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Bring on the books for everybody : how literary culture became popular culture
Bring on the Books for Everybody is an engaging assessment of the robust popular literary culture that has developed in the United States during the past two decades. Jim Collins describes how a once solitary and print-based experience has become an exuberantly social activity, enjoyed as much on the screen as on the page. Fueled by Oprah’s Book Club, Miramax film adaptations, superstore book…
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- 9780822391975
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- 306.0973 COL
Sisters and the English household : domesticity and women's autonomy in ninet…
All books have long histories. The ideas and early versions of this book stretch back to my doctoral work at the University of Texas at Austin, to Kurt Heinzelman’s scholarship on William and Dorothy Wordsworth, and to Richard Sha’s unfailing friendship and encouragement through the years since we were students together. Librarians at t…
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- 9781783088454
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- 216p
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- 820.9352652 ANN s
Xiipúktan (first of all): three views of the origins of the Quechan people
The Quechan people live along the lower part of the Colorado River in the United States. According to tradition, the Quechan and other Yuman people were created at the beginning of time, and their Creation myth explains how they came into existence, the origin of their environment, and the significance of their oldest traditions. The Creation myth forms the backdrop against which much of the tr…
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- 9781909254411
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- 210 p. ; 24 cm
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- 973.0497 BRY x
Literature against criticism : university English and contemporary fiction in…
"This is a book about the power game currently being played out between two symbiotic cultural institutions: the university and the novel. As the number of hyper-knowledgeable literary fans grows, students and researchers in English departments waiver between dismissing and harnessing voices outside the academy. Meanwhile, the role that the university plays in contemporary literary fiction is b…
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- 9781783742752
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- 248 p. : ill.
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- 809.3 EVE l
Entertaining the idea : shakespeare, performance, and philosophy
To entertain an idea is to take it in, pay attention to it, give it breathing room, dwell with it for a time. The practice of entertaining ideas suggests rumination and meditation, inviting us to think of philosophy as a form of hospitality and a kind of mental theatre. In this collection, organized around key words shared by philosophy and performance, the editors suggest that Shakespeare’s …
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- 9781487536237
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- ix, 237 p.
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- 822.33 GAL e
Storytelling in Northern Zambia: theory, method, practice and other necessary…
Storytelling plays an important part in the vibrant cultural life of Zambia and in many other communities across Africa. This innovative book provides a collection and analysis of oral narrative traditions as practiced by five Bemba-speaking ethnic groups in Zambia. The integration of newly digitalised audio and video recordings into the text enables the reader to encounter the storytellers the…
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- 9781909254619
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- xviii, 274 p. : ill. : ind. ; 24 cm
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- 808.543 CAN s
Poetry and psychiatry
In this volume, Professor Ljunggren introduces the Symbolists and their feverish expectations in detail. Theirs was a time when for a brief moment everything seemed possible. Then came the rude awakening, best described in Bely’s powerful prose masterpiece Petersburg, which serves as the connective thread and recurrent point of reference throughout this collection. Written in the early 1910s,…
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- 9781618113504
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- Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and History
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- 891.70915 LJU p
Wild words: essays on alberta literature
As the first collection of literary criticism focusing on Alberta writers, Wild Words establishes a basis for identifying Alberta fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction as valid subjects of study in their own right. By critically situating and assessing specific Alberta authors according to genre, this volume continues the work begun with Melnyk's Literary History of Alberta.
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- 9781897425305
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- 219 p.; 22 cm.
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- 801.95 WIL w
Culture & money in the nineteenth century: abstracting economics
Since the 1980s, scholars have made the case for examining 19th-century culture, particularly literary output, through the lens of economics. Bivona and Tromp have collected contributions that push New Economic Criticism in new directions.Spanning the Americas, India, England, and Scotland, this volume adopts a global view of the cultural effects of economics and exchange. Contributors use the …
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- 9780821421963
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- viii, 230 pages ; 24 cm.
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- Series in Victorian studies
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- 306.009034 BIV c
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