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A Fred Will Reader samples writings from poetry to philosophy. Naming the world, Will says, is half the world. The other half is supplied by the reader. By reading each other globally, we can learn to reconstruct the broken totality of the human condition.
A Fred Will Reader samples writings from poetry to philosophy. Naming the world, Will says, is half the world. The other half is supplied by the reader. By reading each other globally, we can learn to reconstruct the broken totality of the human condition.
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Mapping Cultural Identities and Intersections
Imagological Readings
This book applies imagology to film, art, and narratives to explore identity construction. Through interdisciplinary approaches, it examines cultural and ethnic identities—the self and the other—with a focus on literary works as they are translated from one culture to another.
This book applies imagology to film, art, and narratives to explore identity construction. Through interdisciplinary approaches, it examines cultural and ethnic identities—the self and the other—with a focus on literary works as they are translated from one culture to another.
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This book features accessible close readings of modern poetry's engagement with religious experience. It presents diverse modes of the poetic endeavor to capture the divine, exploring a spectrum of attitudes from Christian faith to the worship of nature as the Force of Life.
This book features accessible close readings of modern poetry’s engagement with religious experience. It presents diverse modes of the poetic endeavor to capture the divine, exploring a spectrum of attitudes from Christian faith to the worship of nature as the Force of Life.
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The Unknowable in Literature and Material Culture
Essays in Honour of Clive Thomson
How do we come to know the hidden, unspoken, and “unknowable”? Inspired by this question, the contributors to this volume explore fin de siècle homosexuality, Émile Zola as a seeker of concealed truths, crises of representation, and the dialogue between self and other.
How do we come to know the hidden, unspoken, and “unknowable”? Inspired by this question, the contributors to this volume explore fin de siècle homosexuality, Émile Zola as a seeker of concealed truths, crises of representation, and the dialogue between self and other.
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Facing Trauma in Contemporary American Literary Discourse
Stories of Survival and Possibility
In a culture where trauma breeds fear and aggression, this book turns to literature. Analyzing works by authors like Toni Morrison and Louise Erdrich, it shows how a good story can become a space for curiosity and healing in the face of uncertainty.
In a culture where trauma breeds fear and aggression, this book turns to literature. Analyzing works by authors like Toni Morrison and Louise Erdrich, it shows how a good story can become a space for curiosity and healing in the face of uncertainty.
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Critical Engagements on African Literature
An Offering to Professor Isidore Diala
This is the first book devoted to Isidore Diala’s award-winning drama and poetry. The essays offer fresh insights on African literary landscapes, exploring themes of national history, ritual aesthetics, postcolonial implosions, oil politics, exile, and gender.
This is the first book devoted to Isidore Diala’s award-winning drama and poetry. The essays offer fresh insights on African literary landscapes, exploring themes of national history, ritual aesthetics, postcolonial implosions, oil politics, exile, and gender.
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Victorian Fiction as a Bildungsroman
Its Flourishing and Complexity
This book shows that the Victorian Bildungsroman has a unique development history and a thematic and narrative pattern. It details this tradition’s entrance into Victorian literature, scrutinizing novels to question whether their perspectives fit the shape of the genre.
This book shows that the Victorian Bildungsroman has a unique development history and a thematic and narrative pattern. It details this tradition’s entrance into Victorian literature, scrutinizing novels to question whether their perspectives fit the shape of the genre.
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What kinds of worlds will exist in our future? How will technology shape our cities, homes, and ourselves? This collection of essays explores science fiction's new spaces—from utopias and dystopias to alien cityscapes—and discusses capitalism, equality, and feminist critique.
What kinds of worlds will exist in our future? How will technology shape our cities, homes, and ourselves? This collection of essays explores science fiction’s new spaces—from utopias and dystopias to alien cityscapes—and discusses capitalism, equality, and feminist critique.
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This collection of essays highlights the variety in contemporary English and American studies and linguistics. It examines travelling and recollection in literature, male and female voices in narratives, representations of history, and the theoretical questions of language.
This collection of essays highlights the variety in contemporary English and American studies and linguistics. It examines travelling and recollection in literature, male and female voices in narratives, representations of history, and the theoretical questions of language.
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This book offers a theoretical and practical treatment of World and Comparative Literature from the perspective of “peripheral” cultures. It aims to transcend the monologues of cultural “centres,” advocating for creative dialogues and a mutually enriching symbiotic relationship.
This book offers a theoretical and practical treatment of World and Comparative Literature from the perspective of “peripheral” cultures. It aims to transcend the monologues of cultural “centres,” advocating for creative dialogues and a mutually enriching symbiotic relationship.
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This book explores the evolution of poetic imagery, showing how poets took over metaphors from their predecessors. It follows the development of wine imagery from pre-Islamic times to the days of Abo Nuwas, and how poets built on existing imagery to create new metaphors.
This book explores the evolution of poetic imagery, showing how poets took over metaphors from their predecessors. It follows the development of wine imagery from pre-Islamic times to the days of Abo Nuwas, and how poets built on existing imagery to create new metaphors.
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Raymond Queneau’s Dubliners
Bewildered by Excess of Love
An exploration of two comic, erotic, and feminist novels by Raymond Queneau set in Ireland. This book examines Joycean influences and a surreal version of the Dublin Uprising, solving puzzles to reveal *Les Œuvres completes de Sally Mara* as a subtly integrated literary work.
An exploration of two comic, erotic, and feminist novels by Raymond Queneau set in Ireland. This book examines Joycean influences and a surreal version of the Dublin Uprising, solving puzzles to reveal *Les Œuvres completes de Sally Mara* as a subtly integrated literary work.
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This volume explores the connections between literary figures, artists, and locations of the Victorian era. It covers writers and painters like Charles Dickens and D. G. Rossetti, addresses transatlantic links, and includes influential figures from other periods.
This volume explores the connections between literary figures, artists, and locations of the Victorian era. It covers writers and painters like Charles Dickens and D. G. Rossetti, addresses transatlantic links, and includes influential figures from other periods.
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This volume brings together various discussions on various South Asian Diaspora writers of diverse sociopolitical backgrounds. It provides perspectives drawn from border studies, philosophical studies, and regional issues of South Asia.
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This book presents four short works by prominent Japanese writers like Natsume Sōseki, in their first-ever English translations. A unique textbook, it provides the original Japanese and encourages you to make your own translation before reading the author's and its commentary.
This book presents four short works by prominent Japanese writers like Natsume Sōseki, in their first-ever English translations. A unique textbook, it provides the original Japanese and encourages you to make your own translation before reading the author’s and its commentary.
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The problems in Shakespeare's plays mirror those modern business leaders encounter. While today’s leaders are equipped with better tools, they may lack the moral strength found in these classics. This book delineates leadership and management theories through the Bard's plays.
The problems in Shakespeare’s plays mirror those modern business leaders encounter. While today’s leaders are equipped with better tools, they may lack the moral strength found in these classics. This book delineates leadership and management theories through the Bard’s plays.
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The Duel between Sir Alexander Boswell and James Stuart
Scottish Squibs and Pistols at Dawn
Tory poet Sir Alexander Boswell's savage lampoons of his Whig cousin, James Stuart, led to a fatal duel. This book tells the compelling story of their quarrel—a turning point in Scottish politics—and for the first time includes many of Boswell’s witty poems.
Tory poet Sir Alexander Boswell’s savage lampoons of his Whig cousin, James Stuart, led to a fatal duel. This book tells the compelling story of their quarrel—a turning point in Scottish politics—and for the first time includes many of Boswell’s witty poems.
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This book explores topical issues in language and literature. It examines Cameroon's linguistic colonial legacy, translation as a creative exercise, translator education, and the clash between Confucian and communicative classroom teaching in China.
This book explores topical issues in language and literature. It examines Cameroon’s linguistic colonial legacy, translation as a creative exercise, translator education, and the clash between Confucian and communicative classroom teaching in China.
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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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Promised End
The Last Scene of King Lear
The whole meaning of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy depends on Lear’s last lines. Is his vision an epiphany or delusion? Is the play nihilistic or redemptive? This book deploys a wide spectrum of critical approaches to enlist readers in a quest for the answer.
The whole meaning of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy depends on Lear’s last lines. Is his vision an epiphany or delusion? Is the play nihilistic or redemptive? This book deploys a wide spectrum of critical approaches to enlist readers in a quest for the answer.
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