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Reinaldo Arenas and the Cultural Canon: Queer Intertextuality and Rewriting the Self

Reinaldo Arenas and the Cultural Canon: Queer Intertextuality...
Author: Angela L. Willis ISBN: 9781683406242 Format: Paperback	$80.99
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Mary Edwards Bryan: Her Early Life and Works

Mary Edwards Bryan: Her Early Life and Works
Author: Canter Brown, Jr. , Larry Eugene Rivers ISBN: 9780813081670 Format: Paperback	$64.99
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Hemingway's Art of Revision: The Making of the Short Fiction

Hemingway's Art of Revision: The Making of the Short...
Author: John Beall ISBN: 9780807182253 Format: Paperback	$56.10
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The Weather and the Words: The Selected Letters of John Newlove, 1963-2003

The Weather and the Words: The Selected Letters of John...
Author: J.A. Weingarten , Lorna Crozier ISBN: 9781771126847 Format: Paperback	$84.70
The Weather and the Words depicts the poet John Newlove's life. Newlove's letters are a record not just of one person's... Read More >>

Refuting Antisemitism: Dismantling the Stereotypes, Canards, and Tropes of Jew Hatred

Refuting Antisemitism: Dismantling the Stereotypes,...
Author: Jeremy Havardi ISBN: 9781680533903 Format: Hardback	$74.80
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By Heart or From the Scroll: Text Quotation and Memory on the Grammatika Vases

By Heart or From the Scroll: Text Quotation and Memory...
Author: Maria Nasioula ISBN: 9780674303300 Format: Paperback	$34.95
By Heart or From the Scroll studies six grammatika vases depicting scenes from the Odyssey, offering new insights... Read More >>

Forms of Time, Newton to Austen

Forms of Time, Newton to Austen
Author: Jesse Molesworth ISBN: 9781503646377 Format: Paperback	$64.99
Between 1700 and 1800, the English-speaking world came to terms with one of modernity's most fundamental ideas:... Read More >>

Murderous Feeling: Gender and Retribution in Black and Indigenous Literature

Murderous Feeling: Gender and Retribution in Black and...
Author: Chad Benito Infante ISBN: 9781517919887 Format: Paperback	$62.99
Examining revenge narratives as a feminist response to slavery and settler colonialism From Octavia Butler's Kindred... Read More >>

The Royal House of Savoy: Unifiers of Italy

The Royal House of Savoy: Unifiers of Italy
Author: Gino Neil Lupini , Emanuele Filiberto ISBN: 9781680536034 Format: Hardback	$187.00
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Recasting the Bygone Witch: Representations of Lesser-Known Witches in Popular Culture (Color)

Recasting the Bygone Witch: Representations of Lesser-Known...
Author: Aíne Norris , Mariaelena Dibenigno ISBN: 9798261600237 Format: Paperback	$271.92
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Chekhov, The Anxious Playwright: His Four Great Plays in Their Cultural Context

Chekhov, The Anxious Playwright: His Four Great Plays...
Author: Jim Curtis ISBN: 9781032581101 Format: Hardback	$273.00
This book examines Chekhov's four major plays, analyzing how his non-aristocratic background influenced his literary... Read More >>

Lyric Logic: How Modern American Poetry Reasons

Lyric Logic: How Modern American Poetry Reasons
Author: Johanna Winant ISBN: 9780231217477 Format: Paperback	$52.95
Bringing together modern poetry’s aesthetic experimentation and modern philosophy’s attention to the problem of... Read More >>

Between the Pen and the Rifle: Dilemmas of the Revolutionary Intellectual in Latin America

Between the Pen and the Rifle: Dilemmas of the Revolutionary...
Author: Claudia Gilman ISBN: 9781951634582 Format: Paperback	$79.20
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Reading with My Grandmother: Chinese Canadian Literature, History, and Family

Reading with My Grandmother: Chinese Canadian Literature,...
Author: Lindsay Diehl ISBN: 9781771127288 Format: Paperback	$74.80
Examining a range of Chinese Canadian literature, this book incorporates elements of the author's own family story-her... Read More >>

Saints, Sinners, and Clickers

Saints, Sinners, and Clickers
Author: Matthew J DiStefano , Lauren Cibene ISBN: 9781964252643 Format: Paperback	$52.77
In a world where survival is brutal and morality is blurred, Saints, Sinners, and Clickers delves into the haunting,... Read More >>

Homoerotic Poets of the Italian Trecento: The Complete Poems of Meo Dei Tolomei, Cecco Nuccoli, and Marino Ceccoli

Homoerotic Poets of the Italian Trecento: The Complete...
Author: Fabian Alfie ISBN: 9780268210588 Format: Hardback	$289.00
Homoerotic Poets of the Italian Trecento explores same-sex desire in the work of three skilled medieval Italian... Read More >>

Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism

Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism
Author: Meredith L. Goldsmith , Emily J. Orlando ISBN: 9780813081373 Format: Paperback	$56.10
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Becoming Stendhal: The Performance of Authenticity and the Making of a Novelist

Becoming Stendhal: The Performance of Authenticity and...
Author: Hadley Suter ISBN: 9780813955117 Format: Hardback	$266.00
How the master of French realism formulated a new, distinctly modern theory of authenticity and identity Is there... Read More >>

Of Women and Water: Submersion Stories in Eudora Welty’s Fiction

Of Women and Water: Submersion Stories in Eudora Welty’s...
Author: Sarah Gilbreath Ford ISBN: 9781496863034 Format: Hardback	$254.00
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Girlhood and Adolescence in the Twenty-First-Century Southern Novel

Girlhood and Adolescence in the Twenty-First-Century...
Author: Shirley A. Stave ISBN: 9781496862075 Format: Hardback	$229.00
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Facing Uncertain Futures: The Transformative Possibilities of Latinx Youth Literatures

Facing Uncertain Futures: The Transformative Possibilities...
Author: Cristina Rhodes ISBN: 9781496862600 Format: Hardback	$229.00
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Bale After Bale: How Cotton Defined the Twentieth-Century South

Bale After Bale: How Cotton Defined the Twentieth-Century...
Author: David A. Davis , Robert Jackson ISBN: 9780813954738 Format: Hardback	$277.00
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Love and Marriage in the Time of the Troubadours

Love and Marriage in the Time of the Troubadours
Author: William D. Paden ISBN: 9780813079585 Format: Hardback	$231.00
Challenging the belief that medieval marriages were loveless, this book analyzes troubadour poetry and historical... Read More >>

Black Beans and Diamonds: Brazil in the Work of Elizabeth Bishop

Black Beans and Diamonds: Brazil in the Work of Elizabeth...
Author: Neil K. Besner , Regina Przybycien ISBN: 9780807186107 Format: Hardback	$92.99
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So This Is What It Feels Like: Empathy in the Poetry of James Wright

So This Is What It Feels Like: Empathy in the Poetry...
Author: Adam Scheffler ISBN: 9780807186084 Format: Hardback	$92.99
James Wright (1927–80) was considered one of the major poets of his era, winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1972, even... Read More >>

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