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Black Cultural Mythology
(April 2020)
Christel N. Temple - Author
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Offers a new conceptual framework rooted in mythological analysis to ground the field of Africana cultural memory studies.
Black Cultural Mythology retrieves the concept of “mythology” from its Black Arts Movement origins and broadens its scope to illuminate the relationship between legacies of heroic survival, cultural memory, and creative production in the African diaspora. Christel N. Temple comprehensivel...(Read More) |
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Logoi and Muthoi
(June 2019)
Further Essays in Greek Philosophy and Literature
William Wians - Editor
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Essays on Greek philosophy and literature from Homer and Hesiod to Aristotle.
In Logoi and Muthoi, William Wians builds on his earlier volume Logos and Muthos, highlighting the richness and complexity of these terms that were once set firmly in opposition to one another as reason versus myth or rationality versus irrationality. It was once common to think of intellectual history representing a straightforward prog...(Read More) |
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Argentina Noir
(March 2019)
New Millennium Crime Novels in Buenos Aires
Cynthia Schmidt-Cruz - Author
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An engaging and insightful guide to Argentine crime fiction since 2000.
Argentina Noir offers a guide to Argentine crime fiction, with a focus on works published since the year 2000. It argues that the novela negra, or crime novel, has become the favored genre for many writers to address the social malaise brought about by changes linked to globalization and market-driven economic policies. Cynthia Schmidt-Cruz presents close ...(Read More) |
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Writing in Witness
(July 2018)
A Holocaust Reader
Eric J. Sundquist - Editor
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Silver Winner - 2018 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Anthologies category
A comprehensive survey of the most important writing to come out of the Holocaust.
Writing in Witness is a broad survey of the most important writing about the Holocaust produced by eyewitnesses at the time and soon after. Whether they intended to spark resistance and undermine Nazi authority, to comfort family a...(Read More) |
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Figures of Time
(February 2018)
Disjunctions in Modernist Poetry
David Ben-Merre - Author
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Focuses on how nuances of poetic form alter how we have come to understand cultural aspects of time.
Figures of Time proposes radically new ideas about the very poetic ground of culture. Presenting unique close readings of six modern poets—Wallace Stevens, W. B. Yeats, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), Ezra Pound, Langston Hughes, and T. S. Eliot—David Ben-Merre brings recent theoretical questions about the rhetoric of...(Read More) |
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Witnessing beyond the Human
(May 2017)
Addressing the Alterity of the Other in Post-coup Chile and Argentina
Kate Jenckes - Author
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Provides an innovative and theoretically rigorous approach to the subject of testimony in Latin America.
This book rethinks the nature of testimony beyond the ground of the human in works produced in Chile and Argentina from the 1970s to the present. Focusing on literature by Juan Gelman, Sergio Chejfec, and Roberto Bolaño, as well as art by Eugenio Dittborn, Kate Jenckes argues that these works represen...(Read More) |
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The Love of Ruins
(March 2017)
Letters on Lovecraft
Scott Cutler Shershow - Author
Scott Michaelsen - Author
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Explores issues related to race and religion in Lovecraft criticism.
Today, H. P. Lovecraft is both more popular and controversial than ever: the influence of his “Cthulhu mythos” is everywhere in popular culture, his cosmic pessimism has reemerged as a major theme in contemporary philosophy, and his racism continues to spark controversy in the media. The Love of Ruins takes a fresh look at a figure widely ack...(Read More) |
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John Huston as Adaptor
(February 2017)
Douglas McFarland - Editor
Wesley King - Editor
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Argues that understanding Huston’s film adaptations of literary works is essential to understanding his oeuvre as a filmmaker.
John Huston as Adaptor makes the case that adaptation is the salient element in Huston’s identity as a filmmaker and that his early and deep attraction to the experience of reading informed his approach to film adaptation. Thirty-four of Huston’s thirty-seven fil...(Read More) |
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Talking to the Gods
(May 2015)
Occultism in the Work of W. B. Yeats, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, and Dion Fortune
Susan Johnston Graf - Author
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Explores occultism in the writings of four authors who were members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
Talking to the Gods explores the linkages between the imaginative literature and the occult beliefs and practices of four writers who were members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. William Butler Yeats, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, and Dion Fortune were all members of the occult organi...(Read More) |
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Sufism and American Literary Masters
(November 2014)
Mehdi Aminrazavi - Editor
Jacob Needleman - Foreword by
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Explores the influence of Sufism on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century writers.
This book reveals the rich, but generally unknown, influence of Sufism on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature. The translation of Persian poets such as Hafiz and Sa’di into English and the ongoing popularity of Omar Khayyam offered intriguing new spiritual perspectives to some of the major American literary figur...(Read More) |
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