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Wilkie Collins
Interdisciplinary Essays
This collection of critical essays explores the life and works of Wilkie Collins. It reveals his connections to key figures in art, theatre, medicine, and law, offering new perspectives on his most canonical works and readings of neglected material.
This collection of critical essays explores the life and works of Wilkie Collins. It reveals his connections to key figures in art, theatre, medicine, and law, offering new perspectives on his most canonical works and readings of neglected material.
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Journalism Standards of Work Today
Using History to Create a New Code of Journalism Ethics
In an age of new technology, are journalism ethics still relevant? This book examines the first national code of ethics from 1923, finding timeless values that can be applied to media today to equip citizens for representative governance without abandoning essential principles.
In an age of new technology, are journalism ethics still relevant? This book examines the first national code of ethics from 1923, finding timeless values that can be applied to media today to equip citizens for representative governance without abandoning essential principles.
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A Social History of Rural Ireland in the 1950s
Remembering Crotta
Galvin offers a brief history of Crotta Great House, County Kerry, Ireland, where Horatio Herbert Kitchener spent his boyhood years. Part memoir, part social history, it creates a snapshot of a moment in Ireland’s recent past embedded within a broader historical backdrop.
Galvin offers a brief history of Crotta Great House, County Kerry, Ireland, where Horatio Herbert Kitchener spent his boyhood years. Part memoir, part social history, it creates a snapshot of a moment in Ireland’s recent past embedded within a broader historical backdrop.
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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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Cheap Print and the People
European Perspectives on Popular Literature
For 500 years, cheap print was the staple diet of ordinary Europeans, offering news, scandal, folktales, and songs. Neglected for centuries, these materials shine a light on the culture and lives of the people. This is the first pan-European study of the subject.
For 500 years, cheap print was the staple diet of ordinary Europeans, offering news, scandal, folktales, and songs. Neglected for centuries, these materials shine a light on the culture and lives of the people. This is the first pan-European study of the subject.
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This illustrated book explores the diversity of children's book illustration as a space for cultural dialogue. It considers how illustrations from different traditions are histories of art and style that enable us to traverse boundaries and dissolve barriers.
This illustrated book explores the diversity of children’s book illustration as a space for cultural dialogue. It considers how illustrations from different traditions are histories of art and style that enable us to traverse boundaries and dissolve barriers.
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Twenty-first century crises demand a re-evaluation of modernism and postmodernism. This collection of essays by international scholars offers new perspectives on literature, film, art, and politics, navigating debates beyond the traditional dichotomy.
Twenty-first century crises demand a re-evaluation of modernism and postmodernism. This collection of essays by international scholars offers new perspectives on literature, film, art, and politics, navigating debates beyond the traditional dichotomy.
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The essays here focus on the relevance of the past to the present and future in terms of the shifting attitudes to personal and collective experiences that have shaped dominant Western critical discourses about history, memory, and nostalgia.
The essays here focus on the relevance of the past to the present and future in terms of the shifting attitudes to personal and collective experiences that have shaped dominant Western critical discourses about history, memory, and nostalgia.
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Ecology and Literatures in English
Writing to Save the Planet
Writers hold out a mirror, arguing that hope lies in our connection to the real world. This book explores how literature, from Shakespeare to detective novels, reveals the fundamental idea that everything is connected, and that this awareness is the key to protecting the planet.
Writers hold out a mirror, arguing that hope lies in our connection to the real world. This book explores how literature, from Shakespeare to detective novels, reveals the fundamental idea that everything is connected, and that this awareness is the key to protecting the planet.
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Factual Fictions
Narrative Truth and the Contemporary American Documentary Novel
This book explores the American documentary novel's rise in the 1960s alongside New Journalism. Analyzing works by Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, and Don DeLillo, it productively complicates the precarious divide between fact and fiction.
This book explores the American documentary novel’s rise in the 1960s alongside New Journalism. Analyzing works by Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, and Don DeLillo, it productively complicates the precarious divide between fact and fiction.
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Poland’s Angry Romantic
Two Poems and a Play by Juliusz Słowacki
Juliusz Słowacki is one of Poland’s most important writers, but little known in the West. This much-needed introduction contains his popular play Balladina, his meditative poem Agamemnon’s Tomb, and his hilarious mock-epic Beniowski.
Juliusz Słowacki is one of Poland’s most important writers, but little known in the West. This much-needed introduction contains his popular play Balladina, his meditative poem Agamemnon’s Tomb, and his hilarious mock-epic Beniowski.
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Asian English Writers of Chinese Origin
Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong
This book brings together nine Asian English writers of Chinese descent to explore postcolonial impacts on race, class, and language. It takes a special look at gender politics and how Chinese women defy the Orientalist gaze and native patriarchy.
This book brings together nine Asian English writers of Chinese descent to explore postcolonial impacts on race, class, and language. It takes a special look at gender politics and how Chinese women defy the Orientalist gaze and native patriarchy.
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On Nabokov, Ayn Rand and the Libertarian Mind
What the Russian-American Odd Pair Can Tell Us about Some Values, Myths and Manias Widely Held Most Dear
Uniting the divergent worlds of Nabokov and Ayn Rand, this meditation explores libertarianism through the author's own conflicted relationship to the odd pair. A unique and charged look at the intersection of art and politics.
Uniting the divergent worlds of Nabokov and Ayn Rand, this meditation explores libertarianism through the author’s own conflicted relationship to the odd pair. A unique and charged look at the intersection of art and politics.
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The Willow’s Whisper
A Transatlantic Compilation of Poetry from Ireland and Native America
The Willow’s Whisper brings poets from Irish and Native American communities together. In this collection, mother-earth comes to life, reawakening our senses. Reconnect with the part of you linked to nature and hear a whisper of hope.
The Willow’s Whisper brings poets from Irish and Native American communities together. In this collection, mother-earth comes to life, reawakening our senses. Reconnect with the part of you linked to nature and hear a whisper of hope.
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Bringing together renowned scholars, this volume offers a multi-dimensional view of comparative and world literature. It connects disparate research contexts to illuminate the future of literary studies for scholars and readers interested in a cross-culturized world.
Bringing together renowned scholars, this volume offers a multi-dimensional view of comparative and world literature. It connects disparate research contexts to illuminate the future of literary studies for scholars and readers interested in a cross-culturized world.
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Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Academic and Societal Implications
What are the implications for human society of a sophisticated extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) operating on Earth? This book explores this question from a multidisciplinary perspective. Any contact with ETI will be a paradigm changer, and we must prepare for this transition.
What are the implications for human society of a sophisticated extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) operating on Earth? This book explores this question from a multidisciplinary perspective. Any contact with ETI will be a paradigm changer, and we must prepare for this transition.
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Animals and Humans in German Literature, 1800-2000
Exploring the Great Divide
These 10 essays explore the relationship between animality and poetics in German-language literature since the 19th century. Revising cultural dichotomies, they consider animals not as objects, but as active agents that have left forgotten traces in texts.
These 10 essays explore the relationship between animality and poetics in German-language literature since the 19th century. Revising cultural dichotomies, they consider animals not as objects, but as active agents that have left forgotten traces in texts.
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A New Theory of Mind
The Theory of Narrative Thought
This book presents a unique way of understanding how humans think. It argues that narratives are the natural mode of thinking, that the “urge” to think narratively reflects known neurological processes and enables us to transcend our evolutionary limits and shape our own futures.
This book presents a unique way of understanding how humans think. It argues that narratives are the natural mode of thinking, that the “urge” to think narratively reflects known neurological processes and enables us to transcend our evolutionary limits and shape our own futures.
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This book addresses the blurred lines between magic, religion, and science in Spanish literature and history. It explores the divide between white and black magic, Alfonso X’s court, and a window of quasi-tolerance amidst Muslims, Jews, and Christians.
This book addresses the blurred lines between magic, religion, and science in Spanish literature and history. It explores the divide between white and black magic, Alfonso X’s court, and a window of quasi-tolerance amidst Muslims, Jews, and Christians.
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The Shakespeare Authorship Question and Philosophy
Knowledge, Rhetoric, Identity
The Shakespeare authorship debate is often dismissed by scholars, yet the documented facts are meager. This book sets out the debate’s profound philosophical dimensions concerning knowledge, truth, and academic freedom—implications that transcend the question itself.
The Shakespeare authorship debate is often dismissed by scholars, yet the documented facts are meager. This book sets out the debate’s profound philosophical dimensions concerning knowledge, truth, and academic freedom—implications that transcend the question itself.
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