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Thus Burst Hippocrene
Studies in the Olympian Imagination
These daring essays connect literary titans from Homer and Dante to Shakespeare and Li Bo. The author’s rare multi-lingual approach uncovers startling new insights for scholars and curious readers alike.
These daring essays connect literary titans from Homer and Dante to Shakespeare and Li Bo. The author’s rare multi-lingual approach uncovers startling new insights for scholars and curious readers alike.
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The Weather in the Icelandic Sagas
The Enemy Without
The descriptions of the weather in medieval Icelandic sagas have long been considered unimportant, mere adjuncts to the action. McCreesh shows that this is not true, illustrating how medieval Icelandic attitudes to the weather often affect the portrayal of the hero.
The descriptions of the weather in medieval Icelandic sagas have long been considered unimportant, mere adjuncts to the action. McCreesh shows that this is not true, illustrating how medieval Icelandic attitudes to the weather often affect the portrayal of the hero.
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The Ways of Fiction
New Essays on the Literary Cultures of the Eighteenth Century
The essays gathered here capture fresh perspectives on the literary environments of the eighteenth century, and are specifically concerned with how culture shapes literature and is in turn influenced by it.
The essays gathered here capture fresh perspectives on the literary environments of the eighteenth century, and are specifically concerned with how culture shapes literature and is in turn influenced by it.
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Essays on Byron in Honour of Dr Peter Cochran
Breaking the Mould
Byron wrote that he was “born for opposition“. This collection takes Byron at his word and considers ways in which he challenged received opinion in his lifetime. It also challenges commonplace attitudes in criticism of the writer today.
Byron wrote that he was “born for opposition“. This collection takes Byron at his word and considers ways in which he challenged received opinion in his lifetime. It also challenges commonplace attitudes in criticism of the writer today.
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Three Long Poems in Athens
Erēmē Gē-Perama-Kleftiko
Poetic narratives travel through Athens, cutting into the city’s past and opening up its microcosm. This book features the first English translation of three Modern Greek poems, active political texts offering a unique itinerary through the city from the 1980s to the 2010s.
Poetic narratives travel through Athens, cutting into the city’s past and opening up its microcosm. This book features the first English translation of three Modern Greek poems, active political texts offering a unique itinerary through the city from the 1980s to the 2010s.
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Myth, Music and Ritual
Approaches to Comparative Literature
Divided into two, the essays here consider both myth and some of its contemporary reflections and the connection between myth, music and ritual. Subjects discussed include folklore, literature, traditional music, science-fiction, philosophy, and religion, among others.
Divided into two, the essays here consider both myth and some of its contemporary reflections and the connection between myth, music and ritual. Subjects discussed include folklore, literature, traditional music, science-fiction, philosophy, and religion, among others.
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Kılıç re-reads Milton’s Paradise Lost in the light of his political views as reflected in his earlier political pamphlets. He argues that, using his epic poem as a medium of expression, Milton created a political subtext which reflected the social panorama of his England.
Kılıç re-reads Milton’s Paradise Lost in the light of his political views as reflected in his earlier political pamphlets. He argues that, using his epic poem as a medium of expression, Milton created a political subtext which reflected the social panorama of his England.
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Images in Words
Only History Exists
This compendium of William Mallinson’s poetry and prose is a vehicle to demonstrate that only history—in its purest form, the past—exists. It briefly evaluates the circumstances that led to each poem and story but avoids analysis, stressing the importance of emotion in reading.
This compendium of William Mallinson’s poetry and prose is a vehicle to demonstrate that only history—in its purest form, the past—exists. It briefly evaluates the circumstances that led to each poem and story but avoids analysis, stressing the importance of emotion in reading.
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Rural Writing
Geographical Imaginary and Expression of a New Regionality
This anthology revisits rural areas and their representations in contemporary writing, in both popular and high culture, in order to draw a global landscape of current rural areas and new regionalities.
This anthology revisits rural areas and their representations in contemporary writing, in both popular and high culture, in order to draw a global landscape of current rural areas and new regionalities.
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This title enquires into the processes by which certain contemporary women pay testimony to history. It examines the reasons why they recreate the past, whether political, social or artistic, and the strategies employed to establish a comparison with the present.
This title enquires into the processes by which certain contemporary women pay testimony to history. It examines the reasons why they recreate the past, whether political, social or artistic, and the strategies employed to establish a comparison with the present.
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You Girls Stay Here
Gender Roles in Popular British Children’s Adventure Fiction, 1930-70
Poynter explores a period long considered to be of poor quality as regards children’s books. She discusses a range of themes, such as female agency, power and courage, and additionally gives a linguistic analysis of selected texts, while also adopting a socio-cultural approach.
Poynter explores a period long considered to be of poor quality as regards children’s books. She discusses a range of themes, such as female agency, power and courage, and additionally gives a linguistic analysis of selected texts, while also adopting a socio-cultural approach.
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Railway Discourse
Linguistic and Stylistic Representations of the Train in the Anglophone World
Adami considers the train trope in a variety of cultural, literary and linguistic contexts, from contemporary crime fiction and dystopian graphic narratives to postcolonial railway travelogues, by employing a range of methods and frameworks.
Adami considers the train trope in a variety of cultural, literary and linguistic contexts, from contemporary crime fiction and dystopian graphic narratives to postcolonial railway travelogues, by employing a range of methods and frameworks.
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Uncovering Caledonia
An Introduction to Scottish Studies
Uncover the burning cultural issues of modern Scotland from a non-native point of view. This book offers insight through the analysis of Scottish folk tales, legends, literature, and film, appealing to both scholars and the general reader.
Uncover the burning cultural issues of modern Scotland from a non-native point of view. This book offers insight through the analysis of Scottish folk tales, legends, literature, and film, appealing to both scholars and the general reader.
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Das Sarkhel explores how Achebe’s novels articulate his knowledge of his own people and the manner in which he participates in the politics of representation, showing that he critiques the postcolonial methodology, and provides an alternative narrative of such an experience.
Das Sarkhel explores how Achebe’s novels articulate his knowledge of his own people and the manner in which he participates in the politics of representation, showing that he critiques the postcolonial methodology, and provides an alternative narrative of such an experience.
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This volume includes ten essays on American, British and Canadian writers’ biographies and family histories, ranging from Woolf’s Orlando (1928) to Zanganeh’s The Enchanter (2011), analysing the connection between biography and fiction in the light of postmodernism.
This volume includes ten essays on American, British and Canadian writers’ biographies and family histories, ranging from Woolf’s Orlando (1928) to Zanganeh’s The Enchanter (2011), analysing the connection between biography and fiction in the light of postmodernism.
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A unique hybrid of historical Gothic, this novel is set amid the sanguinary events of post-revolutionary France. It follows Countess Adelaide de Narbonne’s rebellion against male authority, connecting her story with that of Charlotte Corday, Marat’s murderer.
A unique hybrid of historical Gothic, this novel is set amid the sanguinary events of post-revolutionary France. It follows Countess Adelaide de Narbonne’s rebellion against male authority, connecting her story with that of Charlotte Corday, Marat’s murderer.
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(Post)Colonial Passages
Incursions and Excursions across the Literatures and Cultures in English
The essays gathered here discuss postcolonialism as a transdisciplinary field of passages that negotiate among diverse, yet interrelated, cultural fields.
The essays gathered here discuss postcolonialism as a transdisciplinary field of passages that negotiate among diverse, yet interrelated, cultural fields.
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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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Translating Ethiopia
Travel Writing, Explorations, Colonization
As a result of the cultural turn in translation studies and geography, Tomei adopts a comparative and diachronic perspective on colonial and postcolonial descriptions of space and place in Ethiopia, examining variations in intertextual citation and re-writing.
As a result of the cultural turn in translation studies and geography, Tomei adopts a comparative and diachronic perspective on colonial and postcolonial descriptions of space and place in Ethiopia, examining variations in intertextual citation and re-writing.
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The Italian Short Story through the Centuries
The Met(A)morphoses of the Novella
This collection of essays gathers together Italian and American scholars to provide a cooperative analysis of the Italian short story, beginning in the fourteenth century with Giovanni Boccaccio and arriving at the twentieth century with Alberto Moravia and Anna Maria Ortese.
This collection of essays gathers together Italian and American scholars to provide a cooperative analysis of the Italian short story, beginning in the fourteenth century with Giovanni Boccaccio and arriving at the twentieth century with Alberto Moravia and Anna Maria Ortese.
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