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Reading What’s There: Essays on Shakespeare in Honor of Stephen Booth
Edited by Michael J. Collins. The twelve essays were written not simply to honor Stephen Booth, but to further the study of Shakespeare. Booth has, for over forty years, proposed…
December 5, 2014
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Savage Preservation: The Ethnographic Origins of Modern Media Technology
by Brian Hochman. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, writers and anthropologists believed that the world’s primitive races were on the brink of.…
November 15, 2014
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So We Read On: How The Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures
by Maureen Corrigan. As Maureen Corrigan, Gatsby lover extraordinaire, points out, while Fitzgerald’s masterpiece may be one of the most popular novels in America, many of us…
September 9, 2014
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Among Friends: Engendering the Social Site of Poetry
Edited by Libbie Rifkin and Anne Dewey. Philosophers and theorists have long recognized both the subversive and the transformative possibilities of friendship, the intimacy of…
April 25, 2013
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Killer Tapes and Shattered Screens: Video Spectatorship from VHS to File Sharing
by Caetlin Benson-Allott. Since the mid-1980s, US audiences have watched the majority of movies they see on a video platform, be it VHS, DVD, Blu-ray, Video On Demand, or…
March 22, 2013
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Milton and The Art of Rhetoric
by Daniel Shore. Challenging the conventional view of John Milton as an iconoclast who spoke only to a 'fit audience though few', Daniel Shore argues that Milton was a far more…
June 30, 2012
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Romanticism: An Anthology, 4th Edition
by Duncan Wu. Duncan Wu’s Romanticism: An Anthology has been appreciated by thousands of literature students and their teachers across the globe since its first appearance in…
January 30, 2012
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Literature Learning: Teaching the English Major
by Sherry Lee Linkon. Literary Learning explores the nature of literary knowledge and offers guidance for effective teaching of literature at the college level. What do English…
October 6, 2011
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Thirteen Fugues
by Jennifer Natalya Fink. Tanya Irene Schwartz narrates her hilarious and conflicting desires through the musical and psychological structure of the fugue. Jewish law, world…
January 1, 2011
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The Mikvah Queen
by Jennifer Natalya Fink. In the anti-everything hippie culture of early 80s Ithaca, New York, what rituals can a girl borrow, steal, or invent to make sense of puberty? Jane…
September 15, 2010