Why Literary Periods Mattered: Historical Contrast and the Prestige of English Studies
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In the mid-nineteenth century, the study of English literature began to be divided into courses that...
African American Writing: A Literary Approach
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Werner Sollors' African American Writing takes a fresh look at what used to be called "Negro...
Beating the Graves
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The poems in Tsitsi Ella Jaji's Beating the Graves meditate on the meaning of living in diaspora, an...
Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory
Peter Barry, John McLeod and Martin Hargreaves
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Beginning theory has been helping students navigate through the thickets of literary and cultural...
Benjamin's Passages: Dreaming, Awakening
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In transposing the Freudian dream work from the individual subject to the collective, Walter...
Beyond Sight: Engaging the Senses in Iberian Literatures and Cultures, 1200-1750
Ryan D. Giles and Steven Wagschal
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Beyond Sight, edited by Ryan D. Giles and Steven Wagschal, explores the ways in which Iberian...
Black Women in Sequence: Re-Inking Comics, Graphic Novels, and Anime
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Black Women in Sequence takes readers on a search for women of African descent in comics subculture....
Childhood as Memory, Myth and Metaphor: Proust, Beckett, and Bourgeois
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A fascination with childhood unites the artist Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) and the writers Samuel...
Comics and Memory in Latin America
Jorge Catala Carrasco, Paulo Drinot and James Scorer
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Latin American comics and graphic novels have a unique history of addressing controversial...
Complex TV: The Poetics of Contemporary Television Storytelling
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Over the past two decades, new technologies, changing viewer practices, and the proliferation of...