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The Survival of Myth
Innovation, Singularity and Alterity
What are myths? The Survival of Myth explores the continuing power of primal stories to inhabit our thinking. Contributors examine figures from the Bible to Cormac McCarthy to show how ancient stories give access to the unconscious and transform society.
What are myths? The Survival of Myth explores the continuing power of primal stories to inhabit our thinking. Contributors examine figures from the Bible to Cormac McCarthy to show how ancient stories give access to the unconscious and transform society.
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What does it mean for a child to "know their place" in a globalized world? This collection explores how identity is formed by place in children's literature, studying indigeneity, the natural world, fantastic spaces, and texts like Peter Pan and Harry Potter.
What does it mean for a child to “know their place” in a globalized world? This collection explores how identity is formed by place in children’s literature, studying indigeneity, the natural world, fantastic spaces, and texts like Peter Pan and Harry Potter.
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The Other India
Narratives of Terror, Communalism and Violence
This book explores how identities and belonging are constructed in postcolonial India. Examining various texts and movies, it discusses how the nation is plagued by communal politics and terrorism, and offers a cogent alternative for creating solidarity.
This book explores how identities and belonging are constructed in postcolonial India. Examining various texts and movies, it discusses how the nation is plagued by communal politics and terrorism, and offers a cogent alternative for creating solidarity.
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This collection explores our relationship with the natural world and how literature clarifies it in ways science and politics cannot. As we face environmental change, literature becomes equipment for living, helping us make sense of our world and decide how to act.
This collection explores our relationship with the natural world and how literature clarifies it in ways science and politics cannot. As we face environmental change, literature becomes equipment for living, helping us make sense of our world and decide how to act.
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Love, Sorrow and Joy
A New Voice in Irish Avant-Garde Poetry
The poetic and philosophic insights in this book are new and fresh. Like the mystical writers of old, Gillespie explores doubt, hope, and the search for true self-identity, generating a new and profound experience.
The poetic and philosophic insights in this book are new and fresh. Like the mystical writers of old, Gillespie explores doubt, hope, and the search for true self-identity, generating a new and profound experience.
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Best known as the creator of the Moomins, Tove Jansson was also a novelist, painter, and cartoonist. This collection of essays by leading scholars discusses her children's fiction alongside her adult writing and visual art, revealing an extraordinary artist.
Best known as the creator of the Moomins, Tove Jansson was also a novelist, painter, and cartoonist. This collection of essays by leading scholars discusses her children’s fiction alongside her adult writing and visual art, revealing an extraordinary artist.
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Fundamentalism is text-centred, but its complex and paradoxical relationship with literature remains largely unexplored. These essays explore this relationship, analysing literary representations of fundamentalism and revealing unexpected affinities between the two.
Fundamentalism is text-centred, but its complex and paradoxical relationship with literature remains largely unexplored. These essays explore this relationship, analysing literary representations of fundamentalism and revealing unexpected affinities between the two.
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Diane Dubois situates Northrop Frye’s work in its biographical and historical context. Illuminating his œuvre as a personal project rooted in the social and religious conditions of his time, this book helps us see the key theorist's work anew.
Diane Dubois situates Northrop Frye’s work in its biographical and historical context. Illuminating his œuvre as a personal project rooted in the social and religious conditions of his time, this book helps us see the key theorist’s work anew.
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Charles Dickens is a British literary icon, but should he be read as a European author? This book explores his relationship to Europe through his travels, the continental locations in his novels, and the influence of his works on other European texts.
Charles Dickens is a British literary icon, but should he be read as a European author? This book explores his relationship to Europe through his travels, the continental locations in his novels, and the influence of his works on other European texts.
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Scholars explore the relationship between authority and the self in writers like Shakespeare and Donne. In an era of momentous change, these essays offer new perspectives on how power was negotiated through sexuality, gender, and language in the English Renaissance.
Scholars explore the relationship between authority and the self in writers like Shakespeare and Donne. In an era of momentous change, these essays offer new perspectives on how power was negotiated through sexuality, gender, and language in the English Renaissance.
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In a world of technology and efficiency, what has become of Happiness? Does it still feature in contemporary fiction? This volume explores the paradoxes and changing forms of Happiness in the novel, from the Holocaust to consumerism and postmodernism.
In a world of technology and efficiency, what has become of Happiness? Does it still feature in contemporary fiction? This volume explores the paradoxes and changing forms of Happiness in the novel, from the Holocaust to consumerism and postmodernism.
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Positioning Daniel Defoe’s Non-Fiction
Form, Function, Genre
This volume analyses Daniel Defoe's non-fictional works. Moving away from his much studied novels, these essays explore the rhetorical strategies and generic inventiveness on display, revealing an author of outstanding skill and energy.
This volume analyses Daniel Defoe’s non-fictional works. Moving away from his much studied novels, these essays explore the rhetorical strategies and generic inventiveness on display, revealing an author of outstanding skill and energy.
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This book explores how French writing, from the Middle Ages to the present, has interrogated extremity. These essays reveal why the extreme—which shocks, excites, and horrifies us—has always fascinated the French literary imagination.
This book explores how French writing, from the Middle Ages to the present, has interrogated extremity. These essays reveal why the extreme—which shocks, excites, and horrifies us—has always fascinated the French literary imagination.
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Orthodoxy, Modernity, and Authenticity
The Reception of Ernest Renan's "Life of Jesus" in Russia
This book explores the Russian reception of Ernest Renan’s *Life of Jesus*. Renan's work had lasting appeal because it presented an alternative to both a strictly materialist worldview and an Orthodox one, allowing readers to accept modernity while retaining religious feeling.
This book explores the Russian reception of Ernest Renan’s *Life of Jesus*. Renan’s work had lasting appeal because it presented an alternative to both a strictly materialist worldview and an Orthodox one, allowing readers to accept modernity while retaining religious feeling.
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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 volume marks a shift in literary semiotics toward methodological pluralism. As the sharp lines of division between dominant approaches dissolve, contributors highlight the communicative functions and representational possibilities of literary texts.
This volume marks a shift in literary semiotics toward methodological pluralism. As the sharp lines of division between dominant approaches dissolve, contributors highlight the communicative functions and representational possibilities of literary texts.
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The Black Musketeer
Reevaluating Alexandre Dumas within the Francophone World
Alexandre Dumas, grandson of a slave, has become a symbol in France's debates on colonial history, race, and identity. This is the first major work to re-evaluate his life and legacy, providing new ways of interpreting his classics in a francophone context.
Alexandre Dumas, grandson of a slave, has become a symbol in France’s debates on colonial history, race, and identity. This is the first major work to re-evaluate his life and legacy, providing new ways of interpreting his classics in a francophone context.
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Poetry, the Geometry of the Living Substance
Four Essays on Ágnes Nemes Nagy
The first study in English of modernist Hungarian poet Ágnes Nemes Nagy. Through close readings of her poetry and prose, this book explores the relation between language, trauma, and memory, drawing parallels with thinkers like Rilke and Beckett.
The first study in English of modernist Hungarian poet Ágnes Nemes Nagy. Through close readings of her poetry and prose, this book explores the relation between language, trauma, and memory, drawing parallels with thinkers like Rilke and Beckett.
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Mary Shelley
Her Circle and Her Contemporaries
This collection of essays expands critical consideration of Mary Shelley’s placement within the Romantic age. Her texts converse with those of her family and contemporaries, including her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley, illuminating the contexts in which they were composed.
This collection of essays expands critical consideration of Mary Shelley’s placement within the Romantic age. Her texts converse with those of her family and contemporaries, including her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley, illuminating the contexts in which they were composed.
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The Gothic Byron argues that the Gothic element in Byron’s work has been undervalued. It explores his reading of Gothic novels, the Gothic in his own tales and poetry, and his profound influence on writers like Charlotte and Emily Brontë.
The Gothic Byron argues that the Gothic element in Byron’s work has been undervalued. It explores his reading of Gothic novels, the Gothic in his own tales and poetry, and his profound influence on writers like Charlotte and Emily Brontë.
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