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An exploration of the multiple meanings of “Spanishness” in 20th-21st century fiction. This book calls for a re-evaluation of what being Spanish means, analyzing themes like immigration, nationalism, and memory to dispel stereotypical notions of Spain.
An exploration of the multiple meanings of “Spanishness” in 20th-21st century fiction. This book calls for a re-evaluation of what being Spanish means, analyzing themes like immigration, nationalism, and memory to dispel stereotypical notions of Spain.
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Essays by international scholars explore how detective fiction mirrors personal, sexual, ethnic, and spiritual identity. This collection examines the genre's evolution and its interface with diverse national literatures and histories.
Essays by international scholars explore how detective fiction mirrors personal, sexual, ethnic, and spiritual identity. This collection examines the genre’s evolution and its interface with diverse national literatures and histories.
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Come Weep With Me
Loss and Mourning in the Writings of Caribbean Women Writers
This groundbreaking anthology examines loss and mourning in the work of Caribbean women writers like Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid, and Maryse Condé. These original essays explore slavery, dictatorships, and disaster, challenging customary discourses on loss.
This groundbreaking anthology examines loss and mourning in the work of Caribbean women writers like Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid, and Maryse Condé. These original essays explore slavery, dictatorships, and disaster, challenging customary discourses on loss.
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Triumphant Bodies
Sexual Political Conquest in Women’s Published Writing, 1660-1763
This study explores how professional female authors from Aphra Behn to Frances Brooke used a pliant vocabulary of sexuality and politics. This blending of language allowed women to provocatively challenge and rearticulate the terms of power and authority.
This study explores how professional female authors from Aphra Behn to Frances Brooke used a pliant vocabulary of sexuality and politics. This blending of language allowed women to provocatively challenge and rearticulate the terms of power and authority.
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Literatures in the Digital Era
Theory and Praxis
This book analyses the impacts of digital technology on literature. It explores how computer resources are used to preserve and study texts, the birth of a new digital literature, and the emergence of new literary theories pointing to a new humanism.
This book analyses the impacts of digital technology on literature. It explores how computer resources are used to preserve and study texts, the birth of a new digital literature, and the emergence of new literary theories pointing to a new humanism.
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P. Papinius Statius Volume I
Thebaid and Achilleid
This three-volume work offers a revised text, prose translation, and extensive secondary apparatus for the two epics of Statius: his magnum opus, the Thebaid, and the unfinished Achilleid.
This three-volume work offers a revised text, prose translation, and extensive secondary apparatus for the two epics of Statius: his magnum opus, the Thebaid, and the unfinished Achilleid.
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P. Papinius Statius Volume II
Thebaid and Achilleid
This three-volume work offers a revised text, prose translation, and extensive commentary for the two epics of Statius: his magnum opus, the Thebaid, and the Achilleid, which was left unfinished at his death.
This three-volume work offers a revised text, prose translation, and extensive commentary for the two epics of Statius: his magnum opus, the Thebaid, and the Achilleid, which was left unfinished at his death.
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This is the first volume to chart Samuel Beckett’s truly global influence. From Coetzee to DeLillo, commentators explore how his revolutionary art presents a profound challenge and liberation to authors, pushing at the very boundaries of literature.
This is the first volume to chart Samuel Beckett’s truly global influence. From Coetzee to DeLillo, commentators explore how his revolutionary art presents a profound challenge and liberation to authors, pushing at the very boundaries of literature.
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Beyond Words
The Othering Excursion in Contemporary American Literature
When interpretation no longer applies, the Othering Excursion begins. This book elaborates a new method for reading texts that use disruptive rhetoric and distortion to point beyond cultural norms, finding meaning in zones of literary obscurity.
When interpretation no longer applies, the Othering Excursion begins. This book elaborates a new method for reading texts that use disruptive rhetoric and distortion to point beyond cultural norms, finding meaning in zones of literary obscurity.
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From Ireland to Byzantium, medievalists face constraints interpreting texts. Problems of authorship, transcription, and translation create a complex discourse. These chapters prise truths about texts, transmission, and the critical literacies needed to interpret both.
From Ireland to Byzantium, medievalists face constraints interpreting texts. Problems of authorship, transcription, and translation create a complex discourse. These chapters prise truths about texts, transmission, and the critical literacies needed to interpret both.
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Novelist, playwright and diarist, Frances Burney’s journey to recognition has been a long one. This volume covers her remarkable career, showing her rise from a minor precursor to Jane Austen to a powerful and influential writer in her own right.
Novelist, playwright and diarist, Frances Burney’s journey to recognition has been a long one. This volume covers her remarkable career, showing her rise from a minor precursor to Jane Austen to a powerful and influential writer in her own right.
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Challenging the view that only realist texts are ethical, this volume argues that the parodic and self-conscious games of experimental fiction offer a powerful critique of received truths, practicing an ethics of alterity. It examines key British novels.
Challenging the view that only realist texts are ethical, this volume argues that the parodic and self-conscious games of experimental fiction offer a powerful critique of received truths, practicing an ethics of alterity. It examines key British novels.
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Postcolonial Borderlands
Orality and Irish Traveller Writing
This volume explores the marginalization of Irish Travellers. Focusing on two autobiographies, it reveals the seminal role of storytelling in creating a sense of nationhood and a legitimate sense of belonging for a people excluded to society’s margins.
This volume explores the marginalization of Irish Travellers. Focusing on two autobiographies, it reveals the seminal role of storytelling in creating a sense of nationhood and a legitimate sense of belonging for a people excluded to society’s margins.
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To See the Wizard
Politics and the Literature of Childhood
Inspired by The Wizard of Oz, this volume interrogates the politics at work in children's literature. It analyzes how "wizards"—writers, publishers, and others—use stories to shape young readers' views on race, class, gender, and power.
Inspired by The Wizard of Oz, this volume interrogates the politics at work in children’s literature. It analyzes how “wizards”—writers, publishers, and others—use stories to shape young readers’ views on race, class, gender, and power.
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On the Turn
The Ethics of Fiction in Contemporary Narrative in English
This diverse, challenging collection of essays explores the 'ethical turn' in literary studies. Scholars analyze the connections between ethics and fiction, tackling complex topics like race, gender, and the politics of representation. Essential reading.
This diverse, challenging collection of essays explores the ‘ethical turn’ in literary studies. Scholars analyze the connections between ethics and fiction, tackling complex topics like race, gender, and the politics of representation. Essential reading.
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Narratives of Community
Womens Short Story Sequences
This collection of essays examines short story sequences by women from around the world. Using diverse theoretical models, contributors consider how female identity is negotiated in community, making a major contribution to feminist and genre theory.
This collection of essays examines short story sequences by women from around the world. Using diverse theoretical models, contributors consider how female identity is negotiated in community, making a major contribution to feminist and genre theory.
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This collection of essays places women writers in the center of the 19th-century literary marketplace. It showcases how authors like Stowe, Alcott, and Southworth met consumer desires and mastered a burgeoning and anything but genteel industry.
This collection of essays places women writers in the center of the 19th-century literary marketplace. It showcases how authors like Stowe, Alcott, and Southworth met consumer desires and mastered a burgeoning and anything but genteel industry.
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“Divining Thoughts”
Future Directions in Shakespeare Studies
The next generation of Shakespeare scholars offers a glimpse into the future of Renaissance Studies. These essays explore new territory and redefine previous work, demonstrating, as Professor Stanley Wells states, that "the future of... scholarship... is in good hands.”
The next generation of Shakespeare scholars offers a glimpse into the future of Renaissance Studies. These essays explore new territory and redefine previous work, demonstrating, as Professor Stanley Wells states, that “the future of… scholarship… is in good hands.”
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The Everyday Fantasic
Essays on Science Fiction and Human Being
The Everyday Fantastic is a collection of essays born from a love for science fiction. Writers from the humanities, social sciences, and sciences view the genre beyond mere entertainment, engaging the fundamental questions explored in its myriad forms.
The Everyday Fantastic is a collection of essays born from a love for science fiction. Writers from the humanities, social sciences, and sciences view the genre beyond mere entertainment, engaging the fundamental questions explored in its myriad forms.
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This study explores the complex term reconciliation in Shakespeare's dramas. Contributors examine its theological, social, and political dimensions, including reconciliation with God, between persons, and its narrative significance in the plays.
This study explores the complex term reconciliation in Shakespeare’s dramas. Contributors examine its theological, social, and political dimensions, including reconciliation with God, between persons, and its narrative significance in the plays.
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