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Interviews with Scholars of Literature about their New Books
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Shakespeare in America
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May 18, 2024 |
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Nuzhat Abbas, "River in an Ocean: Essays on Translation" (Trace Press, 2023)
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May 18, 2024 |
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Ambereen Dadabhoy, "Shakespeare Through Islamic Worlds" (Routledge, 2023)
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May 17, 2024 |
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Anusha Rao and Suhas Mahesh, "How to Love in Sanskrit" (HarperCollins, 2024)
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May 16, 2024 |
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"Orion" Magazine: A Discussion with Sumanth Prabhaker
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May 15, 2024 |
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Sony Coráñez Bolton, "Crip Colony: Mestizaje, US Imperialism, and the Queer Politics of Disability in the Philippines" (Duke UP, 2023)
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May 14, 2024 |
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Inhuman
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May 14, 2024 |
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Karen Sullivan, "Eleanor of Aquitaine, As It Was Said: Truth and Tales about the Medieval Queen" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
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May 14, 2024 |
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Siân E. Grønlie, "The Old Testament in Medieval Icelandic Texts: Translation, Exegesis and Storytelling" (Boydell & Brewer, 2024)
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May 13, 2024 |
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Courtney Thorsson, "The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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May 13, 2024 |
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Scott W. Gregory, "Bandits in Print: The Water Margin and the Transformations of the Chinese Novel" (Cornell UP, 2023)
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May 13, 2024 |
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Yasmine Ramadan, "Space in Modern Egyptian Fiction" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)
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May 12, 2024 |
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Gina Sipley, "Just Here for the Comments: Lurking as Digital Literacy Practice" (Bristol UP, 2024)
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May 11, 2024 |
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B. J. Woodstein, "Translation Theory for the Practising Literary Translator" (Anthem Press, 2024)
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May 10, 2024 |
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Kendra Y. Hamilton, "Romancing the Gullah in the Age of Porgy and Bess" (U Georgia Press, 2024)
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May 10, 2024 |
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Book Banning: A Discussion with Christine Emeran of the National Coalition Against Censorship
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May 09, 2024 |
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What do the PDFs say about this?: Brandon Taylor and Stephanie Insley Hershinow (CH)
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May 09, 2024 |
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Steve McCauley excavates John Cheever's "The Five-Forty-Eight" (JP)
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May 09, 2024 |
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Regina Seiwald and Ed Vollans, "(Not) In the Game: History, Paratexts, and Games" (de Gruyter, 2023)
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May 08, 2024 |
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Kristine Ohkubo and Kanariya Eiraku, "Talking About Rakugo 1: The Japanese Art of Storytelling" (2022)
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May 07, 2024 |
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Andriy Sodomora, "The Tears and Smiles of Things: Stories, Sketches, Meditations" (Academic Studies Press, 2024)
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May 07, 2024 |
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Matteo Pangallo and Emily B. Todd, "Teaching the History of the Book" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)
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May 07, 2024 |
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Lisa A. Kirschenbaum, "Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists: Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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May 05, 2024 |
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Sara B. Franklin, "The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America" (Atria, 2024)
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May 03, 2024 |
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Peter J. Freeth and Rafael Treviño, "Beyond the Translator’s Invisibility: Critical Reflections and New Perspectives" (Leuven UP, 2024)
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May 02, 2024 |
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Shu Yang, "Untamed Shrews: Negotiating New Womanhood in Modern China" (Cornell UP, 2023)
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May 02, 2024 |
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Renée Bergland, "Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science" (Princeton UP, 2024)
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May 01, 2024 |
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Melody Yunzi Li, "Transpacific Cartographies: Narrating the Contemporary Chinese Diaspora in the United States" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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Jaume Aurell, "What Is a Classic in History?: The Making of a Historical Canon" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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Victoria Sparey, "Shakespeare's Adolescents: Age, Gender and the Body in Shakespearean Performance and Early Modern Culture" (Manchester UP, 2024)
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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Maha AbdelMegeed, "Literary Optics: Staging the Collective in the Nahda" (Syracuse UP, 2024)
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Apr 28, 2024 |
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Hiromi Ito, "Tree Spirits Grass Spirits" (Nightboat Books, 2023)
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Apr 28, 2024 |
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Kristin M. Franseen, "Imagining Musical Pasts: The Queer Literary Musicology of Vernon Lee, Rosa Newmarch, and Edward Prime-Stevenson" (Clemson UP, 2023)
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Apr 27, 2024 |
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Tabea Alexa Linhard, "Unexpected Routes: Refugee Writers in Mexico" (Stanford UP, 2023)
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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You Write Because You Want to Feel Free: Katie Kitamura and Alexander Manshel (SW)
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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Nora E. H. Parr, "Novel Palestine: Nation Through the Works of Ibrahim Nasrallah" (U California Press, 2023)
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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Michael Scott and Michael Collins, "Christian Shakespeare?: A Collection of Essays on Shakespeare in His Christian Context" (Vernon Press, 2022)
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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Huda J. Fakhreddine, "The Arabic Prose Poem: Poetic Theory and Practice" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)
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Apr 20, 2024 |
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Helena De Bres on Life-Writing (JP, EF)
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Robert P. Goldman and Sally J. Sutherland Goldman, "The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: The Complete English Translation" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Robin Visser, "Questioning Borders: Ecoliteratures of China and Taiwan" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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D. J. Taylor, "Who Is Big Brother?: A Reader's Guide to George Orwell" (Yale UP, 2024)
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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Cathy Yue Wang, "Snake Sisters and Ghost Daughters: Feminist Adaptations of Traditional Tales in Chinese Fantasy" (Wayne State UP, 2023)
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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Astrid Møller-Olsen, "Sensing the Sinophone: Urban Memoryscapes in Contemporary Fiction" (Cambria, 2022)
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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Adam Kabat, "The River Imp and the Stinky Jewel and Other Tales: Monster Comics from Edo Japan" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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Apr 14, 2024 |
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Ihsan Abdel Kouddous, "A Nose and Three Eyes" (Hoopoe, 2024)
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Apr 14, 2024 |
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Paul Williams, "The US Graphic Novel" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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Etherized: Anne Enright in Conversation with Paige Reynolds (JP)
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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"The American Scholar" Magazine: A Discussion with Stephanie Bastek
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Maaheen Ahmed, "Openness of Comics: Generating Meaning within Flexible Structures" (UP of Mississippi, 2016)
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Seamus O'Malley, "Irish Culture and 'The People': Populism and Its Discontents" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Tana Jean Welch, "Advancing Medical Posthumanism Through Twenty-First Century American Poetry" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024)
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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Benoît Crucifix, "Drawing from the Archives: Comics Memory in the Contemporary Graphic Novel" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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Emily Drumsta, "Ways of Seeking: The Arabic Novel and the Poetics of Investigation" (U California Press, 2024)
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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Shiamin Kwa, "Perfect Copies: Reproduction and the Contemporary Comic" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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Eric Calderwood, "On Earth Or in Poems: The Many Lives of Al-Andalus" (Harvard UP, 2023)
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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Elizabeth Coggeshall, "On Amistà: Negotiating Friendship in Dante’s Italy" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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Steve Mentz, "Sailing without Ahab: Ecopoetic Travels" (Fordham UP, 2024)
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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Esra Mirze Santesso, "Muslim Comics and Warscape Witnessing" (Ohio State UP, 2023)
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Apr 07, 2024 |
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E. G. Condé / Steve Gonzalez on Hurricanes, Fiction, and Speculative Ethnography (EF)
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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Kyokutei Bakin, "Eight Dogs, Or Hakkenden: Part Two--His Master's Blade" (Cornell UP, 2024)
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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Adapting Liu Cixin’s "Three-Body Problem" for Television
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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Alessandro Columbu, "Zakariyya Tamir and the Politics of the Syrian Short Story: Modernity, Authoritarianism and Gender" (I. B. Tauris, 2023)
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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Aleksandar Bosković and Steven Teref, "Zenithism (1921-1927): A Yugoslav Avant-Garde Anthology" (Academic Studies Press, 2023)
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Mar 29, 2024 |
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Jeffrey R. Di Leo, "Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: An Overview" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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Colleen Taylor, "Irish Materialisms: The Nonhuman and the Making of Colonial Ireland, 1690-1830" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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Denise Kripper, "Narratives of Mistranslation: Fictional Translators in Latin American Literature" (Routledge, 2023)
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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Melodrama
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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Tim Lanzendörfer, "Utopian Pasts and Futures in the Contemporary American Novel" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
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Mar 24, 2024 |
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David Ferry, Roger Reeves, and the Underworld
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Shakuntala Gawde, "Narrative Analysis of Bhagavata Purana: Selected Episodes from the Tenth Skandha" (Dev Publishers, 2023)
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Stephanie Li, "Ugly White People: Writing Whiteness in Contemporary America" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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Coretta M. Pittman, "Literacy in a Long Blues Note: Black Women’s Literature and Music in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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Rachel Gordan, "Postwar Stories: How Books Made Judaism American" (Oxford UP, 2024)
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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Anna Kornbluh, "Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism" (Verso, 2024)
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Mar 17, 2024 |
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Umme Al-wazedi and Afrin Zeenat, "Veil Obsessed: Representations in Literature, Art, and Media" (Syracuse UP, 2024)
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Mar 17, 2024 |
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Eva De Clercq, ed. and trans., "The Life of Padma" (Harvard UP, 2023)
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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Amy Lidster and Sonia Massai, "Shakespeare at War: A Material History" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Mar 15, 2024 |
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Korey Garibaldi, "Impermanent Blackness: The Making and Unmaking of Interracial Literary Culture in Modern America" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, "The Inhumans and Other Stories: A Selection of Bengali Science Fiction" (MIT Press, 2024)
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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Rebecca Rego Barry, "The Vanishing of Carolyn Wells" (Post Hill Press, 2024)
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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Amy Paeth, "The American Poet Laureate" A History of U.S. Poetry and the State" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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Jad Adams, "Decadent Women: Yellow Book Lives" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
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Mar 10, 2024 |
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Jeremy Black, "The Age of Nightmare: The Gothic and British Culture, 1750-1900" (St. Augustine's Press, 2022)
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Mar 09, 2024 |
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Dune, Part Two: An Interview with Dr. Kara Kennedy
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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AGNI magazine: A Discussion with Sven Birkerts
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Leona Toker, "Gulag Literature and the Literature of Nazi Camps: An Intercontexual Reading" (Indiana UP, 2019)
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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Angie Chau, "Paris and the Art of Transposition: Early Twentieth Century Sino-French Encounters" (U Michigan Press, 2023)
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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Jessica Hooten Wilson, "Flannery O'Connor's 'Why Do the Heathen Rage?' A Behind-the-Scenes Look at a Work in Progress" (Brazos Press, 2024)
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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Baidik Bhattacharya, "Colonialism, World Literature, and the Making of the Modern Culture of Letters" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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Roseen Giles, "Monteverdi and the Marvellous: Poetry, Sound, and Representation" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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Close Reading
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Mar 02, 2024 |
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Marchella Ward, "Blindness and Spectatorship in Ancient and Modern Theatres: Towards New Ways of Looking and Looking Back" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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Erin Elizabeth Greer, "Fiction, Philosophy and the Ideal of Conversation" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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Stanley Wells, "What Was Shakespeare Really Like?" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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Michael Johnston, "The Middle English Book: Scribes and Readers, 1350-1500" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Feb 24, 2024 |
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Imani D. Owens, "Turn the World Upside Down: Empire and Unruly Forms of Black Folk Culture in the U.S. and Caribbean" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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Emily Legg, "Stories of Our Living Ephemera: Storytelling Methodologies in the Archives of the Cherokee National Seminaries, 1846-1907" (Utah State UP, 2023)
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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Mara Josi, "Rome, 16 October 1943: History, Memory, Literature" (Legenda, 2023)
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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Torsa Ghosal, "Out of Mind: Mode, Mediation, and Cognition in Twenty-First-Century Narrative" (Ohio State UP, 2021)
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra, "The Dictator Novel: Writers and Politics in the Global South" (Northwestern UP, 2019)
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Feb 18, 2024 |
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Sheila Heti Speaks About Awe with Sunny Yudkoff (JP)
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Feb 16, 2024 |
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Criticism
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Devin Griffiths and Deanna Kreisel, "After Darwin: Literature, Theory, and Criticism in the Twenty-First Century" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Feb 10, 2024 |
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Joshua Paul Dale, "Irresistible: How Cuteness Wired our Brains and Conquered the World" (Profile Books, 2023)
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Feb 10, 2024 |
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Cheow Thia Chan, "Malaysian Crossings: Place and Language in the Worlding of Modern Chinese Literature" (Columbia UP, 2022)
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Feb 10, 2024 |
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"The New England Review" magazine: A Discussion with Elizabeth Kadetsky
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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Neil Bernstein, "The Complete Works of Claudian" (Routledge, 2022)
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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Nicholas Dames, "The Chapter: A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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Refqa Abu-Remaileh, "Country of Words: A Transnational Atlas for Palestinian Literature" (Stanford UP, 2023)
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Feb 04, 2024 |
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Greg Ellermann, "Thought's Wilderness: Romanticism and the Apprehension of Nature" (Stanford UP, 2022)
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Feb 03, 2024 |
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Emma Bridges, "Warriors' Wives: Ancient Greek Myth and Modern Experience" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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"Fourth Genre" Magazine: A Chat with Patrick Madden and Joey Franklin
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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Holly A. Baggett, "Making No Compromise: Margaret Anderson, Jane Heap, and the Little Review" (Northern Illinois UP, 2023)
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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Francesca Orsini, "East of Delhi: Multilingual Literary Culture and World Literature" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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Ankhi Mukherjee and Ato Quayson, "Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Jan 28, 2024 |
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Matthew Rubery, "Reader's Block: A History of Reading Differences" (Stanford UP, 2022)
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Jan 28, 2024 |
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Renée Fox, "The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature" (Ohio State UP, 2023)
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Jan 27, 2024 |
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Samantha Harvey, "Orbital" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2023)
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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Eugenio Refini, "Staging the Soul: Allegorical Drama as Spiritual Practice in Baroque Italy" (Legenda, 2022)
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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"The Sun" Magazine: A Chat with Derek Askey
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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Beth Driscoll and Claire Squires, "The Frankfurt Kabuff Critical Edition" (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2023)
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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"Solstice" Magazine: A Discussion with Richard Hoffman
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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Bill Meiners, "Sport Literate" and "Game: A Sport Literate Anthology" (2023)
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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"n+1" Magazine: A Discussion with Dayna Tortorici
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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Brian Gastle et al., "The Lover's Confession: A Translation of John Gower's Confessio Amantis" (Medieval Institute Press, 2023)
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Jan 21, 2024 |
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Jakob Norberg, "The Brothers Grimm and the Making of German Nationalism" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Jan 21, 2024 |
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Cassander L. Smith, "Race and Respectability in an Early Black Atlantic" (LSU Press, 2023)
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Jan 21, 2024 |
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Jessica Goethals, "Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
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Jan 20, 2024 |
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Hwisang Cho, "The Power of the Brush: Epistolary Practices in Chosŏn Korea" (U Washington Press, 2020)
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Jan 20, 2024 |
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Leanne Trapedo Sims, "Reckoning with Restorative Justice: Hawai'i Women's Prison Writing" (Duke UP, 2023)
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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Kyle Gervais et al., "Lucan and Flavian Epic" (Brill, 2023)
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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Julius Taranto, "How I Won a Nobel Prize" (Little, Brown, 2023)
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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Raul Palma, "A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens" (Dutton, 2023)
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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Miles P. Grier, "Inkface: Othello and White Authority in the Era of Atlantic Slavery" (U Virginia Press, 2023)
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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Michael Quinn Dudley, "The Shakespeare Authorship Question and Philosophy" (Cambridge Scholars, 2023)
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Jan 13, 2024 |
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Courtney Denelle, "It's Not Nothing" (Santa Fe Writers Project, 2022)
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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Patrick R. O'Malley, "The Irish and the Imagination of Race: White Supremacy Across the Atlantic in the Nineteenth Century" (U Virginia Press, 2023)
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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Mark Ernest Pothier, "Outer Sunset" (U Iowa Press, 2023)
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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Jessica Romney, "Lyric Poetry and Social Identity in Archaic Greece" (U Michigan Press, 2020)
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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Roland Allen, "The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper" (Profile Books, 2023)
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Jan 06, 2024 |
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Rebecca Turkewitz, "Here in the Night" (Black Lawrence Press, 2023)
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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Claire Myers Owens and the Banned Book
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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Amanda Kennell, "Alice in Japanese Wonderlands: Translation, Adaptation, Mediation" (U Hawaii Press, 2023)
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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Plot
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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Kyle Dillon Hertz, "The Lookback Window" (Simon and Schuster, 2023)
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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Patrick Ffrench, "Roland Barthes and Film: Myth, Eroticism and Poetics" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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Craig Keener, "Christobiography: Memory, History, and the Reliability of the Gospels" (Eerdmans, 2019)
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Dec 31, 2023 |
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Timothy K. August, "The Refugee Aesthetic: Reimagining Southeast Asian America" (Temple UP, 2020)
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Dec 30, 2023 |
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Lexi Freiman, "The Book of Ayn" (Catapult, 2023)
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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Genealogies of Modernity Episode 8: The Enemy of Morality Is Not Modernity, It’s Me
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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Annie McClanahan, "Dead Pledges: Debt, Crisis, and Twenty-First Century Culture" (Stanford UP, 2016)
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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Joseph Vogel, "James Baldwin and the 1980s: Witnessing the Reagan Era" (U Illinois Press, 2018)
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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Nobuko Ishitate-Okunomiya Yamasaki, "Prostitutes, Hostesses, and Actresses at the Edge of the Japanese Empire" (Routledge, 2023)
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Dec 25, 2023 |
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Edward J. Watts, "The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Dec 25, 2023 |
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Carl Rollyson, "The Life of William Faulkner: This Alarming Paradox, 1935-1962" (U Virginia Press, 2020)
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Dec 25, 2023 |
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Daniel Shank Cruz, "Ethics for Apocalyptic Times: Theapoetics, Autotheory, and Mennonite Literature" (Penn State UP, 2023)
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Dec 24, 2023 |
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George MacLeod, "Mediating Violence from Africa: Francophone Literature, Film, and Testimony After the Cold War" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
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Dec 24, 2023 |
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Thomas Kelly, "The Inscription of Things: Writing and Materiality in Early Modern China" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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Dec 23, 2023 |
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Olga V. Solovieva, "The Russian Kurosawa: Transnational Cinema, Or the Art of Speaking Differently" (Oxford UP. 2023)
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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Eliza Minot. "In the Orchard" (Knopf, 2023)
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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Anne E. Linton, "Unmaking Sex: The Gender Outlaws of Nineteenth-Century France" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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Trent Masiki, "The Afro-Latino Memoir: Race, Ethnicity, and Literary Interculturalism" (UNC Press, 2023)
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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Pardis Mahdavi, "Hyphen" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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Saving the Brontë Birthplace
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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Jonathan Kramnick, "Criticism and Truth: On Method in Literary Studies" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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Gary Saul Morson, "Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter" (Harvard UP, 2023)
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Dec 17, 2023 |
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Jackson Lears, "Animal Spirits: The American Pursuit of Vitality from Camp Meeting to Wall Street" (FSG, 2023)
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Dec 17, 2023 |
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Peter Richardson, "Savage Journey: Hunter S. Thompson and the Weird Road to Gonzo" (U California Press, 2022)
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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Bryan Washington, "Family Meal" (Riverhead Books, 2023)
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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Boria Sax, "Enchanted Forests: The Poetic Construction of a World Before Time" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
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Dec 15, 2023 |
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Overtaken by Awe: Sheila Heti speaks with Sunny Yudkoff
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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Caroline J. Smith, "Season to Taste: Rewriting Kitchen Space in Contemporary Women's Food Memoirs" (U Mississippi Press, 2023)
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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Lindsey Claire Smith, "Urban Homelands: Writing the Native City from Oklahoma" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
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Dec 10, 2023 |
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Paul Fisher Davies, "Comics as Communication: A Functional Approach" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019)
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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Jonathan D. Fitzgerald, "How the News Feels: The Empathic Power of Literary Journalists" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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Book Chat: Eco-translation from Taiwan and Wu Ming-yi’s The Stolen Bicycle 單車失竊記, with Darryl Sterk
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Dec 02, 2023 |
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Alexandra Chang, "Tomb Sweeping: Stories" (Ecco Press, 2023)
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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Andrew Pettegree, "The Book at War: Libraries and Readers in an Age of Conflict" (Basic Books, 2023)
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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Attention is Love: A Discussion with Lauren Groff and Laura McGrath (SW)
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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Ian Probstein, trans., "Centuries Encircle Me with Fire: Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam" (Academic Studies Press, 2022)
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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Richard Schoch, "Shakespeare’s House: A Window onto his Life and Legacy" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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Tony Spawforth, "What the Greeks Did for Us" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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Plagiarism
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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Nader Kadhem, "Africanism: Blacks in the Medieval Arab Imaginary" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2023)
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Nov 25, 2023 |
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Michael Rushton, "The Moral Foundations of Public Funding for the Arts" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
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Nov 25, 2023 |
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Jennifer Maclure, "The Feeling of Letting Die: Necroeconomics and Victorian Fiction" (Ohio State UP, 2023)
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Nov 25, 2023 |
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Kat Mustatea, "Voidopolis" (MIT Press, 2023)
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Nov 25, 2023 |
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Diane Carol Fujino, "Nisei Radicals: The Feminist Poetics and Transformative Ministry of Mitsuye Yamada and Michael Yasutake" (U Washington Press, 2020)
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Nov 25, 2023 |
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Ian Smith, "Black Shakespeare: Reading and Misreading Race" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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Jeffrey Angles, ed., "Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again: The Original Novellas by Shigeru Kayama" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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Raj Balkaran and McComas Taylor, "Visions and Revisions in Sanskrit Narrative: Studies in the Sanskrit Epics and Purāṇas" (ANU Press, 2023)
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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Shakespeare's Sonnets Part 3
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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Andrew Brandel, "Moving Words: Literature, Memory, and Migration in Berlin" (U Toronto Press, 2023)
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Nov 19, 2023 |
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Alexa Weik von Mossner, "Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative" (Ohio State UP, 2017)
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Nov 18, 2023 |
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Proto-Science Fiction Classics: Joshua Glenn on MIT Press's "Radium Age Series"
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Nov 18, 2023 |
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“We All Relate to Each Other’s Dystopias”
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Bahriye Kemal, "Writing Cyprus: Postcolonial and Partitioned Literatures of Place and Space" (Routledge, 2021)
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Jonathan Greenaway, "Theology, Horror and Fiction: A Reading of the Gothic Nineteenth Century" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Dalia Kandiyoti, "The Converso's Return: Conversion and Sephardi History in Contemporary Literature and Culture" (Stanford UP, 2020)
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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Shakespeare's Sonnets Part 2
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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Alison Halsall, "Growing Up Graphic: The Comics of Children in Crisis" (Ohio State UP, 2023)
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Nov 12, 2023 |
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Clive Young, "Unlocking Scots: The Secret Life of the Scots Language" (Luath Press, 2023)
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Nov 12, 2023 |
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Barry Reay and Nina Attwood, "Dirty Books: Erotic Fiction and the Avant-garde in Mid-century Paris and New York" (Manchester UP, 2023)
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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Steven E. Lindquist, "The Literary Life of Yājñavalkya" (SUNY Press, 2023)
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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Caroline Levine, "The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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Seamus Heaney’s Afterlives
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Shakespeare's Sonnets Part 1
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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Yigal Bronner, "A Lasting Vision: Dandin's Mirror in the World of Asian Letters" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Nov 04, 2023 |
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Maaheen Ahmed, "The Cambridge Companion to Comics" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Nov 04, 2023 |
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Carson Bay, "Biblical Heroes and Classical Culture in Christian Late Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Nov 04, 2023 |
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Understanding Narendra Modi: The Poetry of a Populist Leader
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Nov 04, 2023 |
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"We are all latecomers": Martin Puchner's "Culture" (JP, EF)
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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Narrative, Database, Archive: Tom Comitta and Deidre Lynch (AV)
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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Sharony Green, "The Chase and Ruins: Zora Neale Hurston in Honduras" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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Jeff Jarvis, "Magazine" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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Neil Cohn, "Who Understands Comics?: Questioning the Universality of Visual Language Comprehension" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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Leonie Hannan, "A Culture of Curiosity: Science in the Eighteenth-Century Home" (Manchester UP, 2023)
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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Shakespeare's "The Tempest" Part 3: The Language
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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James White, "Persian and Arabic Literary Communities in the Seventeenth Century: Migrant Poets between Arabia, Iran and India" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Oct 29, 2023 |
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Mingwei Song, "Fear of Seeing: A Poetics of Chinese Science Fiction" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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Oct 29, 2023 |
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Marat Grinberg, "The Soviet Jewish Bookshelf: Jewish Culture and Identity Between the Lines" (Brandeis UP, 2023)
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Oct 29, 2023 |
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Chris Bishop, "Medievalist Comics and the American Century" (UP of Mississippi, 2016)
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Oct 29, 2023 |
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Simon Grennan, "A Theory of Narrative Drawing" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2017)
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Oct 28, 2023 |
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Marisel C. Moreno, "Crossing Waters: Undocumented Migration in Hispanophone Caribbean and Latinx Literature and Art" (U Texas Press, 2022)
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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Andrew Ridker, "Hope" (Viking, 2023)
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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Réka Máté, "Portrayals of Women in Pakistan: An Analysis of Fahmīdah Riyāẓ's Urdu Poetry" (de Gruyter, 2023)
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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Lucy Swanson, "The Zombie in Contemporary French Caribbean Fiction" (Liverpool UP, 2023)
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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Margaret K. Nelson, "Keeping Family Secrets: Shame and Silence in Memoirs from the 1950s" (NYU Press, 2022)
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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Shakespeare's "The Tempest" Part 2: Characters and Questions
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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David C. Atherton, "Writing Violence: The Politics of Form in Early Modern Japanese Literature" (Columbia UP, 2023)
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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Grant H. Kester, "The Sovereign Self: Aesthetic Autonomy from the Enlightenment to the Avant-Garde" (Duke UP, 2023)
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Oct 21, 2023 |
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Scott Feinberg, “The Hollywood Reporter’s 100 Greatest Film Books of All Time” (2023)
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Oct 21, 2023 |
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What Would Undo the Maxim Gun? Magic: P. Djèlí Clark and andré carrington
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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Sanjay Krishnan on V. S. Naipaul: To make the Deformation the Formation (JP)
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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Philipp Stelzel, "The Faculty Lounge: A Cocktail Guide for Academics" (Indiana UP, 2023)
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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Livia Arndal Woods, "Pregnancy in the Victorian Novel" (Ohio State UP, 2023)
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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Anna Ziajka Stanton, "The Worlding of Arabic Literature: Language, Affect, and the Ethics of Translatability" (Fordham UP, 2023)
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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Mukti Lakhi Mangharam, "Freedom Inc.: Gendered Capitalism in New Indian Literature and Culture" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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Shakespeare's "The Tempest" Part 1: The Story
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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Anne Duggan, "The Lost Princess: Women Writers and the History of Classic Fairy Tales" (Reaktion Books, 2023)
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Oct 14, 2023 |
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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Rory Finnin, "Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Andrea Celli, "Dante and the Mediterranean Comedy: From Muslim Spain to Post-Colonial Italy" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Kate Polak, "Ethics in the Gutter: Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics" (Ohio State UP, 2017)
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" Part 3: The Language
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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Harriet E. H. Earle, "Comics, Trauma, and the New Art of War" (UP of Mississippi, 2017)
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Oct 08, 2023 |
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Books in Early Modern Europe
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Oct 07, 2023 |
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Geraint D'Arcy, "Mise en scène, Acting, and Space in Comics" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
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Oct 07, 2023 |
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Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez, eds., "Crip Authorship: Disability as Method" (NYU Press, 2023)
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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S. D. Chrostowska, "Utopia in the Age of Survival: Between Myth and Politics" (Stanford UP, 2021)
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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Desolation Tries to Colonize You: Jeff VanderMeer and Alison Sperling (CH)
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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John Guillory Professes Criticism (JP, Nick Dames)
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Thomas E. Boomershine, "First-Century Gospel Storytellers and Audiences: The Gospels as Performance Literature" (Cascade Books, 2022)
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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Janet Somerville, "Yours, for Probably Always: Martha Gellhorn's Letters of Love and War 1930-1949" (Firefly Books, 2022)
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" Part 2: Characters and Questions
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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Eric Bennett, "Workshops of Empire: Stegner, Engle, and American Creative Writing During the Cold War" (U Iowa Press, 2015)
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Oct 01, 2023 |
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Sara Marcus, "Political Disappointment: A Cultural History from Reconstruction to the AIDS Crisis" (Harvard UP, 2023)
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Sep 30, 2023 |
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Joo Ok Kim, "Warring Genealogies: Race, Kinship, and the Korean War" (Temple UP, 2022)
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Sep 30, 2023 |
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Michael Wheeler, "The Year that Shaped the Victorian Age: Lives, Loves and Letters of 1845" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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Debapriya Sarkar, "Possible Knowledge: The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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Michael Kochenash, "Roman Self-Representation and the Lukan Kingdom of God" (Fortress Academic, 2020)
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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Gary Saul Morson, "Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter" (Harvard UP, 2023)
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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Jessica Lowell Mason and Nicole Crevar, "Madwomen in Social Justice Movements, Literatures, and Art" (Vernon Press, 2023)
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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Alda Balthrop-Lewis, "Thoreau's Religion: Walden Woods, Social Justice, and the Politics of Asceticism" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" Part 1: The Story
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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The Secret History of the Mongols
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Sep 24, 2023 |
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Debra Ramsay, "Archives of War: Technology, Emotion, and History" (Routledge, 2023)
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Sep 24, 2023 |
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Tracy Rutler, "Queering the Enlightenment: Kinship and Gender in Eighteenth-Century French Literature" (Oxford UP/Liverpool UP, 2021)
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Sep 23, 2023 |
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Michael O’Sullivan, "The Poet & the Baroness: W. H. Auden and Stella Musulin, a Friendship" (CEU Press, 2023)
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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Jeffrey Angles, ed., "Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again: The Original Novellas by Shigeru Kayama" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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Weirding Out with Kate Marshall
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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David Simpson, "Engaging Violence: Civility and the Reach of Literature" (Stanford UP, 2022)
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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Lenora Hanson, "The Romantic Rhetoric of Accumulation" (Stanford UP, 2022)
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Deanne Williams, "Girl Culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Performance and Pedagogy" (Arden Shakespeare, 2023)
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" Part 3: The Language
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Edgar Garcia, "Emergency: Reading the Popol Vuh in a Time of Crisis" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Sep 16, 2023 |
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Ainsley Morse, "Word Play: Experimental Poetry and Soviet Children's Literature" (Northwestern UP, 2021)
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Sep 16, 2023 |
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Pallavi Narayan, "Pamuk's Istanbul: The Self and the City" (Routledge, 2022)
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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Avigdor Hameiri, "Under a Bloodred Sky: Avigdor Hameiri’s War Stories and Poetry" (Academic Studies Press, 2023)
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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Dženita Karić, "Bosnian Hajj Literature: Multiple Paths to the Holy" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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Rebecca Kingston, "Plutarch's Prism: Classical Reception and Public Humanism in France and England, 1500–1800" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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Religion and Politics in the Lord of the Rings
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Jacob Abell, "Spiritual and Material Boundaries in Old French Verse: Contemplating the Walls of the Earthly Paradise" (Medieval Institute Publications, 2023)
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Kristen Lopez, "But Have You Read the Book?: 52 Literary Gems That Inspired Our Favorite Films" (Running Press Adult, 2023)
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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A Better Way to Buy Books
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" Part 2: Characters and Questions
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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Robyn Muir, "The Disney Princess Phenomenon: A Feminist Analysis" (Bristol UP, 2023)
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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Muḥsin Jāsim Mūsawī, "The Arabian Nights in Contemporary World Cultures: Global Commodification, Translation, and the Culture Industry" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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Sarah Ruden, "Vergil: The Poet's Life" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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L. M. Ratnapalan, "Robert Louis Stevenson and the Pacific: The Transformation of Global Christianity" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
|
Sep 09, 2023 |
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Earthsea, and Other Realms: Ursula Le Guin as Social Inactivist (EF, JP, [UKL])
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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Taylor Cowdery, "Matter and Making in Early English Poetry: Literary Production from Chaucer to Sidney" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
|
Sep 06, 2023 |
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Stephen Ramsay, "On the Digital Humanities: Essays and Provocations" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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James Newlin and James W. Stone, "New Psychoanalytic Readings of Shakespeare: Cool Reason and Seething Brains" (Routledge, 2023)
|
Sep 06, 2023 |
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Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" Part 1: The Story
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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Heike Bauer et al., "Jewish Women in Comics: Bodies and Borders" (Syracuse UP, 2022)
|
Sep 02, 2023 |
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On the Secrets of Writing Historical Fiction with Burt Solomon, author of "The Murder of Andrew Johnson"
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Sep 02, 2023 |
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Sarah Clegg, "Women's Lore: 4,000 Years of Sirens, Serpents and Succubi" (Apollo, 2023)
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Sep 02, 2023 |
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Aaron Kunin, "Character as Form" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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Denise Gigante, "Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America" (Yale UP, 2022)
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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David Waldstreicher, "The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence" (FSG, 2023)
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" Part 3: The Language
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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Vanessa I. Corredera, "Reanimating Shakespeare's Othello in Post-Racial America" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
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Aug 27, 2023 |
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Karima K. Jeffrey-Legette, "Speculative Film and Moving Images by or about Black Women and Girls" (Lexington Books, 2022)
|
Aug 27, 2023 |
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Hollis Robbins, "Forms of Contention: Influence and the African American Sonnet Tradition" (U Georgia Press, 2020)
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Aug 26, 2023 |
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Chesya Burke, "Hero Me Not: The Containment of the Most Powerful Black, Female Superhero" (Rutgers UP, 2023)
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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Lawrence Goldman, "Victorians and Numbers: Statistics and Society in Nineteenth Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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On the (Still Bright) Future of Nostalgia
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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Jeffrey J. Cohen and Julian Yates, "Noah's Arkive" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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Nazli Koca, "The Applicant" (Grove Press, 2023)
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" Part 2: Characters and Questions
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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Laura R. Kremmel, "Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination: Morbid Anatomies" (U Wales Press, 2022)
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Aug 20, 2023 |
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Kevin Landis, "One Public: New York’s Public Theater in the Era of Oskar Eustis" (Methuen Drama, 2022)
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Aug 19, 2023 |
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Mary Edwards, "Sartre’s Existential Psychoanalysis: Knowing Others" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Aug 19, 2023 |
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Samuel R. Delany, Neveryon and Beyond (JP)
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Ramzi Fawaz, "The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics" (NYU Press, 2016)
|
Aug 17, 2023 |
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Christopher D. Bahl and Stefan Hanß, "Scribal Practice and the Global Cultures of Colophons, 1400–1800" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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Al Coppola, "The Theater of Experiment: Staging Natural Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2016)
|
Aug 15, 2023 |
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Jeremy Black, "Smollett's Britain" (St. Augustine's Press, 2022)
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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Robert T. Tally, Jr., "For a Ruthless Critique of All That Exists: Literature in an Age of Capitalist Realism" (Zero Books, 2022)
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" Part 1: The Story
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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Book Chat: Literature in the Age of the Anthropocene: An Ecocritical Study of the Taiwanese Writer Wu Ming-yi
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Aug 13, 2023 |
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Marsha Gordon, "Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life and Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott" (U California Press, 2023)
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Aug 13, 2023 |
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Shana Rosenblatt Mauer, "Mordecai Richler's Imperfect Search for Moral Values" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
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Aug 12, 2023 |
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Michael Ruse, "Darwinism as Religion: What Literature Tells Us about Evolution" (Oxford UP, 2017)
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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Of Peninsulas and Archipelagos: The Landscape of Translation in Southeast Asia
|
Aug 11, 2023 |
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Jeff Deutsch, "In Praise of Good Bookstores" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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Shakespeare's "King Lear" Part 3: The Language
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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Borges and Memory: Encounters with the Human Brain
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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Christine Schott, "Canon Fanfiction: Reading, Writing, and Teaching with Adaptations of Premodern and Early Modern Literature" (Medieval Institute Publications, 2023)
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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Joshua Cohen’s "The Netanyahus" (JP, Eugene Sheppard)
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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D. J. Taylor, "Orwell: The New Life" (Pegasus Books, 2023)
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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Shaul Shenhav, "Analyzing Social Narratives" (Routledge, 2015)
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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Shakespeare's "King Lear" Part 2: Characters and Questions
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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Jonathan R. Topham, "Reading the Book of Nature: How Eight Best Sellers Reconnected Christianity and the Sciences on the Eve of the Victorian Age" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Jul 29, 2023 |
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Raquel Gutiérrez, "Brown Neon" (Coffee House Press, 2022)
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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Miya Qiong Xie, "Territorializing Manchuria: The Transnational Frontier and Literatures of East Asia" (Harvard UP, 2023)
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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Brenda E. F. Beck, "Hidden Paradigms: Comparing Epic Themes, Characters, and Plot Structures" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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Héctor Tobar, "Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of 'Latino'" (MCD, 2023)
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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Alejandro Varela, "The Town of Babylon" (Astra, 2022)
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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Kyle A. Thomas and Carol Symes, "The Play about the Antichrist (Ludus de Antichristo): A New Verse Translation, Edition, and Commentary" (Medieval Institute Publications, 2023)
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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Kathleen Lubey, "What Pornography Knows: Sex and Social Protest Since the Eighteenth Century" (Stanford UP, 2022)
|
Jul 24, 2023 |
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Shakespeare's "King Lear" Part 1: The Story
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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Robert Payne, "Reimagining the Family: Lesbian Mothering in Contemporary French Literature" (Peter Lang, 2021)
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Jul 23, 2023 |
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The Art of Translation: A Discussion with Anne Birkenhauer Molad
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Jul 22, 2023 |
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Toril Moi, "Revolution of the Ordinary: Literary Studies After Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell" (U Chicago Press, 2017)
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Jul 22, 2023 |
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Amir Sedaghat, "Translating Rumi Into the West: A Linguistic Conundrum and Beyond" (Routledge, 2023)
|
Jul 21, 2023 |
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"Companionable Thinking: Spenser With..." Spencer Studies, Volume 37 (2023)
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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Tenzin Dickie, "The Penguin Book of Modern Tibetan Essays" (Vintage Books, 2023)
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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Robert Hillenbrand, "The Great Mongol Shahnameh" (Hali Publications et al., 2022)
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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Miranda Corcoran, "Witchcraft and Adolescence in American Popular Culture: Teen Witches" (U Wales Press, 2022)
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Shakespeare's "Henry V" Part 3: The Language
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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Kelly Ross, "Slavery, Surveillance and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Jul 16, 2023 |
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Vivian Nun Halloran, "Caribbean American Narratives of Belonging" (Ohio State UP, 2023)
|
Jul 16, 2023 |
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Hannah Pittard, "We Are Too Many: A Memoir [Kind of]" (Henry Holt, 2023)
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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Wayne Deakin, "Modern Language, Philosophy and Criticism" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
|
Jul 14, 2023 |
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Emily Katz Anhalt, "Embattled: How Ancient Greek Myths Empower Us to Resist Tyranny" (Redwood Press, 2021)
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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Eliot Borenstein, "Marvel Comics in The 1970s: The World Inside Your Head" (Cornell UP, 2023)
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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Katherine Giuffre, "Outrage: The Arts and the Creation of Modernity" (Stanford UP, 2023)
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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Shakespeare's "Henry V" Part 2: Characters and Questions
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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Robert Mills, "Seeing Sodomy in the Middle Ages" (U Chicago Press, 2015)
|
Jul 09, 2023 |
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Kevin Killeen, "The Unknowable in Early Modern Thought: Natural Philosophy and the Poetics of the Ineffable" (Stanford UP, 2023)
|
Jul 09, 2023 |
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Mathias F. Clasen, "Why Horror Seduces" (Oxford UP, 2017)
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Jul 08, 2023 |
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Mateusz Świetlicki, "Next-Generation Memory and Ukrainian Canadian Children's Historical Fiction: The Seeds of Memory" (Routledge, 2023)
|
Jul 07, 2023 |
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Derek Attridge, "The Singularity of Literature" (Routledge, 2017)
|
Jul 05, 2023 |
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Adhaar Noor Desai, "Blotted Lines: Early Modern English Literature and the Poetics of Discomposition" (Cornell UP, 2023)
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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Peter Stansky, "The Socialist Patriot: George Orwell and War" (Stanford UP, 2023)
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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Lia Brozgal and Rebecca Glasberg, eds., "A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean: A Collection of Stories Curated by Lela Sebbar" (U California Press, 2023)
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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Shakespeare's "Henry V" Part 1: The Story
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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Katie Kadue, "Domestic Georgic: Labors of Preservation from Rabelais to Milton" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle, "Henry at Work: Thoreau on Making a Living" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Jul 01, 2023 |
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The Marketplace of Attention: How Audiences Take Shape in a Digital Age
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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TaTa Dada: The Real Life and Celestial Adventures of Tristan Tzara
|
Jun 29, 2023 |
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Molly Lynch, "The Forbidden Territory of a Terrifying Woman" (Catapult, 2023)
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Part 3: The Language
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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Lena Henningsen, "Cultural Revolution Manuscripts: Unofficial Entertainment Fiction from 1970s China" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021)
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Jun 25, 2023 |
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Brian Cummings, "Bibliophobia: The End and the Beginning of the Book" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Jun 25, 2023 |
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Michael Gray, "Song & Dance Man: The Art of Bob Dylan-Vol. 1 Language & Tradition" (FM Press, 2023)
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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The Environmental Unconscious
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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Anna Schur, "The Letters and the Law: Legal and Literary Culture in Late Imperial Russia" (Northwestern UP, 2022)
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Part 2: Context and Questions
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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The End of Books: A Lecture by Robert Coover
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Jun 18, 2023 |
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Mary M. McGlynn, "Broken Irelands: Literary Form in Post-Crash Irish Fiction" (Syracuse UP, 2022)
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Jun 18, 2023 |
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Alexandra Dane, "White Literary Taste Production in Contemporary Book Culture" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Jun 17, 2023 |
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Tania James, "Loot: A Novel" (Knopf, 2023)
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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Brett Brehm, "Kaleidophonic Modernity: Transatlantic Sound, Technology, and Literature" (Fordham UP, 2023)
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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A Forensic Level of Honesty: Aminatta Forna and Nicole Rizzuto (AV)
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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Mark Staff Brandl, "A Philosophy of Visual Metaphor in Contemporary Art" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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Grace Elisabeth Lavery, "Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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The Electro-Library with Jared Green (EF, JP)
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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Masood Ashraf Raja, "Democratic Criticism: Poetics of Incitement and the Muslim Sacred" (Lever Press, 2023)
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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Roy Christopher, "Boogie Down Predictions: Hip-Hop, Time, and Afrofuturism" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Part 1: The Story
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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D. J. Taylor, "Critic at Large: Essays and Reviews, 2010-2022" (Shoestring Press, 2023)
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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Ida Yoshinaga et al., "Uneven Futures: Strategies for Community Survival from Speculative Fiction" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Jun 11, 2023 |
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Yoshiko Okuyama, "Tōjisha Manga: Japan’s Graphic Memoirs of Brain and Mental Health" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
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Jun 10, 2023 |
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Kelcey Ervick and Tom Hart, "The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Graphic Literature" (Rose Metal Press, 2023)
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Jun 10, 2023 |
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Rumi, "Gold" (New York Review of Books, 2022)
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Jun 10, 2023 |
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Douglas Kerr, "Orwell and Empire" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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Anne Berest, "The Postcard" (Europa Editions, 2023)
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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Ann Komaromi, "Soviet Samizdat: Imagining a New Society" (Cornell UP, 2022)
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, "Nur Baba: A Sufi Novel of Late Ottoman Istanbul" (Routledge, 2023)
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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Felipe Valencia, "The Melancholy Void: Lyric and Masculinity in the Age of Góngora" (U Nebraska Press, 2021)
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" Part 3: The Language
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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James H. Meyer, "Red Star over the Black Sea: Nazim Hikmet and His Generation" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Jun 03, 2023 |
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They’re Not Metaphorical Demons: Mariana Enriquez and Magalí Armillas-Tisyera
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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J. Daniel Elam, "World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth: Anticolonial Aesthetics, Postcolonial Politics" (Fordham UP, 2020)
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May 31, 2023 |
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Rebeca L. Hey-Colón, "Channeling Knowledges: Water and Afro-Diasporic Spirits in Latinx and Caribbean Worlds" (U Texas Press, 2023)
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May 30, 2023 |
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Mariana Alessandri, "Night Vision: Seeing Ourselves Through Dark Moods" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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May 30, 2023 |
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Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" Part 2: Characters and Questions
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May 29, 2023 |
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Nicholas Scott Baker, "In Fortune's Theater: Financial Risk and the Future in Renaissance Italy" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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May 26, 2023 |
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Rin Ishigaki, "This Overflowing Light: Selected Poems" (Isobar Press, 2022)
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May 26, 2023 |
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Jane Roper, "The Society of Shame" (Anchor, 2023)
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May 26, 2023 |
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Baba Padmanji, "Yamuna's Journey" (Speaking Tiger Books, 2022)
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May 25, 2023 |
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Alaina Kaus, "Fighting Over There: U.S. War Making and Contemporary Refugee Literature" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)
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May 25, 2023 |
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Party
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May 24, 2023 |
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Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism
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May 22, 2023 |
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Thomas Chen, "Made in Censorship: The Tiananmen Movement in Chinese Literature and Film" (Columbia UP, 2022)
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May 22, 2023 |
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Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" Part 1: The Story
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May 22, 2023 |
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Dilip M. Menon and Nishat Zaidi, "Cosmopolitan Cultures and Oceanic Thought" (Routledge, 2023)
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May 20, 2023 |
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Book Talk 60: Cleo McNellly Kearns on Mark Twain’s "Huckleberry Finn"
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May 20, 2023 |
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Andrew Porter, "The Disappeared: Stories" (Knopf, 2023)
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May 19, 2023 |
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Virginia Jackson, "Before Modernism: Inventing American Lyric" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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May 18, 2023 |
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David Plotz: Books in Dark Times (JP)
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May 18, 2023 |
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The Meat and Bones of Life
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May 18, 2023 |
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5.4 The Meat and Bones of Life
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May 18, 2023 |
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Chia-rong Wu and Ming-ju Fan, "Taiwan Literature in the 21st Century: A Critical Reader" (Springer, 2023)
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May 16, 2023 |
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Michelle R. Warren, "Holy Digital Grail: A Medieval Book on the Internet" (Stanford UP, 2022)
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May 16, 2023 |
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Shakespeare's "Othello" Part 3: The Language
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May 15, 2023 |
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Annabel L. Kim, "Cacaphonies: The Excremental Canon of French Literature" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
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May 14, 2023 |
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Alvin J. Henry, "Black Queer Flesh: Rejecting Subjectivity in the African American Novel" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
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May 13, 2023 |
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Katherine Bowers, "Writing Fear: Russian Realism and the Gothic" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
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May 11, 2023 |
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Timothy Sandefur, "Freedom's Furies: How Isabel Paterson, Rose Wilder Lane, and Ayn Rand Found Freedom in an Age of Darkness" (Cato Institute, 2022)
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May 11, 2023 |
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Leah Phillips, "Female Heroes in Young Adult Fantasy Fiction: Reframing Myths of Adolescent Girlhood" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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May 11, 2023 |
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Christian Raffensperger, "Authorship, Worldview, and Identity in Medieval Europe" (Routledge, 2022)
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May 10, 2023 |
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Neil Ten Kortenaar, "Debt, Law, Realism: Nigerian Writers Imagine the State at Independence" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2021)
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May 10, 2023 |
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Hosam A. Ibrahim Elzembely and Emad El-Din Aysha, "Arab and Muslim Science Fiction" (McFarland, 2022)
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May 10, 2023 |
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Benjamin Balint, "Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History" (Norton, 2023)
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May 10, 2023 |
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Shakespeare's "Othello" Part 2: Characters and Questions
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May 08, 2023 |
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Jack Parlett, "Fire Island" (Hanover Square Press, 2022)
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May 07, 2023 |
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Laetitia Nanquette, "Iranian Literature After the Islamic Revolution: Production and Circulation in Iran and the World" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)
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May 06, 2023 |
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Semiotext(e): The Theory Press
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May 05, 2023 |
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Francis Xavier Clooney, "Saint Joseph in South India: Poetry, Mission and Theology in Costanzo Gioseffo Beschi's Tēmpāvaṇi" (Brill, 2022)
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May 04, 2023 |
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5.3 “It’s on the Illabus”
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May 04, 2023 |
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Jan Recker, "Scientific Research in Information Systems: A Beginner's Guide" (Springer, 2021)
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May 03, 2023 |
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Helen Sword, "Writing with Pleasure" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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May 03, 2023 |
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Shanee Stepakoff, "Testimony: Found Poems from the Special Court for Sierra Leone" (Bucknell UP, 2021)
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May 03, 2023 |
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Book Talk 59: Reading the Classics with Louis Petrich
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May 01, 2023 |
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Shakespeare's "Othello" Part 1: The Story
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May 01, 2023 |
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Katherine Gillen et al., "The Bard in the Borderlands: An Anthology of Shakespeare Appropriations en la Frontera" (ACMRS, 2023)
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Apr 30, 2023 |
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Ostap Kin, "Babyn Yar: Ukrainian Poets Respond" (HURI, 2022)
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Apr 29, 2023 |
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Tatiana D. McInnis, "To Tell a Black Story of Miami" (UP of Florida, 2022)
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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Jenny Jackson, "Pineapple Street" (Pamela Dorman Books, 2023)
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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Corrado Confalonieri, "Torquato Tasso and the Desire for Unity: 'Jerusalem Delivered' and a New Theory of the Epic" (Carocci editore, 2022)
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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Shakespeare's "As You Like It" Part 3: the Language
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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Scott Newstok, "How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Apr 23, 2023 |
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Ana Schwartz, "Unmoored: The Search for Sincerity in Colonial America" (UNC Press, 2022)
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Apr 23, 2023 |
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Jonathan Gray, "Dislike-Minded: Media, Audiences, and the Dynamics of Taste" (NYU Press, 2021)
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Apr 22, 2023 |
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Writing the Counter-Book: Joshua Cohen with Eugene Sheppard (JP)
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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Reading
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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Michael K. Johnson, "Speculative Wests: Popular Representations of a Region and Genre" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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Elizabeth Bradfield in Dark Times (JP)
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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Elena Pedigo Clark, "Trauma and Truth: Teaching Russian Literature on the Chechen Wars" (Academic Studies Press, 2023)
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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Li-Chun Hsiao, "The Soldier-Writer, the Expatriate, and Cold War Modernism in Taiwan" (Lexington Books, 2022)
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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Ryan M. Brooks, "Liberalism and American Literature in the Clinton Era" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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Shakespeare's "As You Like It" Part 2: Characters and Questions
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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Alexander Jabbari, "The Making of Persianate Modernity: Language and Literary History between Iran and India" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Apr 16, 2023 |
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Christopher S. Celenza, "The Italian Renaissance and the Origin of the Humanities: An Intellectual History, 1400-1800" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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Tina Post, "Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression" (NYU Press, 2023)
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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John Miller, "The Heart of the Forest: Why Woods Matter" (British LIbrary, 2022)
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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Matthew Mewhinney, "Form and Feeling in Japanese Literati Culture" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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Shakespeare's "As You Like It" Part 1: the Story
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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Marianna Kiyanovska, "The Voices of Babyn Yar" (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 2022)
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Apr 09, 2023 |
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Bettina Judd, "Feelin: Creative Practice, Pleasure, and Black Feminist Thought" (Northwestern UP, 2022)
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Apr 08, 2023 |
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Helen Small, "The Function of Cynicism at the Present Time" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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Sassan Tabatabai: Poetry, Observation, and Form
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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The Gospel According to Dorothy (with Kathryn Wehr)
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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Tony K. Stewart, "Witness to Marvels: Sufism and Literary Imagination" (U California Press, 2019)
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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Hope Williard, "Friendship in the Merovingian Kingdoms: Venantius Fortunatus and His Contemporaries" (ARC Humanities Press, 2022)
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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5.1 We Have This-ness, Y’all!
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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Lost in Thought: A Conversation with Zena Hitz
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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Patrick Bixby, "Nietzsche and Irish Modernism" (Manchester UP, 2022)
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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Ross Clare, "Ancient Greece and Rome in Modern Science Fiction: Amazing Antiquity" (Liverpool UP, 2022)
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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Shakespeare's "Macbeth" Part 3: the Language
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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Elizabeth Marshall, "Wolves in Beowulf and Other Old English Texts" (Boydell & Brewer, 2022)
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Apr 02, 2023 |
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Mike Jay, "Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind" (Yale UP, 2023)
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Apr 02, 2023 |
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Colleen Lye and Christopher Nealon, "After Marx: Literature, Theory, and Value in the Twenty-First Century" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, "Dindshenchas Érenn" (U College Cork, 2022)
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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Joyce Kinkead, "A Writing Studies Primer" (Broadview Press, 2022)
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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Shakespeare's "Macbeth" Part 2: Characters and Questions
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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Jill Jarvis, "Decolonizing Memory: Algeria and the Politics of Testimony" (Duke UP, 2021)
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Mar 26, 2023 |
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Kieron Pim, "Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth" (Granta Books, 2022)
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Mar 26, 2023 |
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ACLA 2023
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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Aaron Spencer Fogleman and Robert Hanserd, "Five Hundred African Voices: A Catalog of Published Accounts by Africans Enslaved in the Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1586-1936" (APS, 2022)
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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Megan Swift, "Picturing the Page: Illustrated Children’s Literature and Reading under Lenin and Stalin" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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Shakespeare's "Macbeth" Part 1: the Story
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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Nicholas Brown, "Autonomy: The Social Ontology of Art under Capitalism" (Duke UP, 2019)
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Mar 19, 2023 |
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Jessica Brantley, "Medieval English Manuscripts and Literary Forms" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
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Mar 19, 2023 |
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Arya Aryan, "The Postmodern Representation of Reality in Peter Ackroyd's Chatterton" (Cambridge Scholars, 2022)
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Mar 19, 2023 |
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Magdalena J. Zaborowska, "James Baldwin’s Turkish Decade: Erotics of Exile" (Duke UP, 2009)
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Mar 18, 2023 |
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Roy Schwartz, "Is Superman Circumcised?: The Complete Jewish History of the World’s Greatest Hero" (McFarland, 2021)
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Mar 18, 2023 |
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Annie Pfeifer, "To the Collector Belong the Spoils: Modernism and the Art of Appropriation" (Cornell UP, 2023)
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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Rick de Villiers, "Eliot and Beckett's Low Modernism: Humility and Humiliation" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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Book Chat: "Human Glitches" (2020)
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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Sarah Iles Johnston, "Gods and Mortals: Ancient Greek Myths for Modern Readers" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Laura Kolb, "Fictions of Credit in the Age of Shakespeare" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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Cherished and Cursed: Toward a Social History of "The Catcher in the Rye"
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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Book Chat: Comics in Taiwan
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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The Wooden O and the Iron Throne: Game of Thrones and Shakespeare Part 3
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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Susan J. Stanfield, "Rewriting Citizenship: Women, Race, and Nineteenth-Century Print Culture" (U Georgia Press, 2022)
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Mar 12, 2023 |
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Book Chat: Queering the Anthropocene in Taiwan Sci-Fi
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Mar 12, 2023 |
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Stefano Gualeni and Riccardo Fassone, "Fictional Games: A Philosophy of Worldbuilding and Imaginary Play" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Mar 12, 2023 |
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Emily Steiner, "John Trevisa's Information Age: Knowledge and the Pursuit of Literature, c. 1400" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Mar 11, 2023 |
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Audrey Truschke, "The Language of History: Sanskrit Narratives of Indo-Muslim Rule" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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Jessica Rosenberg, "Botanical Poetics: Early Modern Plant Books and the Husbandry of Print" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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Marion Turner, "The Wife of Bath: A Biography" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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T. R. Johnson, "New Orleans: A Writer's City" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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Book Chat: Oceanic Writing
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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Once Upon an Algorithm: How Stories Explain Computing
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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The Los Angeles Review of Books: A Conversation with Michelle Chihara and Annie Berke
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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The Wooden O and the Iron Throne: Game of Thrones and Shakespeare Part 2
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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On Chaim Grade’s "The Yeshiva"
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Mar 05, 2023 |
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Ben Davies et al., "Reading Novels During the Covid-19 Pandemic" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Mar 04, 2023 |
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Priscilla Gilman, "The Critic's Daughter: A Memoir" (Norton, 2023)
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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Helen Solterer and Vincent Joos, "Migrants Shaping Europe, Past and Present: Multilingual Literatures, Arts, and Cultures" (Manchester UP, 2022)
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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Charlie Samuelson, "Courtly and Queer: Deconstruction, Desire, and Medieval French Literature" (Ohio State UP, 2022)
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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Marilyn Migiel, "Veronica Franco in Dialogue" (U Toronto Press, 2022)
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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The Wooden O and the Iron Throne: Game of Thrones and Shakespeare Part 1
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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Anthony Bale, "Margery Kempe: A Mixed Life" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
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Feb 25, 2023 |
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Patricia Saldarriaga and Emy Manini, "Infected Empires: Decolonizing Zombies" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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Nathan Vedal, "The Culture of Language in Ming China: Sound, Script, and the Redefinition of Boundaries of Knowledge" (Columbia UP, 2022)
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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Pei-yin Lin and Wen-chi Li, "Taiwanese Literature as World Literature" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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Shakespeare's "Hamlet" Part 3: the Language
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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Patrick Bixby, "Unaccompanied Traveler: The Writings of Kathleen M. Murphy" (Syracuse UP, 2021)
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Feb 18, 2023 |
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Daisy Alpert Florin, "My Last Innocent Year" (Henry Holt, 2023)
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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Freddy Prestol Castillo, "You Can Cross the Massacre on Foot" (Duke UP, 2019)
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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Philip Nel, "Was the Cat in the Hat Black?: The Hidden Racism of Children's Literature, and the Need for Diverse Books" (Oxford UP, 2017)
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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Justin W. Henry, "Ravana's Kingdom: The Ramayana and Sri Lankan History from Below" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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Mary C. Flannery, "Practicing Shame: Female Honour in Later Medieval England" (Manchester UP, 2019)
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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Matthew S. Henry, "Hydronarratives: Water, Environmental Justice, and a Just Transition" (U Nebraska Press, 2023)
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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Kathy E. Ferguson, "Letterpress Revolution: The Politics of Anarchist Print Culture" (Duke UP, 2023)
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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Maya Phillips, "Nerd: Adventures in Fandom from This Universe to the Multiverse" (Atria Books, 2022)
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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Jangar: The Heroic Epic of the Kalmyk Nomads
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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Shakespeare's "Hamlet" Part 2: Characters and Questions
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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Sara Petrosillo, "Hawking Women: Falconry, Gender, and Control in Medieval Literary Culture" (Ohio State UP, 2023)
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Feb 12, 2023 |
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Winston James, "Claude McKay: The Making of a Black Bolshevik" (Columbia UP, 2022)
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Feb 11, 2023 |
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Jennifer Clary-Lemon and David M. Grant, "Decolonial Conversations in Posthuman and New Material Rhetorics" (Ohio State UP, 2022)
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Feb 11, 2023 |
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James Raven, "The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Feb 11, 2023 |
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Timothy Cleveland, "Beyond Words: Philosophy, Fiction, and the Unsayable" (Lexington Books, 2022)
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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Jane Hwang Degenhardt, "Globalizing Fortune on the Early Modern Stage" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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Index
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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Lesley Higgins and Marie-Christine Leps, "Heterotopic World Fiction: Thinking Beyond Biopolitics with Woolf, Foucault, Ondaatje" (Academic Studies Press, 2022)
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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Geoffrey Roberts, "Stalin's Library: A Dictator and His Books" (Yale UP, 2022)
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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Shakespeare's "Hamlet" Part 1: the Story
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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Tim Harte, "Faster, Higher, Stronger, Comrades!: Sports, Art, and Ideology in Late Russian and Early Soviet Culture" (U Wisconsin Press, 2020)
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Feb 05, 2023 |
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Susan Stewart, "The Ruins Lesson: Meaning and Material in Western Culture" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
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Feb 04, 2023 |
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Curtis Runstedler, "Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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The Mesopotamian Connection: Comparing the Bible to Other Literature of the Ancient Near East
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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Mark A. Schneegurt, "Anthology of Religious Poetry from the Mexican Inquisition Trials of 16th-Century CryptoJews" (2020)
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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Book Talk 57: Anne Fernald and Rajgopal Saikumar on Virginia Woolf's "Three Guineas" (1938)
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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Shakespeare's Life, World and Works 5: How to Read Shakespeare
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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Anthony Reed, "Soundworks: Race, Sound, and Poetry in Production" (Duke UP, 2020)
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Jan 28, 2023 |
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Kobi Peled, "Words Like Daggers: The Political Poetry of the Negev Bedouin" (Brill, 2022)
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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Eric Adler, "The Battle of the Classics: How a Nineteenth-Century Debate Can Save the Humanities Today" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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Lois Presser, "Unsaid: Analyzing Harmful Silences" (U California Press, 2022)
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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Gregory Pfitzer, "'Fame Is Not Just for the Fellas': Female Renown and the Childhood of Famous Americans Series" (U Massachusetts Press, 2022)
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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The Editor and Humility: A Conversation with the NYT's Peter Catapano
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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Shakespeare's Life, World and Works 4: Shakespeare’s Work
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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Rens Bod, "A New History of the Humanities: The Search for Principles and Patterns from Antiquity to the Present" (Oxford UP, 2014)
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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Richard Bradford, "Tough Guy: The Life of Norman Mailer" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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Drew Morton, "After Midnight: Watchmen After Watchmen" (U Mississippi Press, 2022)
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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97* Lorraine Daston Books In Dark Times (JP)
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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The Diné Reader: An Anthology of Navajo Literature
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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Marion Turner, "The Wife of Bath: A Biography" (Princeton UP, 2023)
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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Shakespeare's Life, World and Works 3: Shakespeare’s Life
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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Bridget Whearty, "Digital Codicology: Medieval Books and Modern Labor" (Stanford UP, 2022)
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Jan 14, 2023 |
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Kaiama L. Glover, "A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being" (Duke UP, 2021)
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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Child's Play: The Seriousness of Children's Literature
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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Criticism Amplified: New Media and the Podcast Form
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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Wout J. van Bekkum, "The Religious Poetry of El'azar Ben Ya'aqov Ha-Bavli (Baghdad, 13th C.)" (Brill, 2022)
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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Oana Serban, "After Thomas Kuhn: The Structure of Aesthetic Revolutions" (de Gruyter, 2022)
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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Seeing Truth in the Speculative: A Conversation with Dexter Gabriel
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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Dan Kois, "Vintage Contemporaries" (Harper, 2023)
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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The Fremen in "Dune"
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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Robin Vose, "The Index of Prohibited Books: Four Centuries of Struggle Over Word and Image for the Greater Glory of God" (Reaktion, 2022)
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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Shakespeare's Life, World and Works 2: Shakespeare’s World
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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Rousseau's Ideas About Censorship in the Arts
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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Romani Representation in Pop Culture
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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Jonathan W. White, "To Address You as My Friend: African Americans' Letters to Abraham Lincoln" (UNC Press, 2021)
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Jan 08, 2023 |
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Urvashi Chakravarty, "Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
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Jan 07, 2023 |
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Book Talk 56: Roosevelt Montás on "Great Books"
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Jan 06, 2023 |
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Lesley Higgins and Marie-Christine Leps, "Heterotopic World Fiction: Thinking Beyond Biopolitics with Woolf, Foucault, Ondaatje" (Academic Studies Press, 2023)
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Jan 06, 2023 |
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Roger A Sneed, "The Dreamer and the Dream: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought" (Ohio State UP, 2021)
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Jan 06, 2023 |
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On W. H. Auden
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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Generation Why?: Do We Need "Generations?"
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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Shakespeare's Life, World and Works 1: Why Read Shakespeare
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Jan 02, 2023 |
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Comedies of 'Fair Use': Lewis Hyde on Owning Art and Ideas
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Jan 01, 2023 |
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The Gospels in the Early Church: Evidence for the Chronology and Transmission of the Christian Scriptures
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Dec 31, 2022 |
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Edmund Leach on Roman Jakobson's Contributions to Linguistics
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Dec 30, 2022 |
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Mani Rao, "Saundarya Lahari: Wave of Beauty" (HarperCollins, 2022)
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Dec 29, 2022 |
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"Gone with the Wind" Revisited
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Dec 28, 2022 |
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Jed Rasula, "What the Thunder Said: How 'The Waste Land' Made Poetry Modern" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Dec 28, 2022 |
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Julia Elsky, "Writing Occupation: Jewish Émigré Voices in Wartime France" (Stanford UP, 2020)
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Dec 28, 2022 |
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Who Wrote the Bible? Sorting out the History of the Bible We Have.
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Dec 27, 2022 |
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Historian Laurence Stone on the Role and Revival of Narrative in History
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Dec 27, 2022 |
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Booksellers' Best of 2022
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Dec 27, 2022 |
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Ian Garner, "Stalingrad Lives!: Stories of Combat and Survival" (McGill-Queen's Press, 2022)
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Dec 26, 2022 |
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Mary M. Burke, "Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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Dec 26, 2022 |
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Lucy Fraser, "The Pleasures of Metamorphosis: Japanese and English Fairy Tale Transformations of "The Little Mermaid"" (Wayne State UP, 2017)
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Dec 25, 2022 |
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Anatoly Liberman, "Take My Word for It: A Dictionary of English Idioms" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
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Dec 25, 2022 |
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Mark McKinney, "Postcolonialism and Migration in French Comics" (Leuven UP, 2021)
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Dec 24, 2022 |
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Jonathan Dil, "Haruki Murakami and the Search for Self-Therapy: Stories from the Second Basement" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Dec 24, 2022 |
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Stephen Dobranski, "Reading John Milton: How to Persist in Troubled Times" (Stanford UP, 2022)
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Dec 24, 2022 |
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Nathanael Vette, "Writing With Scripture: Scripturalized Narrative in the Gospel of Mark" (T&T Clark, 2022)
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Dec 23, 2022 |
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Arya Aryan, "The Post-War Novel and the Death of the Author" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
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Dec 23, 2022 |
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Elena Goodwin, "Translating England into Russian: The Politics of Children's Literature in the Soviet Union and Modern Russia" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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Dec 23, 2022 |
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What Makes a Book, Song or Movie Popular? A Conversation with Noah Askin
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Dec 23, 2022 |
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Sam Slote et al., "Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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Anna Hogeland, "The Long Answer" (Riverhead Books, 2022)
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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Noémie Ndiaye, "Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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Tom McLeish, "The Poetry and Music of Science: Comparing Creativity in Science and Art" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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On Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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Ariana Huberman. "Keeping the Mystery Alive: Jewish Mysticism in Latin American Cultural Production" (Academic Studies Press, 2022)
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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Chokepoint Capitalism: How Chokepoint Capitalism is Strangling Creative Industries
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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On William Shakespeare's "Hamlet"
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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On Miguel de Cervantes' "Don Quixote"
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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Off-Shore Aesthetics
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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On Marcel Proust's "In Search of Lost Time"
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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Michael X. Wang, "Lost in the Long March" (Overlook Press, 2022)
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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Books in Dark Times: A Discussion with Kim Stanley Robinson
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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Philip Nanton, "Riff: The Shake Keane Story" (Papillote Press, 2022)
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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On Voltaire's "Candide"
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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On Gabriel García Márquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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Michelle R. Boyd, "Becoming the Writer You Already Are" (Sage, 2022)
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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Jason Ananda Josephson Storm, "Metamodernism: The Future of Theory" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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On James Joyce's "Ulysses"
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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Marco Codebò, "Novels of Displacement: Fiction in the Age of Global Capital" (Ohio State UP, 2020)
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Dec 11, 2022 |
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Brian Daldorph, "Words Is a Powerful Thing: Twenty Years of Teaching Creative Writing at Douglas County Jail" (UP of Kansas, 2021)
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Dec 11, 2022 |
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Leigh T. I. Penman, "The Lost History of Cosmopolitanism: The Early Modern Origins of the Intellectual Ideal" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
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Dec 11, 2022 |
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Mitzi Szereto, "The Best New True Crime Stories: Unsolved Crimes and Mysteries" (Mango, 2022)
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Dec 11, 2022 |
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Matthew Thaler, "No Other Planet: Utopian Visions for a Climate-changed World" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Dec 10, 2022 |
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Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatcă, "Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires" (Cornell UP, 2022)
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Dec 10, 2022 |
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Chrysta Bilton, "Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings" (Little, Brown, 2022)
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Dec 09, 2022 |
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Maria Heim, "Words for the Heart: A Treasury of Emotions from Classical India" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Autumn Womack, "The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880–1930" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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On Virginia Woolf’s "Mrs Dalloway"
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Jonathan Escoffery, "If I Survive You" (MCD, 2022)
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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On "1001 Nights"
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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On James Baldwin's "The Fire Next Time"
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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Yochai Ataria, "Primo Levi and Ka-Tzetnik: The Map and the Territory" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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Jennifer Smith, "Women, Mysticism, and Hysteria in Fin-De-Siècle Spain" (Vanderbilt UP, 2021)
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Dec 03, 2022 |
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On Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre"
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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Zaure Batayeva and Shelley Fairweather-Vega, "Amanat: Women's Writing from Kazakhstan" (Gaudy Boy, 2022)
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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Meg Howrey, "They're Going to Love You" (Doubleday Books, 2022)
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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Hiron Ennes, "Leech" (Tordotcom, 2022)
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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On Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy"
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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Stephanie LeMenager and Teresa Shewry, "Literature and the Environment: Critical and Primary Sources" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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Jennifer Eun-Jung Row, "Queer Velocities: Time, Sex, and Biopower on the Early Modern Stage" (Northwestern UP, 2022)
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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On George Orwell's "1984"
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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Ursula Villarreal-Moura, "Math for the Self-Crippling" (Gold Line Press, 2022)
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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On George Eliot's "Middlemarch"
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Nov 25, 2022 |
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Kate Christine Moore Koppy, "Fairy Tales in Contemporary American Culture: How We Hate to Love Them" (Lexington, 2021)
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Nov 25, 2022 |
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Tara T. Green, "Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Nov 25, 2022 |
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Carolyne Larrington, "All Men Must Die: Power and Passion in Game of Thrones" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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On "The Mahābhārata"
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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Gary Kates, "The Books that Made the European Enlightenment: A History in 12 Case Studies" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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On Matteo Maria Boiardo's "Orlando Innamorato"
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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Amy Fusselman, "The Means" (Mariner Books, 2022)
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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Grant Faulkner, "All the Comfort Sin Can Provide" (Black Lawrence Press, 2021)
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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Erin Alice Cowling, "Chocolate: How a New World Commodity Conquered Spanish Literature" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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Sindya Bhanoo, “Tsunami Bride” The Common magazine (Fall, 2022)
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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Lynn Steger Strong, "Flight" (Mariner Books, 2022)
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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Yigal Bronner et al., "Sensitive Reading: The Pleasures of South Asian Literature in Translation" (U California Press, 2022)
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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Alexander Des Forges, "Testing the Literary: Prose and the Aesthetic in Early Modern China" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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4.6 Translation is the Closest Way to Read: Ann Goldstein and Saskia Ziolkowski
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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Kavita Bhanot and Jeremy Tiang, "Violent Phenomena: 21 Essays on Translation" (Tilted Axis Press, 2022)
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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Ethnonationalism since 1973: A Discussion with Quinn Slobodian
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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Ruth Vanita, "The Dharma of Justice in the Sanskrit Epics" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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Guido Ruggiero, "Love and Sex in the Time of Plague: A Decameron Renaissance" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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Melancholy
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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On H. G. Well's "The Time Machine"
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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Kayla Maiuri, "Mother In the Dark: A Novel" (Riverhead Books, 2022)
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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Andrea Scheurer, et al., "Entanglements: Envisioning World Literature from the Global South" (Ibidem Press, 2022)
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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Therí Alyce Pickens, "Black Madness :: Mad Blackness" (Duke UP, 2019)
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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Ryan Poll, "Aquaman and the War Against Oceans: Comics Activism and Allegory in the Anthropocene" (U Nebraska Press, 2022)
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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Kedar Arun Kulkarni, "World Literature and the Question of Genre in Colonial India: Poetry, Drama, and Print Culture 1790-1890" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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Martin Puchner, "Literature for a Changing Planet" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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On Thucydides' "History of the Peloponnesian War"
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Kevin Wilson, "Now Is Not the Time to Panic" (Ecco Press, 2022)
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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On Toni Morrison's "Beloved"
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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On Edward Said's "Orientalism"
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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Neta Yodovich, "Women Negotiating Feminism and Science Fiction Fandom: The Case of the 'Good' Fan" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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Lydia Millet, "Dinosaurs" (Norton, 2022)
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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Erin Webster, "The Curious Eye: Optics and Imaginative Literature in Seventeenth-Century England" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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On John Milton's "Paradise Lost"
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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92 Janet McIntosh on "Let's Go Brandon," QAnon and Alt-Right Language (EF, JP)
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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4.5 The Best Error You Can Make: Brent Hayes Edwards and Jean-Baptiste Naudy on Claude McKay
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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Joseph Valente and Margot Gayle Backus, "The Child Sex Scandal and Modern Irish Literature: Writing the Unspeakable" (Indiana UP, 2020)
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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Joseph Valente and Margot Gayle Backus, "The Child Sex Scandal and Modern Irish Literature: Writing the Unspeakable" (Indiana UP, 2020)
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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Herman Melville, "Moby-Dick" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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On "Grimms' Fairytales"
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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Joanna Ebenstein, "Frederik Ruysch and His Thesaurus Anatomicus: A Morbid Guide" (MIT Press, 2022)
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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Sarah Quesada, "The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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On Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain"
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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Ksenia Chizhova, "Kinship Novels of Early Modern Korea: Between Genealogical Time and the Domestic Everyday" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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On Augustine's "Confessions"
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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Alan Verskin, "A Vision of Yemen: The Travels of a European Orientalist and His Native Guide--a Translation of Hayyim Habshush's Travelogue" (Stanford UP, 2019)
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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On Cicero's "On Friendship"
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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Halloween Special: Alice Walker’s Cat
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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Bartholomew Ryan, "Kierkegaard's Indirect Politics: Interludes with Lukács, Schmitt, Benjamin and Adorno" (Brill, 2014)
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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Benjamin Parris, "Vital Strife: Sleep, Insomnia, and the Early Modern Ethics of Care" (Cornell UP, 2022)
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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Tess Gunty, "The Rabbit Hutch: A Novel" (Knopf, 2022)
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Oct 28, 2022 |
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On Franz Kafka's "The Trial"
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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Halloween Special: Jacques Derrida’s Cat
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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On Samuel Smiles' "Self-Help"
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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Halloween Special: Schrodinger’s Cat Redux
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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Jose O. Fernandez, "Against Marginalization: Convergences in Black and Latinx Literatures" (Ohio State UP, 2022)
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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Andrei Nae, "Immersion, Narrative, and Gender Crisis in Survival Horror Video Games" (Routledge, 2021)
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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Hongwei Bao, "Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture Under Postsocialism" (Routledge, 2020)
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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Amina Yaqin, "Gender, Sexuality and Feminism in Pakistani Urdu Writing" (Anthem, 2022)
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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Kenyon Gradert, "Puritan Spirits in the Abolitionist Imagination" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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Andrea Barrett, "Natural History: Stories" (Norton, 2022)
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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Leonardo da Vinci and Vassari’s "Lives of the Painters"
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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Halloween Special: Michel de Montaigne’s Cat
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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Yoshiko Okuyama, "Reframing Disability in Manga" (U Hawaii Press, 2020)
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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On Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis' "The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas"
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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Chelsea Martin, "Tell Me I'm An Artist" (Soft Skull Press, 2022)
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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On Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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91* Leah Price on Children’s Books: Turning Back the Clock on “Adulting” (EF, JP)
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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Martin Fárek, "India in the Eyes of Europeans: Conceptualization of Religion in Theology and Oriental Studies" (Karolinum Press, Charles University, 2021)
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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On Fyodor Dostoevsky’s "The Brothers Karamazov"
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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4.4 “A short, sharp punch to the face”: José Revueltas’ The Hole (El Apando) with Alia Trabucco Zerán and Sophie Hughes.
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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Matthew W. King, "In the Forest of the Blind: The Eurasian Journey of Faxian's Record of Buddhist Kingdoms" (Columbia UP, 2022)
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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Cameron Awkward-Rich, "The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment" (Duke UP, 2022)
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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Robert Steven Levine et al., "The Norton Anthology of American Literature" (Norton, 2022)
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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Anita Wohlmann, "Metaphor in Illness Writing: Fight and Battle Reused" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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Arthur Bradley, "Unbearable Life: A Genealogy of Political Erasure" (Columbia UP, 2019)
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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Radicalism, Humility, and Racism in America
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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Siobhan Lambert-Hurley et al., "Three Centuries of Travel Writing by Muslim Women" (Indiana UP, 2022)
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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Ellen Doré Watson, “In Which Raging Weather is a Gift," The Common magazine (Spring, 2022)
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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On Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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Sandeep Banerjee, "Space, Utopia and Indian Decolonization: Literary Pre-Figurations of the Postcolony" (Routledge, 2021)
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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Ramzi Fawaz, "Queer Forms" (NYU Press, 2022)
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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Want to Talk to People about Books? Here's How....
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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Bruce Robbins, "Criticism and Politics: A Polemical Introduction" (Stanford UP, 2022)
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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Eric Hobsbawm on "Literacy and the Tower of Babel"
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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On Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House"
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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Sarah Fatima Waheed, "Hidden Histories of Pakistan: Censorship, Literature, and Secular Nationalism in Late Colonial India" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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Carles Prado-Fonts, "Secondhand China: Spain, the East, and the Politics of Translation" (Northwestern UP, 2022)
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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On John Hersey's "Hiroshima"
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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A. M. Homes, "The Unfolding" (Viking, 2022)
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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Jennifer Wenzel, "The Disposition of Nature: Environmental Crisis and World Literature" (Fordham UP, 2019)
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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On Murasaki Shikibu's "The Tale of Genji"
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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Emelia Quinn, "Reading Veganism: The Monstrous Vegan, 1818 to Present" (Oxford UP, 2021)
|
Oct 06, 2022 |
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Virtual Reality as Immersive Enclosure, with Paul Roquet (EF, JP)
|
Oct 06, 2022 |
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Asha Rogers, "State Sponsored Literature: Britain and Cultural Diversity After 1945" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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4.3 Strange Beasts of Translation: Yan Ge and Jeremy Tiang in Conversation
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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Carlos Rojas on Translating Yan Lianke
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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Sanjay Krishnan, "V. S. Naipaul's Journeys: From Periphery to Center" (Columbia UP, 2020)
|
Oct 05, 2022 |
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On Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's "Faust"
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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Natalie J. Goodison, "Introducing the Medieval Swan" (U Wales Press, 2022)
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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Sarah F. Derbew, "Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
|
Oct 04, 2022 |
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On Abd al-Qāhir al-Jurjānī's "Indications of Inimitability"
|
Oct 04, 2022 |
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Celeste Ng, "Our Missing Hearts: A Novel" (Penguin, 2022)
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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Clothes in Literature: A Talk by Anne Hollander
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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Jenny C. Mann, "The Trials of Orpheus: Poetry, Science, and the Early Modern Sublime" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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Jane Satterfield, "Letter to Emily Brontë," The Common magazine (Spring, 2022)
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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Jean-Thomas Tremblay, "Breathing Aesthetics" (Duke UP, 2022)
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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Peter Coviello, "Vineland Reread" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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Murasaki Yamada, "Talk to My Back" (Drawn & Quarterly, 2022)
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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On Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables"
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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Neilesh Bose, "India After World History: Literature, Comparison, and Approaches to Globalization" (Leiden UP, 2022)
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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On F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby"
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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Peter J. Kalliney, "The Aesthetic Cold War: Decolonization and Global Literature" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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Kathryn Harkup, "Death By Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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NBN Classic: Ari Linden, "Karl Kraus and The Discourse of Modernity" (Northwestern UP, 2020)
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Sep 25, 2022 |
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NBN Classic: Kas Saghafi, "The World after the End of the World: A Spectro-Poetics" (SUNY Press, 2020)
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Sep 25, 2022 |
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NBN Classic: Great Books: Manthia Diawara on Achebe's "Things Fall Apart"
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Sep 24, 2022 |
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NBN Classic: Great Books: Carol Gilligan on Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter"
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Sep 24, 2022 |
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Olga Melnyk, "Ship Life: Seven Months of Voluntary Slavery" (2022)
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Sep 23, 2022 |
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"Riding the Wild Horse in Chinese Literature”: Translation and Research on "Jin Ping Mei"
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Sep 23, 2022 |
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Light and Sound: Boubacar Boris Diop with Sarah Quesada
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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Olúfemi Táíwò, "Against Decolonization: Taking African Agency Seriously" (Hurst, 2022)
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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On Jorge Luis Borges' "Fictions"
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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Mary J. Magoulick, "The Goddess Myth in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture: A Feminist Critique" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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Abby L. Goode, "Agrotopias: An American Literary History of Sustainability" (UNC Press, 2022)
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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Andrew Hadfield, "Literature and Class: From the Peasants’ Revolt to the French Revolution" (Manchester UP, 2021)
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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Andrew Sean Greer, "Less Is Lost" (Little Brown, 2022)
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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On Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe"
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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On Giovanni Boccaccio’s "The Decameron"
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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Courtney Zoffness, "Spilt Milk" (McSweeney's, 2021)
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Sep 16, 2022 |
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On Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "Confessions"
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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89* Charles Yu with Chris Fan: The Work of Inhabiting a Role (Novel Dialogue Crossover, JP)
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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Sasha Senderovich, "How the Soviet Jew Was Made" (Harvard UP, 2022)
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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Michael Ignatieff, "On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times" (Metropolitan Books, 2021)
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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Vauhini Vara, "The Immortal King Rao" (Norton, 2022)
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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Elizabeth Andrews Bond, "The Writing Public: Participatory Knowledge Production in Enlightenment and Revolutionary France" (Cornell UP, 2021)
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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Book Talk 55: Courtney B. Hodrick and Amir Eshel on Hannah Arendt's "Rachel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman"
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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Nicholas Gamso, "Art After Liberalism" (Columbia UP, 2022)
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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Barry Houlihan, "Theatre and Archival Memory: Irish Drama and Marginalised Histories 1951-1977" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021)
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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4.1 “Sometimes I’m just a little disappointed in English”
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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Silvia Schwarz Linder, "Goddess Traditions in India: Theological Poems and Philosophical Tales in the Tripurarahasya" (Routledge, 2022)
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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Jini Kim Watson, "Cold War Reckonings: Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization" (Fordham UP, 2021)
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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Morgan Pitelka and Reiko Tanimura, "Letters from Japan's Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries" (IEAS, 2021)
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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Charo B. D'Etcheverry, "Celebrating Sorrow: Medieval Tributes to the Tale of Sagoromo" (Cornell UP, 2022)
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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Sarah Thankam Mathews, "All This Could Be Different" (Viking, 2022)
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Sep 05, 2022 |
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Erin James, "Narrative in the Anthropocene" (Ohio State UP, 2022)
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Sep 05, 2022 |
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Karinne Keithley Syers, "Astrs" (53rd State Press, 2022)
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Sep 02, 2022 |
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4.0 Novel Dialogue Season 4: Transitions and Translations
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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On Johann Friedrich von Schiller’s "Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man"
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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On Homer's "The Iliad"
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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Sarah Neville, "Early Modern Herbals and the Book Trade" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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Michael Ackland, "The Existentialist Vision of Haruki Murakami" (Cambria Press, 2022)
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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On Herman Melville's "Moby Dick"
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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Ruben Espinosa, "Shakespeare on the Shades of Racism" (Routledge, 2021)
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Aug 26, 2022 |
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Philip Hollander, "From Schlemiel to Sabra: Zionist Masculinity and Palestinian Hebrew Literature" (Indiana UP, 2019)
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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James Welker, "Queer Transfigurations: Boys Love Media in Asia" (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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On Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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Yael Halevi-Wise, "The Retrospective Imagination of A. B. Yehoshua" (Penn State UP, 2020)
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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On Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace"
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Aug 23, 2022 |
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Autumn Womack, "The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880-1930" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Aug 22, 2022 |
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Gene Andrew Jarrett, "Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Aug 22, 2022 |
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Roanne Kantor, "South Asian Writers, Latin American Literature, and the Rise of Global English" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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On T. E. Lawrence's "Seven Pillars of Wisdom"
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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On W. E. B. DuBois' "The Souls of Black Folk"
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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Jeremy Black, "The Game Is Afoot: The Enduring World of Sherlock Holmes" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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On Sholem Aleichem’s "The Tevye Stories"
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Aug 12, 2022 |
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Simone White, "Or, on Being the Other Woman" (Duke UP, 2022)
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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On Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God"
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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Julia May Jonas, "Vladimir: A Novel" (Simon & Schuster, 2022)
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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Alice M. Kelly, "Decolonising the Conrad Canon" (Liverpool UP, 2022)
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Aug 08, 2022 |
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On Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass"
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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Mohsin Hamid, "The Last White Man" (Riverhead, 2022)
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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Jason Stacy, "Spoon River America: Edgar Lee Masters and the Myth of the American Small Town" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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Christopher Krentz, "Elusive Kinship: Disability and Human Rights in Postcolonial Literature" (Temple UP, 2022)
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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Heide Hinrichs and Jo-Ey Tang, "Shelf Documents: Art Library as Practice" (Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, 2021)
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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On "The Story of the Stone"
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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On Thomas of Monmouth's "The Life and Passion of William of Norwich"
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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Philip Tsang, "The Obsolete Empire: Untimely Belonging in Twentieth-Century British Literature" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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Book Talk 54: Anne Fernald on Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway"
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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Emily O. Wittman, "Interwar Itineraries: Authenticity in Anglophone and French Travel Writing" (Amherst College Press, 2022)
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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On Jules Verne's "Around the World in 80 Days"
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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Wendy Doniger, "After the War: The Last Books of the Mahabharata" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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Timothy Bewes, "Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age" (Columbia UP, 2022)
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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Joshua A. Fogel and Matthew Fraleigh, "Sino-Japanese Reflections: Literary and Cultural Interactions between China and Japan in Early Modernity" (de Gruyter, 2022)
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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Kimberly Anne Coles, "Bad Humor: Race and Religious Essentialism in Early Modern England" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2022)
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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On the Wanderer's Havamal and the Poetic Edda
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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Alice Elliott Dark, "Fellowship Point: A Novel" (Simon and Schuster, 2022)
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Jul 26, 2022 |
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F. Brett Cox, "Roger Zelazny" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
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Jul 26, 2022 |
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Elliott Rabin, "The Biblical Hero: Portraits in Nobility and Fallibility" (Jewish Publication Society, 2020)
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Jul 22, 2022 |
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World Literature
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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85* Pu Wang and John Plotz look back on their Cixin Liu interview
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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Prison Notebooks: Thinking (and Writing) about Incarceration
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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Volodymyr Rafeyenko, "Mondegreen: Songs about Death and Love" (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 2022)
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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The Kushnameh: The Persian Epic of Kush the Tusked
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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Epic
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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Darts and Lasers: The Future of Science Fiction, Afro-Futurism, and Feminist Speculative Fiction
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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Caryn Rose, "Why Patti Smith Matters" (U of Texas Press, 2022)
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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Xine Yao, "Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America" (Duke UP, 2021)
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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Joy Wiltenburg, "Laughing Histories: From the Renaissance Man to the Woman of Wit" (Routledge, 2022)
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Jul 18, 2022 |
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Patrick Hastings, "The Guide to James Joyce's Ulysses" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022)
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Jul 18, 2022 |
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Pigeon Shit Bookstore: On Street Bookselling, Populism, and Public Intellectuals
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Jul 18, 2022 |
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Donovan Sherman, "The Philosopher's Toothache: Embodied Stoicism in Early Modern English Drama" (Northwestern UP, 2021)
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Jul 15, 2022 |
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Disintermediation
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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Flatness
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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Spenser and Race: A Discussion with Dennis Austin Britton and Kimberly Anne Coles
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Jul 12, 2022 |
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Autofictionalization
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Jul 12, 2022 |
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Negro Literature
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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Christopher S. Celenza, "Petrarch: Everywhere a Wanderer" (Reaktion Books, 2017)
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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Book Proposal
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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*84 Cixin Liu Talks About Science Fiction (JP, Pu Wang)
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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Adam Hanna, "Poetry, Politics, and the Law in Modern Ireland" (Syracuse UP, 2022)
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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On the Epic of Gilgamesh
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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Yussef El Guindi, "In a Clear Concise Arabic Tongue" (Broadway Play Publishing, 2021)
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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Drew Daniel, "Joy of the Worm: Suicide and Pleasure in Early Modern English Literature" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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Leila Neti, "Colonial Law in India and the Victorian Imagination" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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Ben Davis, "Art in the After-Culture: Capitalist Crisis and Cultural Strategy" (Haymarket Books, 2022)
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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Mary Wellesley, "Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers" (Riverrun, 2021)
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Jul 04, 2022 |
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Trace
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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Rae Lynn Schwartz-DuPre, "Curious about George: Curious George, Cultural Icons, Colonialism, and US Exceptionalism" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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Book Talk 53: Paul Edwards on Toni Morrison's "Playing in the Dark"
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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Radha Raghunathan, "Soaring with Bharati in the Wisdom-Chariot (Ñānaratam)" (Adyar Library, 2022)
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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G. Ronald Murphy, "Brecht and the Bible: A Study of Religious Nihilism and Human Weakness in Brecht's Drama of Morality and the City" (UNC Press, 2020)
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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Katherine E. Sugg, "Apocalypse and Heroism in Popular Culture" (McFarland, 2022)
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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Joseph Boone, "Furnace Creek" (Eyewear Publishing, 2021)
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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Sextuality
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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Kirstin L. Squint ed., "Conversations with LeAnne Howe" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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Cognitive Cultural Studies
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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Min Hyoung Song, "Climate Lyricism" (Duke UP, 2022)
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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John Gillis, "The Fadden More Psalter: The Discovery and Conservation of a Medieval Treasure" (Wordwell Books, 2022)
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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Mahshid Mayar, "Citizens and Rulers of the World: The American Child and the Cartographic Pedagogies of Empire" (UNC Press, 2022)
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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José Rivera, "Lovesong (Imperfect) (Broadway Play Publishing, 2021)
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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Whitney Trettien, "Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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Meredith Farmer and Jonathan D. S. Schroeder, "Ahab Unbound: Melville and the Materialist Turn" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
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Jun 27, 2022 |
|
Archives
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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Adrienne Mayor, "Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws: And Other Classical Myths, Historical Oddities, and Scientific Curiosities" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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W. Michelle Wang, "Eternalized Fragments: Reclaiming Aesthetics in Contemporary World Fiction" (Ohio State UP, 2020)
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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Marc David Baer, "German, Jew, Muslim, Gay: The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus" (Columbia UP, 2020)
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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Teresa Palomo Acosta, "Tejanaland: A Writing Life in Four Acts" (Texas A&M UP, 2021)
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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Lust
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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The Career of a Writer: A Discussion with Douglas Richards
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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William Ian Miller, "Outrageous Fortune: Gloomy Reflections on Luck and Life" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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Joseph A. Boone, "The Homoerotics of Orientalism" (Columbia UP, 2014)
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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Justin Gautreau, "The Last Word: The Hollywood Novel and the Studio System" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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The Hyperlocal
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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Brian Kulick, "The Secret Life of Theater: On the Nature and Function of Theatrical Representation" (Routledge, 2019)
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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Paul Van Der Velde, "Life Under the Palms: The Sublime World of the Anti-Colonialist Jacob Haafner" (NUS Press, 2020)
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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Sara Austin, "Monstrous Youth: Transgressing the Boundaries of Childhood in the United States" (Ohio State UP, 2022)
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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Adam Grener, "Improbability, Chance, and the Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel" (Ohio State UP, 2020)
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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83* Elizabeth Ferry and John Plotz on Zadie Smith
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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Juwen Zhang, "The Dragon Daughter and Other Lin Lan Fairy Tales" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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James Uden, "Worlds of Knowledge in Women's Travel Writing" (Ilex Foundation, 2022)
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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James Joyce and Catherine Flynn (ed.), "The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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Stan Lai, "Selected Plays of Stan Lai" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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Ghazal
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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On Koans
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Jun 10, 2022 |
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Racial Affect
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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Mary Beth Willard, "Why It's Ok to Enjoy the Work of Immoral Artists" (Routledge, 2021)
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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A Newly Discovered Essay by Fredrick Douglass: "Slavery" (1894-1895)
|
Jun 07, 2022 |
|
Resonance
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Jun 06, 2022 |
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Andy Hines, "Outside Literary Studies: Black Criticism and the University" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
|
Jun 06, 2022 |
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Mickle Maher, "Six Plays" (Agate Press, 2022)
|
Jun 03, 2022 |
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Realism
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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82* Zadie Smith in Focus (JP)
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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Peter C. Baker, "Planes" (Knopf, 2022)
|
Jun 01, 2022 |
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Nathaniel Isaacson, "Celestial Empire: The Emergence of Chinese Science Fiction" (Wesleyan UP, 2017)
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May 31, 2022 |
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Julia Molinari, "What Makes Writing Academic: Rethinking Theory for Practice" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
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May 31, 2022 |
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Modernist Mushrooms
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May 30, 2022 |
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Anjanette Delgado, "Home in Florida: Latinx Writers and the Literature of Uprootedness" (UP of Florida Press, 2021)
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May 27, 2022 |
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Undisciplining
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May 27, 2022 |
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Cheryl Collins Isaac, "Spin," The Common magazine (Spring, 2022)
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May 27, 2022 |
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Dean Sluyter, "The Dharma Bum's Guide to Western Literature: Finding Nirvana in the Classics" (New World Library, 2022)
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May 27, 2022 |
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Rachel Sagner Buurma and Laura Heffernan, "The Teaching Archive: A New History for Literary Study" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
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May 26, 2022 |
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Mark Edmundson, "Song of Ourselves: Walt Whitman and the Fight for Democracy" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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May 26, 2022 |
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Boys Love and Japanese Queer Popular Culture across Southeast Asia
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May 26, 2022 |
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Distant Reading
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May 25, 2022 |
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Susan Westhafer Furukawa, "The Afterlife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi: Historical Fiction and Popular Culture in Japan" (Harvard UP, 2022)
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May 25, 2022 |
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Juan-José Martín-González, "Transoceanic Perspectives in Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis Trilogy" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
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May 25, 2022 |
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Elif Batuman, "Either/Or" (Penguin, 2022)
|
May 24, 2022 |
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Jiwei Xiao, "Telling Details: Chinese Fiction, World Literature" (Routledge, 2022)
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May 23, 2022 |
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Akshya Saxena, "Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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May 23, 2022 |
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Autotheory
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May 23, 2022 |
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Elizabeth Boyle, "Fierce Appetites: Loving, Losing and Living to Excess in my Present and in the Writings of the Past" (Sandycove, 2022)
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May 23, 2022 |
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Elizabeth Oyler and Katherine Saltzman-Li, "Cultural Imprints: War and Memory in the Samurai Age" (Cornell UP, 2022)
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May 20, 2022 |
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Alice Dailey, "How to Do Things with Dead People: History, Technology, and Temporality from Shakespeare to Warhol" (Cornell UP, 2022)
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May 20, 2022 |
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Glynne Walley, "Eight Dogs, or 'Hakkenden': Part One―An Ill-Considered Jest" (Cornell UP, 2021)
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May 19, 2022 |
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81* David Ferry, Roger Reeves, and the Underworld
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May 19, 2022 |
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Elizabeth Rodrigues, "Collecting Lives: Critical Data Narrative as Modernist Aesthetic in Early Twentieth-Century Us Literatures" (U Michigan Press, 2022)
|
May 17, 2022 |
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Alison Calder, "Synaptic" (U Regina Press, 2022)
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May 17, 2022 |
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Love as Critique
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May 17, 2022 |
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Witnessing
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May 16, 2022 |
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Book Talk 52: Linda Patterson Miller on Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises"
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May 16, 2022 |
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Simon Peter Rowberry, "Four Shades of Gray: The Amazon Kindle Platform" (MIT Press, 2022)
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May 15, 2022 |
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Nathan Jordan Poole, "Idlewild," The Common magazine (Spring, 2022)
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May 13, 2022 |
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Katharine Hodgson and Alexandra Smith, "Canonicity, Twentieth-Century Poetry and Russian National Identity After 1991" (Peter Lang, 2020)
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May 13, 2022 |
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9/11 Family Novel
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May 12, 2022 |
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Isabel Hofmeyr, "Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House" (Duke UP, 2022)
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May 11, 2022 |
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Lorena Cuya Gavilano, "Fictions of Migration: Narratives of Displacement in Peru and Bolivia" (Ohio State UP, 2021)
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May 10, 2022 |
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Grant Ginder, "Let's Not Do That Again" (Henry Holt, 2022)
|
May 09, 2022 |
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Computational Creativity
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May 06, 2022 |
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Kim Hyun, "Glory Hole" (Seagull Books, 2022)
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May 06, 2022 |
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80 We are Not Digested: Rajiv Muhabir (Ulka Anjaria, JP)
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May 05, 2022 |
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Institutions
|
May 05, 2022 |
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Behind the Scenes at a Literary Magazine: The Common
|
May 05, 2022 |
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Mimesis
|
May 04, 2022 |
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Anna von Rath, "Afropolitan Encounters: Literature and Activism in London and Berlin" (Peter Lang, 2022)
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May 04, 2022 |
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Stanley Bill, "Czesław Miłosz's Faith in the Flesh: Body, Belief, and Human Identity" (Oxford UP, 2021)
|
May 04, 2022 |
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Julie Pfeiffer, "Transforming Girls: The Work of Nineteenth-Century Adolescence" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
|
May 03, 2022 |
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Marta Puxan-Oliva, "Narrative Reliability, Racial Conflicts and Ideology in the Modern Novel" (Routledge, 2021)
|
May 03, 2022 |
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Hana Videen, "The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English" (Princeton UP, 2022)
|
May 02, 2022 |
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Gregory M. Clines, "Jain Rāmāyaṇa Narratives: Moral Vision and Literary Innovation" (Routledge, 2022)
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May 02, 2022 |
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Outdated Futures
|
May 02, 2022 |
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Sarah Brouillette, "Underdevelopment and African Literature: Emerging Forms of Reading" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Apr 29, 2022 |
|
Hurricanes
|
Apr 28, 2022 |
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Marlon B. Ross, "Sissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness" (Duke UP, 2022)
|
Apr 28, 2022 |
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Fernanda Melchor and Sophie Hughes, "Paradais" (New Directions, 2022)
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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Andy Bragen, "This Is My Office and Notes on My Mother's Decline: Two Plays" (Northwestern UP, 2022)
|
Apr 27, 2022 |
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Ta-wei Chi, "The Membranes: A Novel" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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Ernest Hemingway, "The Sun Also Rises: Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism" (Norton, 2022)
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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Rania Karoula, "The Federal Theatre Project, 1935-1939: Engagement and Experimentation" (Edinburgh UP, 2020)
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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79* Madeline Miller on Circe (GT, JP)
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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Szu-Wen Kung, "Translation of Contemporary Taiwan Literature in a Cross-Cultural Context" (Routledge, 2021)
|
Apr 19, 2022 |
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Natasha Brown, "Assembly" (Little Brown, 2022)
|
Apr 18, 2022 |
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Nancy Pedri, "A Concise Dictionary of Comics" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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Book Talk 51: Ardythe Ashley on Oscar Wilde
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Apr 18, 2022 |
|
Intertextuality
|
Apr 15, 2022 |
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Simon Armitage, "A Vertical Art: On Poetry" (Princeton UP, 2022)
|
Apr 15, 2022 |
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3.6 Why are you in bed? Why are you drinking? Colm Tóibín and Joseph Rezek in Conversation
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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Death of the Author
|
Apr 14, 2022 |
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Jeffrey Saks and Shalom Carmy, "Agnon’s Tales of the Land of Israel" (Pickwick Publications, 2021)
|
Apr 14, 2022 |
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Caits Meissner, ed., "The Sentences That Create Us: Crafting a Writer's Life in Prison" (Haymarket Books, 2022)
|
Apr 14, 2022 |
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Jason M. Baxter, "The Medieval Mind of C. S. Lewis: How Great Books Shaped a Great Mind" (InterVarsity, 2022)
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon, "Wasteland with Words: A Social History of Iceland" (Reaktion, 2010)
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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Autonomous Work of Art
|
Apr 12, 2022 |
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James C. Klagge, "Wittgenstein's Artillery: Philosophy as Poetry" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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Brandon J. Manning, "Played Out: The Race Man in 21st Century Satire" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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Josef Benson and Doug Singsen, "Bandits, Misfits, and Superheroes: Whiteness and Its Borderlands in American Comics and Graphic Novels" (UP of Mississippi, 2022)
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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G. S. Sahota, "Late Colonial Sublime: Neo-Epics and the End of Romanticism" (Northwestern UP, 2018)
|
Apr 12, 2022 |
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David Maroto, "The Artist's Novel: A New Medium" (Mousse, 2020)
|
Apr 11, 2022 |
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Alice Jardine, "At the Risk of Thinking: An Intellectual Biography of Julia Kristeva" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
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Apr 08, 2022 |
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78 Fantasy Then, Now, and Forever with Anna Vaninskaya
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Apr 07, 2022 |
|
Critique
|
Apr 07, 2022 |
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Unreliable Narrator
|
Apr 06, 2022 |
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Jacob Mchangama, "Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media" (Basic Books, 2022)
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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Jennifer Egan, "The Candy House" (Scribner, 2022)
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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Jenifer L. Barclay, "The Mark of Slavery: Disability, Race, and Gender in Antebellum America" (U of Illinois Press, 2021)
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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Jeff Deutsch, "In Praise of Good Bookstores" (Princeton UP, 2022)
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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Jennifer Egan, "The Candy House" (Scribner, 2022)
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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Aura
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Apr 04, 2022 |
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Sherryl Vint, "Science Fiction" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Apr 04, 2022 |
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Kelly Herold et al., "Growing Out of Communism: Russian Literature for Children and Teens, 1991-2017" (Brill, 2021)
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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Welcome to High Theory
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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3.5 The Romance of Recovery: Ben Bateman talks to Shola von Reinhold (AV)
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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Emma Lieber, "The Writing Cure" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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Alison Donnell, "Creolized Sexualities: Undoing Heteronormativity in the Literary Imagination of the Anglo-Caribbean" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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Ilan Kelman, "Antarcticness: Inspirations and Imaginaries" (UCL Press, 2022)
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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Ellen Jones, "Literature in Motion: Translating Multilingualism Across the Americas" (Columbia UP, 2022)
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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Adam Wyeth, "about:blank" (Salmon Poetry, 2021)
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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Shubha Sunder, “A Very Full Day” The Common magazine (Fall 2021)
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Mar 25, 2022 |
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Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy, "Between Empire and Republic: America in the Colonial Canadian Imagination" (Lexington, 2022)
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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Daniel Y. Kim, "The Intimacies of Conflict: Cultural Memory and the Korean War" (NYU Press, 2020)
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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Ken Krimstein, "When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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Kenneth Hsien-y Pai and Susan Chan Egan, "A Companion to the Story of the Stone: A Chapter-By-Chapter Guide" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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On Writing and the Monk Life
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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Wendy E. S. North, "What John Knew and What John Wrote: A Study in John and the Synoptics" (Fortress, 2020)
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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3.4 The Work of Inhabiting a Role: Charles Yu speaks to Chris Fan (JP)
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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Valerie Chepp, "Speaking Truths: Young Adults, Identity, and Spoken Word Activism" (Rutgers UP, 2022)
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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Ra Page, ed., "The Cuckoo Cage" (Comma Press, 2022)
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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Annie Berke, "Their Own Best Creations: Women Writers in Postwar Television" (U California Press, 2022)
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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Nanna Katrine Luders Kaalund, "Explorations in the Icy North: How Travel Narratives Shaped Arctic Science in the Nineteenth Century" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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Lydia Pyne, "Postcards: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Social Network" (Reaktion Books, 2021)
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon, "Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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Michael Gorra, "The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War" (Liveright Publishing, 2020)
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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Dahlia Schweitzer, "Haunted Homes" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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Larissa Fasthorse, "The Thanksgiving Play / What Would Crazy Horse Do?" (Theatre Communications Group, 2021)
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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Bill V. Mullen, "James Baldwin: Living in Fire" (Pluto Press, 2019)
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Mar 08, 2022 |
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Allegra Hyde, "Eleutheria" (Vintage, 2022)
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Mar 08, 2022 |
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On Accidental Buddhism and the Writer's Life
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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Nandi Timmana, "Theft of a Tree" (Harvard UP, 2022)
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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Eliza Jane Smith, "Literary Slumming: Slang and Class in Nineteenth-Century France" (Lexington Books, 2021)
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Mar 04, 2022 |
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Ira Mukhoty, "Song of Draupadi" (Aleph Book Company, 2021)
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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3.3 In the Editing Room with Ruth Ozeki and Rebecca Evans (EH)
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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Dennis Duncan, "Index, a History of The: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age" (W.W. Norton, 2022)
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Mar 02, 2022 |
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Erin Drew, "The Usufructuary Ethos: Power, Politics, and Environment in the Long Eighteenth Century" (UVA Press, 2021)
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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Olivia Milburn, "The Empress in the Pepper Chamber: Zhao Feiyan in History and Fiction" (U Washington Press, 2021)
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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Sequoia Nagamatsu, "How High We Go in the Dark: A Novel" (William Morrow, 2022)
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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Nebil Husayn, "Opposing the Imam: The Legacy of the Nawasib in Islamic Literature" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Feb 28, 2022 |
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Paul M. Dover, "The Information Revolution in Early Modern Europe" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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Peter Salmon, "An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida" (Verso, 2020)
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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Jon Butler, "God in Gotham: The Miracle of Religion in Modern Manhattan" (Harvard UP, 2020)
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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Linda LeGarde Grover, "Gichigami Hearts: Stories and Histories from Misaabekong" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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Allison Schachter, "Women Writing Jewish Modernity, 1919–1939" (Northwestern UP, 2021)
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernández, "Archiving Mexican Masculinities in Diaspora" (Duke UP, 2021)
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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Alexa Alice Joubin, "Shakespeare & East Asia" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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Mary Norris, "Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen" (Norton, 2020)
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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Jessamine Chan, "The School for Good Mothers: A Novel" (Simon and Schuster, 2022)
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Feb 21, 2022 |
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Markus Zehnder, "The Bible and Immigration: A Critical and Empirical Reassessment" (Pickwick Publications, 2021)
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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For the Love of Translation: A Discussion of King Vajiravudh’s Translations of Western Literature in Early 20th-Century Siam
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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3.2 Promises Unkept: Damon Galgut with Andrew van der Vlies
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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75* Sean Hill Talks about Bodies in Space and Time with Elizabeth Bradfield
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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Hillary Jordan and Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, "Anonymous Sex" (Simon and Schuster, 2022)
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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David S. Roh, "Minor Transpacific: Triangulating American, Japanese, and Korean Fictions" (Stanford UP, 2021)
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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Mona Kareem, "Mapping Exile," The Common magazine (Fall 2021)
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Feb 11, 2022 |
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Leilei Chen, "Re-Orienting China: Travel Writing and Cross-Cultural Understanding" (U Regina Press, 2016)
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma, "The Kural: Tiruvalluvar's Tirukkural" (Beacon Press, 2022)
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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Xochitl Gonzalez, "Olga Dies Dreaming" (Flatiron Books, 2022)
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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Peilin Liang, "Bodies and Transformance in Taiwanese Contemporary Theater" (Routledge, 2021)
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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Jonathan Fenderson, "Building the Black Arts Movement: Hoyt Fuller and the Cultural Politics of the 1960s" (U Illinois Press, 2019)
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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74 George Kalogeris on Words and Places
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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3.1 On Being Unmoored: Chang-rae Lee Charts Fiction with Anne Anlin Cheng
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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Joanna Rakoff, "My Salinger Year" (Vintage, 2014)
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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R. David Lankes, "The New Librarianship Field Guide" (MIT Press, 2016)
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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Sunny Xiang, "Tonal Intelligence: The Aesthetics of Asian Inscrutability During the Long Cold War" (Columbia UP, 2020)
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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Jeffrey H. Jackson, "Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis" (Algonquin Books, 2020)
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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Steven Tagle, “Notes on Looking Back” The Common magazine (Fall, 2021)
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Jan 28, 2022 |
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Kirsten W. Larson, "A True Wonder: The Comic Book Hero Who Changed Everything" (Clarion Books, 2021)
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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Bojana Videkanic, "Nonaligned Modernism: Socialist Postcolonial Aesthetics in Yugoslavia, 1945-1985" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2020)
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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Samuel J. Spinner, "Jewish Primitivism" (Stanford UP, 2021)
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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Nicholas Jubber, "The Fairy Tellers: A Journey into the Secret History of Fairy Tales" (John Murray, 2022)
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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Nigel A. Caplan, "Grammar Choices for Graduate and Professional Writers" (U Michigan Press, 2019)
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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Megan Moore, "The Erotics of Grief: Emotions and the Construction of Privilege in the Medieval Mediterranean" (Cornell UP, 2021)
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Jan 24, 2022 |
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Howard Chiang, "Queer Taiwanese Literature: A Reader" (Cambria Press, 2021)
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Jan 24, 2022 |
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Sarah Jane Cervenak, "Black Gathering: Art, Ecology, Ungiven Life" (Duke UP, 2021)
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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Aleksandra Prica, "Decay and Afterlife: Form, Time, and the Textuality of Ruins, 1100 to 1900" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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72 Caryl Phillips Speaks with Corina Stan
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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Esther De Dauw and Daniel J. Connell, "Toxic Masculinity: Mapping the Monstrous in Our Heroes" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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Ziying You, "Folk Literati, Contested Tradition, and Heritage in Contemporary China: Incense Is Kept Burning" (Indiana UP, 2020)
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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Olga Rodríguez-Ulloa and Rodrigo Quijano, "Punk! Las Américas Edition" (Intellect, 2022)
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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Glenn Cronin, "Disenchanted Wanderer: The Apocalyptic Vision of Konstantin Leontiev" (Northern Illinois UP, 2021)
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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Julia Fine, "The Upstairs House: A Novel" (Harper Collins, 2021)
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Jan 17, 2022 |
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Noor Naga, “Who Writes the Arabian Gulf?” The Common magazine (Fall, 2021)
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Jan 14, 2022 |
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Marc Caplan, "Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin: A Fugitive Modernism" (Indiana UP, 2021)
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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Yuri Tynianov, "Küchlya, Decembrist Poet: A Novel" (Cherry Orchard Books, 2021)
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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Timothy Brennan, "Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said" (FSG, 2021)
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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Andrew J. Kunka, "The Life and Comics of Howard Cruse: Taking Risks in the Service of Truth" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
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Jan 12, 2022 |
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Cara Blue Adams, "You Never Get It Back" (U Iowa Press, 2021)
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Jan 10, 2022 |
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71 Jennifer Egan with Ivan Kreilkamp: Fiction as Streaming, Genre as Portal (Novel Dialogue crossover, JP)
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Jan 06, 2022 |
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Malika Maskarinec, "The Forces of Form in German Modernism" (Northwestern UP, 2018)
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Jan 05, 2022 |
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Mabel Moraña, "Philosophy and Criticism in Latin America: From Mariátegui to Sloterdijk" (Cambria Press, 2020)
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Jan 04, 2022 |
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Ignacio M. Sanchez Prado, "Strategic Occidentalism: On Mexican Fiction, the Neoliberal Book Market, and the Question of World Literature" (Northwestern UP, 2018)
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Jan 04, 2022 |
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Robert A. Gross, "The Transcendentalists and Their World" (FSG, 2021)
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Jan 04, 2022 |
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Dominique Townsend, "A Buddhist Sensibility: Aesthetic Education at Tibet's Mindröling Monastery" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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Jan 03, 2022 |
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Mark Bender and Aku Wuwu, trans., "The Nuosu Book of Origins: A Creation Epic from Southwest China" (U Washington Press, 2019)
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Dec 29, 2021 |
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From Linear A to Linear B: Suggestive Continuity
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Dec 29, 2021 |
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Takashi Saitō, "Ghastly Tales from the Yotsuya Kaidan" (Chisokudo, 2020)
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Dec 28, 2021 |
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Ian Almond, "World Literature Decentered: Beyond the 'West' Through Turkey, Mexico and Bengal" (Routledge, 2021)
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Dec 27, 2021 |
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Beate Kowalski and Susan E. Docherty, "The Reception of Exodus Motifs in Jewish and Christian Literature: "Let My People Go!" (Brill, 2021)
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Dec 23, 2021 |
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E. H. Rick Jarow, "The Cloud of Longing: A New Translation and Eco-Aesthetic Study of Kalidasa's Meghaduta" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Dec 23, 2021 |
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Janneke Adema, "Living Books: Experiments in the Posthumanities" (MIT Press, 2021)
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Dec 22, 2021 |
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Jeffrey Brooks, "The Firebird and the Fox: Russian Culture under Tsars and Bolsheviks" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
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Dec 22, 2021 |
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Michael K. Bourdaghs, "A Fictional Commons: Natsume Soseki and the Properties of Modern Literature" (Duke UP, 2021)
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Dec 22, 2021 |
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Hua Li, "Chinese Science Fiction During the Post-Mao Cultural Thaw" (U Toronto Press, 2021)
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Dec 21, 2021 |
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Marcia Pally, "From This Broken Hill I Sing to You: God, Sex, and Politics in the Work of Leonard Cohen" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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Dec 21, 2021 |
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David Clare et al., "The Golden Thread: Irish Women Playwrights (1716-2016)" (Liverpool UP, 2021)
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Dec 21, 2021 |
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Gill Grose: A Volunteer Librarian Changing Lives in South Africa
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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Best Books of the Year 2021, Booksellers Edition
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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Jessica Hurley, "Infrastructures of Apocalypse: American Literature and the Nuclear Complex" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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Gloria Maité Hernández, "Savoring God: Comparative Theopoetics" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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2.7 The Novel of Revolutionary Ideas: Viet Thanh Nguyen and Colleen Lye
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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Eike Exner, "Comics and the Origins of Manga: A Revisionist History" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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Elizabeth McHenry, "To Make Negro Literature: Writing, Literary Practice, and African American Authorship" (Duke UP, 2020)
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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"Bambi" isn't about what you think it's about: Jack Zipes explains
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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Andrew Piper, "Can We Be Wrong? The Problem of Textual Evidence in a Time of Data" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Dec 14, 2021 |
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Kate Rigby, "Reclaiming Romanticism: Towards an Ecopoetics of Decolonisation" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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Bryan M. Santin, "Postwar American Fiction and the Rise of Modern Conservatism: A Literary History, 1945–2008" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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Andrew Pettegree and Arthur Der Weduwen, "The Library: A Rich and Fragile History" (Basic Books, 2021)
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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Book Talk 49: “The Good Life” with Dora Zhang
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Dec 06, 2021 |
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Shaoling Ma, "The Stone and the Wireless: Mediating China, 1861–1906" (Duke UP, 2021)
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Dec 06, 2021 |
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Álvaro Santana-Acuña, "Ascent to Glory: How One Hundred Years of Solitude Was Written and Became a Global Classic" (Columbia UP, 2020)
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Dec 03, 2021 |
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Eric Hayot, "Humanist Reason: A History, an Argument, a Plan" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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Dec 03, 2021 |
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2.6 Dreaming or Thinking: Cristina Rivera Garza with Kate Marshall and Dominique Vargas
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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William Germano, "On Revision: The Only Writing That Counts" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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Rani Jaeger, "Abraham the Hebrew Believer: Secularism and Religion in the Work of Avraham Shlonsky (1900-1973)"
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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Annegret Oehme, "The Knight Without Boundaries: Yiddish and German Arthurian Wigalois Adaptations" (Brill, 2021)
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Nov 26, 2021 |
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Katarzyna Bartoszyńska, "Estranging the Novel: Poland, Ireland, and Theories of World Literature" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2021)
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Nov 26, 2021 |
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Atmadarshan Laura Santoro, "Song of Your Soul," a New Translation of the Bhagavad Gita
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Nov 24, 2021 |
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Gretchen E. Minton, "Shakespeare in Montana: Big Sky Country's Love Affair with the World's Most Famous Writer" (U New Mexico Press, 2020)
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Nov 24, 2021 |
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Molly Thomasy Blasing, "Snapshots of the Soul: Photo-Poetic Encounters in Modern Russian Culture" (Cornell UP, 2021)
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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Daniel Alexander Jones, "Love Like Light: Plays and Performance Texts" (53rd State Press, 2021)
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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Beatrice Gruendler, "The Rise of the Arabic Book" (Harvard UP, 2020)
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Nov 22, 2021 |
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Jeremy Black, "England in the Age of Dickens, 1812-70" (Amberley, 2022)
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Nov 22, 2021 |
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Charlie Louth on Rainer Maria Rilke
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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Mike Palmquist and Barbara Wallraff, "Joining the Conversation: A Guide and Handbook for Writers With 2020 APA Update" (Bedford Books, 2020)
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Nov 19, 2021 |
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68 Martin Puchner: Writing and Reading from Gilgamesh to Amazon
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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Sanskrit Tools on the Web: A Discussion with Martin Gluckman (Part 2)
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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Jessica Romney, "Lyric Poetry and Social Identity in Archaic Greece" (U Michigan Press, 2020)
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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Stephen Cushman, "The Generals' Civil War: What Their Memoirs Can Teach Us Today" (UNC Press, 2021)
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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John B. Kachuba, "Shapeshifters: A History" (Reaktion Books, 2019)
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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Yair Wallach, "A City in Fragments: Urban Texts in Modern Jerusalem" (Stanford UP, 2020)
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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Adam Lehrer, "Communions" (Hyperidean Press, 2021)
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Nov 12, 2021 |
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Sanskrit Tools on the Web: A Discussion with Martin Gluckman (Part 1)
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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Michele Kennerly, "Editorial Bodies: Perfection and Rejection in Ancient Rhetoric and Poetics" (U South Carolina Press, 2018)
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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Simon O'Meara, "The Ka'ba Orientations: Readings in Islam's Ancient House" (Edinburgh UP, 2020)
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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Machiko Ōgimachi, "In the Shelter of the Pine: A Memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu and Tokugawa Japan" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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Andrea Gondos, "Kabbalah in Print: The Study and Popularization of Jewish Mysticism in Early Modernity" (SUNY Press, 2020)
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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Carlos M. Piocos, "Affect, Narratives and Politics of Southeast Asian Migration" (Routledge, 2021)
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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67 Everything and Less: Mark McGurl on Books in the Age of Amazon
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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Aubrey L. Glazer, "Mystical Vertigo: Contemporary Kabbalistic Hebrew Poetry Dancing Over the Divide" (Academic Studies Press, 2013)
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Nov 03, 2021 |
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Habiba Ibrahim, "Black Age: Oceanic Lifespans and the Time of Black Life" (NYU Press, 2021)
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Nov 03, 2021 |
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Hsuan L. Hsu, "The Smell of Risk: Environmental Disparities and Olfactory Aesthetics" (NYU Press, 2020)
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Nov 02, 2021 |
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Tim Hannigan, "The Travel Writing Tribe" (Hurst Publishing, 2021)
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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Koral Dasgupta, "Kunti: The Sati Series II" (Pan Macmillan India, 2021)
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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Susan Mokhberi, "The Persian Mirror: French Reflections of the Safavid Empire in Early Modern France" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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Chinmay Murali and Sathyaraj Venkatesan, "Infertility Comics and Graphic Medicine" (Routledge, 2021)
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Oct 27, 2021 |
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Roy Schwartz, "Is Superman Circumcised?: The Complete Jewish History of the World's Greatest Hero" (McFarland, 2021)
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Oct 26, 2021 |
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Silvia Marina Arrom, "La Güera Rodrígue: The Life and Legends of a Mexican Independence Heroine" (U California Press, 2021)
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Oct 26, 2021 |
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Rebecca Copeland and Linda C. Ehrlich, "Yamamba: In Search of the Japanese Mountain Witch" (Stone Bridge, 2021)
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Oct 25, 2021 |
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Nerina Rustomji, "The Beauty of the Houri: Heavenly Virgins and Feminine Ideals" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Oct 22, 2021 |
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Eileen Hunt Botting, "Portraits of Wollstonecraft" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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Oct 22, 2021 |
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Robert McCrum, "Shakespearean: On Life and Language in Times of Disruption" (Simon and Schuster, 2021)
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Oct 22, 2021 |
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Esther De Dauw, "Hot Pants and Spandex Suits: Gender Representation in American Superhero Comic" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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José Vergara, "All Future Plunges to the Past: James Joyce in Russian Literature" (Cornell UP, 2021)
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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Peter Toohey, "Hold On: The Life, Science, and Art of Waiting" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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Gregory Vargo, "Chartist Drama" (Manchester UP, 2021)
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Oct 19, 2021 |
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Roger K. Thomas, "Counting Dreams: The Life and Writings of the Loyalist Nun Nomura Bōtō" (Cornell UP, 2021)
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Oct 19, 2021 |
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David Kunzle, "Rebirth of the English Comic Strip: A Kaleidoscope, 1847-1870" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
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Oct 18, 2021 |
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Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, "Elusive Lives: Gender, Autobiography, and the Self in Muslim South Asia" (Stanford UP, 2018)
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, "Extraction Ecologies and the Literature of the Long Exhaustion" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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Helena de Bres, "Artful Truths: The Philosophy of Memoir" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Oct 11, 2021 |
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Mans Broo, "The Rādhā Tantra: A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation" (Routledge, 2019)
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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Pieter Vanhove, "World Literature After Empire: Rethinking Universality in the Long Cold War" (Routledge, 2021)
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm, "Metamodernism: The Future of Theory" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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Joshua S. Mostow and Tokurō Yamamoto, "An Ise monogatari Reader: Contexts and Receptions" (Brill, 2021)
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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William Souder, "Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck" (Norton, 2020)
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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Gregory Jones-Katz, "Deconstruction: An American Institution" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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Kyokutei Bakin, "Eight Dogs, or 'Hakkenden': Part One—An Ill-Considered Jest" (Cornell UP, 2021)
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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Dan Fox, "Limbo" (Fitzcarraldo, 2019)
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Sep 27, 2021 |
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M. W. Shores, "The Comic Storytelling of Western Japan: Satire and Social Mobility in Kamigata Rakugo" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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Nikki Hessell, "Sensitive Negotiations: Indigenous Diplomacy and British Romantic Poetry" (SUNY Press, 2021)
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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Kristin Swenson, "A Most Peculiar Book: The Inherent Strangeness of the Bible" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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Rachel Rojanski, "Yiddish in Israel: A History" (Indiana UP, 2020)
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Sep 20, 2021 |
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Peter Richardson, "American Prophet: The Life and Work of Carey McWilliams" (U California Press, 2019)
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Sep 20, 2021 |
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Sarah J. Young, "Writing Resistance: Revolutionary Memoirs of Shlissel’burg Prison" (UCL Press, 2021)
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Sep 20, 2021 |
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Liang Luo, "The Global White Snake" (U Michigan Press, 2021)
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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Paula Richman and Rustom Bharucha, "Performing the Ramayana Tradition: Enactments, Interpretations, and Arguments" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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Henry Hardy: Capturing Genius: Editing Isaiah Berlin
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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Sylvana Tomaselli, "Wollstonecraft: Philosophy, Passion, and Politics" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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Alastair Gornall, "Rewriting Buddhism: Pali Literature and Monastic Reform in Sri Lanka, 1157–1270" (UCL Press, 2020)
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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Farah Jasmine Griffin, "Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature" (Norton, 2021)
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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Hoyt Long, "The Values in Numbers: Reading Japanese Literature in a Global Information Age" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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The Small Literary Press: An Interview with Nana Ariel and Uri Yoeli of Home Press (Israel)
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Sep 13, 2021 |
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James D. Reich, "To Savor the Meaning: The Theology of Literary Emotions in Medieval Kashmir" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Sep 09, 2021 |
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Jennifer Michael Hecht, “Sheathing the Bodkin: Combating Suicide” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Sep 07, 2021 |
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Rachel Zolf, "No One's Witness: A Monstrous Poetics" (Duke UP, 2021)
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Sep 07, 2021 |
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Su Yun Kim, "Imperial Romance: Fictions of Colonial Intimacy in Korea, 1905-1945" (Cornell UP, 2020)
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Sep 07, 2021 |
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Melissa Daniels-Rauterkus, "Afro-Realisms and the Romances of Race: Rethinking Blackness in the African American Novel" (LSU Press, 2020)
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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William Duffy, "Beyond Conversation: Collaboration and the Production of Writing" (Utah State UP, 2021)
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Sep 03, 2021 |
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Thomas O. Haakenson, "Grotesque Visions: The Science of Berlin Dada" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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Joy Porter, "Trauma, Primitivism and the First World War: The Making of Frank Prewett" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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Aug 30, 2021 |
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Y. Bronner and L. J. McCrea, "First Words, Last Words: New Theories for Reading Old Texts in Sixteenth Century India" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Aug 26, 2021 |
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A Brief Look at the Life and Times of Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Aug 25, 2021 |
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Association of Asian American Studies Book Awards 2021: Xuan Juliana Wang and Ricco Villanueva Siasoco
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Aug 24, 2021 |
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Salvatore Pappalardo, "Modernism in Trieste: The Habsburg Mediterranean and the Literary Invention of Europe, 1870-1945" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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Aug 24, 2021 |
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Robert Lashley, "Green River Valley" (Blue Cactus Press, 2021)
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Aug 20, 2021 |
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Alexander Menrisky, "Wild Abandon: American Literature and the Identity Politics of Ecology" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Aug 16, 2021 |
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Samantha Barbas, "The Rise and Fall of Morris Ernst, Free Speech Renegade" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Aug 13, 2021 |
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Volodymyr Vynnychenko, "Disharmony and Other Plays" (CIUS Press, 2020)
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Aug 13, 2021 |
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Pornsak Pichetshote, "The Good Asian, Volume 1" (Image Comics, 2021)
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Aug 12, 2021 |
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Julia Jarcho, "Writing and the Modern Stage: Theater beyond Drama" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
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Aug 11, 2021 |
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Miljenko Jergović, "Kin" (Translated by R. S. Valentino; Archipelago Books, 2021)
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Aug 09, 2021 |
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Patricia Bickers, "The Ends of Art Criticism" (Lund Humphries Publishers, 2021)
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Aug 06, 2021 |
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Helen Sword, "The Writer's Diet: A Guide to Fit Prose" (U Chicago Press, 2016)
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Aug 06, 2021 |
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Frans-Willem Korsten, "Art as an Interface of Law and Justice: Affirmation, Disturbance, Disruption" (Hart Publishing, 2021)
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Aug 04, 2021 |
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Hoyt Long, "The Values in Numbers: Reading Japanese Literature in a Global Information Age" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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Jessica Hopper, "The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic" (MCD x Fsg Originals, 2021)
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Jul 30, 2021 |
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Susan Lee Johnson, "Writing Kit Carson: Fallen Heroes in a Changing West" (UNC Press, 2020)
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Jul 30, 2021 |
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McComas Taylor, "The Viṣṇu Purāṇa: Ancient Annals of the God with Lotus Eyes" (Australian National UP, 2021)
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Jul 29, 2021 |
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Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen, "The Bookshop of the World: Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age" (Yale UP, 2019)
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Jul 27, 2021 |
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Meryl Altman, "Beauvoir in Time" (Brill, 2020)
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Jul 23, 2021 |
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Kate Kennedy, "Dweller in Shadows: A Life of Ivor Gurney" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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Yurou Zhong, "Chinese Grammatology: Script Revolution and Literary Modernity, 1916-1958" (Columbia UP, 2019)
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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David Bellos, “Babbling Barbarians: How Translators Keep Us Civilized” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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Angus Fletcher, "Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature" (Simon & Schuster, 2021)
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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Raúl Diego Rivera Hernández, "Narratives of Vulnerability in Mexico's War on Drugs" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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Ruth Ahnert et al., "The Network Turn: Changing Perspectives in the Humanities" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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Sharon L. Coggan, "Sacred Disobedience: A Jungian Analysis of the Saga of Pan and the Devil" (Lexington Books, 2020)
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Jul 13, 2021 |
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Leonard Greenspoon, "Jewish Bible Translations: Personalities, Passions, Politics, Progress" (Jewish Publication Society, 2020)
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Jul 09, 2021 |
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Rossen Djagalov, "From Internationalism to Postcolonialism: Literature and Cinema Between the Second and the Third Worlds" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2020)
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Jul 06, 2021 |
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Rachel S. Buurma and Laura Heffernan, "The Teaching Archive: A New History for Literary Study" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
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Jul 05, 2021 |
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Ruth Mazo Karras, "Thou Art the Man: The Masculinity of David in the Christian and Jewish Middle Ages" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
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Jul 02, 2021 |
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Germán Campos Muñoz, "The Classics in South America: Five Case Studies" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
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Jul 02, 2021 |
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Monica Popescu, "At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War" (Duke UP, 2020)
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Jul 02, 2021 |
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What Do the Ancients Have to Teach Us?: A Discussion with Rob Tempio
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Jul 01, 2021 |
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Open Access Publishing Explained: A Discussion with Ros Pyne
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Jul 01, 2021 |
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Kevin Quashie, "Black Aliveness, Or a Poetics of Being" (Duke UP, 2021)
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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James Reeves, "Godless Fictions in the Eighteenth Century: A Literary History of Atheism" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Jun 28, 2021 |
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Susan E. Kirtley, "Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips" (Ohio State UP, 2021)
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Jun 25, 2021 |
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Peter Christiaan Bisschop and Yuko Yokochi, "The Skandapurána" (Brill, 2021)
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Jun 24, 2021 |
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Lavanya Vemsani, "Feminine Journeys of the Mahabharata: Hindu Women in History, Text, and Practice" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
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Jun 24, 2021 |
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Badia Ahad-legardy, "Afro-Nostalgia: Feeling Good in Contemporary Black Culture" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
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Jun 23, 2021 |
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Veronika Pehe, "Velvet Retro: Postsocialist Nostalgia and the Politics of Heroism in Czech Popular Culture" (Berghahn Books, 2020)
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Jun 21, 2021 |
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Lisa Z. Sigel, "The People's Porn: A History of Handmade Pornography in America" (Reaktion Books, 2020)
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Jun 18, 2021 |
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Sean Guynes and Martin Lund, "Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics" (Ohio State UP, 2020)
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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John B. Thompson, "Book Wars: The Digital Revolution in Publishing" (Polity, 2021)
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Jun 16, 2021 |
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Brooke Rollins, "The Ethics of Persuasion: Derrida's Rhetorical Legacies" (Ohio State UP, 2020)
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Jun 15, 2021 |
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Inger Mewburn and Katherine Firth, "Level Up Your Essays: How to Fix Your University Essays and Get Better Grades" (NewSouth, 2021)
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Jun 15, 2021 |
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Constance Congdon, "2 Washington Square" (Broadway Play Publishing, 2020)
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Jun 15, 2021 |
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Matthew Carl Strecher, "The Forbidden Worlds of Haruki Murakami" (U Minnesota Press, 2014)
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Jun 14, 2021 |
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Peter Morey, "Islamophobia and the Novel" (Columbia UP, 2018)
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Jun 11, 2021 |
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Kristina Bross and Abram Van Engen, "A History of American Puritan Literature" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Jun 11, 2021 |
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Anahid Nersessian, "Keats's Odes: A Lover's Discourse" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Jun 11, 2021 |
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Talking Ethnographic Fiction with Alexandros Plasatis
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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Chitgopekar Nilima, "The Reluctant Family Man: Shiva in Everyday Life" (Penguin, 2019)
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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Martha Moffitt Peacock, "Heroines, Harpies, and Housewives: Imaging Women of Consequence in the Dutch Golden Age" (Brill, 2020)
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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Bethany Hicok, "Elizabeth Bishop and the Literary Archive" (Lever Press, 2020)
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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Matthew Karp on Writing Engaged History
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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Iain McGee, "Understanding the Paragraph and Paragraphing" (Equinox, 2018)
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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The Social Constructions of Race: A Discussion with Brigitte Fielder
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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Louis Menand, "The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War" (FSG, 2021)
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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Fei-Hsien Wang, "Pirates and Publishers: A Social History of Copyright in Modern China" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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James M. Banner Jr., "The Ever-Changing Past: Why All History Is Revisionist History" (Yale UP, 2021)
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Jun 04, 2021 |
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Paul J. Contino, "Dostoevsky's Incarnational Realism: Finding Christ among the Karamazovs" (Cascade Books, 2020)
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Jun 04, 2021 |
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Joanna Scott, "Excuse Me While I Disappear" (Little, Brown & Company, 2021)
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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Exploring the Diasporic Imagination in Recent Indonesian Popular Novels and Films (2000-2020)
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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Sergio Benvenuto, "Conversations with Lacan: Seven Lectures for Understanding Lacan" (Routledge, 2019)
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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Jordan A. Stein, "When Novels Were Books" (Harvard UP, 2020)
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Jun 02, 2021 |
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Dianne Jacob, "Will Write for Food" (Hachette Go, 2021)
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Jun 02, 2021 |
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Kevin M. Jones, "The Dangers of Poetry: Culture, Politics, and Revolution in Iraq" (Stanford UP, 2020)
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Jun 02, 2021 |
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Patrick Maille, "The Cards: The Evolution and Power of Tarot" (UP of Mississippi, 2021)
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Jun 01, 2021 |
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Erin Courtney, "Ann, Fran, and Mary Ann" (53rd State Press, 2020)
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Jun 01, 2021 |
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Association of Asian American Studies Book Awards 2021: Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley and Jan-Henry Gray
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Jun 01, 2021 |
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James Fredal, "The Enthymeme: Syllogism, Reasoning, and Narrative in Ancient Greek Rhetoric" (Penn State UP, 2020)
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May 31, 2021 |
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Mark Storey, "Time and Antiquity in American Empire: Roma Redux" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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May 27, 2021 |
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Arti Dhand on The Mahābhārata
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May 26, 2021 |
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Blake Scott Ball, "Charlie Brown's America: The Popular Politics of Peanuts" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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May 25, 2021 |
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Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi, "The Translator of Desires: Poems" (Princeton UP, 2021)
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May 21, 2021 |
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Michael D. Nichols, "Religion and Myth in the Marvel Cinematic Universe" (McFarland, 2021)
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May 21, 2021 |
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Jason H. Pearl, "Utopian Geographies and the Early English Novel" (U Virginia Press, 2014)
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May 20, 2021 |
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Mehr Afshan Farooqi, "Ghalib: a Wilderness at My Doorstep: A Critical Biography" (Allen Lane, 2021)
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May 20, 2021 |
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N+1: "Like Partisan Review, but Not Dead"
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May 18, 2021 |
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Ken Hyland, "Second Language Writing" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
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May 18, 2021 |
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Association of Asian American Studies Book Awards 2021: Jian Neo Chen and Quynh Nhu Le
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May 18, 2021 |
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Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, "The Erez Concise Guide Series" (Koren, 2021)
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May 17, 2021 |
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Stephanie Burt, "After Callimachus: Poems" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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May 17, 2021 |
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Simon Critchley, "Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us" (Vintage, 2020)
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May 14, 2021 |
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John Murillo III, "Impossible Stories: On the Space and Time of Black Destructive Creation" (Ohio State UP, 2021)
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May 14, 2021 |
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Zoë Bossiere and Dinty W. Moore, "The Best of Brevity: Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Nonfiction" (Rose Metal, 2020)
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May 14, 2021 |
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Diana Souhami, "No Modernism Without Lesbians" (Head of Zeus Book, 2020)
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May 13, 2021 |
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Steve Dixon, "Cybernetic-Existentialism: Freedom, Systems, and Being-for-Others in Contemporary Arts and Performance" (Routledge, 2020)
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May 11, 2021 |
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Christina Ward, "American Advertising Cookbooks: How Corporations Taught Us to Love Bananas, Spam, and Jell-O" (Process, 2018)
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May 10, 2021 |
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Eleni Kefala, "The Conquered: Byzantium and America on the Cusp of Modernity" (Dumbarton Oaks, 2021)
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May 10, 2021 |
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Shibli Numani, "Turkey, Egypt, and Syria: A Travelogue" (Syracuse UP, 2019)
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May 07, 2021 |
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Susan Lee Johnson, "Writing Kit Carson: Fallen Heroes in a Changing West" (UNC Press, 2020)
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May 07, 2021 |
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John B. Thompson, "Book Wars: The Digital Revolution in Publishing" (Polity, 2021)
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May 07, 2021 |
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Michael L. Siciliano, "Creative Control: The Ambivalence of Work in the Culture Industries" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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May 06, 2021 |
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Amelia M. Glaser, "Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine" (Harvard UP, 2020)
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May 05, 2021 |
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Jörg Matthias Determann, "Islam, Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Life: The Culture of Astrobiology in the Muslim World" (I. B. Tauris, 2020)
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May 05, 2021 |
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Oksana Rosenblum et al., "Quiet Spiders of the Hidden Soul: Mykola (Nik) Bazhan’s Early Experimental Poetry" (Academic Studies Press, 2020)
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May 05, 2021 |
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David A. Rennie, "American Writers and World War I" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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May 04, 2021 |
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The Work of Editing a Magazine: A Discussion with Chris Lehmann
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May 04, 2021 |
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Carol Dyhouse, "Love Lives: From Cinderella to Frozen" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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May 03, 2021 |
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Brenda Beck, "Land of the Golden River: The Medieval Tamil Folk Epic of Poṉṉivaḷa Nāḍu" (Friesen Press, 2021)
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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Paul Pearson, "Spiritual Direction from Dante, Volume 2: Ascending Mount Purgatory" (Tan Books, 2020)
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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Tara T. Green, "Reimagining the Middle Passage: Black Resistance in Literature, Television, and Song" (Ohio State UP, 2018)
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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Viet Thanh Nguyen, "The Committed" (Grove Press, 2021)
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Apr 29, 2021 |
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Helen Sword, "Air & Light & Time & Space: How Successful Academics Write" (Harvard UP, 2017)
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Apr 29, 2021 |
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Carol Any, "The Soviet Writers' Union and Its Leaders: Identity and Authority Under Stalin" (Northwestern UP, 2020)
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Apr 28, 2021 |
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Daniel Herskowitz, "Heidegger and His Jewish Reception" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Apr 28, 2021 |
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Serhiy Zhadan, "The Orphanage" (Yale UP, 2021)
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Apr 26, 2021 |
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The Writing Center Today: An Interview with Gerd Bräuer
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Apr 26, 2021 |
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Todd Scacewater, "Discourse Analysis of the New Testament Writings" (Fontes Press, 2020)
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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Jeremy Black, "England in the Age of Austen" (Indiana UP, 2021)
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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Felicia Rose Chavez, "The Antiracist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom" (Breakbeat Poets, 2020)
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Apr 20, 2021 |
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N. S. Hawley and S. S. Pillai, "Many Mahābhāratas" (SUNY Press, 2021)
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Apr 20, 2021 |
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Richard Kearney, "Touch: Recovering Our Most Vital Sense" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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Apr 19, 2021 |
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Richard Jean So, "Redlining Culture: A Data History of Racial Inequality and Postwar Fiction" (Columbia UP, 2020)
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Apr 16, 2021 |
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Phillip Lopate, "The Golden Age of the American Essay: 1945-1970" (Anchor Books, 2021)
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Apr 16, 2021 |
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Michael D. Snediker, "Contingent Figure: Chronic Pain and Queer Embodiment" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
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Apr 16, 2021 |
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David Wills, "Prosthesis" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
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Apr 15, 2021 |
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John Garth, "The Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Places That Inspired Middle-Earth" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Apr 14, 2021 |
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Takeshi Watanabe, "Flowering Tales: Women Exorcising History in Heian Japan" (Harvard UP, 2020)
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Apr 13, 2021 |
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Sheila E. Jelen, "Salvage Poetics: Post-Holocaust American Jewish Folk Ethnographies" (Wayne State UP, 2020
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Apr 12, 2021 |
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Danielle Fuentes Morgan, "Laughing to Keep from Dying: African American Satire in the 21st Century" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
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Apr 08, 2021 |
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R. Harde and J. Wesselius, "Consumption and the Literary Cookbook" (Routledge, 2020)
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Apr 08, 2021 |
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Ramsey McGlazer, "Old Schools: Modernism, Education, and the Critique of Progress" (Fordham UP, 2020)
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Apr 07, 2021 |
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Michael B. Prince, "The Shortest Way with Defoe: Robinson Crusoe, Deism, and the Novel" (U Virginia Press, 2020)
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Apr 06, 2021 |
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Shannan Clark, "The Making of the American Creative Class: New York's Culture Workers and 20th-Century Consumer Capitalism" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Apr 06, 2021 |
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Jack W. Chen, "Anecdote, Network, Gossip, Performance: Essays on the Shishuo xinyu" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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Apr 06, 2021 |
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Arthur Koestler, "Darkness at Noon" (Scribner, 2019)
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Apr 05, 2021 |
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Lindsay Thomas, "Training for Catastrophe: Fictions of National Security after 9/11" (U Minnesota Press, 2021)
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Apr 02, 2021 |
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Caroline Ritter, "Imperial Encore: The Cultural Project of the Late British Empire" (UC Press, 2021)
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Apr 02, 2021 |
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Arnika Fuhrmann, "Teardrops of Time: Buddhist Aesthetics in the Poetry of Angkarn Kallayanapong" (SUNY Press, 2020)
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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Jane Alison, "Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative" (Catapult, 2019)
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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Joan Turner, "On Writtenness: The Cultural Politics of Academic Writing" (Bloomsbury, 2018)
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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Laura Moretti, "Pleasure in Profit: Popular Prose in Seventeenth-Century Japan" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Mar 26, 2021 |
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Chelsea Stieber, "Haiti's Paper War: Post-Independence Writing, Civil War, and the Making of the Republic, 1804-1954" (NYU Press, 2020)
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Mar 26, 2021 |
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Simon Wickhamsmith, "Politics and Literature in Mongolia (1921-1948)" (Amsterdam UP, 2020)
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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Hoda El Shakry, "The Literary Qur'an: Narrative Ethics in the Maghreb" (Fordham UP, 2019)
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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Robert Samuels, "Teaching Writing, Rhetoric, and Reason at the Globalizing University" (Routledge, 2020)
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Mar 23, 2021 |
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Daniel Poch, "Licentious Fictions: Ninjō and the Nineteenth-Century Japanese Novel" (Columbia UP, 2019)
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Mar 23, 2021 |
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Lorenzo Servitje, "Medicine Is War: The Martial Metaphor in Victorian Literature and Culture" (SUNY Press, 2021)
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Mar 23, 2021 |
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Hawraa Al Hassan, "Women, Writing and the Iraqi Ba'thist State" (U Edinburgh Press, 2020)
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Mar 22, 2021 |
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Clara Iwasaki, "Rethinking the Modern Chinese Canon: Refractions Across the Transpacific" (Cambria Press, 2020)
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Mar 19, 2021 |
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James Hadley and Nell Regan, "A Gap in the Clouds: A New Translation of Ogura Hyakunin Isshu" (Dedalus Press, 2020)
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Mar 19, 2021 |
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Bryce Traister, "American Literature and the New Puritan Studies" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
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Mar 19, 2021 |
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Olga V. Solovieva and Sho Konishi, "Japan's Russia: Challenging the East-West Paradigm" (Cambria, 2021)
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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Gert-Jan van der Heiden, "The Voice of Misery: A Continental Philosophy of Testimony" (SUNY Press, 2020)
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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Eric Hayot, "Humanist Reason: A History. An Argument. A Plan" (Columbia UP, 2021)
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Mar 17, 2021 |
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Joe Essid and Brian McTague, "Writing Centers at the Center of Change" (Routledge, 2020)
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Mar 17, 2021 |
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Erin L. Brightwell, "Reflecting the Past: Place, Language, and Principle in Japan's Medieval Mirror Genre" (Harvard UP, 2020)
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Mar 16, 2021 |
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R. A. Judy, "Sentient Flesh: Thinking in Disorder, Poiesis in Black" (Duke UP, 2020)
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Mar 16, 2021 |
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Richard Maxwell, "Evening Plays" (Theatre Communications Group, 2020)
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Mar 16, 2021 |
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Wu Cheng'en, "Monkey King: Journey to the West," trans. Julia Lovell (Penguin, 2021)
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Mar 11, 2021 |
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Peter Langland-Hassan, "Explaining Imagination" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Mar 10, 2021 |
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Amanda Brickell Bellows, "American Slavery and Russian Serfdom in the Post-Emancipation Imagination" (UNC Press, 2020)
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Mar 10, 2021 |
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Derritt Mason, "Queer Anxieties of Young Adult Literature and Culture" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)
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Mar 10, 2021 |
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Laura Eastlake, "Ancient Rome and Victorian Masculinity" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Mar 09, 2021 |
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Richard Kalmin, "Migrating Tales: The Talmud's Narratives and Their Historical Context" (U California Press, 2014)
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Mar 05, 2021 |
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Miriam Udel, "Honey on the Page: A Treasury of Yiddish Children's Literature" (NYU Press, 2020)
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Mar 04, 2021 |
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Exploring Careers After Graduation: Writing for the Kid’s Lit Market
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Mar 04, 2021 |
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Anna Veprinska, "Empathy in Contemporary Poetry after Crisis" (Palgrave, 2021)
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Mar 04, 2021 |
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Marion Turner, "Chaucer: A European Life" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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Stephanie Russo, "The Afterlife of Anne Boleyn: Representations of Anne Boleyn in Fiction and on the Screen" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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Robert Darnton, "Pirating and Publishing: The Book Trade in the Age of Enlightenment" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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Feb 26, 2021 |
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Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb, "Terror Epidemics: Islamophobia and the Disease Poetics of Empire" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
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Feb 26, 2021 |
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Bibek Debroy, "The Mahabharata" (Penguin, 2015)
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Feb 25, 2021 |
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Writing in Disciplines: A Discussion with Shyam Sharma
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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Dean Blackburn, "Penguin Books and Political Change: Britain's Meritocratic Moment, 1937–1988" (Manchester UP, 2020)
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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Suyoung Son, "Writing for Print: Publishing and the Making of Textual Authority in Late Imperial China" (Harvard UP, 2018)
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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U. Baer and S. Dayal, "Fictions of America: The Book of Firsts" (Warbler Press, 2020)
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Feb 23, 2021 |
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I. Stavans and J. Lambert, "How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish" (Restless Books, 2020)
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Feb 23, 2021 |
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Lucy Alford, "Forms of Poetic Attention" (Columbia UP, 2020)
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Feb 22, 2021 |
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Anne Eakin Moss, "Only Among Women, "Philosophies of Community in the Russian and Soviet Imagination, 1860–1940" (Northwestern UP, 2019)
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Feb 22, 2021 |
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Paola Bonifazio, "The Photoromance: A Feminist Reading of Popular Culture" (MIT Press, 2020)
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Feb 19, 2021 |
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Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez, "Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature" (Northwestern UP, 2020)
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Feb 18, 2021 |
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Howard Sherman, "Another Day's Begun: Thornton Wilder’s Our Town in the 21st Century" (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021)
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Feb 15, 2021 |
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Cassandra Falke, "The Phenomenology of Love and Reading" (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016)
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Feb 15, 2021 |
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Charles Hirschkind, "The Feeling of History: Islam, Romanticism, and Andalusia" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
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Feb 12, 2021 |
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Jason Lutes, "Berlin" (Drawn and Quarterly, 2018)
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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Jessica Baldanzi and Hussein Rashid, "Ms. Marvel's America: No Normal" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)
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Feb 05, 2021 |
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Michelle M. Kundmueller, "Homer's Hero: Human Excellence in the Iliad and the Odyssey" (SUNY Press, 2019)
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Feb 04, 2021 |
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Tim Cresswell, "Maxwell Street: Writing and Thinking Place" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
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Feb 03, 2021 |
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Barbara Black, "Hotel London: How Victorian Commercial Hospitality Shaped a Nation and Its Stories" (Ohio State UP, 2019)
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Feb 02, 2021 |
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David Dickson, "Sermons on Jeremiah's Lamentations" (Reformation Heritage Books, 2020)
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Feb 02, 2021 |
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Marc Redfield, "Shibboleth: Judges, Derrida, Celan" (Fordham UP, 2020)
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Jan 28, 2021 |
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Michael E. Pregill, "The Golden Calf Between Bible and Qur'an: Scripture, Polemic, and Exegesis from Late Antiquity to Islam" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Jan 22, 2021 |
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Nicholas McDowell, "Poet of Revolution: The Making of John Milton" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Jan 22, 2021 |
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Mario Telò, "Archive Feelings: A Theory of Greek Tragedy" (Ohio State UP, 2020)
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Jan 22, 2021 |
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Michael Gorra, "The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War" (Liveright, 2020)
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Jan 21, 2021 |
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L. Ferlier and B. Miyamoto, "Forms, Formats and the Circulation of Knowledge: British Printscape’s Innovations, 1688-1832" (Brill, 2020)
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Jan 19, 2021 |
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Daniel T. Rodgers, "As a City on a Hill: The Story of America's Most Famous Lay Sermon" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Jan 19, 2021 |
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Mich Yonah Nyawalo, "Teaching in Times of Crisis: Applying Comparative Literature in the Classroom" (Routledge, 2021)
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Jan 15, 2021 |
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Dora Zhang, "Strange Likeness: Description and the Modernist Novel" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
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Jan 15, 2021 |
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Gerry Smyth, "Sailor Song: The Shanties and Ballads of the High Seas" (U Washington Press, 2020)
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Jan 12, 2021 |
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Mike Miley, "Truth and Consequences: Game Shows in Fiction and Film" (UP Mississippi, 2020)
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Jan 08, 2021 |
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Olena Palko, "Making Ukraine Soviet: Literature and Cultural Politics under Lenin and Stalin" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
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Jan 08, 2021 |
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Jemma Deer, "Radical Animism: Reading for the End of the World" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
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Jan 08, 2021 |
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Niloofar Haeri, "Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer and Poetry in Iran" (Stanford UP, 2020)
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Jan 08, 2021 |
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On Writing Well for Trade: A Conversation with author and scholar Donna Freitas
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Jan 07, 2021 |
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William C. Hedberg, "The Japanese Discovery of Chinese Fiction: The Water Margin and the Making of a National Canon" (Columbia UP, 2019)
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Jan 07, 2021 |
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Jennifer Burek Pierce, "Narratives, Nerdfighters, and New Media" (U Iowa Press, 2020)
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Jan 05, 2021 |
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Anthony Valerio, "Before the Sidewalk Ended: A Walk with Shel Silverstein" (Daisy H. Productions, 2020)
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Jan 04, 2021 |
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Myroslav Shkandrij, "Avant-Garde Art in Ukraine, 1910-1930: Contested Memory" (Academic Studies Press, 2019)
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Dec 30, 2020 |
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Mark Nowak, "Social Poetics" (Coffee House Press, 2020)
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Dec 30, 2020 |
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Andrea Moudarres, "The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic: Images of Hostility from Dante to Tasso" (U Virginia Press, 2019)
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Dec 30, 2020 |
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Robin Mitchell, "Vénus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France" (U Georgia Press, 2020)
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Dec 29, 2020 |
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J. Daniel Elam, "World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth: Anticolonial Aesthetics, Postcolonial Politics" (Fordham UP, 2020)
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Dec 28, 2020 |
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Jenn Shapland, "My Autobiography of Carson Mccullers: A Memoir" (Tin House Books, 2020)
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Dec 28, 2020 |
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Trevor C. Pederson, "Psychoanalysis and Hidden Narrative in Film: Reading the Symptom" (Routledge, 2018)
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Dec 28, 2020 |
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The Other Side of the Desk with a UP Editor: A Discussion with Kim Guinta
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Dec 24, 2020 |
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Miriam Kalman Friedman, "Rivers of Light: The Life of Claire Myers Owens" (Syracuse UP, 2019)
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Dec 23, 2020 |
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Johanna Drucker, "Visualization and Interpretation: Humanistic Approaches to Display" (MIT Press, 2020)
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Dec 23, 2020 |
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C. Burnett, "Studying the New Testament Through Inscriptions: An Introduction" (Hendrickson Publishers, 2020)
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Dec 21, 2020 |
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Stanley J. Rabinowitz, "And Then Came Dance: The Women Who Led Volynsky to Ballet's Magic Kingdom" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Dec 18, 2020 |
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Leah E. Comeau, "Material Devotion in a South Indian Poetic World" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
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Dec 18, 2020 |
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Stuart Elden, "Shakespearean Territories" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
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Dec 18, 2020 |
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Richard Ovenden, "Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge" (Harvard UP, 2020)
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Dec 18, 2020 |
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Jack Zipes on Life as a Folklorist, Folklore Studies and Publishing Fairy Tales
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Dec 14, 2020 |
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Edward Wilson-Lee, "The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World's Greatest Library" (Scribner, 2019)
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Dec 11, 2020 |
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Krista Brune, "Creative Transformations: Travels and Translations of Brazil in the Americas" (SUNY Press, 2020)
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Dec 09, 2020 |
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Leela Prasad, "The Audacious Raconteur: Sovereignty and Storytelling in Colonial India" (Cornell UP, 2020)
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Dec 09, 2020 |
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Lia Paradis, "Imperial Culture and the Sudan: Authorship, Identity and the British Empire" (I. B. Tauris, 2020)
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Dec 07, 2020 |
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Brian Black, "In Dialogue with the Mahābhārata" (Routledge, 2020)
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Dec 07, 2020 |
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Caroline H. Yang, "The Peculiar Afterlife of Slavery: The Chinese Worker and the Minstrel Form" (Stanford UP, 2020)
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Dec 04, 2020 |
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Catharine Abell, "Fiction: A Philosophical Analysis" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Dec 04, 2020 |
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A. Achilli and S. Yekelchyk, "Cossacks in Jamaica, Ukraine at the Antipodes: Essays in Honor of Marko Pavlyshyn" (Academic Studies Press, 2020)
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Dec 03, 2020 |
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Keith A. Livers, "Conspiracy Culture: Post-Soviet Paranoia and the Russian Imagination" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
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Dec 02, 2020 |
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Samantha Langsdale and Elizabeth Rae Coody, "Monstrous Women in Comics" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)
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Dec 02, 2020 |
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Carl Rollyson, "The Life of William Faulkner: This Alarming Paradox, 1935-1962" (U Virginia Press, 2020)
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Dec 01, 2020 |
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Ithamar Theodor, "The Bhagavad-Gītā: A Critical Introduction" (Routledge, 2020)
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Nov 27, 2020 |
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Chris Richardson, "Batman and the Joker: Contested Sexuality in Popular Culture" (Routledge, 2020)
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Nov 25, 2020 |
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J. S. Sutton and M. L. Mifsud, "A Revolution in Tropes: Alloiostrophic Rhetoric" (Lexington Books, 2015)
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Nov 24, 2020 |
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Dale Kedwards, "The Mappae Mundi of Medieval Iceland" (D. S. Brewer, 2020)
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Nov 23, 2020 |
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Shyam Sharma, "Writing Support for International Graduate Students" (Routledge, 2020)
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Nov 20, 2020 |
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Finishing Your Book When Life Is A Disaster
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Nov 19, 2020 |
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Christina Meyer, "Producing Mass Entertainment: The Serial Life of the Yellow Kid" (Ohio State UP, 2019)
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Nov 18, 2020 |
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Helen Sword, "Stylish Academic Writing" (Harvard UP, 2012)
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Nov 18, 2020 |
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Pip Gordon, "Gay Faulkner: Uncovering a Homosexual Presence in Yoknapatawpha and Beyond" (UP Mississippi, 2019)
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Nov 17, 2020 |
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Charles L. Leavitt IV, "Italian Neorealism: A Cultural History" (U Toronto Press, 2020)
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Nov 16, 2020 |
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Vadim Shneyder, "Russia's Capitalist Realism: Narrative Form and History in Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov" (Northwestern UP. 2020)
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Nov 16, 2020 |
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Jo Mackiewicz, "Writing Center Talk over Time: A Mixed-Method Study" (Routledge, 2018)
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Nov 13, 2020 |
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Frederick Luis Aldama, "Graphic Indigeneity: Comics in the Americas and Australasia" (UP of Mississippi, 2020)
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Nov 13, 2020 |
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Lucas A. Dietrich, "Writing Across the Color Line: U.S. Print Culture and the Rise of Ethnic Literature, 1877-1920" (U Massachusetts Press, 2020)
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Nov 12, 2020 |
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Michael M. Knight, "Muhammad's Body: Baraka Networks and the Prophetic Assemblage" (UNC Press, 2020)
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Nov 12, 2020 |
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V. Nesfield and P. Smith, "The Struggle for Understanding: Elie Wiesel's Literary Works" (SUNY Press, 2019)
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Nov 11, 2020 |
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Matthew Hart, "Extraterritorial: A Political Geography of Contemporary Fiction" (Columbia UP, 2020)
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Nov 10, 2020 |
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Jeremy M. Glick, "The Black Radical Tragic: Performance, Aesthetics, and the Unfinished Haitian Revolution" (NYU Press, 2016)
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Nov 10, 2020 |
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Christine Hong, "A Violent Peace: Race, U.S. Militarism, and Cultures of Democratization in Cold War Asia and the Pacific" (Stanford UP, 2020)
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Nov 09, 2020 |
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Julia S. Charles, "That Middle World: Race, Performance, and the Politics of Passing" (UNC Press, 2020)
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Nov 09, 2020 |
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Megan Sandberg-Zakian, "There Must Be Happy Endings: On a Theater of Optimism and Honesty" (3rd Thing Press, 2020)
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Nov 06, 2020 |
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Koritha Mitchell, "From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
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Nov 05, 2020 |
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Ian Foster, "Conscripts of Migration: Neoliberal Globalization, Nationalism, and the Literature of New African Diasporas" (UP of Mississippi, 2019)
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Nov 05, 2020 |
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Zakkiyah Imam Jackson, "Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World" (NYU Press, 2020)
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Nov 03, 2020 |
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Erin A. McCarthy, "Doubtful Readers: Print, Poetry and the Reading Public in Early Modern England" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Nov 02, 2020 |
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Scholarly Communication: Kit Nicholls on the Writing Center and the University
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Oct 30, 2020 |
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Danielle Haque, “Interrogating Secularism: Race and Religion in Arab Transnational Art and Literature” (Syracuse UP, 2019)
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Oct 30, 2020 |
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Rosanne Carlo, "Transforming Ethos: Place and the Material in Rhetoric and Writing" (Utah State UP, 2020)
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Oct 29, 2020 |
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Coulter George, "How Dead Languages Work" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Oct 28, 2020 |
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Lissette Lopez Szwydky, "Transmedia Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century" (Ohio State UP, 2020)
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Oct 26, 2020 |
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Judith G. Coffin, "Sex, Love, and Letters: Writing Simone de Beauvoir" (Cornell UP, 2020)
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Oct 26, 2020 |
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William Germano, "Getting it Published: A Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious about Serious Books" (U Chicago Press, 2016)
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Oct 23, 2020 |
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Margrit Pernau, "Emotions and Colonial Modernity in Colonial India: From Balance to Fervor" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Oct 23, 2020 |
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Robert Bartlett, "Against Demagogues: What Aristophanes Can Teach Us about the Perils of Populism and the Fate of Democracy" (U California Press, 2020)
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Oct 21, 2020 |
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Nadia Nurhussein, "Black Land: Imperial Ethiopianism and African America" (Princeton UP, 2019)
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Oct 21, 2020 |
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Sianne Ngai, "Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form" (Harvard UP, 2020)
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Oct 20, 2020 |
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Christopher Lupke (trans.), "A History of Taiwan Literature" (Cambria Press, 2020)
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Oct 20, 2020 |
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K. Grenier and A. Mushal, "Cultures of Memory in the Nineteenth Century: Consuming Commemoration" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
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Oct 19, 2020 |
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John Locke, "Queen of the Gangsters: Stories by Margie Harris" (Off-Trail Publications, 2011)
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Oct 13, 2020 |
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R. Rosenberg and R. Rubinstein, "Teaching Jewish American Literature" (MLA, 2020)
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Oct 09, 2020 |
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Joshua Kotin, "Utopias of One" (Princeton UP, 2017)
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Oct 09, 2020 |
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Kristin J. Jacobson, "The American Adrenaline Narrative" (U Georgia Press, 2020)
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Oct 08, 2020 |
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Jessica Martell, "Farm to Form: Modernist Literature and Ecologies of Food in the British Empire" (U Nevada Press, 2020)
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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Martin Paul Eve, "Close Reading with Computers" (Stanford UP, 2019)
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Sep 29, 2020 |
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Gregory A. Daddis, "Pulp Vietnam: War and Gender in Cold War Men’s Adventure Magazines" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Sep 25, 2020 |
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Donald Ostrowski, "Who Wrote That?: Authorship Controversies from Moses to Sholokhov" (NIUP, 2020)
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Sep 25, 2020 |
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Karen E. H. Skinazi, "Women of Valor: Orthodox Jewish Troll Fighters, Crime Writers, and Rock Stars in Contemporary Literature and Culture" (Rutgers UP, 2018)
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Sep 21, 2020 |
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Filippo Menozzi, "World Literature, Non-Synchronism, and the Politics of Time" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
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Sep 16, 2020 |
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Ken M. Penner, "The Lexham English Septuagint" (Lexham Press, 2020)
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Sep 11, 2020 |
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Laura Westengard, "Gothic Queer Culture: Marginalized Communities and the Ghosts of Insidious Trauma" (U Nebraska Press, 2019)
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Sep 10, 2020 |
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John Barton, "A History of the Bible: The Story of the World's Most Influential Book" (Viking, 2019)
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Aug 31, 2020 |
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Richard van Leeuwen, "The Thousand and One Nights and Twentieth-Century Fiction" (Brill, 2018)
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Aug 31, 2020 |
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Lauren F. Klein, "An Archive of Taste: Race and Eating in the Early United States" (U Minnesota Press, 2020)
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Aug 24, 2020 |
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Arti Dhand, "Woman as Fire, Woman as Sage: Sexual Ideology in the Mahabharata" (SUNY Press, 2008)
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Aug 24, 2020 |
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Guy Raffa, "Dante’s Bones: How a Poet Invented Italy" (Harvard UP, 2020)
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Aug 21, 2020 |
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Valerie Wayne, "Women’s Labour and the History of the Book in Early Modern England" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
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Aug 20, 2020 |
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Allison L. Rowland, "Zoetropes and the Politics of Humanhood" (Ohio State UP, 2020)
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Aug 19, 2020 |
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Xiaoqiao Ling, "Feeling the Past in Seventeenth-Century China" (Harvard Asia Center, 2019)
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Aug 18, 2020 |
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K. Keeling and S. Pollard, "Table Lands: Food in Children's Literature" (U Mississippi Press, 2020)
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Aug 14, 2020 |
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Naomi Appleton, "Many Buddhas, One Buddha: A Study and Translation of Avadānaśataka 1-40" (Equinox, 2020)
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Aug 13, 2020 |
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Barry Witham, "From Red-Baiting to Blacklisting: The Labor Plays of Manny Fried" (SIU Press 2020)
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Aug 11, 2020 |
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Kim Adrian, "Dear Knausgaard: Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle" (Fiction Advocate, 2020)
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Aug 05, 2020 |
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Gaurav Desai, "Commerce with the Universe: Africa, India, and the Afrasian Imagination" (Columbia UP, 2013)
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Aug 03, 2020 |
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Vanita Reddy, "Fashioning Diaspora: Beauty, Femininity and South Asian American Culture" (Duke UP, 2016)
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Jul 30, 2020 |
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Brett Dakin, "American Daredevil: Comics, Communism, and The Battles of Lev Gleason" (Chapterhouse Publishing, 2020)
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Jul 30, 2020 |
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Bradley Lewis, "Narrative Psychiatry: How Stories Can Shape Clinical Practice" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2011)
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Jul 20, 2020 |
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Oludamini Ogunnaike, "Poetry in Praise of Prophetic Perfection: A Study of West African Arabic Madih Poetry and its Precedents" (Islamic Texts Society, 2020)
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Jul 17, 2020 |
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Greil Marcus, “Under the Red White and Blue" (Yale UP, 2020)
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Jul 16, 2020 |
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Suri Hustvedt, "Memories of the Future" (Simon and Schuster, 2019)
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Jul 16, 2020 |
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Aliyah Khan, "Far From Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
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Jul 13, 2020 |
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Pernilla Myrne, "Female Sexuality in the Early Medieval Islamic World: Gender and Sex in Arabic Literature" (IB Taurus, 2020)
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Jul 10, 2020 |
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C. Jester and C. Svich, "Fifty Playwrights on their Craft" (Bloomsbury, 2018)
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Jul 09, 2020 |
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Matthew Pettway, "Cuban Literature in the Age of Black Insurrection: Manzano, Plácido, and Afro-Latino Religion" (UP of Mississippi, 2019)
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Jul 07, 2020 |
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Jeremy Black, "Mapping Shakespeare: An Exploration of Shakespeare’s World through Maps" (Bloomsbury, 2018)
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Jul 03, 2020 |
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Ahmed El-Shamsy, "Rediscovering the Islamic Classics" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Jul 03, 2020 |
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Adam Brown, "Judging 'Privileged' Jews: Holocaust Ethics, Representation, and the 'Grey Zone'" (Berghahn, 2015)
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Jul 02, 2020 |
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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, "The Age of Phillis" (Wesleyan UP, 2020)
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Jul 02, 2020 |
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Yitzhak Lewis, "Permanent Beginning: R. Nachman of Braslav and Jewish Literary Modernity" (SUNY Press, 2020)
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Jun 29, 2020 |
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Adheesh Sathaye, “Crossing the Lines of Caste" (Oxford UP, 2015)
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Jun 26, 2020 |
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David Slucki et al., "Laughter After: Humor and the Holocaust" (Wayne State UP, 2020)
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Jun 22, 2020 |
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Jeremy Black, "The World of James Bond: The Lives and Times of 007" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017)
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Jun 18, 2020 |
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Frederik H. Green, "Bird Talk and Other Stories by Xu Xu: Modern Tales of a Chinese Romantic" (Stone Bridge Press, 2020)
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Jun 16, 2020 |
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Zena Hitz, "Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life" (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Jun 15, 2020 |
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Lara Harb, "Arabic Poetics: Aesthetic Experience in Classical Arabic Literature" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
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Jun 12, 2020 |
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Edgar Garcia, "Signs of the America: A Poetics of Pictography, Hieroglyphs and Khipu" (U Chicago Press, 2019)
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Jun 12, 2020 |
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Hamsa Stainton, "Poetry as Prayer in the Sanskrit Hymns of Kashmir" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Jun 11, 2020 |
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Deepra Dandekar, “The Subhedar's Son” (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Jun 10, 2020 |
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Joshua Bennett, "Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man" (Harvard UP, 2020)
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Jun 08, 2020 |
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Scott Henderson, "Comics and Pop Culture: Adaptation from Panel to Frame" (U Texas Press, 2019)
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Jun 05, 2020 |
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Kathryn Hume, "The Metamorphoses of Myth in Fiction since 1960" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020)
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Jun 05, 2020 |
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Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)
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Jun 02, 2020 |
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Roxann Prazniak, "Sudden Appearances: The Mongol Turn in Commerce, Belief, and Art" (U Hawaii Press 2019)
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Jun 02, 2020 |
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Ian Burrows, "Shakespeare for Snowflakes: On Slapstick and Sympathy" (Zero Books, 2020)
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Jun 02, 2020 |
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Steve Zeitlin, "The Poetry of Everyday Life: Storytelling and the Art of Awareness" (Cornell UP, 2016)
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May 25, 2020 |
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Mitchell Nathanson, "Bouton: The Life of a Baseball Original" (U Nebraska Press, 2020)
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May 25, 2020 |
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Diana Senechal, "Mind over Memes: Passive Listening, Toxic Talk, and Other Modern Language Follies" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2018)
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May 25, 2020 |
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Iva Glisic, "The Futurist Files: Avant-Garde, Politics, and Ideology in Russia, 1905–1930" (NIU Press, 2018)
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May 21, 2020 |
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Caridad Svich, "The Hour of All Things and Other Plays" (Intellect Books, 2018)
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May 20, 2020 |
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Anne Lounsbery, "Life is Elsewhere: Symbolic Geography in the Russian Provinces" (Cornell UP, 2019)
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May 18, 2020 |
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Kevin McGrath, "Vyāsa Redux: Narrative in Epic Mahābhārata" (Anthem Press, 2019)
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May 11, 2020 |
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John R. Gallagher, "Update Culture and the Afterlife of Writing" (Utah State UP, 2020)
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May 11, 2020 |
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Matthew Miller, "The German Epic in the Cold War: Peter Weiss, Uwe Johnson, and Alexander Kluge" (Northwestern UP, 2018)
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May 07, 2020 |
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Martin Shaw, "Courting the Wild Twin" (Chelsea Green, 2020)
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May 05, 2020 |
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Carl Rollyson, "The Life of William Faulkner: The Past Is Never Dead, 1897-1934" (UVA Press, 2020)
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May 04, 2020 |
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Brian Collins, "The Other Rāma: Matricide and Genocide in the Mythology of Paraśurāma" (SUNY Press, 2020)
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May 04, 2020 |
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Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
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Apr 28, 2020 |
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Martha Ackermann, "These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson" (Norton, 2020)
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Apr 28, 2020 |
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Great Books: Melissa Schwartzberg on Rousseau's "The Social Contract"
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Apr 28, 2020 |
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Archana Venkatesan, "Endless Song: Tiruvaymoli" (Penguin, 2010)
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Apr 27, 2020 |
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Archana Venkatesan, "Endless Song: Tiruvaymoli" (Penguin, 2010)
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Apr 27, 2020 |
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Great Books: Maureen McLane on Wordsworth's Poetry
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Apr 21, 2020 |
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Robert Elmer, "Piercing Heaven: Prayers of the Puritans" (Lexham Press, 2020)
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Apr 21, 2020 |
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Christiane Gruber, “The Praiseworthy One: The Prophet Muhammad in Islamic Texts and Images" (Indiana UP, 2019)
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Apr 17, 2020 |
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Joseph Rex Young, "George R.R. Martin and the Fantasy Form" (Routledge, 2019)
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Apr 15, 2020 |
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Great Books: Nicholas Johnson on Samuel Beckett
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Apr 14, 2020 |
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Conor Picken and Matthew Dischinger, "Southern Comforts: Drinking and the US South" (LSU Press, 2020)
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Apr 10, 2020 |
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Margaret Hillenbrand, "Negative Exposures: Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China" (Duke UP, 2020)
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Apr 02, 2020 |
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C. Baker and P. Phongpaichit, "From the Fifty Jātaka: Selections from the Thai Paññāsa Jātaka" (Silkworm Books, 2019)
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Apr 02, 2020 |
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Great Books: Amir Eshel on Paul Celan's Poetry
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Mar 31, 2020 |
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Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)
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Mar 30, 2020 |
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Great Books: Julie Carlson on Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"
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Mar 24, 2020 |
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Elizabeth A. Wheeler, "HandiLand: The Crippest Place on Earth" (U Michigan Press, 2019)
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Mar 23, 2020 |
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Elizabeth A. Wheeler, "HandiLand: The Crippest Place on Earth" (U Michigan Press, 2019)
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Mar 23, 2020 |
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Nicholas R. Jones, "Staging Habla de Negros: Radical Performance of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain" (Penn State UP, 2019)
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Mar 20, 2020 |
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Jessie Labov, "Transatlantic Central Europe: Contesting Geography and Redefining Culture beyond the Nation" (Central European UP, 2019)
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Mar 20, 2020 |
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Andrew Ollett, "Language of the Snakes" (U California Press, 2017)
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Mar 19, 2020 |
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Cosmopolitan Printing in a Hybrid Language: A Discussion of the Sino-Malay Literary Tradition (1870-1949) with Dr Tom Hoogervorst
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Mar 18, 2020 |
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Great Books: John Callahan on Ellison's "Invisible Man"
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Mar 17, 2020 |
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Carl W. Ernst, “Hallaj: Poems of a Sufi Martyr” (Northwestern UP, 2018)
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Mar 13, 2020 |
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Melissa Walker and Giselle Roberts, "Women’s Diaries and Letters of the South" (U South Carolina Press)
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Mar 13, 2020 |
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Andrew Milner, "Again, Dangerous Visions: Essays in Cultural Materialism" (Brill/Haymarket, 2018)
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Mar 11, 2020 |
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Great Books: Hillary Chute on Art Spiegelman's "Maus"
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Mar 10, 2020 |
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Adrian Wisnicki, "Fieldwork of Empire, 1840-1900: Intercultural Dynamics in the Production of British Expeditionary Literature" (Routledge, 2019)
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Mar 06, 2020 |
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Great Books: Peter Brooks on Freud's "Civilization and its Discontents"
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Mar 03, 2020 |
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D. Gilhooley and F. Toich, "Psychoanalysis, Intersubjective Writing, and a Postmaterialist Model of Mind" (Routledge, 2019)
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Feb 27, 2020 |
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Lijun Zhang and Ziying You, "Chinese Folklore Studies Today: Discourse and Practice" (Indiana UP, 2020)
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Feb 27, 2020 |
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Great Books: Deborah Plant on Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God"
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Feb 25, 2020 |
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Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)
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Feb 25, 2020 |
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Great Books: Emily Bernard on Larsen's "Passing"
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Feb 18, 2020 |
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Abigail Shinn, "Conversion Narratives in Early Modern England: Tales of Turning" (Palgrave, 2018)
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Feb 17, 2020 |
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S. Bergès, E. Hunt Botting, A. Coffee, "The Wollstonecraftian Mind" (Routledge, 2019)
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Feb 14, 2020 |
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Carol Zaleski, "The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings" (FSG, 2016)
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Feb 13, 2020 |
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Great Books: Benjamin Reiss on Thoreau's "Walden"
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Feb 11, 2020 |
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Abdullah Qodiriy, "Bygone Days" (Bowker, 2019)
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Feb 06, 2020 |
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Misguided Bias: How Revisionism May Have Distorted the History of Arabic Literature
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Feb 05, 2020 |
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D. J. Taylor, "The Lost Girls: Love and Literature in Wartime London" (Pegasus Books, 2020)
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Feb 04, 2020 |
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Great Books: Glenn Wallis on Gibran's "The Prophet"
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Feb 04, 2020 |
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K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
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Jan 30, 2020 |
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Catherine A. Stewart, "Long Past Slavery: Representing Race in the Federal Writers’ Project" (UNC Press, 2016)
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Jan 30, 2020 |
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Great Books: Catherine Stimpson on de Beauvior's "The Second Sex"
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Jan 28, 2020 |
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Helen Taylor, "Why Women Read Fiction: The Stories of Our Lives" (Oxford UP, 2020)
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Jan 27, 2020 |
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Keri Holt, "Reading These United States: Federal Literacy in the Early Republic, 1776-1830" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
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Jan 27, 2020 |
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Emily Colbert Cairns, "Esther in Early Modern Iberia and the Sephardic Diaspora: Queen of the Conversas" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
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Jan 23, 2020 |
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Great Books: Rich Blint on James Baldwin's "Another Country"
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Jan 21, 2020 |
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, "The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games" (NYU Press, 2019)
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Jan 20, 2020 |
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Eileen Botting, "The Wollstonecraftian Mind" (Routledge, 2019)
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Jan 15, 2020 |
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Tobias Boes, "Thomas Mann's War: Literature, Politics, and the World Republic of Letters" (Cornell UP, 2019)
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Jan 14, 2020 |
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Gonzalo Lamana, "How 'Indians' Think: Colonial Indigenous Intellectuals and the Question of Critical Race Theory" (U Arizona Press, 2019)
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Jan 14, 2020 |
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Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, "Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America" (W. W. Norton, 2019)
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Jan 14, 2020 |
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Ingrid Horrocks, "Women Wanderers and the Writing of Mobility, 1784–1814" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
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Jan 10, 2020 |
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Great Books: Jared Stark on Virginia Woolf's "To the Lighthouse"
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Jan 07, 2020 |
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Barbara Spackman, "Accidental Orientalists: Modern Italian Travelers in Ottoman Lands" (Liverpool UP, 2017)
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Jan 06, 2020 |
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Abdulhamid Sulaymon o’g’li Cho’lpon, "Night and Day: A Novel" (Academic Studies Press, 2019)
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Jan 03, 2020 |
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David N. Gottlieb, "Second Slayings: The Binding of Isaac and the Formation of Jewish Cultural Memory" (Gorgias Press, 2019)
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Jan 02, 2020 |
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Great Books: Ava Chin on Kingston's "The Woman Warrior"
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Dec 31, 2019 |
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Simon Brodbeck, "Krishna's Lineage: The Harivamsha of Vyasa's Mahabharata" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Dec 26, 2019 |
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Emilia Nielsen, "Disrupting Breast Cancer Narratives: Stories of Rage and Repair" (U Toronto Press, 2019)
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Dec 11, 2019 |
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Claire Chambers, “Making Sense of Contemporary British Muslim Novels” (Palgrave, 2019)
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Dec 06, 2019 |
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Eleanor Parker, "Dragon Lords: The History and Legends of Viking England" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
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Dec 05, 2019 |
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John L. Brooke, "'There Is a North': Fugitive Slaves, Political Crisis, and Cultural Transformation in the Coming of the Civil War" (U Mass Press, 2019)
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Dec 03, 2019 |
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Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
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Dec 03, 2019 |
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Claudia Moscovici, "Holocaust Memories: A Survey of Holocaust Memoirs, Histories, Novels, and Films" (Hamilton, 2019)
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Dec 02, 2019 |
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Kerry Driscoll, "Mark Twain among the Indians and Other Indigenous Peoples" (U California Press, 2018)
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Dec 02, 2019 |
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Caroline Weber, “Proust’s Duchess” (Knopf, 2019)
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Nov 27, 2019 |
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Richard F. Thomas, "Why Bob Dylan Matters" (Dey Street, 2017)
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Nov 26, 2019 |
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Ann K. McClellan, "Sherlock’s World: Fan Fiction and the Reimagining of BBC’s Sherlock" (U Iowa Press, 2018)
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Nov 26, 2019 |
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Lian Xi, "Blood Letters: The Untold Story of Lin Zhao, a Martyr in Mao's China" (Basic Books, 2018)
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Nov 21, 2019 |
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Kelsey Rubin-Detlev, "The Epistolary Art of Catherine the Great" (Liverpool UP, 2019)
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Nov 20, 2019 |
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Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne, "Holding Onto Nothing" (Blair, 2019)
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Nov 19, 2019 |
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Mark Alizart, "Dogs" (Polity, 2019)
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Nov 18, 2019 |
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Liz Gloyn, "Tracking Classical Monsters in Popular Culture" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
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Nov 12, 2019 |
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Paula McQuade, "Catechisms and Women’s Writing in Seventeenth-Century England" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
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Nov 08, 2019 |
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Jim Clarke, "Science Fiction and Catholicism: The Rise and Fall of the Robot Papacy" (Gylphi, 2019)
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Nov 08, 2019 |
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John Shelton Reed, "Dixie Bohemia: A French Quarter Circle in the 1920s" (LSU Press, 2012)
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Nov 07, 2019 |
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Annabel L. Kim, "Unbecoming Language: Anti-Identitarian French Feminist Fictions" (Ohio State UP, 2018)
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Nov 06, 2019 |
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Emily Wilson, trans., "The Odyssey" (Norton, 2017)
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Nov 05, 2019 |
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Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
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Nov 03, 2019 |
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Tamara Hundorova, "The Post-Chornobyl Library: Ukrainian Postmodernism of the 1990s" (ASP, 2019)
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Oct 29, 2019 |
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J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
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Oct 24, 2019 |
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Andrew Hobbs, "A Fleet Street In Every Town: The Provincial Press in England, 1855-1900" (Open Book, 2018)
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Oct 24, 2019 |
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Vishwa Adluri and Joydeep Bagchee, "Philology and Criticism: A Guide to Mahābhārata Textual Criticism" (Anthem Press, 2018)
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Oct 21, 2019 |
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Noah Cohan, "We Average Unbeautiful Watchers: Fan Narratives and the Reading of American Sport" (U Nebraska, 2019)
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Oct 18, 2019 |
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Lara Saguisag, "Incorrigibles and Innocents: Constructing Childhood and Citizenship in Progressive Era Comics" (Rutgers UP, 2018)
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Oct 16, 2019 |
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Lara Saguisag, "Incorrigibles and Innocents: Constructing Childhood and Citizenship in Progressive Era Comics" (Rutgers UP, 2018)
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Oct 16, 2019 |
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Yael Almog, "Secularism and Hermeneutics" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
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Oct 16, 2019 |
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Elizabeth DeLoughrey, "Allegories of the Anthropocene" (Duke UP, 2019)
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Oct 15, 2019 |
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Rafia Zafar, "Recipes for Respect: African American Meals and Meaning" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
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Oct 11, 2019 |
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, "The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games" (NYU Press, 2019)
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Oct 03, 2019 |
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Leah Price, "What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of Reading" (Basic Books, 2019)
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Oct 03, 2019 |
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Gerry Milligan, "Moral Combat: Women, Gender and War in Italian Renaissance Literature" (U Toronto Press, 2018)
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Oct 01, 2019 |
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Jeremy Black, "England in the Age of Shakespeare" (Indiana UP, 2019)
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Sep 30, 2019 |
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Tim Frandy, "Inari Sami Folklore: Stories from Aanaar" (U Wisconsin Press, 2019)
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Sep 25, 2019 |
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Kfir Cohen Lustig, "Makers of Worlds, Readers of Signs: Israeli and Palestinian Literature of the Global Contemporary" (Verso, 2019)
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Sep 24, 2019 |
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Jeffrey Saks, "Agnon Library of The Toby Press"
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Sep 06, 2019 |
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Jennifer C. Lena, "Entitled: Discriminating Tastes and the Expansion of the Arts" ( Princeton UP, 2019)
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Aug 29, 2019 |
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Andrew Newman, "Allegories of Encounter: Colonial Literacy and Indian Captivities" (UNC Press, 2019)
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Aug 29, 2019 |
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Graham Thompson, "Herman Melville: Among the Magazines" (U Massachusetts Press 2018)
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Aug 26, 2019 |
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John T. Lysaker, "Philosophy, Writing, and the Character of Thought" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
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Aug 20, 2019 |
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Lindsey Green-Simms, "Postcolonial Automobility: Car Culture in West Africa" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
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Aug 15, 2019 |
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Polina Kroik, "Cultural Production and the Politics of Women’s Work in American Film and Literature" (Routledge, 2019)
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Aug 12, 2019 |
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Ithamar Theodor, "Exploring the Bhagavad Gītā: Philosophy, Structure and Meaning" (Routledge, 2016)
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Aug 12, 2019 |
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Lenora Warren, "Fire on the Water: Sailors, Slaves, and Insurrection in Early American Literature, 1789-1886" (Rutgers UP, 2019)
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Aug 08, 2019 |
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Grégory Pierrot, "The Black Avenger in Atlantic Culture" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
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Aug 07, 2019 |
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Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz, "Reciting the Goddess: Narratives of Place and the Making of Hinduism in Nepal" (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Aug 06, 2019 |
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Aimee Bahng, "Migrant Futures: Decolonizing Speculation in Financial Times" (Duke UP, 2018)
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Aug 02, 2019 |
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Elizabeth R. Baer, "The Genocidal Gaze: From German Southwest Africa to the Third Reich" (Wayne State UP, 2017)
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Jul 26, 2019 |
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Tita Chico, "The Experimental Imagination: Literary Knowledge and Science in the British Enlightenment" (Stanford UP, 2018)
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Jul 22, 2019 |
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Melissa McCormick, "The Tale of Genji: A Visual Companion" (Princeton UP, 2018)
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Jul 17, 2019 |
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Stijn Vanheule, Derek Hook and Calum Neill, "Reading Lacan’s Écrits" (Routledge, 2018)
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Jul 15, 2019 |
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Catherine Keyser, "Artificial Color: Modern Food and Racial Fictions" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Jul 15, 2019 |
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Alexandra Popoff, "Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century" (Yale UP, 2019)
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Jul 12, 2019 |
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Seán Moore, "Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Jul 11, 2019 |
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Jinah Kim, "Postcolonial Grief: The Afterlives of the Pacific Wars in the Americas" (Duke UP, 2019)
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Jul 11, 2019 |
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Dean Anthony Brink, “Japanese Poetry and its Publics: From Colonial Taiwan to Fukushima” (Routledge, 2018)
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Jul 09, 2019 |
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Lorenzo Andolfatto, "Hundred Days’ Literature: Chinese Utopian Fiction at the End of Empire, 1902–1910" (Brill, 2019)
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Jul 08, 2019 |
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Bhakti Shringarpure, "Cold War Assemblages: Decolonization to Digital" (Routledge, 2019)
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Jul 03, 2019 |
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Tiffany Florvil and Vanessa Plumly, "Rethinking Black German Studies: Approaches, Interventions, and Histories" (Peter Lang, 2018)
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Jul 03, 2019 |
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M. D. Foster and J. A. Tolbert, "The Folkloresque: Reframing Folklore in a Popular Culture World" (Utah State UP, 2015)
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Jul 02, 2019 |
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Christopher Rea, "China's Chaplin: Comic Stories and Farces by Xu Zhuodai" (Cornell UP, 2019)
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Jul 01, 2019 |
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Amos Mac and Rocco Kayiatos, "Original Plumbing: The Best of Ten Years of Trans Male Culture" (Amethyst Editions, 2019)
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Jun 25, 2019 |
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Stephen R. Duncan, "The Rebel Café: Sex, Race, and Politics in Cold War America’s Nightclub Underground" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2018)
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Jun 24, 2019 |
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Anne A. Cheng, "Ornamentalism" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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Jun 21, 2019 |
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Eleonor Gilburd, "To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture" (Harvard UP, 2018)
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Jun 19, 2019 |
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Kara Ritzheimer, "'Trash,' Censorship, and National Identity in Early Twentieth-Century Germany" (Cambridge UP, 2016)
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Jun 18, 2019 |
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Sharon Kirsch, "Gertrude Stein and the Reinvention of Rhetoric" (U Alabama Press, 2014)
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Jun 17, 2019 |
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Tsering Döndrup, "The Handsome Monk and Other Stories" (Columbia UP, 2019)
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Jun 12, 2019 |
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Brian Cremins, "Captain Marvel and the Art of Nostalgia" (UP of Mississippi, 2017)
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Jun 11, 2019 |
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Annie McClanahan, "Dead Pledges: Debt, Crisis, and Twenty-First Century Culture" (Stanford UP, 2016)
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Jun 07, 2019 |
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John West, "Dryden and Enthusiasm: Literature, Religion and Politics in Restoration England" (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Jun 06, 2019 |
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Robbie Richardson, "The Savage and Modern Self: North American Indians in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture" (U Toronto Press, 2018)
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Jun 04, 2019 |
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Richard Averbeck, "Paradigm Change in Pentateuchal Research" (Harrassowitz Verlag, 2019)
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Jun 04, 2019 |
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Niall Geraghty, "The Polyphonic Machine: Capitalism, Political Violence, and Resistance in Contemporary Argentine Literature" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2019)
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May 30, 2019 |
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Dirk Jongkind, "An Introduction to the Greek New Testament, Produced at Tyndale House, Cambridge" (Crossway, 2019)
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May 28, 2019 |
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Jinhua Dai (ed. Lisa Rofel), "After the Post-Cold War: The Future of Chinese History" (Duke UP, 2018)
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May 23, 2019 |
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Anne A. Cheng, "Ornamentalism" (Oxford UP, 2019)
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May 22, 2019 |
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Derrick Spires, "The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
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May 15, 2019 |
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Melanie Ramdarshan Bold, "Inclusive Young Adult Fiction: Authors of Colour in the United Kingdom" (Palgrave, 2019)
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May 14, 2019 |
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Dan Golding, "Star Wars after Lucas: A Critical Guide to the Future of the Galaxy" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
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May 13, 2019 |
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Robin Truth Goodman, "The Bloomsbury Handbook of 21st-Century Feminist Theory" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
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May 10, 2019 |
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John Givens, "The Image of Christ in Russian Literature: Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Bulgakov, Pasternak" (Northern Illinois UP, 2018)
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May 08, 2019 |
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Susan Lepselter, "The Resonance of Unseen Things: Poetics, Power, and UFOs in the American Uncanny" (U Michigan Press, 2016)
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May 06, 2019 |
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Ryan Hackenbracht, "National Reckonings: The Last Judgement and Literature in Milton’s England" (Cornell UP, 2019)
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May 06, 2019 |
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William Poole, "Milton and the Making of Paradise Lost" (Harvard UP, 2017)
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May 02, 2019 |
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Christina Yi, "Colonizing Language: Cultural Production and Language Politics in Modern Japan and Korea" (Columbia UP, 2018)
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May 02, 2019 |
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Adriana X. Jacobs, "Strange Cocktail: Translation and the Making of Modern Hebrew Poetry" (U Michigan Press, 2018)
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May 02, 2019 |
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A. M. Ruppell, "The Cambridge Introduction to Sanskrit" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
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May 01, 2019 |
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Raj Balkaran, "The Goddess and The King in Indian Myth" (Routledge, 2018)
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Apr 26, 2019 |
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Pu Wang, "The Translatability of Revolution: Guo Moruo and Twentieth-Century Chinese Culture" (Harvard Asia Center, 2018)
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Apr 23, 2019 |
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Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, "In Dialogue with Classical Indian Traditions: Encounter, Transformation and Interpretation" (Routledge, 2019)
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Apr 23, 2019 |
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Margaret Leslie Davis, "The Lost Gutenberg: The Astounding Story of One Book's Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey" (TarcherPerigee, 2019)
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Apr 15, 2019 |
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Shonaleeka Kaul, "The Making of Early Kashmir: Landscape and Identity in the Rajatarangini" (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Apr 11, 2019 |
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Thomas A. Wayment, "The New Testament: A Translation for Latter-day Saints" (BYU, 2019)
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Apr 08, 2019 |
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Joel Elliot Slotkin, "Sinister Aesthetics: The Appeal of Evil in Early Modern Literature" (Palgrave, 2017)
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Mar 29, 2019 |
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Ralph James Savarese, "Classic Novels, Autistic Readers, and the Schooling of a No-Good English Professor" (Duke UP, 2018)
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Mar 29, 2019 |
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Joseph Vogel, "James Baldwin and the 1980s: Witnessing the Reagan Era" (U Illinois Press, 2018)
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Mar 28, 2019 |
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Kurt Raaflaub, "The Landmark Julius Caesar: The Complete Works" (Pantheon, 2017)
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Mar 26, 2019 |
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Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing
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Mar 19, 2019 |
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T. Troianowska and A. Polakowska, "Being Poland: A New History of Polish Literature and Culture since 1918" (U Toronto Press, 2018)
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Mar 14, 2019 |
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Andrew Sobanet, "Generation Stalin: French Writers, the Fatherland, and the Cult of Personality" (Indiana UP, 2018)
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Mar 14, 2019 |
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Anindita Banerjee, "Science Fiction Circuits of the South and East" (Peter Lang, 2018)
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Mar 07, 2019 |
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Susan Carlile, "Charlotte Lennox: An Independent Mind" (U Toronto Press, 2018)
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Mar 06, 2019 |
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Richard Salomon, "The Buddhist Literature of Ancient Gandhāra: An Introduction with Selected Translation" (Wisdom Publications, 2018)
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Mar 01, 2019 |
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Bradford Vivian, "Commonplace Witnessing: Rhetorical Invention, Historical Remembrance, and Public Culture" (Oxford UP, 2017)
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Feb 27, 2019 |
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Adrienne Brown, "The Black Skyscraper: Architecture and the Perception of Race" (John Hopkins UP, 2017)
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Feb 25, 2019 |
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Oded Nir, "Signatures of Struggle: The Figuration of Collectivity in Israeli Fiction" (SUNY Press, 2018)
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Feb 22, 2019 |
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Pema Tseden, "Enticement" (SUNY Press 2018)
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Feb 19, 2019 |
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Gil Ben-Herut, "Śiva’s Saints: The Origins of Devotion in Kannada according to Harihara’s Ragaḷegaḷu" (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Feb 19, 2019 |
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R. B. Jamieson, "Jesus’ Death and Heavenly Offering in Hebrews" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
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Feb 14, 2019 |
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Richard Gombrich, "Buddhism and Pali" (Mud Pie Slices, 2018)
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Feb 06, 2019 |
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Aimée Israel-Pelletier, "On the Mediterranean and the Nile: The Jews of Egypt" (Indiana UP, 2017)
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Jan 28, 2019 |
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Shanna de la Torre, "Sex for Structuralists: The Non-Oedipal Logics of Femininity and Psychosis" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
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Jan 17, 2019 |
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Janelle Adsit, "Toward an Inclusive Creative Writing" (Bloomsbury, 2017)
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Jan 15, 2019 |
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M. Evans, S. Moore, and H. Johnstone, "Detecting the Social: Order and Disorder in Post-1970s Detective Fiction" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
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Jan 14, 2019 |
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Omid Safi, “Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Tradition” (Yale UP, 2018)
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Jan 09, 2019 |
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Nicholas J. Moore, "Repetition in Hebrews: Plurality and Singularity in the Letter to the Hebrews, Its Ancient Context, and the Early Church" (Mohr Siebeck, 2015)
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Jan 09, 2019 |
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Alan Jacobs, "The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis" (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Jan 04, 2019 |
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Andrew S. Curran, "Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely" (Other Press, 2019)
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Jan 02, 2019 |
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Victoria Brownlee, "Biblical Readings and Literary Writings in Early Modern England, 1558-1625" (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Dec 31, 2018 |
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James Baldwin, "Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood" (Duke UP, 2018)
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Dec 20, 2018 |
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Ana Paulina Lee, "Mandarin Brazil: Race, Representation, and Memory" (Stanford UP, 2018)
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Dec 13, 2018 |
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James R. Rush, "Hamka's Great Story: A Master Writer’s Vision of Islam for Modern Indonesia" (U Wisconsin Press, 2016)
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Dec 13, 2018 |
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Melanie V. Dawson and Meredith L. Goldsmith, "American Literary History and the Turn toward Modernity" (UP of Florida, 2018)
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Dec 12, 2018 |
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McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century" (Verso, 2017)
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Dec 06, 2018 |
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Alec Nevala-Lee, "Astounding" (Dey Street Books, 2018)
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Nov 29, 2018 |
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Eric D. Weitz, “Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy” (Princeton UP, 2018)
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Nov 20, 2018 |
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Steven Shaviro, “Discognition” (Repeater Books, 2016)
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Nov 20, 2018 |
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Peter Zinoman, “Vietnamese Colonial Republican: The Political Vision of Vu Trong Phung” (U California Press, 2013)
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Nov 19, 2018 |
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Alisha Gaines, “Black for a Day: White Fantasies of Race and Empathy” (UNC Press, 2017)
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Nov 14, 2018 |
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Mark Polizzotti, “Sympathy for the Traitor: A Translation Manifesto” (MIT Press, 2018)
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Nov 14, 2018 |
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J.R. Osborn, “Letters of Light: Arabic Script in Calligraphy, Print, and Digital Design” (Harvard UP, 2017)
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Nov 12, 2018 |
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Anindita Banerjee, “Russian Science Fiction Literature and Cinema: A Critical Reader” (Academic Studies Press, 2018)
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Nov 08, 2018 |
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Nathan Kravis, “On the Couch: A Repressed History of the Analytic Couch from Plato to Freud” (MIT Press, 2017)
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Nov 07, 2018 |
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Philip Lutgendorf, “The Epic of Ram” (Harvard University Press, 2016-)
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Nov 02, 2018 |
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Gary Saul Morson and Morton Schapiro, “Cents and Sensibility: What Economics Can Learn from the Humanities” (Princeton UP, 2017)
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Nov 02, 2018 |
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Naomi Seidman, “The Marriage Plot, Or, How Jews Fell In Love With Love, And With Literature” (Stanford UP, 2016)
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Oct 29, 2018 |
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Jonathan Shandell, “The American Negro Theatre and the Long Civil Rights Era” (U Iowa Press, 2018)
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Oct 26, 2018 |
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Justyna Weronika Kasza, “Hermeneutics of Evil in the Works of Endō Shūsaku: Between Reading and Writing” (Peter Lang, 2016)
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Oct 26, 2018 |
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Gary Alan Fine, “Talking Art: The Culture of Practice and the Practice of Culture in MFA Education” (U Chicago Press, 2018)
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Oct 25, 2018 |
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Melissa Terras, “Picture-Book Professors: Academia and Children’s Literature” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
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Oct 23, 2018 |
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David E. Fishman, “The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis” (ForeEdge, 2017)
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Oct 23, 2018 |
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Victoria Lamont, “Westerns: A Women’s History” (U Nebraska Press, 2016)
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Oct 19, 2018 |
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Jeffrey Kahan, “Shakespeare and Superheroes” (ARC Humanities Press, 2018)
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Oct 18, 2018 |
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Stephanie L. Derrick, “The Fame of C. S. Lewis: A Controversialist’s Reception in Britain and America” (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Oct 11, 2018 |
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Sara J. Brenneis, “Spaniards in Mauthausen: Representations of a Nazi Concentration Camp, 1940-2015” (U Toronto, 2018)
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Oct 10, 2018 |
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Jacqueline Rose ,”Mothers: An Essay on Love and Cruelty” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018)
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Oct 10, 2018 |
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Laila Amine, “Postcolonial Paris: Fictions of Intimacy in the City of Light” (U Wisconsin Press, 2018)
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Sep 27, 2018 |
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Nick Hubble, “The Proletarian Answer to the Modernist Question” (Edinburgh UP, 2017)
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Sep 21, 2018 |
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Scott Spector, “Modernism Without Jews?: German Jewish Subjects and Histories” (Indiana UP, 2017)
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Sep 12, 2018 |
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M. Cooper Harriss, “Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Theology” (NYU Press, 2017)
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Sep 12, 2018 |
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Rebecca Reich, “State of Madness: Psychiatry, Literature and Dissent After Stalin” (Northern Illinois UP, 2018)
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Sep 10, 2018 |
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Megan Ward, “Seeming Human: Artificial Intelligence and Victorian Realist Character” (OSU Press, 2018)
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Sep 07, 2018 |
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Marc Leeds, “The Vonnegut Encyclopedia” (Delacorte Press, 2016)
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Sep 05, 2018 |
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Julia Miele Rodas, “Autistic Disturbances: Theorizing Autism Poetics from the DSM to Robinson Crusoe” (U Michigan Press, 2018)
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Sep 03, 2018 |
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Olga Borovaya, “The Beginnings of Ladino Literature: Moses Almosnino and His Readers” (Indiana UP, 2017)
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Aug 24, 2018 |
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Lily Wong, “Transpacific Attachments: Sex Work, Media Networks, and Affective Histories of Chineseness” (Columbia UP, 2018)
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Aug 20, 2018 |
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Zhang Tianyi (tr. David Hull), “The Pidgin Warrior” (Balestier Press, 2017)
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Aug 10, 2018 |
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Sumana Roy, “How I Became a Tree” (Aleph, 2017)
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Aug 07, 2018 |
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Steven Gimbel, “Isn’t That Clever: A Philosophical Account of Humor and Comedy” (Routledge, 2018)
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Aug 06, 2018 |
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Irina Dumitrescu, “The Experience of Education in Anglo-Saxon Literature” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
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Aug 03, 2018 |
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Sucharita Adluri, “Textual Authority in Classical Indian Thought: Ramanuja and the Vishnu Purana” (Routledge, 2014)
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Aug 02, 2018 |
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Reginald Jackson, “Textures of Mourning: Calligraphy, Mortality, and The Tale of Genji Scrolls” (U Michigan Press, 2018)
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Aug 02, 2018 |
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Jay Geller, “Bestiarium Judaicum: Unnatural Histories of the Jews” (Fordham UP, 2017)
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Jul 24, 2018 |
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Kirstin Squint, “LeAnne Howe at the Intersections of Southern and Native American Literature” (LSU Press, 2018)
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Jul 13, 2018 |
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Elizabeth M. Sanders, “Genres of Doubt: Science Fiction, Fantasy and the Crisis of Victorian Faith” (McFarland, 2017)
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Jul 12, 2018 |
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Ari Heinrich, “Chinese Surplus: Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body” (Duke UP, 2018)
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Jul 10, 2018 |
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Rebekah J. Buchanan, “Writing a Riot: Riot Grrrl Zines and Feminist Rhetorics” (Peter Lang, 2018)
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Jul 09, 2018 |
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Christopher G. White, “Other Worlds: Spirituality and the Search for Invisible Dimensions” (Harvard UP, 2018)
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Jul 04, 2018 |
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Elias Muhanna, “The World in a Book: Al-Nuwayri and the Islamic Encyclopedic Tradition” (Princeton UP, 2017)
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Jul 02, 2018 |
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Andrii Danylenko, “From the Bible to Shakespeare: Pantelejmon Kuliš (1819-1897) and the Formation of Literary Ukrainian” (Academic Studies Press, 2016)
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Jun 27, 2018 |
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Robert D. Miller II, “The Dragon, the Mountain, and the Nations: An Old Testament Myth, Its Origins, and Its Afterlives” (Eisenbrauns, 2018)
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Jun 21, 2018 |
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Helen Bones, “The Expatriate Myth: New Zealand Writers and the Colonial World” (Otago University Press, 2018)
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Jun 14, 2018 |
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Samuel England, “Medieval Empires and the Cultures of Competition: Literary Duels at Islamic and Christian Courts” (Edinburgh UP, 2017)
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Jun 13, 2018 |
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Sami Schalk, “Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction” (Duke UP, 2018)
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Jun 12, 2018 |
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Bruno Chaouat, “Is Theory Good for the Jews?: French Thought and the Challenge of the New Antisemitism” (Liverpool University Press, 2017)
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Jun 11, 2018 |
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Daniel Heath Justice, “Why Indigenous Literatures Matter” (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2018)
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Jun 07, 2018 |
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Wojtek Sawa, “The Wall Speaks: Voices of the Unheard” (National Center of Culture, 2016)
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Jun 05, 2018 |
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Luisa Banki, “Post-Katastrophische Poetik: Zu W. G. Sebald und Walter Benjamin” (Wilhelm Fink, 2016)
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Jun 04, 2018 |
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Mark I. Lurie, “Galantière: The Lost Generation’s Forgotten Man” (Overlook Press, 2018)
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May 30, 2018 |
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Stephan Resch, “Stefan Zweig und der Europa-Gedanke” (Königshausen & Neumann, 2017)
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May 24, 2018 |
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Discussion with Dahlia Schweitzer (“Going Viral”) and Rob Thomas (“Veronica Mars”)
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May 15, 2018 |
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Mark Rifkin, “Beyond Settler Time: Temporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination” (Duke UP, 2017)
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May 11, 2018 |
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Barry Wimpfheimer, “The Talmud: A Biography” (Princeton UP, 2018)
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May 10, 2018 |
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Erin Edwards, “The Modernist Corpse: Posthumanism and the Posthumous” (U Minnesota Press, 2018)
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May 07, 2018 |
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Sarah Schulman, “Conflict is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair” (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2016)
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May 04, 2018 |
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Mark A. McCutcheon, “The Medium Is the Monster: Canadian Adaptations of Frankenstein and the Discourse of Technology” (Athabasca UP, 2018)
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May 03, 2018 |
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Mira Beth Wasserman, “Jews, Gentiles, and Other Animals: The Talmud After the Humanities” (U Penn Press, 2017)
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May 02, 2018 |
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Pablo Piccato, “A History of Infamy: Crime, Truth, and Justice in Mexico” (U California Press, 2017)
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Apr 27, 2018 |
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Jannica Budde, “Turkish Women Writers in German Cities” (Königshausen and Neumann, 2017)
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Apr 25, 2018 |
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Brian Tochterman, “The Dying City: Postwar New York and the Ideology of Fear” (UNC Press, 2017)
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Apr 23, 2018 |
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Koritha Mitchell, ed., “Iola Leroy Or, Shadows Uplifted” by Frances E.W. Harper (Broadview Editions, 2018)
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Apr 20, 2018 |
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Katelyn Knox, “Race on Display in Twentieth- and Twenty First-Century France” (Liverpool UP, 2016)
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Apr 17, 2018 |
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Emily Petermann, “The Musical Novel: Imitation of Musical Structure, Performance, and Reception in Contemporary Fiction” (Camden House, 2014)
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Apr 17, 2018 |
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Marcel Schmid, “Autopoiesis and Literature: The Short History of an Endless Process” (transcript, 2016)
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Apr 12, 2018 |
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Nick Admussen, “Recite and Refuse: Contemporary Chinese Prose Poetry” (U Hawaii Press, 2016)
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Apr 11, 2018 |
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Lana Lin, “Freud’s Jaw and Other Lost Objects: Fractured Subjectivity in the Face of Cancer” (Fordham UP, 2017)
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Apr 03, 2018 |
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Hanna Engelmeier, “Man, the Ape: Anthropology and the Reception of Darwin in Germany, 1850-1900” (Bohlau, 2016)
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Apr 02, 2018 |
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Ruth von Bernuth, “How the Wise Men Got to Chelm: The Life and Times of a Yiddish Folk Tradition” (NYU Press, 2017)
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Apr 02, 2018 |
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Amelia Glaser, “Stories of Khmelnytsky: Competing Literary Legacies of the 1648 Ukrainian Cossack Uprising” (Stanford UP, 2015)
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Mar 30, 2018 |
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Mehammed Mack, “Sexagon: Muslims, France, and the Sexualization of National Culture” (Fordham UP, 2017)
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Mar 29, 2018 |
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Kerry Wallach, “Passing Illusions: Jewish Visibility in Weimar Germany” (U Michigan Press, 2017)
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Mar 29, 2018 |
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Christopher B. Patterson, “Transitive Cultures: Anglophone Literature of the Transpacific” (Rutgers UP, 2018)
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Mar 26, 2018 |
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Till Nitschmann, “Theater of the Maimed” (Konigshausen and Neumann, 2015)
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Mar 23, 2018 |
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Bruce Clarke, “Neocybernetics and Narrative” (University of Minnesota Press, 2014)
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Mar 22, 2018 |
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Hoda Yousef, “Composing Egypt: Reading, Writing, and the Emergence of a Modern Nation, 1870-1930” (Stanford UP,
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Mar 20, 2018 |
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Reiko Ohnuma, “Unfortunate Destiny: Animals in the Indian Buddhist Imagination” (Oxford UP, 2017)
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Mar 20, 2018 |
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Robert Darnton, “A Literary Tour de France: The World of Books on the Eve of the French Revolution” (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Mar 15, 2018 |
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Sergej Rickenbacher, “Wissen um Stimmung” (Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2015)
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Mar 14, 2018 |
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Marian Wilson Kimber, “The Elocutionists: Women, Music, and the Spoken Word” (U Illinois Press, 2017)
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Mar 13, 2018 |
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Didem Havlioglu, “Mihri Hatun: Performance, Gender-Bending, and Subversion in Ottoman Intellectual History” (Syracuse UP, 2017)
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Mar 13, 2018 |
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Andrew Lees, “Mentored by a Madman: The William Burroughs Experiment” (Notting Hill Editions, 2017)
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Mar 12, 2018 |
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Christine Arce, “Mexico’s Nobodies: The Cultural Legacy of the Soldadera and Afro-Mexican Women” (SUNY Press, 2017)
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Mar 09, 2018 |
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Vivian Liska, “German-Jewish Thought and Its Afterlife: A Tenuous Legacy” (Indiana UP, 2016)
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Mar 09, 2018 |
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Ann-Marie Priest, “A Free Flame: Australian Women Writers and Vocation in the Twentieth Century” (UWA Publishing, 2018)
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Mar 08, 2018 |
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Julia Kerscher, “Autodidacticism, Artistry, Media Practice” (Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2016)
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Feb 28, 2018 |
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Christopher J. Lee, “Jet Lag” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017)
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Feb 27, 2018 |
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Interview with Australian Poets Leni Shilton and Renee Pettitt-Schipp
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Feb 23, 2018 |
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Christopher Grobe, “The Art of Confession: The Performance of Self from Robert Lowell to Reality TV” (NYU Press, 2017)
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Feb 16, 2018 |
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Christopher Hager, “I Remain Yours: Common Lives in Civil War Letters” (Harvard UP, 2018)
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Feb 12, 2018 |
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Harrod Suarez, “The Work of Mothering: Globalization and the Filipino Diaspora” (U Illinois Press, 2017)
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Feb 08, 2018 |
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Mikhail Epstein, “The Irony of the Ideal: Paradoxes of Russian Literature” (Academic Studies Press, 2018)
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Feb 07, 2018 |
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Nicholas Hengen Fox, “Reading as Collective Action: Texts as Tactics” (U Iowa Press, 2017)
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Feb 06, 2018 |
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Kevin Patrick, “The Phantom Unmasked: America’s First Superhero” (U Iowa Press, 2017)
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Feb 02, 2018 |
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Jason Herbeck, “Architextual Authenticity: Constructing Literature and Literary Identity in the French Caribbean” (Liverpool UP, 2017)
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Jan 23, 2018 |
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Margarete Fuchs, “The Moving View: The Gaze in the Modern German Literature” (Rombach Verlag, 2014)
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Jan 22, 2018 |
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Lisa Brooks, “Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War” (Yale UP, 2018)
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Jan 17, 2018 |
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Ray Cashman, “Packy Jim: Folklore and Worldview on the Irish Border” (U Wisconsin Press, 2016)
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Jan 17, 2018 |
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Lena Wetenkamp, “Europe Narrated, Contextualized and Remembered” (Koenigshausen and Neumann, 2017)
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Jan 16, 2018 |
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Gregory Laski, “Untimely Democracy: The Politics of Progress after Slavery” (Oxford UP, 2018)
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Jan 15, 2018 |
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Rebecca Janzen, “The National Body in Mexican Literature: Collective Challenges to Biopolitical Control” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
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Jan 10, 2018 |
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Amos Goldberg, “Trauma in First Person: Diary Writing during the Holocaust” (Indiana UP, 2017)
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Jan 10, 2018 |
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Liam Cole Young, “List Cultures: Knowledge and Poetics from Mesopotamia to Buzzfeed” (Amsterdam UP, 2017)
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Jan 09, 2018 |
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David J. Carlson, “Imagining Sovereignty: Self-Determination in American Indian Law and Literature” (U of Oklahoma Press, 2016)
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Jan 05, 2018 |
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Dan Barker, “God: The Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction” (Sterling, 2016)
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Dec 30, 2017 |
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Stephen Cushman, “Belligerent Muse: Five Northern Writers and How They Shaped Our Understanding of the Civil War” (UNC Press, 2014)
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Dec 25, 2017 |
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Tanja Angela Kunz , “Sehnsucht nach dem Guten” (Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2017)
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Dec 24, 2017 |
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Michel Leiris, “Phantom Africa” (Seagull Books, 2017)
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Dec 20, 2017 |
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Sheshalatha Reddy, “British Empire and the Literature of Rebellion: Revolting Bodies, Laboring Subjects” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
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Dec 08, 2017 |
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Jacqueline Emery, “Recovering Native American Writings in the Boarding School Press” (U. Nebraska Press, 2017)
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Dec 04, 2017 |
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Christian Kirchmeier “Morality and Literature: A Historical Typology” (Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2013)
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Dec 01, 2017 |
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Stephane Robolin, “Grounds of Engagement: Apartheid-Era African American and South African Writing” (U. Illinois Press, 2015)
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Nov 30, 2017 |
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David Jacobson, “The Charm of Wise Hesitancy: Talmudic Stories in Contemporary Israeli Culture” (Academic Studies Press, 2017)
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Nov 28, 2017 |
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Sarah Rivett, “Unscripted America: Indigenous Languages and the Origins of a Literary Nation” (Oxford UP, 2017)
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Nov 27, 2017 |
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Dinty W. Moore, “The Story Cure: A Book Doctor’s Pain-Free Guide to Finishing your Novel or Memoir” (Ten Speed Press, 2016)
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Nov 24, 2017 |
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Andreas Gehrlach, “Thieves: Stealing in Literature, Philosophy, and Myth” (Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2016)
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Nov 24, 2017 |
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J. Samaine Lockwood, “Archives of Desire: The Queer Historical Work of New England Regionalism” (UNC Press, 2015)
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Nov 22, 2017 |
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Michael Flier and Andrea Graziosi, eds. “The Battle for Ukrainian: A Comparative Perspective” (Harvard UP, 2017)
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Nov 11, 2017 |
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Candace Ward, “Crossing the Line: Early Creole Novels and Anglophone Caribbean Culture in the Age of Emancipation” (UVA Press, 2017)
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Nov 07, 2017 |
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Daniel Kane, “Do You Have a Band?”: Poetry and Punk Rock in New York City” (Columbia UP, 2017)
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Nov 02, 2017 |
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Regine Jean-Charles, “Conflict Bodies: The Politics of Rape Representation in the Francophone Imaginary” (OSU Press, 2014)
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Oct 26, 2017 |
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Laura Lee, “Oscar’s Ghost: The Battle for Oscar Wilde’s Legacy” (Amberley, 2017)
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Oct 24, 2017 |
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Martha J. Cutter, “The Illustrated Slave: Empathy, Graphic Narratives, and the Visual Culture of the Transatlantic Abolition Movement, 1800-1853” (U. Georgia Press, 2017)
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Oct 19, 2017 |
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John Rieder, “Science Fiction and the Mass Cultural Genre System” (Wesleyan UP, 2017)
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Oct 19, 2017 |
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Adam Gaiser, “Shurat Legends, Ibadi Identities: Martyrdom, Asceticism and the Making of an Early Islamic Community” (U. South Carolina Press, 2016)
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Oct 18, 2017 |
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Julia Fawcett, “Spectacular Disappearances: Celebrity and Privacy, 1696-1801” (U. Michigan Press, 2016)
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Oct 09, 2017 |
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Deborah Parker and Mark L. Parker, “Sucking Up: A Brief Consideration of Sycophancy” (U. of Virginia Press, 2017)
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Oct 03, 2017 |
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Clayton Childress, “Under the Cover: The Creation, Production, and Reception of a Novel” (Princeton UP, 2017)
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Sep 29, 2017 |
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Alessandro Duranti, “The Anthropology of Intentions: Language in a World of Others” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
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Sep 26, 2017 |
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Rachel Seelig, “Strangers in Berlin: Modern Jewish Literature between East and West, 1919-1933” (U. Michigan Press, 2016)
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Sep 25, 2017 |
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Mykola Soroka, “Faces of Displacement: The Writings of Volodymyr Vynnychenko” (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2012)
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Sep 07, 2017 |
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Omar Valerio-Jimenez and Santiago Vaquera-Vasquez, eds. “The Latina/o Midwest Reader” (U. Illinois Press, 2017)
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Sep 05, 2017 |
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Hanna Tervanotko, “Denying Her Voice: The Figure of Miriam in Ancient Jewish Literature” (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2016)
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Aug 29, 2017 |
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Rahuldeep Singh Gill, “Drinking From Love’s Cup: Surrender and Sacrifice in the Vars of Bhai Gurdas Bhalla” (Oxford UP, 2016)
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Aug 27, 2017 |
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Ron Edwards, “The Edge of Evolution: Animality, Inhumanity, and Doctor Moreau” (Oxford UP, 2016)
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Aug 25, 2017 |
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Karmen MacKendrick, “The Matter of Voice: Sensual Soundings” (Fordham UP, 2016)
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Aug 19, 2017 |
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Michael Allan, “In the Shadow of World Literature: Sites of Reading in Colonial Egypt” (Princeton UP, 2016)
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Aug 14, 2017 |
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Jacob Emery, “Alternative Kinships: Economy and Family in Russian Modernism” (Northern Illinois U. Press, 2017)
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Jul 25, 2017 |
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Patrick S. Tomlinson, “Trident’s Forge: Children of a Dead Earth, Book Two” (Angry Robot, 2016)
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Jul 24, 2017 |
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Ira Dworkin, “Congo Love Song: African American Culture and the Crisis of the Colonial State” (UNC Press, 2017)
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Jul 20, 2017 |
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Tony Hughes-d’Aeth, “Like Nothing on this Earth: A Literary History of the Wheatbelt” (UWA Publishing, 2017)
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Jul 09, 2017 |
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Allan H. Pasco, “Balzac, Literary Sociologist” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
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Jul 08, 2017 |
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Lyn McCredden, “The Fiction of Tim Winton: Earthed and Sacred” (Sydney UP, 2017)
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Jun 25, 2017 |
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Michelle D. Commander, “Afro-Atlantic Flight: Speculative Returns and the Black Fantastic” (Duke UP, 2017)
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Jun 20, 2017 |
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Gary Kulik, “War Stories: False Atrocity Tales, Swift Boaters, and Winter Soldiers” (Potomac Books, 2009)
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Jun 15, 2017 |
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Michael Muhammad Knight, “Tripping with Allah: Islam, Drugs, and Writing” (Soft Skull Press, 2013)
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Jun 13, 2017 |
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Susan Rubenstein DeMasi, “Henry Alsberg: The Driving Force Behind the New Deal Federal Writers’ Project” (McFarland, 2016)
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Jun 01, 2017 |
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Augustine’s “Confessions,” a new translation by Sarah Ruden (Modern Library, 2017)
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Jun 01, 2017 |
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Britt Rusert, “Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture” (NYU Press, 2017)
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May 26, 2017 |
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Carlo Rotella and Michael Ezra, eds. “The Bittersweet Science: Fifteen Writers in the Gym, in the Corner, and at Ringside” (U. Chicago, 2017)
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May 26, 2017 |
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Sarah Ruden, “The Face of Water: A Translator on Beauty and Meaning in the Bible” (Pantheon, 2017)
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May 17, 2017 |
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Roy Bing Chan, “The Edge of Knowing: Dreams, History, and Realism in Modern Chinese Literature” (U. Washington Press, 2017)
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May 04, 2017 |
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Territory-A Literary Project about Maps: Discussion with Tommy Mira y Lopez
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May 03, 2017 |
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William Kolbrener, “The Last Rabbi: Joseph Soloveitchik and Talmudic Tradition” (Indiana UP, 2016)
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Apr 24, 2017 |
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Allison E. Fagan, “From the Edge: Chicana/Chicano Border Literature and the Politics of Print” (Rutgers UP, 2016)
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Apr 24, 2017 |
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Rebecca Gould, “Writers and Rebels: Literature of Insurgency in the Caucasus” (Yale UP, 2016)
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Apr 22, 2017 |
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Benjamin Fondane, “Existential Monday” (NYRB Classics, 2016)
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Apr 07, 2017 |
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Audrey Truschke, “Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court” (Columbia UP, 2016)
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Apr 03, 2017 |
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Steve Aldous, “The World of Shaft: A Complete Guide to the Novels, Comic Strip, Films and Television Series” (McFarland, 2015)
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Mar 29, 2017 |
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Carrie J. Preston, “Learning to Kneel: Noh, Modernism, and Journeys in Teaching” (Columbia UP, 2016)
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Mar 29, 2017 |
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Joseph Lumbard, “The Study Quran: A New Translation and Commentary” (HarperOne, 2015)
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Mar 24, 2017 |
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Stephen H. Grant, “Collecting Shakespeare: The Story of Henry and Emily Folger” (Johns Hopkins UP, 2014)
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Mar 21, 2017 |
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Laurence A. Rickels, “The Psycho Records” (Wallflower Press, 2016)
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Mar 21, 2017 |
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Sarah Hammerschlag, “Broken Tablets: Levinas, Derrida, and the Literary Afterlife of Religion” (Columbia UP, 2016)
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Mar 20, 2017 |
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Christopher Pizzino, “Arresting Development: Comics at the Boundaries of Literature” (U of Texas Press, 2016)
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Mar 19, 2017 |
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Gleb Tsipursky, “Socialist Fun: Youth, Consumption, and State-Sponsored Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1945-1970” (U. Pittsburgh Press, 2016)
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Mar 14, 2017 |
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Meredith K. Ray, “Margherita Sarrocchi’s Letters to Galileo: Astronomy, Astrology, and Poetics in 17th-Century Italy” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
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Mar 13, 2017 |
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Glyne Griffith, “The BBC and the Development of Anglophone Caribbean Literature, 1943-1958” (Palgrave MacMillan, 2016)
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Mar 07, 2017 |
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Andre Carrington, “Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction” (U. Minnesota Press, 2016)
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Mar 03, 2017 |
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Benjamin Schreier, “The Impossible Jew: Identity and the Reconstruction of Jewish American Literary History” (NYU Press, 2015)
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Feb 27, 2017 |
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Maria G. Rewakowicz, “Literature, Exile, Alterity: The New York Group of Ukrainian Poets” (Academic Studies Press, 2014)
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Feb 23, 2017 |
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David Rosen and Aaron Santesso, “The Watchman in Pieces: Surveillance, Literature, and Liberal Personhood” (Yale UP, 2013)
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Feb 09, 2017 |
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Randy Olson, “Houston, We Have a Narrative: Why Science Needs Story” (U. Chicago Press, 2015)
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Feb 04, 2017 |
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Stephen Brockmann, “The Writers’ State: Constructing East German Literature, 1945-1959” (Camden House, 2015)
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Jan 27, 2017 |
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Richard Jean So, “Transpacific Community: America, China, and the Rise and Fall of a Cultural Network” (Columbia University Press, 2016)
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Jan 23, 2017 |
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David Willgren, “The Formation of the ‘Book’ of Psalms” (Mohr Siebeck, 2016)
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Jan 20, 2017 |
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Sara L. Crosby, “Poisonous Muse: The Female Poisoner and the Framing of Popular Authorship in Jacksonian America” (U. Iowa Press, 2016)
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Jan 20, 2017 |
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Melissa Sweet, “Some Writer! The Story of E.B. White” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016
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Jan 06, 2017 |
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David Shafer, “Antonin Artaud” (Reaktion/U Chicago Press, 2016)
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Jan 04, 2017 |
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Violeta Davoliute, “The Making and Breaking of Soviet Lithuania: Memory and Modernity in the Wake of War” (Routledge, 2013)
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Jan 04, 2017 |
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Eva Mroczek, “The Literary Imagination in Jewish Antiquity” (Oxford UP, 2016)
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Dec 23, 2016 |
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David B. Goldstein and Amy L. Tigner, eds. “Culinary Shakespeare: Staging Food and Drink in Early Modern England” (Duquesne UP, 2016)
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Dec 19, 2016 |
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Gail Ashton, ed. “Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2015/2017)
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Dec 14, 2016 |
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Scott Bruce, ed., “The Penguin Book of the Undead: Fifteen Hundred Years of Supernatural Encounters” (Penguin, 2016)
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Nov 28, 2016 |
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Scot McKendrick and Kathleen Doyle, “The Art of the Bible: Illuminated Manuscripts from the Medieval World” (Thames and Hudson, 2016)
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Nov 28, 2016 |
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Christian Lange, “Paradise and Hell in Islamic Traditions” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
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Nov 21, 2016 |
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Jonathan Brooks Platt, “Greetings, Pushkin! Stalinist Cultural Politics and the Russian National Bard” (U. of Pittsburgh Press, 2016)
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Nov 19, 2016 |
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Matthew Pauly, “Breaking the Tongue: Language, Education, and Power in Soviet Ukraine, 1923-1934” (U. of Toronto Press, 2014)
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Nov 15, 2016 |
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Mary Chapman, “Becoming Sui Sin Far: Early Fiction, Journalism and Travel Writing of Edith Maude Eaton” (McGill-Queens UP, 2016)
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Nov 12, 2016 |
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Kathryn Kleppinger, “Branding the Beur Author: Minority Writing and Media in France, 1983-2013” (Liverpool UP, 2015)
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Nov 12, 2016 |
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Scott Donaldson, “The Impossible Craft” Literary Biography” (Penn State UP, 2015)
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Nov 08, 2016 |
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Jennifer Glaser, “Borrowed Voices: Writing and Racial Ventriloquism in the Jewish American Imagination” (Rutgers UP, 2016)
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Nov 07, 2016 |
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Daniel Moran,”Creating Flannery O’Connor: Her Critics, Her Publishers, Her Readers” (U. of Georgia Press, 2016)
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Nov 01, 2016 |
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Kate Partridge, “Intended American Dictionary” (Miel Press, 2016)
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Oct 31, 2016 |
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Kristen Case, “Abdication: Emily Dickinson’s Failures of Self” (Essay Press, 2015)
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Oct 08, 2016 |
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Kristin Stapleton, “Fact in Fiction: 1920s China and Ba Jin’s Family” (Stanford UP, 2016)
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Oct 05, 2016 |
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Alisa Solomon, “Wonder of Wonders: A Cultural History of Fiddler on the Roof” (Metropolitan, 2013)
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Oct 03, 2016 |
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Mark R. Andryczyk, “The Intellectual as Hero in 1990s Ukrainian History” (U. of Toronto Press, 2012)
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Sep 29, 2016 |
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Jan Schwarz, “Survivors and Exiles: Yiddish Culture after the Holocaust” (Wayne State UP, 2015)
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Sep 26, 2016 |
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Ellen Widmer, “Fiction’s Family: Zhan Xi, Zhan Kai, and the Business of Women in Late-Qing China” (Harvard UP, 2016)
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Sep 21, 2016 |
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E.R. Truitt, “Medieval Robots: Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art” (U. of Pennsylvania Press, 2015)
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Sep 21, 2016 |
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Isabelle Hesse, “The Politics of Jewishness in Contemporary World Literature: The Holocaust, Zionism and Colonialism” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016)
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Sep 12, 2016 |
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Robert K. Elder, et. al. “Hidden Hemingway: Inside the Ernest Hemingway Archives of Oak Park” (Kent State UP, 2016)
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Aug 29, 2016 |
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Robert O’Kell, “Disraeli: The Romance of Politics” (U. of Toronto Press, 2014)
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Aug 11, 2016 |
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Mark R. E. Meulenbeld, “Demonic Warfare: Daoism, Territorial Networks, and the History of a Ming Novel” (U. of Hawaii Press, 2015)
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Jul 25, 2016 |
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Josh Lambert, “Unclean Lips: Obscenity, Jews, and American Culture” (NYU Press, 2014)
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Jul 18, 2016 |
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Aisha Geissinger, “Gender and the Construction of Exegetical Authority: A Rereading of the Classical Genre of Qur’an Commentary (Brill, 2015)
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Jul 12, 2016 |
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Jessa Crispin, “The Dead Ladies Project: Exiles, Expats, and Ex-Countries” (U. of Chicago Press, 2015)
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Jul 01, 2016 |
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Sarah Wald, “The Nature of California: Race, Citizenship, and Farming since the Dust Bowl” (U. of Washington Press, 2016)
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Jun 28, 2016 |
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Susan Kavaler-Adler, “The Compulsion to Create: Women Writers and Their Demon Lovers” (ORI Academic, 2013)
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Jun 27, 2016 |
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Ana Foteva, “Do the Balkans Begin in Vienna? The Geopolitical and Imaginary Borders Between the Balkans and Europe” (Peter Lang, 2014)
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Jun 19, 2016 |
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Pi-Ching Hsu, “Feng Menglong’s ‘Treasury of Laughs’: A Seventeenth-Century Anthology of Traditional Chinese Humour” (Brill, 2015)
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Jun 08, 2016 |
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Mingwei Song, “Young China: National Rejuvenation and the Bildungsroman, 1900-1959” (Harvard University Asia Center, 2016)
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Jun 03, 2016 |
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Roy Fox, “Facing the Sky: Composing Through Trauma in Word and Image” (Parlor, 2015)
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May 17, 2016 |
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Dana Sajdi, “The Barber of Damascus: Nouveau Literacy in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Levant” (Stanford UP, 2012)
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May 16, 2016 |
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Maria C. Fumagalli, “On the Edge: Writing the Border Between Haiti and the Dominican Republic” (Liverpool UP, 2015)
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May 12, 2016 |
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Ayesha Ramachandran, “Worldmakers: Global Imagining in Early Modern Europe” (U of Chicago Press, 2015)
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May 11, 2016 |
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Emily Troscianko, “Kafka’s Cognitive Realism” (Routledge, 2014)
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May 02, 2016 |
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Seth Jacobowitz, “Writing Technology in Meiji Japan” (Harvard UP, 2015)
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Apr 26, 2016 |
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Stern, et al., “The Monk’s Haggadah: A Fifteenth-Century Illuminated Codex from the Monastery of Tegernsee” (Penn State UP, 2015)
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Apr 20, 2016 |
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Kate Bolick, “Spinster: Making a Life of One’s Own” (Crown, 2015)
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Apr 19, 2016 |
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Marlene Daut, “Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865” (Liverpool UP, 2015)
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Apr 18, 2016 |
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Sarah Phillips Casteel, “Calypso Jews: Jewishness in the Caribbean Literary Imagination” (Columbia UP, 2016)
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Apr 18, 2016 |
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Minsoo Kang, trans. “The Story of Hong Gildong” (Penguin Classics, 2016)
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Apr 01, 2016 |
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Sulak and Kolosov, eds., “Family Resemblance: An Anthology and Exploration of 8 Hybrid Literary Genres” (Rose Metal Press, 2015)
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Mar 30, 2016 |
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Tahneer Oksman, “How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?” (Columbia UP, 2016)
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Mar 24, 2016 |
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Eubanks, Abel and Chen, eds., “Verge: Studies in Global Asias 1.2: Collecting Asias” (U of Minnesota Press, 2015)
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Mar 18, 2016 |
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Jean-Michel Rabate, “The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Psychoanalysis” (Cambridge UP, 2014)
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Mar 18, 2016 |
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Hillary Chute, “Disaster Drawn: Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form” (Harvard UP, 2016)
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Mar 14, 2016 |
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Friederike Kind-Kovacs, “Written Here, Published There: How Underground Literature Crossed the Iron Curtain” (Central European UP, 2014)
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Mar 07, 2016 |
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James Davis, “Eric Walrond: A Life in the Harlem Renaissance and the Transatlantic Caribbean” (Columbia University Press, 2015)
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Feb 24, 2016 |
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Maris Kreisman, “Slaughterhouse 90210: Where Great Books Meet Pop Culture” (Flatiron Books, 2015)
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Jan 28, 2016 |
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Leigh Claire La Berge, “Scandals and Abstraction: Financial Fiction of the Long 1980s” (Oxford UP, 2014)
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Jan 27, 2016 |
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George Cotkin, “Feast of Excess: A Cultural History of the New Sensibility” (Oxford UP, 2015)
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Jan 22, 2016 |
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Jodi Eichler-Levine, “Suffer the Little Children: Uses of the Past in Jewish and African American Children’s Literature” (NYU Press, 2013)
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Dec 14, 2015 |
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Nanxiu Qian, “Politics, Poetics, and Gender in Late Qing China: Xue Shaohui and the Era of Reform” (Stanford UP, 2015)
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Dec 11, 2015 |
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Ranen Omer-Sherman, “Imagining the Kibbutz: Visions of Utopia in Literature and Film” (Penn State UP, 2015)
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Dec 08, 2015 |
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Leah Garrett, “Young Lions: How Jewish Authors Reinvented the American War Novel” (Northwestern UP, 2015)
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Dec 03, 2015 |
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Kimberly Fain, “Colson Whitehead: The Postracial Voice of Contemporary Literature” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2015)
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Nov 30, 2015 |
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Megan Marshall, “Margaret Fuller: A New American Life” (Mariner Books, 2013)
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Nov 08, 2015 |
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Tom Sperlinger, “Romeo and Juliet in Palestine: Teaching Under Occupation” (Zero Books, 2015)
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Nov 08, 2015 |
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Ilan Stavans and Jorge J. E. Garcia, “Thirteen Ways of Looking At Latino Art” (Duke UP, 2014)
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Sep 30, 2015 |
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David Snowdon, “Writing the Prizefight: Pierce Egan’s Boxiana World” (Peter Lang, 2013)
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Sep 04, 2015 |
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Anna M. Shields, “One Who Knows Me: Friendship and Literary Culture in Mid-Tang China” (Harvard UP, 2015)
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Sep 04, 2015 |
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Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie, “Dear Continuum: Letters to a Poet Crafting Liberation” (Grand Concourse Press, 2015)
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Aug 07, 2015 |
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Mrinalini Chakravorty, “In Stereotype: South Asia in the Global Literary Imaginary” (Columbia UP, 2014)
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Aug 02, 2015 |
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Alexander Etkind, “Warped Mourning: Stories of the Undead in the Land of the Unburied” (Stanford UP, 2013)
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Jul 26, 2015 |
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Derek Sayer, “Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist History” (Princeton UP 2013)
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Jul 24, 2015 |
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Carlos Rojas, “Homesickness: Culture, Contagion, and National Transformation in Modern China” (Harvard UP, 2015)
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Jul 08, 2015 |
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Nick Sousanis, “Unflattening” (Harvard UP, 2015)
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Jun 12, 2015 |
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Greg Barnhisel, “Cold War Modernists: Art, Literature, and American Cultural Diplomacy” (Columbia UP, 2015)
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Jun 02, 2015 |
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Magda Romanska, “The Post-Traumatic Theatre of Grotowski and Kantor” (Anthem Press, 2014)
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Jun 02, 2015 |
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Paul K. Saint-Amour, “Tense Future: Modernism, Total War, Encyclopedic Form” (Oxford UP, 2015)
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May 06, 2015 |
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Eva Illouz, “Hard-Core Romance: Fifty Shades of Grey, Best-Sellers, and Society” (U of Chicago Press, 2014)
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Apr 27, 2015 |
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Andrew Cayton, “Love in the Time of Revolution” (UNC Press, 2013)
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Apr 21, 2015 |
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Lital Levy, “Poetic Trespass: Writing Between Hebrew and Arabic in Israel/Palestine” (Princeton UP, 2014)
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Apr 06, 2015 |
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Paula T. Connolly, “Slavery in American Children’s Literature, 1790-2010” (U of Iowa Press, 2013)
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Mar 26, 2015 |
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Wen Jin, “Pluralist Universalism: An Asian Americanist Critique of U.S. and Chinese Multiculturalisms” (Ohio State University Press, 2012)
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Mar 20, 2015 |
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Helena Gurfinkel, “Outlaw Fathers in Victorian and Modern British Literature” (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2014)
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Mar 16, 2015 |
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Mark Dennis and Darren Middleton, eds., “Approaching Silence: New Perspectives on Shusaku Endo’s Classic Novel” (Bloomsbury, 2015)
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Mar 15, 2015 |
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Robert P. Burns, “Kafka’s Law: ‘The Trial’ and American Criminal Justice” (U of Chicago Press, 2014)
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Mar 13, 2015 |