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This book discusses the socio-economic and cultural problems faced by the Dalit community. Despite a long movement for land, dignity, and equal rights, the practice of suppression and humiliation continues today. This book explores the circumstances of Dalits in Andhra Pradesh.
This book discusses the socio-economic and cultural problems faced by the Dalit community. Despite a long movement for land, dignity, and equal rights, the practice of suppression and humiliation continues today. This book explores the circumstances of Dalits in Andhra Pradesh.
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Dancing the Tao
Le Guin and Moral Development
This book takes an original approach to Ursula K. Le Guin’s work, linking her Taoist upbringing to moral development. It emphasizes her depiction of child abuse and its aftereffects, exploring how morality develops through self-awareness and voice.
This book takes an original approach to Ursula K. Le Guin’s work, linking her Taoist upbringing to moral development. It emphasizes her depiction of child abuse and its aftereffects, exploring how morality develops through self-awareness and voice.
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Dante and Milton
Envisioned Visionaries
This anthology explores synchronic and diachronic constructions of Dante Alighieri and John Milton as culturally produced icons, deeply engrained in the world’s cultural memory, offering a perspective that goes beyond merely national contexts.
This anthology explores synchronic and diachronic constructions of Dante Alighieri and John Milton as culturally produced icons, deeply engrained in the world’s cultural memory, offering a perspective that goes beyond merely national contexts.
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David Malouf’s Partnership Narratives
The Light that Fills the World
This profound and poetic analysis of eminent Australian writer David Malouf’s work invites the reader into his lyrical exploration of life. A groundbreaking study, it highlights his essential contribution to Australian and world literatures.
This profound and poetic analysis of eminent Australian writer David Malouf’s work invites the reader into his lyrical exploration of life. A groundbreaking study, it highlights his essential contribution to Australian and world literatures.
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This collection revises contemporary trauma theory. Moving beyond Western models, it adopts a cross-cultural approach to discuss trauma in Arab-Maghrebean, Afro-American, and Chinese contexts, and its artistic representation in poetry and drama.
This collection revises contemporary trauma theory. Moving beyond Western models, it adopts a cross-cultural approach to discuss trauma in Arab-Maghrebean, Afro-American, and Chinese contexts, and its artistic representation in poetry and drama.
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In the first single-authored monograph on Roald Dahl since 1994, Valle focuses on the critical context, texts and paratexts that make up the packaging of “Dahl”, and offers the first thorough overview of the criticism and the language employed to discuss Dahl since the 1970s.
In the first single-authored monograph on Roald Dahl since 1994, Valle focuses on the critical context, texts and paratexts that make up the packaging of “Dahl”, and offers the first thorough overview of the criticism and the language employed to discuss Dahl since the 1970s.
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This book deconstructs the ‘otherizing’ of the marginalized by offering an alternative reading of the body and desire. It investigates bodies with ‘unnatural’ desires to expose and subvert the subtle political ideologies behind stereotypes.
This book deconstructs the ‘otherizing’ of the marginalized by offering an alternative reading of the body and desire. It investigates bodies with ‘unnatural’ desires to expose and subvert the subtle political ideologies behind stereotypes.
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The most comprehensive review of deaf characters in literature available. Examining 300 years of examples in novels, comics, and film, this work identifies key trends through the lens of deaf education, the use of sign language, and the rise of deaf identity and communities.
The most comprehensive review of deaf characters in literature available. Examining 300 years of examples in novels, comics, and film, this work identifies key trends through the lens of deaf education, the use of sign language, and the rise of deaf identity and communities.
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Death and Fantasy
Essays on Philip Pullman, C. S. Lewis, George MacDonald and R. L. Stevenson
This collection of essays explores how a range of fantasy texts deal with the reality of death, uncovering fascinating links and tensions between the writers.
This collection of essays explores how a range of fantasy texts deal with the reality of death, uncovering fascinating links and tensions between the writers.
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Death Becomes Her
Cultural Narratives of Femininity and Death in Nineteenth-Century America
From where does our investment in feminine death emerge? These essays analyze women’s deathbed scenes, suicides, murders, and autopsies in American writing, offering fresh insight into the unsettling and highly relevant role of death in feminism.
From where does our investment in feminine death emerge? These essays analyze women’s deathbed scenes, suicides, murders, and autopsies in American writing, offering fresh insight into the unsettling and highly relevant role of death in feminism.
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Stories provide fictional encounters with death, giving meaning to both life and death. This volume examines narratives of mortality in literature from ancient Rome to today, exploring existential questions and literature's role in social debates about death.
Stories provide fictional encounters with death, giving meaning to both life and death. This volume examines narratives of mortality in literature from ancient Rome to today, exploring existential questions and literature’s role in social debates about death.
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Death Representations in Literature
Forms and Theories
This volume overcomes stereotypes that trivialize death in literature. It reveals the great potential of literary studies to provide fresh ways of interrogating death as an unavoidable human reality and as an ever-continuing socio-cultural construction.
This volume overcomes stereotypes that trivialize death in literature. It reveals the great potential of literary studies to provide fresh ways of interrogating death as an unavoidable human reality and as an ever-continuing socio-cultural construction.
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Death within the Text
Social, Philosophical and Aesthetic Approaches to Literature
What can we know about death? How is it socialised? How is it aesthetically shaped? This book tackles such questions, and the challenging theme of death as a whole, through the lens of literature and its connections with other fields in the humanities.
What can we know about death? How is it socialised? How is it aesthetically shaped? This book tackles such questions, and the challenging theme of death as a whole, through the lens of literature and its connections with other fields in the humanities.
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Though often cast as opposites, this study reveals surprising parallels between Henry James and Oscar Wilde. It uncovers a shared language of homoerotic subtext, dandyism, and lush decadence that both challenged and ultimately yielded to rigid Victorian conservatism.
Though often cast as opposites, this study reveals surprising parallels between Henry James and Oscar Wilde. It uncovers a shared language of homoerotic subtext, dandyism, and lush decadence that both challenged and ultimately yielded to rigid Victorian conservatism.
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Deceptive Fictions
Narrating Trauma and Violence in Contemporary Writing
This book explores how contemporary fiction uses trauma and violence. It argues these texts are counter-narratives to postmodern thought, using the body and experiential reality to reassert the individual as an ethical agent and originator of meaning.
This book explores how contemporary fiction uses trauma and violence. It argues these texts are counter-narratives to postmodern thought, using the body and experiential reality to reassert the individual as an ethical agent and originator of meaning.
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This book explores how to read and teach Nabokov’s Lolita with Jacques Derrida. Using deconstruction to analyze literary issues, it offers teaching guidelines for Nabokov specialists, students, and anyone interested in literary theory.
This book explores how to read and teach Nabokov’s Lolita with Jacques Derrida. Using deconstruction to analyze literary issues, it offers teaching guidelines for Nabokov specialists, students, and anyone interested in literary theory.
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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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How did the West see Russia, the empire caught between Europe and Asia? This book explores representations of Russian identity and culture from 1792 to 1912, drawing on the accounts of British and American travellers as they attempted to understand this imperial "Other."
How did the West see Russia, the empire caught between Europe and Asia? This book explores representations of Russian identity and culture from 1792 to 1912, drawing on the accounts of British and American travellers as they attempted to understand this imperial “Other.”
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The first scholarly analysis to focus on the novels of the critically acclaimed Scottish writer Louise Welsh, this study explores the image of the labyrinth as one of the sites for horror in classic Gothic literature and its rewriting into 21st century Scotland.
The first scholarly analysis to focus on the novels of the critically acclaimed Scottish writer Louise Welsh, this study explores the image of the labyrinth as one of the sites for horror in classic Gothic literature and its rewriting into 21st century Scotland.
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Given that correctly understanding the nature of perception will help to shed light on many other central philosophical issues, this book discusses the idea that our perceptual experiences represent the world as being a certain way, and so have representational content.
Given that correctly understanding the nature of perception will help to shed light on many other central philosophical issues, this book discusses the idea that our perceptual experiences represent the world as being a certain way, and so have representational content.
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