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Press, Aralia, and West Chester University, eds. Four A.M. in the woods. Aralia Press, 1998.

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Dana, Gioia, and Aralia Press, eds. Contributor's note. Aralia Press, 1999.

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Association of College and Research Libraries. Rare Books and Manuscripts Section. Standards Committee., ed. Genre terms: A thesaurus for use in rare book and special collections cataloguing. 2nd ed. Association of College and Research Libraries, 1991.

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Association of College and Research Libraries. Rare Books and Manuscripts Section. Standards Committee., ed. Binding terms: A thesaurus for use in rare book and special collections cataloguing. Association of College and Research Libraries, 1988.

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Association of College and Research Libraries. Rare Books and Manuscripts Section. Bibliographic Standards Committee., ed. Paper terms: A thesaurus for use in rare book and special collections cataloguing. Association of College and Research Libraries, 1990.

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Jager, Angela. The Mass Market for History Paintings in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam. Amsterdam University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462987739.

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Millions of paintings were produced in the Dutch Republic. The works that we know and see in museums today constitute only the tip of the iceberg — the top-quality part. But what else was painted? This book explores the low-quality end of the seventeenth-century art market and outlines the significance of that production in the genre of history paintings, which in traditional art historical studies, is usually linked to high prices, famous painters, and elite buyers. Angela Jager analyses the producers, suppliers, and consumers active in this segment to gain insight into this enormous market f

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McCarroll, Patricia, and John Hassard. Once Upon a Time in Facilities Management. Oxford University Press, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/9780191943492.001.0001.

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Abstract This book explores the storied spaces and narrative archetypes of a secondary business service, using facilities management (FM) as an example of non-core and increasingly outsourced organizational activities. The centrepiece is the development of artificial folklore, a research approach combining organizational analysis, storytelling, and folklore for interpretive purposes. An in-depth exploration of FM is developed; one exploring people, place, and process in a project revealing elements of organizational liminality as well as professional enchantment. This leads to concentration on

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Ciappei, Cristiano, ed. Innovazione e brokeraggio tecnologico. Firenze University Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-8453-983-0.

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This book is designed to furnish Italian literature with an insight into the significance and the role of knowledge transfer, and in particular of technological brokerage. The idea is that, in the present-day world, dominated by a technology and knowledge available to an increasingly large number of people, enterprises are called upon to reconfigure the concept of innovation, expanding in even geographical terms the quest for solutions that aim at creating an exchange of interdisciplinary knowledge. To respond to the need for the dissemination of knowledge, collaboration between enterprises an

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Comm, Bibliographic Standars. Genre Terms: A Thesaurus for Use in Rare Book and Special Collections Cataloguing (Thesauri for Use in Rare Book & Special Collections Cataloging). 2nd ed. Association of College & Research Libraries, 1991.

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Binding Terms: A Thesaurus for Use in Rare Book and Special Collections Cataloging (Thesauri for Use in Rare Book & Special Collections Cataloging). Amer Library Assn, 1988.

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Dawson, Anna. Studying The Lord of the Rings. Liverpool University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781800348530.001.0001.

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Unquestionably the first cinematic phenomenon of the twenty-first century, Peter Jackson's trilogy was a project of enormous artistic vision and financial risk. It is also a rich text for those studying film and media, perhaps for the first time. Studying The Lord of the Rings is the first book to consider the films in these terms, looking in turn at each of the major concepts: their complex origins and narrative structure; issues of representation masculinity, femininity and race; their generic patterns (to which genre do the films belong?) and thematic concerns; their industrial context from

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Tay-Sachs Disease. Exon Publications, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.36255/tay-sachs-disease.

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Tay-Sachs Disease is a rare genetic disorder that causes progressive damage to the nervous system, primarily affecting infants and young children. This article begins by explaining the genetic cause of the disease, which involves mutations in the HEXA gene leading to the absence of beta-hexosaminidase A, an enzyme essential for breaking down fatty substances in the brain. It describes the symptoms of the condition, including developmental delays, muscle weakness, vision and hearing loss, and seizures. The diagnostic process is explained, highlighting the role of enzyme testing, genetic analysi

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Hassler-Forest, Dan. Roads Not Taken in Hollywood’s Comic Book Movie Industry. Edited by Thomas Leitch. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199331000.013.23.

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Chapter 23 approaches the phenomenon of the comic book movie as a complex and dynamic adaptation process. While superhero movies and other comics-inspired franchises now dominate the global box office, it is rare that they adapt comic books’ formal features in a meaningful way. By foregrounding three comic book movies that have largely been considered failures, the essay discusses innovative ways of adapting comics to film through a media-archaeological approach to the genre. The films Popeye (1980), Dick Tracy (1990), and Hulk (2002) can be read, each in its own way, as provocative “roads not

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Austin, Michael L. Audiovisual Alterity. Oxford University PressNew York, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190277789.001.0001.

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Abstract Drawing on a wide range of examples and case studies from a wide range of genres of popular music, Audiovisual Alterity explores the representation of “others” from marginalized, subaltern communities in music videos since the 1950s. This book continues the academic discussion regarding depictions of race, ethnicity, and gender in music videos, but extends the conversation to include representations of Asians and Pacific Islanders, Indigenous communities, the LGBTQIA+ community, religious minorities, the incarcerated, and other “others.” It accounts for the expanding definition of “mu

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Newton, David E. DNA Technology. 2nd ed. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400641701.

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This accessibly written book introduces readers to DNA—one of the most important technologies for the manipulation of all forms of life, from simple bacteria to plants and animals. It also addresses the most important social, ethical, political, economic, and other issues raised by this form of technology. The great strides made in our understanding of the structure and function of DNA in recent decades have led to applying this invaluable knowledge to use in serving humanity. For example, recent discoveries in the field of genetic editing have created the potential for the creation of life fo

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Holliday, Christopher. The Computer-Animated Film. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474427883.001.0001.

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The Computer-Animated Film: Industry, Style and Genre is the first academic work to examine the genre identity of the computer-animated film, a global phenomenon of popular cinema that first emerged in the mid-1990s at the intersection of feature-length animated cinema and Computer-Generated Imagery (CGI). Widely credited for the revival of feature-length animated filmmaking within contemporary Hollywood, computer-animated films are today produced within a variety of national contexts and traditions. Covering thirty years of computer-animated film history, and analysing over 200 different exam

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Reynolds, Benjamin E. John among the Apocalypses. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198784241.001.0001.

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The central place of revelation in the Gospel of John and the Gospel’s revelatory telling of the life of Jesus are distinctive features of John when compared with the Synoptic Gospels; yet, when John is compared among the apocalypses, these same features indicate John’s striking affinity with the genre of apocalypse. By paying attention to modern genre theory and making an extensive comparison with the standard definition of “apocalypse,” the Gospel of John reflects similarities with Jewish apocalypses in form, content, and function. Even though the Gospel of John reflects similarities with th

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Fowler, Alastair. Remembered Words. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198856979.001.0001.

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This text is a collection of chapters on genre, realism, and the emblem (three interrelated subjects), published over six decades. It offers a way to arrive at a sense of how approaches to these subjects have changed over that period. Specifically, it shows how genre has come to be understood in terms of family resemblance theory. The book argues that realism can be seen as altering historically, so that Renaissance realism, for example, differs from those of later periods. Similar changes are traced in the emblem, which the text shows to be not only a particular genre, but an element of vario

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North, Ryan. Gender and the Superhero Narrative. Edited by Michael Goodrum, Tara Prescott, and Philip Smith. University Press of Mississippi, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496818805.001.0001.

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This book sits at an intersection between academic and public discourse. It seeks to advance the debate around gender and representation in superhero narratives by connecting with existing scholarship and expanding the conversation to include recent and previously unstudied texts and fan movements. We seek to contribute to the growing number of voices, from both fan and academic communities, who argue that diversity is not only the future of the superhero genre, but that diversity has always been present, if sometimes hidden, in the genre’s history, readership, and concerns. The authors in thi

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Boda, Mark J., and Dalit Rom-Shiloni. Crossing Borders between the Domestic and the Wild. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9780567696373.

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An examination of the boundaries between the domestic and the wild in terms of the landscape of Israel and the Hebrew Bible. The book explores the Hebrew Bible with respect to plant and animal life, while offering a rare ecological perspective and including modern concerns such as the human ecological footprint.

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Netz, Reviel. The Greek Canon. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198818489.003.0008.

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Following the quantitative evidence where it may be found (papyri, marble portraits, ancient citations, medieval copies), the chapter studies the form of the ancient canon. This can be understood in terms of the libraries in which it was preserved (some authors, such as Homer and probably also Menander and Euripides, were owned by every reader, even the most modest book collector, others, such as Plato, would be preserved mostly in bigger libraries), and in terms of its genre: above all, this was the canon of performative literature. The key observation is the early date of the formation of th

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Round, Julia. Gothic for Girls. University Press of Mississippi, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496824455.001.0001.

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This book is the first full-length critical study of any British girls’ comic and sheds light on an often-ignored era and genre of the comics industry. It explores the production and reception of the notorious girls’ mystery comic Misty (IPC, 1978-80), considering its influences, themes, visuals, plots, and use of Gothic symbols. Containing exclusive interview material with the comic’s creators and editorial team, rare scripts and photographs, and surveying the entire archive of Misty stories, it preserves and analyzesMisty for fans and scholars. By exploring and defining the particular type o

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McOsker, Michael. The Good Poem According to Philodemus. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190912819.001.0001.

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This book explains the poetics of Philodemus of Gadara, a first-century BCE Epicurean philosopher and poet, whose On Poems survives among the Herculaneum papyri. His main critical principle is that form and content are inseparable and mutually reinforcing: a change in one means a change in the other. The poet uses this marriage of form and content to create a hard-to-pin-down psychological effect in the audience. Poems produce “additional thoughts” in the audience, and these entertain them. It seems clear that Philodemus expected good poets to arrange form and content suggestively, so that the

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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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McNeill, Darrell M. The Isley Brothers' 3+3. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798765106730.

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The Isley Brothers' 3+3, dissects The Isleys’ 50-year-old undisputed masterwork, an album that firmly established their music dynasty on a global scale, as well as heralding the boldest run of genre-defiant albums of their 65-year career. The 1973 watershed was their first multiplatinum release and is significant as a rare, crossover record by a Black act that struck a chord with urban, rock and pop consumers, despite the schisms between audiences due to bias-driven media and industry marketing. The book looks at the album from all angles: From The Isleys’ early career to their influence on ro

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Salius, Erin Michael. Sacraments of Memory. University Press of Florida, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813056890.001.0001.

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This study argues that Catholicism informs a major genre of African American literature in ways and with a significance that has gone largely unrecognized. Since their emergence in the 1960s and 1970s, contemporary narratives of slavery have challenged the traditional historiography of American slavery, radically revising how we remember that “peculiar institution.” These fictional works disrupt the form and content of slave autobiography, suggesting that the conventions of Enlightenment rationalism to which antebellum texts were bound could not adequately represent the experience and memory o

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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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Moore, Helen. Amadis in English. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198832423.001.0001.

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This is a book about readers: readers reading, and readers writing. They are readers of all ages and from all ages: young and old, male and female, from Europe and the Americas. The book they are reading is the Spanish chivalric romance known in English as Amadis de Gaule. Famous throughout the sixteenth century as the pinnacle of its fictional genre, the cultural functions of Amadis were further elaborated by the publication of Cervantes’s Don Quixote in 1605, in which Amadis features as Quixote’s favourite book. Amadis thereby becomes, as the philosopher Ortega y Gasset terms it, ‘enclosed’

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Jones, Darryl, ed. Horror Stories. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780199685448.001.0001.

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The modern horror story grew and developed across the nineteenth century, embracing categories as diverse as ghost stories, the supernatural and psychological horror, medical and scientific horror, colonial horror, and tales of the uncanny and precognition. This anthology brings together twenty-nine of the greatest horror stories of the period, from 1816 to 1912, from the British, Irish, American, and European traditions. It ranges widely across the sub-genres to encompass authors whose terror-inducing powers remain unsurpassed. The book includes stories by some of the best writers of the cent

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Gunderson, Frank. Legacy of Tanzanian Musicians Muhidin Gurumo and Hassan Bitchuka. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2018. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978735996.

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Muhidin Maalim Gurumo and Hassan Rehani Bitchuka are two of Tanzania’s most well-known singers in the popular music genre known as muziki wa dansi (literally, 'music for dancing'), a variation of the Cuban-based rhumba idiom that has been enormously impactful throughout central, eastern, and western Africa in the contemporary era. This interview-based dual biography investigates the lives and careers of these two men from an ethnomusicological and historical perspective. Gurumo had a career spanning fifty years before his death in 2014. Bitchuka has been singing professionally for forty-five y

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Carter, David. Inception. Liverpool University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781911325055.001.0001.

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Christopher Nolan's Inception (2010) is a difficult film to categorize. It partakes of various genres, blurring the distinctions between them. It is science fiction, but it does not contain many of the ingredients associated with that genre. It can also be identified as a kind of heist film, and there are shades of film noir as well, not only because of the heist motifs but also due to its character types. It can also be described as a psychological thriller, telling the story of one man's attempt to flee his past and regain access to his family, of his coming to terms with the death of his wi

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Minors, Helen Julia, ed. Music, Dance and Translation. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350175761.

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How is music affected by its translation, interpretation and adaptation with, through, and by dance? How might notation of dance and music act as a form of translation? How does music influence the creation of dance? How might dance and music be understood to exchange and transfer their content, sense and process during both the creative process and the interpretative process? Bringing together chapters that explore theory and practice, this book questions the process and role translation has to play in the context of music and dance. It provides a range of case studies across this interdiscip

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Workman, Travis, Dong Hoon Kim, and Immanuel Kim, eds. Bloomsbury Handbook of North Korean Cinema. Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9798765102855.

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This first handbook on North Korean cinema contests the assumption that North Korean film is “unwatchable,” in terms of both quality and accessibility, refusing to reduce North Korean cinema to political propaganda and focusing on its aesthetic forms and cultural meanings. Since its founding in 1948, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) has played diverse roles: a Cold War communist threat to the US, the other half of a divided nation to South Korea, an ally to the Soviet Union and China, one model for anti-colonialism to national liberation movements, an exotic political an

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Harford Vargas, Jennifer. Forms of Dictatorship. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190642853.001.0001.

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An intraethnic study of Latina/o fiction written in the United States from the early 1990s to the present, this book examines novels that depict the historical reality of dictatorship and exploit dictatorship as a literary trope. This literature constitutes a new subgenre of Latina/o fiction that the author calls the Latina/o dictatorship novel. The book illuminates Latina/os’ central contributions to the literary history of the dictatorship novel by analyzing how U.S. Latina/os with national origin roots in the Caribbean, Mexico, and Central and South America imaginatively represent authorita

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Tulloch, John, and Belinda Middleweek. Real Sex Films. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190244606.001.0001.

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Within the domain of film studies, the recent surge in films depicting graphic and high-impact sex and sexualized violence has been variously classified under the terms transgressive, brutal, provocative, real sex, and extreme cinema. These classifications, however, tend to underplay the films’ sociohistorical contexts and reflexive struggle for meaning. We argue that the similarities and differences between these real or simulated sex films are determined and mediated within geographical space and historical time. But every film book has its own personal historical starting point: in our case

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Jules-Rosette, Bennetta, and J. R. Osborn. African Art Reframed. University of Illinois Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252043277.001.0001.

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This book approaches the reframing of African art through dialogues with collectors, curators, and artists on three continents. It explores museum exhibitions, storerooms, artists’ studios, and venues for community outreach. Part One (Chapters 1-3) addresses the history of ethnographic and art museums, ranging from curiosity cabinets to modernist edifices and virtual websites. Museums are considered in terms of five transformational nodes, which contrast ways in which museums are organized and reach out to their audiences. Diverse groups of artists interact with museums at each node. Part Two

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El Refaie, Elisabeth. Visual Metaphor and Embodiment in Graphic Illness Narratives. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190678173.001.0001.

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This study uses the analysis of visual metaphor in 35 graphic illness narratives—book-length stories about disease in the comics medium—in order to re-examine embodiment in traditional Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) and propose the more nuanced notion of “dynamic embodiment.” Building on recent strands of research within CMT, and drawing on relevant concepts and findings from other disciplines, including psychology, phenomenology, social semiotics, and media theory, the book develops the argument that the experience of one’s own body is constantly adjusting to changes in one’s individual sta

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Thomas, Greg. Border Blurs. Liverpool University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781789620269.001.0001.

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This book presents the first in-depth account of the relationship between English and Scottish poets and the international concrete poetry movement of the 1950s-70s. Concrete poetry was a literary and artistic style which reactivated early-twentieth-century modernist impulses towards the merging of artistic media while simultaneously speaking to a gamut of contemporary contexts, from post-1945 social reconstruction to cybernetics, mass media, and the sixties counter-culture. The terms of its development in England and Scotland also suggest new ways of mapping ongoing complexities in the relati

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Jacob, Margaret C. The Secular Enlightenment. Princeton University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691161327.001.0001.

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This is a panoramic account of the radical ways that life began to change for ordinary people in the age of Locke, Voltaire, and Rousseau. In this book, familiar Enlightenment figures share places with voices that have remained largely unheard until now, from freethinkers and freemasons to French materialists, anticlerical Catholics, pantheists, pornographers, readers, and travelers. The book reveals how this newly secular outlook was not a wholesale rejection of Christianity but rather a new mental space in which to encounter the world on its own terms. It takes readers from London and Amster

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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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Margulies, Ivone. In Person. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190496821.001.0001.

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In Person: Reenactment in Postwar and Contemporary Cinema delineates a new performative genre based on replay and self-awareness. The book argues that in-person reenactment, an actual person reenacting her past on camera, departs radically from other modes of mimetic reconstruction. In Person theorizes this figure’s protean temporality and revisionist capabilities, and it considers its import in terms of social representativity and exemplarity. Close readings of select, historicized examples define an alternate, confessional-performative vein to understand the self-reflexive nature of postwar

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Kayser, Casey. Marginalized. University Press of Mississippi, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496835901.001.0001.

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In contrast to other literary genres, drama has received little attention in southern studies, and women playwrights in general receive less recognition than their male counterparts. This book addresses these gaps in its examination of the work of southern women playwrights, making the argument that representations of the American South on stage are complicated by difficulties of identity, genre, and region. Success in American drama is defined as having a play staged in the capital of theatre culture, New York City, the city that might be viewed as most antithetical to the South in terms of g

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Tung, Wei Hsiu. Art for Social Change and Cultural Awakening. Edited by Gerald Cipriani. Lexington Books, 2013. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978743021.

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Artistic residency has become widely adopted in Western countries while only recently having become popular and well-supported within Taiwan. This book explores the challenges that this form of art practice faced in contemporary Taiwan from the revocation of Martial Law in 1987 to the 2000s—arguably one of the most exciting periods in the sociocultural history of the island. Case studies show what is at stake politically, historically, and socially in artists’ endeavours to give shape to a sense of Taiwanese identity. Despite the prevalence of artists engaged in social issues in today’s world

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Kagen, Melissa. Wandering Games. The MIT Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/13856.001.0001.

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An analysis of wandering within different game worlds, viewed through the lenses of work, colonialism, gender, and death. Wandering in games can be a theme, a formal mode, an aesthetic metaphor, or a player action. It can mean walking, escaping, traversing, meandering, or returning. In this book, game studies scholar Melissa Kagen introduces the concept of “wandering games,” exploring the uses of wandering in a variety of game worlds. She shows how the much-derided Walking Simulator—a term that began as an insult, a denigration of games that are less violent, less task-oriented, or less diffic

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Windell, Maria A. Transamerican Sentimentalism and Nineteenth-Century US Literary History. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198862338.001.0001.

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Transamerican Sentimentalism and Nineteenth-Century US Literary History argues that African American, Native American, Latinx, and Anglo-American women writers use genre to negotiate hemispheric encounters amidst the gendered, racialized, and cultural violence of the nineteenth-century Americas. Although US literary sentimentalism is often framed in national and transatlantic terms, this book argues that the mode was deeply transamerican. Given the popularity of the nineteenth-century sentimental novel, the appearance of its central motifs—tearful embraces, fainting heroines, angelic children—

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Echevarria II, Antulio J. Imagining Future War. Praeger, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400668524.

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Rapid and momentous technological changes at the turn of the 20th century forced military professionals and educated civilians to envision the future of war and warfare, especially during an age where nations found themselves aggressively competing for dominance on the world stage. Antulio J. Echevarria II offers a comparative study of these predictions to assess who got it right and why. He concludes that professionals were particularly adept at predicting the warfare of the immediate future by framing their discussions in terms of solving tactical problems, but they were much less successful

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Aitchison, David. The School Story. University Press of Mississippi, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496837622.001.0001.

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This book takes as its subject the work of contemporary writers, filmmakers, and critics who, reflecting on the realm of school experience, help to shape dominant ideas of school. The works discussed are mostly stories for children and young adults: serious novels for teens including Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak and Faiza Guène’s Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow, the light-hearted, middle-grade fiction of Andrew Clements and Tommy Greenwald, and Malala Yousafzai’s autobiography for young readers, I Am Malala; or else stories that take young people as their primary subjects, novels such as Sapphire’s Push

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Lief, Shane, and John McCusker. Jockomo. University Press of Mississippi, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496825896.001.0001.

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This book represents the very first publication to explore how Native American traditions have influenced the history of New Orleans music over the past three centuries, specifically how this connection has culminated in the Mardi Gras Indian cultural system. In addition to including the perspectives of the cultural participants themselves, this book draws upon manuscripts and archives from the earliest days of the French colony of Louisiana, providing a range of views on how the Mardi Gras Indian tradition developed. A number of linguistic analyses focus on Native terms which are significant

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Ledgin, Stephanie P. Discovering Folk Music. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400641183.

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From Ani DiFranco to Bob Dylan to Woodie Guthrie, American folk music comprises a truly diverse and rich tradition—one that's almost impossible to define in broad terms. This book explains why folk music is still highly relevant in the digital age. From indigenous music to Pete Seeger and Bruce Springsteen singing "This Land Is Your Land" side-by-side at the pre-inaugural concert for our first African American president, folk music has been at the center of America's history. Thomas Jefferson wooed his bride-to-be with fiddle playing. Stephen Foster captured the mood of our country in transiti

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Roberts, Priscilla, ed. Voices of World War II. Greenwood, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216033066.

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Drawing together a wide variety of primary source documents from across the United States, Europe, and Asia, this book illuminates the events and experiences of World War II—the most devastating war in human history. World War II was the most destructive and disruptive war ever, a global conflict that in one way or another affected the lives of people across the planet. Voices of World War II: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life coalesces a wide variety of primary source documents drawn from across the United States, Europe, and Asia. Supplemented by interpretive material that enables readers

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