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Kassis focuses on Iceland as a nineteenth-century utopian locus in the light of racial theories attached to the country’s national framework, investigating how nineteenth-century travellers defined their national identity and gender in relation to Iceland.
Kassis focuses on Iceland as a nineteenth-century utopian locus in the light of racial theories attached to the country’s national framework, investigating how nineteenth-century travellers defined their national identity and gender in relation to Iceland.
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IDEA
Studies in English
This collection of essays by prominent academicians explores current trends in English Studies. Dealing with issues from Shakespeare to translation and postcolonial studies, it presents a diversity of theoretical, cultural, and linguistic perspectives.
This collection of essays by prominent academicians explores current trends in English Studies. Dealing with issues from Shakespeare to translation and postcolonial studies, it presents a diversity of theoretical, cultural, and linguistic perspectives.
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Shota Rustaveli's The Knight in the Panther’s Skin organically unites the cultural traditions of the Christian West and Muslim East. This book conducts comparative research, showing the similarities and differences between the works of Rustaveli and Nizami Ganjavi.
Shota Rustaveli’s The Knight in the Panther’s Skin organically unites the cultural traditions of the Christian West and Muslim East. This book conducts comparative research, showing the similarities and differences between the works of Rustaveli and Nizami Ganjavi.
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Identity Issues
Literary and Linguistic Landscapes
A collection of essays exploring the complex phenomenon of identity from diverse angles. Literary explorations discuss class, race, and nation in contemporary literature, while linguistic studies draw on insights from sociology, psychology, and cognitive linguistics.
A collection of essays exploring the complex phenomenon of identity from diverse angles. Literary explorations discuss class, race, and nation in contemporary literature, while linguistic studies draw on insights from sociology, psychology, and cognitive linguistics.
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Identity, Nation, Discourse
Latin American Women Writers and Artists
This volume explores women’s literary production in Latin America and how their works engage with identity, nationhood, and gender. Prominent scholars examine how women writers carve out space within national discourses and critically re-work literary genres.
This volume explores women’s literary production in Latin America and how their works engage with identity, nationhood, and gender. Prominent scholars examine how women writers carve out space within national discourses and critically re-work literary genres.
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Ideological Battlegrounds – Constructions of Us and Them Before and After 9/11
Volume 2 Perspectives in Language
Focusing on language and discourse, this volume explores the construction of “Us” and “Them” in texts before and after 9/11. The book shows how language reflects the tragic event, bringing us closer to understanding its roots, consequences, and relevance today.
Focusing on language and discourse, this volume explores the construction of “Us” and “Them” in texts before and after 9/11. The book shows how language reflects the tragic event, bringing us closer to understanding its roots, consequences, and relevance today.
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Idioms of Ontology
A Phenomenological Study of Whitman
Walt Whitman is a philosophical poet, but this aspect of his work is often neglected. This book throws the Whitmanesque self into a phenomenological context, examining the notion of selfhood against the views of Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Levinas.
Walt Whitman is a philosophical poet, but this aspect of his work is often neglected. This book throws the Whitmanesque self into a phenomenological context, examining the notion of selfhood against the views of Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Levinas.
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Cavafy’s preoccupation with the fragile human condition—illness, old age, and death—continues to challenge readers. This book draws on the medical humanities to provide a new framework for his poetry, for literary scholars and medical practitioners alike.
Cavafy’s preoccupation with the fragile human condition—illness, old age, and death—continues to challenge readers. This book draws on the medical humanities to provide a new framework for his poetry, for literary scholars and medical practitioners alike.
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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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As the British Empire defined itself against alleged Celtic backwardness, Irish nationalism surged. This book investigates how 19th-century racist and nationalist discourses shaped Irish identity, exploring travelogues that cast the island as both a utopia and a dystopia.
As the British Empire defined itself against alleged Celtic backwardness, Irish nationalism surged. This book investigates how 19th-century racist and nationalist discourses shaped Irish identity, exploring travelogues that cast the island as both a utopia and a dystopia.
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This book explores the experience of contemporary Australian intellectuals in Italy, analysing works by Jeffrey Smart, Shirley Hazzard, Robert Dessaix, and Peter Robb. It uncovers an image of the country starkly different from any before.
This book explores the experience of contemporary Australian intellectuals in Italy, analysing works by Jeffrey Smart, Shirley Hazzard, Robert Dessaix, and Peter Robb. It uncovers an image of the country starkly different from any before.
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These provocative essays examine how blackness has been configured in cultural productions from the modern German-speaking world, tracing crucial shifts from colonial notions of race to the recodification of blackness as American and an entry-point into modernity.
These provocative essays examine how blackness has been configured in cultural productions from the modern German-speaking world, tracing crucial shifts from colonial notions of race to the recodification of blackness as American and an entry-point into modernity.
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Imagining Home
Exilic Reconstructions in Norma Manea and Andrei Codrescu’s Diasporic Narratives
Tracing the nomadic lives of two exiled writers, this book redefines Romanian and American identity. It offers a crucial new context for Eastern European immigrant narratives.
Tracing the nomadic lives of two exiled writers, this book redefines Romanian and American identity. It offers a crucial new context for Eastern European immigrant narratives.
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Imagining Italy
Victorian Writers and Travellers
This book approaches the Victorian fascination with Italy from a broad, theoretical perspective. Going beyond Dickens, it examines travel writing and visual representations to show how Victorian stereotypes continue to inform contemporary tourism.
This book approaches the Victorian fascination with Italy from a broad, theoretical perspective. Going beyond Dickens, it examines travel writing and visual representations to show how Victorian stereotypes continue to inform contemporary tourism.
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Imagining the Mexican Revolution
Versions and Visions in Literature and Visual Culture
In this original collection of essays, leading Mexicanists evaluate the cultural legacy of Mexico’s 1910 Revolution. These cutting-edge essays examine the literary and visual representations of this landmark event and the complexity of its aftermath.
In this original collection of essays, leading Mexicanists evaluate the cultural legacy of Mexico’s 1910 Revolution. These cutting-edge essays examine the literary and visual representations of this landmark event and the complexity of its aftermath.
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Imagology Profiles
The Dynamics of National Imagery in Literature
This volume expands the field of imagology with new critical analyses, introducing concepts like "geo-imagology" and linking the field to post-colonialism. Essays focus on shifting national and peripheral identities, gender, mobile imagery, and well-established stereotypes.
This volume expands the field of imagology with new critical analyses, introducing concepts like “geo-imagology” and linking the field to post-colonialism. Essays focus on shifting national and peripheral identities, gender, mobile imagery, and well-established stereotypes.
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Implied Irony in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
To Be Mistress of Pemberley!
This book presents a new approach to irony in free indirect discourse (FID) through an analytical reading of Pride and Prejudice. It argues that a multistage theory best explains how irony is generated, making this essential reading for scholars of narrative technique.
This book presents a new approach to irony in free indirect discourse (FID) through an analytical reading of Pride and Prejudice. It argues that a multistage theory best explains how irony is generated, making this essential reading for scholars of narrative technique.
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In and Out
Eccentricity in Britain
This book provides an overview of the critical history of eccentricity, a defining feature of the English character. It explores the eccentric’s paradoxical status as both outsider and insider, and the struggle to retain individuality against standardization.
This book provides an overview of the critical history of eccentricity, a defining feature of the English character. It explores the eccentric’s paradoxical status as both outsider and insider, and the struggle to retain individuality against standardization.
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In and Out of Africa
Exploring Afro-Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian, and Latin-American Connections
This anthology explores the deep historical and cultural bonds connecting Africa to the Afro-Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian, and Latin American worlds. Scholars and artists examine themes of colonization, slavery, identity, and migration through new artistic prisms.
This anthology explores the deep historical and cultural bonds connecting Africa to the Afro-Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian, and Latin American worlds. Scholars and artists examine themes of colonization, slavery, identity, and migration through new artistic prisms.
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This work of literary criticism offers a detailed study of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales," demonstrating his imaginative insights into the drama of human life. It reveals his continuing relevance by exploring themes of domestic violence, trust, and the need for new perspectives.
This work of literary criticism offers a detailed study of Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales,” demonstrating his imaginative insights into the drama of human life. It reveals his continuing relevance by exploring themes of domestic violence, trust, and the need for new perspectives.
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