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From:Canadian Literature (Issue 217) Peer-ReviewedRichard Outram was born in Oshawa, Ontario in 1930. A prolific poet, between 1959 and his death in 2005 he published over twenty books of poetry. His output also included pamphlets, broadsides, and occasional pieces....
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From:Philosophy East and West (Vol. 65, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedSankara saw himself as a renouncer. However, if we take this as our starting point, assuming that renunciation is the only option in Advaita, we run the risk of misunderstanding his position on rightful conduct. In...
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From:New Formations (Issue 78) Peer-ReviewedOne of the more striking, if under-appreciated, aspects of publishing in cultural studies' early days was its provisionality. It is worth remembering that the chief publishing organ of the Birmingham Centre for...
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From:Evelyn Waugh Newsletter and Studies (Vol. 40, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAlexander Waugh has reached an agreement with Oxford University Press to publish the complete works of his grandfather Evelyn in forty-seven volumes. Alexander will serve as general editor and edit several volumes of...
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From:Discourse (Detroit, MI) (Vol. 32, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedVirtual Orientalism: Asian Religions and American Popular Culture by Jane Naomi Iwamura. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. 198 pages. $24.95 paperback. Jane Naomi Iwamura delivers an enormously important and...
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From:Evelyn Waugh Newsletter and Studies (Vol. 40, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedReadings of several novels by Evelyn Waugh are available on CD from CSA Word. The novels include Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, and two versions of Brideshead Revisited, and several of...
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From:Journal of Pan African Studies (Vol. 3, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedDuring the 1920s and 1930s, Fay M. Jackson broke traditional barriers by serving as the first African American foreign correspondent for the Associated Negro Press (ANP). Jackson was the only African American female...
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From:Shakespeare Newsletter (Vol. 54, Issue 4)Apfelbaum, Roger. Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida: Textual Problems and Performance Solutions. Newark: U of Delaware Press. 2004. Bertram, Benjamin. The Time is Out of Joint: Skepticism in Shakespeare's England....
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From:English Literature in Transition 1880-1920 (Vol. 47, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedTHE 1880S AND 1890S saw numerous changes in British publishing especially the decline and eventual abandonment of the high-price three-volume novel favored by the major circulating libraries. (1) The education acts, the...
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From:World Literature Today (Vol. 78, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedTHE MOOD OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN writers and publishers after the euphoria of 1989 sobered later in the 1990s, and while it may not have been despairing, it certainly seemed subdued. State subsidies had...
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From:Studies in Romanticism (Vol. 55, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedSarah Raff. Jane Austen's Erotic Advice. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. 224. $31.95. We have had many diverse (and sometimes contradictory) versions of "Jane Austen" over the years: the reticent and...
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From:Biography (Vol. 39, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedNapoleon is reputed to have said, "impossible n'est pas francais" ("Lettre" 296), but he also exclaimed, "Quel roman que ma vie!" (Memorial 342)--"My life, what a novel!" In France today, life writing seems impossible,...
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From:Shakespeare Newsletter (Vol. 67, Issue 1)Tom MacFaul's Shakespeare and the Natural World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015) poses some big questions. Positioning Shakespeare's writing in the often-contradictory contexts of ecocriticism, philosophy,...
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From:Early American Literature (Vol. 50, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe Unsettlement of America: Translation, Interpretation, and the Story of Don Luis de Velasco, 1560-1945 ANNA BRICKHOUSE Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015 366 pp. The achievements of Anna Brickhouse's...
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From:Scottish Literary Review (Vol. 7, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn the late 1790s, booksellers and printsellers throughout Scotland commissioned engraved illustrations to capitalise on the growing demand for new editions of Robert Burns's poems. While some of Burns's poems had been...
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From:Publishers Weekly (Vol. 260, Issue 44)CO-FOUNDER OF KALI FOR WOMEN, Urvashi Butalia-is now Director of Zubaan, an imprint of Kali. She is an independent researcher and writer; among her publications is the award winning history of Partition, The Other Side...
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From:International journal of communication (Online)Peer-ReviewedW. Lance Bennett & Alexandra Segerberg, The Logic of Connective Action: Digital Media and the Personalization of Contentious Politics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013, 256 pp., $34.99 (paperback)....
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From:Studies in Philology (Vol. 116, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe dying words spoken by John of Gaunt have a long afterlife: as sententious lines bound to catch the eye of a commonplacing reader, they seem almost designed to appear outside their dramatic setting, in manuscript and...
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From:Early American Literature (Vol. 54, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAmerican Literature and the New Puritan Studies Edited by BRYCE TRAISTER Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017 254 pp. When thoughts turn to Puritans in America, they often still go one of two ways. In the...
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From:Asian Ethnology (Vol. 77, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedRadhika Govindrajan, Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India's Central Himalayas Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. 256 pages. Cloth, $85.00; paperback, $27.50; eBook, $10.00 to $27.50. ISBN...