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Jeremy Harte
Fairy Encounters in Medieval England

Exeter New Approaches to Legend, Folklore and Popular Belief

What is it like to meet a being from another world? This book collects testimony from eight hundred years of witnesses baffled by the supernatural breaking into their lives. Close reading of miracle colle…

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Elen Caldecott
Writing for Young People

Applying the approach of 'reading-as-a-writer' to the craft of writing for young people, this textbook combines critical analysis, unique author-insight and practical application of ideas to give writers …

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Xavier Kalck
American Objectivist Poetry Across the 20th Century

Offering a new introduction to an important yet often overlooked group of 20th century American poets, this book re-examines their work as a group while giving special attention to their individual trajec…

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Richard Jenkyns
The Path from Aulis

The first book to re-assess the Oresteia for a new generation of Classicists.Bridging between the disciplines of Classics, literary studies, gender studies, moral philosophy, and theories of imagery, Jenk…

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Christian R. Gelder
The Search for a Science of Verse, 1880 to the Present

From large-scale quantitative studies in the digital humanities to AI-generated poetry, scientific reading seemingly reigns supreme. However, these reading practices preceded, and often shaped, modern lit…

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Essaka Joshua
Disability and the Gothic

Disability is central to the Gothic imagination. This Element draws together disability and Gothic literature in ways that show the interplay between them. The first chapter offers a brief history of Crit…

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Essaka Joshua
Disability and the Gothic

Disability is central to the Gothic imagination. This Element draws together disability and Gothic literature in ways that show the interplay between them. The first chapter offers a brief history of Crit…

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Dianna N. Watkins-Dickerson
A Black Woman for President

Throughout US history, only three Black women---Shirley Chisholm, Carol Moseley Braun, and Kamala Harris---have given successfully recognized bids for the office of president of the United States. In A Bl…

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Victoria Wohl
The Poetry of Being and the Prose of the World in Early Greek Philosophy

"This hauntingly beautiful study recovers the boundlessness of Presocratic thought. In close readings of five early Greek cosmologists--Parmenides, Heraclitus, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, and Democritus-…

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After the Broken Spears

Following Hernando Cortés's conquest of Tenochtitlan in 1521, the Aztec empire became the center of the largest European colony in the Americas. It has long been assumed that Indigenous people's personal …

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Chelsea Burns
The Exotic Self

When Europeans and North Americans listen to music by Latin American composers, what do they hear? What, for that matter, do these composers' compatriots hear? The answer, historically, has been the sound…

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Teaching with Science Writing in the Humanities Classroom

Options for Teaching

Options for teaching science writing in humanities coursesScience writing is an expansive genre that invites collaborations between the humanities and science---not as separate endeavors but as mutually c…

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Vasugi Kailasam
The Tamil Realist Novel in South and Southeast Asia

The Tamil Realist Novel in South and Southeast Asia traces the emergence of Tamil literary realism as a transregional formation across India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, and Singapore from the 1940s to the 1980s…

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Jessica Frazier
Gadamer on Being

This book uses the work of Hans-Georg Gadamer to paint a picture of a creative, communal and hopeful modernity once promised, but almost forgotten behind 'end of history' and 'clash of civilizations' pred…

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Michelle Stork
Transcultural Automobilities in Contemporary Anglophone Road Narratives

Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture

This book analyzes contemporary Anglophone road narratives from a transcultural perspective. By bringing together texts set in Australia, Africa, Canada, Europe, Aotearoa/New Zealand, India, and the US, i…

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Monstrum in Fabula

Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes

Monstrum in Fabula offers a wide-ranging exploration of how ancient societies imagined, defined, and used monsters. Bringing together essays on ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Hebrew Bible, and the Greek …

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Kai Horstmannshoff
The Loop

American Culture Studies - Band 21

The Loop: Chicago Architecture and the Social Imaginary discusses the social function of architecture. Through close readings of skyscrapers, opera houses and urban parks in Chicago, Kai Horstmannshoff de…

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Character Studies in the Gospel of Matthew

This volume examines a multitude of characters in Matthew's gospel and provides an in-depth look at the different approaches currently employed by scholars working with literary and reader-oriented method…

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Heike Schaefer
American Literature and Immediacy

The search for immediacy, the desire to feel directly connected to people or events, has been a driving force in American literature and media culture for the past two centuries. This book offers the firs…

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Nikitas Fessas
Animals and Greek Cinema

This book offers a non-anthropocentric account of a national cinema. Drawing on cutting-edge developments in Animal (film) studies, the book gathers a wide range of species and genres to discuss the Greek…

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