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  • Radio Free Stein: Gertrude Stein's Parlor Plays Adam J. Frank 9780810148079

    Radio Free Stein: Gertrude Stein's Parlor Plays Adam J. Frank 9780810148079

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    Returns us to Gertrude Stein’s theater by way of the modernist medium of radio What happens when we listen to Gertrude Stein’s plays as radio and music theater? This book explores the sound of Stein’s theater and proposes that radio, when approached both...
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  • Crime Fiction in the Caribbean: Reframing Crime and Justice Lucy Evans 9780198919889

    Crime Fiction in the Caribbean: Reframing Crime and Justice Lucy Evans 9780198919889

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    Crime Fiction in the Caribbean: Reframing Crime and Justice is the first academic book to focus on crime fiction by anglophone Caribbean writers. It explores how contemporary writers experiment with the crime genre in order to convey, contextualize, and...
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  • Japanische Thomas Mann-Übersetzung zwischen Kulturheteronomie und Emanzipation: Tonio Kröger-Retranslations im digitalen Topic Modeling Nicole Marion Mueller 9783662695685

    Japanische Thomas Mann-Übersetzung zwischen Kulturheteronomie und Emanzipation: Tonio Kröger-Retranslations im digitalen Topic Modeling Nicole Marion Mueller 9783662695685

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    In diesem Open Access Buch nähert sich Nicole Marion Mueller mithilfe innovativer digitaler Methoden dem japanischen Übersetzungspluralismus im 20. Jahrhundert und seinen historischen Rahmenbedingungen an. Dabei bezieht sie sich auf Thomas Mann, der...
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  • These Vivid American Documents: Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and FSA Photobooks Joseph R. Millichap 9781621908753

    These Vivid American Documents: Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and FSA Photobooks Joseph R. Millichap 9781621908753

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    The story behind the most iconic American photobooks of the twentieth century. In the late 1930s and early 1940s, the Farm Security Administration (FSA) funded a now-famous photography project to document and highlight American rural life and its...
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  • George Egerton: Terra Incognitas Isobel Sigley 9781032532363

    George Egerton: Terra Incognitas Isobel Sigley 9781032532363

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    George Egerton: Terra Incognitas is the first published work to focus solely on Egerton and her literary legacy. It covers the range and extent of Egerton's life and literary career from her emergence into the milieu of London publishing in 1893 to her...
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  • Ezra Pound and Chinese Landscapes Kent Su 9781638041115

    Ezra Pound and Chinese Landscapes Kent Su 9781638041115

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638041115Author Kent SuFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Clemson University Digital PressPublisher Clemson University Digital Press
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  • Guilt and Finnegans Wake: From Original Sin to the Irredeemable Body Talia Abu 9780813079288

    Guilt and Finnegans Wake: From Original Sin to the Irredeemable Body Talia Abu 9780813079288

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    Exploring the important themes of guilt and morality in James Joyce’s final work James Joyce’s last novel, Finnegans Wake, is notorious for its complex structure and considered by many to be unreadable. Approaching this complicated book with attention to...
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  • Joseph Conrad’s Cultural Legacy: Centennial Essays Linda Dryden 9781350440845

    Joseph Conrad’s Cultural Legacy: Centennial Essays Linda Dryden 9781350440845

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    In 2024 the literary community commemorates the 100th anniversary of the death of Joseph Conrad. This volume of collected essays takes the opportunity to reflect on Conrad’s enduring influence on literature and culture in the 21st century. Offering...
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  • Hemingway and Film: Reflections on Teaching, Reading, and Understanding Cam Cobb 9781606354827

    Hemingway and Film: Reflections on Teaching, Reading, and Understanding Cam Cobb 9781606354827

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606354827Author Cam CobbFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Kent State University PressPublisher Kent State University Press
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  • Radio Free Stein: Gertrude Stein's Parlor Plays Adam J. Frank 9780810148062

    Radio Free Stein: Gertrude Stein's Parlor Plays Adam J. Frank 9780810148062

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    Returns us to Gertrude Stein’s theater by way of the modernist medium of radio What happens when we listen to Gertrude Stein’s plays as radio and music theater? This book explores the sound of Stein’s theater and proposes that radio, when approached both...
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  • Freedom Is Not Enough: T. S. Eliot for Liberation, Resistance, and Hope Patrick R. Query 9781438499772

    Freedom Is Not Enough: T. S. Eliot for Liberation, Resistance, and Hope Patrick R. Query 9781438499772

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438499772Author Patrick R. QueryFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...
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  • Chronistin und Kritikerin der Moderne: Zum Werk Gabriele Tergits Luisa Banki 9783662688106

    Chronistin und Kritikerin der Moderne: Zum Werk Gabriele Tergits Luisa Banki 9783662688106

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    Gabriele Tergit (1894–1982) war bis 1933 eine der erfolgreichsten Autorinnen ihrer Generation. Aus dem nationalsozialistischen Deutschland geflohen, fand sie jedoch im Exil kein Publikum mehr – obwohl sie kontinuierlich schrieb. Ihr vielseitiges...
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  • The Pound Biennial: Vol. 1 Anderson Araujo 9781638040354

    The Pound Biennial: Vol. 1 Anderson Araujo 9781638040354

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638040354Author Anderson AraujoFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Clemson University Digital PressPublisher Clemson University Digital Press
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  • Günter Grass Ronald Hayman 9781032889382

    Günter Grass Ronald Hayman 9781032889382

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    Günter Grass is one of the writers who grew up in a Germany already in the grip of Nazism. None of them has found better ways than his of translating the sordid history of the movement into fiction; none has looked more critically at the ‘denazification’...
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  • Seamus Heaney Blake Morrison 9781032872278

    Seamus Heaney Blake Morrison 9781032872278

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    In recent years Seamus Heaney has earned the reputation of being ‘the most important Irish poet since Yeats’. In this book, originally published in 1982, Blake Morrison identifies the central characteristics of his achievement, uncovering the sources of...
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  • Tolstoy Ronald Hayman 9781032887197

    Tolstoy Ronald Hayman 9781032887197

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    Originally published in 1970, this account of Tolstoy’s achievement as a novelist concentrates on the best known of his works, in particular the two masterpieces Anna Karenina and War and Peace. Extracts are, however, taken from all the major novels and...
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  • These Vivid American Documents: Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and FSA Photobooks Joseph R. Millichap 9781621909408

    These Vivid American Documents: Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and FSA Photobooks Joseph R. Millichap 9781621909408

    RRP: $56.60
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    The story behind the most iconic American photobooks of the twentieth century. In the late 1930s and early 1940s, the Farm Security Administration (FSA) funded a now-famous photography project to document and highlight American rural life and its...
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  • The South African Short Story in English, 1920-2010: When Aesthetics Meets Ethics Marta Fossati 9780198910978

    The South African Short Story in English, 1920-2010: When Aesthetics Meets Ethics Marta Fossati 9780198910978

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    Through detailed close readings alongside investigations into the history of print culture, Marta Fossati traces the development of the South African short story in English from the late 1920s to the first decade of the twenty-first century. She examines...
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  • Theorizing Literature: Literary Theory in Contemporary Novels – and Their Analysis Erik Schilling 9783031533259

    Theorizing Literature: Literary Theory in Contemporary Novels – and Their Analysis Erik Schilling 9783031533259

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    This book offers an analytical model for the interpretation of theory-informed novels – American, English, French, German, and Italian – from the past 50 years. Works discussed include Laurent Binet’s The 7th Function of Language, Italo Calvino’s If on a...
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  • A Shaping Joy: Studies in the Writer's Craft Cleanth Brooks 9781032861296

    A Shaping Joy: Studies in the Writer's Craft Cleanth Brooks 9781032861296

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    In A Shaping Joy (originally published in 1971), Cleanth Brooks writes about modern literature and the criticism that has been developed to deal with it. Most of the essays concern poets and novelists of the twentieth century, but there are also...
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  • The Vacuum Cleaner: A Cultural Investigation Maud Ellmann 9783031566653

    The Vacuum Cleaner: A Cultural Investigation Maud Ellmann 9783031566653

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    This book offers an entertaining study of the facts and fantasies associated with the vacuum cleaner as it evolved from a luxury gimmick to a household necessity. The iconic appliance of twentieth-century domestic revolution, the vacuum cleaner stands at...
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  • The Geographies of David Foster Wallace's Novels: Spatial History and Literary Practice Laurie McRae Andrew 9781474497558

    The Geographies of David Foster Wallace's Novels: Spatial History and Literary Practice Laurie McRae Andrew 9781474497558

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    The Geographies of David Foster Wallace's Novels takes a fresh look at David Foster Wallace's novels through the lens of historical geography. It explores the connections between Wallace's literary practice and the reshaping of American geographical...
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  • Margaret Wise Brown’s Experimental Art: The Modernist Picture Book Julia Pond 9781032727011

    Margaret Wise Brown’s Experimental Art: The Modernist Picture Book Julia Pond 9781032727011

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    In this study, the engaging art created by children’s author Margaret Wise Brown receives the critical attention it deserves as a lasting contribution to American children’s literature. Through analysis of her dozens of titles published during the height...
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  • Postcolonial Servitude: Domestic Servants in Global South Asian English Literature Ambreen Hai 9780197698006

    Postcolonial Servitude: Domestic Servants in Global South Asian English Literature Ambreen Hai 9780197698006

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    Postcolonial Servitude explores how a new generation of contemporary global, transnational, award-winning writers with origins in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh engages with the complexities of domestic servitude as a problem for the nation...
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  • Invisibility and Influence: A Literary History of AfroLatinidades Regina Marie Mills 9781477329139

    Invisibility and Influence: A Literary History of AfroLatinidades Regina Marie Mills 9781477329139

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    A rich literary study of AfroLatinx life writing, this book traces how AfroLatinxs have challenged their erasure in the United States and Latin America over the last century.Invisibility and Influence demonstrates how a century of AfroLatinx writers in...
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  • Invisibility and Influence: A Literary History of AfroLatinidades Regina Marie Mills 9781477329146

    Invisibility and Influence: A Literary History of AfroLatinidades Regina Marie Mills 9781477329146

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    A rich literary study of AfroLatinx life writing, this book traces how AfroLatinxs have challenged their erasure in the United States and Latin America over the last century.Invisibility and Influence demonstrates how a century of AfroLatinx writers in...
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  • Thomas Mann-Handbuch: Leben – Werk – Wirkung Andreas Blödorn 9783662694367

    Thomas Mann-Handbuch: Leben – Werk – Wirkung Andreas Blödorn 9783662694367

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    Der Literaturnobelpreisträger von 1929: Thomas Mann gehört zu den produktivsten, wichtigsten und wirkungsreichsten deutschsprachigen Autoren der Moderne. Seine Romane, Erzählungen, Essays, Briefe und Tagebücher reflektieren und prägen die erste Hälfte...
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  • Drafty Houses in Forster, Eliot and Woolf: Spatiality and Cultural Politics Ria Banerjee 9783031549304

    Drafty Houses in Forster, Eliot and Woolf: Spatiality and Cultural Politics Ria Banerjee 9783031549304

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    This book argues that E. M. Forster, T. S. Eliot, and Virginia Woolf engaged sustainedly with real and imagined places as sites of counter-cultural politics. These writers used architectural images in diaries, essays, novels, poems, and plays to express...
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  • Gombrowicz: An Introduction Aleksandra Konarzewska 9781032010434

    Gombrowicz: An Introduction Aleksandra Konarzewska 9781032010434

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    This book is a short introduction to Witold Gombrowicz’s life and work as one of the most prominent figures in twentieth-century literature and theater, providing intertextual perspectives that allow readers to analyze his short stories, plays, and...
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  • Joe Orton C.W.E. Bigsby 9781032868196

    Joe Orton C.W.E. Bigsby 9781032868196

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    Though Orton’s roots lay in traditions as diverse as those represented by such writers as Wycherley, Congreve, Wilde, Shaw, Carroll, Firbank, Feydeau, Beckett and Pinter, he developed a form of ‘anarchic farce’ which was very much his own – hence the...
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  • Yale French Studies, Number 143: The French Seventies Richard J. Golsan 9780300274240

    Yale French Studies, Number 143: The French Seventies Richard J. Golsan 9780300274240

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    A reexamination of 1970s France as a decade of intellectual, cultural, and political consequence, both then and now Number 143 of Yale French Studies, “The French Seventies,” reintroduces and reorients readers to a decade typically considered a period...
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  • John Berger: Ways of Learning Iona Heath 9780192864239

    John Berger: Ways of Learning Iona Heath 9780192864239

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    Iona Heath relates the importance that John Berger's work and friendship had on her working life as a GP. It includes extracts from letters that span 20 years of her correspondence with John Berger. In this book, Iona Heath writes about reading John...
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  • Cicely Saunders and Total Pain: Holism, Narrative and Silence at the End of Life Joe Wood 9781399531061

    Cicely Saunders and Total Pain: Holism, Narrative and Silence at the End of Life Joe Wood 9781399531061

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    Introduced in 1964, Cicely Saunders' term 'total pain' has come to epitomise the holistic ethos of hospice and palliative care. It communicates how a dying person's pain can be a whole overwhelming experience, not only physical but also psychological,...
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  • George Orwell and Communist Poland: Émigré, Official and Clandestine Receptions Krystyna Wieszczek 9781032409535

    George Orwell and Communist Poland: Émigré, Official and Clandestine Receptions Krystyna Wieszczek 9781032409535

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    George Orwell and Communist Poland is the first major account of George Orwell’s Polish reception during WWII and the cold war. Offering a tri-partite approach to studying reception in conditions of state-imposed censorship – from émigré, official and...
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  • Teaching Anne Frank and Other Difficult Life Stories Waltraud Maierhofer 9781032645148

    Teaching Anne Frank and Other Difficult Life Stories Waltraud Maierhofer 9781032645148

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    This volume, grounded in the “Diary of a Young Girl” and its continued appeal to readers of all ages, sees promise in the relevance of Anne Frank’s story in the 21st century, and potential for new ways of teaching her story and those of other genocides...
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  • Bertolt Brecht und Ernst Toller Kirsten Reimers 9783662689653

    Bertolt Brecht und Ernst Toller Kirsten Reimers 9783662689653

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    Bertolt Brecht und Ernst Toller zählen zu den wichtigsten Dramenautoren der Weimarer Republik. Politisch gab es zu Lebzeiten zahlreiche Berührungspunkte zwischen beiden, und ebenso finden sich hinsichtlich ihres ästhetisch avancierten Anspruchs mit...
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  • Graham Greene John Spurling 9781032871066

    Graham Greene John Spurling 9781032871066

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    Graham Greene is an immensely popular as well as powerful and idiosyncratic writer. His leading characters are murderers, spies, fugitives and outsiders and his most typical plot is that of the hunter and the hunted. In this book, originally published in...
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  • The Mediated Arctic: Poetics and Politics of Contemporary Circumpolar Geographies Johannes Riquet 9781526174017

    The Mediated Arctic: Poetics and Politics of Contemporary Circumpolar Geographies Johannes Riquet 9781526174017

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    The mediated Arctic analyses the multiple relations between geography and cultural production that have long shaped – and are currently transforming – the circumpolar world. It explores how twenty-first-century cultural practitioners imagine and...
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  • Bigger: A Literary Life Trudier Harris 9780300269321

    Bigger: A Literary Life Trudier Harris 9780300269321

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    A biography of Native Son’s Bigger Thomas that examines his continued relevance in debates over Black men and the violence of racism Bigger Thomas, the central figure in Richard Wright’s novel Native Son (1940), eludes easy categorization. A violent and...
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