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Milestones on the Road to Dystopia
Interpreting George Orwell’s Self-Division in an Era of ‘Force and Fraud’
This book explores George Orwell’s journey to dystopia, examining the author of Nineteen Eighty-Four as a divided self. It presents a new understanding of his work by connecting his critiques of ‘force and fraud’ to the totalitarian tactics of Machiavelli.
This book explores George Orwell’s journey to dystopia, examining the author of Nineteen Eighty-Four as a divided self. It presents a new understanding of his work by connecting his critiques of ‘force and fraud’ to the totalitarian tactics of Machiavelli.
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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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Facing the Crises
Anglophone Literature in the Postmodern World
This collection of essays explores "crisis" in Anglo-American literature and culture. It analyzes our relationship to technology and the virtual, rethinks literary genres, and shows why humanist research is crucial for understanding the human condition.
This collection of essays explores “crisis” in Anglo-American literature and culture. It analyzes our relationship to technology and the virtual, rethinks literary genres, and shows why humanist research is crucial for understanding the human condition.
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Diasporic Identities and Empire
Cultural Contentions and Literary Landscapes
This volume explores diasporic identities and empire on a global scale. By moving beyond the search for an imperial ‘centre,’ contributions from scholars across four continents show how writing from the peripheries develops a new worldview.
This volume explores diasporic identities and empire on a global scale. By moving beyond the search for an imperial ‘centre,’ contributions from scholars across four continents show how writing from the peripheries develops a new worldview.
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This book argues "Romanticism" is a meaningless academic construct. Dr. Cochran then examines Byron's life and work, showing how his antithetical nature was an embarrassment for his social life, but a great benefit to his creativity.
This book argues “Romanticism” is a meaningless academic construct. Dr. Cochran then examines Byron’s life and work, showing how his antithetical nature was an embarrassment for his social life, but a great benefit to his creativity.
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Ex-changes
Comparative Studies in British and American Cultures
This collection of articles explores the transfer of ideas in British and American cultures. Analyzing cultural texts from fiction to film, these essays document shifting definitions of identity, gender, and nationality across various genres, media, and disciplines.
This collection of articles explores the transfer of ideas in British and American cultures. Analyzing cultural texts from fiction to film, these essays document shifting definitions of identity, gender, and nationality across various genres, media, and disciplines.
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Miracle Enough
Papers on the Works of Mervyn Peake
This is the first comparable collection of essays on Mervyn Peake ever published. Selected from an international conference, these papers by scholars and artists take a wide variety of approaches to his work—from the Gormenghast trilogy to his poetry and art.
This is the first comparable collection of essays on Mervyn Peake ever published. Selected from an international conference, these papers by scholars and artists take a wide variety of approaches to his work—from the Gormenghast trilogy to his poetry and art.
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Literature has always treated the sensational, but it is also intricately connected with sensation in ways that are less understood. This book offers detailed readings of literature according to the sensations they represent, incite, or evoke in us.
Literature has always treated the sensational, but it is also intricately connected with sensation in ways that are less understood. This book offers detailed readings of literature according to the sensations they represent, incite, or evoke in us.
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On Nabokov, Ayn Rand and the Libertarian Mind
What the Russian-American Odd Pair Can Tell Us about Some Values, Myths and Manias Widely Held Most Dear
Uniting the divergent worlds of Nabokov and Ayn Rand, this meditation explores libertarianism through the author's own conflicted relationship to the odd pair. A unique and charged look at the intersection of art and politics.
Uniting the divergent worlds of Nabokov and Ayn Rand, this meditation explores libertarianism through the author’s own conflicted relationship to the odd pair. A unique and charged look at the intersection of art and politics.
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This book discusses memory construction associated with war, genocide, and colonialism. It offers an interdisciplinary examination of how conflict memories reshape history and identity, destabilizing fixed meanings and clarifying our invisible bonds to the past.
This book discusses memory construction associated with war, genocide, and colonialism. It offers an interdisciplinary examination of how conflict memories reshape history and identity, destabilizing fixed meanings and clarifying our invisible bonds to the past.
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Peripheral Transmodernities
South-to-South Intercultural Dialogues between the Luso-Hispanic World and “the Orient”
This collection of essays explores the critical dialogue between the Hispanic/Latino world and Asian and Arab cultures. Bypassing old colonial centers, these South-to-South dialogues provide vivid examples of de-colonizing impetus and cultural resistance.
This collection of essays explores the critical dialogue between the Hispanic/Latino world and Asian and Arab cultures. Bypassing old colonial centers, these South-to-South dialogues provide vivid examples of de-colonizing impetus and cultural resistance.
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Women Editing/Editing Women
Early Modern Women Writers and the New Textualism
This collection applies “the new textualism” to early modern women writers. Fusing seminal essays with original research, it offers a solution to editing authors with little biographical data by focusing on the material history of the text itself.
This collection applies “the new textualism” to early modern women writers. Fusing seminal essays with original research, it offers a solution to editing authors with little biographical data by focusing on the material history of the text itself.
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Refashioning Myth
Poetic Transformations and Metamorphoses
Mythology has been a field richly mined by poets and artists from antiquity to the present day. This volume presents a diverse collection of analytical and creative works by scholars, poets and visual artists exploring the prolific dialogue between myth and poetry.
Mythology has been a field richly mined by poets and artists from antiquity to the present day. This volume presents a diverse collection of analytical and creative works by scholars, poets and visual artists exploring the prolific dialogue between myth and poetry.
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Identity Issues
Literary and Linguistic Landscapes
A collection of essays exploring the complex phenomenon of identity from diverse angles. Literary explorations discuss class, race, and nation in contemporary literature, while linguistic studies draw on insights from sociology, psychology, and cognitive linguistics.
A collection of essays exploring the complex phenomenon of identity from diverse angles. Literary explorations discuss class, race, and nation in contemporary literature, while linguistic studies draw on insights from sociology, psychology, and cognitive linguistics.
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Constructing Identities
The Interaction of National, Gender and Racial Borders
Border studies examines the conflicts and resolutions that occur when groups come into contact. This peer-reviewed selection of papers focuses on historical, national, gender, and racial borders, and their implications in the construction of an identity.
Border studies examines the conflicts and resolutions that occur when groups come into contact. This peer-reviewed selection of papers focuses on historical, national, gender, and racial borders, and their implications in the construction of an identity.
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This collection of essays contributes to Potter Studies, examining Rowling's work as a literary and cultural phenomenon. International scholars explore the books' popularity, their effects on readers, film adaptations, and philosophical considerations of good and evil.
This collection of essays contributes to Potter Studies, examining Rowling’s work as a literary and cultural phenomenon. International scholars explore the books’ popularity, their effects on readers, film adaptations, and philosophical considerations of good and evil.
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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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Following the advent of the printing press, Italian humanist Latin texts spread across Europe. This study is the first comprehensive account of their dissemination and impact on the Renaissance curriculum and the rising national literary traditions of the period.
Following the advent of the printing press, Italian humanist Latin texts spread across Europe. This study is the first comprehensive account of their dissemination and impact on the Renaissance curriculum and the rising national literary traditions of the period.
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Aller(s)-Retour(s)
Nineteenth-Century France in Motion
The nineteenth century was an age of movement. This volume explores the political, artistic, and social shifts that defined France as a society in perpetual motion, confronting its own extremes of progress and renewal, stagnancy and regression.
The nineteenth century was an age of movement. This volume explores the political, artistic, and social shifts that defined France as a society in perpetual motion, confronting its own extremes of progress and renewal, stagnancy and regression.
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A Window on the Italian Female Modernist Subjectivity
From Neera to Laura Curino
These essays explore how women at the forefront of Italian modernity—in literature, photography, and theatre—redefined the self amid societal change, aiming to define a female Italian Modernism complementary to its male counterpart.
These essays explore how women at the forefront of Italian modernity—in literature, photography, and theatre—redefined the self amid societal change, aiming to define a female Italian Modernism complementary to its male counterpart.
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