Monsters in the Italian Literary Imagination [Illustrated] 0814328385, 9780814328385

Monsters in the Italian Literary Imagination [Illustrated] 0814328385, 9780814328385

A culture defines monsters against what is essentially thought of as human. Creatures such as the harpy, the siren, the

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Strangers at Home: Jews in the Italian Literary Imagination [Reprint 2020 ed.] 9780520912588

Using popular literature as a window on Italian society and its values, Lynn Gunzberg explores the representation of Jew

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Monsters and Borders in the Early Modern Imagination 0367666332, 9780367666330

This edited collection explores the axis where monstrosity and borderlands meet to reflect the tensions, apprehensions,

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Genetics and the Literary Imagination

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Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination 9780520938991

From sushi and karaoke to martial arts and technoware, the currency of made-in-Japan cultural goods has skyrocketed in t

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Paper Monsters: Persona and Literary Culture in Elizabethan England 9780812296174

In Paper Monsters, Samuel Fallon charts the striking rise in the 1590's of a new species of textual being: the seri

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Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination 9780674979048

Hearing across media is the source of innovation in a uniquely African American sphere of art-making and performance, Br

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Calypso Jews: Jewishness in the Caribbean Literary Imagination 9780231540575

Sarah Phillips Casteel presents the first major study of representations of Jewishness in Caribbean literature. Providin

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Anglo-Irish: The Literary Imagination in a Hyphenated Culture 9781400887385

In their day, the Anglo-Irish were the ascendant minority--Protestant, loyalist, privileged landholders in a recumbent,

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The Tongue-Tied Imagination: Decolonizing Literary Modernity in Senegal 9780823284313

Should a writer work in a former colonial language or in a vernacular? The language question was one of the great, intra

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