Body of Writing: Figuring Desire in Spanish American Literature 9780822380726

Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature, Twentieth Anniversary Edition 9780231183178, 9780231183161

Extraordinary Bodies is a cornerstone text of disability studies, establishing the field upon its publication in 1997. F

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Extraordinary bodies: figuring physical disability in American culture and literature 9780231105163, 9780231105170, 9780231544771

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Shakespeare's Body Parts: Figuring Sovereignty in the History Plays 9781474448727

Uncovers the workings of sovereign power in Shakespeare’s history plays Presents a sustained, formalist reading of Shake

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Writing Nature in Cold War American Literature 9781474430043

First book-length ecocritical study of Cold War American literature Compelling analyses of the function and representat

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Figuring Korean Futures: Children’s Literature in Modern Korea 9781503603110

This book is the story of the emergence and development of writing for children in modern Korea. Starting in the 1920s,

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Body Language in Literature 9781442671492

An important interdisciplinary study, that establishes a general theory that accounts for the varieties of body language

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Celestina's Brood: Continuities of the Baroque in Spanish and Latin American Literature 9780822396239

Published in 1499 and centered on the figure of a bawd and witch, Fernando de Rojas' dark and disturbing Celestina

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Desegregating Desire : Race and Sexuality in Cold War American Literature [1 ed.] 9781621039464, 9781617037832

A study of race and sexuality and their interdependencies in American literature from 1945 to 1955, Desegregating Desire

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The Rhetoric of Concealment: Figuring Gender and Class in Renaissance Literature 9781501736889

By way of conclu sion, she takes up recent work by Karen Newman and Richard Halpern to speculate on the role that Renais

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Figuring the Feminine: The Rhetoric of Female Embodiment in Medieval Hispanic Literature 9781442688100

Figuring the Feminine argues that the bodies of women are crucial to the working out of such questions as the unsettling

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