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Teaching the Mexican Revolution

Essays on the Mexican Revolution and its literary and cultural legaciesThe Mexican Revolution lives on in literature, film, song, and popular culture. An enduring part of the cultural memory of Mexican an…

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Mantra Mukim,
Samuel Beckett's Lyric Failure

Providing one of the first book-length accounts of Samuel Beckett's poetry, this work illustrates how Beckett's poetry, and its failures, reconfigure the lyric form. Reading Beckett alongside nineteenth a…

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Michael Allan
Cinema Before the World

Cinema before the World investigates the transnational origins of filmmaking by focusing on a case study in world cinema -- the 1896-1897 voyage of one of the Lumière Brothers camera operators, Alexandre …

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Wilfred Lupano,
Surrounded

In 1832, in Canterbury, Connecticut, a " charming and picturesque" little school for young girls opens to accommodate around twenty residents. Educating girls is a bit ridiculous and useless, th…

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Nicholas Jenkins
The Island

Nicholas Jenkins explores war, love, and politics in the early works of W. H. Auden, one of the twentieth century's most controversial and moving poets. Auden's poems embraced both haunted meditations on …

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Joe Freeman, Aung Naing Soe
Frontline Poets

Combining poems by contemporary Burmese poets along with their life stories. The book demonstrates the power of the written word and is both a parallel story of Burmese political turmoil and the life-affi…

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Kevin Jackson
Legion: Thirteen Ways of Looking at Lawrence of Arabia

There have been literally hundreds of books about T. E. Lawrence, best known as Lawrence of Arabia, but never a work quite like Legion.Legion tells the astonishing life story of an man who was far more th…

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Geoffrey Hosking
Aleksandr Tvardovskii

Aleksandr Tvardovskii was not only one of the finest, most popular and most important poets of his epoch, but also the editor of Novyi mir, the most prominent Soviet literary journal of the postwar period…

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James Reichert
Literature for the Masses

Literature for the Masses is the first English-language book on popular stories known in Japan alternatively as period fiction or mass literature. It highlights the important cultural and ideological work…

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Michael Allan
Cinema Before the World

Cinema before the World investigates the transnational origins of filmmaking by focusing on a case study in world cinema -- the 1896-1897 voyage of one of the Lumière Brothers camera operators, Alexandre …

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Ward Farnsworth
The Practicing Stoic

This is a book about human nature and its management. The wisest students of that subject in ancient times, and perhaps of all time, were known as the Stoics. Their recommendations about how to think and …

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Susan Sontag
Against Interpretation

"A reissue of Susan Sontag's classic first collection, featuring some of her most beloved writing-on art, life, camp, and criticism-that cemented her legacy as one of the brightest thinkers of, and b…

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Cicero,
Pro Quinctio. Pro Roscio Amerino. Pro Roscio Comoedo. Pro Tullio. de Lege Agraria

"Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician, and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, a…

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Martha Saxton,
The Conversions of Edward Gibbon

A new feminist biography of the incomparably influential English historian Edward Gibbon, author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire . The Enlightenment-era, six-volume epic The His…

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Aratus,
The Sky Is Our Song

"An ancient Greek guide to the heavens, translated in a new accessible modern English edition. A poetic guide to the heavens, the Phaenomena of Aratus--dating from around 270 BCE--was widely known ac…

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George Templeton Strong,
George Templeton Strong: Civil War Diaries (Loa #396)

A CLASSIC OF CIVIL WAR HISTORY: The Civil War comes alive in this fully restored, 900-page selected edition of the diaries of one of its keenest observers.Based on the original manuscripts, this new annot…

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Gary Saul Morson
Wonder Confronts Certainty

Gary Saul Morson brings to life the intense intellectual debates shaping two centuries of Russian writing. Dialogues of great writers with philosophical wanderers and blood-soaked radicals reveal a contes…

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Marcus Aurelius
Meditations

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Politics, Philosophy, and Humor at the Byzantine Court

Politics, Philosophy, and Humor at the Byzantine Court is the first translation into English of eight works by Theodore II Laskaris, a thirteenth-century ruler of the Empire of Nicaea. It includes a satir…

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Ruth Perry
Ballad World of Anna Gordon, Mrs. Brown of Falkland

This is a scholarly biography of Anna Gordon Brown, posthumously known as Mrs Brown of Falkland, an eighteenth-century Scottish ballad collector. This pioneering new study takes us to the overlapping worl…

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