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  • MATINAS E LAUDES
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    MATINAS E LAUDES
    YVES PATRICK BEAULIEU
    Ela é pequena, ela gosta das pequenas coisas... ela fez grandes coisas. Ela é uma Grande Dama.... essa mulher é minha mãe. Colette Perron Beaulieu nasceu dia 31 de dezembro de 1927, no vilarejo de Nédélec. Vinte anos mais tarde, ela me dera a vida e através de seu exemplo, me ensinou essa vida, o querer viver e a energia de viver. Ela é daquelas que raramente se deixam intimida...

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  • BRAM STOKER: AUTHOR OF DRACULA
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    BRAM STOKER: AUTHOR OF DRACULA
    NEIL R STOREY
    Bram Stoker: Author of Dracula is an affectionate and revealing biography of the man who created the vampire novel that would define the genre and lead to a new age in Gothic horror literature. Based on decades of painstaking research in libraries, museums, and university archives and privileged access to private collections on both sides of the Atlantic, the private letters of...

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  • CONTEMPORARY SECOND- AND THIRD-PERSON AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WRITING
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    CONTEMPORARY SECOND- AND THIRD-PERSON AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WRITING
    CHRISTINA SCHÖNBERGER-STEPIEN
    This book explores 21st-century uses of the second- and third-person perspective in Anglophone autobiographical narratives by canonical male writers. Through detailed readings of contemporary autobiographical works by Paul Auster, Julian Barnes, J.M. Coetzee, and Salman Rushdie, the study demonstrates the multiple aesthetic, rhetorical, and un/ethical implications of the choice...

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  • MAZISI KUNENE
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    MAZISI KUNENE
    DIKE OKORO
    This book examines the life and work of Mazisi Kunene, the only recognized poet laureate of Africa, a Nobel Prize nominee, and a key symbol of African cultural independence. Kunene is widely recognized for his epic poems that assert cultural identity and condemn the disruption of the growth and development of African culture through colonialism/postcolonialism. This book explor...

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  • TOWARDS A THEORY OF LIFE-WRITING
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    TOWARDS A THEORY OF LIFE-WRITING
    MARIJA KRSTEVA
    Towards a Theory of Life-Writing:Genre Blending provides a look into the rules of life-writing genre blending proposing a theory to explain and illustrate the main regulations governing such genre play. It centers on fact and fiction duality in the formation of auto/biofictional genres. This book investigates the existing developments in this field, and explores major criticism...

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  • VICTORIAN ENGLAND'S BESTSELLING AUTHOR
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    VICTORIAN ENGLAND'S BESTSELLING AUTHOR
    STEPHEN BASDEO / MYA DRIVER
    George W.M. Reynolds (1814–79) was one of the biggest-selling novelists of the Victorian era. He was the author of over 58 novels and short stories and his “penny blood” The Mysteries of London, serialised in weekly numbers between 1844 and 1848, sold over a million copies. A controversial figure in his lifetime, Reynolds’s Mysteries, and its follow-up The Mysteries of the Cour...

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  • MY DEAR HOLMES
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    MY DEAR HOLMES
    GAVIN BREND
    First published in 1951, My Dear Holmes is a biography of Sherlock Holmes, which originated from the author’s re-reading of the Sherlock Holmes stories to his daughter, supplies answers to mysteries such as when was Holmes born? Which was his university? How many times was Watson married and in what years? Why did he leave Baker Street without a word of explanation in 1896? Why...

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  • DICKENS AND TRAVEL
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    DICKENS AND TRAVEL
    LUCINDA HAWKSLEY
    From childhood, Charles Dickens was fascinated by tales from other countries and other cultures, and he longed to see the world. In Dickens and Travel, Lucinda Hawksley looks at the journeys made by the author – who is also her great great great grandfather. Although Dickens is usually perceived as a London author, in the 1840s he whisked his family away to live in Italy for ye...

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  • SHAKESPEARE'S OTHER SON?
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    SHAKESPEARE'S OTHER SON?
    R.E. PRITCHARD
    Sir William Davenant (1606-1668) was in his time widely known as 'Davenant the Poet'. The son of an Oxford vintner (or quite possibly the natural son of his godfather, William Shakespeare), he wrote poems for and about the Court of Charles I, and, despite losing his nose to mercury treatment for the clap, which other people thought funny, went on to replace Ben Jonson as Poet L...

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  • OPEN ME CAREFULLY
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    OPEN ME CAREFULLY
    EMILY DICKINSON
    For the first time, selections from Emily Dickinson's thirty-six year correspondence with her childhood friend, neighbor, and sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Dickinson, are compiled in a single volume. Open Me Carefully invites a dramatic new understanding of Emily Dickinson's life and work, overcoming a century of censorship and misinterpretation. For the millions of readers w...

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  • THE NEW MIDLIFE SELF-WRITING
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    THE NEW MIDLIFE SELF-WRITING
    EMILY O. WITTMAN
    In The New Midlife Self-Writing, Wittman treats recent self-writing by Rachel Cusk, Roxane Gay, Sarah Manguso, and Maggie Nelson, carefully situating these vital midlife works within the history of self-writing. She argues that they renew and redirect the autobiographical trajectories characteristic of earlier self-writing by switching their orientation to face the future and b...

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  • WYNDHAM LEWIS
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    WYNDHAM LEWIS
    Originally published in 1969, this project had Wyndham Lewis’ personal approval and is a comprehensive anthology of his prose writings, especially those which are difficult to access. There are extracts from some of Wyndham Lewis’ remarkable books such as Paleface, The Art of Being Ruled and Men Without Art. Lesser known works such as Filibusters in Barbary, The Diabolical Prin...

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  • THE ENEMY
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    THE ENEMY
    JEFFREY MEYERS
    Originally published in 1980 and nominated for the Duff Cooper Prize, this was the first biography of Wyndham Lewis and was based on extensive archival research and interviews. It narrates Lewis’ years at Rugby and the Slade, his bohemian life on the Continent, the creation of Vorticism and publication of Blast, and his experiences at Passchendaele, as well as his many love aff...

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  • THE LETTERS OF WYNDHAM LEWIS
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    THE LETTERS OF WYNDHAM LEWIS
    Originally published in 1963 and edited by an authority on Wyndham Lewis (whom he also knew personally) this volume made available for the first time over 500 letters of Wyndham Lewis, who for half a century was a dynamic force among English artists and intellectuals. Culturally, Lewis played the dual role of innovator and iconoclast. Lewis’s letters show the wide range of his ...

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  • RUSSIAN WRITERS AND SOVIET SOCIETY 1917–1978
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    RUSSIAN WRITERS AND SOVIET SOCIETY 1917–1978
    RONALD HINGLEY
    This book, first published in 1979, provides a systematic anatomy of Russia’s modern authors in the context of their society at the time. Post-revolutionary Russian literature has made a profound impact on the West while still maintaining its traditional role as a vehicle for political struggle at home. Professor Hingley places their lives and work firmly in the setting of the ...

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  • DOSTOYEVSKY
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    DOSTOYEVSKY
    RONALD HINGLEY
    This book, first published in 1978, demonstrates how Dostoyevsky’s novels grew directly out of the pressures of their creator’s tormented experience and personality. Ronald Hingley draws upon important fresh source material, which includes the definitive Soviet edition of Dostoyevsky’s works with drafts and variants, Soviet research on the circumstances of his father’s death, a...

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  • SOLZHENITSYN
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    SOLZHENITSYN
    MICHAEL SCAMMELL
    This book, first published in 1984, was the first full biography of Solzhenitsyn. Starting with his childhood, it covers every period of his life in considerable detail, showing how Solzhenitsyn’s development paralleled and mirrored the development of Soviet society: ambitious and idealistic in the twenties and thirties, preoccupied with the struggle for survival in the forties...

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  • STAN LEE
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    STAN LEE
    ADRIAN MACKINDER
    Discover the astonishing history of modern American entertainment, seen through the eyes of a pop-culture icon who lived for nearly 100 years. Stan Lee: How Marvel Changed the World is not just another biography. It is a journey through twentieth century American history, seen through the life of a man who personified the American Dream. This book shows how Stan Lee’s life refl...

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  • RENEGADES AND ROGUES
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    RENEGADES AND ROGUES
    TODD B. VICK
    2022 Atlantean Award, Robert E. Howard Foundation You may not know the name Robert E. Howard, but you probably know his work. His most famous creation, Conan the Barbarian, is an icon of popular culture. In hundreds of tales detailing the exploits of Conan, King Kull, and others, Howard helped to invent the sword and sorcery genre. Todd B. Vick delves into newly available archi...

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  • THE REAL HERGÉ
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    THE REAL HERGÉ
    SIAN LYE
    “If you are looking to understand a bit more about the circumstances that inspired The Adventures of Tintin—this book will provide a good snapshot.” —The BookBuff Review Hergé created only twenty-four Tintin books which have been translated into more than seventy languages and sold 230 million copies worldwide. The Real Hergé: The Inspiration Behind Tintin takes an in-depth loo...

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  • ICONOCLASM AND THE MUSEUM
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    ICONOCLASM AND THE MUSEUM
    STACY BOLDRICK
    Iconoclasm and the Museum addresses the museum’s historic tendency to be silent about destruction through an exploration of institutional attitudes to iconoclasm, or image breaking, and the concept’s place in public display. Presenting a selection of focused case studies, Boldrick examines long-standing desires to deface, dismantle, obscure or destroy works of art and historic ...

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  • RELIGIOUS OBJECTS IN MUSEUMS
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    RELIGIOUS OBJECTS IN MUSEUMS
    CRISPIN PAINE
    In the past, museums often changed the meaning of icons or statues of deities from sacred to aesthetic, or used them to declare the superiority of Western society, or simply as cultural and historical evidence. The last generation has seen faith groups demanding to control 'their' objects, and curators recognising that objects can only be understood within their original religi...

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  • THE INVISIBLE CITY
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    THE INVISIBLE CITY
    KYLE GILLETTE
    The Invisible City explores urban spaces from the perspective of a traveller, writer, and creator of theatre to illuminate how cities offer travellers and residents theatrical visions while also remaining mostly invisible, beyond the limits of attention. The book explores the city as both stage and content in three parts. Firstly, it follows in pattern Italo Calvino's novel Inv...

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  • THE SELECTED WRITINGS OF WILLIAM HAZLITT VOL 5
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    THE SELECTED WRITINGS OF WILLIAM HAZLITT VOL 5
    DUNCAN WU / TOM PAULIN / DAVID BROMWICH / STANLEY JONES / ROY PARK
    William Hazlitt is viewed by many as one of the most distinguished of the non-fiction prose writers to emerge from the Romantic period. This nine-volume edition collects all his major works in complete form. ...

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  • GEOGRAPHY AND THE LITERARY IMAGINATION IN VICTORIAN FICTIONS OF EMPIRE
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    GEOGRAPHY AND THE LITERARY IMAGINATION IN VICTORIAN FICTIONS OF EMPIRE
    JEAN FERNANDEZ
    In this pioneering study, Dr. Fernandez explores how the rise of institutional geography in Victorian England impacted imperial fiction’s emergence as a genre characterized by a preoccupation with space and place. This volume argues that the alliance between institutional geography and the British empire which commenced with the founding of the Royal Geographical Society in 183...

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  • WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS AND THE CULT OF ROCK 'N' ROLL
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    WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS AND THE CULT OF ROCK 'N' ROLL
    CASEY RAE
    A history of the writer’s impact on some of the biggest names in rock music from the Beatles to Bowie, and his role as a secret architect in the genre. William S. Burroughs’s fiction and essays are legendary—but his influence on music’s counterculture has been less well documented―until now. Examining how one of America’s most controversial literary figures altered the destinie...

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  • RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES FOR AUTO/BIOGRAPHY STUDIES
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    RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES FOR AUTO/BIOGRAPHY STUDIES
    KATE DOUGLAS, ASHLEY BARNWELL
    This collection of short essays provides a rigorous, rich, collaborative space in which scholars and practitioners debate the value of different methodological approaches to the study of life narratives and explore a diverse range of interdisciplinary methods. Auto/biography studies has been one of the most vibrant sub-disciplines to emerge in the humanities and social sciences...

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  • W.S. GILBERT AND THE CONTEXT OF COMEDY
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    W.S. GILBERT AND THE CONTEXT OF COMEDY
    RICHARD MOORE
    To what extent is a great comic writer the product of his time? How far is he (or she) influenced by factors of personal psychology upbringing and environment? To what is the writing actually part of a long continuum in which there is continuity within change and change within continuity? The Progress of Fun considers principally the last of these areas, focussing on the case o...

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  • CRITICAL CONTENT ANALYSIS OF VISUAL IMAGES IN BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
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    CRITICAL CONTENT ANALYSIS OF VISUAL IMAGES IN BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
    Extending the discussion of critical content analysis to the visual realm of picturebooks and graphic novels, this book provides a clear research methodology for understanding and analyzing visual imagery. Offering strategies for "reading" illustrations in global and multicultural literature, chapter authors explore and bring together critical theory and social semiotics while ...

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  • NECROPOLIS
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    NECROPOLIS
    VLADISLAV KHODASEVICH
    Necropolis is an unconventional literary memoir by Vladislav Khodasevich, hailed by Vladimir Nabokov as “the greatest Russian poet of our time.” In each of the book’s nine chapters, Khodasevich memorializes a significant figure of Russia’s literary Silver Age, and in the process writes an insightful obituary of the era. Written at various times throughout the 1920s and 1930s fo...

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