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Critical Reception of Arundhati Roy
The Unsuitable Girl
Arundhati Roy is equally loved and disparaged. This book delves into the kaleidoscope of reactions to her writings that mediate her identity as a writer, activist and celebrity, exploring how factors from her Booker win to sedition charges shape how her work is read.
Arundhati Roy is equally loved and disparaged. This book delves into the kaleidoscope of reactions to her writings that mediate her identity as a writer, activist and celebrity, exploring how factors from her Booker win to sedition charges shape how her work is read.
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In the early twentieth century, fairy tales became political tools used to define a nation’s identity and justify claims to statehood in countries like Romania and Ireland. This book investigates the interweave of poetics and politics during the rise of modernist nationalism.
In the early twentieth century, fairy tales became political tools used to define a nation’s identity and justify claims to statehood in countries like Romania and Ireland. This book investigates the interweave of poetics and politics during the rise of modernist nationalism.
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This book argues that postmodernist historiographic metafiction is not just self-referential, but hetero-referential. Using Peter Ackroyd’s Chatterton, it shows how texts create their own worlds while referring to an external reality, even if that reality is a human construct.
This book argues that postmodernist historiographic metafiction is not just self-referential, but hetero-referential. Using Peter Ackroyd’s Chatterton, it shows how texts create their own worlds while referring to an external reality, even if that reality is a human construct.
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This book provides a deeper understanding of the autobiography as a genre and a data collection method. It presents various forms of autobiographies, with a unique focus on foreign language education, and applies a wide variety of qualitative and quantitative analytical tools.
This book provides a deeper understanding of the autobiography as a genre and a data collection method. It presents various forms of autobiographies, with a unique focus on foreign language education, and applies a wide variety of qualitative and quantitative analytical tools.
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English Writings from Northeast India
Of Inclusions, Exclusions and Beyond
This volume explores English writings from Northeast India, analysing issues of ethnicity, identity, migration, and insurgency born from ongoing conflicts. These are voices from the periphery answering the mainstream and re-examining their own history.
This volume explores English writings from Northeast India, analysing issues of ethnicity, identity, migration, and insurgency born from ongoing conflicts. These are voices from the periphery answering the mainstream and re-examining their own history.
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This is the first critical analysis of the physician as detective. Exploring the similarity between a medical “case study” and a mystery, this book reviews major authors from R. Austin Freeman to Patricia Cornwell. It will appeal to mystery fans and medical professionals alike.
This is the first critical analysis of the physician as detective. Exploring the similarity between a medical “case study” and a mystery, this book reviews major authors from R. Austin Freeman to Patricia Cornwell. It will appeal to mystery fans and medical professionals alike.
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Paradoxes in Selected Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath
Daemonic Angels
This book explores the poetry of Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath without sensationalizing the writers or their work. It adopts a multi-pronged approach to provide a holistic view of the issues, similarities, and differences in the poetry of the two women.
This book explores the poetry of Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath without sensationalizing the writers or their work. It adopts a multi-pronged approach to provide a holistic view of the issues, similarities, and differences in the poetry of the two women.
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This volume explores space, place, and hybridity in today’s multicultural societies. It considers how art, film, and literature can reinvigorate representations of modern nations and celebrate their dynamic communities without relegating minorities to the margin.
This volume explores space, place, and hybridity in today’s multicultural societies. It considers how art, film, and literature can reinvigorate representations of modern nations and celebrate their dynamic communities without relegating minorities to the margin.
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This study examines Pope's translation of the Odyssey through Graham Harman's Object-Oriented Ontology. It explores the poems' figurative language to uncover a withdrawn reality, contrasting it with a sensual world of shimmering objects from the quotidian to the bizarre.
This study examines Pope’s translation of the Odyssey through Graham Harman’s Object-Oriented Ontology. It explores the poems’ figurative language to uncover a withdrawn reality, contrasting it with a sensual world of shimmering objects from the quotidian to the bizarre.
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Scholars claim satire is too aggressive to persuade. But what if they’re looking in the wrong places? This study finds genuine satiric impact in the middlebrow delight of P.G. Wodehouse, G.K. Chesterton, and Nancy Mitford, commercially driven writers who defended their work.
Scholars claim satire is too aggressive to persuade. But what if they’re looking in the wrong places? This study finds genuine satiric impact in the middlebrow delight of P.G. Wodehouse, G.K. Chesterton, and Nancy Mitford, commercially driven writers who defended their work.
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The Life and Novels of Isabella St John
The Regency Revisited
In the generation after Jane Austen, Isabella St John went further with her sharply satirical picture of the English upper class. Born an aristocrat, her novels use authentic inside knowledge to boldly tackle women’s rights and social injustice with humour and acute observation.
In the generation after Jane Austen, Isabella St John went further with her sharply satirical picture of the English upper class. Born an aristocrat, her novels use authentic inside knowledge to boldly tackle women’s rights and social injustice with humour and acute observation.
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This book considers love and laughter in the four romans galants of Aymé Dubois-Jolly. Though the love is unashamedly erotic, the novels are redeemed by comic elements and elegant prose, with nods to the literary giants of the eighteenth century.
This book considers love and laughter in the four romans galants of Aymé Dubois-Jolly. Though the love is unashamedly erotic, the novels are redeemed by comic elements and elegant prose, with nods to the literary giants of the eighteenth century.
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Regarded as a problem play, Measure for Measure dramatizes King James’s view that justice should be tempered with mercy. Its themes of sex and the death penalty are treated with an ambiguity that pleased the king, while allowing Shakespeare’s own response to differ.
Regarded as a problem play, Measure for Measure dramatizes King James’s view that justice should be tempered with mercy. Its themes of sex and the death penalty are treated with an ambiguity that pleased the king, while allowing Shakespeare’s own response to differ.
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Malaysian Literature in English
A Critical Companion
This collection of essays by acclaimed international critics investigates major writers of Malaysian literature in English. It explores key thematic trends—including gender, ethnicity, and nationalism—and the unique challenges of writing in a postcolonial nation.
This collection of essays by acclaimed international critics investigates major writers of Malaysian literature in English. It explores key thematic trends—including gender, ethnicity, and nationalism—and the unique challenges of writing in a postcolonial nation.
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Women and Literature in India
A Critical Perspective
This collection explores Indian women's writing, from ancient poets to contemporary voices, as a powerful tool for resistance and emancipation. The essays delve into the intersections of caste, class, and gender to reveal the complex, textured realities of women in India.
This collection explores Indian women’s writing, from ancient poets to contemporary voices, as a powerful tool for resistance and emancipation. The essays delve into the intersections of caste, class, and gender to reveal the complex, textured realities of women in India.
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This collection explores Western representations of Egypt from 1750-1956, a fascination sparked by Napoleon’s expedition. Essays analyse works by writers like Charles Dickens and Florence Nightingale, alongside perspectives from explorers, painters, and colonial administrators.
This collection explores Western representations of Egypt from 1750-1956, a fascination sparked by Napoleon’s expedition. Essays analyse works by writers like Charles Dickens and Florence Nightingale, alongside perspectives from explorers, painters, and colonial administrators.
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This book proves that when science and literature, especially poetry, interact, transdisciplinary fields are created. Merging diverse disciplines offers solutions to wicked problems by finding common ground, connecting the academy to society, and reshaping the world.
This book proves that when science and literature, especially poetry, interact, transdisciplinary fields are created. Merging diverse disciplines offers solutions to wicked problems by finding common ground, connecting the academy to society, and reshaping the world.
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Waymarking Italy’s Influence on the American Environmental Imagination While on Pilgrimage to Assisi
A 200-kilometre walk from La Verna to Assisi becomes a “deep-travel” journey into Italy's influence on environmental thought. This study shows how traversing texts and trails reveals the debt owed to the Italian landscape in how we conceive of the natural world.
A 200-kilometre walk from La Verna to Assisi becomes a “deep-travel” journey into Italy’s influence on environmental thought. This study shows how traversing texts and trails reveals the debt owed to the Italian landscape in how we conceive of the natural world.
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Christian Inversion of Jewish Nationalist Monotheism
Clawing Our Way Back
Jesus's movement bridged the divide between Jew and Gentile. Unlike the traditional messianic expectation of a conqueror, he promoted a spiritual, apolitical union based on personal reform. His followers were a nation of priests, not warriors, for all humanity.
Jesus’s movement bridged the divide between Jew and Gentile. Unlike the traditional messianic expectation of a conqueror, he promoted a spiritual, apolitical union based on personal reform. His followers were a nation of priests, not warriors, for all humanity.
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This book introduces “postcolonial soliloquies” as a new way to analyze West African literature. Using the theory of “dialogue” to explore history, culture, and identity, it shows how the novels of T. Obinkaram Echewa redraw the boundaries of colonial history.
This book introduces “postcolonial soliloquies” as a new way to analyze West African literature. Using the theory of “dialogue” to explore history, culture, and identity, it shows how the novels of T. Obinkaram Echewa redraw the boundaries of colonial history.
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