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Most medieval texts were not really texts in the modern sense of printed, bound, stand-alone volumes, but were instead scribal productions that circulated in manuscript form, often alongside unrelated writings, thereby producing what seem to be haphazard compilations. In The Neighboring Text: Chaucer, Boccaccio, Henryson, George Edmondson argues that we have tended to apply a vertical, linear model of literary history to this late medieval manuscript culture. By contrast, he brings recent work in the fields of psychoanalysis and political philosophy to bear on the question of...

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"This book is an excellent read for college students, recent graduates and mid-career professionals as they navigate their careers and prepare for the next step towards their professional goals." --Pareena Lawrence, PhD, Provost and Dean of the College, Professor of Economics, Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois

"In the tradition of 'What Color is Your Parachute' and 'What Should I Do With My Life?', 'Marketing Your Value: 9 Steps to Navigate Your Career' is likely to be invaluable to anyone who is entering the job market, considering a change of direction, or...

Cornell University has 21,600 students in 2015, about twice as many as it did in 1950. Half of them are women, compared with one-fifth back then. And more than one-third of today's Cornellians are black, Hispanic, or Asian. In 1950, all of the university's minority students probably could have fit into a single lecture hall.

Cornell is also a lot richer now. In the late 1940s, it was struggling to balance the budget and recovering from a severe case of growing pains. Enrollment increased 40 percent between June and October 1946. Many freshmen lived in poorly insulated temporary...

It is commonly assumed that Caribbean culture is split into elite highbrow culture which is considered derivative of Europe and not rooted in the Caribbean and authentic working-class culture, which is often identified with such iconic island activities as salsa, carnival, calypso, and reggae. In Caribbean Middlebrow, Belinda Edmondson recovers a middle ground, a genuine popular culture in the English-speaking Caribbean that stretches back into the nineteenth century.

Edmondson shows that popular novels, beauty pageants, and music festivals are examples of Caribbean culture...

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