Adonis to Zorro: Oxford Dictionary of Reference and Allusion
Andrew Delahunty and Sheila Dignen
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Allusions form a colourful extension to the English language, drawing on our collective knowledge of...
Artefacts of Writing: Ideas of the State and Communities of Letters from Matthew Arnold to Xu Bing
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Some forms of literature interfere with the workings of the literate brain, posing a challenge to...
Edo Kabuki in Transition: From the Worlds of the Samurai to the Vengeful Female Ghost
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Satoko Shimazaki revisits three centuries of kabuki theater, reframing it as a key player in the...
Environmental Posthumanism in Literature and Science: Stages of Transmutation
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Literature is often regarded as a window on the human soul. However, in an era of turbulent...
Get Started in Stand Up Comedy
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LEARN HOW TO WRITE AND PERFORM STAND UP COMEDY. A new edition of Be A Great Stand-Up, now fully...
Heidegger, Philosophy, and Politics: The Heidelberg Conference
Jacques Derrida, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Hans-Georg Gadamer and Mireille Calle-Gruber
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In February 1988, philosophers Jacques Derrida, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe...
Oscar Wilde Prefigured: Queer Fashioning and British Caricature, 1750-1900
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"I do not say you are it, but you look it, and you pose at it, which is just as bad," Lord...
Reading Fragments & Fragmentation in Modernist Literature
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This book begins with the question: How are literary fragments defined as such? As a critical term,...
Reading Orientalism: Said and the Unsaid
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The late Edward Said remains one of the most influential critics and public intellectuals of our...
Shakespeare in the Theatre Mark Rylance at the Globe
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Shakespeare in the Theatre: Mark Rylance at the Globe Each volume in the Shakespeare in the Theatre...