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Satomi Saito
The Evolution of Classical Detective Fiction in Japan

This Element traces the evolution of honkaku (orthodox) detective fiction in Japan, examining how a Western-derived puzzle genre was adapted, contested, and transformed within Japan's twentieth-century cu…

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Maria Tatar
Arachnomania

In praise of spiders in all their inspirational glorySpiders are often found lurking in dusty corners, where we can observe them with interest or brush them away with disgust---or make a run for it, as th…

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L. Frank Baum
Manga Classics

Button Books

Manga Classics: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz brings the classic story of a little girl trying to find her way home through a fairytale landscape to life as a comic book.Get swept away with Dorothy from the …

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Lingering Inland

Vignettes by writers engaging with prominent and obscure Midwestern locales How do the stories we tell about Midwestern places influence or reflect our experiences? How is the literature of a place or a r…

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Helen Vendler
Inhabit the Poem: Last Essays

In 13 essays, the great poetry critic offers her final word on the poets who have meant the most to her, from Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson to Wallace Stevens and Sylvia PlathHelen Vendler was our grea…

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Susan Cheever
When All the Men Wore Hats

A sympathetic and illuminating account of the stories of John Cheever, and the intersecting life and work of the legendary writer John Cheever, as told by his eldest daughter.The Stories of John Cheever ,…

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Auritro Majumder
Insurgent Imaginations

This book argues that contemporary world literature is defined by peripheral internationalism. Over the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, a range of aesthetic forms beyond the metropolitan West - fict…

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Mark McGivern
Tolkien's Hidden Pictures

"Despite the plethora of scholarship and commentary on Tolkien's fiction, I make the case that our felt experience of The Lord of the Rings has yet to be coherently understood and that such coherence…

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Black Feminist Theories

An innovative contribution to the field of Black Feminist Studies, this landmark collection brings together the most influential historical and contemporary thinkers in global Black feminist theories.Feat…

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Molly Geidel
Theory of the Counterinsurgent Girl

Elements in Feminism and Contemporary Critical Theory

Argues that hegemonic Western cultural and military strategies have moved away from 'saving' women to 'empowering' girls, and traces the rise to dominance of the figure of the agential girl, analyzing how…

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Molly Geidel
Theory of the Counterinsurgent Girl

Elements in Feminism and Contemporary Critical Theory

Argues that hegemonic Western cultural and military strategies have moved away from 'saving' women to 'empowering' girls, and traces the rise to dominance of the figure of the agential girl, analyzing how…

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Susan Cheever
When All the Men Wore Hats

A sympathetic and illuminating account of the stories of John Cheever, and the intersecting life and work of the legendary writer John Cheever, as told by his eldest daughter.The Stories of John Cheever ,…

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Padma Rangarajan
Insurgent Fictions

How empire shaped the language--and politics--of terror."Terrorism" is often treated as a modern problem, rooted in late nineteenth-century anarchism or contemporary global conflict.Insurgent Fi…

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Joseph Crawford
Killer Bodies

Killer Bodiesoffers a history of the single most critically-derided subgenre in American superhero comics: the 'bad girl' comics of the 1990s, which chronicled the blood-soaked adventures of barely-dresse…

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The Horror Theory Reader

A comprehensive guide to the timeless, paradoxical appeal of horrorWhy do we enjoy horror? The emotional responses the genre provokes---fear, dread, and disgust---are ones we typically seek to avoid, so w…

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The Cambridge History of Australian Poetry

The Cambridge History of Australian Poetry offers an authoritative and comprehensive engagement with poetries that range from some of the world's oldest to significant innovations of the twenty-first cent…

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Leon Battista Alberti,
Theogenius

Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library

Leon Battista Alberti (1404--1472) was a fifteenth-century Italian Renaissance polymath, whose creative, humanist energies in art, literature, and science remain influential today. This first English tran…

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Dante Alighieri,
The Divine Comedy

When Michael Palma's translation of the Inferno appeared in 2002, it defied the conventional wisdom of literary commentators who had long argued that Dante's intricate terza rima form simply could not be …

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Stephanie Burt
The Poem Is You

A delightful and provocative journey across four decades of contemporary American poetry with Stephanie Burt, "the leading poetry critic of her generation" (New York Times), as our surefooted gu…

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Hadji Bakara
Writing for Dark Times

A history of human rights that places writers and their ideas at its center.At Amnesty International's headquarters in London hangs a large copy of Seamus Heaney's "From the Republic of Conscience,&q…

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