
The Entrapments of Form: Cruelty and Modern Literature
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Arguing that cruelty acquires a new meaning in modernity, The Entrapments of Form follows its...

The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress
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In the rainswept summer of 1968, Rose sets off for the United States from Kentish Town to meet a man...

The Irresponsible Magician: Essays and Fictions
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As any good magician or psychoanalyst knows, it's the deliberate chalking of a particular square...

The Language of Stories: A Cognitive Approach
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How do we read stories? How do they engage our minds and create meaning? Are they a mental...

The Politics of Dubbing: Film Censorship and State Intervention in the Translation of Foreign Cinema in Fascist Italy
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During the late 1920s and the 1930s, the Italian government sought various commercial and...
The Proletarian Answer to the Modernist Question
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This book reformulates our understanding of the relationship between proletarian literature and...

Transdisciplinary Journeys in the Anthropocene: More Than Human Encounters
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Transdisciplinary Journeys in the Anthropocene offers a new perspective on international...

Undoing Babel: The Tower of Babel in Anglo-Saxon Literature
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The Tower of Babel narrative is one of the most memorable accounts of the Bible, and its...

Behind the Curtain
Andrzej Klimowski and Danusia Schejbal
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During the 1970s, when many Eastern European citizens dreamed of going West, two young students...

Piers Plowman: The Donaldson Translation, Select Authoritative Middle English Text, Sources and Backgrounds, Criticism
Elizabeth Robertson, William Langland and Stephen H. A. Shepherd
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Astonishing in its cultural and theological scope, William Langland's iconoclastic masterpiece is at...