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A History of Alcman’s Early Reception
Female-Voiced Nightingales
This history of Alcman’s early reception asks: Did emerging book culture kill “song culture”? Was Alcman an archetypal prototype of partheneia? This book argues the tradition of partheneia was never powerful enough, especially outside Sparta, to completely absorb the poet.
This history of Alcman’s early reception asks: Did emerging book culture kill “song culture”? Was Alcman an archetypal prototype of partheneia? This book argues the tradition of partheneia was never powerful enough, especially outside Sparta, to completely absorb the poet.
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Equine Fictions
Human–Horse Relationships in Twenty-First-Century Writing
This innovative volume explores the powerful human-horse bond in 21st-century fiction and autobiography from the perspectives of affect and politics. It analyzes how narratives of healing, mourning, and identity are shaped by gender and nation in contemporary writing.
This innovative volume explores the powerful human-horse bond in 21st-century fiction and autobiography from the perspectives of affect and politics. It analyzes how narratives of healing, mourning, and identity are shaped by gender and nation in contemporary writing.
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This volume continues the series project of providing interpretations of selected novels through analyses of each of its chapters. It provides in-depth explications of Austen’s text in order to illustrate its thematic complexity and model the practice of close reading.
This volume continues the series project of providing interpretations of selected novels through analyses of each of its chapters. It provides in-depth explications of Austen’s text in order to illustrate its thematic complexity and model the practice of close reading.
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Poetics of Indigenismo in Zapatista Discourse
The Mexican Revolution Revisioned through Mayan Eyes
Analysing the writings of Subcomandante Marcos and their relationship to multiple literary genres, this work shows that ,while Marcos employs the iconography of Che Guevara and Zapata et al., he also embodies the aspiration ‘to change the world without taking power’.
Analysing the writings of Subcomandante Marcos and their relationship to multiple literary genres, this work shows that ,while Marcos employs the iconography of Che Guevara and Zapata et al., he also embodies the aspiration ‘to change the world without taking power’.
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Bordered Identities in Language, Literature, and Culture
Readings on Cameroon and the Global Space
Cameroon’s complex postcolonial legacy has burdened it with a linguistic and pedagogic culture which has inhibited its national identity. The present volume reflects on this issue and serves to renegotiate its identity beyond the mega-frames of Empire.
Cameroon’s complex postcolonial legacy has burdened it with a linguistic and pedagogic culture which has inhibited its national identity. The present volume reflects on this issue and serves to renegotiate its identity beyond the mega-frames of Empire.
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Death within the Text
Social, Philosophical and Aesthetic Approaches to Literature
What can we know about death? How is it socialised? How is it aesthetically shaped? This book tackles such questions, and the challenging theme of death as a whole, through the lens of literature and its connections with other fields in the humanities.
What can we know about death? How is it socialised? How is it aesthetically shaped? This book tackles such questions, and the challenging theme of death as a whole, through the lens of literature and its connections with other fields in the humanities.
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Rimbaud’s provocative dictum that “I is an other” is reflected in this anthology, which discusses a wide-ranging array of twentieth-century and contemporary minority American modes of life writing with regards to identity, relationality, agency, and ethno-racial issues.
Rimbaud’s provocative dictum that “I is an other” is reflected in this anthology, which discusses a wide-ranging array of twentieth-century and contemporary minority American modes of life writing with regards to identity, relationality, agency, and ethno-racial issues.
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Alexander uses Julia Kristeva’s theory of abjection to examine several works by British writers from the Restoration to the Romantic era, providing a constructive perspective for thinking about literary depictions of the self-in-crisis.
Alexander uses Julia Kristeva’s theory of abjection to examine several works by British writers from the Restoration to the Romantic era, providing a constructive perspective for thinking about literary depictions of the self-in-crisis.
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Disability in Spanish-speaking and U.S. Chicano Contexts
Critical and Artistic Perspectives
Covering the period from the seventeenth century to the contemporary era, diverse geographic areas, and multiple artistic genres, this eclectic collection of academic essays, creative writing, and mixed media photo-images focuses on myriad representations of disability.
Covering the period from the seventeenth century to the contemporary era, diverse geographic areas, and multiple artistic genres, this eclectic collection of academic essays, creative writing, and mixed media photo-images focuses on myriad representations of disability.
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Obumselu on African Literature
The Intellectual Muse
Ben Obumselu’s (1930 – 2017) highly celebrated work on African literature is here brought together in a single volume for the first time. The originality of his insights, his analytic rigour, and the power and grace of his expression render this compendium compelling.
Ben Obumselu’s (1930 – 2017) highly celebrated work on African literature is here brought together in a single volume for the first time. The originality of his insights, his analytic rigour, and the power and grace of his expression render this compendium compelling.
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The Failure of Augustus
Essays on the Interpretation of a Paradox
Though he had a proud and clear aim, in the end, Augustus was defeated by his own persistence. Using contemporaneous sources and Augustus’ own words, Judge’s study explores this downfall. It also argues for the primacy of original sources in historical interpretation.
Though he had a proud and clear aim, in the end, Augustus was defeated by his own persistence. Using contemporaneous sources and Augustus’ own words, Judge’s study explores this downfall. It also argues for the primacy of original sources in historical interpretation.
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Literature’s Contributions to Scientific Knowledge
How Novels Explored New Ideas about Human Nature
Interdisciplinary scholarship holds the promise of the unification of all knowledge. Through its wide-ranging analysis, this volume demonstrates, ¬in a careful and original manner, how literary fiction has contributed to the scientific understanding of human nature.
Interdisciplinary scholarship holds the promise of the unification of all knowledge. Through its wide-ranging analysis, this volume demonstrates, ¬in a careful and original manner, how literary fiction has contributed to the scientific understanding of human nature.
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Drawing on contemporary developments in cultural studies, the papers in this anthology cover multiple forms and genres—including novels, films, documentaries, magazines, and commercials— in order to shed light on new sensibilities in postmillennial texts and media.
Drawing on contemporary developments in cultural studies, the papers in this anthology cover multiple forms and genres—including novels, films, documentaries, magazines, and commercials— in order to shed light on new sensibilities in postmillennial texts and media.
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Virginia Woolf’s Portraits of Russian Writers
Creating the Literary Other
Classic Russian fiction was crucial to Virginia Woolf’s vision of British modernism. We follow Woolf as she begins to learn Russian, invents a character for a story by Dostoevsky, ponders over Sophia Tolstoy’s suicide note, and proclaims Chekhov a truly ‘modern’ writer.
Classic Russian fiction was crucial to Virginia Woolf’s vision of British modernism. We follow Woolf as she begins to learn Russian, invents a character for a story by Dostoevsky, ponders over Sophia Tolstoy’s suicide note, and proclaims Chekhov a truly ‘modern’ writer.
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Literature and Psychology
Writing, Trauma and the Self
This study explores how psychological messages are portrayed and interpreted in writing. It analyzes the interaction between text and reader, with emphasis on emotion, identity, and trauma, offering an in-depth look at psychology and literature.
This study explores how psychological messages are portrayed and interpreted in writing. It analyzes the interaction between text and reader, with emphasis on emotion, identity, and trauma, offering an in-depth look at psychology and literature.
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Bombay Novels
Some Insights in Spatial Criticism
Walk the streets of Mumbai through the eyes of literary wanderers. Analyzing four novels, this book reveals how the act of flânerie uncovers hidden histories and exposes power relations, offering a transgressive, alternative vision of the city and its people.
Walk the streets of Mumbai through the eyes of literary wanderers. Analyzing four novels, this book reveals how the act of flânerie uncovers hidden histories and exposes power relations, offering a transgressive, alternative vision of the city and its people.
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Critical Essays on Literature, Language, and Aesthetics
A Volume in Honour of Milind Malshe
Reflecting Professor Milind Malshe’s research interests, this volume of interdisciplinary essays explores the social sciences and humanities. The essays engage in a free play of many voices and will be of interest to researchers, academics, and casual readers.
Reflecting Professor Milind Malshe’s research interests, this volume of interdisciplinary essays explores the social sciences and humanities. The essays engage in a free play of many voices and will be of interest to researchers, academics, and casual readers.
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Kazantzakis’s Zorba the Greek
Five Readings
This book analyzes Zorba the Greek, the modern classic by one of Greece's greatest writers, Nikos Kazantzakis. It reads the acclaimed novel from five critical perspectives: formalist, existentialist, feminist, ecocritical, and intercultural. Useful for scholars and readers.
This book analyzes Zorba the Greek, the modern classic by one of Greece’s greatest writers, Nikos Kazantzakis. It reads the acclaimed novel from five critical perspectives: formalist, existentialist, feminist, ecocritical, and intercultural. Useful for scholars and readers.
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The Sea in the Literary Imagination
Global Perspectives
This collection explores nautical themes in literature from multiple cultures. Spanning a millennium, it emphasizes the universality of human experience with the sea, offering unique insights for scholars while intriguing general readers with the interconnectedness it reveals.
This collection explores nautical themes in literature from multiple cultures. Spanning a millennium, it emphasizes the universality of human experience with the sea, offering unique insights for scholars while intriguing general readers with the interconnectedness it reveals.
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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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