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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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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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Reconstructing Female Sexuality and Deconstructing Male Anxiety
Black Hole or Living Hall?
Challenging patriarchal narratives, this study explores the symbolism of female genitalia in literature and myth. It celebrates female procreational power, positioning the reproductive body as an enduring gateway between animate and inanimate realms—both alluring and repelling.
Challenging patriarchal narratives, this study explores the symbolism of female genitalia in literature and myth. It celebrates female procreational power, positioning the reproductive body as an enduring gateway between animate and inanimate realms—both alluring and repelling.
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Rediscovering Women Writers of Wartime London
Shining a Spotlight onto the Blitzed City
This book shows the war-stricken city through the eyes of five women writers whose long-neglected novels vividly portray life in the Blitz. This new appraisal of their work highlights the social changes taking place, especially in the lives of women, in those turbulent times.
This book shows the war-stricken city through the eyes of five women writers whose long-neglected novels vividly portray life in the Blitz. This new appraisal of their work highlights the social changes taking place, especially in the lives of women, in those turbulent times.
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This book reveals Homer's vibrant legacy in Portuguese, Spanish, Brazilian, and Argentinian literature from the 19th to the 21st century. Juxtaposing Homeric motifs across genres—theatre, poetry, novel, and short story—it offers a unique cross-cultural comparison.
This book reveals Homer’s vibrant legacy in Portuguese, Spanish, Brazilian, and Argentinian literature from the 19th to the 21st century. Juxtaposing Homeric motifs across genres—theatre, poetry, novel, and short story—it offers a unique cross-cultural comparison.
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This collection of essays analyzes environmental and ecocritical themes in science fiction and fantasy. It investigates how these genres address today’s ecological crises and the detrimental effects of environmental destruction, while also considering solutions.
This collection of essays analyzes environmental and ecocritical themes in science fiction and fantasy. It investigates how these genres address today’s ecological crises and the detrimental effects of environmental destruction, while also considering solutions.
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This book draws parallels between different cultures. It explores how culture plays an important role in the development of personality, examines how behavior has a positive and negative effect, and interrogates how literature portrays the reality of a culture.
This book draws parallels between different cultures. It explores how culture plays an important role in the development of personality, examines how behavior has a positive and negative effect, and interrogates how literature portrays the reality of a culture.
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How do young Arab scholars interact with English literature? This book shows why courageous voices from the past, like Swift’s, must remain alive in a wasteland of globalization. Anarchist, champion of the oppressed, Swift’s ghost is needed to wake us to the truth.
How do young Arab scholars interact with English literature? This book shows why courageous voices from the past, like Swift’s, must remain alive in a wasteland of globalization. Anarchist, champion of the oppressed, Swift’s ghost is needed to wake us to the truth.
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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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A Self-divided Poet
Form and Texture in the Verse of Thomas Hood
Long regarded as a minor comic poet, this first book on Thomas Hood’s verse reveals his true range. It analyzes his serious poems, uncovering a debt to Elizabethan and Metaphysical poets, while also giving his comic genius its due in his light-hearted oeuvre.
Long regarded as a minor comic poet, this first book on Thomas Hood’s verse reveals his true range. It analyzes his serious poems, uncovering a debt to Elizabethan and Metaphysical poets, while also giving his comic genius its due in his light-hearted oeuvre.
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Literature and the Great War
The Fronts of Writing
This book traces an overall picture of the literature born from the Great War. Focused on Italy, but rich in European references, it is a journey through history and the human soul, between hopes and fears, from the eve of war to the trenches and the return home.
This book traces an overall picture of the literature born from the Great War. Focused on Italy, but rich in European references, it is a journey through history and the human soul, between hopes and fears, from the eve of war to the trenches and the return home.
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The term ‘border’ has become a ploy for chauvinism and ultra-nationalist bigotry, with notorious coverage in media, cinema, and literature. This volume explores a wide range of literary, linguistic, and media representations of the ‘border.’
The term ‘border’ has become a ploy for chauvinism and ultra-nationalist bigotry, with notorious coverage in media, cinema, and literature. This volume explores a wide range of literary, linguistic, and media representations of the ‘border.’
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Literature, Theory and the History of Ideas
An Updated Compendium
How do power structures shape our notions of identity, gender, and culture? This collection interrogates these crucial questions across literature, film, and cultural theory, making it a vital resource for scholars and students.
How do power structures shape our notions of identity, gender, and culture? This collection interrogates these crucial questions across literature, film, and cultural theory, making it a vital resource for scholars and students.
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“Rapt in Secret Studies”
Emerging Shakespeares
Inspired by Prospero’s phrase “rapt in secret studies,” this collection of essays from emerging scholars imagines new pathways in Shakespeare Studies, exploring themes of obsession (“rapt”), spies and contagion (“secret”), and authorship (“study”).
Inspired by Prospero’s phrase “rapt in secret studies,” this collection of essays from emerging scholars imagines new pathways in Shakespeare Studies, exploring themes of obsession (“rapt”), spies and contagion (“secret”), and authorship (“study”).
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This critical study of Hughes’s poetry from 1957 to 1989 explores how his fascination with violence developed into a vision of cosmic energy. It charts his transition from a poet of ‘blood and guts’ into a messiah of ‘bio-centric life’.
This critical study of Hughes’s poetry from 1957 to 1989 explores how his fascination with violence developed into a vision of cosmic energy. It charts his transition from a poet of ‘blood and guts’ into a messiah of ‘bio-centric life’.
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Contingencies and Masterly Fictions
Countertextuality in Dickens, Contemporary Fiction and Theory
This book establishes deconstructive dialogues between Dickens's novels, contemporary literature, and post-structuralist theory. This countertextual reading exposes instability in writing, but also in racial and gender identities, developing a new poetics of theory.
This book establishes deconstructive dialogues between Dickens’s novels, contemporary literature, and post-structuralist theory. This countertextual reading exposes instability in writing, but also in racial and gender identities, developing a new poetics of theory.
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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 book examines eighteenth-century novels, focusing on the skills readers needed to master them. It analyses how these skills were shaped by the cultural and political climate, from debates on education to new philosophical and scientific theories.
This book examines eighteenth-century novels, focusing on the skills readers needed to master them. It analyses how these skills were shaped by the cultural and political climate, from debates on education to new philosophical and scientific theories.
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Graphic History
Essays on Graphic Novels And/As History
This collection of essays explores the unique ways graphic novels shed new light on history. Analyzing writers from Art Spiegelman (Maus) to Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis), these essays cover subjects from Jack the Ripper to the Iranian Revolution.
This collection of essays explores the unique ways graphic novels shed new light on history. Analyzing writers from Art Spiegelman (Maus) to Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis), these essays cover subjects from Jack the Ripper to the Iranian Revolution.
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This book analyzes the unlikely friendship of Prince Hal and Falstaff in Shakespeare's Henry IV plays. Though the future king rejects Falstaff, arguably the world’s greatest comic character, his voice, representing a more human side of existence, cannot ultimately be denied.
This book analyzes the unlikely friendship of Prince Hal and Falstaff in Shakespeare’s Henry IV plays. Though the future king rejects Falstaff, arguably the world’s greatest comic character, his voice, representing a more human side of existence, cannot ultimately be denied.
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