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Dwelling in Days Foregone
Nostalgia in American Literature and Culture
Inspired by Svetlana Boym’s seminal study The Future of Nostalgia (2001), the contributions brought together here examine American literary texts and cultural phenomena as manifestations and expressions of nostalgia.
Inspired by Svetlana Boym’s seminal study The Future of Nostalgia (2001), the contributions brought together here examine American literary texts and cultural phenomena as manifestations and expressions of nostalgia.
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Dystopia(n) Matters
On the Page, on Screen, on Stage
Reputed scholars explain why dystopia is important. Through studies of literature, film, and theatre, they argue that while dystopia has invaded contemporary discourse, utopia has not been eradicated. The tension between them is instrumental to our future.
Reputed scholars explain why dystopia is important. Through studies of literature, film, and theatre, they argue that while dystopia has invaded contemporary discourse, utopia has not been eradicated. The tension between them is instrumental to our future.
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This book explores dystopian British views of Serbia as a travel destination from 1717 to 1911. Travel accounts depict a politically unstable region on the fringe of the Orient, demonising Serbia's national struggle while shedding light on its national awakening.
This book explores dystopian British views of Serbia as a travel destination from 1717 to 1911. Travel accounts depict a politically unstable region on the fringe of the Orient, demonising Serbia’s national struggle while shedding light on its national awakening.
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This book explores a critical, often overlooked feature of Edwin Arlington Robinson’s poetry: his puzzling method of narration. It argues that a proper understanding of his poems is impossible without analyzing this unique approach, shaped by his New England and Puritan roots.
This book explores a critical, often overlooked feature of Edwin Arlington Robinson’s poetry: his puzzling method of narration. It argues that a proper understanding of his poems is impossible without analyzing this unique approach, shaped by his New England and Puritan roots.
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Early Modern Communi(cati)ons
Studies in Early Modern English Literature and Culture
This volume demonstrates the connections that bind Elizabethan and Jacobean cultural studies with Shakespearean investigations. Essays explore early modern culture and Shakespeare’s works, from their socio-historical context to present-day interpretations.
This volume demonstrates the connections that bind Elizabethan and Jacobean cultural studies with Shakespearean investigations. Essays explore early modern culture and Shakespeare’s works, from their socio-historical context to present-day interpretations.
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This book offers a critical review of Horacio Quiroga's work from the perspective of the border, verifying how the discourse of 19th-century Argentine nation-building reverberates in his literature. It grants a new status to his work, avoiding regionalist or realist readings.
This book offers a critical review of Horacio Quiroga’s work from the perspective of the border, verifying how the discourse of 19th-century Argentine nation-building reverberates in his literature. It grants a new status to his work, avoiding regionalist or realist readings.
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Echoing Voices in Italian Literature
Tradition and Translation in the 20th Century
This anthology explores the reception of classics and translation from modern languages as two different, yet synergic, ways of engaging with literary canons and established traditions in 20th-century Italy.
This anthology explores the reception of classics and translation from modern languages as two different, yet synergic, ways of engaging with literary canons and established traditions in 20th-century Italy.
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As ecocriticism shifts to focus on local and unheard voices, this volume presents diverse perspectives from Kerala’s rich literary texts. Weaving a unique ecocritical narrative, these essays are written by award-winning writers in Malayalam.
As ecocriticism shifts to focus on local and unheard voices, this volume presents diverse perspectives from Kerala’s rich literary texts. Weaving a unique ecocritical narrative, these essays are written by award-winning writers in Malayalam.
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Ecofeminism explores the interconnections between feminism and ecology. This volume takes a multi-disciplinary approach to address the most pertinent issues in this emerging field, examining them from various perspectives to avoid any hegemonic categorization.
Ecofeminism explores the interconnections between feminism and ecology. This volume takes a multi-disciplinary approach to address the most pertinent issues in this emerging field, examining them from various perspectives to avoid any hegemonic categorization.
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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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This book challenges the myth of the neutral scholar. Renowned international scholars passionately engage with diverse texts, geographies and cultures, focusing on postcolonial, ecocritical, and mythical studies informed by ecosophy, ecofeminism, and system theory.
This book challenges the myth of the neutral scholar. Renowned international scholars passionately engage with diverse texts, geographies and cultures, focusing on postcolonial, ecocritical, and mythical studies informed by ecosophy, ecofeminism, and system theory.
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Ecstatic Consumption
The Spectacle of Global Dystopia in Contemporary American Literature
Radia argues how the culture of spectacle is ever-evolving and affecting the global dependence on consumption and its many different forms. She asks if avatar (anti)forms provide an escape into a utopian space or further enhance the dystopian ecstasy.
Radia argues how the culture of spectacle is ever-evolving and affecting the global dependence on consumption and its many different forms. She asks if avatar (anti)forms provide an escape into a utopian space or further enhance the dystopian ecstasy.
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Educating the ‘Unconstant Rabble’
Arguments for Educational Advancement and Reform during the English Civil War and Interregnum
The English Revolution was a revolution in reading. While the state sought to restrict access to potentially dangerous ideas, key thinkers argued for the opposite: extending education to equip the emerging ‘reading public’ to take an active part in political life.
The English Revolution was a revolution in reading. While the state sought to restrict access to potentially dangerous ideas, key thinkers argued for the opposite: extending education to equip the emerging ‘reading public’ to take an active part in political life.
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Edward Dorn, Charles Olson, and the American West
Beatniks and Cowboys
This book examines Edward Dorn's poetics of the 20th-century American West and the influence of his mentor Charles Olson, considering the most important poetic representations of the West to come out of the Beat Movement and avant-garde literary scene.
This book examines Edward Dorn’s poetics of the 20th-century American West and the influence of his mentor Charles Olson, considering the most important poetic representations of the West to come out of the Beat Movement and avant-garde literary scene.
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Edward Thomas
A Mirror of England
Killed in WWI, Edward Thomas wrote his essential poems in just two years. This timely reappraisal surveys his entire achievement in verse and prose, challenging common views and revealing a complex poet for a new generation.
Killed in WWI, Edward Thomas wrote his essential poems in just two years. This timely reappraisal surveys his entire achievement in verse and prose, challenging common views and revealing a complex poet for a new generation.
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This celebratory centenary volume edited by two of the leading poetry specialists in Europe, sheds new light on Edward Thomas and the roads his poems have travelled, a century after his death at the Battle of Arras on 9th April 1917.
This celebratory centenary volume edited by two of the leading poetry specialists in Europe, sheds new light on Edward Thomas and the roads his poems have travelled, a century after his death at the Battle of Arras on 9th April 1917.
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This book investigates the fate of Shakespearean supernatural dimensions in the Age of Reason. Using adapted versions of Macbeth, Hamlet, and The Tempest, it explores two main strategies used to “rationalize” the supernatural: its omission or its aestheticization into spectacle.
This book investigates the fate of Shakespearean supernatural dimensions in the Age of Reason. Using adapted versions of Macbeth, Hamlet, and The Tempest, it explores two main strategies used to “rationalize” the supernatural: its omission or its aestheticization into spectacle.
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Ekphrasis in American Poetry
The Colonial Period to the 21st Century
Providing a sample of the chronological range and stylistic variety of poetry that engages with visual art, this volume shows how ekphrasis has been a part of American poetry from its inception, and will be of interest to scholars of both literature and art.
Providing a sample of the chronological range and stylistic variety of poetry that engages with visual art, this volume shows how ekphrasis has been a part of American poetry from its inception, and will be of interest to scholars of both literature and art.
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Electric Sheep Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Speculative Fiction in a Post Modern World
On August 6, 1945, the world changed forever. A bomb shattered Hiroshima, and the easy truths of centuries no longer applied. Speculative Fiction projects real possibilities beyond these now shattered assumptions, moving through marginalized fictional landscapes.
On August 6, 1945, the world changed forever. A bomb shattered Hiroshima, and the easy truths of centuries no longer applied. Speculative Fiction projects real possibilities beyond these now shattered assumptions, moving through marginalized fictional landscapes.
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Elemental Encounters in the Contemporary Irish Novel
Reading as Touching
Reading is touching. Words pierce flesh like a knife. Storytelling breathes with air, fire, earth and water. This book explores how novels by Irish authors John Banville and Mary Morrissy revitalise these elements with sensual, social, and tactile textures.
Reading is touching. Words pierce flesh like a knife. Storytelling breathes with air, fire, earth and water. This book explores how novels by Irish authors John Banville and Mary Morrissy revitalise these elements with sensual, social, and tactile textures.
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