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Game Poems

Jordan Magnuson

In Game Poems: Videogame Design as Lyric Practice, independent game designer Jordan Magnuson explores the convergences between game making and lyric poetry and makes the surprising proposition that videogames can operate as a kind of poetry apart from any reliance on linguistic signs or symbols.

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Italy to Argentina: Travel Writing and Emigrant Colonialism

Tullio Pagano

Pagano questions the apparent opposition between diaspora and empire and argues that there was a continuity between the “peaceful conquest” through spontaneous emigration envisioned by Italian liberal intellectuals at the turn of the century and the military colonialism of Italian Nationalists and Fascists.

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Judicial Rhapsodies: Rhetoric and Fundamental Rights in the Supreme Court

Doug Coluson

Previous studies of judicial opinions have explored rhetorical strategies that produce legitimacy, but none have examined the laudatory, even operatic, forms of writing Supreme Court justices have used to justify fundamental rights decisions.

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Reimagining Nabokov: Pedagogies for the 21st Century

Edited by Sara Karpukhin and José Vergara

In this practical and insightful volume, eleven teachers of Vladimir Nabokov describe how and why they teach this notoriously difficult, even problematic, writer to the next generations of students.

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