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  • Corpse Encounters

    An Aesthetics of Death

    de Jacqueline Elam, Chase Pielak ...
    This book takes a critical glance at the ways in which we attend to the corpse, tracing a trajectory from encounter toward considering options for disposal: veneered mortuary internment, green burial and its attendant rot, cremation and alkaline hydrolysis, donation and display, and ecological burial. Through tracing the possible futures of the dead that haunt the living, through both the stories ... Leer más

    $39.99 USD

  • Memorializing Animals during the Romantic Period

    de Chase Pielak ...
    Early nineteenth-century British literature is overpopulated with images of dead and deadly animals, as Chase Pielak observes in his study of animal encounters in the works of Charles and Mary Lamb, John Clare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, and William Wordsworth. These encounters, Pielak suggests, coincide with anxieties over living alongside both animals and cemeteries in the late ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Living with Zombies

    Society in Apocalypse in Film, Literature and Other Media

    de Chase Pielak, Alexander H. Cohen ...
    Series series Contributions to Zombie Studies
    Depictions of the zombie apocalypse continue to reshape our concept of the walking dead (and of ourselves). The undead mirror cultural fears--governmental control, lawlessness, even interpersonal relationships--exposing our weaknesses and demanding a response (or safeguard), even as we imagine ever more horrifying versions of post-apocalyptic life. This critical study traces a shift in narrative ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • The Collected Sonnets of William Shakespeare, Zombie

    de William Shakespeare, Chase Pielak ...
    Series series Contributions to Zombie Studies
    What if one of literature's greatest poets was actually a zombie, writing in an Elizabethan world teeming with the undead hiding in plain sight? Inviting readers to see the sublime in the looming apocalypse, this book presents all 154 Shakespearean sonnets (with minor alterations transfigured into "zonnets") in their horrifying glory, highlighting transcendent themes of love, death, beauty and ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

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  • In the Name of the Mother

    Reflections on Writers and Empire

    de Ngugi wa Thiong'o ...
    Renowned worldwide, as novelist and dramatist, Ngugi wa Thiongo's contributions to the body of critical writing on African literature, politics and society have been highly significant. His best known critical work is Decolonising the Mind, which since publication in 1986 has profoundly influenced other writers, critics, scholars and students.These latest essays reflect Ngugi's continuing ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Not Young, Still Restless

    A Memoir

    de Jeanne Cooper, Lindsay Harrison ...
    The New York Times–bestselling memoir from one of daytime television's most beloved actresses.Jeanne Cooper, the Emmy Award–winning American actress best known for her portrayal of Katherine Chancellor on the daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless, recounts the steps and missteps of her six-decade career in Not Young, Still Restless. Exploring a career that began with the birth of a ... Leer más

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  • Dreaming Anastasia

    A Novel of Love, Magic, and the Power of Dreams

    de Joy Preble ...
    Series Libro 1 - Dreaming Anastasia
    What really happened to Anastasia Romanov?Anastasia Romanov thought she would never feel more alone than when the gunfire started and her family began to fall around her. Surely the bullets would come for her next. But they didn't. Instead, two gnarled old hands reached for her. When she wakes up she discovers that she is in the ancient hut of the witch Baba Yaga, and that some things are worse ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Deborah and Her Sisters

    How One Nineteenth-Century Melodrama and a Host of Celebrated Actresses Put Judaism on the World Stage

    de Jonathan M. Hess ...
    Series series Jewish Culture and Contexts
    Before Fiddler on the Roof, before The Jazz Singer, there was Deborah, a tear-jerking melodrama about a Jewish woman forsaken by her non-Jewish lover. Within a few years of its 1849 debut in Hamburg, the play was seen on stages across Germany and Austria, as well as throughout Europe, the British Empire, and North America. The German-Jewish elite complained that the playwright, Jewish writer S. H. ... Leer más

    $53.99 USD

  • The Call of the Weird

    Encounters with Survivalists, Porn Stars, Alien Killers, and Ike Turner

    de Louis Theroux ...
    No, it doesn't get much weirder than this: Thor Templar, Lord Commander of the Earth Protectorate, who claims to have killed ten aliens. Or April, the Neo-Nazi bringing up her twin daughters Lamb and Lynx (who have just formed a white-power folk group for kids called Prussian Blue), and her youngest daughter, Dresden. For a decade now, Louis Theroux has been making programs about offbeat ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Catherine, Called Birdy

    A Newbery Honor Award Winner

    de Karen Cushman ...
    Read the book behind Lena Dunham’s acclaimed new movie! This historical fiction classic, told in the form of a diary, has drawn in generations of readers and is a Newbery Honor Book.Catherine feels trapped. Her father is determined to marry her off to a rich man—any rich man, no matter how awful.But by wit, trickery, and luck, Catherine manages to send several would-be husbands packing. Then a ... Leer más

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  • The Deep Zoo

    Essays

    de Rikki Ducornet ...
    Rikki Ducornet’s essays explore eros, violence, dreams, fairy tales, and art as alchemy—the Deep Zoo at the core of humanity.Within the writer’s life, words and things acquire power. For Borges it is the tiger and the color red, for Cortázar a pair of amorous lions, and for an early Egyptian scribe the monarch butterfly that metamorphosed into the Key of Life. Ducornet names these powers The Deep ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Lorraine

    The True Story of Britain's Best Loved TV Presenter

    de Neil Simpson ...
    Neil Simpson has been a staff reporter on the Daily Mirror, Sunday Telegraph and Mail on Sunday as well as writing for various newspapers and magazines. His recent books include Gordon Ramsay: The Biography, Charlotte Church: Hell's Angel, Jade: Story of a Survivor and Kings of Comedy, a biography of Matt Lucas and David Walliams. ... Leer más

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