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Naama Harel
The Jew, the Beauty, and the Beast

The Jew, the Beauty, and the Beast critically examines the entanglements between Jewishness, gender, and animality in modernist Hebrew fiction. Analyzing the effeminate Jew vis-à-vis the animalized woman …

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Approaches to Teaching the Works of Margaret Atwood

Teach a rich oeuvre exploring contemporary issues and classic textsAgainst the backdrop of climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic, and attacks on democracy and women's rights, the works of Margaret Atwood …

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Michael Lackey,
German Exile Biofiction

Shows how after the Nazis came to power, prominent exile writers used biofiction to provide readers with a means of identifying root causes of political oppression.There were biofictions before the 20th c…

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Manuel Muñoz
The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue

Lauded for its empathetic portrayals of communities often ignored, Muñoz's second story collection won a Whiting Award and an O. Henry Award. A new foreword by Cherríe Moraga gives testament to Muñoz's st…

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Kirk B Sides
Environmental Entanglements

Environmental Entanglementsexplores a long history of ecological thought in African literature and film. Beginning with the start of the 20th Century, the book focuses on authors who explore ecological re…

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Franco Fortini,
A Test of Powers

A foundational work of Italian intellectual life that blends political essays and literary criticism, anticipating key debates of the New Left and exploring the intersection of ideology and literature.Ori…

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Ursula K Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin's Book of Cats

THE PURR-FECT GIFT FOR CAT LOVERS: Discover the literary legend's quirky and winsome cat poems, meditations, and drawingsIncludes the hard-to-find The Art of Bunditsu, plus 30+ other delights from a lifet…

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Naama Harel
The Jew, the Beauty, and the Beast

The Jew, the Beauty, and the Beast critically examines the entanglements between Jewishness, gender, and animality in modernist Hebrew fiction. Analyzing the effeminate Jew vis-à-vis the animalized woman …

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Jessica Pierce
Who's a Good Dog?

A New ScientistBest Book of 2023A guide to cultivating a shared life of joy and respect with our dogs.Who's a Good Dog? is an invitation to nurture more thoughtful and balanced relationships with our cani…

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Maggie Mckinley
The Art of Looking Back

In The Art of Looking Back, Maggie McKinley evaluates the complex nature of nostalgia in the canon of Joan Didion, a theme that has often been taken for granted, oversimplified, and misunderstood. In reas…

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André Breton,
Cavalier Perspective

"As leader and chief theoretician of Surrealism, director of myriad publications from the 1920s through the 1960s, poet Andrâe Breton was a prolific writer of prose. Author of numerous books, essays,…

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Kyle Minor
How to Disappear and Why

From acclaimed fiction writer Kyle Minor emerges a collection of essays all about disappearing.Considering a wide scope of cultural, historical, spiritual, and philosophical figures and ideas, Minor assem…

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Lucas Hardy,
Theologies of Pain

Mining unexplored discourses of pain in New England literary texts, this book shows how pain was central in shaping New England culture, identity, early American nationalism and racial tropes.

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Mona Ashour,
The Politics of Violence Against Women in Climate Fiction

Mona Ashour offers an interdisciplinary exploration of how climate change and gender-based violence intersect in contemporary literature.Bridging together literary studies, environmental humanities, and g…

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Christi Spain-Savage
Narratives of Working Women in Early Modern London

Narratives of Working Women in Early Modern London: Gendering the City analyzes depictions of non-elite, working women in relation to specific London neighborhoods and sites in early modern drama and cult…

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Philip Weinstein
Time's Bounty

"A guide to growing old with grace and wisdom."--Kirkus"An elegant rumination....Wise, unvarnished."--Publishers WeeklyChange your perspective about aging. Here is a bracing view of th…

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Kir Kuiken
Adrift on the Earth

Kir Kuiken argues for the existence of a geopoetic literary genre extending from the late eighteenth century to the present and addresses its legacies through works of European Romantic authors and contem…

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Rosemarie Bodenheimer, Philip Davis
In Conversation with Willa Cather

Willa Cather's novels do not behave like other novels. Indeed, her art is famously uncategorizable. She is not much interested in plots; she works instead by juxtaposition, leaving it up to the reader to …

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Susan Farrell
Vonnegut's War

Banned, burned, and censored, Kurt Vonnegut's 1969 novel Slaughterhouse-Fiveis widely regarded as one of the greatest (and most controversial) novels of the twentieth century. Fusing vivid biography with …

lieferbar ab 20.8.2026.

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Stacey Margolis
Future Is Fiction

The Future is Fiction is the first cultural history of the idea that people have an obligation to protect the world for future generations. While political philosophers have regarded intergenerational jus…

lieferbar ab 17.4.2026.

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