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Doubinsky, Sébastien, and Christina Kkona, eds. Women of Horror and Speculative Fiction in Their Own Words. Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781501384493.
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What makes science fiction genres better than others at challenging social conventions, especially gender? Are speculative works structured differently when addressed to traditionally under-portrayed individuals or communities? This collection of interviews elicits truly honest and thought-provoking responses that focus on the biographical dimension in speculative fiction, questions of intersectionality, genre (re)definitions and the politicization of fiction. It gives voice to women of different races, nations, classes and sexual orientations who write and edit speculative fiction – such as E
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Neale, Steve. Film, Cinema, Genre. Edited by Frank Krutnik and Richard Maltby. University of Exeter Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.47788/yrcc6901.
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This book brings together key works by pioneering film studies scholar Steve Neale. From the 1970s to the 2010s Neale’s vital and unparalleled contribution to the subject has shaped many of the critical agendas that helped to confirm film studies’ position as an innovative discipline within the humanities. Although known primarily for his work on genre, Neale has written on a far wider range of topics. In addition to selections from the influential volumes Genre (1980) and Genre and Hollywood (2000), and articles scrutinizing individual genres – the melodrama, the war film, science fiction and
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The short story of photography: A pocket guide to key genres, works, themes & techniques. 2018.
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Macdonald, Gina. James Clavell. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400673504.
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Until now, popular novelist James Clavell has not been recognized for his literary achievements and his contributions to cross-cultural understanding. This critical study seeks to rectify that omission. It shows how Clavell's depiction of cross-cultural encounters of Westerners with the East paves the way for modern multicultural studies. His novels about culture clash help Western readers see with Eastern eyes by taking them into the minds and culture of the Chinese, Japanese, and Iranians. The study provides close textual analysis of each of his novels in turn and shows how Clavell contrasts
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Fichtelberg, Susan. Encountering Enchantment. 2nd ed. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400645464.
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The most current and complete guide to a favorite teen genre, this book maps current releases along with perennial favorites, describing and categorizing fantasy, paranormal, and science fiction titles published since 2006. Speculative fiction continues to be of consuming interest to teens, so if you work with that age group, keeping up with the explosion of new titles in this category is critical. Likewise, understanding the many genres and subgenres into which these titles fall—wizard fantasy, alternate worlds, fantasy mystery, dystopian fiction, science fantasy, and more—is also key if you
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Rosenblum, Joseph, ed. Greenwood Companion to Shakespeare. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216193319.
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Designed and written to meet the needs of students, this 4-volume set clearly and thoughtfully introduces the genres and major works that constitute Shakespeare's formidable canon. Each volume is devoted to a particular genre: ;Volume I: Overviews and the History Plays;Volume II: The Comedies;Volume III: The Tragedies;Volume IV: The Romances and Poetry. Within each volume are essays on particular works. These essays provide plot summaries, analyses of themes and characters, and discussions of historical contexts. In addition, the essays offer detailed explications of key passages, thus illumin
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Wilson Jr., Charles E. Walter Mosley. Greenwood, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216033431.
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Readers of thisCritical Companionwill discover the richness of Mosley's writings, as well as his contributions to the African-American literary tradition, the genres of detective writing and science fiction, and American literature in general. Mosley's influences, inspirations, obstacles, and successes are presented in a richly drawn biographical chapter, which incorporates the author's most recent interviews. Mosley's first detective novel,Devil in a Blue Dress(1990), established a new voice in detective fiction, offering an African American perspective that resonated to a broad spectrum of r
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Shcherbakova, Marina I., ed. Literary process in Russia of the 18 th — 19 th centuries. Secular and spiritual literature. А.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/lit.pr.2020-2.
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Investigations of the creative heritage of Russian writers and poets of the 18 th -19 th centuries, as well as of the most prominent representatives of the Russian clergy and Russian culture, are presented in the scientific work; key issues of the writers’ work method and style, of their works’ genre features, creative self-determination, are raised; new and unique explanations of both widely known and less read classics’ works, which reveal deep meanings and ideas that have not yet been identified in literary criticism, are given. The literary process of the era is illustrated by the special
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Bonds, Mark Evan. Ludwig van Beethoven: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780190051730.001.0001.
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Ludvig van Beethoven: A Very Short Introduction examines Beethoven’s consistent attitude towards his art which is remarkable considering the difficulties he faced in life. This inner consistency provides the key to understanding the composer’s life and works more than 250 years after his birth in 1770. Beethoven approached music as he approached life, weighing from a variety of perspectives whatever occupied him: a melodic idea, a musical genre, a word or phrase, a friend, a lover, a patron, money, politics, religion. His ability to recognize and unlock so many possibilities from each helps ex
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Bielen, Ken. Words and Music of Neil Young. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216038498.
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Neil Young cannot be simply labeled. He has recorded as a solo artist, as a member of a hard rock trio, and with numerous other musician configurations. He can move from the soft sounds of early 1970s acoustic folk to the distorted, fuzz guitar sound of Crazy Horse. And his compositions have responded to musical trends from punk rock to grunge, and to social issues like racism, the Vietnam War, and the war in Iraq as well.The Words and Music of Neil Youngfollows the evolution of Young's musical work from the late 1960s to the present, with special focus on the enduring elements that have made
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Roberts, Adam. Fantasy. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350407862.
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One of the most popular genres of modern times, fantasy literature has as rich a cultural and literary heritage as the magical worlds that so enrapture its readers. In this book, a concise history of the genre, Adam Roberts traces the central forms and influences on fantasy through the centuries to arrive at our understanding of the fantastic today. Pinning the evolution of fantasy on three key moments - the 19th-century resurgence of interest in Arthurian legend, the rise of Christian allegory, and a post-Ossian, post-Grimm emergence of a Norse, Germanic and Old English mythic identity – Robe
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McHugh, Dominic. Noël Coward. Edited by Robert Gordon and Olaf Jubin. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199988747.013.18.
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Although dubbed ‘The Master’ by his admirers, Noël Coward was seen by his detractors as a ‘jack of all trades, master of none’, giving rise to a hermeneutic problem in categorizing the character and meaning of his output. Genre becomes a fallible tool in the exegesis of Coward’s musicals. He flitted deftly from revue to operetta, from original comedy to adaptation, from British to American models. Yet just as genre is often retrospectively extrapolated from key works to provide a framework for the scholar rather than a tangible taxonomy from the point of view of the artist, for Coward it might
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Oikonomopoulou, Katerina. Miscellanies. Edited by Daniel S. Richter and William A. Johnson. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199837472.013.25.
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This chapter discusses miscellanies, a type of Second Sophistic writing whose distinguishing features are variety of subject matter and loose organization. The chapter starts out by acknowledging the difficulty of grasping “the miscellany” as a genre: as it argues, socio-cultural approaches to genre are more appropriate than formalistic ones, if we seek to address the question of these works’ readership and appeal. Accordingly, the chapter links miscellanies with imperial Greco-Roman reading culture, by investigating the aesthetic and cognitive advantages of variety (variatio/poikilia). Furthe
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Booker, M. Keith, ed. Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels. Greenwood, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400628832.
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The most comprehensive reference ever compiled about the rich and enduring genre of comic books and graphic novels, from their emergence in the 1930s to their late-century breakout into the mainstream. At a time when graphic novels have expanded beyond their fan cults to become mainstream bestsellers and sources for Hollywood entertainment,Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novelsserves as an exhaustive exploration of the genre's history, its landmark creators and creations, and its profound influence on American life and culture. Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novelsfocuses on E
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Kich, Martin. Evolution of the Western. Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798765110201.
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Explore the enduring influence of the Western – the quintessential American film genre – and its essential role in US and world culture. Follow the entire history of the Western, from its roots in the pulp novels of the early 20th century, through the serials of the silent era and the mid-century classics of John Ford and John Wayne, to the recent award-winning revisionist works, likeUnforgivenandNo Country for Old Men, that provide a more complex and nuanced take on history of the West. Perhaps more than any other pop culture genre, the Western allows us to view how Americans have seen themse
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Linafelt, Tod. Poetry and Biblical Narrative. Edited by Danna Nolan Fewell. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199967728.013.6.
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Although virtually all other long narratives from the ancient world take the form of verse, biblical authors pioneered a prose style that, for reasons unknown, came to dominate ancient Hebrew narrative, relegating verse to nonnarrative genres. In other words, extended biblical Hebrew narrative always takes the form of prose, and biblical Hebrew poetry is nearly always nonnarrative. And yet, one finds authors and editors of the narratives dropping poems into the stories at key points, often because poetry provides literary resources unavailable in prose. By exploring both the form and function
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Rossi, Michael. James Herriot. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400673535.
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This study examines James Herriot's five major books as carefully crafted volumes of autobiography based on the building block of the short story. In each of these works Herriot explores the fundamental choice of values underlying a happy and successful life. In his vision the bonds of affection and mutual dependence between all creatures, human and animal, form an enduring theme that lies at the heart of the choices he makes in his personal and professional life. This study will help the reader to understand the relationship between Herriot's stories and each book as a whole and to appreciate
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Haines, Tasha. Redemptive Hybridism in Post-Postmodern Writing. Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781501394539.
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From Virginia Woolf to David Foster Wallace and beyond, 'redemptive hybridism' – a new way of reading texts full of possibility and genre blending – emerges as a key trajectory for post-postmodernity. Tasha Haines investigates what she calls "redemptive dybridism" in post-postmodern writing, a paradigmatic shift characterized by possibility. In the textual production of the 21st century, Haines argues, postmodern elitism gives way to the reparative blending of high-low forms and genre collaborations. This shift invokes both intellect and soul in the act of challenging and extending the relatio
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Hartmann, Anna-Maria. Mythography in Europe, 1500–1567. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198807704.003.0002.
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In the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, there were several collections and editions of earlier mythographies available, but these books often drew attention to the need for new mythographies to be written. The first phase of the renewal of the mythographical genre came in humanist miscellanies, in which sophisticated indexes allowed readers to look up all the latest information on a specific god. In the middle of the sixteenth century, there then emerged a series of large-scale, Italian mythographies by Giraldi (1548), Cartari (1556), and Conti (1567). Each of these mythographies
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Magerstädt, Sylvie. TV antiquity. Manchester University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781784995324.001.0001.
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TV antiquity explores representations of ancient Greece and Rome throughout television history. It is the first comprehensive overview of the genre in television. More specifically, the author argues that serial television set in antiquity offers a perspective on the ancient world quite distinct from their cinematic counterparts. The book traces the historic development of fictional representations of antiquity from the staged black-and-white shows of the 1950s and 60s to the most recent digital spectacles. A key argument explored throughout the book is that the structure of serial television
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Winkler, Emily A. The Challenge to Providence. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198812388.003.0005.
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John and Gaimar’s histories eschew explanation by Providence to focus more on short-term and earthly causes for events. For them, an English king has more causal responsibility than in their sources, but the sphere of his influence is less than it is for William and Henry. John and Gaimar tend to evaluate kings more based on their intentions and efforts than on the outcomes they achieve or on the scale of their successes. John’s history is a Latin monastic chronicle; Gaimar’s a poem in the vernacular, Anglo-Norman French: but the key similarities between John and Gaimar’s works show that the n
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Joncus, Berta. Ballad Opera. Edited by Robert Gordon and Olaf Jubin. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199988747.013.1.
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Between 1728 and 1760 ballad opera transformed London’s theatre by making English song the key to commercial success for stage works. By generating the first modern popular singers, it became a prototype for present-day British and American musical theatre. The jaw-dropping success of John Gay’s Beggar’s Opera established a new genre, of which three types developed, according to venue. Licensed theatres staged sentimental, putatively native ‘operas’ tailored around star sopranos such as Kitty Clive. Non-licensed theatres accommodated ballad operas with political intent, or those of particular
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Telotte, J. P. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190695262.003.0001.
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This chapter surveys the body of science fiction cartoons that appeared in approximate parallel to a burgeoning SF literature during the first years of film and continuing to World War II. It situates this material within the production and exhibition practices of the film industry and links it to modernist aesthetics, emphasizing modernism’s primary concerns with revisioning both the world and the self. It then describes the key memes typically found in these films—space vehicles and space travel, robots and mechanical figures, aliens and alien worlds, and inventions and inventors—while also
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Sloan, Nate, and Charlie Harding. Switched On Pop. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190056650.001.0001.
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Switched On Pop: How Pop Music Works, and Why It Matters illuminates the essential musical concepts behind two decades of chart-topping songs. The book moves through close studies of sixteen modern pop classics by artists from Beyoncé to Zedd, each chapter bringing out key aspects of a particular song as well as introducing core concepts such as rhythm, melody, harmony, form, and timbre. As the book progresses, more complex concepts such as syncopation, counterpoint, rhyme, and modulation are covered, culminating in an examination of genre, identity, and musical meaning. Accessible prose and e
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Fogarty, Mary. Gene Kelly. Edited by Melissa Blanco Borelli. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199897827.013.008.
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This chapter explores the contemporary significance of Gene Kelly for street dance practitioners and cultural critics. Responses to a Volkswagen commercial remake of Kelly’s “Singin’ in the Rain” solo sequence raise questions about how creativity and originality are assessed in popular dance performances. By comparing the responses of film critics and hip-hop dance practitioners to both Gene Kelly’s performance in Singin’ in the Rain (Donen and Kelly 1952) and the commercial remake, a key theme emerges. Evaluations of creativity reveal how judgments about originality are as much a part of stre
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Edwards, Michael, ed. The Agōn in Classical Literature: Studies in Honour of Chris Carey. University of London, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.14296/wkue3508.
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The multifaceted 'agōn' – a ‘contest of words’ – is a force formulating classical literary tradition. This book reflects on facets of the 'agōn' and its representations in classical literature across a variety of genres and ideological contexts, from Homer to lyric poetry, drama, law, rhetoric and historiography, and the pivotal role of competition in ancient Greek thought. It sketches out key lines of inquiry pertaining to the study of the 'agōn' as a literary, structural and dialectic form, as a means of authority and power, and as a competitive element in poetic diction and performance. Sti
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Chandler, Clare, and Gus Gowland, eds. Contemporary British Musicals: ‘Out of the Darkness'. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350268067.
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The shortest runs can have the longest legacies: for too long, scholarship surrounding British musical theatre has coalesced around the biggest names, ignoring important works that have not had the critical engagement they deserve. Through academic interrogation and industry insight, this unique collection of essays recognizes these works, shining a light on their creative achievements and legacies. With each chapter focusing on a different significant musical, a selection of shows spanning 2010s are analysed and the development and evolution of the genre is explored. Touching on key, hit show
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Daniel, Rob. Cape Fear. Liverpool University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781800857018.001.0001.
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Can a film made in one genre be better understood by viewing it as another? This book investigates this question in relation to Martin Scorsese’s 1991 remake of Cape Fear. Scorsese approached the film as a thriller, but Cape Fear is thematically and formally more coherent when viewed as a horror film. Across an introduction and five chapters, this book explores why this is the case. How Scorsese’s Catholicism and passion for horror has informed artistic decisions throughout his career, and the ways in which it reached an apex when he directed Cape Fear. The ways in which conventions of Gothic
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Bradley, Ian. Music of the Night. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780197699775.001.0001.
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Abstract The closely related genres of operetta and musical theatre are often dismissed as trivial, shallow, and essentially secular. This book challenges these judgements and seeks to show that there have been clear religious influences and spiritual resonances in some of the best-known and most popular works in both genres. It also points to the darker and more serious side of operetta and musical theatre, as suggested by its title, ‘Music of the Night’. Using hitherto largely neglected sources, Ian Bradley explores the Jewish and Catholic roots of French operetta composers, the impact of Fr
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Ward, Marilyn. Voices from the Margins. Greenwood, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216032786.
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Young people who feel marginalized due to physical differences or disabilities may benefit from discovering fictional characters who face similar difficulties. This unique bibliography surveys the field of children's and young adult literature published since 1990, identifying 200 quality books that deal with a wide range of contemporary health and self-image topics. Coverage includes physical handicaps, Autism, burns, scars, and disfigurement, obesity and anorexia, speech disorders, skin color, and basic issues of popularity and fitting in. The literature covered here includes picture books,
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Gordon, Robert, and Olaf Jubin, eds. The Oxford Handbook of the British Musical. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199988747.001.0001.
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As the first comprehensive academic survey of British musical theatre from its origins to its current state, this volume is a detailed guide to understanding a vibrant form of entertainment ‘made in Britain’. It provides both a historical account of musical theatre from 1728 to the present day and a range of in-depth critical analyses of key works and productions that illustrate the aesthetic values and sociocultural meanings of the genre. The twenty-eight essays offer new perspectives on the British musical, conceiving it as a cultural form complementary to the American musical rather than it
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Bettinson, Gary, and Daniel Martin. Introduction. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474424592.003.0001.
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This introduction to Hong Kong Horror Cinema introduces Hong Kong horror from a variety of perspectives, charting the history and development of the genre and citing key films and filmmakers; it puts Hong Kong horror in the context of East Asian horror more broadly, discussing some of the cultural specificities of Hong Kong horror that differentiate it from the popular and historical horror cycles from Japan, South Korea, Thailand and China; it provides a brief overview of horror studies within the field of academic theory, and suggests ways in which Hong Kong horror films can contribute new p
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Weidle, Roland. Comprehensive Guide to Shakespeare’s Sonnets. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350382862.
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This book provides readers with the tools to unravel the complexities of one of the most difficult sonnet sequences, introducing them to the literary tradition, themes, stylistic features and cultural contexts of the genre and the collection, and offering close readings of more than 100 sonnets. This combined approach enables readers not only to disentangle the complex relationships of the poems’ characters but also to appreciate their philosophical, sensual, topical and subversive qualities. Of the book’s two sections, the first, ‘Contexts and Forms’, includes chapters on the sonnet tradition
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Venn, Edward, and Philip Stoecker, eds. Thomas Adès Studies. Cambridge University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108761451.
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Thomas Adès is a dominant force in contemporary music, whose work attracts significant attention and acclaim, and has been performed by many renowned ensembles. This volume – the first to present a range of scholarly essays on every aspect of Adès's music – offers authoritative accounts of Adès's major compositions from a variety of analytical, critical, cultural and historical perspectives. The opening chapters focus on Adès's earlier music, offering close readings of key works. Further essays focus on his engagement with forms and instrumental genres. The final chapters turn to Adès's texted
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Kizenko, Nadieszda. Good for the Souls. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192896797.001.0001.
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The rite of confession played a unique role in the legal, political, social, and cultural worlds of imperial Russia from the moment that Tsars as well as hierarchs realized that having their subjects go to confession could make them better citizens as well as better Christians. For three centuries, confession became a political tool, a devotional exercise, a means of education, and a literary genre. It defined who was Orthodox, and who was ‘other.’ From first encouraging Russian subjects to participate in confession to improve them and integrate them into a reforming Church and State, Church a
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Lanzendörfer, Anselma. Designated Attention. Edited by Christian Thorau and Hansjakob Ziemer. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190466961.013.11.
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During the nineteenth century, new ideas about how to listen to music were developed. This chapter analyzes concert programs from the Leipzig Gewandhaus from the late eighteenth century through the mid-nineteenth. It looks at one aspect that has been largely ignored: the actual form that the announcements of music in concert programs took. Designations of musical pieces began to provide more and more information, specifying details such as composers’ name, key, running number, tempo and mood markings, and programmatic titles. This development was asynchronous and uneven, encompassing some comp
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Esser, Helena. Steampunk London. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350433939.
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Tracing the genre through fiction, visual art, film and videogames from the 1980s to the present, this book offers a comprehensive exploration of the intersection between neo-Victorianism, urban spaces and Steampunk. Characterised by its interplay between past and present and its anachronistic retro-speculation, Neo-Victorian-infused Steampunk remixes modern collective memory to produce a re-imagined vision of Victorian London. Investigating how Steampunk’s re-calibrated Londons both source from and subvert Victorian discourse about the city, Steampunk London offers a deeper understanding of h
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Horton, Emily. 21st-Century British Gothic. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350286597.
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In this innovative re-casting of the genre and its received canon, Emily Horton explores fictional investments in the Gothic within contemporary British literature, revealing how such concepts as the monstrous, spectral and uncanny work to illuminate the insecure, uneven and precarious experience of 21st century life. Reading contemporary works of Gothic fiction by Helen Oyeyemi, Kazuo Ishiguro, Sarah Moss, Patrick McGrath and M.R. Carey alongside writers not previously grouped under this umbrella, such as Brian Chikwava, Chloe Aridjis and Mohsin Hamid, Horton illuminates the way the Gothic ha
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Hetherington, Paul, and Cassandra Atherton. Prose Poetry. Princeton University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691180656.001.0001.
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This is the first book of its kind — an introduction to the history, development, and features of English-language prose poetry, an increasingly important and popular literary form that is still too little understood and appreciated. The book introduces prose poetry's key characteristics, charts its evolution from the nineteenth-century to the present, and discusses many historical and contemporary prose poems that both demonstrate their great diversity around the Anglophone world and show why they represent some of today's most inventive writing. A prose poem looks like prose but reads like p
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Crymble, Adam. Technology and the Historian. University of Illinois Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252043710.001.0001.
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After nearly a decade of scholars trying to define digital work, this book makes the case for a need instead to understand the history of technology’s relationship with historical studies. It does so through a series of case studies that show some of the many ways that technology and historians have come together around the world and over the decades. Often left out of the historiography, the digital age has been transformative for historians, touching on research agendas, approaches to teaching and learning, scholarly communication, and the nature of the archive itself. Bringing together hist
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Henderson, Desirée, and Tracey Daniels-Lerberg, eds. Short Diary Fiction. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350348103.
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Diaries capture the most intimate and revealing aspects of diarists’ perception of themselves and the world around them. Throughout history, fiction writers have turned to the diary genre to maximize the intimacy and credibility of their narratives and to tell stories that bridge the personal and the social. This collection is the first to make visible the historical and global scope of short stories that use diaries as a structuring form or thematic inspiration. The book gathers twenty stories that span three centuries, from ten different countries and seven different languages. Although writ
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Britton, Celia, trans. Introduction to a Poetics of Diversity. Liverpool University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781789620979.001.0001.
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This book reproduces the texts of four lectures, followed by discussions, and two interviews with Lise Gauvin published in Introduction à une poétique du divers (1996); and also four further interviews from L’Imaginaire des langues (Lise Gauvin, 2010). It covers a wide range of topics but key recurring themes are creolization, language and langage, culture and identity, ‘monolingualism’, the ‘Chaos-world’ and the role of the writer. Migration and the various different kinds of migrants are also discussed, as is the difference between ‘atavistic’ and ‘composite’ communities, the art of translat
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Nelson, Emmanuel S., ed. The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature. Greenwood, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400659522.
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While other works cover individual ethnic literary traditions, this encyclopedia is the first to offer a comprehensive introduction to the spectacularly diverse range of ethnic American writing. Included are more than 1100 alphabetically arranged entries by more than 300 scholars. While most of the entries are biographical, others cover genres, ethnic stereotypes, seminal works, significant places, major historical events, key pieces of legislation, and various other topics that are part of the context of multiethnic America literature. While some of the writers profiled have international rep
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Celati, Marta. Conspiracy Literature in Early Renaissance Italy. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198863625.001.0001.
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The present work represents the first full-length investigation of Italian Renaissance literature on the topic of conspiracy. This literary output consists of texts belonging to different genres that enjoyed widespread diffusion in the second half of the fifteenth century, when the development of these literary writings proves to be closely connected with the affirmation of a centralized political thought and princely ideology in Italian states. The centrality of the issue of conspiracies in the political and cultural context of the Italian Renaissance emerges clearly also in the sixteenth cen
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Hoffman, A. Robin. Victorian Alphabet Books and the Education of the Eye. Oxford University PressOxford, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/9780198938163.001.0001.
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Abstract Victorian Alphabet Books and the Education of the Eye shows how the familiar genre went beyond mere reading instruction to offer nineteenth-century British writers, illustrators, and publishers a site for reflecting on literacy itself. This interdisciplinary study traces the ways that individuals throughout the Victorian era deployed alphabet books to promote visual literacy or oral culture as a vital complement to textual literacy. Their strategies ranged from puns and political allusions to elaborate designs that addressed adult audiences alongside or even instead of children. Georg
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Lena, Jennifer C. Entitled. Princeton University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691158914.001.0001.
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Two centuries ago, wealthy entrepreneurs founded the American cathedrals of culture—museums, theater companies, and symphony orchestras—to mirror European art. But today's American arts scene has widened to embrace multitudes: photography, design, comics, graffiti, jazz, and many other forms of folk, vernacular, and popular culture. What led to this dramatic expansion? This book shows how organizational transformations in the American art world—amid a shifting political, economic, technological, and social landscape—made such change possible. By chronicling the development of American art from
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Jones, Kathryn N., Carol Tully, and Heather Williams. Hidden Texts, Hidden Nation. Liverpool University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781789621433.001.0001.
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This book examines the representation of Wales and ‘Welshness’ in texts by French (including Breton) and German-speaking travellers from 1780 to the present day, focusing on key points in the period of Welsh modernisation from the Industrial Revolution to the post-devolution era. Since the emergence of the travel narrative as a popular source of information and entertainment in the mid-18<sup>th</sup> century, writing about Wales has often been embedded and hidden in accounts of travel to ‘England’. This book seeks to redefine perceptions of Wales by problematizing the notion of ‘invisibility’
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Robinson, Marin S., Fredricka L. Stoller, Molly Constanza-Robinson, and James K. Jones. Write Like a Chemist. Oxford University Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195367423.001.0001.
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Write Like a Chemist is a unique guide to chemistry-specific writing. Written with National Science Foundation support and extensively piloted in chemistry courses nationwide, it offers a structured approach to writing that targets four important chemistry genres: the journal article, conference abstract, scientific poster, and research proposal. Chemistry students, post-docs, faculty, and other professionals interested in perfecting their disciplinary writing will find it an indispensable reference. Users of the book will learn to write through a host of exercises, ranging in difficulty from
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Martincich, Dustyn, Phoebe Rumsey, Benae Beamon, et al. Dance in Musical Theatre. Edited by Dustyn Martincich and Phoebe Rumsey. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350235564.
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From Oklahoma! and West Side Story, to Spring Awakening and Hamilton, dance remains one of the most important and key factors in musical theatre. Through the integration of song and dance in the ‘dream ballets’ of choreographers like Agnes de Mille; the triple threat performances of Jerome Robbins’ dancers; the signature style creation by choreographers like Bob Fosse with dancers like Gwen Verdon; and the contemporary, identity-driven work of choreographers like Camille A. Brown, the history of the body in movement is one that begs study and appreciation. Dance in Musical Theatre offers guide
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Farfan, Penny. Performing Queer Modernism. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190679699.001.0001.
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Focusing on some of the best-known stage plays and dance performances of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this interdisciplinary study demonstrates that queer performance was integral to and productive of modernism, while also suggesting that queer modernist performance played a key role in the historical emergence of modern sexual identities and that it anticipated, and was in a sense foundational to, the insights of contemporary queer modernist studies. Chapters on Arthur Wing Pinero’s The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, Loie Fuller’s Fire Dance, Vaslav Nijinsky’s Afternoon of a Fau