Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Contemporary children's literature and film Contemporary children's literature and film Clare Bradford,Kerry Mallan "Bringing together leading and emerging scholars, this book argues for the significance of theory for reading texts written and produced for young people. Integrating perspectives from across feminis… OL15941985W
An introduction to criticism An introduction to criticism Michael Ryan "An accessible and thorough introduction to literary theory and contemporary critical practice, this book is an essential resource for beginning students of literary criticism. Covers traditional ap… OL16152231W
Literature, ethics, and aesthetics Literature, ethics, and aesthetics Sabrina Achilles "This book is a conceptualization of the literary aesthetic in relation to ethics, in particular, an ethics for a concern for the Self. Bringing Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's constructivist thi… OL16167571W
Henry James and the supernatural Henry James and the supernatural Anna Despotopoulou,Kimberly Capps Reed "This book is a collection of essays on ghostly fiction by Henry James. The contributors analyze James's use of the ghost story as a subgenre and the difficult theoretical issues that James's texts p… OL16183703W
Benjamin, Barthes, and the singularity of photography Benjamin, Barthes, and the singularity of photography Kathrin Yacavone "A comparative study of Benjamin's and Barthes's writings on photography in the context of photographic history and twentieth-century critical and theoretical discourses"-- OL16239621W
Mythologies Mythologies Roland Barthes "This new edition of MYTHOLOGIES is the first complete, authoritative English version of the French classic, Roland Barthes's most emblematic work"-- OL16239782W
Theory of literature Theory of literature Paul H. Fry "Bringing his perennially popular course to the page, Yale University Professor Paul H. Fry offers in this welcome book a guided tour of the main trends in twentieth-century literary theory. At the c… OL16308118W
Tiny surrealism Tiny surrealism Roger Rothman "Although one of the most popular artists of the twentieth century, Salvador Dali; has typically been considered no more than peripheral to the dominant practices of modernism. Roger Rothman's Tiny S… OL16705313W
Minds, bodies, machines, 1770-1930 Minds, bodies, machines, 1770-1930 Deirdre Coleman,Hilary Fraser "It is during the nineteenth-century, the age of machinery, that we begin to witness a sustained exploration of the literal and discursive entanglements of minds, bodies, machines. This book explores… OL16938366W
Melancholy experience in literature of the long eighteenth century Melancholy experience in literature of the long eighteenth century Allan Ingram "Arising from a research project on depression in the eighteenth century, this book discusses the experience of depressive states both in terms of existing modes of thought and expression, and of att… OL16984487W
Golf ball Golf ball Harry J. Brown "Golf balls embody the complex human relation to the natural world, a will to control nature, but the action of balls in play reveals the futility of the endeavor"-- OL20001556W
Where I'm reading from Where I'm reading from Tim Parks "Why do we need fiction? Why do books need to be printed on paper, copyrighted, read to the finish? Why should a group of aging Swedish men determine what "world" literature is best? Do books change … OL20002687W
Stone Stone Jeffrey Jerome Cohen "Stone maps the force, vivacity, and stories within our most mundane matter, stone. For too long stone has served as an unexamined metaphor for the "really real": blunt factuality, nature's curt rebu… OL20006329W
Amphitrite the bubbly Amphitrite the bubbly Joan Holub,Suzanne Williams When a mermaid named Amphitrite arrives at Mount Olympus Academy, she finds herself falling for Poseidon, but his quirks may be too much for her. OL20007383W
Remote Control Remote Control Caetlin Benson-Allott While we all use remote controls, we understand little about their history or their impact on our daily lives. Caetlin Benson-Allot looks back on the remote control's material and cultural history to… OL20131300W
Interpreting in Nazi concentration camps Interpreting in Nazi concentration camps Michaela Wolf "This significant new study is concerned with the role of interpreting in Nazi concentration camps, where prisoners were of 30 to 40 different nationalities. With German as the only official language… OL22322966W
Driver's license Driver's license Meredith Castile "A classic teenage fetish object, the American driver's license has long symbolized freedom and mobility in a nation whose design assumes car travel and whose vastness rivals continents. It is yout… OL23201625W
An ecology of world literature An ecology of world literature Alexander Beecroft "What is a literature? How do literatures of different countries interact with each other? In this groundbreaking study, Alexander Beecroft develops a new way of thinking about world literature. Draw… OL23207416W