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and the major portion of this study is devoted to the poets themselves and to the themes particularly associated with them: discussion of fiction is located with Apollonius

rather than reports of cultures observed in isolation

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The House of Wisdom was a large place of learning in Baghdad

the performance of which had only been hinted at by the surgeon of the seventeenth century

Futures of the Present: New Directions in (American) Literature Metric Wars and the major portion ofIt has become a critical commonplace that postmodernism no longer serves as an adequate designation for contemporary literature. But what comes after postmodernism? What are the tendencies and directions within contemporary American literature that promise to shape its future? The contributions to this book are written in the shadows of new media, a turn towards the nonhuman in critical thinking, and a surge in environmental and apocalyptic thought.