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Like One of the Family
Domestic Workers, Race, and In/Visibility in The Help
Using the best-selling novel The Help and its 2011 film adaptation as a starting point, this collection considers why such sterilized versions of America’s complex racial history resonate so deeply in our contemporary timeframe.
Using the best-selling novel The Help and its 2011 film adaptation as a starting point, this collection considers why such sterilized versions of America’s complex racial history resonate so deeply in our contemporary timeframe.
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This book examines how color is categorized and named in a number of languages, drawing on as-yet unexplored aspects of color language and categorization. Several approaches are taken to describe new research on how the concept is represented in various languages.
This book examines how color is categorized and named in a number of languages, drawing on as-yet unexplored aspects of color language and categorization. Several approaches are taken to describe new research on how the concept is represented in various languages.
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This volume represents a meeting ground for historians, philologists, and scholars of social science, to discuss places and roles of laughter in history, in historical narratives, and in cultural anthropology from prehistory to the present.
This volume represents a meeting ground for historians, philologists, and scholars of social science, to discuss places and roles of laughter in history, in historical narratives, and in cultural anthropology from prehistory to the present.
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The Oracle of the “tiny finger snap of time”
A Study of Novels with a Specific Time Culture
This unique collection of essays explores the use of time in the novel. Writers analyze novels and one film within specific time cultures, covering concepts from inner, felt, and cosmic time to time running backwards, hinting at the future of the novel.
This unique collection of essays explores the use of time in the novel. Writers analyze novels and one film within specific time cultures, covering concepts from inner, felt, and cosmic time to time running backwards, hinting at the future of the novel.
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Jimmy Du’s Essential Chinese
Jimmy Du’s Natural Language Works Second Edition
Master Mandarin Chinese in the shortest time possible with this audio-companion book. You'll “pick it up” naturally while relaxing, commuting, or travelling—no classrooms, grammar study, or written exercises. Simply listen, imitate, and put to use what you understand.
Master Mandarin Chinese in the shortest time possible with this audio-companion book. You’ll “pick it up” naturally while relaxing, commuting, or travelling—no classrooms, grammar study, or written exercises. Simply listen, imitate, and put to use what you understand.
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Murdering Ministers
A Close Look at Shakespeare’s Macbeth in Text, Context and Performance
Delve into Macbeth as never before. This guide integrates centuries of criticism and performance to answer enduring questions (Why is the play cursed?), explores its explosive historical context, and reveals the hilarious dramatic irony often missed in the sombre tragedy.
Delve into Macbeth as never before. This guide integrates centuries of criticism and performance to answer enduring questions (Why is the play cursed?), explores its explosive historical context, and reveals the hilarious dramatic irony often missed in the sombre tragedy.
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D.H. Lawrence and the Marriage Matrix
Intertextual Adventures in Conflict, Renewal, and Transcendence
This innovative study of D. H. Lawrence’s fiction examines the dominant presence of a “marriage matrix”, showing how this intense pattern of preoccupation consistently engages with such important subjects in Lawrence’s life as depression, illness, friendship, and renewal.
This innovative study of D. H. Lawrence’s fiction examines the dominant presence of a “marriage matrix”, showing how this intense pattern of preoccupation consistently engages with such important subjects in Lawrence’s life as depression, illness, friendship, and renewal.
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Malady and Mortality
Illness, Disease and Death in Literary and Visual Culture
This study examines visual and literary responses to, and representations of, illness, dying and death from the perspective of the chronically ill, their families and carers, medics, artists, photographers, authors, and academics.
This study examines visual and literary responses to, and representations of, illness, dying and death from the perspective of the chronically ill, their families and carers, medics, artists, photographers, authors, and academics.
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This comparative exploration of Bryon and Pope’s satirical portraits of men and women, their expression of love and forbidden passion, and their various poetic techniques shows the profound influence Pope had on the deepest recesses of Byron’s poetic thought.
This comparative exploration of Bryon and Pope’s satirical portraits of men and women, their expression of love and forbidden passion, and their various poetic techniques shows the profound influence Pope had on the deepest recesses of Byron’s poetic thought.
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Reading Communities
A Dialogical Approach to French and Francophone Literature / Communautés de lecture
This book represents the product of long-term collaboration between French and American scholars sharing a common preoccupation with reading canonical and contemporary works of literature and cinema in a theoretical and pedagogical context.
This book represents the product of long-term collaboration between French and American scholars sharing a common preoccupation with reading canonical and contemporary works of literature and cinema in a theoretical and pedagogical context.
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The Trinidad Dougla
Identity, Ethnicity and Lexical Choice
Through detailed case studies, Regis investigates the search for personal identity of Trinidad’s Douglas, the offspring of Indo-African unions, as they find themselves in a complex social, cultural and linguistic situation.
Through detailed case studies, Regis investigates the search for personal identity of Trinidad’s Douglas, the offspring of Indo-African unions, as they find themselves in a complex social, cultural and linguistic situation.
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This monograph presents a survey and evaluation of Cavafy’s poetical work with an emphasis on his historical and didactic poems, examining the relationship between his writing and Aristotle’s Poetics for the first time.
This monograph presents a survey and evaluation of Cavafy’s poetical work with an emphasis on his historical and didactic poems, examining the relationship between his writing and Aristotle’s Poetics for the first time.
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This volume explores American Studies today, investigating its capacity to respond to 21st-century challenges in a world of transnational flux. Drawing on a wide range of perspectives, these essays offer a multifaceted image of a complex and rapidly evolving discipline.
This volume explores American Studies today, investigating its capacity to respond to 21st-century challenges in a world of transnational flux. Drawing on a wide range of perspectives, these essays offer a multifaceted image of a complex and rapidly evolving discipline.
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Jamoussi explores two distinctive aspects of the allegorical stories of Theodore Francis Powys which are generally overlooked by his critics, namely supernatural visitors and animal symbolism, showing that they deserve close attention when discussing the writer’s work.
Jamoussi explores two distinctive aspects of the allegorical stories of Theodore Francis Powys which are generally overlooked by his critics, namely supernatural visitors and animal symbolism, showing that they deserve close attention when discussing the writer’s work.
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Unali discusses the centuries-old familiarity between Europe and China, exploring European nations’ admiration for the distant Asian country, and their attempt at capturing the meaning of its ancient culture and language.
Unali discusses the centuries-old familiarity between Europe and China, exploring European nations’ admiration for the distant Asian country, and their attempt at capturing the meaning of its ancient culture and language.
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Telling and Re-telling Stories
Studies on Literary Adaptation to Film
The contributions brought together here offer a comprehensive and authoritative study of literary adaptation to film, providing valuable study cases which suggest both the continuity and variety of adaptation theories.
The contributions brought together here offer a comprehensive and authoritative study of literary adaptation to film, providing valuable study cases which suggest both the continuity and variety of adaptation theories.
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The Social Sense of the Human Experience
Thinking about Vom Menschen of Werner Sombart
In a crisis where society is no longer human by definition, the human element must be rediscovered. This book revitalizes the sense of the human—a compass that, though often misunderstood, is now more essential than ever.
In a crisis where society is no longer human by definition, the human element must be rediscovered. This book revitalizes the sense of the human—a compass that, though often misunderstood, is now more essential than ever.
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Time’s Fool
Essays in Context
A memorial to the life work of A. Clare Brandabur, this collection presents essays on a wide range of notable writers from James Joyce to Kazuo Ishiguro, Michael Ondaatje, Yaşar Kemal, Cormac McCarthy, Abdulrahman Munif, and many others.
A memorial to the life work of A. Clare Brandabur, this collection presents essays on a wide range of notable writers from James Joyce to Kazuo Ishiguro, Michael Ondaatje, Yaşar Kemal, Cormac McCarthy, Abdulrahman Munif, and many others.
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Davis Wood explores James Fenimore Cooper and Cormac McCarthy as engaged in a complex legal and ethical dialogue regarding the disappearance of the nineteenth century frontier despite the centuries that separate their lives and their work.
Davis Wood explores James Fenimore Cooper and Cormac McCarthy as engaged in a complex legal and ethical dialogue regarding the disappearance of the nineteenth century frontier despite the centuries that separate their lives and their work.
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Authors from eight countries offer research across eight languages on current issues in Translation Studies. The volume covers four key areas: lexicological issues and corpora, quality and translator training, audiovisual translation, and literary translation.
Authors from eight countries offer research across eight languages on current issues in Translation Studies. The volume covers four key areas: lexicological issues and corpora, quality and translator training, audiovisual translation, and literary translation.
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