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Patrick Bixby
Quotidian Beckett

Samuel Beckett was a writer of the everyday. Despite his association with the literary avant-garde and his commitment to an increasingly austere aesthetic, his writing betrays an enduring preoccupation wi…

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Patrick Bixby
Quotidian Beckett

Samuel Beckett was a writer of the everyday. Despite his association with the literary avant-garde and his commitment to an increasingly austere aesthetic, his writing betrays an enduring preoccupation wi…

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Chandan Gowda
Longing for an Elsewhere

Longing for an Elsewhere is about the colonial ancestry of India's contemporary embrace of economic development. Unlike existing scholarship that traces the emergence of the developmental state to the mid…

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Steven Connor
Exorbitance

Although modern life provides many examples of exorbitance -- of wealth, growth, information, ambition, consumption, violence -- preoccupation with what is 'over the top' is not new. What is it about the …

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Oswyn Murray
The Muse of History

How the modern world has understood the ancient Greeks and why they matter todayThe study of ancient Greek history has been central to the western conception of history since the Renaissance. The Muse of …

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Queer Shakespeare

The go-to resource for understanding desire, same-sex and trans eroticism in Shakespeare's texts, as well as in stage performance and in textual criticism, this open access second edition features revisio…

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Duane A Garrett
Psalms 1-72

Discover the relevance of Psalms to the life of faith.In this distinctive commentary, Duane A. Garrett frames the Psalter as an anthology of hymns, prayers, and lessons meant to guide believers in their p…

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Eric D Smith
Figuring the Contemporary in Us Popular Cinema, 1967-2022

Figuring the Contemporary in US Popular Cinema: Genre, History, Event explores how popular film offers us frameworks to work through the political stakes of how we understand our histories, and imagine ou…

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Queer Shakespeare

The go-to resource for understanding desire, same-sex and trans eroticism in Shakespeare's texts, as well as in stage performance and in textual criticism, this open access second edition features revisio…

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The Plays and Films of Bahram Beyzaie

Bahram Beyzaie is one of Iran's leading playwrights and auteur filmmakers. This book examines several of Beyzaie's films and plays and their preoccupation with the modalities and transformations of Irania…

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Steven Connor
Exorbitance

Although modern life provides many examples of exorbitance -- of wealth, growth, information, ambition, consumption, violence -- preoccupation with what is 'over the top' is not new. What is it about the …

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Tolstoy's War and Peace

This book consists of eight essays written by world-renowned Tolstoy specialists; the essays provide an in-depth consideration of the central topics of Tolstoy's masterpiece. Tolstoy's War and Peace explo…

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David Lay Williams
The Greatest of All Plagues

How the great political thinkers have persistently warned against the dangers of economic inequalityEconomic inequality is one of the most daunting challenges of our time, with public debate often turning…

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Massimiliano Gioni
New Humans

A timely exploration of artists' enduring preoccupation with what it means to be human in the face of sweeping technological changeNew Humans traces a diagonal history of the twentieth and twenty-first ce…

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Simon van Schalkwyk
Robert Lowell's Imitations and the Cold War

The first book-length study focusing on Robert Lowell's career-long preoccupation with the liberal mode of translational adaptation known as imitation.Robert Lowell's Imitations and the Cold Warargues tha…

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William Shakespeare,
The Winter's Tale

Oxford World's Classics

'It is required You do awake your faith'Variously seen as a romance, a comedy, and a tragic fairytale, The Winter's Tale is a radical experiment with genre, character, and storytelling towards the end of …

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Granville Bantock (1868-1946)

Hebridean Symphony

Kosice PO, Adrian Leaper

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Jamison Kantor
Honor, Romanticism, and the Hidden Value of Modernity

Despite our preconceptions, Romantic writers, artists, and philosophers did not think of honor as an archaic or regressive concept, but as a contemporary, even progressive value that operated as a counter…

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Marina Sitrin
We Make Our Own Justice

What if we did abolish police, courts or prisons? Where would we turn for justice? Do we need to have laws? Punishment? These questions are not just the preoccupation of an abolitionist pipedream. Their a…

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Robert F Schwarzwalder
American Evangelical Leaders and U.S. Foreign Policy, 1919-1941

This book argues that while the interwar period is generally seen as a period of Evangelical withdrawal from American public life, Evangelical leaders of varying sub-groups remained acutely aware of forei…

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