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This study traces the picaresque from its Spanish roots to contemporary novels, arguing it has never left the British literary scene. Postcolonial authors also favour this genre for their own stories of displaced characters and modern-day rogues.
This study traces the picaresque from its Spanish roots to contemporary novels, arguing it has never left the British literary scene. Postcolonial authors also favour this genre for their own stories of displaced characters and modern-day rogues.
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Elizabeth Taylor
A Centenary Celebration
A centenary tribute to Elizabeth Taylor, one of the 20th century's master storytellers. This volume pairs new critical essays with her uncollected stories, essays, and letters, including correspondence with Virginia Woolf.
A centenary tribute to Elizabeth Taylor, one of the 20th century’s master storytellers. This volume pairs new critical essays with her uncollected stories, essays, and letters, including correspondence with Virginia Woolf.
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ELT Revisited
Some Theoretical and Practical Perspectives
Comprising papers from a conference for Czech teachers of English, this collection discusses a variety of English as a Foreign Language-related topics, including insights on classroom practice. It is relevant to any context where English is taught as a foreign or second language.
Comprising papers from a conference for Czech teachers of English, this collection discusses a variety of English as a Foreign Language-related topics, including insights on classroom practice. It is relevant to any context where English is taught as a foreign or second language.
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Emblems of Adversity
Essays on the Aesthetics of Politics in W. B. Yeats and Others
These essays explore the complex political articulation in Yeats's poetry, where politics and history are inextricable from aesthetics. The biographical, national, and historical are envisioned—apocalyptically—as emblems of adversity.
These essays explore the complex political articulation in Yeats’s poetry, where politics and history are inextricable from aesthetics. The biographical, national, and historical are envisioned—apocalyptically—as emblems of adversity.
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Embodying an Image
Gender and Genre in a Selection of Children’s Responses to Picturebooks and Illustrated Texts
This book applies feminist cultural analysis to picturebooks, offering fresh insights into the gendered politics of identity. It investigates the child’s perspective and the power of visual imagery to embody the fantasies and desires of young children.
This book applies feminist cultural analysis to picturebooks, offering fresh insights into the gendered politics of identity. It investigates the child’s perspective and the power of visual imagery to embody the fantasies and desires of young children.
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Emerald Green
An Ecocritical Study of Irish Literature
Emerald Green is an ecocritical study of Irish literature's reverence for the natural world. It examines writers from ancient hermit poets to modern naturalists, exploring how Ireland’s landscape—shaped by famine, loss, and rebirth—defines its literature.
Emerald Green is an ecocritical study of Irish literature’s reverence for the natural world. It examines writers from ancient hermit poets to modern naturalists, exploring how Ireland’s landscape—shaped by famine, loss, and rebirth—defines its literature.
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This collection explores the problem of the preservation of cultural identities in the present-day global context. It highlights that gender equality, ethnicity, religion, tradition, modernity and linguistic affinities are recurrent in many contemporary national literatures.
This collection explores the problem of the preservation of cultural identities in the present-day global context. It highlights that gender equality, ethnicity, religion, tradition, modernity and linguistic affinities are recurrent in many contemporary national literatures.
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Empowering Transformations
Mrs Pepperpot Revisited
Alf Prøysen’s classic Mrs Pepperpot stories have received surprisingly little critical attention. This overdue collection of essays by experts explores Prøysen’s heroine through modern theory to deepen the understanding of her enduring popularity.
Alf Prøysen’s classic Mrs Pepperpot stories have received surprisingly little critical attention. This overdue collection of essays by experts explores Prøysen’s heroine through modern theory to deepen the understanding of her enduring popularity.
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Empowerment versus Oppression
Twenty First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels
Are women readers oppressed by patriarchal romance narratives, or empowered by them? Building on early critics, these selections add new perspectives, examining diverse subtypes and featuring unique voices from international readers, novelists, and critics.
Are women readers oppressed by patriarchal romance narratives, or empowered by them? Building on early critics, these selections add new perspectives, examining diverse subtypes and featuring unique voices from international readers, novelists, and critics.
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Encountering Ephemera 1500-1800
Scholarship, Performance, Classroom
This collection redefines ephemera by challenging the opposition between the transitory and the enduring. Essays explore how materials from broadside ballads to performance reveal the dynamic unfixity of early modern and eighteenth-century cultural practices.
This collection redefines ephemera by challenging the opposition between the transitory and the enduring. Essays explore how materials from broadside ballads to performance reveal the dynamic unfixity of early modern and eighteenth-century cultural practices.
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Encounters in Greek and Irish Literature
Creativity, Translations and Critical Perspectives
Literary experts and novelists explore the relationships between Greek and Irish writing. Through fiction, self-reflective essays, and discussions, this volume considers two literatures at the edges of Europe. Selected works are presented in both Greek and English.
Literary experts and novelists explore the relationships between Greek and Irish writing. Through fiction, self-reflective essays, and discussions, this volume considers two literatures at the edges of Europe. Selected works are presented in both Greek and English.
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Enforcing and Eluding Censorship
British and Anglo-Italian Perspectives
How is censorship enforced and eluded? This volume explores the different ways of censorship in the Italian and Anglo-American worlds, from institutional control and discourse regulation to textual and ideological manipulation that provide a biased view of reality.
How is censorship enforced and eluded? This volume explores the different ways of censorship in the Italian and Anglo-American worlds, from institutional control and discourse regulation to textual and ideological manipulation that provide a biased view of reality.
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Engaged Romanticism
Romanticism as Praxis
Exploring “engaged romanticism” as a practice rather than a historical period, these essays examine how writers deployed their talents to transform the public sphere. This collection sounds the depths of what engaged practice can accomplish, both in its own age and ours.
Exploring “engaged romanticism” as a practice rather than a historical period, these essays examine how writers deployed their talents to transform the public sphere. This collection sounds the depths of what engaged practice can accomplish, both in its own age and ours.
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Engaging Art
Essays and Interviews from Around the Globe
In essays from around the globe, this book reveals how artists make their art, resist censorship, and retain a creative spirit. It explores how they find space to work and exhibit in a politicized world where artistic freedom is often limited by economic and political pressures.
In essays from around the globe, this book reveals how artists make their art, resist censorship, and retain a creative spirit. It explores how they find space to work and exhibit in a politicized world where artistic freedom is often limited by economic and political pressures.
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Engaging Tradition, Making It New
Essays on Teaching Recent African American Literature
Engaging Tradition, Making It New offers fresh scholarly and pedagogical approaches to new African American literature. Focusing on transgression, this collection explores writers who challenge expectations, pointing toward new methods of teaching and research.
Engaging Tradition, Making It New offers fresh scholarly and pedagogical approaches to new African American literature. Focusing on transgression, this collection explores writers who challenge expectations, pointing toward new methods of teaching and research.
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English as a Foreign Language for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Persons
Challenges and Strategies
This volume describes experiences of teaching foreign language to deaf and hard-of-hearing students and presents aspects of empirical research in this field. It discusses mainly the issue of specific methodology for teaching English as a foreign language to these learners.
This volume describes experiences of teaching foreign language to deaf and hard-of-hearing students and presents aspects of empirical research in this field. It discusses mainly the issue of specific methodology for teaching English as a foreign language to these learners.
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English Narrative Poetry
A Babel of Voices
This book explores how poets have manipulated voice in English narrative poetry. Journeying from the Renaissance to the contemporary, from Shakespeare to Bernardine Evaristo, it reveals how a babel of voices can represent real life by mimicking the voices of women and men.
This book explores how poets have manipulated voice in English narrative poetry. Journeying from the Renaissance to the contemporary, from Shakespeare to Bernardine Evaristo, it reveals how a babel of voices can represent real life by mimicking the voices of women and men.
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English Studies
New Perspectives
This volume offers a wide range of research on English literature, including Shakespearean, Victorian, and postcolonial studies. With articles on comparative and translation studies, it serves as a fruitful reference and a guide for young academics in their studies.
This volume offers a wide range of research on English literature, including Shakespearean, Victorian, and postcolonial studies. With articles on comparative and translation studies, it serves as a fruitful reference and a guide for young academics in their studies.
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English Without Boundaries
Reading English from China to Canada
This conference proceedings demonstrates the strength of English studies across the world, with contributions from scholars in China, Finland, Israel, Italy, Japan and Portugal, as well as from Canada, the UK and the USA, showing the energy and breadth of English studies today.
This conference proceedings demonstrates the strength of English studies across the world, with contributions from scholars in China, Finland, Israel, Italy, Japan and Portugal, as well as from Canada, the UK and the USA, showing the energy and breadth of English studies today.
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English Writings from Northeast India
Of Inclusions, Exclusions and Beyond
This volume explores English writings from Northeast India, analysing issues of ethnicity, identity, migration, and insurgency born from ongoing conflicts. These are voices from the periphery answering the mainstream and re-examining their own history.
This volume explores English writings from Northeast India, analysing issues of ethnicity, identity, migration, and insurgency born from ongoing conflicts. These are voices from the periphery answering the mainstream and re-examining their own history.
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