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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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States of Decadence
On the Aesthetics of Beauty, Decline and Transgression across Time and Space Volume 2
This two-part anthology focuses on the literary and cultural phenomenon of decadence, with particular attention given to literature from the end of the 1800s. It goes beyond literary studies too, drawing on a number of the tropes and themes of decadence in the arts and culture.
This two-part anthology focuses on the literary and cultural phenomenon of decadence, with particular attention given to literature from the end of the 1800s. It goes beyond literary studies too, drawing on a number of the tropes and themes of decadence in the arts and culture.
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States of Decadence
On the Aesthetics of Beauty, Decline and Transgression across Time and Space Volume 1
This two-part anthology focuses on the literary and cultural phenomenon of decadence, with particular attention given to literature from the end of the 1800s. It goes beyond literary studies too, drawing on a number of the tropes and themes of decadence in the arts and culture.
This two-part anthology focuses on the literary and cultural phenomenon of decadence, with particular attention given to literature from the end of the 1800s. It goes beyond literary studies too, drawing on a number of the tropes and themes of decadence in the arts and culture.
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Stephen King in the New Millennium
Gothic Mediations on New Writing Materialities
This exciting exploration of Stephen King’s digital writing maneuvers and electronic ventures on online platforms unravels the author’s latest writing techniques and justifies his unprecedented success in the new millennium, tracing his shifts from print to the digital.
This exciting exploration of Stephen King’s digital writing maneuvers and electronic ventures on online platforms unravels the author’s latest writing techniques and justifies his unprecedented success in the new millennium, tracing his shifts from print to the digital.
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Stirring Age
Scott, Byron and the Historical Romance
This original study explores two giants of 19th century literature, Scott and Byron, and their experimental genre-splicing. They sought to return history and romance to their native complementarity, using the historical to revive romance models.
This original study explores two giants of 19th century literature, Scott and Byron, and their experimental genre-splicing. They sought to return history and romance to their native complementarity, using the historical to revive romance models.
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Storm and Dissonance
L. M. Montgomery and Conflict
This collection of essays explores the darker side of L.M. Montgomery’s fiction and life writing. Her gentle landscapes and optimistic stories often contain undercurrents of anger, loss, and violence, providing new insights into her complex work.
This collection of essays explores the darker side of L.M. Montgomery’s fiction and life writing. Her gentle landscapes and optimistic stories often contain undercurrents of anger, loss, and violence, providing new insights into her complex work.
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Strategies of Remembrance
From Pindar to Hölderlin
This collection explores memory in the Middle Ages through literature, history, cognitive science, and philosophy, offering a variety of approaches to its connection with identity, the past, and immortality.
This collection explores memory in the Middle Ages through literature, history, cognitive science, and philosophy, offering a variety of approaches to its connection with identity, the past, and immortality.
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Stuart Hood’s year fighting with the Italian Resistance in WWII shaped his peacetime trajectory. This collection assesses the achievements of this broadcaster, media studies pioneer, translator, and novelist, showing how his life offers fresh insights into 20th-century history.
Stuart Hood’s year fighting with the Italian Resistance in WWII shaped his peacetime trajectory. This collection assesses the achievements of this broadcaster, media studies pioneer, translator, and novelist, showing how his life offers fresh insights into 20th-century history.
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Studies and Essays on Romance Literatures
A Labyrinth of Interpretations
This collection of essays is a journey into 20th-century masterpieces. From Pessoa to García Márquez, these studies re-read famous works of Romance literature to highlight their deep and hidden truths, metaphorically bridging the two sides of the Atlantic.
This collection of essays is a journey into 20th-century masterpieces. From Pessoa to García Márquez, these studies re-read famous works of Romance literature to highlight their deep and hidden truths, metaphorically bridging the two sides of the Atlantic.
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Representing a study of literary concern with ontology throughout the twentieth century, this title consists of ten essays, each of which focuses on one or various writers’ absorption with the nature of man and his ‘being in this world.’
Representing a study of literary concern with ontology throughout the twentieth century, this title consists of ten essays, each of which focuses on one or various writers’ absorption with the nature of man and his ‘being in this world.’
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Studies in Philology
Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies in Modern Languages
This volume offers a holistic view of Philology, showing the thin line that separates Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies. It is a miscellanea of studies on Modern Language research, focusing on Spanish, English and French.
This volume offers a holistic view of Philology, showing the thin line that separates Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies. It is a miscellanea of studies on Modern Language research, focusing on Spanish, English and French.
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This collection of essays explores the rhetoric of fiction, showing how authors from Fielding and Austen to Barnes and Ishiguro achieve their effects. It consists of readings that show rhetoric in action—an invitation to the reader to take part in the fun.
This collection of essays explores the rhetoric of fiction, showing how authors from Fielding and Austen to Barnes and Ishiguro achieve their effects. It consists of readings that show rhetoric in action—an invitation to the reader to take part in the fun.
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This volume’s ten studies analyze Victorian and Neo-Victorian novels. The authors investigate preserved or recycled Victorian themes and discuss how key issues like gender, sexuality, race, and empire are used to update the great tradition for a new age.
This volume’s ten studies analyze Victorian and Neo-Victorian novels. The authors investigate preserved or recycled Victorian themes and discuss how key issues like gender, sexuality, race, and empire are used to update the great tradition for a new age.
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Cultural Status, Genre and Critique
An incisive collection of essays exploring subversive texts, with readings of authors such as Kazuo Ishiguro, Neil Gaiman, and Philip Pullman, and filmmakers such as Terry Gilliam and Orson Welles.
An incisive collection of essays exploring subversive texts, with readings of authors such as Kazuo Ishiguro, Neil Gaiman, and Philip Pullman, and filmmakers such as Terry Gilliam and Orson Welles.
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Subaltern Vision
A Study in Postcolonial Indian English Text
This volume offers a stimulating collection of essays on literary representations of subaltern issues by Indian novelists such as Amitav Ghosh, Mahasweta Devi, Kiran Desai, and Rohinton Mistry. Essential reading on the gap between India’s haves and have-nots.
This volume offers a stimulating collection of essays on literary representations of subaltern issues by Indian novelists such as Amitav Ghosh, Mahasweta Devi, Kiran Desai, and Rohinton Mistry. Essential reading on the gap between India’s haves and have-nots.
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This book examines how Oscar Wilde’s plays subvert Victorian gender roles and moral codes. He creates a new perception of womanhood and manhood, unbound by the strict borders separating the proper from the improper, revealing a morally complex new world.
This book examines how Oscar Wilde’s plays subvert Victorian gender roles and moral codes. He creates a new perception of womanhood and manhood, unbound by the strict borders separating the proper from the improper, revealing a morally complex new world.
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Jamaican Poet Laureate Lorna Goodison's poetry uses Sufism to heal the trauma of the Middle Passage. This book examines how she applies Sufi ideals to a Caribbean context, showing how its message resonates with Jamaican-based religions and creates a new literary canon.
Jamaican Poet Laureate Lorna Goodison’s poetry uses Sufism to heal the trauma of the Middle Passage. This book examines how she applies Sufi ideals to a Caribbean context, showing how its message resonates with Jamaican-based religions and creates a new literary canon.
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Surfing the Waves of Identity
Asian Representations on the American Stage
Asian Americans have often been viewed as a monolithic group. This book traces the origins and impacts of racist stereotypes through a chronological study of dramatists' works, offering nuanced perspectives on the evolving portrayals of Asian Americans in U.S. culture.
Asian Americans have often been viewed as a monolithic group. This book traces the origins and impacts of racist stereotypes through a chronological study of dramatists’ works, offering nuanced perspectives on the evolving portrayals of Asian Americans in U.S. culture.
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Susan Glaspell
New Directions in Critical Inquiry
Pulitzer Prize-winner Susan Glaspell’s work engages with feminism, war, class, and law. Susan Glaspell: New Directions in Critical Inquiry brings scholarship up to date, featuring new essays from leading scholars on her art and thoughtful social commentary.
Pulitzer Prize-winner Susan Glaspell’s work engages with feminism, war, class, and law. Susan Glaspell: New Directions in Critical Inquiry brings scholarship up to date, featuring new essays from leading scholars on her art and thoughtful social commentary.
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Swiftian Inspirations
The Legacy of Jonathan Swift from the Enlightenment to the Age of Post-Truth
This book analyzes the legacy of Swiftian satire from the Enlightenment to the age of post-truth and Brexit. It explores truth, madness, film adaptations of Gulliver’s Travels, and the politics of language to reveal Swift's enduring relevance for today's world.
This book analyzes the legacy of Swiftian satire from the Enlightenment to the age of post-truth and Brexit. It explores truth, madness, film adaptations of Gulliver’s Travels, and the politics of language to reveal Swift’s enduring relevance for today’s world.
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