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An Anthology of Modern Urdu Poetry
In English Translation, with Urdu Text
Currently spoken by almost 250 million people in Pakistan and India and the second most widely spoken language in Britain, Urdu has one of the richest literatures of all south...
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Editor(s): M. A. R. Habib
Translator(s): M. A. R. Habib
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An Anthology of Spanish American Modernismo
"I was struck by how moving some of the translations are. These are among the very best translations of poetry from Spanish to English. This volume will be a wonderful...
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Editor(s): Kelly Washbourne
Translator(s): Sergio Waisman, Kelly Washbourne
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Approaches to Teaching Camus's The Plague
Thirty-five years ago Germaine Brée wrote that The Plague "is, within its limits, a great novel, the most disturbing, most moving novel yet to have come out of the chaos...
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Editor(s): Steven G. Kellman
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Approaches to Teaching Cather's My Ántonia
Unlike many other great works of English literature, My Ántonia is immediately accessible to today's students. "Cather's novel is so clear," Susan J. Rosowski says, "so apparently effortless, that it...
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Editor(s): Susan J. Rosowski
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Approaches to Teaching Ellison's Invisible Man
Teachers of Invisible Man differ about which aspect of Ralph Ellison's novel deserves the most emphasis. According to Susan Resneck Parr, a coeditor of this volume, "some [teachers] argue that...
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Editor(s): Susan Resneck Parr, Pancho Savery
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Approaches to Teaching the Works of Louise Erdrich
This volume seeks to enrich teachers--and students--understanding of the fictional world Louise Erdrich creates and to address the challenges of teaching her novels and poetry.
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Editor(s): Greg Sarris, Connie A. Jacobs, James R. Giles
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Approaches to Teaching Joyce's Ulysses
Ulysses is generally recognized as the most influential of all modernist literary texts, and seven decades after its publication the novel continues to fascinate, tease, and engage students.
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Editor(s): Kathleen McCormick, Erwin R. Steinberg
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Approaches to Teaching Nabokov's Lolita
"The volume provides a wide array of useful information and suggestions for the first-time teacher of this fascinating and important novel. Even experienced teachers of Nabokov's writings can find much...
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Editor(s): Zoran Kuzmanovich, Galya Diment
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Approaches to Teaching Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman
"This is a remarkable collection of first-rate essays. The various discourses and approaches—political, sexual, intertexual, cinematic—all bounce off each other well and inform each other." Bruce Williams, William Paterson University...
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Editor(s): Daniel Balderston, Francine Masiello
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Approaches to Teaching Wiesel's Night
"Rosen's collection is a valuable source for teachers, providing multiple perspectives and insight into the many levels of interpretation of a seminal Holocaust memoir." S. Lillian Kremer, author, Women's Holocaust...
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Editor(s): Alan Rosen
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Approaches to Teaching Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway
"This Approaches volume will be invaluable: it is rich in accessible resources, alert to the eclecticism of approaches to teaching fiction, rooted in the practical world of the classroom, and...
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Editor(s): Eileen Barrett and Ruth O. Saxton
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Approaches to Teaching Woolf's To the Lighthouse
Many instructors find Woolf's fifth novel her most accessible because it grapples with issues that interest students. The essays in this collection show how teachers can tackle the often threatening...
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Editor(s): Beth Rigel Daugherty, Mary Beth Pringle
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Approaches to Teaching Wright's Native Son
Richard Wright predicted that Bigger Thomas, his most powerful literary creation, would become "a symbolic figure of American life, a figure who would hold within him the prophecy of our...
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Editor(s): James A. Miller
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Descent
Descent, a novella published in 1920, is set against the background of Jewish life in Russia and Ukraine during the turbulent period leading up to the October Revolution of 1917,...
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Author(s): Dovid Bergelson
Translator(s): Joseph Sherman
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"El encaje roto" y otros cuentos
Although written a century ago, the sixteen stories by Emilia Pardo Bazán collected in this volume are strikingly relevant to contemporary concerns.
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Author(s): Emilia Pardo Bazán
Editor(s): Joyce Tolliver
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Essential Encounters
Published in 1969, Essential Encounters is the first novel by a woman of sub-Saharan francophone Africa. Thérèse Kuoh-Moukoury, of Cameroon, wrote it "to inspire other women to write." Its story...
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Author(s): Thérèse Kuoh-Moukoury
Translator(s): Cheryl Toman
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Lettera alla madre
"Edith Bruck's extraordinarily incisive memoir of her life in wartime Auschwitz is one of the most impressive works of its kind that I've seen in the last five or six...
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Author(s): Edith Bruck
Editor(s): Gabriella Romani
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Letter to My Mother
"Edith Bruck's extraordinarily incisive memoir of her life in wartime Auschwitz is one of the most impressive works of its kind that I've seen in the last five or six...
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Author(s): Edith Bruck
Translator(s): Brenda Webster with Gabriella Romani
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Literary Research Guide
An Annotated Listing of Reference Sources in English Literary Studies
(Fifth Edition)
Selected as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2008 by Choice and as one of the Times Literary Supplement's Books of the Year for 2008. Click here to read the TLS...
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Author(s): James L. Harner
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Modern French Literary Studies in the Classroom
Pedagogical Strategies
Modern French Literary Studies in the Classroom: Pedagogical Strategies investigates how teaching practices can address the changing status of literature in the French classroom
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Editor(s): Charles J. Stivale
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Opgang
Opgang, a novella published in 1920, is set against the background of Jewish life in Russia and Ukraine during the turbulent period leading up to the October Revolution of 1917,...
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Author(s): Dovid Bergelson
Editor(s): Joseph Sherman
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"Personality Disorders" and Other Stories
(English translation)
"Millás is an important Spanish writer, and the stories are fun and thought-provoking. The translations are solid and retain the humor, irony, and satirical thrust of the original texts." Edward...
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Author(s): Juan José Millás
Translator(s): Gregory B. Kaplan
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A Resource Guide to Asian American Literature
An informative and original collection of twenty-five essays, the Resource Guide to Asian American Literature offers background materials for the study of this expanding discipline and suggests strategies and ideas...
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Editor(s): Sau-ling Cynthia Wong, Stephen H. Sumida
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"The Signorina" and Other Stories
Greatly influenced by writers ranging from Dickens and Proust to Woolf and Colette, Anna Banti was a prominent figure on the Italian literary scene from the 1940s until her death...
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Author(s): Anna Banti
Translator(s): Martha King, Carol Lazzaro-Weiss
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"La signorina" e altri racconti
Greatly influenced by writers ranging from Dickens and Proust to Woolf and Colette, Anna Banti was a prominent figure on the Italian literary scene from the 1940s until her death...
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Author(s): Anna Banti
Editor(s): Carol Lazzaro-Weiss
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Tales of Crossed Destinies
The Modern Turkish Novel in a Comparative Context
"A stunning achievement. This book should be a major contribution to the teaching of world literature. Seyhan has, I believe, 'reimagined' the Turkish novel in a way that makes it...
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Author(s): Azade Seyhan
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Teaching North American Environmental Literature
(Options for Teaching 22)
"More than a study of nature writing, this collection of essays examines the influences that have shaped the field, such as African American, American Indian, Canadian, and Chicano literature." Book...
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Editor(s): Laird Christensen, Mark C. Long, Fred Waage
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Teaching the Representation of the Holocaust
"Can the story be told?" Jorge Semprun asked after his liberation from Buchenwald. The question is addressed from many angles in this volume of essays on teaching about the Holocaust.
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Editor(s): Marianne Hirsch, Irene Kacandes
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"Torn Lace" and Other Stories
Although written a century ago, the sixteen stories by Emilia Pardo Bazán collected in this volume are strikingly relevant to contemporary concerns.
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Author(s): Emilia Pardo Bazán
Translator(s): Maria Cristina Urruela
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"Trastornos de carácter" y otros cuentos
(Spanish text)
The stories of Juan José Millás, who began writing in the 1970s, depart from both the socially engaged, traditional realism and the linguistic experimentation of post-Francoist Spain. They are...
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Author(s): Juan José Millás
Editor(s): Pepa Anastasio
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An Anthology of Modern Italian Poetry
In English Translation, with Italian Text
"An Anthology of Modern Italian Poetry will give you many hours of pleasure." Arts Spectrum Italian poetry of the last century is far from homogeneous: genres and movements have often...
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Editor(s): Ned Condini
Translator(s): Ned Condini
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