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  • The Art of Adapting Victorian Literature, 1848-1920

    Dramatizing Jane Eyre, David Copperfield, and The Woman in White

    by Karen E. Laird ...
    In The Art of Adapting Victorian Literature, 1848-1920, Karen E. Laird alternates between readings of nineteenth-century stage and twentieth-century silent film adaptations to investigate the working practices of the first adapters of Victorian fiction. Laird’s juxtaposition between stage and screen brings to life the dynamic culture of literary adaptation as it developed throughout the long ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Mystery Tribune / Issue Nº19

    by Lawrence Block, Laird Barron, Karen Harrington, Matt Burgess, Russell W. Johnson, Edward Musto, S.E. Bailey, Thomas Belton, Ahreeda Ryter, Joseph S. Walker ...
    Series Book 19 - Mystery Tribune
    Issue Nº19 features:A curated collection of short fiction including stories by Laird Barron, Lawrence Block, Joseph S. Walker, Ahreeda Ryter, Thomas Belton, S.E Bailey, Edward Musto, Russell W. Johnson, Karen Harrington, and Matt Burgess.Essays, Interviews and Reviews by J.B. Stevens, Mark Westmoreland, and Nev March.Art and Photography by Szymon Jędrzejewski and Dimitri Bourriau.This issue also ... Read more

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  • Edward Teach Better Known as Blackbeard

    by Jim Laird ...
    I stand an impressive six feet four inches and am slight of build. I have eyes that will bore into your very being, and if ya pick a fight, I will steal your soul. They say I am the devil’s spawn. The night is when I bring the fight. I have cannon fuses lit in me hair. That will give you a scare. Around me neck, me baldric carries six pistols. I am an excellent shot, so do not plot. I wear a red ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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    A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines

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    Thoroughly revised and expanded for a new generation of readers, this classic guide to enjoying literature to its fullest—a lively, enlightening, and entertaining introduction to a diverse range of writing and literary devices that enrich these works, including symbols, themes, and contexts—teaches you how to make your everyday reading experience richer and more rewarding.While books can be ... Read more

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  • On Poets and Others

    Translated by Michael Schmidt ...
    by Octavio Paz ...
    The Nobel Prizewinning poet and man of letters Octavio Paz was also a brilliant reader of other writers, and this book selects his best critical essays from over three decades. In the sixteen pieces collected here, Paz discusses a wide range of poets and writers, both American and international, from Robert Frost and Walt Whitman to William Carlos Williams; from Fyodor Dostoevsky to Luis Buñuel to ... Read more

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  • The Posthumous Voice in Women's Writing from Mary Shelley to Sylvia Plath

    by Claire Raymond ...
    This provocative book posits a new theory of women's writing characterized by what Claire Raymond calls 'the posthumous voice.'This suggestive term evokes the way that women's writing both forefronts and hides the author's implied body within and behind the written work. Tracing the use of the disembodied posthumous voice in fiction and poetry by Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, Emily Dickinson, and ... Read more

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  • Nerd Ecology: Defending the Earth with Unpopular Culture

    by Dr Anthony Lioi ...
    Series series Environmental Cultures
    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.Drawing on a wide range of examples from literature, comics, film, television and digital media, Nerd Ecology is the first substantial ecocritical study of nerd culture's engagement with environmental issues. Exploring such works as Star Trek, Tolkien's Lord of the ... Read more

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  • Melville’s Philosophies

    Edited by Professor Branka Arsic, Dr. K. L. Evans ...
    Melville's Philosophies departs from a long tradition of critical assessments of Melville that dismissed his philosophical capacities as ingenious but muddled. Its contributors do not apply philosophy to Melville in order to detect just how much of it he knew or understood. To the contrary, they try to hear the philosophical arguments themselves-often very strange and quite radical-that Melville ... Read more

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  • German Literature and the First World War: The Anti-War Tradition

    Collected Essays by Brian Murdoch

    by Brian Murdoch ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in First World War History
    The period immediately following the end of the First World War witnessed an outpouring of artistic and literary creativity, as those that had lived through the war years sought to communicate their experiences and opinions. In Germany this manifested itself broadly into two camps, one condemning the war outright; the other condemning the defeat. Of the former, Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on ... Read more

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  • The Labors of Modernism

    Domesticity, Servants, and Authorship in Modernist Fiction

    by Mary Wilson ...
    In The Labors of Modernism, Mary Wilson analyzes the unrecognized role of domestic servants in the experimental forms and narratives of Modernist fiction by Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, Nella Larsen, and Jean Rhys. Examining issues of class, gender, and race in a transatlantic Modernist context, Wilson brings attention to the place where servants enter literature: the threshold. In tracking ... Read more

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  • Thomas Mann and Shakespeare

    Something Rich and Strange

    Edited by Tobias Döring, Ewan Fernie ...
    Series series New Directions in German Studies
    Bringing together scholars from diverse disciplines and countries, Thomas Mann and Shakespeare is the first book-length study to explore the always fascinating, if sometimes disturbing, connections between Shakespeare and Mann. It establishes startling resonances between the central works of these two authors, pairing, for instance, Der Zauberberg with The Tempest, Der Tod in Venedig with The ... Read more

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  • Multilingualism and Modernity

    Barbarisms in Spanish and American Literature

    by Laura Lonsdale ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores multilingualism as an imaginative articulation of the experience of modernity in twentieth-century Spanish and American literature. It argues that while individual multilingual practices are highly singular, literary multilingualism exceeds the conventional bounds of modernism to become emblematic of the modern age. The book explores the confluence of multilingualism and ... Read more

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