by surveying the print culture of the period. The emphasis is on narrative, including an enormous range of genres, in…Catre Magazin
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  Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970-2020: Volume 3, Hardcover/Ronald Cummings

  The period from the 1970s to the present day has produced an extraordinarily rich and diverse body of Caribbean writing that has been widely acclaimed. Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970-2020…Catre Magazin
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  Writing Architecture in Modern Italy. Narratives, Historiography, and Myths, Hardback/Daria Ricchi

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  Social Trauma, Narrative Memory, and Recovery in Japanese Literature and Film, Hardback/David C. Stahl

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  African American Literature in Transition, 1900-1910: Volume 7, Hardcover/Shirley Moody-Turner

  African American Literature in Transition, 1900-1910 offers a wide ranging, multi-disciplinary approach to early twentieth century African American literature and culture. It showcases the literary and cultural productions that took…Catre Magazin
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  Writing Shame: Gender, Contemporary Literature and Negative Affect, Hardcover/Kaye Mitchell

  Through readings of an array of recent texts - literary and popular, fictional and autofictional, realist and experimental - this book maps out a contemporary, Western, shame culture. It unpicks…Catre Magazin
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  A History of American Puritan Literature, Hardcover/Kristina Bross

  For generations, scholars have imagined American puritans as religious enthusiasts, fleeing persecution, finding refuge in Massachusetts, and founding 'America'. The puritans have been read as a product of New England…Catre Magazin
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  Empire on the English Stage 1660-1714, Hardcover/Bridget Orr

  Empire on the Restoration Stage analyzes Restoration and early-eighteenth-century drama in terms of empire. The book provides a comprehensive account of colonialism, national identity and the representation of race and…Catre Magazin
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  African American Literature: An Encyclopedia for Students, Hardcover/Hans A. Ostrom

  This compact encyclopedia, aimed at students, selects the most important authors, literary movements, and key topics for them to know. Entries cover the most influential and highly regarded African American…Catre Magazin
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  Relative Races: Genealogies of Interracial Kinship in Nineteenth-Century America, Hardcover/Brigitte Fielder

  In Relative Races , Brigitte Fielder presents an alternative theory of how race is ascribed. Contrary to notions of genealogies by which race is transmitted from parents to children, the…Catre Magazin
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  Shakespeare and Emotion, Hardcover/Katharine A. Craik

  Shakespeare and Emotion devotes sustained attention to the emotions as a novel way of exploring Shakespeare's works in their original contexts. A variety of disciplinary approaches drawn from literary, theatrical,…Catre Magazin
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  Precarious Lives and Marginal Bodies in North Africa: Homo Expendibilis, Hardcover/Hervé Anderson Tchumkam

  Marginal Bodies and Precarious Lives in North Africa: Homo Expendibilis presents an examination of North African literature situated at the crossroads of literary analysis, political philosophy, and sociology. The author…Catre Magazin
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  Teaching Nabokov’s Lolita in the #Metoo Era, Hardcover/Elena Rakhimova-Sommers

  Teaching Nabokov's Lolita in the #MeToo Era seeks to critique the novel from the standpoint of its teachability to undergraduate and graduate students in the twenty-first century. The time has…Catre Magazin
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  Beckett Beyond the Normal, Hardcover/Seán Kennedy

  This book examines why Beckett's writing is so queer, so disabled and disabling. Why did Beckett write so often about mental illness, disability, perversion? Why did he take such an…Catre Magazin
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  Fairy Tales in Contemporary American Culture: How We Hate to Love Them, Hardcover/Kate Christine Koppy

  In the twenty-first century, American culture is experiencing a profound shift toward pluralism and secularization. In Fairy Tales in Contemporary American Culture: How We Hate to Love Them , Kate…Catre Magazin
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  Sensing Willa Cather: The Writer and the Body in Transition, Hardcover/Guy J. Reynolds

  A radical reinterpretation of Willa Cather's oeuvre Deploying the concepts and techniques of Body Studies, Guy J. Reynolds remaps Cather's vast and diverse range of writing from the 1890s through…Catre Magazin
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  Anneliese’s House, Hardcover/Lou Andreas-Salomé

  Best known now for her involvement with Nietzsche, Rilke, and Freud, Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861-1937) first became famous for fiction and criticism that engaged provocatively with "the woman question." In recent…Catre Magazin
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  Sensitive Negotiations, Hardcover/Nikki Hessell

  Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Indigenous peoples in North America and the Pacific engaged with the latest and most fashionable British Romantic poetry as part of transcontinental and…Catre Magazin
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  Haruki Murakami and His Early Work: The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Running Artist, Hardcover/Masaki Mori

  Haruki Murakami and His Early Work first discusses Murakami Haruki's real-life activities and interests, such as his self-identity as a Japanese novelist, his position in the Japanese literary canon, music,…Catre Magazin
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  Mary Wollstonecraft in Context, Hardcover/Nancy E. Johnson

  Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was one of the most influential and controversial women of her age. No writer, except perhaps her political foe, Edmund Burke, and her fellow reformer, Thomas Paine,…Catre Magazin
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  Twentieth-Century Sephardic Authors from the Former Yugoslavia: A Judeo-Spanish Tradition, Hardcover/Zeljko Jovanovic

  In the twentieth century, various Sephardic authors from the former Yugoslavia took upon themselves the task of revitalising different forms of Judeo-Spanish oral tradition such as narrative, songs or ballads.…Catre Magazin
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  Spatial Plots: Virtuality and the Embodied Mind in Baricco, Camilleri and Calvino, Hardcover/Marzia Beltrami

  In discussions about plot, causality and chronology are sometimes held out as the only possible organising principles. And yet readers often transmute fragmented writings, parallel storylines, or tales within tales…Catre Magazin
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  Late Victorian Orientalism, Hardback/***

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  Nathaniel Hawthorne in Context, Hardcover/Monika M. Elbert

  This volume provides a comprehensive overview of Nathaniel Hawthorne and demonstrates why he continues to be a critically significant figure in American literature. The first section focuses on Hawthorne's interest…Catre Magazin
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  Women, Literature, and the Arts of the Countryside in Early Twentieth-Century England, Hardcover/Judith W. Page

  Focusing on eight writers and artists, this book examines the centrality of the countryside to women's work, creativity, and aspirations in early-twentieth-century England. The authors introduce us to figures who…Catre Magazin
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  A Violent Peace: Race, U.S. Militarism, and Cultures of Democratization in Cold War Asia and the Pacific, Hardcover/Christine Hong

  A Violent Peace offers a radical account of the United States' transformation into a total-war state. As the Cold War turned hot in the Pacific, antifascist critique disclosed a continuity…Catre Magazin
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  The Victorian Cult of Shakespeare: Bardology in the Nineteenth Century, Hardcover/Charles Laporte

  In the Victorian era, William Shakespeare's work was often celebrated as a sacred text: a sort of secular English Bible. Even today, Shakespeare remains a uniquely important literary figure. Yet…Catre Magazin
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  Cognition and Girlhood in Shakespeare’s World, Hardcover/Caroline Bicks

  This groundbreaking study of girlhood and cognition argues that early moderns depicted female puberty as a transformative event that activated girls' brains in dynamic ways. Mining a variety of genres…Catre Magazin
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  Transnational Modernity and the Italian Reinvention of Walt Whitman, 1870-1945, Paperback/Caterina Bernardini

  Caterina Bernardini gauges the effects that Walt Whitman's poetry had in Italy from 1870 to 1945: the reactions it provoked, the aesthetic and political agendas it came to sponsor, and…Catre Magazin
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  Influence in Art and Literature, Hardback/Goran Hermeren

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  Willa Cather and E. M. Forster: Transatlantic Transcendence, Hardcover/Alan Blackstock

  Though both Willa Cather and E. M. Forster have been alternately praised as progressives and criticized as conservatives, the novels of both writers embody the tenets of liberal humanism, while…Catre Magazin
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  Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World, Hardcover/Zakiyyah Iman Jackson

  Argues that blackness disrupts our essential ideas of race, gender, and, ultimately, the human Rewriting the pernicious, enduring relationship between blackness and animality in the history of Western science and…Catre Magazin
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  Shakespeare’s Accents: Voicing Identity in Performance, Hardcover/Sonia Massai

  Voices and accents are increasingly perceived as central markers of identity in Shakespearean performance. This book presents a history of the reception of Shakespeare on the English stage with a…Catre Magazin
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  Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing: The New Audacity, Hardcover/Jennifer Cooke

  Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing is the first volume to identify and analyse the 'new audacity' of recent feminist writings from life. Characterised by boldness in both style and content, willingness to…Catre Magazin
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  Writing Queer Identities in Morocco: Abdellah Taïa and Moroccan Committed Literature, Hardcover/Tina Dransfeldt Christensen

  This book explores queer identity in Morocco through the work of author and LGBT activist Abdellah Taïa, who defied the country's anti-homosexuality laws by publicly coming out in 2006. Engaging…Catre Magazin
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  The Commodification of Identity in Victorian Narrative: Autobiography, Sensation, and the Literary Marketplace, Hardcover/Sean Grass

  In the first half of the nineteenth century autobiography became, for the first time, an explicitly commercial genre. Drawing together quantitative data on the Victorian book market, insights from the…Catre Magazin
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  Resentment and the Right. French Intellectual Identity Reimagined, 1898-2000, Hardback/Sarah Shurts

  Resentment and the Right explores the construction of a distinctive identity by intellectuals of the French extreme right that separated them from the mainstream or left-wing political and intellectual world.…Catre Magazin
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  Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery, Hardcover/Yogita Goyal

  Argues that the slave narrative is a new world literary genre In Runaway Genres , Yogita Goyal tracks the emergence of slavery as the defining template through which current forms…Catre Magazin
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  Modular Online Learning Design: A Flexible Approach for Diverse Learning Needs, Paperback/Amanda Nichols Hess

  Does your online instruction program sometimes feel like a constant scramble to keep pace with requests and deadlines? Modular design is the answer. Approaching projects, whether large and small, with…Catre Magazin
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  Improbability, Chance, and the Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel, Hardcover/Adam Grener

  In Improbability, Chance, and the Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel , Adam Grener advances a new approach to evaluating realism in fiction by arguing that nineteenth-century literary realism shifted attention to the…Catre Magazin
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  The Long Century’s Long Shadow: Weimar Cinema and the Romantic Modern, Hardcover/Kenneth S. Calhoon

  The Long Century's Long Shadow approaches German Romanticism and Weimar cinema as continuous developments, enlisting both in a narrative of reciprocal illumination. The author investigates different moments and media as…Catre Magazin
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  Divining Nature: Aesthetics of Enchantment in Enlightenment France, Hardcover/Tili Boon Cuillé

  The Enlightenment remains widely associated with the rise of scientific progress and the loss of religious faith, a dual tendency that is thought to have contributed to the disenchantment of…Catre Magazin
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  Good Dogs: Edification, Entertainment, and Kyokutei Bakin’s Nansō Satomi Hakkenden/Glynne Walley

  Good Dogs explores the intersection of didacticism, Chinese vernacular scholarship, social criticism, and commercial storytelling in late Tokugawa Japan through an examination of a masterpiece of 19th century popular fiction:…Catre Magazin
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  Writing Queer Women of Color: Representation and Misdirection in Contemporary Fiction and Graphic Narratives, Paperback/Monalesia Earle

   Queer women of color have historically been underrepresented or excluded completely in fiction and comics. When present, they are depicted as "less than" the white, Eurocentric norm. Drawing on…Catre Magazin
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  Dissonances of Modernity: Music, Text, and Performance in Modern Spain, Paperback/Irene Gómez-Castellano

  Dissonances of Modernity illuminates the ways in which music, as an artifact, a practice, and a discourse redefines established political, social, gender, and cultural conventions in Modern Spain. Using the…Catre Magazin
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  Chaucer’s Decameron and the Origin of the Canterbury Tales, Hardcover/Frederick M. Biggs

  Contributor(s): Author: Frederick M. Biggs A possible direct link between the two greatest literary collections of the fourteenth century, Boccaccio's Decameron and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, has long tantalized readers because…Catre Magazin
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  The Politics of Privacy in Contemporary Native, Latinx, and Asian American Metafictions, Hardcover/Colleen G. Eils

  The Politics of Privacy in Contemporary Native, Latinx, and Asian American Metafictions is the first book-length study to approach contemporary issues of racialized visibility and privacy through narrative form. Using…Catre Magazin
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  Studies in the Age of Chaucer: Volume 42, Hardcover/Sebastian Sobecki

  Studies in the Age of Chaucer is the annual yearbook of the New Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing of Chaucer and his contemporaries, their antecedents and successors, and…Catre Magazin
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  Barbarism and Its Discontents, Hardback/Maria Boletsi

  Publisher: Stanford University Press Author(s): Maria Boletsi Number of pages: 328 Collection: Cultural Memory in the Present Publication date: 2013 Dimensions: 238 x 157 x 23 Cover type: Hardback Redescopera…Catre Magazin
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  Architecture in Effect: Volume 1: Rethinking the Social in Architecture: Making Effects and Volume 2: After Effects: Theories and Methodologie, Paperback/Sten Gromark

  Description Architecture in Effect is a substantial collection of essays emerging from the Swedish research environment of the same name. While it takes its point of departure from within the…Catre Magazin
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  Sundays with Walt and Skeezix, Hardcover/Frank O. King

  Sunday Press Books presents a masterpiece in comic art by Frank King. Collected for the first time, here are the best Gasoline Alley Sunday comics, starting from the very first…Catre Magazin
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  The Cambridge History of English Romantic Literature, Paperback/James Chandler

  The Romantic period was one of the most creative, intense and turbulent periods of English literature, an age marked by revolution, reaction, and reform in politics, and by the invention…Catre Magazin
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  Teaching Information Literacy Reframed: 50+ Framework-Based Exercises for Creating Information-Literate Learners, Paperback/Joanna M. Burkhardt

  The six threshold concepts outlined in the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education are not simply a revision of ACRL's previous Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. They…Catre Magazin
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  Infinite Variety: Literary Invention, Theology, and the Disorder of Kinds, 1688-1730, Hardcover/Wolfram Schmidgen

  Unnerved by the upheavals of the seventeenth century, English writers including Thomas Hobbes, Richard Blackmore, John Locke, Jonathan Swift, and Daniel Defoe came to accept that disorder, rather than order,…Catre Magazin
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  From Gift to Commodity, Paperback/Hildegard Hoeller

  Fascinating analysis of the significance of the gift, and its increasingly complicated role in an emerging capitalist order, in nineteenth-century American fiction Publisher: University Press of New England Author(s): Hildegard…Catre Magazin
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  Theory into Practice. An Introduction to Literary Criticism, 4 ed, Paperback/***

  Beginning with more accessible critical approaches and gradually introducing more challenging critical perspectives, this title provides extensive step-by-step guidance for writing literary analyses. Publisher: Cengage Learning, Inc Author(s): Ann (University…Catre Magazin
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  Transnational Chicanx Perspectives on Ana Castillo, Hardcover/Bernadine Hernández

  For more than forty years, Chicana author Ana Castillo has produced novels, poems, and critical essays that forge connections between generations; challenge borders around race, gender, and sexuality; and critically…Catre Magazin
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  Theory as Practice: A Critical Anthology of Early German Romantic Writings, Paperback/Jochen Schulte-Sasse

  Theory as Practice was first published in 1997. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of…Catre Magazin
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  Millennial Cervantes: New Currents in Cervantes Studies, Hardcover/Bruce R. Burningham

  Millennial Cervantes explores some of the most important recent trends in Cervantes scholarship in the twenty-first century. It brings together leading Cervantes scholars of the United States in order to…Catre Magazin
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  Belles and Poets: Intertextuality in the Civil War Diaries of White Southern Women, Hardcover/Julia Nitz

  In Belles and Poets, Julia Nitz analyzes the Civil War diary writing of eight white women from the U.S. South, focusing specifically on how they made sense of the world…Catre Magazin
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  The Angela Y. Davis Reader, Paperback/Joy James

  For three decades, Angela Y. Davis has written on liberation theory and democratic praxis. Challenging the foundations of mainstream discourse, her analyses of culture, gender, capital, and race have profoundly…Catre Magazin
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  Discrepant Engagement: Dissonance, Cross-Culturality and Experimental Writing, Paperback/Nathaniel Mackey

  Discrepant Engagement addresses work by a number of authors not normally grouped under a common rubric--black writers from the United States and the Caribbean and the so-called Black Mountain poets.…Catre Magazin
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  What is African American Literature?, Paperback/Margo N. Crawford

  After Kenneth W. Warren's What Was African American Literature? , Margo N. Crawford delivers What is African American Literature? The idea of African American literature may be much more than…Catre Magazin
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  Being Portuguese in Spanish: Reimagining Early Modern Iberian Literature, 1580-1640, Paperback/Jonathan William Wade

  Among the many consequences of Spain's annexation of Portugal from 1580 to 1640 was an increase in the number of Portuguese authors writing in Spanish. One can trace this practice…Catre Magazin
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  Rosa Mulholland (1841-1921): Feminist, Victorian, Catholic and Patriot, Paperback/James H. Murphy

  This new work sets six important texts (two full texts and four novel extracts) in the context of Rosa Mulholland's writing career, and the cultural context of the time. Mullholland's…Catre Magazin
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  Border Correspondent: Selected Writings, 1955-1970, Paperback/Ruben Salazar

  This first major collection of former Los Angeles Times reporter and columnist Ruben Salazar's writings, is a testament to his pioneering role in the Mexican American community, in journalism, and…Catre Magazin
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  The Road to Hel: A Study of the Conception of the Dead in Old Norse Literature, Hardcover/Hilda R. Ellis

  The Road to Hel: A Study of the Conception of the Dead in Old Norse Literature, Hardcover/Hilda R. Ellis Livrare si plata The Road to Hel: A Study of the…Catre Magazin
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  Grotesque Touch: Women, Violence, and Contemporary Circum-Caribbean Narratives, Paperback/Amy King

  In this book, Amy K. King examines how violence between women in contemporary Caribbean and American texts is rooted in plantation slavery. Analyzing films, television shows, novels, short stories, poems,…Catre Magazin
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  The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in Victorian England, Paperback/Harriet Ritvo

  When we think about the Victorian age, we usually envision people together with animals: the Queen and her pugs, the sportsman with horses and hounds, the big game hunter with…Catre Magazin
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  Chastity Plot, Hardback/Lisabeth During

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  Migration Erzahlen: Studien Zur Chamisso-Literatur Deutsch-Ungarischer Autorinnen Der Gegenwart, Hardcover/Eszter Pabis

  The studies of the present volume offer cultural and narratological analysis of contemporary German-language fiction by women authors of Hungarian origin, like the Chamisso Prize winners Terezia Mora, Zsuzsa Bank,…Catre Magazin
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  Narrating the Mesh: Form and Story in the Anthropocene, Paperback/Marco Caracciolo

  A hierarchical model of human societies' relations with the natural world is at the root of today's climate crisis; Narrating the Mesh contends that narrative form is instrumental in countering…Catre Magazin
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  Chinese American Literature Without Borders: Gender, Genre, and Form, Paperback/King-Kok Cheung

  Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe  elefant.ro  carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii de carti online, de dragoste si beletristica,…Catre Magazin
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  Who Is a Muslim?: Orientalism and Literary Populisms, Paperback/Maryam Wasif Khan

  Who Is a Muslim? argues that modern Urdu literature, from its inception in colonial institutions such as Fort William College, Calcutta, to its dominant iterations in contemporary Pakistan--popular novels, short…Catre Magazin
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  Rupert Brooke in the First World War, Paperback/Alisa Miller

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  Inklings and King Arthur: J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, C.S. Lewis, and Owen Barfield on the Matter of Britain/Sorina Higgins

  In the midst of war-torn Britain, King Arthur returned in the writings of the Oxford Inklings. Learn how Tolkien, Lewis, Williams, and Barfield brought hope to their times and our…Catre Magazin
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  Letras Y Limpias: Decolonial Medicine and Holistic Healing in Mexican American Literature, Paperback/Amanda V. Ellis

  Letras y Limpias is the first book to explore the literary significance of the figure of the curandera within Mexican American literature. Amanda Ellis traces the significance of the curandera…Catre Magazin
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  Homer: Odyssey I-XII, Paperback (2nd Ed.)/Homer

  Contributor(s): Author: Homer Volume Editor: W. B. Stanford First published in the outstanding and long-running 'red Macmillan' series in 1947 and substantially updated in 1959 (with, for example, sections on…Catre Magazin