Showing results by publisher "University Press Audiobooks" in Literary History & Criticism
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Albert Camus: Elements of a Life
- By: Robert Zaretsky
- Narrated by: Daniel Galvez II
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
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In a book distinguished by clarity and passion, Robert Zaretsky considers why Albert Camus mattered in his own lifetime and continues to matter today, focusing on key moments that shaped Camus' development as a writer, a public intellectual, and a man.
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Albert Camus: Elements of a Life
- Narrated by: Daniel Galvez II
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 13-10-2015
- Language: English
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A Little Book of Language
- By: David Crystal
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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With a language disappearing every two weeks and neologisms springing up almost daily, an understanding of the origins and currency of language has never seemed more relevant. In this charming volume, a narrative history written explicitly for a young audience, expert linguist David Crystal proves why the story of language deserves retelling. From the first words of an infant to the peculiar modern dialect of text messaging, A Little Book of Language ranges widely, revealing language's myriad intricacies and quirks.
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A Little Book of Language
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Series: Little Histories Series
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 09-08-2012
- Language: English
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The Future of Decline
- Anglo-American Culture at Its Limits
- By: Jed Esty
- Narrated by: Ian Putnam
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Drawing on the example of post-WWII Britain and looking ahead at America in the 2020s, Jed Esty suggests that becoming a second-place nation is neither disastrous, as alarmists claim, nor avoidable, as optimists insist. Contemporary declinism often masks white nostalgia and perpetuates a conservative longing for Cold War certainty. But the narcissistic lure of "lost greatness" appeals across the political spectrum.
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The Future of Decline
- Anglo-American Culture at Its Limits
- Narrated by: Ian Putnam
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 10-07-2023
- Language: English
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Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane: Authorship, Place, Time, and Culture
- By: John E. Miller
- Narrated by: Barry Gladden
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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The mother-daughter partnership that produced the Little House books has fascinated scholars and readers alike. Now, John E. Miller, one of America’s leading authorities on Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane, combines analyses of both women to explore this collaborative process and shows how their books reflect the authors’ distinctive views of place, time, and culture. He also addresses two controversial issues: How much did Lane actually contribute to the writing of the Little House books, and what was Wilder’s real attitude toward American Indians?
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Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane: Authorship, Place, Time, and Culture
- Narrated by: Barry Gladden
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 24-02-2022
- Language: English
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Of Comics and Men
- A Cultural History of American Comic Books
- By: Jean-Paul Gabilliet
- Narrated by: Scot Wilcox
- Length: 17 hrs and 9 mins
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Originally published in France and long sought in English translation, Jean-Paul Gabilliet's Of Comics and Men: A Cultural History of American Comic Books documents the rise and development of the American comic book industry from the 1930s to the present. The book intertwines aesthetic issues and critical biographies with the concerns of production, distribution, and audience reception, making it one of the few interdisciplinary studies of the art form.
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Of Comics and Men
- A Cultural History of American Comic Books
- Narrated by: Scot Wilcox
- Length: 17 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 15-06-2017
- Language: English
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The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy: One Book to Rule Them All
- Popular Culture and Philosophy, Book 5
- By: Gregory Bassham, Eric Bronson
- Narrated by: Mark Sando
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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The Lord of the Rings is intended to be applicable to the real world of relationships, religion, pleasure, pain, and politics. Tolkien himself said that his grand tale of wizards, orcs, hobbits, and elves was aimed at truth and good morals in the actual world.
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The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy: One Book to Rule Them All
- Popular Culture and Philosophy, Book 5
- Narrated by: Mark Sando
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 02-05-2023
- Language: English
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The Company They Keep
- C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien as Writers in Community
- By: Diana Pavlac Glyer
- Narrated by: Bev Kassis
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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The Company They Keep is the first and most complete examination of the Inklings and their close literary collaboration. C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien met each week with a community of fellow writers at Oxford in the 1930s and 1940s, all sharing their works-in-progress. Diana Pavlac Glyer invites readers into the heart of the group, examining diary entries and personal letters and carefully comparing the rough drafts of their manuscripts with their final, published work.
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The Company They Keep
- C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien as Writers in Community
- Narrated by: Bev Kassis
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 13-07-2017
- Language: English
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Stephen Sondheim and the Reinvention of the American Musical
- By: Robert L. McLaughlin
- Narrated by: David Stifel
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
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From West Side Story in 1957 to Road Show in 2008, the musicals of Stephen Sondheim and his collaborators have challenged the conventions of American musical theater and expanded the possibilities of what musical plays can do, how they work, and what they mean.
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Stephen Sondheim and the Reinvention of the American Musical
- Narrated by: David Stifel
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 27-06-2017
- Language: English
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Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel
- By: Lisa Zunshine
- Narrated by: Rosemary Benson
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Why We Read Fiction offers a lucid overview of the most exciting area of research in contemporary cognitive psychology known as “Theory of Mind” and discusses its implications for literary studies. It covers a broad range of fictional narratives, from Richardson's Clarissa, Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, and Austen's Pride and Prejudice to Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, Nabokov's Lolita, and Hammett's The Maltese Falcon.
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Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel
- Narrated by: Rosemary Benson
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 26-04-2013
- Language: English
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Edmund Burke for Our Time
- Moral Imagination, Meaning, and Politics
- By: William F. Byrne
- Narrated by: Gary L Willprecht
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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This highly understandable audiobook offers a contemporary interpretation of the political thought of Edmund Burke, drawing on his experiences to illuminate and address fundamental questions of politics and society that are of particular interest today. In Edmund Burke for Our Time, Byrne asserts that Burke's politics is reflective of unique and sophisticated ideas about how people think and learn, and about determinants of political behavior.
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Edmund Burke for Our Time
- Moral Imagination, Meaning, and Politics
- Narrated by: Gary L Willprecht
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 14-03-2022
- Language: English
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Demanding Respect
- The Evolution of the American Comic Book
- By: Paul Lopes
- Narrated by: Robert A K Gonyo
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
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How is it that comic books - the once-reviled form of lowbrow popular culture - are now the rage for Hollywood blockbusters, the basis for best-selling video games, and the inspiration for literary graphic novels? In Demanding Respect, Paul Lopes immerses himself in the discourse and practices of this art and subculture to provide a social history of the American comic book over the last 75 years.
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Demanding Respect
- The Evolution of the American Comic Book
- Narrated by: Robert A K Gonyo
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 29-03-2016
- Language: English
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Storythinking
- The New Science of Narrative Intelligence (No Limits)
- By: Angus Fletcher
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Every time we think ahead, we are crafting a story. Every daily plan and every political vision, social movement, scientific hypothesis, business proposal, and technological breakthrough starts with “what if?” Linking causes to effects, considering hypotheticals and counterfactuals, asking how other people will react: these are the essence of narrative. So why do we keep overlooking story’s importance to intelligence in favor of logic?
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Storythinking
- The New Science of Narrative Intelligence (No Limits)
- Narrated by: Peter Lerman
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 11-12-2023
- Language: English
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Of Bondage
- Debt, Property, and Personhood in Early Modern England
- By: Amanda Bailey
- Narrated by: Dana Roth
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
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The late 16th-century penal debt bond, which allowed an unsatisfied creditor to seize the body of his debtor, set in motion a series of precedents that would shape the legal, philosophical, and moral issue of property-in-person in England and America for centuries. Focusing on this historical juncture at which debt litigation was not merely an aspect of society but seemed to engulf it completely, Of Bondage examines a culture that understood money and the body of the borrower as comparable forms of property that impinged on one another at the moment of default.
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Of Bondage
- Debt, Property, and Personhood in Early Modern England
- Narrated by: Dana Roth
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 04-10-2019
- Language: English
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Truman Capote and the Legacy of In Cold Blood
- By: Ralph F. Voss
- Narrated by: Ellery Truesdell
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
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Ralph F. Voss examines Capote and In Cold Blood from many perspectives, not only as the crowning achievement of Capote's career, but also as a story in itself, focusing on Capote's artfully composed text, his extravagant claims for it as reportage, and its larger status in American popular culture.
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Truman Capote and the Legacy of In Cold Blood
- Narrated by: Ellery Truesdell
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 16-12-2015
- Language: English
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First We Read, Then We Write: Emerson on the Creative Process
- By: Robert D. Richardson
- Narrated by: Gary D. MacFadden
- Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
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Writing was the central passion of Emerson's life. While his thoughts on the craft are well developed in "The Poet", "The American Scholar", Nature, "Goethe", and "Persian Poetry", less well known are the many pages in his private journals devoted to the relationship between writing and reading. Here, for the first time, is the Concord Sage's energetic, exuberant, and unconventional advice on the idea of writing, focused and distilled by the preeminent Emerson biographer at work today.
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First We Read, Then We Write: Emerson on the Creative Process
- Narrated by: Gary D. MacFadden
- Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 25-07-2012
- Language: English
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Melville
- The Making of the Poet
- By: Hershel Parker
- Narrated by: Ben Beckley
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
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A decade and a half before surprising the world with a book of Civil War poetry, Herman Melville was already confident of what was “poetic” in his prose. As Hershel Parker demonstrates in this book, Melville was steeped in poetry long before he called himself a poet. Here Parker, the dean of Melville studies, gives a compelling, in-depth account of how one of America’s greatest writers grew into the vocation of a poet.
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Melville
- The Making of the Poet
- Narrated by: Ben Beckley
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 24-06-2021
- Language: English
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What Galileo Saw
- Imagining the Scientific Revolution
- By: Lawrence Lipking
- Narrated by: David Otey
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
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The Scientific Revolution of the 17th century has often been called a decisive turning point in human history. It represents, for good or ill, the birth of modern science and modern ways of viewing the world. In What Galileo Saw, Lawrence Lipking offers a new perspective on how to understand what happened then, arguing that artistic imagination and creativity as much as rational thought played a critical role in creating new visions of science and in shaping stories about eye-opening discoveries.
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What Galileo Saw
- Imagining the Scientific Revolution
- Narrated by: David Otey
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 16-02-2017
- Language: English
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The Joker
- A Serious Study of the Clown Prince of Crime
- By: Robert Moses Peaslee - editor, Robert G. Weiner - editor
- Narrated by: Rain Corbyn
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
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Along with Batman, Spider-Man, and Superman, the Joker stands out as one of the most recognizable comics characters in popular culture. While there has been a great deal of scholarly attention on superheroes, very little has been done to understand supervillains. This is the first academic work to provide a comprehensive study of this villain, illustrating why the Joker appears so relevant to audiences today.
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The Joker
- A Serious Study of the Clown Prince of Crime
- Narrated by: Rain Corbyn
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 30-01-2023
- Language: English
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Robin Hood
- A Mythic Biography
- By: Stephen Knight
- Narrated by: Bob Dio
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
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In this engaging and deeply informed audiobook, Stephen Knight looks at the different manifestations of Robin Hood at different times and places in a mythic biography with a thematic structure. The best way to get at the essence of the Robin Hood myth, Knight believes, is in terms not of chronological and generic progression but of the purposes served by heroes.
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Robin Hood
- A Mythic Biography
- Narrated by: Bob Dio
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 26-11-2018
- Language: English
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A Natural History of the Romance Novel
- By: Pamela Regis
- Narrated by: Rosemary Benson
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
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The romance novel has the strange distinction of being the most popular but least respected of literary genres. While it remains consistently dominant in bookstores and on best-seller lists, it is also widely dismissed by the critical community. Scholars have alleged that romance novels help create subservient readers, who are largely women, by confining heroines to stories that ignore issues other than love and marriage.
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A Natural History of the Romance Novel
- Narrated by: Rosemary Benson
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 21-03-2014
- Language: English
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