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Virginia Woolf’s Portraits of Russian Writers
Creating the Literary Other
Classic Russian fiction was crucial to Virginia Woolf’s vision of British modernism. We follow Woolf as she begins to learn Russian, invents a character for a story by Dostoevsky, ponders over Sophia Tolstoy’s suicide note, and proclaims Chekhov a truly ‘modern’ writer.
Classic Russian fiction was crucial to Virginia Woolf’s vision of British modernism. We follow Woolf as she begins to learn Russian, invents a character for a story by Dostoevsky, ponders over Sophia Tolstoy’s suicide note, and proclaims Chekhov a truly ‘modern’ writer.
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This volume explores 20th- and 21st-century Italian experimental works that challenge the literary canon. It proposes that literary experimentation can break with tradition, giving literature the same freedom as other arts and allowing it to intersect with those art forms.
This volume explores 20th- and 21st-century Italian experimental works that challenge the literary canon. It proposes that literary experimentation can break with tradition, giving literature the same freedom as other arts and allowing it to intersect with those art forms.
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Raymond Queneau’s Dubliners
Bewildered by Excess of Love
An exploration of two comic, erotic, and feminist novels by Raymond Queneau set in Ireland. This book examines Joycean influences and a surreal version of the Dublin Uprising, solving puzzles to reveal *Les Œuvres completes de Sally Mara* as a subtly integrated literary work.
An exploration of two comic, erotic, and feminist novels by Raymond Queneau set in Ireland. This book examines Joycean influences and a surreal version of the Dublin Uprising, solving puzzles to reveal *Les Œuvres completes de Sally Mara* as a subtly integrated literary work.
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Contemporary Indian English Poetry and Drama
Changing Canons and Responses
This anthology of essays maps contemporary Indian English poetry and drama, exploring new themes and techniques in the post-globalization era. It considers whether the canon has widened to include innovative forms and generate novel perspectives.
This anthology of essays maps contemporary Indian English poetry and drama, exploring new themes and techniques in the post-globalization era. It considers whether the canon has widened to include innovative forms and generate novel perspectives.
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This study explores how Ahlam Mosteghanemi’s novels on the Algerian War’s trauma challenge the myth of a single national story, revealing nationhood as a polyphonic dialogue of competing memories and imagined futures.
This study explores how Ahlam Mosteghanemi’s novels on the Algerian War’s trauma challenge the myth of a single national story, revealing nationhood as a polyphonic dialogue of competing memories and imagined futures.
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Bordered Identities in Language, Literature, and Culture
Readings on Cameroon and the Global Space
Cameroon’s complex postcolonial legacy has burdened it with a linguistic and pedagogic culture which has inhibited its national identity. The present volume reflects on this issue and serves to renegotiate its identity beyond the mega-frames of Empire.
Cameroon’s complex postcolonial legacy has burdened it with a linguistic and pedagogic culture which has inhibited its national identity. The present volume reflects on this issue and serves to renegotiate its identity beyond the mega-frames of Empire.
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Perspectives on Ecocriticism
Local Beginnings, Global Echoes
This volume gathers together papers presented at the conference “Ecocriticism in the Nordic Countries; Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow”. The chapters engage with topics such as the Anthropocene, sustainability, and civilizational critique, as well as dark ecology and animal studies.
This volume gathers together papers presented at the conference “Ecocriticism in the Nordic Countries; Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow”. The chapters engage with topics such as the Anthropocene, sustainability, and civilizational critique, as well as dark ecology and animal studies.
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Mapping Cultural Identities and Intersections
Imagological Readings
This book applies imagology to film, art, and narratives to explore identity construction. Through interdisciplinary approaches, it examines cultural and ethnic identities—the self and the other—with a focus on literary works as they are translated from one culture to another.
This book applies imagology to film, art, and narratives to explore identity construction. Through interdisciplinary approaches, it examines cultural and ethnic identities—the self and the other—with a focus on literary works as they are translated from one culture to another.
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Facing Trauma in Contemporary American Literary Discourse
Stories of Survival and Possibility
In a culture where trauma breeds fear and aggression, this book turns to literature. Analyzing works by authors like Toni Morrison and Louise Erdrich, it shows how a good story can become a space for curiosity and healing in the face of uncertainty.
In a culture where trauma breeds fear and aggression, this book turns to literature. Analyzing works by authors like Toni Morrison and Louise Erdrich, it shows how a good story can become a space for curiosity and healing in the face of uncertainty.
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This book presents four short works by prominent Japanese writers like Natsume Sōseki, in their first-ever English translations. A unique textbook, it provides the original Japanese and encourages you to make your own translation before reading the author's and its commentary.
This book presents four short works by prominent Japanese writers like Natsume Sōseki, in their first-ever English translations. A unique textbook, it provides the original Japanese and encourages you to make your own translation before reading the author’s and its commentary.
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This comparative study follows modernists Tristan Tzara and Mário de Andrade on parallel creative paths. Emerging from different worlds, their poetics traversed borders, adapting folk traditions while actively criticising cultural imperialism and advocating against hate.
This comparative study follows modernists Tristan Tzara and Mário de Andrade on parallel creative paths. Emerging from different worlds, their poetics traversed borders, adapting folk traditions while actively criticising cultural imperialism and advocating against hate.
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Maurice Chapelan was three distinct writers: a poet, a famed grammarian, and an author of romans galants. But a unifying thread ran through his literary output: a beauty, simplicity and elegance of style, revealing a love of the French language and a hint of libertinage.
Maurice Chapelan was three distinct writers: a poet, a famed grammarian, and an author of romans galants. But a unifying thread ran through his literary output: a beauty, simplicity and elegance of style, revealing a love of the French language and a hint of libertinage.
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Narratives of the Therapeutic Encounter
Psychoanalysis, Talking Therapies and Creative Practice
Exploring a vibrant, unexplored corpus, these essays analyze depictions of talking therapy in French literature. Combining psychoanalytic and fictional texts, the volume focuses on the creative potentials and ethical dilemmas that arise in the therapeutic encounter.
Exploring a vibrant, unexplored corpus, these essays analyze depictions of talking therapy in French literature. Combining psychoanalytic and fictional texts, the volume focuses on the creative potentials and ethical dilemmas that arise in the therapeutic encounter.
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Slow violence is the gradual environmental catastrophe harming the poor. While often associated with the Global South, this book reveals its devastating impact in America, concentrating on Illinois and Appalachia and exploring its reflection in literature.
Slow violence is the gradual environmental catastrophe harming the poor. While often associated with the Global South, this book reveals its devastating impact in America, concentrating on Illinois and Appalachia and exploring its reflection in literature.
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The Peak Time of Entertainment in China
A Study of the Jiaofang during the Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD)
This detailed study of the Tang Dynasty entertainment system covers institutions of the government and city commoners. The book clarifies confusion with the later Song Dynasty and resolves the question of the origin of Ci in ancient Chinese art and literature.
This detailed study of the Tang Dynasty entertainment system covers institutions of the government and city commoners. The book clarifies confusion with the later Song Dynasty and resolves the question of the origin of Ci in ancient Chinese art and literature.
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We are shaped by the places we inhabit, but what about characters who never change? This collection explores juvenile series books, where protagonists like Nancy Drew demonstrate that their impact on space is far greater than its impact on them—an exercise in spatial authority.
We are shaped by the places we inhabit, but what about characters who never change? This collection explores juvenile series books, where protagonists like Nancy Drew demonstrate that their impact on space is far greater than its impact on them—an exercise in spatial authority.
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Food in American Culture and Literature
Places at the Table
Carving a unique space in food studies, these multifaceted essays blend cultural analysis with history and sociology. These cultural critiques force the reader to consider what food means, and will mean, in the United States.
Carving a unique space in food studies, these multifaceted essays blend cultural analysis with history and sociology. These cultural critiques force the reader to consider what food means, and will mean, in the United States.
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The Spectre of Defeat in Post-War British and US Literature
Experience, Memory and Post-Memory
History is written by the victors. But what if they perceive themselves as defeated? This collection examines how a sense of defeat undermines the certainties of victory, exploring UK and US fiction since WWI to offer an account of the victorious-yet-somehow-defeated.
History is written by the victors. But what if they perceive themselves as defeated? This collection examines how a sense of defeat undermines the certainties of victory, exploring UK and US fiction since WWI to offer an account of the victorious-yet-somehow-defeated.
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This collection revises subjectivity with postmodern theories, introducing a dynamic subjectivity to minority and colonial/postcolonial texts. Exploring intersubjectivity as a hybrid and flexible space, contributors discuss how different subjectivities negotiate and interrelate.
This collection revises subjectivity with postmodern theories, introducing a dynamic subjectivity to minority and colonial/postcolonial texts. Exploring intersubjectivity as a hybrid and flexible space, contributors discuss how different subjectivities negotiate and interrelate.
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This is the first work comparing Margaret Drabble with key Iraqi novelists, including Ahmed Saadawi. It analyses physical and soft violence in their novels, arguing they are interwoven and that soft violence can cause as much psychological and literal damage as hard violence.
This is the first work comparing Margaret Drabble with key Iraqi novelists, including Ahmed Saadawi. It analyses physical and soft violence in their novels, arguing they are interwoven and that soft violence can cause as much psychological and literal damage as hard violence.
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