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“prof nerissa balce”

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  • Body Parts of Empire

    Visual Abjection, Filipino Images, and the American Archive

    by Prof. Nerissa Balce ...
    Body Parts of Empire is a study of abjection in American visual culture and popular literature from the Philippine-American War (1899–1902). During this period, the American national territory expanded beyond its continental borders to islands in the Pacific and the Caribbean. Simultaneously, new technologies of vision emerged for imagining the human body, including the moving camera, stereoscopes ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

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  • The Art of Fiction

    A Guide for Writers and Readers

    by Ayn Rand ...
    In 1958, Ayn Rand, already the world-famous author of such bestselling books as Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, gave a private series of extemporaneous lectures in her own living room on the art of fiction. Tore Boeckmann and Leonard Peikoff for the first time now bring readers the edited transcript of these exciting personal statements. The Art of Fiction offers invaluable lessons, i... ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five: Bookmarked

    by Curtis Smith ...
    Series Book 2 - Bookmarked
    Slaughterhouse-Five is a seminal novel of contemporary literature, a rumination on war, space, time and the meaning of life and death. In Kurt Vonnegut’s existential classic, we meet Billy Pilgrim, a man who has become unmoored in time after being abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. In a non-linear universe where time has no meaning, we revisit key moments in Pilgrim’s life, in ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Framing the World

    Explorations in Ecocriticism and Film

    Edited by Paula Willoquet-Maricondi ...
    Series series Under the Sign of Nature
    The essays in this collection make a contribution to the greening of film studies and expand the scope of ecocriticism as a discipline traditionally rooted in literary studies. In addition to highlighting particular films as productive tools for raising awareness and educating us about environmental issues, Framing the World: Explorations in Ecocriticism and Film encourages its readers to become ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Lost Sound

    The Forgotten Art of Radio Storytelling

    by Jeff Porter ...
    From Archibald MacLeish to David Sedaris, radio storytelling has long borrowed from the world of literature, yet the narrative radio work of well-known writers and others is a story that has not been told before. And when the literary aspects of specific programs such as The War of the Worlds or Sorry, Wrong Number were considered, scrutiny was superficial. In Lost Sound, Jeff Porter examines the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • The Literary Quest for an American National Character

    by Finn Pollard ...
    Series series Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature
    "What then is the American, this new man?" This question is explored here through the lives and writings of a sequence of imaginative authors each of whom confronted a crucial moment in the evolution of the new nation (from Crevecoeur and the Revolution, through Washington Irving and Jeffersonian Democracy, to James Fenimore Cooper and the Era of Good Feelings). At the centre of these ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • The Cultural Imaginary of Terrorism in Public Discourse, Literature, and Film

    Narrating Terror

    by Michael Frank ...
    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    This study investigates the overlaps between political discourse and literary and cinematic fiction, arguing that both are informed by, and contribute to, the cultural imaginary of terrorism. Whenever mass-mediated acts of terrorism occur, they tend to trigger a proliferation of threat scenarios not only in the realm of literature and film but also in the statements of policymakers, security ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Off the Books

    On Literature and Culture

    by J. Peder Zane ...
    An exploration of American culture and politics through the literary lens of a book review editorHead Off the Books in this collection of newspaper columns, where J. Peder Zane uses classic and contemporary literature to explore American culture and politics. The book review editor for the Raleigh, North Carolina News & Observer from 1996 to 2009, Zane demonstrates that good books are essential ... Read more

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  • Lady Liberty Enlightens the World : Interesting Facts about the Statue of Liberty - American History for Kids | Children's History Books

    by Baby Professor ...
    When you look at Lady Liberty, you see a symbol of American freedom. But did you know that the statue was not even created in the US? There’s an interesting story behind it and this American history book will tell you all about it. To make history learning a lot easier, there are pictures to accompany the texts in this book. Grab a copy today! ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Travel and Drugs in Twentieth-Century Literature

    by Lindsey Michael Banco ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
    This book examines the connections between two disparate yet persistently bound thematics -- mobility and intoxication -- and explores their central yet frequently misunderstood role in constructing subjectivity following the 1960s. Emerging from profound mid-twentieth-century changes in how drugs and travel were imagined, the conceptual nexus discussed sheds new light on British and North ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • American Literature and the New Puritan Studies

    Edited by Bryce Traister ...
    This book contains thirteen original essays about Puritan culture in colonial New England. Prompted by the growing interest in secular studies, as well as postnational, transnational, and postcolonial critique in the humanities, American Literature and the New Puritan Studies seeks to represent and advance contemporary interest in a field long recognized, however problematically, as foundational ... Read more

    $109.09 USD

  • Melville and the Idea of Blackness

    Race and Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century America

    by Christopher Freeburg ...
    Series Book 164 - Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
    By examining the unique problems that 'blackness' signifies in Moby-Dick, Pierre, 'Benito Cereno' and 'The Encantadas', Christopher Freeburg analyzes how Herman Melville grapples with the social realities of racial difference in nineteenth-century America. Where Melville's critics typically read blackness as either a metaphor for the haunting power of slavery or an allegory of moral evil, Freeburg ... Read more

    $38.59 USD