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Literature in Exile
Emigrants' Fiction 20th Century Experience
This conference proceedings provides the first in-depth analysis of the different angles of the problem of emigrant writing. It deals with such problems as the fate of writers opposing different political regimes and the place of such fiction within national literatures.
This conference proceedings provides the first in-depth analysis of the different angles of the problem of emigrant writing. It deals with such problems as the fate of writers opposing different political regimes and the place of such fiction within national literatures.
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Does literature merely reflect society, or does it create and transform reality? Is it a tool of social power, or a source of pleasure? The essays in this volume explore the complex relations between literature and society from diverse angles and eras.
Does literature merely reflect society, or does it create and transform reality? Is it a tool of social power, or a source of pleasure? The essays in this volume explore the complex relations between literature and society from diverse angles and eras.
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This collection of critical essays examines New York through its literature, exploring the city's contradictions: possibility and self-realization versus corruption and despair. The literature of New York is as complex and creative as the City itself.
This collection of critical essays examines New York through its literature, exploring the city’s contradictions: possibility and self-realization versus corruption and despair. The literature of New York is as complex and creative as the City itself.
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War is a terrible disaster, yet it is a universal characteristic of human existence. Why? This multi-disciplinary collection of essays explores the transformation of the war experience into chronicles of hope and despair, from Herodotus up to the present day.
War is a terrible disaster, yet it is a universal characteristic of human existence. Why? This multi-disciplinary collection of essays explores the transformation of the war experience into chronicles of hope and despair, from Herodotus up to the present day.
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This book’s study of the love letters and romantic novels of the Napoleonic coterie reveals the emerging political landscape of the Napoleonic war period through extended metaphors of love and patriotism. It describes how these letters were largely framed by concepts of love.
This book’s study of the love letters and romantic novels of the Napoleonic coterie reveals the emerging political landscape of the Napoleonic war period through extended metaphors of love and patriotism. It describes how these letters were largely framed by concepts of love.
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Magnificent Obsessions
Honouring the Lives of Hazel Rowley
This volume is a tribute to the life and work of biographer Hazel Rowley. This collection of essays and creative writing responds to her many interests: biography, politics, questions of race and sexuality, and the lives of couples.
This volume is a tribute to the life and work of biographer Hazel Rowley. This collection of essays and creative writing responds to her many interests: biography, politics, questions of race and sexuality, and the lives of couples.
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Margaret Atwood’s Apocalypses features essays on Atwood’s poetry, The Handmaid’s Tale, and the MaddAddam trilogy. The collection traces the theme of apocalypse through her work using lenses like disability studies, theology, and ecofeminism.
Margaret Atwood’s Apocalypses features essays on Atwood’s poetry, The Handmaid’s Tale, and the MaddAddam trilogy. The collection traces the theme of apocalypse through her work using lenses like disability studies, theology, and ecofeminism.
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Memory, Narrative and Forgiveness
Perspectives on the Unfinished Journeys of the Past
Drawing on South Africa's TRC and global case studies, scholars explore the themes of memory, narrative, and forgiveness. This book analyzes the path to reconciliation and healing for societies ravaged by mass violence and unspeakable injustice.
Drawing on South Africa’s TRC and global case studies, scholars explore the themes of memory, narrative, and forgiveness. This book analyzes the path to reconciliation and healing for societies ravaged by mass violence and unspeakable injustice.
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Merchants, Barons, Sellers and Suits
The Changing Images of the Businessman through Literature
This collection of essays investigates the changing image of the businessman throughout literature in America and Europe. From pop culture icons to Willy Loman, the essays are arranged in a timeline, allowing the image to evolve with each chapter.
This collection of essays investigates the changing image of the businessman throughout literature in America and Europe. From pop culture icons to Willy Loman, the essays are arranged in a timeline, allowing the image to evolve with each chapter.
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Metamorphoses of Travel Writing
Across Theories, Genres, Centuries and Literary Traditions
This book adds to the fast-growing field of travel writing studies. Its papers use varied theoretical approaches to explore a diverse body of texts—fictional, non-fictional, and poetry—from the last 300 years and from multiple literary traditions.
This book adds to the fast-growing field of travel writing studies. Its papers use varied theoretical approaches to explore a diverse body of texts—fictional, non-fictional, and poetry—from the last 300 years and from multiple literary traditions.
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Kılıç re-reads Milton’s Paradise Lost in the light of his political views as reflected in his earlier political pamphlets. He argues that, using his epic poem as a medium of expression, Milton created a political subtext which reflected the social panorama of his England.
Kılıç re-reads Milton’s Paradise Lost in the light of his political views as reflected in his earlier political pamphlets. He argues that, using his epic poem as a medium of expression, Milton created a political subtext which reflected the social panorama of his England.
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Minding the Gap
Writing across Thresholds and Fault Lines
This edited volume discusses writing non–fiction, media and genre, and addresses elements of identity, culture and linguistics in fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction as contributors consider the gaps that exist between the self as writer, and as reader.
This edited volume discusses writing non–fiction, media and genre, and addresses elements of identity, culture and linguistics in fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction as contributors consider the gaps that exist between the self as writer, and as reader.
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Mining the Meaning
Cultural Representations of the 1984-5 UK Miners’ Strike
This innovative study provides a critical introduction to cultural representations of the 1984–5 miners’ strike. Analysing writings, music, and film from strikers and artists, it explores the battle to ‘author’ the conflict and challenges our understanding of this period.
This innovative study provides a critical introduction to cultural representations of the 1984–5 miners’ strike. Analysing writings, music, and film from strikers and artists, it explores the battle to ‘author’ the conflict and challenges our understanding of this period.
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Mistress, Mother, Muse
An Exploration of the Female in Modern and Contemporary Mediterranean Literature
Palaska fills a vacuum in comparative literary studies in laying the foundations for Mediterraneanism to develop as an area in literary studies. She discusses aspects of female liminality, including motherhood, sexuality and creativity, in three distinctive Mediterranean cultures
Palaska fills a vacuum in comparative literary studies in laying the foundations for Mediterraneanism to develop as an area in literary studies. She discusses aspects of female liminality, including motherhood, sexuality and creativity, in three distinctive Mediterranean cultures
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Modernisation of Chinese Culture
Continuity and Change
This book maps Chinese modernisation, highlighting its relationship to historical and theoretical contexts. Going beyond economics, its multifaceted perspectives focus on overlooked issues in culture, ideology, and society, exploring tensions between tradition and modernity.
This book maps Chinese modernisation, highlighting its relationship to historical and theoretical contexts. Going beyond economics, its multifaceted perspectives focus on overlooked issues in culture, ideology, and society, exploring tensions between tradition and modernity.
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Neighbors and Neighborhoods
Living Together in the German-Speaking World
This collection of essays addresses questions of community in the modern German-speaking world, a neighborhood no longer defined by territory. How is neighborliness possible in an age of mass migration, globalization, and fluid modern identity?
This collection of essays addresses questions of community in the modern German-speaking world, a neighborhood no longer defined by territory. How is neighborliness possible in an age of mass migration, globalization, and fluid modern identity?
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Texts can be a remedy for forgetting or a vivid testimony to trauma. This volume focuses on Paul Ricœur’s work on memory, history, and forgetting, with special emphasis on the dissension between individual and collective memory.
Texts can be a remedy for forgetting or a vivid testimony to trauma. This volume focuses on Paul Ricœur’s work on memory, history, and forgetting, with special emphasis on the dissension between individual and collective memory.
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Helena Peričić's brave, open-hearted testimony of surviving the Homeland War in Croatia during the ’90s. This bilingual edition includes the English translation and the original Croatian text.
Helena Peričić’s brave, open-hearted testimony of surviving the Homeland War in Croatia during the ’90s.
This bilingual edition includes the English translation and the original Croatian text.
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Oscar Wilde’s Elegant Republic
Transformation, Dislocation and Fantasy in fin-de-siècle Paris
Using Oscar Wilde as a connecting thread, this monograph navigates the question of Paris’ popularity as a place of both innovation and exile in the late nineteenth century. It uses French, English and American sources to offer an exploration of both the city and its communities.
Using Oscar Wilde as a connecting thread, this monograph navigates the question of Paris’ popularity as a place of both innovation and exile in the late nineteenth century. It uses French, English and American sources to offer an exploration of both the city and its communities.
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Out of the Shadows
The Life and Works of Mary De Morgan
Who was Mary De Morgan? Overshadowed by her family, she was a writer, spiritualist, social reformer, and early feminist. This book reveals a complex "New Woman" and explains why George Bernard Shaw considered her a “devil incarnate.”
Who was Mary De Morgan? Overshadowed by her family, she was a writer, spiritualist, social reformer, and early feminist. This book reveals a complex “New Woman” and explains why George Bernard Shaw considered her a “devil incarnate.”
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