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  • Court Trials in Mark Twain and other Essays

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The major section of this volume, dealing with court trials in Mark Twain, is here published for the first time with the of the discussion of the trial of Silas Phelps. The exception account of this trial and the essay entitled "The Source of Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer, Detective" were originally published to gether as "Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer, Detective" in Studia Neophilologica in 1953 (XXV, 161 ... Leer más

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    In this eye-opening book, Mary McCarthy shares her love of the novel and her fear that it is becoming an endangered literary species"He had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it."So begins Mary McCarthy's fascinating critical analysis of the novel (and its practitioners) from her double-edged perspective as both reader and writer. The bestselling author of The Group takes T. S. Eliot's ... Leer más

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  • The Deep Zoo

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    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

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  • Environmental Humanities

    Voices from the Anthropocene

    Series series Rowman and Littlefield International – Intersections
    This important volume brings together scientific, cultural, literary, historical, and philosophical perspectives to offer new understandings of the critical issues of our ecological present and new models for the creation of alternative ecological futures.At a time when the narrative and theoretical threads of the environmental humanities are more entwined than ever with the scientific, ethical, ... Leer más

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  • Ways of Knowing in Early Modern Germany

    Johannes Praetorius as a Witness to his Time

    Series series Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
    Gerhild Scholz Williams's Ways of Knowing in Early Modern Germany: Johannes Praetorius as a Witness to His Time, reviews key discourses in eight of Praetorius's works. She introduces the modern reader to the kinds of subjects, the intellectual and spiritual approaches to them, and the genres that this educated and productive German scholar and polymath presented to his audience in the seventeenth ... Leer más

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  • Domestic Murder in Nineteenth-Century England

    Literary and Cultural Representations

    de Bridget Walsh ...
    Why did certain domestic murders fire the Victorian imagination? In her analysis of literary and cultural representations of this phenomenon across genres, Bridget Walsh traces how the perception of the domestic murderer changed across the nineteenth century and suggests ways in which the public appetite for such crimes was representative of wider social concerns. She argues that the portrayal of ... Leer más

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  • Recoding World Literature

    Libraries, Print Culture, and Germany's Pact with Books

    Winner, 2018 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures, Modern Language AssociationWinner, 2018 German Studies Association DAAD Book Prize in Germanistik and Cultural Studies.From the current vantage point of the transformation of books and libraries, B. Venkat Mani presents a historical account of world literature. By locating translation, publication, and ... Leer más

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  • Contrastive Analysis of Discourse-pragmatic Aspects of Linguistic Genres

    Edición de Karin Aijmer, Diana Lewis ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume will give readers insight into how genres are characterised by the patterns of frequency and distribution of linguistic features across a number of European languages. The material presented in this book will also stimulate further corpus-based contrastive research including more languages, more genres and different types of corpora. This is the first special issue of the Yearbook of ... Leer más

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  • Fecal Matters in Early Modern Literature and Art

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    Edición de Jeff Persels, Russell Ganim ...
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    Feces, urine, flatus, phlegm, vomitus - unlike ourselves, our most educated forebears did not disdain these functions, and, further, they employed scatological references in all manner of works. This collection of essays was provoked by what its editors considered to be a curious lacuna: the relative academic neglect of the copious and ubiquitous scatological rhetoric of Early Modern Europe, here ... Leer más

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  • Miscellaneous Short Poetry, 1641–1700

    Printed Writings 1641–1700: Series II, Part Three, Volume 4

    Series Libro 3 - The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works & Printed Writings, 1641-1700: Series II
    This volume reproduces twenty short texts written by named and unnamed women in the years 1641-1700. These texts, selected and introduced by various hands, are grouped in thematic clusters for the reader's ease - poetry on religion, on politics, on society, on domestic/social affairs and on mourning. The poems are arranged chronologically within each cluster. The volume closes with Anne Wentworth ... Leer más

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  • Thornton and Tully's Scientific Books, Libraries and Collectors

    A Study of Bibliography and the Book Trade in Relation to the History of Science

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    In the 25 years since the last edition of Thornton and Tully’s Scientific Books, Libraries and Collectors was published, scientific publishing has mushroomed, developed new forms, and the academic discipline and popular appreciation of the history of science have grown apace. This fourth edition discusses these changes and ponders the implications of developments in publishing at the end of the ... Leer más

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  • Women and Murder in Early Modern News Pamphlets and Broadside Ballads, 1573-1697

    Essential Works for the Study of Early Modern Women, Series III, Part One, Volume 7

    Series Libro 1 - The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works for the Study of Early Modern Women Series III
    As voyeuristic and prurient as today's tabloid newspapers, early modern crime pamphlets and broadside ballads about women murderers tell of furtive love affairs and domestic poisonings, of battered wives who kill their abusive husbands, and of troubled mothers who murder their children. On first acquaintance, many pamphlets leave an impression of shallow sensationalism yoked to idealised ... Leer más

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