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Baumbich, Charlene Ann. Finding our way home: A novel. WaterBroook Press, 2012.

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Our Home Movies: A Novel. Amazon.com, 2017.

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Miller, Anesa. Our orbit: A novel. 2015.

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Defending our home: Loyalist families of Dundas County and the battle of Crysler's farm : a War of 1812 novel. Borealis Press, 2012.

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Road to oblivion: The footpath back home : a novel of discovery of who we are and what made us the way we are and whether we can change our stories and be who we want to be. Clear Light Publishers, 2002.

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Shabazz, Rashad. “Our Prison”. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039645.003.0003.

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This chapter examines how carceral power was articulated in the kitchenettes—small, tight, cramped spaces that many Black migrants in the Black Belt were forced to live in between World War I and World War II—and shaped identity formation. Drawing on the literature of Richard Wright, it considers how the police power that functioned in the public space of Chicago's Black Belt moved into the homes of Black migrants. Decades before carceral power made it into the academic lexicon, Wright used his fiction and nonfiction to document and understand the effect the geography of containment had on Bla

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Miklós Bálint, Tóth. From Ideology to Nostalgia. Lexington Books, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978748699.

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The Hungarian literary tradition teems with a myriad of works that can contribute significantly to our political knowledge. Politics and literature as an interdisciplinary focus pays little attention to the works of Hungarian authors. Based on this perception, From Ideology to Nostalgia: Excursions with Arthur Koestler and Sándor Márai intends to show that specific novels written by Hungarian authors have significant value from the perspective of political theory. Miklós Bálint Tóth examines works which provide a thorough understanding of problems related to the notion of political order. In t

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A man, a home, and a world: Tamil novel Oru manithan, oru veedu, oru ulagam. Sahitya Akademi, 2003.

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Dougherty, Carol. Travel and Home in Homer's Odyssey and Contemporary Literature. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198814016.001.0001.

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Travel and Home in Homer’s Odyssey and Contemporary Literature brings Homer’s Odyssey together with contemporary literary texts ranging from Rebecca West’s Return of the Soldier to Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road to produce new readings that reframe, reorient, and ultimately revise aspects of Homer’s iconic story of travel and home. While some novels share with the Odyssey a celebration of the creative process of improvisation to rethink the relationship between home and travel, others draw upon nostalgia, our complicated longing for home, to unsettle the inevi

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Landy, Joshua. Marcel Proust. Oxford University PressNew York, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780197586556.001.0001.

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Abstract This book is a brief guide to the thought and work of Marcel Proust, arguably France’s most famous literary writer. It explores a series of questions raised in Proust’s monumental novel, In Search of Lost Time: how we can feel at home in the world; how we can make genuine contact with other human minds; how we can find enchantment in a world without God; how art can transform our lives; whether an artist’s life can shed light on their work; what we can know about the world, other people, and ourselves; when not knowing is better than knowing; how sexual orientation affects questions o

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Walker, Gordon. Energy and Rhythm. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2021. https://doi.org/10.5040/9798881811020.

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Rhythms animate our lives and the worlds we inhabit. Rhythms of getting things done, of working technologies, of day and night and the seasons, and of shared patterns of work, home-life and moving around. Rhythms are also intrinsically about flows of energy – heat, light, motion – from the smallest movements of muscles, to the petrol-fuelled rhythms of the rush hour, the spinning of wind turbines and shifting cycles of solar radiation. This book sets out to energise Lefebvre’s rhythmanalysis in order to develop a novel and far reaching polyrhythmic conceptualisation of the beats and pulses of

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Macleod, Beth Abelson. The Home Front. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039348.003.0009.

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This chapter examines Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler's life against the backdrop of contemporary U.S. attitudes toward marriage, motherhood, and careers for women. Unlike most women musicians of her generation, who gave up their professions when they married or had children, Bloomfield-Zeisler resumed concertizing mere months after the births of each of her three sons. The chapter emphasizes Bloomfield-Zeisler's need to prove that she could “do it all,” and proceeds with a discussion of the image of women artists in literature during the period, with particular attention to Bert Leston Taylor's 190

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Hajjar, Nijmeh. Australia. Edited by Waïl S. Hassan. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199349791.013.34.

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This chapter examines the development of the Arab Australian novel since its beginnings, surveying works produced in Arabic and English by three generations of Arab Australian authors. It first considers David Malouf, whose Johnno (1975) marks the beginning of the Arab Australian novel, before turning to first-generation immigrants who introduced the Arabic-language novel in the 1980s and the English-language immigrant novel in the mid-1990s. It then discusses the contribution of the second-generation Arab Australians in the literary field. It shows that the Arab Australian novel is more than

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van der Vlies, Andrew. Towards a Critical Nostalgia. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198793762.003.0005.

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South African-born, Scottish-resident author Zoë Wicomb is a key postapartheid literary figure; her oeuvre complicates assumptions about locatedness, ethnicity, and cosmopolitanism. This chapter reads her novels—David’s Story (2000), Playing in the Light (2006), October (2014)—and select short fiction—in You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town (1987) and The One That Got Away (2008); ‘In Search of Tommie’ (2010)—to consider how Wicomb stages text itself as a privileged space within which to hold open the promise of the ‘loose end’ (a recurring metaphor), exploring its potential to unravel older format

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Gillespie, Carmen R., ed. Toni Morrison. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing, Inc, 2012. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781611489026.

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Toni Morrison, the only living American Nobel laureate in literature, published her first novel in 1970. In the ensuing forty plus years, Morrison’s work has become synonymous with the most significant literary art and intellectual engagements of our time. The publication of Home (May 2012), as well as her 2011 play Desdemona affirm the range and acuity of Morrison’s imagination. Toni Morrison: Forty Years in The Clearing enables audiences/readers, critics, and students to review Morrison’s cultural and literary impacts and to consider the import, and influence of her legacies in her multiple

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Beeckmans, Luce, Alessandra Gola, Ashika Singh, and Hilde Heynen, eds. Making Home(s) in Displacement. Leuven University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.11116/9789461664082.

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Making Home(s) in Displacement critically rethinks the relationship between home and displacement from a spatial, material, and architectural perspective. Recent scholarship in the social sciences has investigated how migrants and refugees create and reproduce home under new conditions, thereby unpacking the seemingly contradictory positions of making a home and overcoming its loss. Yet, making home(s) in displacement is also a spatial practice, one which intrinsically relates to the fabrication of the built environment worldwide. Conceptually the book is divided along four spatial sites, refe

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Heynen, Hilde. Making Home(s) in Displacement. Edited by Luce Beeckmans, Alessandra Gola, and Ashika Singh. Leuven University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.11116/9789461664099.

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Making Home(s) in Displacement critically rethinks the relationship between home and displacement from a spatial, material, and architectural perspective. Recent scholarship in the social sciences has investigated how migrants and refugees create and reproduce home under new conditions, thereby unpacking the seemingly contradictory positions of making a home and overcoming its loss. Yet, making home(s) in displacement is also a spatial practice, one which intrinsically relates to the fabrication of the built environment worldwide. Conceptually the book is divided along four spatial sites, refe

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Poe, Edgar Allan. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and Related Tales. Edited by J. Gerald Kennedy. Oxford University Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780199540471.001.0001.

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And now I found these fancies creating their own realities, and all imagined horrors crowding upon me in fact. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym is an archetypal American story of escape from home and family which traces a young man's rite of passage through a series of terrible brushes with death during a fateful sea voyage. But it also goes much deeper, as Pym encounters various interpretative dilemmas, at last leaving the reader with a broken-off ending that defies solution. Apart from its violence and mystery, the tale calls attention to the act of writing and to the problem of representi

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Rukgaber, Matthew. Human as the Other. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350438590.

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Philosophical anthropology investigates what makes us human, but it has produced accounts that exclude some members of our species.It relies often on non-naturalistic “philosophies of consciousness” that locate humanity in the cognitive capacity to objectively represent things, to reason teleologically and use tools, to use symbols and language, or to be self-conscious and question existence. This work pursues an alternative, thoroughly naturalistic philosophical anthropology by combining Arnold Gehlen’s theory of our behaviorally-detached and institutionally-structured impulses with Maurice M

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Schaffer, Talia. Communities of Care. Princeton University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691199634.001.0001.

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This book explores Victorian fictional representations of care communities, small voluntary groups that coalesce around someone in need. Drawing lessons from Victorian sociality, the book proposes a theory of communal care and a mode of critical reading centered on an ethics of care. In the Victorian era, medical science offered little hope for cure of illness or disability, and chronic invalidism and lengthy convalescences were common. Small communities might gather around afflicted individuals to minister to their needs and palliate their suffering. The book examines these groups in the nove

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Szulkin, Marta, Jason Munshi-South, and Anne Charmantier, eds. Urban Evolutionary Biology. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198836841.001.0001.

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Cities occupy about 3 per cent of the Earth’s habitable land area and are home to one out of two humans worldwide; both estimates are predicted to grow. Urban space is thus becoming an important, novel ecological niche for humans and wildlife alike. Building on knowledge gathered by urban ecologists during the last half century, evidence of evolutionary responses to urbanization has rapidly emerged. Urban evolutionary biology is a nascent yet fast-growing field of research—and a fascinating testing ground for evolutionary biologists worldwide. Urbanization offers a great range of opportunities

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Whitson, Kathy J. Native American Literatures. ABC-CLIO, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400689741.

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The earliest Native American writers wrote tribal histories or autobiographical accounts. Today, Native American writing is steeped in the oral traditions of many peoples and reflects a facility with language that is equally at home in prose or poetry. Native American Literaturesis a sourcebook that can enhance any reader's appreciation of both the writers and their works. Cross referencing allows readers to move easily among the listings, guiding them to other examples of an author's works and from character to character within a given novel.

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Gatta, John. Afterword. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190646547.003.0007.

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In literature as well as life, the idea of home or homecoming is pivotal—a token, ultimately, of humanity’s insatiable longing for things enduring and ultimate. Home’s primal sense is embedded in one’s birthplace: A primary locus for ancient veneration of the genius loci was, after all, the personal domicile. But in broadly religious terms, “home” defines as well one’s final destination and destiny. That sense becomes pervasive and gripping throughout Marilynne Robinson’s novels—as well as in Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets, and Frost’s “The Death of the Hired Man.” For

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Brönmark, Christer, and Lars-Anders Hansson. Biodiversity and Environmental Threats. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198713593.003.0006.

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The last chapter of Lakes and Ponds deals with how human activities affect the natural ecosystems and their function through eutrophication, contamination, acidification, brownification and increases in UV radiation, and how such anthropogenic disturbances may affect biodiversity and the ability of organisms to utilize a specific habitat. In addition, the chapter addresses novel environmental threats, such as global climate change and effects from our everyday chemicals, such as contraceptives, nanoparticles and antidepressant drugs. However, also possibilities and signs of improvement are dis

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Warren, Meg A., and Stewart I. Donaldson, eds. Toward a Positive Psychology of Relationships. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216026617.

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"Providing an invaluable resource for scholars and researchers, this book investigates positive psychology and relationships theory and research across a range of settings and life stages—intimate, work, educational, senior/retirement, and in the context of diversity. Nearly universally, relationships are a key source of what we all seek in life: happiness, fulfillment, and well-being. The experts who contributed to this novel volume apply the framework of positive psychology to the findings of relationships research across a variety of practical contexts. What actions create and sustain respe

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Trollope, Anthony. Framley Parsonage. Edited by Katherine Mullin and Francis O'Gorman. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780199663156.001.0001.

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‘The fact is, Mark, that you and I cannot conceive the depth of fraud in such a man as that.’ The Reverend Mark Robarts makes a mistake. Drawn into a social set at odds with his clerical responsibilities, he guarantees the debts of an unscrupulous Member of Parliament. He stands to lose his reputation, and his family, future, and home are all in peril. His patroness, the proud and demanding Lady Lufton, is offended and the romantic hopes of Mark's sister Lucy, courted by Lady Lufton's son, are in jeopardy. Pride and ambition are set against love and integrity in a novel that has remained one o

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Cumming, Douglas, Geoffrey Wood, Igor Filatotchev, and Juliane Reinecke, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Sovereign Wealth Funds. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198754800.001.0001.

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Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) represent both an increasingly important—and potentially dominant—category of alternative investor, and a novel form for governments to project their interests both at home and abroad. As such, they represent both economic actors and embody power vested in the financial and diplomatic resources they can leverage. Although at times they have acted in concert with other alternative investors, their intergenerational savings function should, in theory at least, promote more long-termist thinking. However, they may be impelled toward greater short termism in response

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Wolff, Nathan. Not Quite Hope and Other Political Emotions in the Gilded Age. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198831693.001.0001.

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Not Quite Hope and Other Political Emotions in the Gilded Age argues that late-nineteenth-century US fiction grapples with and helps to conceptualize the disagreeable feelings that are both a threat to citizens’ agency and an inescapable part of the emotional life of democracy—then as now. In detailing the corruption and venality for which the period remains known, authors including Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Adams, and Helen Hunt Jackson evoked the depressing inefficacy of reform, the lunatic passions of the mob, and the revolting appetites of lobbyists and office seekers. Reade

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Warren, Diane, and Laura Peters, eds. Rereading Orphanhood. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474464369.001.0001.

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Building on the legacy of Laura Peters’ landmark work, Orphan Texts (2000), and extending its analyses to new work in family, marriage and kinship studies, Rereading Orphanhood: Texts Inheritance, Kin explores the ways in which the figure of the literary orphan can be used to illuminate our understanding of the long nineteenth century, especially in relation to family and kinship. Contributors to this highly cohesive collection examine the shifting status of orphanhood as a cultural construction and show how much those fluctuating definitions reveal about the cultural preoccupations and anxiet

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Hayes, Kevin J. The Future of the Book. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192856883.001.0001.

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The Future of the Book: Images of Reading in the American Utopian Novel looks at how turn-of-the-twentieth-century utopian novelists imagined what the book would be like in the ideal future. This work examines many different aspects of book culture. One chapter looks at the utopian residential library, both its contents and its personal and social functions. In the ideal future, everyone has books in their home. Another chapter discusses the public library in utopia. Many of the innovations the utopian novelists imagined correct problems that real public libraries faced in late-nineteenth-cent

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Mavelli, Luca. Neoliberal Citizenship. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192857583.001.0001.

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With cosmopolitan illusions put to rest, Europe is now haunted by a pervasive neoliberal transformation of citizenship that subordinates inclusion, protection, and belonging to rationalities of value. Against the backdrop of four major crises—Eurozone, refugee, Brexit, and the COVID-19 pandemic—this book explores how neoliberal citizenship rewrites identities and solidarities in economic terms. The result is a sacralized market order in which those superfluous to economic needs and regarded as unproductive consumers of resources—be they undocumented migrants, debased citizens of austerity, or

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Tan, E. K. From Exile to Queer Homecoming. Edited by Carlos Rojas and Andrea Bachner. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199383313.013.40.

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While tropes of exile and transgressive aesthetics have been prominent characteristics of queer-themed literature in Taiwan, this chapter focuses on queer homecoming as a literary and political imaginary. Rather than echoing or contesting critiques leveled at the domestication of queerness, for instance in the debates about same-sex marriage in Taiwan and elsewhere, to analyze representations of queer kinship provides insights about the displaced connection and meaning of home for queer subjects. Taking Chen Xue’s diary novelA Wife’s Diaryas an example, this chapter treats queer homecoming as

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Luis, Roniger. Shifting Frontiers of Citizenship. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190693961.003.0008.

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The processes of territorial displacement during the dictatorships opened the gates for recognizing the existence of transnational connections and of a permanent diaspora, including a diaspora of knowledge that would be engrossed by new waves of migration due to economic downturns or the increased connections of these countries to the global arena. This chapter reviews such shifts in the frontiers of citizenship, moving analysis to transnational connections and permanent diasporas, including the diasporas of knowledge that increasingly changed the very meaning of being national and transnation

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Stoddard Jr, Frederick J., David M. Benedek, Mohammed R. Milad, and Robert J. Ursano. Future Directions in Clinical Care, Research, and Nosology. Edited by Frederick J. Stoddard, David M. Benedek, Mohammed R. Milad, and Robert J. Ursano. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190457136.003.0030.

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The science of the study of trauma and stress has accelerated as never before, due to increased recognition of the need, greater capabilities for the research, and expanding knowledge. The increased understanding of underlying mechanisms of psychopathology may lead to better diagnostics that are biologically based and to improving the development of novel therapeutics, especially in device-based neurotherapeutics. Similarly, a greater understanding of the neurobiology of trauma- and stressor-related disorders is shifting its nosology towards a dimensional rather than categorical approach. Whil

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Jefferson, Ann. Nathalie Sarraute. Princeton University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691197876.001.0001.

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A leading exponent of the nouveau roman, Nathalia Sarraute (1900–1999) was also one of France's most cosmopolitan literary figures, and her life was bound up with the intellectual and political ferment of twentieth-century Europe. This book is the authoritative biography of this major writer. Sarraute's life spanned a century and a continent. Born in tsarist Russia to Jewish parents, she was soon uprooted and brought to the city that became her lifelong home, Paris. This dislocation presaged a life marked by ambiguity and ambivalence. A stepchild in two families, a Russian émigré in Paris, a J

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Carl, John D., and Mary D. Looman. A Country Called Prison. 2nd ed. Oxford University PressNew York, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197768310.001.0001.

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Abstract In the first edition of A Country Called Prison, John Carl and Mary Looman presented persuasive data calling for downsizing America’s prisons. Their novel approach continues in their second edition, shifting the beliefs many people have about prisons and their role in American society. The analogy of prison as a country is a novel way of looking at the issues of mass incarceration and addressing the latent, long-term consequences. In their second edition, Carl and Looman discuss the significant world events, such as the COVID epidemic, that impacted American society in the past decade

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Hammett, Jessica, and Lottie Williams-Burrell. Accent Handbook. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350243378.

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Need to learn an accent for an audition? Got the part but can’t quite grasp the sounds? Want to expand your repertoire?The Accent Handbookis a novel approach to accent-learning, providing a practical, digestible and customisable way of learning any accent of your choosing. Drawing on the authors’ extensive experience coaching students and leading stage and screen actors, the book offers more than 200 empowering exercises to actively explore and hone accent features. You can dip in and out or go from cover to cover, depending on your aims, what you’re learning or how much time you have. The boo

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All the Water I've Seen Is Running: A Novel. W. W. Norton & Company, 2021.

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Tanner, Laura E. The Elusive Everyday in the Fiction of Marilynne Robinson. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192896360.001.0001.

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Framing Robinson’s fiction within the dynamics of everyday life, this study highlights the tensions of form and content that haunt moments of transcendence in her work. Robinson’s novels, it argues, construct a world that is mimetic as well as symbolic and revelatory. Although the heightened apprehension of the quotidian in Robinson’s novels often registers powerfully and beautifully in representational terms, its aesthetic intensity is enacted at the expense of characters who patrol the margins of the ordinary with unceasing vigilance. Inhabiting the everyday self-consciously, her protagonist

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Sagiv, Noam, Monika Sobczak-Edmans, and Adrian L. Williams. Personification, Synaesthesia, and Social Cognition. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199688289.003.0015.

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Defining synaesthesia has proven to be a challenging task as the number of synaesthesia variants and associated phenomena reported by synaesthetes has increased over the past decade or so. This chapter discusses the inclusion of non-sensory concurrents in the category of synaesthesia. For example, many grapheme-colour synaesthetes also attribute gender and personality to letters and numbers consistently and involuntarily. Here we assess the question of including synaesthetic personification as a type of synaesthesia. We also discuss the relationship between synaesthetic personification and oth

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Bjorklund, David F. How Children Invented Humanity. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190066864.001.0001.

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Infants and children are the often-ignored heroes when it comes to understanding human evolution. Evolutionary pressures acted upon the young of our ancestors more powerfully than on adults. Changes over the course of development in our ancestors were primarily responsible for the species and the people we have become. This book takes an evolutionary developmental perspective, emphasizing that developmental plasticity—the ability to change our physical and psychological selves early in life—is the creative force in evolution, with natural selection serving primarily as the Grim Reaper, or a fi

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Gulesci, Selim. Forced Migration and Attitudes Towards Domestic Violence. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198829591.003.0005.

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This chapter explores the long-term effects of internal displacement caused by the Kurdish-Turkish conflict on women’s attitudes towards domestic violence. Using the Turkish Demographic and Health Survey, we show that Kurdish women who migrated from their homes during the conflict are more likely to believe that a husband is justified in beating his wife; and the spouses of migrant women were more likely to have tried to control their wives by limiting their movements or social interactions. In a novel dataset of applicants to a women’s shelter, we find that forced migrant women have endured v

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Meurig Thomas, John. Albemarle Street. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192898005.001.0001.

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The Royal Institution of Great Britain is renowned the world over, first, because if is a premier arena for the advancement of new scientific and technological knowledge; and second because it highlights the advance of knowledge of all kinds. It bridges the sciences and the humanities, and as much publicity is given to advances in the arts, archaelogy, architecture, drama and literature as to the pure and applied sciences. More famous scientists have lived and worked in the RI than in any other laboratory in the world. A roll-call includes Rumford, Davy, Faraday, Tyndall, Dewar, Rayleigh, W. H

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Curthoys, Ned. The Bildungsroman in a Genocidal Age. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798765103876.

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The Bildungsroman in a Genocidal Age argues that the humanist ideal of Bildung, the cultivation of the potentialities of the self through self-reflection, travel, and varied social intercourse, has been revitalized in an age of genocidal violence. It examines the Bildungsroman as a flourishing intermedial genre encompassing contemporary historical fiction, historical feature films, and children’s and YA literature. Analysing a number of highly influential novels and films about the Holocaust and World War II (WWII), the book argues that the narrative strategies of the Bildungsroman, which incl

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Sagert, Kelly Boyer. The 1970s. Greenwood, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400605642.

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Few conventions were left unchallenged in the 1970s as Americans witnessed a decade of sweeping social, cultural, economic, and political upheavals. The fresh anguish of the Vietnam War, the disillusionment of Watergate, the recession, and the oil embargo all contributed to an era of social movements, political mistrust, and not surprisingly, rich cultural diversity. It was the Me Decade, a reaction against 60s radicalism reflected in fashion, film, the arts, and music. Songs of the Ramones, the Sex Pistols, and Patti Smith brought the aggressive punk-rock music into the mainstream, introducin

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Bowlby, Rachel. Émile Zola. Oxford University PressOxford, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198874126.001.0001.

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Abstract Everyone has heard of Zola, but not many people have read him. This book is quite simply designed to get you to want to, by taking a look at what is on offer, with so much more to discover. Zola made it his aim to write novels exploring the many compartments and classes of modern French life in the later nineteenth century—and he went on to carry it out, with novels that look at the longings and troubles and everyday lives of just about every kind of person in their specific social settings. Travelling through the varieties of Zola’s styles and subjects, realistic and comic and tragic

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Goehr, Lydia. David Lean. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350429352.

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David Lean’s extraordinary films work philosophically through the modern reproductive and transportive technologies of sight and sound: through trains, planes, ships, and automobiles, from one perspective, and through the modern technology of the radio and gramophone, from another. Lean’s musical motifs are known worldwide: Lara’s theme in Zhivago; the Colonel Bogey March in Kwai; Estella’s motif in Great Expectations; Rosy’s motif in Ryan’s Daughter; Lawrence’s motif for his adventure in Arabia, and of course Rachmaninoff’s pounding chords in Brief Encounter. When, however, Lean described his

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Liberto, Hallie. Green Light Ethics. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192846464.001.0001.

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Abstract This book is about permissive consent—the moral tool we use to give another person permission to do what would otherwise be forbidden. For instance, consent to enter my home gives you permission to do what would otherwise be trespass. This transformation is the very thing that philosophers identify as consent—which is why we call it a normative power. It is something individuals can do, by choice, to change the moral or legal world. But what human acts or attitudes render consent? When do coercive threats, offers, or lies undermine the transformative power of consent? What intentions

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Micir, Melanie. The Passion Projects. Princeton University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691193113.001.0001.

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It's impossible, now, to think of modernism without thinking about gender, sexuality, and the diverse movers and shakers of the early twentieth century. But this was not always so. This book examines biographical projects that modernist women writers undertook to resist the exclusion of their friends, colleagues, lovers, and companions from literary history. Many of these works were vibrant efforts of modernist countermemory and counterhistory that became casualties in a midcentury battle for literary legitimacy, but that now add a new dimension to our appreciation of such figures as Radclyffe

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Plunkett, Erin, ed. Kierkegaard and Possibility. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350299016.

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How does our conception of possibility contribute to our understanding of self and world? In what sense does the possible differ from the merely probable, and what would it mean to treat possibility as part of the real? This book is an opportunity to see Kierkegaard as contributing to a distinctive phenomenology, ontology, and psychology of possibility that addresses the question of our existential relationship to the possible. The term ‘possibility’ (Mulighed) and its variants occur with curious frequency across Kierkegaard’s writings. Key to Kierkegaard’s understanding of the self, possibili

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