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How did the West see Russia, the empire caught between Europe and Asia? This book explores representations of Russian identity and culture from 1792 to 1912, drawing on the accounts of British and American travellers as they attempted to understand this imperial "Other."
How did the West see Russia, the empire caught between Europe and Asia? This book explores representations of Russian identity and culture from 1792 to 1912, drawing on the accounts of British and American travellers as they attempted to understand this imperial “Other.”
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This volume investigates how literary texts reflect a Catholic philosophy of life. It demonstrates how literature, by capturing the imagination, evokes human experience related to a Catholic understanding of life.
This volume investigates how literary texts reflect a Catholic philosophy of life. It demonstrates how literature, by capturing the imagination, evokes human experience related to a Catholic understanding of 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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King James and the Theatre of Witches
Subversion upon the Jacobean Stage
This book analyzes the “witch plays” of Renaissance England and their response to King James I. Once a fevered witch-hunter and author of *Daemonologie*, the monarch saw his beliefs both catered to and subverted on stage by dramatists like Shakespeare and Jonson.
This book analyzes the “witch plays” of Renaissance England and their response to King James I. Once a fevered witch-hunter and author of *Daemonologie*, the monarch saw his beliefs both catered to and subverted on stage by dramatists like Shakespeare and Jonson.
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This first book on Naomi Alderman’s work highlights her transcultural recasting of British and Jewish traditions. The analysis focuses on relevant topics including gender and sexual orientation, the rewriting of the Sacred Scriptures, and feminist posthuman dystopias.
This first book on Naomi Alderman’s work highlights her transcultural recasting of British and Jewish traditions. The analysis focuses on relevant topics including gender and sexual orientation, the rewriting of the Sacred Scriptures, and feminist posthuman dystopias.
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Nat Turner in Black and White
Race, Trauma, and the American Cultural Imaginary
This book reveals how writers imagine cautionary Nat Turner-tales, making him a misunderstood and polarizing figure. By locating the Turner Insurrection within historical race trauma, writers expose the lasting impact of slavery and frame rebellion as heroic.
This book reveals how writers imagine cautionary Nat Turner-tales, making him a misunderstood and polarizing figure. By locating the Turner Insurrection within historical race trauma, writers expose the lasting impact of slavery and frame rebellion as heroic.
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Essays in Narrative and Fictionality
Reassessing Nine Central Concepts
By one of postclassical narrative theory's preeminent figures, this book reexamines foundational topics from the role of the author to the nature of fiction. It argues for a more expansive conception of narrative theory, making crucial interventions in ongoing critical debates.
By one of postclassical narrative theory’s preeminent figures, this book reexamines foundational topics from the role of the author to the nature of fiction. It argues for a more expansive conception of narrative theory, making crucial interventions in ongoing critical debates.
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Mobilizing Narratives
Narrating Injustices of (Im)Mobility
In a world defined by forced migration, who is free to move and who is not? This volume uncovers the injustices of (im)mobility—driven by war, climate change, and inequality—as powerfully represented in literary texts.
In a world defined by forced migration, who is free to move and who is not? This volume uncovers the injustices of (im)mobility—driven by war, climate change, and inequality—as powerfully represented in literary texts.
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Personal essays illuminate the effects of whiteness in the workplace. Combining storytelling and scholarship, this collection makes a compelling case for changing the individuals and systems that perpetuate disparities in opportunity, advancement, and well-being.
Personal essays illuminate the effects of whiteness in the workplace. Combining storytelling and scholarship, this collection makes a compelling case for changing the individuals and systems that perpetuate disparities in opportunity, advancement, and well-being.
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A Cartographic Journey of Race, Gender and Power
Global Identity
This book explores how spatial borders are social constructs used to define hierarchies of race, gender, and power. Through literary narratives from East and West, it follows voices crossing these boundaries to envision a new model for a diverse global identity.
This book explores how spatial borders are social constructs used to define hierarchies of race, gender, and power. Through literary narratives from East and West, it follows voices crossing these boundaries to envision a new model for a diverse global identity.
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The Mahābhārata and Dharma Discourse
A Vision of Clarity through Its Tales
This engaging text provides unique insights into ‘dharma’ in the Mahābhārata. Often mistaken for religion, dharma is revealed as an umbrella term for all the deeds in one's life. Each chapter uses the epic's own tales and parables as evidence to explore this complex concept.
This engaging text provides unique insights into ‘dharma’ in the Mahābhārata. Often mistaken for religion, dharma is revealed as an umbrella term for all the deeds in one’s life. Each chapter uses the epic’s own tales and parables as evidence to explore this complex concept.
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When geopolitical changes occur, they alter our identity. This book looks at contemporary history with new eyes, from a scholarly perspective that cancels borders. It explores migration, geopolitics, and human rights, making the old self-other dichotomy obsolete.
When geopolitical changes occur, they alter our identity. This book looks at contemporary history with new eyes, from a scholarly perspective that cancels borders. It explores migration, geopolitics, and human rights, making the old self-other dichotomy obsolete.
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This volume challenges how we think about pain and pleasure. It explores their literary expression as potent forces that shape both writer and reader, forging new meaning for these experiences in a world defined by the dynamics of power.
This volume challenges how we think about pain and pleasure. It explores their literary expression as potent forces that shape both writer and reader, forging new meaning for these experiences in a world defined by the dynamics of power.
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Understanding Anne Enright is an introduction to one of the most original contemporary Irish writers. It analyses the evolution of themes and forms in her work, particularly her treatment of the corporeality of women’s experiences and the embodied language of her fiction.
Understanding Anne Enright is an introduction to one of the most original contemporary Irish writers. It analyses the evolution of themes and forms in her work, particularly her treatment of the corporeality of women’s experiences and the embodied language of her fiction.
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Animals and Humans in German Literature, 1800-2000
Exploring the Great Divide
These 10 essays explore the relationship between animality and poetics in German-language literature since the 19th century. Revising cultural dichotomies, they consider animals not as objects, but as active agents that have left forgotten traces in texts.
These 10 essays explore the relationship between animality and poetics in German-language literature since the 19th century. Revising cultural dichotomies, they consider animals not as objects, but as active agents that have left forgotten traces in texts.
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This collection offers fresh perspectives on Gissing’s place in fin-de-siècle literature. Interdisciplinary readings place him in dialogue with figures from Dickens to Foucault, challenging his status as a simple realist and revealing his complex modernity.
This collection offers fresh perspectives on Gissing’s place in fin-de-siècle literature. Interdisciplinary readings place him in dialogue with figures from Dickens to Foucault, challenging his status as a simple realist and revealing his complex modernity.
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A World Government in Action
A New Pragmatic Ideology for Global Politics
This volume presents a significantly different interpretation of society and international relations. It highlights the route to release the world from its greatest problems, assure the survival of humankind, and germinate life quality and healthcare for all.
This volume presents a significantly different interpretation of society and international relations. It highlights the route to release the world from its greatest problems, assure the survival of humankind, and germinate life quality and healthcare for all.
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Conrad and the Being of the World
A Reading in Speculative Metaphysics
Why does Joseph Conrad’s universe feel so opaque and withdrawn? This unique study uses Object-Oriented Ontology to explore what lies hidden in his work, shedding new light on Conrad and articulating a metaphysical structure for his world, the universe, and ourselves.
Why does Joseph Conrad’s universe feel so opaque and withdrawn? This unique study uses Object-Oriented Ontology to explore what lies hidden in his work, shedding new light on Conrad and articulating a metaphysical structure for his world, the universe, and ourselves.
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Recent Scholarship on Japan
Classical to Contemporary
This collection of cutting-edge scholarship surveys Japanese literature from classical to contemporary. It explores works from Heian-era female authors to Haruki Murakami, relating them to Japanese society, the global context, and the vital role of translation.
This collection of cutting-edge scholarship surveys Japanese literature from classical to contemporary. It explores works from Heian-era female authors to Haruki Murakami, relating them to Japanese society, the global context, and the vital role of translation.
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Mobile Identities
Race, Ethnicity, and Borders in Contemporary Literature and Culture
Through international case studies, this volume uses border studies, postcolonial discourse, and globalization theory to explore identity. It argues that identities are mobile and in flux, challenging stereotypes and revealing ethnicity as a complex category.
Through international case studies, this volume uses border studies, postcolonial discourse, and globalization theory to explore identity. It argues that identities are mobile and in flux, challenging stereotypes and revealing ethnicity as a complex category.
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