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Rape Warfare
The Hidden Genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia
Beverly Allen
1996 Spring
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A shocking and impassioned exposé of new and horrifying methods of war in the Balkans.
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Re-Enchanted
The Rise of Children’s Fantasy Literature in the Twentieth Century
Maria Sachiko Cecire
2019 Fall
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From The Hobbit to Harry Potter, how fantasy harnesses the cultural power of magic, medievalism, and childhood to re-enchant the modern world
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Re-Envisioning Peacekeeping
The United Nations and the Mobilization of Ideology
François Debrix
1999 Fall
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A critical look at the meaning of UN peacekeeping missions.
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Re-membering Culture
Erasure and Renewal in Hmong American Education
Bic Ngo
2024 Fall
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The untold stories of resilience in Hmong American education
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Re-takes
Postcoloniality and Foreign Film Languages
John Mowitt
2005 Spring
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A sustained theoretical reevaluation of “film languages,” both visual and verbal
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Reading Autobiography
A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives, Second Edition
Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson
2010 Spring
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The completely updated edition of the definitive guide to life narrative, from memoirs to blogs
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Reading Autobiography Now
An Updated Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives, Third Edition
Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson
2024 Spring
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A user-friendly guide to reading, writing, and theorizing autobiographical texts and practices for students, scholars, and practitioners of life narrative
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Reading De Man Reading
Wlad Godzich and Lindsay Waters, Editors
1989 Spring
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Thirteen essays address de Man’s theory and practice of reading, including the nature of those readings and what they signify for reading in general, not just for literary texts. "Accomplishes the goal of insisting on the continuing importance of de Man's work for literary studies." --American Book Review
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Reading Dido
Gender, Textuality, and the Medieval Aeneid
Marilynn Desmond
1994 Fall
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Describes the variations in the figure of Dido as she emerges from ancient literary texts.
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Reading for Reform
The Social Work of Literature in the Progressive Era
Laura R. Fisher
2019 Spring
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An unprecedented examination of class-bridging reform and U.S. literary history at the turn of the twentieth century
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Reading North by South
On Latin American Literature, Culture, and Politics
Neil Larsen
1995 Spring
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Concerned with misleading interpretations of literature and culture that dominate Latin American studies, Larsen proposes the need for a freshly conceived historical materialist approach to Latin American texts and cultural practices. He provides insightful commentaries on political discourses, cultural events, films, and literary texts, as he draws upon a wide diversity of texts written in Portuguese, Spanish and English. Of particular interest is Larsen's discussion of writings from the Caribbean, an area that is not frequently included in Latin American studies.
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Reading Proust
In Search of Wolf-Fish
Maria Paganini
1994 Spring
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Reading Proust focuses on the specificity of Proustian writing, revealing the patterns of thought and play of words peculiar to Proust's language, and showing how these metamorphose throughout La Recherche du temps perdu. Her work offers a new model for reading fictional prose, one that replaces the critical "why?" with the more practical and productive "how?"
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Reading the Body Politic
Feminist Criticism and Latin American Women Writers
Amy K. Kaminsky
1992 Fall
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Proposes a Latin American feminist criticism that is both regionally specific and in current dialogue with North American and European feminist practices.
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Reading the Postmodern Polity
Political Theory as Textual Practice
Michael J. Shapiro
1991 Fall
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Offers the first demonstration by a political theorist of how textuality is inherent to political practice.
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Reading with Clarice Lispector
Helene Cixous
Verena Andermatt Conley, Editor
1990 Spring
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The foremost French feminist literary critic pays homage to the premiere Latin American woman prose writer of this century.
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Reading Writing Interfaces
From the Digital to the Bookbound
2014 Spring
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Uncovers a lineage of writers and thinkers who have rebelled against the means of production
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Readings
The Poetics of Blanchot, Joyce, Kakfa, Kleist, Lispector, and Tsvetayeva
Helene Cixous
Verena Andermatt Conley, Editor
1991 Fall
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A leader in the feminist intellectual movement, Cixous presents this highly informative meditation on ethics and poetics which draws on philosophy and psychoanalysis.
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Readings in Interpretation
Holderlin, Hegel, Heidegger
Andrzej Warminski
1987 Spring
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Institutes a rethinking of history, theory, philosophy, literature and the way they relate to one another in critical reading. "Meticulous and challenging . . . well worth reading." --Southern Humanities Review
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Ready for Air
A Journey through Premature Motherhood
Kate Hopper
2013 Fall
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The power of childbirth to transform lives, brought home through one woman’s candid account of premature motherhood
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Ready Player Two
Women Gamers and Designed Identity
Shira Chess
2017 Fall
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A timely look at the implicit biases in video games as they construct and define feminine identity