In Search of First Contact: The Vikings of Vinland, the Peoples of the Dawnland, and the Anglo-American Anxiety of Discovery
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In Search of First Contact is a monumental achievement by the influential literary critic Annette...
Lost Causes: Narrative, Etiology, and Queer Theory
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Lost Causes stages a polemical intervention in the discourse that grounds queer civil rights in...
Missing Link: The Evolution of Metaphor and the Metaphor of Evolution
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We look for missing links in the sciences and humanities, but the essential missing link - metaphor...
Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense
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Edward Lear's poems follow and break the rules. They abide by the logic of syntax, the linking of...
Queer in Translation
B.J. Epstein and Robert Gillett
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As the field of translation studies has developed, translators and translation scholars have become...
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Upon its completion, The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971-2013) was hailed as a major...
Selected Poems: With Parallel Spanish Text
Federico Garcia Lorca and Martin Sorrell
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'Lorca brought an understanding of the paradox that was Spain - sensuality chafing under a rigid...
Telling Tales: A History of Literary Hoaxes
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When Dionysus the Renegade faked a Sophocles text in 400BC (cunningly inserting the acrostic...
The Ancient Phonograph
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Long before the invention of musical notation, and long before that of the phonograph, the written...
The Catcher in the Rye
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The Catcher in the Rye is J . D. Salinger's world-famous novel of disaffected youth. Holden...