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Writers' & Artists' Yearbook 2026 cover
Writers' & Artists' Yearbook 2026
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Children's Writers' & Artists' Yearbook 2026 cover
Children's Writers' & Artists' Yearbook 2026
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Ecologizing Late Ancient and Byzantine Worlds cover
Ecologizing Late Ancient and Byzantine Worlds
Thomas Arentzen
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Experiencing Immersion in Antiquity and Modernity cover
Experiencing Immersion in Antiquity and Modernity
Emma Cole
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Song Lyrics and Literary History cover
Song Lyrics and Literary History
Gunilla Hermansson
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Critical Neurodiversity Studies cover
Critical Neurodiversity Studies
Jenny Bergenmar
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Not Beckett, The Plays
Olwen Fouéré
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Reading Literature and Chronic Pain
Josie Billington
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Skepticism and Impersonality in Modern Poetry
V. Joshua Adams
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Kathleen Raine
Jenny Messenger
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An Ecocritical Analysis of the Songs of the Mavilan Tribe
Lillykutty Abraham
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Classicizing Shakespeare
Michèle Willems
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Fictions of Radical Life Extension
James Aaron Green
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Science Fiction and the Ethics of Artificial Wombs cover
Science Fiction and the Ethics of Artificial Wombs
Evie Kendal
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Understanding Cixous, Understanding Modernism cover
Understanding Cixous, Understanding Modernism
Peggy Kamuf
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The Philology of the Future
Mario Telò
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Narrative in Ovid's Amores
Natalie J. Swain
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Beyond Haiku cover
Beyond Haiku
Ce Rosenow
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Creativity and Contingency in Literary Writing cover
Creativity and Contingency in Literary Writing
Karin Kukkonen
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The Bonkbuster
Amy Burge
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