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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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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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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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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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Teresa de la Parra
A Literary Life
This is the first comprehensive study of Teresa de la Parra for English readers. It includes analyses of her novels and lectures, plus translations of her letters and stories, showcasing her as a model of Latin American women’s writing.
This is the first comprehensive study of Teresa de la Parra for English readers. It includes analyses of her novels and lectures, plus translations of her letters and stories, showcasing her as a model of Latin American women’s writing.
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Dino Buzzati and Anglo-American Culture
The Re-use of Visual and Narrative Texts in his Fantastic Fiction
This book investigates Dino Buzzati’s relationship with Anglo-American culture, showing that he was an original reworker of literary motifs. It offers new insights into his fiction’s playful side and reassesses him as a master of fantastic literature.
This book investigates Dino Buzzati’s relationship with Anglo-American culture, showing that he was an original reworker of literary motifs. It offers new insights into his fiction’s playful side and reassesses him as a master of fantastic literature.
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“Don’t Disturb my Masterpiece!”
Towards an Ecology of Learning
This book explores a humanistic philosophy of learning where rational inquiry, emotions, and morality form a continuum. It proposes a holistic model that values learners' genuine struggle to realize their humane masterpieces.
This book explores a humanistic philosophy of learning where rational inquiry, emotions, and morality form a continuum. It proposes a holistic model that values learners’ genuine struggle to realize their humane masterpieces.
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This title covers literature from the beginning of the Jacobean period to the end of the Victorian era. Centring on the city of London, it explores different aspects of the interaction of literature and place, covering works by major figures within this time period.
This title covers literature from the beginning of the Jacobean period to the end of the Victorian era. Centring on the city of London, it explores different aspects of the interaction of literature and place, covering works by major figures within this time period.
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Animal Narratives and Culture
Vulnerable Realism
Barcz’s monograph explains how realism is a narration that tests nonhuman vulnerable experience. The first part gives examples of realism’s redefinition in trauma studies, the second probes what is added to the narrative by literature, and the third analyses cultural texts.
Barcz’s monograph explains how realism is a narration that tests nonhuman vulnerable experience. The first part gives examples of realism’s redefinition in trauma studies, the second probes what is added to the narrative by literature, and the third analyses cultural texts.
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This is the first book to explore color history in Asia. Color is a language of signals, associated with changes in society, economic development, and dynasties. A valuable resource for practitioners of art and design, it offers a new perspective on Chinese aesthetics.
This is the first book to explore color history in Asia. Color is a language of signals, associated with changes in society, economic development, and dynasties. A valuable resource for practitioners of art and design, it offers a new perspective on Chinese aesthetics.
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Understanding Mīmāṃsā
Perspectives and Approaches
This text explains the extended meaning known as Vakyartha according to the Prabhakara school of Purva Mimamsa, the ancient Indian theory of meaning. It discusses Expectation, Merit and Juxtaposition, recognised as the causes of deriving the meanings of words and sentences.
This text explains the extended meaning known as Vakyartha according to the Prabhakara school of Purva Mimamsa, the ancient Indian theory of meaning. It discusses Expectation, Merit and Juxtaposition, recognised as the causes of deriving the meanings of words and sentences.
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Disquiet on the Western Front
World War II and Postmodern Fiction
Using close readings of iconic literary texts, this groundbreaking study looks at the evolution of the war novel, tracing the movement from the modernist novel that followed World War I to the postmodernist novel that followed World War II.
Using close readings of iconic literary texts, this groundbreaking study looks at the evolution of the war novel, tracing the movement from the modernist novel that followed World War I to the postmodernist novel that followed World War II.
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This book’s study of the love letters and romantic novels of the Napoleonic coterie reveals the emerging political landscape of the Napoleonic war period through extended metaphors of love and patriotism. It describes how these letters were largely framed by concepts of love.
This book’s study of the love letters and romantic novels of the Napoleonic coterie reveals the emerging political landscape of the Napoleonic war period through extended metaphors of love and patriotism. It describes how these letters were largely framed by concepts of love.
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Caraivan examines issues central to the South African writer’s works, including annihilating racial oppression and the racism-led psychological alienation. She also focuses on literary topics specific to Gordimer’s post-Apartheid writings.
Caraivan examines issues central to the South African writer’s works, including annihilating racial oppression and the racism-led psychological alienation. She also focuses on literary topics specific to Gordimer’s post-Apartheid writings.
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The Poetics of Uncontrollability in Keats’s Endymion
Language Theory and Romantic Periodicals
Anselmo reconstructs the linguistic context of the 18th and early-19th centuries to explain the reviewers’ unease regarding Endymion. She shows that 18th-century prescriptivism arose from an anxiety of language and the desire to control language informed Romantic criticism.
Anselmo reconstructs the linguistic context of the 18th and early-19th centuries to explain the reviewers’ unease regarding Endymion. She shows that 18th-century prescriptivism arose from an anxiety of language and the desire to control language informed Romantic criticism.
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This volume offers an approach to narratives in the 21st century, amid growing concern with the decreasing explanatory capacity of theoretical concepts and narrative configurations. It provides cutting-edge research from a variety of disciplines, including the social sciences.
This volume offers an approach to narratives in the 21st century, amid growing concern with the decreasing explanatory capacity of theoretical concepts and narrative configurations. It provides cutting-edge research from a variety of disciplines, including the social sciences.
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Addressing the question “what’s in a balcony scene?”, this book discusses its representation in a number of adaptions of Romeo and Juliet. It shows that there are several fresh angles from which to look at the topic, which, in turn, provide unique insights into the balcony scene.
Addressing the question “what’s in a balcony scene?”, this book discusses its representation in a number of adaptions of Romeo and Juliet. It shows that there are several fresh angles from which to look at the topic, which, in turn, provide unique insights into the balcony scene.
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Ecology and Literatures in English
Writing to Save the Planet
Writers hold out a mirror, arguing that hope lies in our connection to the real world. This book explores how literature, from Shakespeare to detective novels, reveals the fundamental idea that everything is connected, and that this awareness is the key to protecting the planet.
Writers hold out a mirror, arguing that hope lies in our connection to the real world. This book explores how literature, from Shakespeare to detective novels, reveals the fundamental idea that everything is connected, and that this awareness is the key to protecting the planet.
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This collection studies processes of creating voices of the past to analyze and to juxtapose, discussing the educational community viewed through feminist theory. It explores facets of language to focus on metaphorical grammatical constructions, specific with form and function.
This collection studies processes of creating voices of the past to analyze and to juxtapose, discussing the educational community viewed through feminist theory. It explores facets of language to focus on metaphorical grammatical constructions, specific with form and function.
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This monograph presents a survey and evaluation of Cavafy’s poetical work with an emphasis on his historical and didactic poems, examining the relationship between his writing and Aristotle’s Poetics for the first time.
This monograph presents a survey and evaluation of Cavafy’s poetical work with an emphasis on his historical and didactic poems, examining the relationship between his writing and Aristotle’s Poetics for the first time.
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