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Atwood, Margaret Eleanor. Kocie oko. Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 1995.

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Atwood, Margaret Eleanor. Mačje oko. Laguna, 2003.

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Atwood, Margaret Eleanor. Ojo de Gato. Editiones B, 1990.

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Jong, Menno de. Met het oog op de lezer: Pretestmethoden voor schriftelijk voorlichtingsmateriaal. Thesis Publishers, 1996.

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Berndt, Katrin. Yoko Ono, in her own write: Ihr musikalisches Schaffen und der Einfluss von John Lennon. Tectum, 1999.

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ඕපන් ඔෆිස්.org රයිටර් පද සැකසුම් මෘදුකාංගය |OOo Writer - Word Processing Software. Department of Co-Operative Development, 2009.

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ඕපන් ඔෆිස්.org රයිටර් පද සැකසුම් මෘදුකාංගය: OOo Writer - Word Processing Software. Department of Co-Operative Development, 2009.

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ඕපන් ඔෆිස්.org රයිටර් පද සැකසුම් මෘදුකාංගය |OOo Writer - Word Processing Software. Department of Co-Operative Development, 2009.

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Phillips, Adam. Emerson and the Impossibilities of Style. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198737827.003.0009.

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As a writer Emerson privileges originality and idiosyncrasy over imitation and repetition. This puts him in a paradoxical position when he writes about style. Writers only write because of earlier writers; and they only learn to write, initially, through imitating those they emulate. And to develop a discernible style inevitably involves a certain amount of repetition—of vocabulary, of syntax, of rhythm, and of subject matter. If tradition makes originality possible, as Emerson can’t help but acknowledge, how does the writer sufficiently distinguish himself? And if style is only identifiable t

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Shop, Habinal. Mood CEO,OOO,OOO: Boss Lady Gifts, Boss Man Gifts, Inspirational Gifts, Blank Lined Notebook to Write in. Independently Published, 2020.

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Blum, Deborah, Mary Knudson, and Robin Marantz Henig, eds. A Field Guide for Science Writers. Oxford University Press, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195174991.001.0001.

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This is the official text for the National Association of Science Writers. In the eight years since the publication of the first edition of A Field Guide for Science Writing, much about the world has changed. Some of the leading issues in today's political marketplace - embryonic stem cell research, global warming, health care reform, space exploration, genetic privacy, germ warfare - are informed by scientific ideas. Never has it been more crucial for the lay public to be scientifically literate. That's where science writers come in. And that's why it's time for an update to the Field Guide,

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Pollack, Howard. The Young Writer. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190458294.003.0002.

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This chapter discusses Latouche’s early education. This includes his early artistic interests, and his years at John Marshall High School, during which time he wrote extensively for the school newspaper and acted in school plays. During these early years, he also partook in community theater in Richmond, making a name for himself as an actor. After graduating high school, he attended the Riverdale Country Day School in the Bronx, where he pursued similar activities. Entering Columbia University on scholarship, he distinguished himself as a critic and poet, winning several prestigious awards. B

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Jong, Menno de. Met het oog op de lezer: Pretestmethoden voor schriftelijk voorlichtingsmateriaal (Perspectieven op taalgebruik). Thesis Publishers, 1995.

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Lefkowitz, Jeremy B. Reflection. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199375967.003.0004.

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The legendary Aesop, whom Herodotus (Histories, 2.134) places on Samos in the sixth century BCE, did not write a single fable with his own hand. The fables that have survived under his name were written in the centuries after his death, composed by a diverse set of writers who labeled their stories “Aesop’s” with little concern for historical accuracy. We are left with hundreds of tales and anecdotes scattered across the remains of classical literature, in both Greek and Latin, in prose and in verse, each one with murky origins and dubious links to the life of Aesop....

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de Bruyn, Theodore. Conclusion. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199687886.003.0008.

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The Conclusion reviews the spectrum of amulets with Christian elements and the range of hands with which they were written. The formulaic character of many amulets with regards to both conventional and Christian elements allows one to observe, in varying degrees, the ‘conditioned individuality’ of their writers. The salience that a particular element, customary or Christian, held for a scribe may be hard to determine. Nevertheless, some scribes, it is argued, were closer culturally and socially than others to the institutional centre of the Egyptian church. Finally, one must consider what sort

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Barnes, Diana G. Emotional Debris in Early Modern Letters. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198802648.003.0008.

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As Ovid’s heroine Briseis acknowledges, letters carry material traces of the emotions that motivated the writer. This is true of any handwritten document, but more so for letters that stand in for face-to-face conversation with familiars. Emotion may be suggested by a tremor in an upright line, an ink blot, a torn page, or a hurried scrawl. Nevertheless, it is difficult to pin these signs to a manifest emotion with certainty. And yet we should not disregard these traces altogether; they were part of an epistolary vocabulary familiar to early modern writers and readers. This chapter elucidates

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Song, Weijie. A Displaced City and Postmemory. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190200671.003.0006.

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This chapter examines how Sinophone writers from PRC, Taiwan, and Hong Kong compose their Beijing narratives to articulate their anxiety and desire, frustrated and fluid subjectivities. Liang Shiqiu a Beijing native, Taipei dweller, literary guru, and sophisticated connoisseur of fine cuisine, writes about Beijing cuisine to evoke emotional affiliation, gastronomic nostalgia, and imagined reunion. Both originally from Taiwan, Lin Haiyin romanticizes her memory of the south side of Beijing from an innocent girl’s perspective, while Zhong Lihe sharply criticizes the inferior and filthy life of B

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Roberts, Michèle. Colette. Oxford University PressOxford, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192858214.001.0001.

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Abstract This book embodies a rereading of certain texts by Colette that have felt, and feel, important to me both as a reader and as a writer. The My Reading series encourages a personal, subjective account of the books chosen for rereading. Colette was a pioneering, groundbreaking modernist writer, but has not always had her originality and worth recognized in Britain. I write about her invention of new forms to express her unsettling content (to do with desire, perversion, ageing, and different forms of love)—for example, her mixing of fiction, memoir, and letters in Break of Day, her use o

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West, John. Dryden and Enthusiasm. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198816409.001.0001.

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For John Dryden, enthusiasm was a crucial form of literary authority. It allowed writers to speak of supernatural or divine things. It signalled the intense emotions of an audience or reader that allowed them to share the writer’s visionary transport. Enthusiasm also carried disturbing political and religious registers. Referring to mistaken claims of divine inspiration, it was associated with the religious sects of the Civil Wars and Interregnum. In Dryden’s work, it characterizes religious dissenters whom he regarded as inheritors to the ideas of those mid-century radicals. For Dryden, enthu

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Larsen, Matthew D. C. Unfinished and Less Authored Texts. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190848583.003.0002.

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The concept of textual unfinishedness played a role in a wide variety of cultures and contexts across the Mediterranean basin in antiquity and late antiquity. Chapter 2 documents examples of Greek, Roman, and Jewish writers reflecting explicitly in their own words about unfinished texts. Many writers claimed to have written unfinished texts on purpose for specific cultural reasons, while others claimed to have written texts that slipped out of their hands somehow with their permission.

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Fitzgerald, William, and Efrossini Spentzou. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198768098.003.0001.

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Part One of the introduction places the book within the framework of the recent spatial turn in the Humanities, engaging with key psychogeographical notions. It contextualizes the volume with reference to relevant studies on both Greek and Latin literature that have engaged with such perspectives. This part also explores how Roman writers themselves spatialize their narratives and maps how different contributors engage with the spatial element of the various narratives. Part Two engages with aspects of modern political philosophy, utilizing it in order to appreciate the ideological disputes in

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Kenny, Neil. Born to Write. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198852391.001.0001.

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Scratch the surface of literary production from the late fifteenth to the mid-seventeenth century in France, and a large number of the authors, translators, and editors turn out to be relatives of other authors, translators, and editors. Why was this? Why did some 200 families contain more than one literary producer and so exercise disproportionate influence over what people read in the period? The phenomenon ranged from poetry (the Marots, the Des Roches) to scholarship (the Scaligers), from history-writing (the Godefroys) to engineering (the Errards). It included not just fathers and sons bu

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Nolan, Deborah, and Sara Stoudt. Communicating with Data. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198862741.001.0001.

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Communicating with Data: The Art of Writing for Data Science aims to help students and researchers write about their data insights in a way that is both compelling and faithful to the data. This book aims to be both a resource for students who want to learn how to write about scientific findings both formally and for broader audiences and a textbook for instructors who are teaching science communication. In addition, a researcher who is looking for help with writing can use this book to self-train. The book consists of five parts. Part I helps the novice learn to write by reading the work of o

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Taylor, Helena. The Exile Writes Back. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198796770.003.0005.

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This chapter focuses on the historiographical difficulties entailed in telling Ovid’s story. It analyses the entry on Ovid in Pierre Bayle’s biographical encyclopaedia, Dictionnaire historique et critique. Bayle surveys the historiographical tradition of the Lives of Ovid and, in line with the intentions of the Dictionnaire, which was initially conceived to reveal errors in scholarship, identifies the limitations of many of the sources. Through close reading, this chapter examines how Bayle reads Ovid, situating this within the hermeneutical debates about reading Bayle. Bayle’s analysis of Ovi

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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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O’Collins, SJ, Gerald. The Inspired Scriptures. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198824183.003.0006.

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Unlike the living, interpersonal events of divine revelation, the inspired Scriptures are written texts. They record and interpret events and words of revelation, but also witness to and interpret other matters (e.g. Leviticus and Song of Songs). While being under a special, God-given impulse to write, the sacred authors yet used their human abilities: some were more gifted than others (compare 1 Chronicles with Luke), and they wrote in different genres (e.g. proverbs, letters, psalms, gospels, and apocalypses). Although some biblical writers produced works of considerable beauty, their litera

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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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Shea, C. Michael. Promise and Peril. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198802563.003.0004.

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This chapter undertakes a comparison of John Henry Newman’s reflections on faith and reason with those of his French contemporary, Louis Bautain, and the German writer, Georg Hermes. Both writers faced scrutiny from ecclesiastical authorities on the issue of faith and reason in the middle decades of the nineteenth century. The analysis shows that Newman shared affinities with both thinkers on the level of technical language and teachings regarding faith and reason. Newman’s view of implicit reason was at times strikingly similar to Bautain’s notion of raison, and Newman’s passing statements on

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Rice, Alison. Worldwide Women Writers in Paris. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192845771.001.0001.

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Worldwide Women Writers in Paris brings together a variety of authors who are a part of a phenomenon of new writing by women in French. These individuals, all eighteen of whom hail from outside the hexagonal borders of France, have chosen to take up residence in the French capital and compose literary works in French. Whether they were born in Algeria, Hungary, India, Mauritius, South Korea, or elsewhere, these women writers are contributing to a transformation in the Francophone literary landscape through stylistic and thematic innovations that have emerged in part from their differing experi

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Parr, Connal. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198791591.003.0001.

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This book is a synthesis of the political and the creative, telescoping modern history and politics with theatre and television drama. It centres on ten writers: St John Ervine (1883–1971), Thomas Carnduff (1886–1956), John Hewitt (1907–87), Sam Thompson (1916–65), Stewart Parker (1941–88), Graham Reid (1945–), Ron Hutchinson (1947–), Gary Mitchell (1965–), Christina Reid (1942–2015), and Marie Jones (1951–). While never intending to ghettoize Protestant writers, or indeed suggest that only those from this background can write illuminatingly about it, one of the reasons the book does not focus

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Lawrence, Jeffrey. An Inter-American Episode. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190690205.003.0003.

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This chapter focuses on a paradigmatic misencounter between an American experiencer and a Latin American reader. Examining an implicit debate about the sources of Walt Whitman’s poetry and vision of the Americas, I argue that Waldo Frank, one of the twentieth century’s main literary ambassadors from the US to Latin America, positioned Whitman as the representative US writer whose antibookish experiential aesthetics could serve as a model for “American” writers both in the North and in the South. I show how Frank’s framework provided a foil for Borges’s idiosyncratic view that Whitman’s poetry

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Boudreau, Joseph F., and Eric S. Swanson. How to write a class. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198708636.003.0006.

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While there is no such thing as a “typical” C++ class, several common syntactical constructs lend themselves to extremely widespread use and must be mastered by C++ programmers. To motivate the discussion of software design at the level of the C++ class, examples from computer science and optics are introduced. Important syntactical elements such as constructors, destructors, copy constructors, assignment operators, cast operators, and const qualifiers, together with function overloading, operator overloading, and dynamic memory allocation are discussed. These concepts, illustrated with exampl

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Rivett, Sarah. Learning to Write Algonquian Letters. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190492564.003.0003.

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Atlantic networks of Protestant and Jesuit letters fueled missionary linguistic activity in North America in the 1660s and 1670s, which influenced early modern debates about the representational power of words. A fragmented theological and philosophical context in Europe put pressure on New World missionaries to try to salvage mystical ideas about the representational power of words. Espousing the idea that Algonquian could be redeemed along with the souls of its speakers, missionaries John Eliot in New England and Chrétien Le Clercq in Nova Scotia transformed the New World into language labor

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Burris, Scott, Micah L. Berman, Matthew Penn, and, and Tara Ramanathan Holiday. How to Write a Law. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190681050.003.0016.

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This chapter defines the process of drafting a law, beginning with understanding the goal of the law, then moving through the steps of incorporating the existing science and law, capturing the goal, the rules of conduct, and intervention in organized language and structure, which differs depending on whether the law is a regulation or a statute, and soliciting expert and stakeholder feedback. The chapter also covers technical drafting issues, such as legal definitions, cross-references, use of consistent terminology, and the use and placement of modifiers.

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Yu, Timothy. Diasporic Poetics. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198867654.001.0001.

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This book advances a new concept of the “Asian diaspora” that creates links between Asian American, Asian Canadian, and Asian Australian identities. Drawing from comparable studies of the black diaspora, it traces the histories of colonialism, immigration, and exclusion shared by these three populations. The work of Asian poets in each of these three countries offers a rich terrain for understanding how Asian identities emerge at the intersection of national and transnational flows, with the poets’ thematic and formal choices reflecting the varied pressures of social and cultural histories, as

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Rennie, David A. American Writers and World War I. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198858812.001.0001.

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Recent scholarship has uncovered a spectrum of sociopolitical categories of World War I experience represented in American literature. American Writers and World War I resituates this collective focus on the multifaceted nature of war experience, by considering writers as idiosyncratic individuals—rather than as members of a particular constituency of identity. Looking at texts produced throughout the careers of Edith Wharton, Ellen La Motte, Mary Borden, Thomas Boyd, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Laurence Stallings, and Ernest Hemingway, David Rennie argues that authors’ war writing continuously evolv

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Beard, Jennifer. Teaching Public Health Writing. Oxford University PressNew York, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197576465.001.0001.

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Abstract Teaching Public Health Writing argues that public health schools and programs need to make writing practice and mentoring central to the curriculum. Writing is a process that demands patience, humility, and deliberate practice. Write, revise, submit, receive feedback, revise again. All writers develop their confidence, patience, and voice over the course of their lives. Public health students are learning to understand and translate technical content from a wide array of disciplines into clear, concise, engaging documents for vastly different audiences and purposes. It’s a time-consum

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Stern, Tiffany. Nashe and Satire. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199580033.003.0011.

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This chapter explores the story of Thomas Nashe's ‘satire’. In the 1580s and 1590s, ‘satire’ was a term conferred upon his works by admirers who sought to define — and so limit — the nature of the prose he wrote. This chapter explores what satire means to Nashe's friends and enemies, particularly in combination with ‘honey’ or ‘sweetness’. It also considers why Nashe himself avoided the word. To explore the extent to which Nashe was and was not a writer of satires, as well as where his ‘sweetness’ resides, this chapter also attempts to examine what early modern writers took satire to mean, and

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Spiers, Emily. British Pop-Feminism on the Literary Marketplace. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198820871.003.0005.

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This chapter investigates post-chick-lit debates concerning the ‘democratization’ of fiction which collide with claims that the UK’s publishing industry inclines increasingly towards simplifying and sexualizing literary fiction written by women. Long-standing debates within feminist scholarship concerning the practices of reading first-person narratives written by women become compounded by the contemporary frameworks of market and genre within which those narratives are situated. Spiers examines three examples of pop-literary fiction by British writers Scarlett Thomas, Helen Walsh, and Gwendo

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Whitmarsh, Tim. How to Write Anti-Roman History. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190649890.003.0014.

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In this chapter, Tim Whitmarsh reconstructs an example of a type of history writing—accounts with a pronounced anti-Roman bias—that has left only exiguous traces in the extant collection of ancient textual sources. Whitmarsh traces this oppositional history by scrutinizing the several categories of professed opponents whom Dionysius of Halicarnassus ventriloquizes. Whitmarsh tentatively identifies Metrodorus of Scepsis as a likely target of Dionysius’ critiques and then reverse engineers Metrodorus’ arguments, drawing also on criticisms that Plutarch appears to have directed at Metrodorus. Whi

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Bugg, John. British Romanticism and Peace. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198839668.001.0001.

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This is the first book to bring perspectives from the field of Peace Studies to bear on the writing of the Romantic period. Particularly significant is that field’s attention not only to anti-war protest but more purposefully to considerations of how peace can actively be fostered, established, and sustained. Resisting discourses of military propaganda, writers such as Helen Maria Williams, William Wordsworth, William Cobbett, and Jane Austen embark on the challenging and urgent rhetorical work of imagining, and inspiring others to imagine, the possibility of peace. The writers considered in t

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Ackerley, Chris. Aesthetes Abroad. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199609932.003.0027.

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This chapter focuses on Evelyn Waugh and Somerset Maugham as pre-eminent examples of ‘aesthetes abroad’: writers who travelled, sometimes to the most obscure corners of the empire, to observe the curiosities of their age through a quizzical perspective that nevertheless retained something distinctively ‘British’ at its centre. Waugh gained a lasting reputation, first as an aesthete and stylist who mocked and elegized the ancient ways as they fell into futility; then, more controversially, as a Catholic writer who deplored in what he saw disdainfully as the age of the common man a rise of medio

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Newcomb, Lori Humphrey. Cross-Sections (2). Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199580033.003.0004.

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This chapter looks at Elizabethan prose fiction. Once combed mainly for formal features that might presage the novel, Elizabethan prose fiction is today appreciated for its own distinctive energy and heterogeneity. However, prose fiction in the sixteenth century still was largely an experimental genre. For writers willing to move beyond set forms, prose narrative offered new freedoms to enhance the status of English letters while drawing freely on Continental sources, to develop prose style while incorporating verse elements, to claim usefulness while indulging writerly and readerly pleasure,

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Govind, Nikhil. Inlays of Subjectivity. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199498727.001.0001.

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Inlays of Subjectivity is an incisive exposition of the question of subjectivity in modern Indian literature. Seeking to foreground subjectivity through literary expressions of intense emotionality, whether suffering, humiliation, creativity or strife, it also raises the timely question of the relation of justice and speech. This book studies select influential Indian literary texts across the last hundred years in various Indian languages to find overlapping preoccupations with selfhood. As the first chapter on K. R. Meera’s fiction demonstrates, it is the experience of felt injustice that fi

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Huang, Vivian L. Surface Relations. Duke University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9781478023623.

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In Surface Relations Vivian L. Huang traces how Asian and Asian American artists have strategically reworked the pernicious stereotype of inscrutability as a dynamic antiracist, feminist, and queer form of resistance. Following inscrutability in literature, visual culture, and performance art since 1965, Huang articulates how Asian American artists take up the aesthetics of Asian inscrutability—such as invisibility, silence, unreliability, flatness, and withholding—to express Asian American life. Through analyses of diverse works by performance artists (Tehching Hsieh, Baseera Khan, Emma Sulko

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Bowers, Toni. Epistolary Fiction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199580033.003.0024.

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This chapter focuses on epistolary fiction. In epistolary fiction, stories unfold by means of letters exchanged among fictional correspondents. The governing pretence is that the letters that make up the work represent not fiction at all, but a real-life exchange among correspondents who do not expect their communications ever to become public; only later are the letters collated for publication, often not by the supposed letter writers themselves. Typically written in a moment-by-moment simple past or present progressive tense, stories in epistolary form tend to privilege scenes of intense em

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Kerr, Matthew P. M. The Victorian Novel and the Problems of Marine Language. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192843999.001.0001.

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To write about the sea in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was to do so against a vast accretion of past deeds, patterns of thought, and particularly modes of expression, many of which had begun to feel not just settled but exhausted. All at Sea takes up this circumstance, showing how prose writers in this period grappled with the super-conventionalized nature of the sea as a setting, as a shaper of plot and character, as a structuring motif, and as a source of metaphor. But while writing about the sea required careful negotiation of multiple and sometimes conflicting associations,

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Lawn, Jennifer. Genre Fiction since 1950. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199679775.003.0033.

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This chapter discusses the history of genre fiction in New Zealand since 1950. Crime writers such as Vanda Symon and Paul Cleave exploit the phenomenon of ‘glocalization’ by locating an international genre in distinctively local settings. Others, like Nalini Singh and Phillip Mann, embrace the alternative worlds of science fiction and fantasy without any sense that a local referent is necessary or desirable. The chapter first considers how New Zealand crime writers add distinctively Kiwi twists to their work before turning to crime thrillers by Paul Thomas and others. It also examines fiction

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Fögen, Thorsten. Ancient Approaches to Letter-Writing and the Configuration of Communities through Epistles. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198804208.003.0002.

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The chapter explores reflections on the practice of letter-writing, with equal attention to instructional handbooks (esp. Demetrius’ Περὶ ἑρμηνείας‎, Iulius Victor’s Rhetorica, Pseudo-Demetrius’ Τύποι ἐπιστολικοί‎, Pseudo-Libanius’ Ἐπιστολιμαῖοι χαρακτῆρες‎, and Erasmus of Rotterdam’s De conscribendis epistolis) and the meta-generic statements that letter-writers routinely embed in their correspondence (with a special focus on Cicero, Ovid, Seneca, and Pliny the Younger). In both types of sources, what one might call the social dimension of style registers as a primary concern: in order for th

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Foltz, Jonathan. Out of Time. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190676490.003.0006.

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This chapter tracks film’s role in rewriting the possibilities of novelistic irony. It focuses on the work of Aldous Huxley, the period’s most well-known satirist, who relocated to Hollywood in the 1930s for a disastrous career as a screenwriter. As Huxley reflected in a number of key essays on the medium, the cinema achieves automatically what writers often labor to express. It is a medium, he says, in which “miracles are easily performed”—a medium in which miracles are no longer miracles, beauty no longer beautiful. Yet Huxley was a writer perversely willing to draw upon that unbeautiful ene

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