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World literature and dissent
World Literature and Dissent reconsiders the role of dissent in contemporary global literature. Bringing together scholars of world and postcolonial literatures, the contributors explore the aesthetics of resistance through concepts including the epistemology of ignorance, the rhetoric of innocence, the subversion of paying attention, and the radical potential of everydayness. A…
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- 9
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780203710302
- Collation
- viii, 204 p. : ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 809.933581 BUR w
The red countess : select autobiographical and fictional writing of Hermynia …
Born into a distinguished aristocratic family of the old Habsburg Empire, Hermynia Zur Mühlen spent much of her childhood and early youth travelling in Europe and North Africa with her diplomat father. Never comfortable with the traditional roles women were expected to play, she broke as a young adult both with her family and, after five years on his estate in the old Czarist Russia, with her …
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- -
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- 9781783745562
- Collation
- 440 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
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- Call Number
- 833.912 MUH r
The life of breath in literature, culture and medicine : classical to contemp…
This open access book studies breath and breathing in literature and culture and provides crucial insights into the history of medicine, health and the emotions, the foundations of beliefs concerning body, spirit and world, the connections between breath and creativity and the phenomenology of breath and breathlessness. Contributions span the classical, medieval, early modern, Romantic, Victori…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030744434
- Collation
- xxii, 555 p. : ill.
- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
- Call Number
- 809.933561 FUL t
Tales of darkness and light: Soso Tham's the old days of the Khasis
Soso Tham (1873–1940), the acknowledged poet laureate of the Khasis of northeastern India, was one of the first writers to give written poetic form to the rich oral tradition of his people. Poet of landscape, myth and memory, Soso Tham paid rich and poignant tribute to his tribe in his masterpiece The Old Days of the Khasis. Janet Hujon’s vibrant new translation presents the English reader…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781783744701
- Collation
- 83 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
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- -
- Call Number
- 895.93 THA t
Scientific communication : practices, theories, and pedagogies
This book addresses the roles and challenges of people who communicate science, who work with scientists, and who teach STEM majors how to write. In terms of practice and theory, chapters address themes encountered by scientists and communicators, including ethical challenges, visual displays, and communication with publics, as well as changed and changing contexts and genres. The pedagogy sect…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781315160191
- Collation
- vi, 333 p. ; ill
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- -
- Call Number
- 808.0665 NOR s
Incomparable Poetry : An Essay on the Financial Crisis of 2007–2008 and Iri…
Incomparable Poetry: An Essay on the Financial Crisis of 2007-2008 and Irish Literature is an attempt to describe the ways in which the financial crisis of 2007-8 impacted literature in Ireland, and thereby describe the ways in which poetry engages with, is structured by, and wrestles with economic issues.Ireland and its contemporary poetry is a particularly suitable case study for studying the…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781950192847
- Collation
- 163p. ; ill.
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- Call Number
- 822.052309 KIE i
The embodied child : readings in children's literature and culture
The Embodied Child: Readings in Children’s Literature and Culture brings together essays that offer compelling analyses of children’s bodies as they read and are read, as they interact with literature and other cultural artifacts, and as they are constructed in literature and popular culture. The chapters examine the ideology behind the cultural constructions of the child’s body and the i…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781315101262
- Collation
- ix, 295 p. ; ill
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- -
- Call Number
- 809.89282 ZIP t
Commitment and beyond : reflections on/of the political in arabic literature …
This book is about the relations between literature, society and politics in the Arab world. It is an attempt to come to terms with the changing conceptualizations of the political in Arabic literature (and to a certain extent theater and the visual arts) in recent modern history. It examines historical and contemporary conceptions of literary commitment (iltizām) and how notions of ‘writing…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783954906130
- Collation
- 358 p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 892.709 YVO c
American cities in post-apocalyptic science fiction
Visions of the American city in post-apocalyptic ruin permeate literary and popular fiction, across print, visual, audio and digital media. American Cities in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction explores the prevalence of these representations in American culture, drawing from a wide range of primary and critical works from the early-twentieth century to today. Beginning with science fiction in li…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781800080980
- Collation
- ix, 201 p. : ill
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- -
- Call Number
- 810.9321732 YEA a
Virtual play and the victorian novel : the ethics and aesthetics of fictional…
Pondering the town he had invented in his novels, Anthony Trollope had 'so realised the place, and the people, and the facts' of Barset that 'the pavement of the city ways are familiar to my footsteps'. After his novels end, William Thackeray wonders where his characters now live, and misses their conversation. How can we understand the novel as a form of artificial reality? Timothy Gao propose…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781108938518
- Collation
- vi, 238 p. ; ill
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 823.809357 GAO v
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