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Reading Postures: On Close Reading, Feminism, and Academic Life

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Reading Postures: On Close Reading, Feminism, and Academic Life, Erica Delsandro and Jennifer Mitchell anatomize the many positions that readers embody, willfully perform, fall into unthinkingly, and are compelled to assume. Such postures shape the ...

Voix de Glace/Voice of Ice

Voix de Glace/Voice of Ice is a series of prose poems about the estranged self living outside of one’s native land and away from one’s native tongue. Romanian poet Alta Ifland writes first in French, ...

Romance Studies: Manifesto and Method. Twenty-Eight Lectures, with Drinks Pairings

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What is Romance Studies? What could it be? This book is a sustained attempt to define—indeed, invent—the field, both in theory and in practice. It is therefore both a manifesto for Romance Studies as a ...

Perceptron

Perceptron is a work of experimental poetry and a critical biographical reading of Frank Rosenblatt (1928–1971) and his 1957 invention, the Perceptron. The Perceptron was the first widely publicized and used machine learning device and ...

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