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Did Shakespeare write the 17th-century drama Thomas of Woodstock? For over 150 years, scholars have debated the question. This anthology of articles and book extracts introduces readers to both sides of this fascinating literary controversy.
Did Shakespeare write the 17th-century drama Thomas of Woodstock? For over 150 years, scholars have debated the question. This anthology of articles and book extracts introduces readers to both sides of this fascinating literary controversy.
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Bringing together renowned scholars, this volume offers a multi-dimensional view of comparative and world literature. It illuminates the future of literary studies in a cross-culturalized world for scholars and interested readers alike.
Bringing together renowned scholars, this volume offers a multi-dimensional view of comparative and world literature. It illuminates the future of literary studies in a cross-culturalized world for scholars and interested readers alike.
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A Comparative Analysis of the Great American and Arab Novel
A Study of the USA and Cairo Trilogies
This book is the first comparative reading of the Great American Novel and its Arabic counterpart. It identifies the quintessential American novel and contrasts it with its equivalent in Arabic culture, establishing a new trend in cross-cultural literary scholarship.
This book is the first comparative reading of the Great American Novel and its Arabic counterpart. It identifies the quintessential American novel and contrasts it with its equivalent in Arabic culture, establishing a new trend in cross-cultural literary scholarship.
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Images in Words
Only History Exists
This compendium of William Mallinson’s poetry and prose is a vehicle to demonstrate that only history—in its purest form, the past—exists. It briefly evaluates the circumstances that led to each poem and story but avoids analysis, stressing the importance of emotion in reading.
This compendium of William Mallinson’s poetry and prose is a vehicle to demonstrate that only history—in its purest form, the past—exists. It briefly evaluates the circumstances that led to each poem and story but avoids analysis, stressing the importance of emotion in reading.
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This volume presents new explorations of Tudor literature. The papers cover the mid-Tudor period, from Skelton to the young Shakespeare, with topics ranging from philosophy and social commentary to lyric and tragedy.
This volume presents new explorations of Tudor literature. The papers cover the mid-Tudor period, from Skelton to the young Shakespeare, with topics ranging from philosophy and social commentary to lyric and tragedy.
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This volume investigates cultural representations of American minorities and women. Through analysis of film and literature, it explores the intersections of gender, sexuality, race, and class, and the complex relationship between the dominant and the marginalized.
This volume investigates cultural representations of American minorities and women. Through analysis of film and literature, it explores the intersections of gender, sexuality, race, and class, and the complex relationship between the dominant and the marginalized.
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Idioms of Ontology
A Phenomenological Study of Whitman
Walt Whitman is a philosophical poet, but this aspect of his work is often neglected. This book throws the Whitmanesque self into a phenomenological context, examining the notion of selfhood against the views of Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Levinas.
Walt Whitman is a philosophical poet, but this aspect of his work is often neglected. This book throws the Whitmanesque self into a phenomenological context, examining the notion of selfhood against the views of Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Levinas.
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Documenting Eighteenth Century Satire
Pope, Swift, Gay, and Arbuthnot in Historical Context
This historicized view of Augustan satire shows how works by Pope, Swift, and Gay can be “documented” to reveal richer meanings. Drawing on unpublished sources, it uncovers a literary hoax, new links, and interprets a virtually unknown poem.
This historicized view of Augustan satire shows how works by Pope, Swift, and Gay can be “documented” to reveal richer meanings. Drawing on unpublished sources, it uncovers a literary hoax, new links, and interprets a virtually unknown poem.
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Critical Essays on Barack Obama
Re-affirming the Hope, Re-vitalizing the Dream
In this collection of critical essays, diverse scholars move beyond personal opinion to examine Barack Obama’s life, writings, and presidency. They explore his impact on race and public policy, his potential to re-shape America, and to re-vitalize the American Dream.
In this collection of critical essays, diverse scholars move beyond personal opinion to examine Barack Obama’s life, writings, and presidency. They explore his impact on race and public policy, his potential to re-shape America, and to re-vitalize the American Dream.
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For writers and artists, the shadows of precursors can be a welcome influence or a haunting presence. This book explores conscious and unconscious influences, from imitation to intertextuality, and asks how such references shape how we read.
For writers and artists, the shadows of precursors can be a welcome influence or a haunting presence. This book explores conscious and unconscious influences, from imitation to intertextuality, and asks how such references shape how we read.
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Rethinking Mimesis
Concepts and Practices of Literary Representation
Literary mimesis, an age-old and contested concept, has been brought back to the forefront of scholarly interest. This volume explores how literature produces its reality effects, challenging our understanding of representation through textual analyses.
Literary mimesis, an age-old and contested concept, has been brought back to the forefront of scholarly interest. This volume explores how literature produces its reality effects, challenging our understanding of representation through textual analyses.
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This comprehensive study of Byron’s eclectic attitude to religion concludes he was never the atheist of cliché, but a man whose profound need for a faith always clashed with an equally profound scepticism.
This comprehensive study of Byron’s eclectic attitude to religion concludes he was never the atheist of cliché, but a man whose profound need for a faith always clashed with an equally profound scepticism.
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Re-reading / La relecture
Essays in honour of Graham Falconer
What happens when we re-read a familiar book? This volume of essays by eminent scholars explores how re-reading can affirm our identity or reveal our changing selves, and how this core literary practice shapes and reshapes the canon.
What happens when we re-read a familiar book? This volume of essays by eminent scholars explores how re-reading can affirm our identity or reveal our changing selves, and how this core literary practice shapes and reshapes the canon.
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Challenging the idea that realism promotes sameness, this volume argues that realist narratives actively create otherness. Essays examine how collisions of class, gender, and nationality reveal the strategies of constructing difference in realist and postmodern texts.
Challenging the idea that realism promotes sameness, this volume argues that realist narratives actively create otherness. Essays examine how collisions of class, gender, and nationality reveal the strategies of constructing difference in realist and postmodern texts.
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Social Jane
The Small, Secret Sociology of Jane Austen
Christopher Wilkes reveals the sociologist in Jane Austen. Exploring landscape, economics, and fashion, he argues that Austen was a brilliant analyst of the complex social hierarchies of her time.
Christopher Wilkes reveals the sociologist in Jane Austen. Exploring landscape, economics, and fashion, he argues that Austen was a brilliant analyst of the complex social hierarchies of her time.
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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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In the sphere of Indian English literature, Indian English fiction after the end of the 1980s has emerged as a new “canon”. This monograph highlights the process of literary canon formation in Indian universities, and examines such fiction as an alternative literary canon.
In the sphere of Indian English literature, Indian English fiction after the end of the 1980s has emerged as a new “canon”. This monograph highlights the process of literary canon formation in Indian universities, and examines such fiction as an alternative literary canon.
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The Everyday
Experiences, Concepts, and Narratives
This inter-disciplinary book explores the slippery notion of ‘Everyday Life’. With contributions from fields like art history, cultural studies, and anthropology, it provides a unique space for exploring how everyday life intersects with key debates.
This inter-disciplinary book explores the slippery notion of ‘Everyday Life’. With contributions from fields like art history, cultural studies, and anthropology, it provides a unique space for exploring how everyday life intersects with key debates.
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Shifting the Compass
Pluricontinental Connections in Dutch Colonial and Postcolonial Literature
The study of Dutch colonial literature has traditionally focused on the motherland, ignoring the global network. This collection of articles shifts the compass of analysis to present new perspectives on the pluricontinental contacts within this vast network.
The study of Dutch colonial literature has traditionally focused on the motherland, ignoring the global network. This collection of articles shifts the compass of analysis to present new perspectives on the pluricontinental contacts within this vast network.
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The Future of Philology
Proceedings of the 11th Annual Columbia University German Graduate Student Conference
Does philology still have a place? This volume collects essays by young philologists who show that the discipline’s core—the care for the text—wields competencies that are indispensable, confronting the “fate of a soft science in a hard world.”
Does philology still have a place? This volume collects essays by young philologists who show that the discipline’s core—the care for the text—wields competencies that are indispensable, confronting the “fate of a soft science in a hard world.”
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