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The Poetics of Scale: From Apollinaire to Big Data

The Poetics of Scale: From Apollinaire to Big Data

Author: Conrad Steel
ISBN: 9781609389314
Format: Paperback
$244.20

Shows how the history of poetry - with its particular formal affordances, and the particular hopes and fears we...  Read More >>

Fugitive Texts: Slave Narratives in Antebellum Print Culture

Fugitive Texts: Slave Narratives in Antebellum Print...

Author: Michaël Roy ,  Susan Pickford
ISBN: 9780299338442
Format: Paperback
$73.79

Offers the first book-length study of the slave narrative as a material artifact. Drawing on a wide range of sources,...  Read More >>

We, Us, and Them: Affect and American Nonfiction from Vietnam to Trump

We, Us, and Them: Affect and American Nonfiction from...

Author: Douglas Dowland
ISBN: 9780813950846
Format: Paperback
$77.88

When Americans describe their compatriots, who exactly are they talking about? This is the urgent question that...  Read More >>

An Ocean of Wonder: The Fantastic in the Pacific

An Ocean of Wonder: The Fantastic in the Pacific

Author: ku‘ualoha ho‘omanawanui ,  Joyce Pualani Warren
ISBN: 9780824896171
Format: Hardback
$290.40

Features the fantastic as present-day Indigenous Pacific world-building that looks to the past in creating alternative...  Read More >>

The Visionary Queen: Justice, Reform, and the Labyrinth in Marguerite de Navarre

The Visionary Queen: Justice, Reform, and the Labyrinth...

Author: Theresa Brock
ISBN: 9781644533277
Format: Hardback
$396.00

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Literary Optics: Staging the Collective in the Nahda

Literary Optics: Staging the Collective in the Nahda...

Author: Maha AbdelMegeed
ISBN: 9780815638285
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Offers a compelling alternative to the traditional mode of analysing Arabic literature through an encounter between...  Read More >>

An Introduction to Jean Bodel

An Introduction to Jean Bodel

Author: Lynn T. Ramey
ISBN: 9780813079028
Format: Hardback
$211.20

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Ready Reader One: The Stories We Tell With, About, and Around Videogames

Ready Reader One: The Stories We Tell With, About, and...

Author: Megan Amber Condis ,  Mike Sell
ISBN: 9780807182307
Format: Paperback
$92.40

Explores the many ways literature depicts, engages with, and imagines videogames and gamers. The diverse group of...  Read More >>

Literary Optics: Staging the Collective in the Nahda

Literary Optics: Staging the Collective in the Nahda...

Author: Maha AbdelMegeed
ISBN: 9780815638278
Format: Hardback
$250.80

Offers a compelling alternative to the traditional mode of analysing Arabic literature through an encounter between...  Read More >>

London: An Illustrated Literary Companion

London: An Illustrated Literary Companion

Author: Rosemary Gray ,  Rosemary Gray
ISBN: 9781035031689
Format: Paperback
$22.99

A fascinating literary overview of London across the centuries, through the beautiful and varied writing it has...  Read More >>

Ready Reader One: The Stories We Tell With, About, and Around Videogames

Ready Reader One: The Stories We Tell With, About, and...

Author: Megan Amber Condis ,  Mike Sell
ISBN: 9780807180891
Format: Hardback
$184.80

Explores the many ways literature depicts, engages with, and imagines videogames and gamers. The diverse group of...  Read More >>

Restoring Relations Through Stories: From Dinétah to Denendeh

Restoring Relations Through Stories: From Dinétah to...

Author: Renae Watchman ,  Luci Tapahonso
ISBN: 9780816550340
Format: Paperback
$92.40

An insightful volume that delves into land-based Dine and Dene imaginaries as embodied in stories - oral, literary,...  Read More >>

Selling the Humanities: Essays

Selling the Humanities: Essays

Author: Jeffrey R. Di Leo ,  H. Aram Veeser
ISBN: 9781680033182
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Explores the challenges facing literature, philosophy, and theory at a time when the humanities appear to some as...  Read More >>

The Chilean Dictatorship Novel: Memory, Postmemory, Affect, and Emotions

The Chilean Dictatorship Novel: Memory, Postmemory,...

Author: Helene Carol Weldt-Basson
ISBN: 9780826366191
Format: Hardback
$171.60

Examines fifteen novels and one testimony written on the topic of dictatorship to illustrate how these Chilean narratives...  Read More >>

Matrilineal Dissent: Women Writers and Jewish American Literary History

Matrilineal Dissent: Women Writers and Jewish American...

Author: Annie Atura Bushnell ,  Lori Harrison-Kahan
ISBN: 9780814349854
Format: Paperback
$105.57

Bridging literary studies and cultural history, this edited volume examines Jewish women writers’ wide-ranging contributions...  Read More >>

Las Raras: Feminine Style, Intellectual Networks, and Women Writers during Spanish-American Modernismo

Las Raras: Feminine Style, Intellectual Networks, and...

Author: Sarah Moody
ISBN: 9780826506887
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Proposes that the Modernistas’ advocacy for a writing style they considered feminine helps us to understand why...  Read More >>

Growing Up in the Gutter: Diaspora and Comics

Growing Up in the Gutter: Diaspora and Comics

Author: Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo ,  Frederick Luis Aldama
ISBN: 9780816553310
Format: Paperback
$71.15

Offers new understandings of contemporary graphic coming-of-age narratives by looking at the genre’s growth in stories...  Read More >>

Unveiling the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois on the Problem of Whiteness

Unveiling the Color Line: W. E. B. Du Bois on the Problem...

Author: Lisa J. McLeod
ISBN: 9781625347930
Format: Paperback
$86.99

Traces the development of W.E.B. Du Bois’s conception of whiteness, and the racism inherent to it, as an all-encompassing...  Read More >>

Borderland Brutalities: Violence and Resistance along the US-Mexico Borderlands in Literature, Film, and Culture

Borderland Brutalities: Violence and Resistance along...

Author: Laura Elena Belmonte
ISBN: 9780826366122
Format: Hardback
$171.60

Analyses how border violence is perpetuated and sanctioned by private corporations as well as the US and Mexican...  Read More >>

Reading at the Limits of Poetic Form: Dematerialization in Adorno, Blanchot, and Celan

Reading at the Limits of Poetic Form: Dematerialization...

Author: Jacob McGuinn
ISBN: 9780810146983
Format: Paperback
$95.04

How does literary objecthood contend with the challenge of writing objects that emerge at an extreme limit of material...  Read More >>

A Mirror for History: How Novels and Art Reflect the Evolution of Middle-Class America

A Mirror for History: How Novels and Art Reflect the...

Author: Marc Egnal
ISBN: 9781621909040
Format: Paperback
$79.07

In A Mirror for History, author Marc Egnal uses novels and art to provide a new understanding of American society....  Read More >>

Black Fire-This Time, Volume 2

Black Fire-This Time, Volume 2

Author: Derrick Harriell ,  Kofi Antwi
ISBN: 9798988165583
Format: Paperback
$132.00

"In this follow-up volume, over seventy-five poets and writers come together on the theme of """"Black is Beautiful,...  Read More >>

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