A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism
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Sun Ra said he came from Saturn. Known on earth for his inventive music and extravagant stage shows,...
Narrative as Virtual Reality: Revisiting Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media
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Is there a significant difference between engagement with a game and engagement with a movie or...
Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing
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The story of writing in the digital age is every bit as messy as the ink-stained rags that littered...
Hamlet After Q1: An Uncanny History of the Shakespearean Text
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In 1823, Sir Henry Bunbury discovered a badly bound volume of twelve Shakespeare plays in a closet...
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful
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'Pain and pleasure are simple ideas, incapable of definition.' In 1757 the 27-year-old Edmund Burke...
Contemporary Central American Fiction: Gender, Subjectivity and Affect
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This book is a series of original, critical meditations on short stories and novels from Central...
Light in the Heavens: Sayings of the Prophet Muhammad
Al-Qudai Al-Qadi and Tahera Qutbuddin
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The words of Muhammad (d. 11 H/632 AD), God's messenger and prophet of Islam, have a special place...
The Little Black Book of Writers' Wisdom
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Author and journalist Gene Fowler put it best: "Writing is easy; all you do is sit staring at a...
Voices and Texts in Early Modern Italian Society
Brian Richardson, Stefano Dall'Aglio and Massimo Rospocher
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This book studies the uses of orality in Italian society, across all classes, from the fifteenth to...
Ten Poems About Tea
Thomas Hardy, Lorraine Mariner, Sophie Dahl and Jill Perry
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Ten Poems about Tea has a fabulous introduction by Sophie Dahl (PG with milk, no sugar) and was the...