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Transatlantic Aliens

Modernism, Exile, and Culture in Midcentury America

by Will Norman ...

Series series Hopkins Studies in Modernism
"A cogent and innovative account of the politics of literary and artistic modernism in the early years of the Cold War . . . an exceptional book." — TransatlanticaIn Transatlantic Aliens, Will Norman reorients our understanding of midcentury American culture by thinking dialectically about the interfusion of aesthetic and intellectual practices across both the cultural hierarchy and the Atlantic ... Read more

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"A cogent and innovative account of the politics of literary and artistic modernism in the early years of the Cold War . . . an exceptional book." — TransatlanticaIn Transatlantic Aliens, Will Norman reorients our understanding of midcentury American culture by thinking dialectically about the interfusion of aesthetic and intellectual practices across both the cultural hierarchy and the Atlantic
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The Day The World Fell Out Of My Bottom

by Norman Will ...

Bang!Bang!Bang!The blows came in hard and sure, and each one found its mark. I was immediately left reeling, dazed, confused and nauseated.This was September 1989 and I was sitting in Northampton General Hospital in a Doctor's office. I had just been told that I had Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, a type of cancer, and that it was in its final stage: stage four, that there was not a lot they could do for me ... Read more

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Bang!Bang!Bang!The blows came in hard and sure, and each one found its mark. I was immediately left reeling, dazed, confused and nauseated.This was September 1989 and I was sitting in Northampton General Hospital in a Doctor's office. I had just been told that I had Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, a type of cancer, and that it was in its final stage: stage four, that there was not a lot they could do for me
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Complicity in American Literature after 1945

Liberalism, Race, and Colonialism

by Will Norman ...

Series series Oxford Studies in American Literary History
Complicity in American Literature after 1945 offers a literary and intellectual history of the idea of complicity in the United States, proposing a new frame for understanding American literature in the period. The term “complicity” derives etymologically from the Latin complicãre, which means “to fold.” If one is complicit, one is folded into a larger system of social harm over which one has ... Read more

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Complicity in American Literature after 1945 offers a literary and intellectual history of the idea of complicity in the United States, proposing a new frame for understanding American literature in the period. The term “complicity” derives etymologically from the Latin complicãre, which means “to fold.” If one is complicit, one is folded into a larger system of social harm over which one has
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Nabokov, History and the Texture of Time

by Will Norman ...

Series series Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature
This book argues that the apparent evasion of history in Vladimir Nabokov’s fiction conceals a profound engagement with social, and therefore political, temporalities. While Nabokov scholarship has long assumed the same position as Nabokov himself — that his works exist in a state of historical exceptionalism — this study restores the content, context, and commentary to Nabokovian time by reading ... Read more

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This book argues that the apparent evasion of history in Vladimir Nabokov’s fiction conceals a profound engagement with social, and therefore political, temporalities. While Nabokov scholarship has long assumed the same position as Nabokov himself — that his works exist in a state of historical exceptionalism — this study restores the content, context, and commentary to Nabokovian time by reading
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Knee Deep in Murder

A Detective Inspector Steve Wicks Novel (Book 1)

by Norman Wills ...

A crime mystery set in WiganDetective inspector Steve Wicks works in the Wigan borough for the Greater Manchester Police Force. (GMP)Along with his Major Incident team he is tasked with finding the killer of Daniel Thomas who had been found hidden in the poly-tunnel in the gardens of Greenacres, a community hub in Atherton.Things weren't as simple as they seemed at first and with more bodies found ... Read more

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A crime mystery set in WiganDetective inspector Steve Wicks works in the Wigan borough for the Greater Manchester Police Force. (GMP)Along with his Major Incident team he is tasked with finding the killer of Daniel Thomas who had been found hidden in the poly-tunnel in the gardens of Greenacres, a community hub in Atherton.Things weren't as simple as they seemed at first and with more bodies found
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Facing the Abyss

American Literature and Culture in the 1940s

by George Hutchinson ...

Mythologized as the era of the “good war” and the “Greatest Generation,” the 1940s are frequently understood as a more heroic, uncomplicated time in American history. Yet just below the surface, a sense of dread, alienation, and the haunting specter of radical evil permeated American art and literature. Writers returned home from World War II and gave form to their disorienting experiences of ... Read more

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Mythologized as the era of the “good war” and the “Greatest Generation,” the 1940s are frequently understood as a more heroic, uncomplicated time in American history. Yet just below the surface, a sense of dread, alienation, and the haunting specter of radical evil permeated American art and literature. Writers returned home from World War II and gave form to their disorienting experiences of
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Maus Now

Selected Writing

Edited by Hillary Chute ...

Richly illustrated with images from Art Spiegelman’s Maus (“the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust” —The Wall Street Journal), Maus Now includes work from twenty-one leading critics, authors, and academics—including Philip Pullman, Robert Storr, Ruth Franklin, and Adam Gopnik—on the radical achievement and innovation of Maus, more than forty years since the ... Read more

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Richly illustrated with images from Art Spiegelman’s Maus (“the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust” —The Wall Street Journal), Maus Now includes work from twenty-one leading critics, authors, and academics—including Philip Pullman, Robert Storr, Ruth Franklin, and Adam Gopnik—on the radical achievement and innovation of Maus, more than forty years since the
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Blood in the Water

An Alice Rice Mystery

by Gillian Galbraith ...

Series series The Alice Rice Mysteries
In this gritty, mystery series debut, a lone wolf detective must use her wits to nab a serial killer terrorizing Edinburgh professionals.If it was me, if I was the murderer, Alice thought, where would I go? What would I do? The job he had set himself was unfinished, he must be aware that his luck could not go on forever. It was a simple calculation; at best, a lifetime in prison, at worst he'd be ... Read more

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In this gritty, mystery series debut, a lone wolf detective must use her wits to nab a serial killer terrorizing Edinburgh professionals.If it was me, if I was the murderer, Alice thought, where would I go? What would I do? The job he had set himself was unfinished, he must be aware that his luck could not go on forever. It was a simple calculation; at best, a lifetime in prison, at worst he'd be
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The Cambridge Companion to Modernism

Edited by Michael Levenson ...

Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
This Companion has long been a standard introduction to the field. This second edition is updated and enhanced with four new chapters, addressing the key themes being researched, taught and studied in modernism. Its interdisciplinary approach is central to its success as it brings together readings of the many varieties of modernism. Chapters address the major literary genres, the intellectual, ... Read more

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This Companion has long been a standard introduction to the field. This second edition is updated and enhanced with four new chapters, addressing the key themes being researched, taught and studied in modernism. Its interdisciplinary approach is central to its success as it brings together readings of the many varieties of modernism. Chapters address the major literary genres, the intellectual,
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The Democratic Surround

Multimedia & American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties

by Fred Turner ...

A "smart and fascinating" reassessment of postwar American culture and the politics of the 1960s from the author of From Counterculture to Cyberculture ( Reason Magazine).We tend to think of the sixties as an explosion of creative energy and freedom that arose in direct revolt against the social restraint and authoritarian hierarchy of the early Cold War years. Yet, as Fred Turner reveals in The ... Read more

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A "smart and fascinating" reassessment of postwar American culture and the politics of the 1960s from the author of From Counterculture to Cyberculture ( Reason Magazine).We tend to think of the sixties as an explosion of creative energy and freedom that arose in direct revolt against the social restraint and authoritarian hierarchy of the early Cold War years. Yet, as Fred Turner reveals in The
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The Age of the Crisis of Man

Thought and Fiction in America, 1933–1973

by Mark Greif ...

A compelling intellectual and literary history of midcentury AmericaIn a midcentury American cultural episode forgotten today, intellectuals of all schools shared a belief that human nature was under threat. The immediate result was a glut of dense, abstract books on the "nature of man." But the dawning "age of the crisis of man," as Mark Greif calls it, was far more than a historical curiosity. ... Read more

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A compelling intellectual and literary history of midcentury AmericaIn a midcentury American cultural episode forgotten today, intellectuals of all schools shared a belief that human nature was under threat. The immediate result was a glut of dense, abstract books on the "nature of man." But the dawning "age of the crisis of man," as Mark Greif calls it, was far more than a historical curiosity.
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The Road to Hell

by Gillian Galbraith ...

Series Book 5 - The Alice Rice Mysteries
Scottish detective Alice Rice puts her career—and life—on the line in this "excellent crime novel" from the author of No Sorrow to Die ( Scottish Field).When the body of a half-clothed woman is discovered in an Edinburgh park, a murder investigation is launched. The victim has not been reported missing, and there are few clues to her identity. Soon after, the naked corpse of a prominent clergyman ... Read more

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Scottish detective Alice Rice puts her career—and life—on the line in this "excellent crime novel" from the author of No Sorrow to Die ( Scottish Field).When the body of a half-clothed woman is discovered in an Edinburgh park, a murder investigation is launched. The victim has not been reported missing, and there are few clues to her identity. Soon after, the naked corpse of a prominent clergyman
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