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In Search of the Medieval Voice
Expressions of Identity in the Middle Ages
This collection of articles is an intriguing way of looking at medieval identity. Reaching beyond literature, this book examines the authorial and pictorial voice, the voice of national identity, and even the physical attributes a medieval voice may have had.
This collection of articles is an intriguing way of looking at medieval identity. Reaching beyond literature, this book examines the authorial and pictorial voice, the voice of national identity, and even the physical attributes a medieval voice may have had.
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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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In the Mirror of the Past
Of Fantasy and History
Confronted by overwhelming events, we turn to myth. These essays discuss myth in modern speculative fiction, showing how fantasy becomes a mythic mirror in which we hope to see answers to vexing questions or a reality superior to our own.
Confronted by overwhelming events, we turn to myth. These essays discuss myth in modern speculative fiction, showing how fantasy becomes a mythic mirror in which we hope to see answers to vexing questions or a reality superior to our own.
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This book details the unique 20th-century alliance between small Albania and giant China. Based on specific interests, this relationship unfolded from initial optimism to sworn animosity, cracking when China established a new affinity with the USA.
This book details the unique 20th-century alliance between small Albania and giant China. Based on specific interests, this relationship unfolded from initial optimism to sworn animosity, cracking when China established a new affinity with the USA.
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This essay collection explores inconsistency in the major Latin epics of the Flavian Age. Leading experts demonstrate that inconsistency is often a strategic device, and its careful study yields precious insights into the poets' artistic, thematic, and ideological agendas.
This essay collection explores inconsistency in the major Latin epics of the Flavian Age. Leading experts demonstrate that inconsistency is often a strategic device, and its careful study yields precious insights into the poets’ artistic, thematic, and ideological agendas.
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Incorporations of Chineseness
Hybridity, Bodies, and Chinese American Literature
Through a repositioning of the Chinese component of Asian America in relation to modern transformations of Chinese identity, Fusco reads Asian American literature in relation to historical events and geopolitical changes that have informed the construction of “Chineseness”.
Through a repositioning of the Chinese component of Asian America in relation to modern transformations of Chinese identity, Fusco reads Asian American literature in relation to historical events and geopolitical changes that have informed the construction of “Chineseness”.
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Indian Diaspora
Immigrants’ Experiences in Literature
Borders give rise to division, the suffering of homelessness, and the loss of culture. This book ties together the stories of uprooted migrants, refugees, and exiles—including writers like Jhumpa Lahiri and Kiran Desai—who use their writing to highlight migration concerns.
Borders give rise to division, the suffering of homelessness, and the loss of culture. This book ties together the stories of uprooted migrants, refugees, and exiles—including writers like Jhumpa Lahiri and Kiran Desai—who use their writing to highlight migration concerns.
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Professor Nambiar offers a unique milestone in the history of Durrellian criticism, embracing Durrell’s search for universal awareness through Western and Indian metaphysics, and presenting a new metaphysical reading of the writer’s prose that has remained untapped until now.
Professor Nambiar offers a unique milestone in the history of Durrellian criticism, embracing Durrell’s search for universal awareness through Western and Indian metaphysics, and presenting a new metaphysical reading of the writer’s prose that has remained untapped until now.
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Indian Ocean Futures
Communities, Sustainability and Security
Rapid change in the Indian Ocean demands a revaluation of how communities, sustainability and security are constituted. This book examines the heritage, sustainability and security of the region to engage with the complex relations shaping its future.
Rapid change in the Indian Ocean demands a revaluation of how communities, sustainability and security are constituted. This book examines the heritage, sustainability and security of the region to engage with the complex relations shaping its future.
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This book reveals overlooked keys to Jane Austen’s work: the link between ill-assorted married couples, heredity, and inheritance laws. Her heroines are keen observers of the resulting social ills, and their personal developments mirror the momentous changes in their world.
This book reveals overlooked keys to Jane Austen’s work: the link between ill-assorted married couples, heredity, and inheritance laws. Her heroines are keen observers of the resulting social ills, and their personal developments mirror the momentous changes in their world.
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Inhabited by Stories
Critical Essays on Tales Retold
This book offers an alternative to intertextuality as influence and appropriation. Grounded in the lived experience of reading, it focuses on the expansion of experience created by telling and retelling stories, which inhabit us and enrich our responses.
This book offers an alternative to intertextuality as influence and appropriation. Grounded in the lived experience of reading, it focuses on the expansion of experience created by telling and retelling stories, which inhabit us and enrich our responses.
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Innocence and Loss
Representations of War and National Identity in the United States
A fierce outcry for war has long dominated American culture, a deadly current coursing throughout its history. This collection of essays explores how the “compulsive redeployment of innocence” in America’s wars “endlessly defers a national reckoning.”
A fierce outcry for war has long dominated American culture, a deadly current coursing throughout its history. This collection of essays explores how the “compulsive redeployment of innocence” in America’s wars “endlessly defers a national reckoning.”
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Inside Knowledge
(Un)doing Ways of Knowing in the Humanities
Can art produce knowledge? Is the body a medium for knowing? This collection of essays offers a fresh, interdisciplinary examination of how we know what we know in the humanities, challenging conventional methodologies through concrete case studies.
Can art produce knowledge? Is the body a medium for knowing? This collection of essays offers a fresh, interdisciplinary examination of how we know what we know in the humanities, challenging conventional methodologies through concrete case studies.
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This volume explores D. H. Lawrence’s search for an ideal primitive society. Combining literature and photography, it analyses Sicilian and Sardinian society, offering new perspectives on *Sea and Sardinia*, including its ecological approach, gender roles, and local identity.
This volume explores D. H. Lawrence’s search for an ideal primitive society. Combining literature and photography, it analyses Sicilian and Sardinian society, offering new perspectives on *Sea and Sardinia*, including its ecological approach, gender roles, and local identity.
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Intellect Encounters Faith – A Synthesis
A Festschrift in Honor of Jay Harold Ellens, Ph.D.
This collection of essays is a tribute to renaissance man Dr. Jay Harold Ellens: a scholar, psychologist, and military chaplain. The volume merges deep scholarship with personal reflections on Psychology, Religious Literature, and Military History.
This collection of essays is a tribute to renaissance man Dr. Jay Harold Ellens: a scholar, psychologist, and military chaplain. The volume merges deep scholarship with personal reflections on Psychology, Religious Literature, and Military History.
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This volume analyzes research that oversteps disciplinary boundaries, exploring new fields and methodologies emerging in a globalized academic environment. It assesses theories on inter- and transdisciplinarity and measures their impact on literature and the humanities.
This volume analyzes research that oversteps disciplinary boundaries, exploring new fields and methodologies emerging in a globalized academic environment. It assesses theories on inter- and transdisciplinarity and measures their impact on literature and the humanities.
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Interface between Literature and Science
Cross-disciplinary Approaches to Latin American Texts
This volume explores the permeable boundaries between science and literature in Latin American narrative. It uses a cross-disciplinary approach to offer new readings of authors like Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel García Márquez, and Ernesto Sábato.
This volume explores the permeable boundaries between science and literature in Latin American narrative. It uses a cross-disciplinary approach to offer new readings of authors like Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel García Márquez, and Ernesto Sábato.
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Interiors
Interiority/Exteriority in Literary and Cultural Discourse
These essays explore the borderland between interiors and exteriors. Where do we draw dividing lines? Can we afford not to distinguish between the inside and outside, between “us” and “them”? This volume presents a plethora of answers.
These essays explore the borderland between interiors and exteriors. Where do we draw dividing lines? Can we afford not to distinguish between the inside and outside, between “us” and “them”? This volume presents a plethora of answers.
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International Perspectives on Multilingual Literatures
From Translingualism to Language Mixing
This collection of essays charts interactions between majority and minority languages. Through case studies of authors like Elena Ferrante, Yoko Tawada, and Dylan Thomas, it explores migration, self-translation, language death, and power in (post-)colonial contexts.
This collection of essays charts interactions between majority and minority languages. Through case studies of authors like Elena Ferrante, Yoko Tawada, and Dylan Thomas, it explores migration, self-translation, language death, and power in (post-)colonial contexts.
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This volume explores how seventeenth-century intellectuals and officials conceived of interpretation and read their world. It examines practices from literature, translation, and science to political ceremonies, shedding new light on the culture of the period.
This volume explores how seventeenth-century intellectuals and officials conceived of interpretation and read their world. It examines practices from literature, translation, and science to political ceremonies, shedding new light on the culture of the period.
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