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In King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare explores political survival at court. This book offers a new perspective on monarchy by distinguishing authority from power, arguing that persuasion is essential to reinforcing royal rule and establishing the monarch.
In King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare explores political survival at court. This book offers a new perspective on monarchy by distinguishing authority from power, arguing that persuasion is essential to reinforcing royal rule and establishing the monarch.
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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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Rural Writing
Geographical Imaginary and Expression of a New Regionality
This anthology revisits rural areas and their representations in contemporary writing, in both popular and high culture, in order to draw a global landscape of current rural areas and new regionalities.
This anthology revisits rural areas and their representations in contemporary writing, in both popular and high culture, in order to draw a global landscape of current rural areas and new regionalities.
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This book is a literary journey through Salman Rushdie’s cross-pollinated gardens, where reading is a quest. It explores his sorcery with language, the dark season of the fatwa, the lush sensuality of his novels, and his Quichotte, a Don Quijote for the internet age.
This book is a literary journey through Salman Rushdie’s cross-pollinated gardens, where reading is a quest. It explores his sorcery with language, the dark season of the fatwa, the lush sensuality of his novels, and his Quichotte, a Don Quijote for the internet age.
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Ruskin in Perspective
Contemporary Essays
This vibrant collection of illustrated essays draws John Ruskin’s ideas together around perspective. Offering a new interdisciplinary approach, it examines his legacy and shows how Ruskin can still teach us to read and see.
This vibrant collection of illustrated essays draws John Ruskin’s ideas together around perspective. Offering a new interdisciplinary approach, it examines his legacy and shows how Ruskin can still teach us to read and see.
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S. R. Harnot’s short story collection, Cats Talk, explores life in Himachal Pradesh. Rooted in Pahari life, his stories hold universal appeal, delving into the joys, difficulties, social inequities, and transforming human relationships of contemporary India.
S. R. Harnot’s short story collection, Cats Talk, explores life in Himachal Pradesh. Rooted in Pahari life, his stories hold universal appeal, delving into the joys, difficulties, social inequities, and transforming human relationships of contemporary India.
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Sacred and Immoral
On the Writings of Chuck Palahniuk
This is the first scholarly anthology on Chuck Palahniuk’s work beyond Fight Club. It provides the most comprehensive resource to date, featuring new critical analyses, the most complete bibliographies, and a new interview with the author himself.
This is the first scholarly anthology on Chuck Palahniuk’s work beyond Fight Club. It provides the most comprehensive resource to date, featuring new critical analyses, the most complete bibliographies, and a new interview with the author himself.
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Sacred Space, Beloved City
Iris Murdoch’s London
Explore Iris Murdoch’s London. Essays and guided walks link her plots to real landmarks and routes, revealing how characters experience their surroundings. Illustrated with atmospheric sketches, the book includes a complete glossary of London places from her 26 novels.
Explore Iris Murdoch’s London. Essays and guided walks link her plots to real landmarks and routes, revealing how characters experience their surroundings. Illustrated with atmospheric sketches, the book includes a complete glossary of London places from her 26 novels.
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This overview of modern Arabic poetry is seen through its leading exponents: Salim Barakat, Mahmud Darwish, and Adunis. Unsurpassed translations reveal how Barakat’s poetry re-invents Kurdish culture, throwing new light on the output of his friend Mahmud Darwish.
This overview of modern Arabic poetry is seen through its leading exponents: Salim Barakat, Mahmud Darwish, and Adunis. Unsurpassed translations reveal how Barakat’s poetry re-invents Kurdish culture, throwing new light on the output of his friend Mahmud Darwish.
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Samuel Beckett and Europe
History, Culture, Tradition
This conference proceedings presents an international response to the question of what ‘Europe’ might mean for understandings of Samuel Beckett’s oeuvre. It examines this issue to reflect the ways in which Beckett’s work challenges and enlivens his status as a ‘European writer’.
This conference proceedings presents an international response to the question of what ‘Europe’ might mean for understandings of Samuel Beckett’s oeuvre. It examines this issue to reflect the ways in which Beckett’s work challenges and enlivens his status as a ‘European writer’.
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Examining the politics of cultural identity, sexuality in the post-independence era, and Ireland’s culture of incarceration, amongst other themes, this conference proceedings enriches understandings of the social, cultural, and political dimensions of Beckett’s work.
Examining the politics of cultural identity, sexuality in the post-independence era, and Ireland’s culture of incarceration, amongst other themes, this conference proceedings enriches understandings of the social, cultural, and political dimensions of Beckett’s work.
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Sanctified Subversives
Nuns in Early Modern English and Spanish Literature
Sierra illustrates how both English and Spanish Renaissance-era authors latched onto the figure of the nun as a way to evaluate the social construction of womanhood.
Sierra illustrates how both English and Spanish Renaissance-era authors latched onto the figure of the nun as a way to evaluate the social construction of womanhood.
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Schoolhouse Gothic
Haunted Hallways and Predatory Pedagogues in Late Twentieth-Century American Literature and Scholarship
The Schoolhouse Gothic draws on Gothic metaphors—curses of power inequities, schools as traps—to interrogate American education. It suggests something sinister lies behind the academy's benevolent exterior, producing paranoia, violence, and monstrosity.
The Schoolhouse Gothic draws on Gothic metaphors—curses of power inequities, schools as traps—to interrogate American education. It suggests something sinister lies behind the academy’s benevolent exterior, producing paranoia, violence, and monstrosity.
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Science and American Literature in the 20th and 21st Centuries
From Henry Adams to John Adams
This book explores the uneasy relationship between American literature and science. It examines how scientific discourse informs literary writing, from the history of science and neurosciences to the ethics of progress and the influence of digital technology.
This book explores the uneasy relationship between American literature and science. It examines how scientific discourse informs literary writing, from the history of science and neurosciences to the ethics of progress and the influence of digital technology.
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Featuring papers from the Science Fiction Symposia, this volume demonstrate the diversity and adaptability of science fiction as a tool for asking and answering impossible questions. It explores how it challenges boundaries, whether conceptual, literary or metaphorical.
Featuring papers from the Science Fiction Symposia, this volume demonstrate the diversity and adaptability of science fiction as a tool for asking and answering impossible questions. It explores how it challenges boundaries, whether conceptual, literary or metaphorical.
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Science, Fables and Chimeras
Cultural Encounters
Imagination, religion, and mythology have both helped and hindered scientific progress. This interdisciplinary book weaves together visual art, literature, and science to explore our fascination with potent symbols like dinosaurs, dragons, and the chimera.
Imagination, religion, and mythology have both helped and hindered scientific progress. This interdisciplinary book weaves together visual art, literature, and science to explore our fascination with potent symbols like dinosaurs, dragons, and the chimera.
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Science, Gender and History
The Fantastic in Mary Shelley and Margaret Atwood
This study offers fresh readings of Mary Shelley and Margaret Atwood, comparing Frankenstein and The Last Man with The Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake to reveal an ongoing critique of oppressive science, gender ideologies, and environmental ruin.
This study offers fresh readings of Mary Shelley and Margaret Atwood, comparing Frankenstein and The Last Man with The Handmaid’s Tale and Oryx and Crake to reveal an ongoing critique of oppressive science, gender ideologies, and environmental ruin.
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Second-Generation Romantic Poets’ Paradoxical Approach to Women
Libertarianism versus Patriarchy
This book examines the works of Byron, Shelley, and Keats, revealing their inconsistent attitudes towards women. Caught between their liberal views and the patriarchal norms of their age, their writing both reinforces and challenges traditional gender roles.
This book examines the works of Byron, Shelley, and Keats, revealing their inconsistent attitudes towards women. Caught between their liberal views and the patriarchal norms of their age, their writing both reinforces and challenges traditional gender roles.
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Secretis bene uiuere siluis
Studies in Latin Literature in Honour of Robert Maltby
Honoring Robert Maltby, this rich collection of scholarship covers Latin literature from Augustan times to the Renaissance. It offers fresh interpretations of texts, with special focus on the Corpus Tibullianum, etymology, and textual criticism. For classicists and beyond.
Honoring Robert Maltby, this rich collection of scholarship covers Latin literature from Augustan times to the Renaissance. It offers fresh interpretations of texts, with special focus on the Corpus Tibullianum, etymology, and textual criticism. For classicists and beyond.
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Seeking a Home for Poetry in a Nomadic World
Joseph Brodsky and Ágnes Lehóczky
This study explores the trespassing of linguistic borders through poets Joseph Brodsky and Ágnes Lehóczky. In their search for identity, these “nomadic” authors adopt English, confronting the fluid nature of language itself and forging new expressions for our future.
This study explores the trespassing of linguistic borders through poets Joseph Brodsky and Ágnes Lehóczky. In their search for identity, these “nomadic” authors adopt English, confronting the fluid nature of language itself and forging new expressions for our future.
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