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The Nature of Being Human
From Environmentalism to Consciousness

Harold Fromm

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The Eve of Spain
Myths of Origins in the History of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish Conflict

Patricia E. Grieve

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The Theban Plays
Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone

Sophocles
translated, with notes and an introduction, by Ruth Fainlight and Robert J. Littman

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The Death and Afterlife of Achilles

Jonathan S. Burgess

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Domestic Affairs
Intimacy, Eroticism, and Violence between Servants and Masters in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Kristina Straub

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Perverse Romanticism
Aesthetics and Sexuality in Britain, 1750–1832

Richard C. Sha

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Unless the Threat of Death Is Behind Them
Hard-Boiled Fiction and Film Noir

John T. Irwin

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The Odes of Horace

translated by Jeffrey H. Kaimowitz
introduction by Ronnie Ancona

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Words by the Water

William Jay Smith

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Gothic and Modernism
Essaying Dark Literary Modernity

edited by John Paul Riquelme

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The Hidden Adult
Defining Children's Literature

Perry Nodelman

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Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750–1850

Devoney Looser

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Percy Bysshe Shelley
A Biography

James Bieri

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Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood

Karen Ward Mahar

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As Witnessed by Images
The Trojan War Tradition in Greek and Etruscan Art

Steven Lowenstam

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Strange Concepts and the Stories They Make Possible
Cognition, Culture, Narrative

Lisa Zunshine

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The Return of Ulysses
A Cultural History of Homer's Odyssey

Edith Hall

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Women's Writing in Italy, 1400–1650

Virginia Cox

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Essential Cinema
On the Necessity of Film Canons

Jonathan Rosenbaum
with a new afterword

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Gilles Deleuze
Cinema and Philosophy

Paola Marrati
translated by Alisa Hartz

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