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Inscribing Pilgrimage

The Camino de Santiago and the Literary Imaginary

by Rachel Schmidt, Martha García, Anne J. Cruz ...

Series series New Hispanisms: Cultural and Literary Studies
Inscribing Pilgrimage uncovers the diverse, multilingual literary tradition surrounding the Camino de Santiago, one of the three most prominent routes of Christian pilgrimage, which guides travelers across Europe to the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, Spain. Focusing mainly on literature about pilgrims and their journeys, including references to visual art and music, the ... Read more

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Inscribing Pilgrimage uncovers the diverse, multilingual literary tradition surrounding the Camino de Santiago, one of the three most prominent routes of Christian pilgrimage, which guides travelers across Europe to the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, Spain. Focusing mainly on literature about pilgrims and their journeys, including references to visual art and music, the
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Framing a Revolution

Narrative Battles in Colombia's Civil War

by Rachel Schmidt ...

Rhetorical contests about how to frame a war run alongside many armed conflicts. With the rise of internet access, social media, and cyber operations, these propaganda battles have a wider audience than ever before. Yet, such framing contests have attracted little attention in scholarly literature. What are the effects of gendered and strategic framing in civil war? How do different types of ... Read more

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Rhetorical contests about how to frame a war run alongside many armed conflicts. With the rise of internet access, social media, and cyber operations, these propaganda battles have a wider audience than ever before. Yet, such framing contests have attracted little attention in scholarly literature. What are the effects of gendered and strategic framing in civil war? How do different types of
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Forms of Modernity

Don Quixote and Modern Theories of the Novel

by Rachel Schmidt ...

It's a critical cliché that Cervantes' Don Quixote is the first modern novel, but this distinction raises two fundamental questions. First, how does one define a novel? And second, what is the relationship between this genre and understandings of modernity? In Forms of Modernity, Rachel Schmidt examines how seminal theorists and philosophers have wrestled with the status of Cervantes' masterpiece ... Read more

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It's a critical cliché that Cervantes' Don Quixote is the first modern novel, but this distinction raises two fundamental questions. First, how does one define a novel? And second, what is the relationship between this genre and understandings of modernity? In Forms of Modernity, Rachel Schmidt examines how seminal theorists and philosophers have wrestled with the status of Cervantes' masterpiece
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Saints in Divided Societies

The Political Aesthetics of Holiness

by Aaron T. Hollander, Dean Accardi, Victoria Fomina, Connie Gagliardi, Elizabeth J. Harris, Angie Heo, Russell P. Johnson, Vincent W. Lloyd, Jalane Schmidt, Fatima Siwaju0, Rachel Smith1, Edith Szanto2, Matthew Vega3 ...

An ambitious interreligious and interdisciplinary compendium that illuminates the power of saintly figures in intractable social conflictsIn our contemporary world, interactions and attitudes across differences in wealth, ethnicity, religion, or political values have often given way to fear and blame between identity groups. Some such diversities have been rendered sites of raw antagonism by ... Read more

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An ambitious interreligious and interdisciplinary compendium that illuminates the power of saintly figures in intractable social conflictsIn our contemporary world, interactions and attitudes across differences in wealth, ethnicity, religion, or political values have often given way to fear and blame between identity groups. Some such diversities have been rendered sites of raw antagonism by
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Don Quixote

The Re-accentuation of the World’s Greatest Literary Hero

by Eduardo Urbina, Bruce R. Burningham, Emilio Martínez Mata, Ricardo Castells, Rachel Schmidt, Stephen Hessel, S. Alleyn Smythe, J. A. Garrido Ardila, Victor Fet, Steven Ritz-Barr, Fernando González Moreno, Tatevik Gyulamiryan, William Childers, Margarita Marinova, Scott Pollard, Jonathan Wade, Roy H. Williams ...

This book is a unique scholarly attempt to examine Don Quixote from multiple angles to see how the re-accentuation of the world’s greatest literary hero takes place in film, theatre, and literature. To accomplish this task, eighteen scholars from the USA, Canada, Spain, and Great Britain have come together, and each of them has brought his/her unique perspective to the subject. For the first time, ... Read more

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This book is a unique scholarly attempt to examine Don Quixote from multiple angles to see how the re-accentuation of the world’s greatest literary hero takes place in film, theatre, and literature. To accomplish this task, eighteen scholars from the USA, Canada, Spain, and Great Britain have come together, and each of them has brought his/her unique perspective to the subject. For the first time,
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Viktor Shklovsky’s Heritage in Literature, Arts, and Philosophy

by Michael Eskin, Michael Everson, Victor Fet, Norbert Francis, Melissa Garr, David Gorman, Grant Hamilton, Ilya Kalinin, Basil Lvoff0, Alexander Markov1, Steven Mills2, Eric Naiman3, Annie Van den Oever4, Holger Pötzsch5, Rachel Schmidt6, Serguei Oushakine7, Dr. or Professor Slav Gratchev8 ...

This book examines the heritage of Victor Shklovsky in a variety of disciplines. To achieve this end, Slav N. Gratchev and Howard Mancing draw upon colleagues from eight different countries across the world—the United States, Canada, Russia, England, Scotland, the Netherlands, Norway, and China—in order to bring the widest variety of points of view on the subject. Viktor Shklovsky’s Heritage in ... Read more

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This book examines the heritage of Victor Shklovsky in a variety of disciplines. To achieve this end, Slav N. Gratchev and Howard Mancing draw upon colleagues from eight different countries across the world—the United States, Canada, Russia, England, Scotland, the Netherlands, Norway, and China—in order to bring the widest variety of points of view on the subject. Viktor Shklovsky’s Heritage in
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A Yellow Rose Project

Responses, Reflections, and Reactions to the Nineteenth Amendment

by Meg Griffiths, Frances Jakubek, Marina Font, Cindy Hwang, Keliy Anderson-Staley, Lisa McCarty, Sheri Lynn Behr, Tracy L Chandler, Carolyn McIntyre, Betty Press, Sara Bennett, Kris Sanford, Kristine Thompson, Priya Kambli, Ina Jang, Amy Thompson Avishai, Lily Brooks, Christa Bowden, Bootsy Holler, Kat Kiernan, Anne J Berry, Claudia Ruiz Gustafson, Katie Benjamin, Claire A Warden, Susan Kae Grant, Letitia Huckaby, Gail Samuelson, Rana Young, Sarah Hadley, Yael Eban, Brea Souders, Aline Smithson, Frances F Denny, Ileana Doble Hernandez, Manjari Sharma, Melanie Walker, Chehalis Deane Hegner, Ellen Carey, Rachel Phillips, Mary Beth Meehan, Julia Bennett, Astrid Reischwitz, Noelle McCleaf, Preston Gannaway, Sandra Klein, Toni Pepe, Greer Muldowney, Serrah Russell, Sarah Pollman, Maude Schuyler Clay, Sasha Tivetsky, Molly Lamb, Karen Zusman, K.K. DePaul, Laura E Migliorino, Heidi Kirkpatrick, Farah Janjua, Kyra Schmidt, Rachel Loischild, Megan Jacobs, Tsar Fedorsky, Susan Rosenberg Jones, Carla Jay Harris, Jeanine Michna-Bales, Kalee Appleton, Paula Riff, Rania Matar, Colleen Mullins, Kathya Maria Landeros, Hye-Ryoung Min, Alice Hargrave, Jennifer McClure, Alyssa Minahan, S. Billie Mandle, Odette England, Joni Sternbach, Thalassa Raasch, Deedra Baker, Jordanna Kalman, Cassandra Zampini, Ashley Kauschinger, Sara Macel, Elizabeth M Claffey, Marie Triller, Katelyn Kopenhaver, Yvette Meltzer, Larissa Ramey, Rebecca Drolen, Emily Peacock, Leigh Merrill, Tami Bahat, Greta Pratt, Ellen Feldman, Tamara Reynolds, Ashleigh Coleman, Patty Carroll, Edie Bresler, Marky Kauffmann, Nancy Baron, Ann Marye George, Tara Cronin, Carol Erb, Lindsey Beal, Sarah Hoskins, Emily Sheffer, Diane Meyer ...

Series series Pioneering Women: Leaders and Trailblazers, sponsored by the Jane Nelson Institute for Women’s Leadership, Texas Woman's University
August 18, 2020, marked the centennial of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. In 1920, women wearing yellow roses stood shoulder to shoulder in Tennessee, awaiting the roll call of men who would cast their votes for or against a woman’s right to a voice in government.Though this movement won rights for some women—an achievement to be acknowledged and ... Read more

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August 18, 2020, marked the centennial of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. In 1920, women wearing yellow roses stood shoulder to shoulder in Tennessee, awaiting the roll call of men who would cast their votes for or against a woman’s right to a voice in government.Though this movement won rights for some women—an achievement to be acknowledged and
... Read more
The Long Year

A 2020 Reader

by Andy Horowitz, Éric Charmes, Max Rousseau, Adam Tooze, Joan Wallach Scott, Andrew Lakoff, Keisha N. Blain, Natalia Molina, Marcia Chatelain, Michelle Cera, Gilles Guiheux, Ye Guo, Renyou Hou, Manon Laurent, Jun Li, Anne-Valérie Ruinet, Govindan Venkatasubramanian, Isabelle Guérin, Mathieu Ferry, Marine Al Dahdah, Neha Vora, Sulfikar Amir, Sherihan Radi, Mustafa Dikeç, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Simon Balto, Jeffrey Aaron Snyder, Rachel Nolan, David Schmidt, Julie Livingston, Margaret Morganroth Gullette, Xiaowei Wang, Priscilla Wald, Evan Lieberman, Warwick Anderson, Julia Foulkes, Soledad Álvarez Velasco, Sophie Lewis, Guobin Yang, Sophie Gonick, Margaret O'Mara, Alfonso Fierro, Erick Corrêa, Ananya Roy, Gianpaolo Biaocchi, Jake Carlson, Quentin Ravelli, Jean-Paul Gagnon, Rikki J. Dean, Afsoun Afsahi, Emily Beausoleil, Selen A. Ercan, Miguel Centeno, Gautam Bhan, Joanne Randa Nucho, Yarimar Bonilla, Jacob A.C. Remes, Warren Breckman, Cordula Dittmer, Daniel F. Lorenz, Kathryn Cai, Eric Klinenberg, David S. Barnes, Kavita Sivaramakrishnan, Merlin Chowkwanyun ...

Series series Public Books Series
Some years—1789, 1929, 1989—change the world suddenly. Or do they? In 2020, a pandemic converged with an economic collapse, inequalities exploded, and institutions weakened. Yet these crises sprang not from new risks but from known dangers. The world—like many patients—met 2020 with a host of preexisting conditions, which together tilted the odds toward disaster. Perhaps 2020 wasn’t the year the ... Read more

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Some years—1789, 1929, 1989—change the world suddenly. Or do they? In 2020, a pandemic converged with an economic collapse, inequalities exploded, and institutions weakened. Yet these crises sprang not from new risks but from known dangers. The world—like many patients—met 2020 with a host of preexisting conditions, which together tilted the odds toward disaster. Perhaps 2020 wasn’t the year the
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Gender in African Prehistory

by John Parkington, Lyn Wadley, Joanna Casey, Barbara E. Barich, Diane Gifford-Gonzalez, Peter R. Schmidt, Rachel MacLean, Paul J. Lane, Ann B. Stahl, M. Dores Cruz, Alinah Segobye ...

Gender in African Prehistory provides methods and theories for delineating and discussing prehistoric gender relations and their change through time. Sites studied range from Egypt to South Africa and Ghana to Tanzania, while time periods span the Stone Age to the period just prior to colonialization. ... Read more

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Gender in African Prehistory provides methods and theories for delineating and discussing prehistoric gender relations and their change through time. Sites studied range from Egypt to South Africa and Ghana to Tanzania, while time periods span the Stone Age to the period just prior to colonialization.
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Paws, Claws, and Magic Tales

Fellowship of Fantasy, #5

by H. L. Burke, A. J. Bakke, Janeen Ippolito, Lelia Rose Foreman, Savannah Jezowski, Sharon Hughson, Laura L. Zimmerman, Grace Bridges, J. L. Rowan, Ace G. Pilkington, Pamela Sharp, Rachel Ann Michael Harris, Jenelle Schmidt, Karin De Havin, Jeremy Rodden, Naomi P. Cohen ...

Series Book 5 - Fellowship of Fantasy
There's just something magical about cats.Fierce hunters content to rest upon our sofas. Sweet friends but stubbornly independent. Fluffy little murder balls with jellybean toes and razor-sharp claws. It's easier to answer what cats aren't than what they are.In this purr-fect collection, awesome authors pounce upon the challenge of the mysterious cat like the elusive little red dot it is. Curl up ... Read more

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There's just something magical about cats.Fierce hunters content to rest upon our sofas. Sweet friends but stubbornly independent. Fluffy little murder balls with jellybean toes and razor-sharp claws. It's easier to answer what cats aren't than what they are.In this purr-fect collection, awesome authors pounce upon the challenge of the mysterious cat like the elusive little red dot it is. Curl up
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The Holidays of the Aristocracy: Boxed Set

by Linda Rae Sande ...

Four sensual Regency romances—nearly 900 pages—make up this boxed set about six couples set during Christmas.Spending Christmas in a remote hunting lodge with a warm, cozy fire is exactly what Milton, Earl of Torrington, and his new bride, Adele, need. When the coach carrying their trunks—and servants—doesn’t reach its destination, they are left to fend for themselves in THE CHRISTMAS OF A ... Read more

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Four sensual Regency romances—nearly 900 pages—make up this boxed set about six couples set during Christmas.Spending Christmas in a remote hunting lodge with a warm, cozy fire is exactly what Milton, Earl of Torrington, and his new bride, Adele, need. When the coach carrying their trunks—and servants—doesn’t reach its destination, they are left to fend for themselves in THE CHRISTMAS OF A
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Wicked Wishes

A Fiction-Atlas Press Charity Anthology

by C.L. Cannon ...

Be careful what you wish for...it just might come true...Join the authors of Wicked Wishes as they explore all the ways a simple wish can go horribly wrong! Will these characters be able to set things right again? Or is that just wishful thinking?100% of proceeds from this anthology will benefit The World Literacy Foundation, a global not-for-profit that works to lift young people out of poverty ... Read more

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Be careful what you wish for...it just might come true...Join the authors of Wicked Wishes as they explore all the ways a simple wish can go horribly wrong! Will these characters be able to set things right again? Or is that just wishful thinking?100% of proceeds from this anthology will benefit The World Literacy Foundation, a global not-for-profit that works to lift young people out of poverty
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