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Jones, Aphrodite. All He Wanted: "Brandon Teena" The Transgender Man Who Paid The Ultimate Price. Pocket Books, 1996.

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Meet the Boys of Casper. Guy Talk Press, 2017.

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Meet the Boys of Casper. Guy Talk Press, 2017.

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Stock, Kathleen. The Nature of Fiction. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198798347.003.0006.

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Drawing upon extreme intentionalism, a theory of fiction is built, arguing that a fiction is a set of instructions to a reader, instructing her to imagine various things. Call this ‘the basic claim’. This view is defended against those, such as Gregory Currie, Peter Lamarque and Stein Olsen, and David Davies, who would agree with the basic claim as one condition of fiction, but who would argue that a theory of fiction also needs additional conditions. It is also defended against those, such as Stacie Friend and Derek Matravers, who would reject even that basic claim. Finally there is a conside

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Kahn, Andrew, Mark Lipovetsky, Irina Reyfman, and Stephanie Sandler. Heroines and emancipation. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199663941.003.0028.

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The chapter builds on historical research to elucidate the social and legal status and the everyday lives of women of all classes, aspects that informed fiction about women and their representation, and influenced women who wrote (or did not write) fiction, poetry, and diaries. The chapter examines the interrelation of fictional models/behavioral types and historical and fictional actors. With changing educational opportunities, sexual norms, and social roles, women in literature respond differently to patriarchal norms of society, and the chapter compares gendered identity formation of heroes

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Knickerbocker, Dale, ed. Lingua Cosmica. University of Illinois Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252041754.001.0001.

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Lingua Cosmica: Science Fiction from around the World consists of eleven scholarly essays on contemporary authors (born 1950 or later) of science fiction who publish in languages other than English, or who publish from the English-speaking “periphery”: i.e., outside the United States, the United Kingdom, and Anglophone Canada. Each essay examines one author, making a case for their importance internationally and contextualizing their work within the science-fictional traditions of their own culture and those of the genre globally (themes, tropes, tendencies, subgenres, etc.). Each also offers

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Herman, David. Boundary Conditions. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190850401.003.0003.

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Chapter 2 extends the ideas presented in the previous chapter by situating a whole range of self-narratives on a spectrum involving more or less fully imagined forms of relationality between humans and other animals. With chapter 1 having provided a detailed reading of two particular case studies, chapter 2 uses a variety of texts—including memoirs and works of nature writing; narratives told by therians, i.e., communities of persons who identify as nonhuman animals; modernist, postmodernist, and contemporary fictional narratives; and works of fantasy and science fiction intended for younger a

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Pekerman, Serazer. Becoming-Wolf: From Wolf-Man to the Tree Huggers of Turkey. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474422734.003.0017.

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Focusing on the May 2013 anti-government demonstrations in Turkey, widely known as the “Gezi Park Resistance”, this chapter uses Deleuze and Guattari’s “becoming-animal” and Freud’s “Wolfman” case study to explore the damaged memories of all its participants. During and after the protests, independent from being in denial or in defence, both the protesters and the police often claimed that they did not remember what actually happened. In some cases, they had a difficult time acknowledging that they committed certain acts despite seeing themselves in videos and pictures. This reminds us of fict

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Welsh, Sarah S., Geneviève Dupont-Thibodeau, and Matthew P. Kirschen. Neuroprognostication after severe brain injury in children: Science fiction or plausible reality? Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198786832.003.0010.

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Neuroprognostication is a complex process that spans the resuscitative, acute, and subacute phases of brain injury and recovery. Improvements over time have transitioned the task of outcome prediction after severe brain injury from estimating survival to providing a qualitative prognosis of functional neurologic recovery. This chapter follows the case of an 8-year-old boy who remained comatose following a cardiac arrest due to drowning. We describe and analyze novel applications of current technologies that could be used in the future to improve the accuracy, reliability, and confidence in the

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Selby, Christine L. B. Who Am I? ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216035374.

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This book explores what identity is, what factors contribute to it, how it develops, and the impacts that a strong or weak sense of self can have on a person's health, happiness, and future. Many teens grapple with the seemingly simple question, "Who am I?" and struggle to integrate their experiences at school, at home, and with friends into their burgeoning sense of identity. How teens see themselves can influence the friends they choose, the decisions they make, and their mental and physical well-being. Having a strong sense of self can help them resist peer pressure, avoid risky behaviors,

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Haliburton, Rachel. Ethical Detective. Lexington Books, 2018. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978736627.

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Detective fiction and philosophy¾moral philosophy in particular¾may seem like an odd combination. Working within the framework offered by neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics, this book makes the case that moral philosophers ought to take murder mysteries seriously, seeing them as a source of ethical insight, and as a tool that can be used to spark the ethical imagination. Detective fiction is a literary genre that asks readers to consider questions of good and evil, justice and injustice, virtue and vice, and is, consequently, a profoundly and inescapably ethical genre. Moreover, in the figure of t

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Jay, Gregory S. White Writers, Race Matters. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190687229.001.0001.

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White liberal race fiction has been an enduringly popular genre in American literary history. It includes widely read and taught works such as Huckleberry Finn and To Kill a Mockingbird along with period bestsellers now sometimes forgotten. Hollywood regularly adapted them into blockbusters, reinforcing their cultural influence. These novels and films protest slavery, confront stereotypes, dramatize social and legal injustices, engage the political controversies of their time, and try to move readers emotionally toward taking action. The literary forms and arguments of these books derive from

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Bluemel, Kristin, and Michael McCluskey, eds. Rural Modernity in Britain. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474420952.001.0001.

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Rural Modernity in Britain argues that the rural areas of twentieth-century Britain were impacted by modernization just as much—if not more—than urban and suburban areas. It shifts the focus for studies of modernity and modernism onto the art, industries, and everyday life of rural people and places. In the early twentieth century, rural areas experienced economic depression, the expansion of transportation and communication networks, the roll out of electricity, the loss of land, and the erosion of local identities. Who celebrated these changes? Who resisted them? Who documented them? The fif

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Gore, Clare Walker. Plotting Disability in the Nineteenth-Century Novel. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474455015.001.0001.

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This book examines the vital narrative work performed by disabled characters in the Victorian novel. By plotting disabled characters across the field of nineteenth-century fiction via Dickensian melodrama, Wilkie Collins’s sensational mysteries, domestic fiction by Charlotte M. Yonge and Dinah Mulock Craik, and realist works by George Eliot and Henry James, it demonstrates the centrality of disability to the Victorian novel, and shows how attention to disability sheds new light on texts’ arrangement and use of bodies. It also traces how the representation of the disabled body shaped and signal

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Ross, Catherine Sheldrick, Lynne (E F. ). McKechnie, and Paulette M. Rothbauer. Reading Still Matters. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216005483.

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Drawing on scholarly research findings, this book presents a cogent case that librarians can use to work towards prioritization of reading in libraries and in schools. Reading is more important than it has ever been—recent research on reading, such as PEW reports and Scholastic’s “Kids and Family Reading Report,” proves that fact. This new edition of Reading Matters provides powerful evidence that can be used to justify the establishment, maintenance, and growth of pleasure reading collections, both fiction and nonfiction, and of readers’ advisory services. The authors assert that reading shou

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Chapman-Kelly, Alice M. Fanfiction as Queer Healing. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350350892.

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Exploring the phenomenon of Femslash fanfiction (fan narratives that bring together heterosexual female characters from mainstream media and fiction), this book analyses fan-authored works as forms of literature worthy of studying at length.It examines the anti-racist, feminist, sapphic fan works produced in response to white supremacist, heteronormative, queerbaiting mainstream fantasy and argues that they represent a significant site of queer healing for marginalised audience members. Focusing on the 'Swan Queen' fandom, where fans pair the ‘white trash’ heroine, Emma Swan and the villainous

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Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye. Penguin Canada, 2017.

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Lagercrantz, David, and George Goulding. Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye. Quercus, 2018.

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Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye. Quercus, 2018.

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Bliss, Michael. Invasions USA. Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. https://doi.org/10.5040/9798881830274.

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Out of more than 180 science fiction films produced in the United States between 1950 and 1959, twenty were concerned with the notion of an invasion. Of these, a select number used the invasions as metaphors of issues that were of importance to America at the time, such as assaults upon individuality and marriage and debates about the supremacy of the human race. The invasion may be real (The Day the Earth Stood Still and War of the Worlds), dreamed (Invaders from Mars), or the result of a mental breakdown, as seems to be the case in Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Real or not, all of these ma

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translator, Goulding George (Translator), ed. The girl who takes an eye for an eye. 2017.

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narrator, Vance Simon, ed. The girl who takes an eye for an eye. 2017.

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translator, Goulding George (Translator), ed. The girl who takes an eye for an eye. 2017.

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Ebisike, Norbert. Offender Profiling in the Courtroom. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400692758.

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Offender profiling is mainly used by the police to narrow down suspects in cases where no physical evidence was left at a crime scene. Recently, however, this technique has been introduced into the courtroom as evidence, raising questions of its reliability, validity, and admissibility at trial. Because offender profiling was not originally intended to be used in the courtroom, its entrance there has caused both confusion and controversy. Offender Profiling in the Courtroom discusses the use of profiling evidence in criminal trials. Ebisike also covers the history, development, approaches to,

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Bateman, Benjamin. Cather’s Survival by Suicide. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190676537.003.0006.

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This chapter explores how the fiction of American writer Willa Cather, particularly her critically neglected novel Lucy Gayheart and short story “Consequences,” depicts suicide as a way of life. Breaking with the sociological wisdom of both the Progressive era and the present, these texts argue that suicidal practices should not be avoided but, rather, meted out so as to sustain the lives of queer people who experience the desire for self-erasure as a fundamental component of being. The psychoanalytic ruminations of Michael Eigen are used to make the case that space must be afforded in all fac

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Macaulay, Rose. What Not. The MIT Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/14281.001.0001.

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An early novel by Rose Macaulay about a government program of compulsory selective breeding in a dystopian future England. In a near-future England, a new government entity—the Ministry of Brains—attempts to stave off idiocracy through a program of compulsory selective breeding. Kitty Grammont, who shares the author's own ambivalent attitude to life, gets involved in the Ministry's propaganda efforts, which are detailed with an entertaining thoroughness. However, when Kitty falls in love with the Minister for Brains, a man whose genetic shortcomings make a union with her impossible, their illi

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Stock, Kathleen. Intentionalist Strategies of Interpretation. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198798347.003.0003.

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This chapter addresses the complaint that extreme intentionalism standardly forces the reader who engages in interpretation to posit private, or hidden, authorial intentions, for which she has little or no evidence. It is first argued that there are no automatic strategies of interpretation of fictional content: at every stage, whether or not a given interpretative strategy is to be appropriately applied depends on the presence of relevant authorial intention as a sanction. (This section includes a discussion, and rejection, of the views of David Lewis and Gregory Currie about fictional truth;

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Hadfield, Andrew. Testimony. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198789468.003.0007.

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Chapter 6 explores the issues of eyewitness accounts and testimony. In both legal disputes and for information about foreign countries great reliance was placed on the accounts of eyewitnesses. But how could anyone be sure that those who provided testimony were telling the truth? Reliable, honest testimony was central to questions of truth and lying and so features heavily in discussion in this period. The chapter explores a variety of cases such as the accounts given of the death of Robert Greene; the murder of Anthony James by Annis and George Dell; the case of the mysterious herring with le

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Lagercrantz, David. The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye: Continuing Stieg Larsson's Millennium Series. MacLehose Press, 2017.

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Stolte, Tyson. Dickens and Victorian Psychology. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192858429.001.0001.

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Abstract Dickens and Victorian Psychology: Introspection, First-Person Narration, and the Mind positions Charles Dickens’s fiction in the midst of Victorian psychological debate, tracking Dickens’s increasing reliance over the course of his career on the introspective mode, those moments—from free indirect discourse to first-person narration—in which Dickens attempts to represent the inner view of his characters’ minds. In the middle of the nineteenth century, introspection remained the central investigative method for dualist psychologies, theories that tied the mind’s immortality to its imma

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Lapidge, Michael. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198811367.003.0001.

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Introduction: The forty passiones translated in this volume represent a genre of Christian-Latin literature that has seldom attracted attention and is poorly understood; yet in sum they constitute a remarkable body of literature composed during the period between 425 and 675, and provide valuable evidence of the sentiments and beliefs of ordinary Christians of that time — their aversion to pagan practices, their admiration for virginity, their firm commitment to orthodoxy — as well as evidence for the machinery of Roman legal procedure. Since the passiones appear to have been composed by the c

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Westfahl, Gary. Legends of the Sprawl. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037801.003.0005.

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This chapter examines three of William Gibson's novels: Neuromancer, Count Zero, and Mona Lisa Overdrive. In Neuromancer, Gibson moved into new territory cautiously, employing a familiar setting—his Sprawl—while essentially combining the plots of two earlier stories. As in “Johnny Mnemonic,” Case would undertake a physical journey through a threatening underworld to obtain crucial information; he would also travel through cyberspace to hack into a protected database. Drawing upon science fiction traditions, Gibson also introduced two significant novelties. Count Zero also features a young comp

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Wickham, Phil. Understanding Television Texts. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781839028625.

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Understanding Television Texts sets out the debates that define television and examines how they can be applied to the study of particular programmes. How do we respond to what we watch and what affects those responses? Production and consumption contexts are examined, but also the meanings in the texts themselves. In addition, there is a consideration of how technology and social change is transforming our experience of TV. These themes are explored through a range of examples of TV programmes and shows – fact and fiction, contemporary and historical, British and American. A wide range of cas

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Goldstein, Myrna Chandler, and Mark A. Goldstein. Healthy Foods. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400662522.

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This book presents research findings about 50 foods that are commonly touted as healthy and educates readers about the medical problems they purportedly alleviate or help prevent. It is always in the best interest of those who market foods to make grandiose claims regarding their nutritional value, regardless of whether actual scientific proof exists to support such a claim. Even diligent and educated consumers often have difficulty discerning facts from mere theory or pure marketing hype. As the incidence of childhood obesity in the United States continues to increase at an alarming rate and

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Gerzina, Gretchen H., ed. Britain's Black Past. Liverpool University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781789621600.001.0001.

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The presence and history of black people in Britain, going back centuries, has been obscured, forgotten and misunderstood. This book, which expands upon the Radio 4 series of the same name, uses new archival discoveries and fresh scholarly interpretations to recover the stories of some of the black individuals, groups and communities whose lives in England were shaped and restricted by slavery and racism during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In eighteen chapters by different contributors, readers encounter black figures from the past who span the social and economic spectrum from dom

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Lynch, William T. Minority Report. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2020. https://doi.org/10.5040/9798881811143.

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In Philip K. Dick’s The Minority Report, ‘precogs’, who are imaginary individuals capable of seeing the future are relied upon to stop crime, with a consensus report synthesized from two of three precogs. When the protaganist is indicted for a future murder, he suspects a conspiracy and seeks out the “minority report,” detailing the suppressed testimony of the third precog. Science works a lot like this science fiction story. Contrary to the view that scientists in a field all share the same “paradigm,” as Thomas Kuhn famously argued, scientists support different, and competing, research progr

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Dall’asta, Monica, and Jane M. Gaines. Prologue. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039683.003.0002.

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This prologue examines overarching issues about women's film history, feminism, and the researching and writing of film history. Foregrounding historiographic problems, it explores the researching and writing about women “in” and “as” “history” in the cinema century by focusing on the critical-historical approach, which deals with the problem of “the history of history” —the approach used to expose the never-neutral amnesias of traditional historiography and to counter its claim to objectivity with the inevitability of its “fictions.” The chapter discusses the concept of becoming historical ot

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Barthel, Joan. Love or Honor: The True Story of an Undercover Cop Who Fell in Love with a Mafia Boss's Daughter. Open Road Integrated Media, Inc., 2016.

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Johnson, Jake. Lying in the Middle. University of Illinois Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252043925.001.0001.

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This book theorizes and conceptualizes the Middle space musical theater maintains in America--between professional and amateur, urban and rural, fact and fiction, fantasy and reality, truth and deception. It focuses on communities in the middle of America who, for various reasons, use homegrown musicals to distance themselves from truth. Musicals grant such communities space to engage belief and religion, to flex the tension musicals maintain between reality and unreality in order to imagine worlds unlike their own. This book makes the case that musicals are a particular form of lying. Buildin

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Vivian, Bradford. Authenticity. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190611088.003.0003.

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Chapter 2 investigates a case in which large segments of the public praised a deeply suspect act of witnessing without critical scrutiny. Questions of historical authenticity (as well as authorship and authority) attend the rhetorically inventive nature of witnessing in Binjamin Wilkomirski’s fraudulent Holocaust memoir, titled Fragments. The author’s alleged childhood memories during his fictional imprisonment at Auschwitz were hailed as an instant classic in the genre for its apparent historical authenticity, and subsequently lauded with international literary awards, but historians and jour

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Miller, Julie. Cry of Murder on Broadway. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501751486.001.0001.

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This book shows how a woman's desperate attempt at murder came to momentarily embody the anger and anxiety felt by many people at a time of economic and social upheaval and expanding expectations for equal rights. On the evening of November 1, 1843, a young household servant named Amelia Norman attacked Henry Ballard, a prosperous merchant, on the steps of the Astor House Hotel. Agitated and distraught, Norman had followed Ballard down Broadway before confronting him at the door to the hotel. Taking out a folding knife, she stabbed him. Ballard survived the attack, and the trial that followed

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Silver, Jim, ed. Crime Junkie's Guide to Criminal Law. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400633690.

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Historically, prime-time television has devoted at least one-third of its programming to crime. The extreme popularity of crime shows continues unabated. FromLaw & OrdertoCSI, Americans are riveted by crime TV. Court TV and other cable channels produce true crime series, too, that take viewers through both current crimes and trials and cold cases. Yet, despite efforts in these shows to depict real investigative and legal techniques, chances are, viewers have questions about criminal procedure, legal issues, and related concerns. For instance, why do police get angry when a suspect just ask

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Winterbottom, Michael. Papers on Quintilian and Ancient Declamation. Edited by Antonio Stramaglia, Francesca Romana Nocchi, and Giuseppe Russo. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198836056.001.0001.

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Declamation—the practice of training young men to speak in public by setting them to compose and deliver speeches on fictional legal cases—was central to the Greek and Roman educational systems over many centuries and has been the subject of a recent explosion of scholarly interest. This book brings together a broad selection of scholarly work published since 1964. The papers and reviews focus on two related topics: the rhetorician Quintilian and ancient declamation in general. Quintilian, who taught rhetoric at Rome in the second half of the first century AD, was the author of the Institutio

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Buckton, Oliver, ed. Many Facets of Diamonds Are Forever. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2019. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978735927.

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Diamonds Are Forever—the fourth James Bond novel by Ian Fleming, published in 1956—is widely recognized as one of the most intriguing and original works in the 007 series. With its exciting settings including West Africa, Las Vegas, and the horse-racing center of Saratoga Springs, the novel explores the thrilling themes of diamond smuggling, gambling, gangsters, sex, and espionage. Moreover, the novel is unique in being set outside the conventional Cold War milieu of other Fleming novels, allowing readers to explore Fleming’s views of America without reference to its Cold War antagonist, the S

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Kersen, Thomas Michael. Where Misfits Fit. University Press of Mississippi, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496835420.001.0001.

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All regions and places are unique in their own way, but the Ozarks have an enduring place in American culture. Studying the Ozarks offers the ability to explore American life through the lens of one of the last remaining cultural frontiers in American society. Perhaps because the Ozarks were relatively isolated from mainstream American society, or were at least relegated to the margins of it, their identity and culture are liminal and oftentimes counter to mainstream culture. Whatever the case, looking at the Ozarks offers insights into changing ideas about what it means to be an American and,

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Gavaler, Chris, and Nat Goldberg. Revising Reality. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350439658.

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The past is fixed – what happened happened. But our descriptions of that past are in constant flux, creating branching networks of contradictory accounts more complex than any fictional franchise. Revising Reality uses pop culture and media concepts of revision to untangle our real-world histories – with startlingly revelatory results. Novels, comics, films, and TV shows can continue previous events (sequels), reinterpret events (retcons), or restart events (remakes), and audiences can ignore any of these revisions (rejects). Drawing on these four kinds of revision derived from franchises such

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Ross, Stephen J. Invisible Terrain. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198798385.001.0001.

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In his debut collection, Some Trees (1956), John Ashbery poses a question that resonates across his oeuvre and much modern art: “How could he explain to them his prayer / that nature, not art, might usurp the canvas?” When Ashbery asks this strange question, he joins a host of transatlantic avant-gardists—from the Dadaists to the 1960s neo-avant-gardists and beyond—who have dreamed the paradoxical dream of turning art into nature. Invisible Terrain examines Ashbery’s poetic mediation of this fantasy, reading his work alongside an array of practitioners, from Wordsworth to Warhol, as an exempla

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Lindop, Samantha. The Stepford Wives. Liverpool University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781800859364.001.0001.

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The Stepford Wives (Forbes, 1975) occupies an unusual position in cinematic history. As is often the case with cult texts, the film itself was a box office flop, despite the hype of its initial release in the US. Though it was intended as a feminist diatribe, it was fervently derided by Betty Friedan, whose 1963 book The Feminine Mystique is literalised in The Stepford Wives. Even Ira Levin, author of the original 1972 novel from which the film was adapted concedes he was less than enthused with what he saw on screen. Despite this, the term Stepford wife has become idiolect for a particular ki

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