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This book presents the garden, comparing historical and contemporary models across literature, art, architecture, and philosophy. These contexts form “the metaphor of the garden”: a space where the order of Nature complements our understanding of reality.
This book presents the garden, comparing historical and contemporary models across literature, art, architecture, and philosophy. These contexts form “the metaphor of the garden”: a space where the order of Nature complements our understanding of reality.
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Shakespeare Studies in Colonial Bengal
The Early Phase
This study explores Shakespeare in colonial Bengal, focusing on Hindu College. It highlights the pioneering teachers who accelerated the Bengal Renaissance and exposes distorted readings of Shakespeare, challenging reductive postcolonial theories.
This study explores Shakespeare in colonial Bengal, focusing on Hindu College. It highlights the pioneering teachers who accelerated the Bengal Renaissance and exposes distorted readings of Shakespeare, challenging reductive postcolonial theories.
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Inside Knowledge
(Un)doing Ways of Knowing in the Humanities
Can art produce knowledge? Is the body a medium for knowing? This collection of essays offers a fresh, interdisciplinary examination of how we know what we know in the humanities, challenging conventional methodologies through concrete case studies.
Can art produce knowledge? Is the body a medium for knowing? This collection of essays offers a fresh, interdisciplinary examination of how we know what we know in the humanities, challenging conventional methodologies through concrete case studies.
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The Fire Within
Desire in Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature
Hailed as the core of human identity, desire shapes our actions and dreams. This collection of essays explores how desire is portrayed in modern Italian literature, showing it to be the secret motor of the narrative in works of the last two centuries.
Hailed as the core of human identity, desire shapes our actions and dreams. This collection of essays explores how desire is portrayed in modern Italian literature, showing it to be the secret motor of the narrative in works of the last two centuries.
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Constructing the Literary Self
Race and Gender in Twentieth-Century Literature
This volume explores the quest for self-definition among previously excluded groups. Its thirteen essays by recognized scholars depict strategies of escaping oppression through the lens of race, gender, sexuality, assimilation, and the family.
This volume explores the quest for self-definition among previously excluded groups. Its thirteen essays by recognized scholars depict strategies of escaping oppression through the lens of race, gender, sexuality, assimilation, and the family.
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This volume of essays investigates the “European civilizing mission” through conflict. Centered on a controversial debate, contributors review colonial and postcolonial imperial conflicts to offer new perspectives on the British Empire.
This volume of essays investigates the “European civilizing mission” through conflict. Centered on a controversial debate, contributors review colonial and postcolonial imperial conflicts to offer new perspectives on the British Empire.
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This collection of essays questions the traditional supremacy of Chaucer while reaffirming his lasting impact. Scholars explore his influence on writers like Shakespeare, offer a modern assessment of the Wife of Bath, and discuss making Chaucer relevant today.
This collection of essays questions the traditional supremacy of Chaucer while reaffirming his lasting impact. Scholars explore his influence on writers like Shakespeare, offer a modern assessment of the Wife of Bath, and discuss making Chaucer relevant today.
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“Rapt in Secret Studies”
Emerging Shakespeares
Inspired by Prospero’s phrase “rapt in secret studies,” this collection of essays from emerging scholars imagines new pathways in Shakespeare Studies, exploring themes of obsession (“rapt”), spies and contagion (“secret”), and authorship (“study”).
Inspired by Prospero’s phrase “rapt in secret studies,” this collection of essays from emerging scholars imagines new pathways in Shakespeare Studies, exploring themes of obsession (“rapt”), spies and contagion (“secret”), and authorship (“study”).
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In and Out
Eccentricity in Britain
This book provides an overview of the critical history of eccentricity, a defining feature of the English character. It explores the eccentric’s paradoxical status as both outsider and insider, and the struggle to retain individuality against standardization.
This book provides an overview of the critical history of eccentricity, a defining feature of the English character. It explores the eccentric’s paradoxical status as both outsider and insider, and the struggle to retain individuality against standardization.
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Encountering Ephemera 1500-1800
Scholarship, Performance, Classroom
This collection redefines ephemera by challenging the opposition between the transitory and the enduring. Essays explore how materials from broadside ballads to performance reveal the dynamic unfixity of early modern and eighteenth-century cultural practices.
This collection redefines ephemera by challenging the opposition between the transitory and the enduring. Essays explore how materials from broadside ballads to performance reveal the dynamic unfixity of early modern and eighteenth-century cultural practices.
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Revolutionary Leaves
The Fiction of Mark Z. Danielewski
Hailed as the most exciting author in contemporary American literature, Mark Z. Danielewski's fiction is explored in Revolutionary Leaves. This collection of essays discusses his major works, House of Leaves and Only Revolutions, from a variety of perspectives.
Hailed as the most exciting author in contemporary American literature, Mark Z. Danielewski’s fiction is explored in Revolutionary Leaves. This collection of essays discusses his major works, House of Leaves and Only Revolutions, from a variety of perspectives.
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The Narcissism Conundrum
Mapping the Mindscape of Ernest Hemingway through an Enquiry into his Epistolary and Literary Corpus
This psycho-biographic analysis dissects Hemingway’s works and letters to reveal the man behind the glamorous persona. It unearths a tradition of narcissistic self-fictionalization, enabling aficionados to decipher the conundrum of his mystic persona.
This psycho-biographic analysis dissects Hemingway’s works and letters to reveal the man behind the glamorous persona. It unearths a tradition of narcissistic self-fictionalization, enabling aficionados to decipher the conundrum of his mystic persona.
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Balkans and Islam
Encounter, Transformation, Discontinuity, Continuity
This multidisciplinary volume offers a special approach to the evolution of Islam in the Balkans. Accessible to students, academics, and the general reader, it provides knowledge of the region’s past and present, with hope for an integrated future.
This multidisciplinary volume offers a special approach to the evolution of Islam in the Balkans. Accessible to students, academics, and the general reader, it provides knowledge of the region’s past and present, with hope for an integrated future.
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While early Twentieth Century London embraced Modernism, in Wales the opposite was true. This study traces the Welsh poets and novelists who found their master in William Wordsworth, illuminating an unexpected flare-up of Romanticism.
While early Twentieth Century London embraced Modernism, in Wales the opposite was true. This study traces the Welsh poets and novelists who found their master in William Wordsworth, illuminating an unexpected flare-up of Romanticism.
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Reclaiming Home, Remembering Motherhood, Rewriting History
African American and Afro-Caribbean Women’s Literature in the Twentieth Century
This collection of essays examines how African American and Afro-Caribbean women writers reclaim home, motherhood, and history. Through their female characters, they create more inclusive concepts of community, gender, and history.
This collection of essays examines how African American and Afro-Caribbean women writers reclaim home, motherhood, and history. Through their female characters, they create more inclusive concepts of community, gender, and history.
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Society Building
A China Model of Social Development
This volume presents research by non-Chinese scholars on "society building," an indigenous concept guiding China's social development. It tackles topics from infrastructure's social impact to soft power, offering a unique understanding of China today.
This volume presents research by non-Chinese scholars on “society building,” an indigenous concept guiding China’s social development. It tackles topics from infrastructure’s social impact to soft power, offering a unique understanding of China today.
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POCA 2007
Postgraduate Cypriot Archaeology Conference
This multidisciplinary collection of papers on the history and archaeology of Cyprus spans from the prehistoric to the medieval times. It is a significant contribution to archaeological research that will engage scholars and provide the groundwork for future ideas.
This multidisciplinary collection of papers on the history and archaeology of Cyprus spans from the prehistoric to the medieval times. It is a significant contribution to archaeological research that will engage scholars and provide the groundwork for future ideas.
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Protean Selves
First-Person Voices in Twenty-First-Century French and Francophone Narratives
What does it mean to write “I” in a world where technology and globalization have complicated notions of authenticity and selfhood? This collection of essays explores the intricate relations between language, self, and identity through the analysis of the first-person voice.
What does it mean to write “I” in a world where technology and globalization have complicated notions of authenticity and selfhood? This collection of essays explores the intricate relations between language, self, and identity through the analysis of the first-person voice.
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Grotesque Anatomies
Menippean Satire since the Renaissance
This study defines Menippean satire as a literary version of the grotesque. Through revisionist readings of canonical works from Pope’s Dunciad to Eliot’s The Waste Land, it changes our understanding of them and traces the form to the present day.
This study defines Menippean satire as a literary version of the grotesque. Through revisionist readings of canonical works from Pope’s Dunciad to Eliot’s The Waste Land, it changes our understanding of them and traces the form to the present day.
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Popular Appeal
Books and Films in Contemporary Youth Culture
In a world of urgent social change, young people are devouring fiction about identity and transition. This book examines how popular genres are being redefined to explore today's key questions about the environment, identity, and our place in a fragile world.
In a world of urgent social change, young people are devouring fiction about identity and transition. This book examines how popular genres are being redefined to explore today’s key questions about the environment, identity, and our place in a fragile world.
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