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Selected Poems
From Modernism to Now
Selected poems are reader-friendly, but who decides what’s included? The essays in this volume address this question, offering an overview of poetic writing from the modernists to today and new insight into how these slimmer volumes are produced.
Selected poems are reader-friendly, but who decides what’s included? The essays in this volume address this question, offering an overview of poetic writing from the modernists to today and new insight into how these slimmer volumes are produced.
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This collection of essays by international scholars explores Henry James's use of duplicity—a key strategy in his arsenal of ambiguity. The essays examine duplicitous characters, subtexts, and self-representation in his fiction and non-fiction.
This collection of essays by international scholars explores Henry James’s use of duplicity—a key strategy in his arsenal of ambiguity. The essays examine duplicitous characters, subtexts, and self-representation in his fiction and non-fiction.
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C. S. Lewis and the Inklings
Discovering Hidden Truth
This volume offers essays on hiddenness and discovery in the works of the Inklings: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Owen Barfield, along with their influences G. K. Chesterton and George MacDonald. Explore their collaboration, linguistics, and more.
This volume offers essays on hiddenness and discovery in the works of the Inklings: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Owen Barfield, along with their influences G. K. Chesterton and George MacDonald. Explore their collaboration, linguistics, and more.
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Tracing Henry James brings together 28 essays by established and newer scholars from eight countries. This diverse collection explores James’s shorter and longer fiction, his travel essays, criticism, and letters.
Tracing Henry James brings together 28 essays by established and newer scholars from eight countries. This diverse collection explores James’s shorter and longer fiction, his travel essays, criticism, and letters.
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Southern Horrors
Northern Visions of the Mediterranean World
This book explores the Mediterranean's dark side through the eyes of Northern Europeans. Over four centuries, travellers saw not a sun-drenched ideal, but a world of cruelty, poverty, and superstition, telling us more about their own prejudices than the South.
This book explores the Mediterranean’s dark side through the eyes of Northern Europeans. Over four centuries, travellers saw not a sun-drenched ideal, but a world of cruelty, poverty, and superstition, telling us more about their own prejudices than the South.
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The Beauty of Convention
Essays in Literature and Culture
This volume explores the beauty of convention, viewing form as a keeper of meaning. It asks how conventions generate beauty and gain stability, examining literature, music, dance, and sculpture through diverse cultural and critical perspectives.
This volume explores the beauty of convention, viewing form as a keeper of meaning. It asks how conventions generate beauty and gain stability, examining literature, music, dance, and sculpture through diverse cultural and critical perspectives.
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Does literature merely reflect society, or does it create and transform reality? Is it a tool of social power, or a source of pleasure? The essays in this volume explore the complex relations between literature and society from diverse angles and eras.
Does literature merely reflect society, or does it create and transform reality? Is it a tool of social power, or a source of pleasure? The essays in this volume explore the complex relations between literature and society from diverse angles and eras.
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This is the first book of academic criticism on the connection between Christianity and the detective story. It covers Chesterton, Sayers, and contemporary TV crime dramas, making the case that mystery writing provides both entertainment and religious insight.
This is the first book of academic criticism on the connection between Christianity and the detective story. It covers Chesterton, Sayers, and contemporary TV crime dramas, making the case that mystery writing provides both entertainment and religious insight.
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Ethics and Poetics
Ethical Recognitions and Social Reconfigurations in Modern Narratives
This book explores the ethics of fiction, showing how literariness itself generates ethical communication. Authors investigate how modern narratives refine our understanding of recognition, disclosing how the reading experience can regenerate real social spaces.
This book explores the ethics of fiction, showing how literariness itself generates ethical communication. Authors investigate how modern narratives refine our understanding of recognition, disclosing how the reading experience can regenerate real social spaces.
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Metropolis and Experience
Defoe, Dickens, Joyce
Reading Defoe, Dickens, and Joyce through Benjamin’s concepts of experience (Erlebnis and Erfahrung), this book traces the novel's critique of urban modernity from Defoe's narration of lived experience to Joyce's exuberant, joyous excess.
Reading Defoe, Dickens, and Joyce through Benjamin’s concepts of experience (Erlebnis and Erfahrung), this book traces the novel’s critique of urban modernity from Defoe’s narration of lived experience to Joyce’s exuberant, joyous excess.
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A new approach to culture relates personality to the genesis of myths and religions. Cultures, like man, pass through phases from childhood to old age. From sacred tales to modern myths like Superman, these stories provide meaning and motivation for human behavior.
A new approach to culture relates personality to the genesis of myths and religions. Cultures, like man, pass through phases from childhood to old age. From sacred tales to modern myths like Superman, these stories provide meaning and motivation for human behavior.
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Edward Thomas
A Mirror of England
Killed in WWI, Edward Thomas wrote his essential poems in just two years. This timely reappraisal surveys his entire achievement in verse and prose, challenging common views and revealing a complex poet for a new generation.
Killed in WWI, Edward Thomas wrote his essential poems in just two years. This timely reappraisal surveys his entire achievement in verse and prose, challenging common views and revealing a complex poet for a new generation.
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Inhabited by Stories
Critical Essays on Tales Retold
This book offers an alternative to intertextuality as influence and appropriation. Grounded in the lived experience of reading, it focuses on the expansion of experience created by telling and retelling stories, which inhabit us and enrich our responses.
This book offers an alternative to intertextuality as influence and appropriation. Grounded in the lived experience of reading, it focuses on the expansion of experience created by telling and retelling stories, which inhabit us and enrich our responses.
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The Farmer’s Boy by Robert Bloomfield
A Parallel Text Edition
Robert Bloomfield’s bestselling poem, The Farmer’s Boy, was a polished rewrite that erased the author's Suffolk voice. This edition reveals his true intentions for the first time, printing his original manuscript alongside the published version.
Robert Bloomfield’s bestselling poem, The Farmer’s Boy, was a polished rewrite that erased the author’s Suffolk voice. This edition reveals his true intentions for the first time, printing his original manuscript alongside the published version.
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Faulkner at Fifty
Tutors and Tyros
This collection focuses on teaching Faulkner and shows how he used other writers to shape his craft. It brings together new ways of reading his works, transforming his fiction into new meanings for the twenty-first century. A tribute to pioneers in Faulkner studies.
This collection focuses on teaching Faulkner and shows how he used other writers to shape his craft. It brings together new ways of reading his works, transforming his fiction into new meanings for the twenty-first century. A tribute to pioneers in Faulkner studies.
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Reading the Fantastic Imagination
The Avatars of a Literary Genre
This volume investigates the fantastic imagination and its hybrid nature as a postmodern form. Continuing a project on popular genres, this collection of studies confronts the paradox of trendy 'lowbrow' fiction being studied by canonical scholars.
This volume investigates the fantastic imagination and its hybrid nature as a postmodern form. Continuing a project on popular genres, this collection of studies confronts the paradox of trendy ‘lowbrow’ fiction being studied by canonical scholars.
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You are What You Eat
Literary Probes into the Palate
This collection offers tantalizing essays on the culture of food in literature. Exploring works by authors from John Milton to J.K. Rowling, it covers topics from feminist theory to film, appealing to students, food enthusiasts, and scholars alike.
This collection offers tantalizing essays on the culture of food in literature. Exploring works by authors from John Milton to J.K. Rowling, it covers topics from feminist theory to film, appealing to students, food enthusiasts, and scholars alike.
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Displaced Women
Multilingual Narratives of Migration in Europe
These interdisciplinary essays explore women’s narratives of displacement, transcending the idea of ‘national identity’. The contributors compel us to rethink ‘mother tongue’ and linguistic ownership, and ask how women express their ‘permanent strangeness’.
These interdisciplinary essays explore women’s narratives of displacement, transcending the idea of ‘national identity’. The contributors compel us to rethink ‘mother tongue’ and linguistic ownership, and ask how women express their ‘permanent strangeness’.
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Royalists, Radicals, and les Misérables
France in 1832
In 1832, a royalist uprising, a cholera epidemic, and the June Revolution immortalized in Les Misérables rocked France. This collection is the first to examine these pivotal events together, revealing an overlooked year in the transition to a republic.
In 1832, a royalist uprising, a cholera epidemic, and the June Revolution immortalized in Les Misérables rocked France. This collection is the first to examine these pivotal events together, revealing an overlooked year in the transition to a republic.
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The Failed Text
Literature and Failure
The history of literature is not merely a succession of successful works, but also a concatenation of failed projects and unappreciated innovations. These essays explore exemplary failures, arguing that they are as crucial as successes in literary history.
The history of literature is not merely a succession of successful works, but also a concatenation of failed projects and unappreciated innovations. These essays explore exemplary failures, arguing that they are as crucial as successes in literary history.
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