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This Watery World
Humans and the Sea
In this wonderfully wide-ranging volume, Messier and Batra have given us a fine collection of maritime riches. This Watery World reminds us that—onshore and inland—we are all in the grip of our images and interactions with the sea. —Professor Ashton Nichols
In this wonderfully wide-ranging volume, Messier and Batra have given us a fine collection of maritime riches. This Watery World reminds us that—onshore and inland—we are all in the grip of our images and interactions with the sea.
—Professor Ashton Nichols
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Our Orwell, Right or Left
The Continued Importance of One Writer to the World of Western Politics
George Orwell's work has been used and misused by the Left and Right, creating a battle over his legacy. This book decodes why both sides claim him, juxtaposing his writing with their dubious claims and showing how his warnings remain alarmingly prescient.
George Orwell’s work has been used and misused by the Left and Right, creating a battle over his legacy. This book decodes why both sides claim him, juxtaposing his writing with their dubious claims and showing how his warnings remain alarmingly prescient.
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Ruskin in Perspective
Contemporary Essays
This vibrant collection of illustrated essays draws John Ruskin’s ideas together around perspective. Offering a new interdisciplinary approach, it examines his legacy and shows how Ruskin can still teach us to read and see.
This vibrant collection of illustrated essays draws John Ruskin’s ideas together around perspective. Offering a new interdisciplinary approach, it examines his legacy and shows how Ruskin can still teach us to read and see.
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“Divining Thoughts”
Future Directions in Shakespeare Studies
The next generation of Shakespeare scholars offers a glimpse into the future of Renaissance Studies. These essays explore new territory and redefine previous work, demonstrating, as Professor Stanley Wells states, that "the future of... scholarship... is in good hands.”
The next generation of Shakespeare scholars offers a glimpse into the future of Renaissance Studies. These essays explore new territory and redefine previous work, demonstrating, as Professor Stanley Wells states, that “the future of… scholarship… is in good hands.”
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This book tackles the challenges of translating children’s literature, from picturebooks to classics like Beatrix Potter and Tolkien. It examines the active role of translators and publishers, linking theory with practice through diverse examples.
This book tackles the challenges of translating children’s literature, from picturebooks to classics like Beatrix Potter and Tolkien. It examines the active role of translators and publishers, linking theory with practice through diverse examples.
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Fiction Unbound
Bernardine Evaristo
This book shows how Bernardine Evaristo is not simply a “multicultural” writer. It reveals an author who questions concepts like “Englishness,” race, and gender, giving marginalized characters the chance to tell their own stories.
This book shows how Bernardine Evaristo is not simply a “multicultural” writer. It reveals an author who questions concepts like “Englishness,” race, and gender, giving marginalized characters the chance to tell their own stories.
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Between Myth and Reality
Goethe, Anna Amalia, Charlotte von Stein
Ghibellino's provocative thesis claimed Goethe’s beloved was not Charlotte von Stein but Duchess Anna Amalia. Dan Farrelly meticulously re-reads Goethe’s letters, refuting this thesis and proving that Charlotte was the true addressee.
Ghibellino’s provocative thesis claimed Goethe’s beloved was not Charlotte von Stein but Duchess Anna Amalia. Dan Farrelly meticulously re-reads Goethe’s letters, refuting this thesis and proving that Charlotte was the true addressee.
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In the Jaws of the Leviathan
Genocide Fiction and Film
How do we witness the unspeakable? This book analyzes portrayals of genocide in film and fiction from Africa, Asia, and South America. It contrasts the indirect metaphors of commercial media with the direct, personal gazes found in experimental works.
How do we witness the unspeakable? This book analyzes portrayals of genocide in film and fiction from Africa, Asia, and South America. It contrasts the indirect metaphors of commercial media with the direct, personal gazes found in experimental works.
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Asian English Writers of Chinese Origin
Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong
This book brings together nine Asian English writers of Chinese descent to explore postcolonial impacts on race, class, and language. It takes a special look at gender politics and how Chinese women defy the Orientalist gaze and native patriarchy.
This book brings together nine Asian English writers of Chinese descent to explore postcolonial impacts on race, class, and language. It takes a special look at gender politics and how Chinese women defy the Orientalist gaze and native patriarchy.
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The Willow’s Whisper
A Transatlantic Compilation of Poetry from Ireland and Native America
The Willow’s Whisper brings poets from Irish and Native American communities together. In this collection, mother-earth comes to life, reawakening our senses. Reconnect with the part of you linked to nature and hear a whisper of hope.
The Willow’s Whisper brings poets from Irish and Native American communities together. In this collection, mother-earth comes to life, reawakening our senses. Reconnect with the part of you linked to nature and hear a whisper of hope.
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Renaissance Tales of Desire
Hermaphroditus and Salmacis, Theseus and Ariadne, Ceyx and Alcione and Orpheus his Journey to Hell. A Revised and Augmented Edition
This edition of mythological tales from Ovid highlights the epyllion, a genre that influenced Marlowe and Shakespeare. While concerned with metamorphosis, these witty narrative poems also express deep male anxiety about female desire in early modern England.
This edition of mythological tales from Ovid highlights the epyllion, a genre that influenced Marlowe and Shakespeare. While concerned with metamorphosis, these witty narrative poems also express deep male anxiety about female desire in early modern England.
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Naturalisme et excès visuels
pantomime, parodie, image, fête. Mélanges en l'honneur de David Baguley
Ce recueil explore l’esthétique naturaliste sous un jour nouveau à travers le concept d’excès. Pantomime, parodie, image et fête : ces quatre facettes révèlent la prédominance du corporel et du visuel au cœur d'un naturalisme foncièrement moderne.
Ce recueil explore l’esthétique naturaliste sous un jour nouveau à travers le concept d’excès. Pantomime, parodie, image et fête : ces quatre facettes révèlent la prédominance du corporel et du visuel au cœur d’un naturalisme foncièrement moderne.
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Before Shakespeare, prefigurement and echo were not unknown. But the vast echoism—continuing forward and backward references—utilized in his tragedies was rare. Through metaphoric resonance, he revealed meanings lost without it. Who, even now, does this?
Before Shakespeare, prefigurement and echo were not unknown. But the vast echoism—continuing forward and backward references—utilized in his tragedies was rare. Through metaphoric resonance, he revealed meanings lost without it. Who, even now, does this?
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Back to the Future
Israeli Literature of the 1980s and 1990s
This study opens a fascinating window into Israeli writing of the 1980s and 90s. It links the era's dramatic social and political transformations to the evolution of key literary genres like Holocaust literature, the Mizrachi novel, and detective fiction.
This study opens a fascinating window into Israeli writing of the 1980s and 90s. It links the era’s dramatic social and political transformations to the evolution of key literary genres like Holocaust literature, the Mizrachi novel, and detective fiction.
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A New Theory of Mind
The Theory of Narrative Thought
This book presents a unique way of understanding how humans think. It argues that narratives are the natural mode of thinking, that the “urge” to think narratively reflects known neurological processes and enables us to transcend our evolutionary limits and shape our own futures.
This book presents a unique way of understanding how humans think. It argues that narratives are the natural mode of thinking, that the “urge” to think narratively reflects known neurological processes and enables us to transcend our evolutionary limits and shape our own futures.
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Reading the novels of George Eliot, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Barry Unsworth, and others, as a Methodist, David Dickinson offers a colourful picture of Methodists in British fiction since the close of the nineteenth century.
Reading the novels of George Eliot, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Barry Unsworth, and others, as a Methodist, David Dickinson offers a colourful picture of Methodists in British fiction since the close of the nineteenth century.
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This illustrated book explores the diversity of children's book illustration as a space for cultural dialogue. It considers how illustrations from different traditions are histories of art and style that enable us to traverse boundaries and dissolve barriers.
This illustrated book explores the diversity of children’s book illustration as a space for cultural dialogue. It considers how illustrations from different traditions are histories of art and style that enable us to traverse boundaries and dissolve barriers.
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Reflections on Poetry and the World
Walking along the Hudson
This collection brings together 40 years of essays by philosopher Emily Grosholz. She brings poetry into relation with ethics, politics, science, and imagination, admiring all the more the distinct wisdom of poetry. These essays show how poetry deepens our understanding of life.
This collection brings together 40 years of essays by philosopher Emily Grosholz. She brings poetry into relation with ethics, politics, science, and imagination, admiring all the more the distinct wisdom of poetry. These essays show how poetry deepens our understanding of life.
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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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This is the first woman’s travel narrative from late 19th-century colonial India. Krishnabhabini Das defied convention by writing about her life in England to educate fellow Indians on British culture, offering a rare female perspective on the colonial world.
This is the first woman’s travel narrative from late 19th-century colonial India. Krishnabhabini Das defied convention by writing about her life in England to educate fellow Indians on British culture, offering a rare female perspective on the colonial world.
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