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Hana Videen
The Deorhord

An entertaining tour of Old English words for animals, from the author of The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old EnglishMany of the animals we encounter in everyday life, from pets and farm animals to the wild c…

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Renée Bergland
Natural Magic

A captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of natureEmily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was known a…

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Dennis Yi Tenen
Literary Theory for Robots

Literary Theory for Robots reveals the hidden history of modern machine intelligence, taking readers on a spellbinding journey from medieval Arabic philosophy to visions of a universal language, past Holl…

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Haun Saussy
The Making of Barbarians

A groundbreaking account of translation and identity in the Chinese literary tradition before 1850—with important ramifications for today Debates on the canon, multiculturalism, and world literature ofte…

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Jessica A Albrecht,
Producing Religion, Gender and National Identities in Sri Lankan Elite Girls' Schools

This book provides the first comparative analysis of how religious, gender and national identities have been constructed in Christian, Buddhist and Hindu girls' schools in Sri Lanka in the context of colo…

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Rose Casey
Aesthetic Impropriety

"Aesthetic Impropriety reconceives the aesthetic force of literature to theorize justice. Casey's gorgeous close readings and keen attention to the histories of English-derived property law generate …

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Rose Casey
Aesthetic Impropriety

"Aesthetic Impropriety reconceives the aesthetic force of literature to theorize justice. Casey's gorgeous close readings and keen attention to the histories of English-derived property law generate …

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Rod Giblett
Wise Women for Loving Nature

From Rachel Carson and Julia Kristeva to Rebecca Solnit and Nandi Chinna, the writers and artists featured here are 'patron saints', Rod Giblett shows, of a special aspect or approach to environmental con…

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Mario Telò,
Reading Greek Tragedy with Judith Butler

"Considering Butler's "tragic trilogy"-a set of interventions on Sophocles' Antigone, Euripides' Bacchae, and Aeschylus's Eumenides-this book seeks to understand not just how Butler uses an…

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El-Sayed El-Aswad
Religion and the Invisible World

A broad critical history of the transformation of religious thought in Egypt from ancient to modern periodsWhen a civilization disappears, its heritage does not vanish. It survives in different potentiall…

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The Oxford Handbook of Dravidian Languages

The Dravidian languages of south India, spoken by approximately 222 million speakers across South Asia, form one of the largest language families in the world. First recognized as a distinct group in the …

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Jamie L Brummitt
Protestant Relics in Early America

In Protestant Relics in Early America , Jamie L. Brummitt upends long-held assumptions about religion and material culture in the early United States. Brummitt chronicles how American Protestants cultivat…

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Shawn M Bullock, Cécile Bullock
Historical Perspectives on Multilingual Education

In a linguistic and cultural landscape that has become more diversified, it has become more and more challenging for politicians, policymakers, researchers, as well as teachers, to deal with the increasin…

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Joseph Acquisto
Thought as Experience in Bataille, Cioran, and Rosset

"Acquisto analyzes the writings of Georges Bataille, Emil Cioran, and Clâement Rosset during and shortly after the Second World War, which address the question of what it means to think and to consti…

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Sophie Heywood,
Children's Publishing in Cold War France

Exploring the history of Cold War censorship legislation and its impact on the French publishing industry for children, this open access book focuses on the publisher Hachette to detail how it dominated t…

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William Stroebel
Literature's Refuge

"For the Translation/Transnation comparative literature series, a monograph that explores the refugee and diasporic literatures that resulted from the 1923 population exchange between Greece and Turk…

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Writing from Invention to Decipherment

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and select…

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Ross Perlin
Language City

From the co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance, a captivating portrait of contemporary New York City through six speakers of little-known and overlooked languages, diving into the incredible his…

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How We See It

From the celebrated magazine of writing from around the world, twelve sharp global perspectives on a changing United States, edited by a winner of the European Press PrizeThe 2024 U.S. presidential electi…

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How We See It

From the celebrated magazine of writing from around the world, twelve sharp global perspectives on a changing United States, edited by a winner of the European Press PrizeThe 2024 U.S. presidential electi…

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