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This accessible guide explores literary theory through Marina Warner’s fiction, covering pressing issues like colonialism, displacement, and women's oppression. Blending close textual analysis with jargon-free overviews, it is ideal for students, researchers, and teachers.
This accessible guide explores literary theory through Marina Warner’s fiction, covering pressing issues like colonialism, displacement, and women’s oppression. Blending close textual analysis with jargon-free overviews, it is ideal for students, researchers, and teachers.
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Ciambella provides an absolutely original analysis of the relatively The Statue of John Brute by Swinburne, acknowledging its paramount importance as Oscar Wilde's source for his well-known The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Ciambella provides an absolutely original analysis of the relatively The Statue of John Brute by Swinburne, acknowledging its paramount importance as Oscar Wilde’s source for his well-known The Picture of Dorian Gray.
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This book focuses on the critical contribution of Hamlet Studies (1979-2003), an international journal featuring research from global critics. It brings together textual criticism, critical thought, and performance studies, creating a valuable guide for students and teachers.
This book focuses on the critical contribution of Hamlet Studies (1979-2003), an international journal featuring research from global critics. It brings together textual criticism, critical thought, and performance studies, creating a valuable guide for students and teachers.
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The Modern Philosopher, Letters to Her Son and Verses on the Siege of Gibraltar, by Elizabeth Craven
Gasper offers a modern edition of three fascinating and important works by Elizabeth Craven (1750-1828), an English author who lived for many years on the Continent. Put together, these three works demonstrate Craven’s versatility as a writer and startling modernity.
Gasper offers a modern edition of three fascinating and important works by Elizabeth Craven (1750-1828), an English author who lived for many years on the Continent. Put together, these three works demonstrate Craven’s versatility as a writer and startling modernity.
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This is the first in-depth English analysis of the nine short poems, or romances, by Spanish mystic Saint John of the Cross. Focusing on the Trinity, it explores their literary, theological, and mystical elements, tying them to San Juan’s better-known works.
This is the first in-depth English analysis of the nine short poems, or romances, by Spanish mystic Saint John of the Cross. Focusing on the Trinity, it explores their literary, theological, and mystical elements, tying them to San Juan’s better-known works.
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The Faustus myth explores the human instinct to trespass the limits of knowledge for power and self-definition. This book offers perspectives on its literary versions: Marlowe’s tragedy, Goethe’s salvation, and the ambiguous collapse in John Fowles’ The Magus.
The Faustus myth explores the human instinct to trespass the limits of knowledge for power and self-definition. This book offers perspectives on its literary versions: Marlowe’s tragedy, Goethe’s salvation, and the ambiguous collapse in John Fowles’ The Magus.
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Poetics of Indigenismo in Zapatista Discourse
The Mexican Revolution Revisioned through Mayan Eyes
Analysing the writings of Subcomandante Marcos and their relationship to multiple literary genres, this work shows that ,while Marcos employs the iconography of Che Guevara and Zapata et al., he also embodies the aspiration ‘to change the world without taking power’.
Analysing the writings of Subcomandante Marcos and their relationship to multiple literary genres, this work shows that ,while Marcos employs the iconography of Che Guevara and Zapata et al., he also embodies the aspiration ‘to change the world without taking power’.
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The Weather in the Icelandic Sagas
The Enemy Without
The descriptions of the weather in medieval Icelandic sagas have long been considered unimportant, mere adjuncts to the action. McCreesh shows that this is not true, illustrating how medieval Icelandic attitudes to the weather often affect the portrayal of the hero.
The descriptions of the weather in medieval Icelandic sagas have long been considered unimportant, mere adjuncts to the action. McCreesh shows that this is not true, illustrating how medieval Icelandic attitudes to the weather often affect the portrayal of the hero.
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This book features accessible close readings of modern poetry's engagement with religious experience. It presents diverse modes of the poetic endeavor to capture the divine, exploring a spectrum of attitudes from Christian faith to the worship of nature as the Force of Life.
This book features accessible close readings of modern poetry’s engagement with religious experience. It presents diverse modes of the poetic endeavor to capture the divine, exploring a spectrum of attitudes from Christian faith to the worship of nature as the Force of Life.
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Asayesh considers how magical realism was used in the works of three contemporary female writers, namely Marina Warner, Isabel Allende, and Raja Alem. She shows how, by applying magical realism, these writers empowered women changed the process of history writing by the powerful.
Asayesh considers how magical realism was used in the works of three contemporary female writers, namely Marina Warner, Isabel Allende, and Raja Alem. She shows how, by applying magical realism, these writers empowered women changed the process of history writing by the powerful.
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Death Representations in Literature
Forms and Theories
This volume overcomes stereotypes that trivialize death in literature. It reveals the great potential of literary studies to provide fresh ways of interrogating death as an unavoidable human reality and as an ever-continuing socio-cultural construction.
This volume overcomes stereotypes that trivialize death in literature. It reveals the great potential of literary studies to provide fresh ways of interrogating death as an unavoidable human reality and as an ever-continuing socio-cultural construction.
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This source book of comparative literature explores the impact of Aphrodite and Venus. Drawing on sources from art, prose, and verse, it traces the goddess's allure from the distant past to the present, blending myth with the contemporary.
This source book of comparative literature explores the impact of Aphrodite and Venus. Drawing on sources from art, prose, and verse, it traces the goddess’s allure from the distant past to the present, blending myth with the contemporary.
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A Theory of General Semiotics
The Science of Signs, Sign-Systems, and Semiotic Reality
This book formulates the central laws of general semiotics, illustrating them with examples from various fields. These laws will prove useful for every branch of semiotics, both those already established and those that will appear in the future.
This book formulates the central laws of general semiotics, illustrating them with examples from various fields. These laws will prove useful for every branch of semiotics, both those already established and those that will appear in the future.
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This study focuses on the lyric and narrative verse of a problematic poet who might have served as a missing link between Keats and Tennyson, an area which is under-represented in current scholarship on Beddoes.
This study focuses on the lyric and narrative verse of a problematic poet who might have served as a missing link between Keats and Tennyson, an area which is under-represented in current scholarship on Beddoes.
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Literature and Geography
The Writing of Space throughout History
Space has now replaced time as the main category of literary analysis, and is considered to be a central metaphor and topos. As such, this book examines the cross-fertilization of geography and literature as disciplines, languages and methodologies.
Space has now replaced time as the main category of literary analysis, and is considered to be a central metaphor and topos. As such, this book examines the cross-fertilization of geography and literature as disciplines, languages and methodologies.
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Defoe and the Dutch
Places, Things, People
This first book to examine the presence of references to, and influences of, the Dutch in Defoe’s novels investigates the perceptions of English readers of fiction of the Dutch, in an era during which two Anglo-Dutch wars were fought and a Dutch king took over the English throne.
This first book to examine the presence of references to, and influences of, the Dutch in Defoe’s novels investigates the perceptions of English readers of fiction of the Dutch, in an era during which two Anglo-Dutch wars were fought and a Dutch king took over the English throne.
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Leading scholars offer a fresh, thought-provoking examination of Byzantium in Late Antiquity and beyond. This multi-disciplinary volume presents innovative research on the interaction between the Empire's core and periphery, and relations between Romans and Barbarians.
Leading scholars offer a fresh, thought-provoking examination of Byzantium in Late Antiquity and beyond. This multi-disciplinary volume presents innovative research on the interaction between the Empire’s core and periphery, and relations between Romans and Barbarians.
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States of Decadence
On the Aesthetics of Beauty, Decline and Transgression across Time and Space Volume 2
This two-part anthology focuses on the literary and cultural phenomenon of decadence, with particular attention given to literature from the end of the 1800s. It goes beyond literary studies too, drawing on a number of the tropes and themes of decadence in the arts and culture.
This two-part anthology focuses on the literary and cultural phenomenon of decadence, with particular attention given to literature from the end of the 1800s. It goes beyond literary studies too, drawing on a number of the tropes and themes of decadence in the arts and culture.
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Reflecting 9/11
New Narratives in Literature, Television, Film and Theatre
This collection challenges the view that artistic responses to 9/11 are limited. It traces the emergence of a new paradigm for discussing these narratives as self-conscious interventions that ask crucial questions about how 9/11 is being historicized.
This collection challenges the view that artistic responses to 9/11 are limited. It traces the emergence of a new paradigm for discussing these narratives as self-conscious interventions that ask crucial questions about how 9/11 is being historicized.
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Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the Simone de Beauvoir Society
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
This compilation of essays is a major addition to Beauvoirian studies with up-to-date research. It offers a multifaceted overview on the “state of the art” of work on the life and works of de Beauvoir, 30 years after her demise.
This compilation of essays is a major addition to Beauvoirian studies with up-to-date research. It offers a multifaceted overview on the “state of the art” of work on the life and works of de Beauvoir, 30 years after her demise.
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