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Reconstructing Female Sexuality and Deconstructing Male Anxiety
Black Hole or Living Hall?
Challenging patriarchal narratives, this study explores the symbolism of female genitalia in literature and myth. It celebrates female procreational power, positioning the reproductive body as an enduring gateway between animate and inanimate realms—both alluring and repelling.
Challenging patriarchal narratives, this study explores the symbolism of female genitalia in literature and myth. It celebrates female procreational power, positioning the reproductive body as an enduring gateway between animate and inanimate realms—both alluring and repelling.
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This anthology gathers the insight, knowledge, and wisdom found in different manifestations of “resistance art” to further our understanding of the impact of resistance on contemporary life.
This anthology gathers the insight, knowledge, and wisdom found in different manifestations of “resistance art” to further our understanding of the impact of resistance on contemporary life.
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This book highlights how cultural encounters change our world and its reflection in literature. It emphasizes the rising importance of fostering cultural pluralism and global understanding, focusing on our perception of the Other in an era of globalization.
This book highlights how cultural encounters change our world and its reflection in literature. It emphasizes the rising importance of fostering cultural pluralism and global understanding, focusing on our perception of the Other in an era of globalization.
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Recovering History through Fact and Fiction
Forgotten Lives
This collection reclaims the histories of figures forgotten by time and offers fresh perspectives on those distorted by fame, including Mary Shelley, Judy Garland, and J.R.R. Tolkien. It provides a needed snapshot of new research on biography and its many variations.
This collection reclaims the histories of figures forgotten by time and offers fresh perspectives on those distorted by fame, including Mary Shelley, Judy Garland, and J.R.R. Tolkien. It provides a needed snapshot of new research on biography and its many variations.
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Recovery and Transgression
Memory in American Poetry
This collection is devoted to the ways in which poetic texts shape, and are shaped by, personal and collective memory. It looks at the techniques through which the past is recovered and repurposed in poetry, using poems by T.S. Eliot and Susan Howe, among others, as examples.
This collection is devoted to the ways in which poetic texts shape, and are shaped by, personal and collective memory. It looks at the techniques through which the past is recovered and repurposed in poetry, using poems by T.S. Eliot and Susan Howe, among others, as examples.
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This volume marks a shift in literary semiotics toward methodological pluralism. As the sharp lines of division between dominant approaches dissolve, contributors highlight the communicative functions and representational possibilities of literary texts.
This volume marks a shift in literary semiotics toward methodological pluralism. As the sharp lines of division between dominant approaches dissolve, contributors highlight the communicative functions and representational possibilities of literary texts.
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Twenty-first century crises demand a re-evaluation of modernism and postmodernism. This collection of essays by international scholars offers new perspectives on literature, film, art, and politics, navigating debates beyond the traditional dichotomy.
Twenty-first century crises demand a re-evaluation of modernism and postmodernism. This collection of essays by international scholars offers new perspectives on literature, film, art, and politics, navigating debates beyond the traditional dichotomy.
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Rediscovering French Science-Fiction in Literature, Film and Comics
From Cyrano to Barbarella
French science-fiction is as old as Cyrano de Bergerac’s trip to the moon and Jules Verne’s scientific adventures. This collection introduces its unique contributions to an English-speaking audience, exploring the genre's deep roots in literature, film, and graphic novels.
French science-fiction is as old as Cyrano de Bergerac’s trip to the moon and Jules Verne’s scientific adventures. This collection introduces its unique contributions to an English-speaking audience, exploring the genre’s deep roots in literature, film, and graphic novels.
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Rediscovering Women Writers of Wartime London
Shining a Spotlight onto the Blitzed City
This book shows the war-stricken city through the eyes of five women writers whose long-neglected novels vividly portray life in the Blitz. This new appraisal of their work highlights the social changes taking place, especially in the lives of women, in those turbulent times.
This book shows the war-stricken city through the eyes of five women writers whose long-neglected novels vividly portray life in the Blitz. This new appraisal of their work highlights the social changes taking place, especially in the lives of women, in those turbulent times.
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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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Reflecting 9/11
New Narratives in Literature, Television, Film and Theatre
This collection challenges the view that artistic responses to 9/11 are limited. It traces the emergence of a new paradigm for discussing these narratives as self-conscious interventions that ask crucial questions about how 9/11 is being historicized.
This collection challenges the view that artistic responses to 9/11 are limited. It traces the emergence of a new paradigm for discussing these narratives as self-conscious interventions that ask crucial questions about how 9/11 is being historicized.
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This collection of essays explores how scholars, critics, and artists have reflected upon and re-imagined Charles Dickens’s texts. It offers a vast array of interdisciplinary approaches—from gender studies to film—attesting to his global appeal.
This collection of essays explores how scholars, critics, and artists have reflected upon and re-imagined Charles Dickens’s texts. It offers a vast array of interdisciplinary approaches—from gender studies to film—attesting to his global appeal.
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Reflections on Ecotextuality from India
Greening Literature Anew
In response to the current ecological crisis, this collection of critical essays engages with the intricate relationship between literature and ecology. The volume unravels the premises and assumptions that sustain the modern world view and contemporary knowledge systems.
In response to the current ecological crisis, this collection of critical essays engages with the intricate relationship between literature and ecology. The volume unravels the premises and assumptions that sustain the modern world view and contemporary knowledge systems.
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Reflections on Poetry and the World
Walking along the Hudson
This collection brings together 40 years of essays by philosopher Emily Grosholz. She brings poetry into relation with ethics, politics, science, and imagination, admiring all the more the distinct wisdom of poetry. These essays show how poetry deepens our understanding of life.
This collection brings together 40 years of essays by philosopher Emily Grosholz. She brings poetry into relation with ethics, politics, science, and imagination, admiring all the more the distinct wisdom of poetry. These essays show how poetry deepens our understanding of life.
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Reflexive Poetics
A Critical Anthology
This anthology presents fifteen exemplary poets from Springfield, Illinois, and advances a critical method. We garner much from reading the justly famed alongside the lesser known in our midst, learning to appreciate great poetry relationally.
This anthology presents fifteen exemplary poets from Springfield, Illinois, and advances a critical method. We garner much from reading the justly famed alongside the lesser known in our midst, learning to appreciate great poetry relationally.
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Region, Nature, Frontiers
Proceedings from the 11th International Region and Nation Literature Association Conference
This collection of essays explores regional and national identities in literature from South Africa to the United States. Discussions include the American frontier, the relationship between non-fiction and place, and linguistic and postcolonial boundaries.
This collection of essays explores regional and national identities in literature from South Africa to the United States. Discussions include the American frontier, the relationship between non-fiction and place, and linguistic and postcolonial boundaries.
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Reimagining the War Memorial, Reinterpreting the Great War
The Formats of British Commemorative Fiction
This analysis of British war memorials in literature and film shows how they create diverse interpretations of the Great War, from the futility myth to the imperial sublime. At its heart is a core conflict: condemning a war while honouring the men who fought in it.
This analysis of British war memorials in literature and film shows how they create diverse interpretations of the Great War, from the futility myth to the imperial sublime. At its heart is a core conflict: condemning a war while honouring the men who fought in it.
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This book features accessible close readings of modern poetry's engagement with religious experience. It presents diverse modes of the poetic endeavor to capture the divine, exploring a spectrum of attitudes from Christian faith to the worship of nature as the Force of Life.
This book features accessible close readings of modern poetry’s engagement with religious experience. It presents diverse modes of the poetic endeavor to capture the divine, exploring a spectrum of attitudes from Christian faith to the worship of nature as the Force of Life.
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“History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.” (George Santayana) Remaking Literary History questions the past by exploring the links between literature and history through memory, trauma, and historical reinvention.
“History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.” (George Santayana)
Remaking Literary History questions the past by exploring the links between literature and history through memory, trauma, and historical reinvention.
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Renaissance Tales of Desire
Hermaphroditus and Salmacis, Theseus and Ariadne, Ceyx and Alcione
Three Ovidian tales from the 1560s, never re-edited since the sixteenth century, explore metamorphosis and desire. They may have influenced Marlowe and Shakespeare, refashioning Ovid’s stories and providing new perspectives on the original myths.
Three Ovidian tales from the 1560s, never re-edited since the sixteenth century, explore metamorphosis and desire. They may have influenced Marlowe and Shakespeare, refashioning Ovid’s stories and providing new perspectives on the original myths.
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