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ELT Revisited
Some Theoretical and Practical Perspectives
Comprising papers from a conference for Czech teachers of English, this collection discusses a variety of English as a Foreign Language-related topics, including insights on classroom practice. It is relevant to any context where English is taught as a foreign or second language.
Comprising papers from a conference for Czech teachers of English, this collection discusses a variety of English as a Foreign Language-related topics, including insights on classroom practice. It is relevant to any context where English is taught as a foreign or second language.
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This is the first woman’s travel narrative from late 19th-century colonial India. Krishnabhabini Das defied convention by writing about her life in England to educate fellow Indians on British culture, offering a rare female perspective on the colonial world.
This is the first woman’s travel narrative from late 19th-century colonial India. Krishnabhabini Das defied convention by writing about her life in England to educate fellow Indians on British culture, offering a rare female perspective on the colonial world.
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Colonial Psychosocial
Reading William Lane
With blistering rhetoric, William Lane mesmerised colonial Australia, playing on its fears of disease, deformity and invasion. This book follows his life—from dark cities to a failed utopia—to trace how he shaped a lasting legacy of exclusion.
With blistering rhetoric, William Lane mesmerised colonial Australia, playing on its fears of disease, deformity and invasion. This book follows his life—from dark cities to a failed utopia—to trace how he shaped a lasting legacy of exclusion.
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The Age of Dystopia
One Genre, Our Fears and Our Future
This book examines the recent popularity of the dystopian genre in literature and film, connecting contemporary manifestations of dystopia to cultural trends and the implications of technological and social changes for the individual and society as a whole.
This book examines the recent popularity of the dystopian genre in literature and film, connecting contemporary manifestations of dystopia to cultural trends and the implications of technological and social changes for the individual and society as a whole.
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Minding the Gap
Writing across Thresholds and Fault Lines
This edited volume discusses writing non–fiction, media and genre, and addresses elements of identity, culture and linguistics in fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction as contributors consider the gaps that exist between the self as writer, and as reader.
This edited volume discusses writing non–fiction, media and genre, and addresses elements of identity, culture and linguistics in fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction as contributors consider the gaps that exist between the self as writer, and as reader.
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Rhetoric in the Twenty-First Century
An Interactive Oxford Symposium
The result of a symposium held in Oxford to consider the most fruitful trajectories of rhetoric in the 21st century, this collection assesses the various possible futures of the ancient discipline of rhetoric as it responds vitally to the evolving contexts of the new millennium.
The result of a symposium held in Oxford to consider the most fruitful trajectories of rhetoric in the 21st century, this collection assesses the various possible futures of the ancient discipline of rhetoric as it responds vitally to the evolving contexts of the new millennium.
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Writers with roots in Africa navigate new terrains and racialized identities in Europe. Through vibrant literature, they redefine identity and imagine the contours of a diverse, inclusive Europe, reckoning with its colonial history and its legacy.
Writers with roots in Africa navigate new terrains and racialized identities in Europe. Through vibrant literature, they redefine identity and imagine the contours of a diverse, inclusive Europe, reckoning with its colonial history and its legacy.
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The Chinese Language Demystified explores the unique features of Mandarin Chinese. While discussing aspects that make it seem ‘mysterious,’ the book investigates how it is used by the Chinese people despite its lack of formal grammatical structure.
The Chinese Language Demystified explores the unique features of Mandarin Chinese. While discussing aspects that make it seem ‘mysterious,’ the book investigates how it is used by the Chinese people despite its lack of formal grammatical structure.
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This volume is centred around the idea that the aim of literature is to build bridges, and, as such, focuses on the moral purpose of literature and its tendency to overcome divisive forces, using examples from texts across various geographical and cultural borders.
This volume is centred around the idea that the aim of literature is to build bridges, and, as such, focuses on the moral purpose of literature and its tendency to overcome divisive forces, using examples from texts across various geographical and cultural borders.
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Victorian Murderesses
The Politics of Female Violence
Bulamur investigates the politics of female violence in four novels of the Victorian period, demonstrating how legal and even medical discourses endorsed Victorian domestic ideology and tackling the question of female agency.
Bulamur investigates the politics of female violence in four novels of the Victorian period, demonstrating how legal and even medical discourses endorsed Victorian domestic ideology and tackling the question of female agency.
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Contesting Categories, Remapping Boundaries
Literary Interventions by Tamil Dalits
This book traces the evolution of Tamil Dalit writing from the early twentieth century to the present and explores its impact on academia. It analyses the literary works of Tamil Dalits and explores how students respond to this literature in university curricula.
This book traces the evolution of Tamil Dalit writing from the early twentieth century to the present and explores its impact on academia. It analyses the literary works of Tamil Dalits and explores how students respond to this literature in university curricula.
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Literature and Politics
Pushing the World in Certain Directions
George Orwell argued writers want to change the world. This collection of new work by scholars explores political literature over the last century, from The Communist Manifesto to Oryx and Crake, showing its continuing ability to inform, enrage and engage.
George Orwell argued writers want to change the world. This collection of new work by scholars explores political literature over the last century, from The Communist Manifesto to Oryx and Crake, showing its continuing ability to inform, enrage and engage.
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Nobel Prize winner Heinrich Böll’s relationship with Ireland went far beyond his famous *Irish Journal*. This book charts his deep personal and literary connections, from his second home on Achill Island to his translations of Irish authors and the controversies he caused.
Nobel Prize winner Heinrich Böll’s relationship with Ireland went far beyond his famous *Irish Journal*. This book charts his deep personal and literary connections, from his second home on Achill Island to his translations of Irish authors and the controversies he caused.
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Ancient genres were contested, hybrid and ambiguous. This volume presents case studies on understandings of genre, examining well-known texts like Ovid and late-antique works from Rome and Greece to Gaza and Syria.
Ancient genres were contested, hybrid and ambiguous. This volume presents case studies on understandings of genre, examining well-known texts like Ovid and late-antique works from Rome and Greece to Gaza and Syria.
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Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte
His Life and Times
Bony was a “blacktracker” who became a police inspector and worked throughout Australia. For the first time, learn of the real Bony and the Aboriginal background to his cases. This biography displays the real spirit of Australia!
Bony was a “blacktracker” who became a police inspector and worked throughout Australia. For the first time, learn of the real Bony and the Aboriginal background to his cases. This biography displays the real spirit of Australia!
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Ghosts, Stories and Histories
Ghost Stories and Alternative Histories
This collection reflects on ghost stories from the seventeenth century to our ghosts in the machine. Analyzing the ghostly figure in narratives from Daniel Defoe to Toni Morrison's Beloved, it shows how spectral vocabulary is finding its place in cultural theory.
This collection reflects on ghost stories from the seventeenth century to our ghosts in the machine. Analyzing the ghostly figure in narratives from Daniel Defoe to Toni Morrison’s Beloved, it shows how spectral vocabulary is finding its place in cultural theory.
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Desire for Love
The Secret Longings of the Human Heart in D. H. Lawrence’s Works
This collection of essays uses a psychoanalytic approach to explore the secret longings of the human heart in D. H. Lawrence’s works. It analyses the desire for love and unconscious feelings, comparing Lawrence to Virginia Woolf and Pat Barker.
This collection of essays uses a psychoanalytic approach to explore the secret longings of the human heart in D. H. Lawrence’s works. It analyses the desire for love and unconscious feelings, comparing Lawrence to Virginia Woolf and Pat Barker.
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Rewriting/Reprising
Plural Intertextualities
These essays explore the poetics of rewriting—from homage to dissidence—revealing how second-degree literature and art can challenge and remake our cultural heritage.
These essays explore the poetics of rewriting—from homage to dissidence—revealing how second-degree literature and art can challenge and remake our cultural heritage.
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New essays on the Frankfurt School explore its dialogue with predecessors like Marx, its key debates, and its continuing significance in the postmodern age. Readers will find a lively debate on technology, “negative dialectics,” the Shoah, and political thought.
New essays on the Frankfurt School explore its dialogue with predecessors like Marx, its key debates, and its continuing significance in the postmodern age. Readers will find a lively debate on technology, “negative dialectics,” the Shoah, and political thought.
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Dickens and Italy
Little Dorrit and Pictures from Italy
Dickens's relationship with America has been amply studied, his no less important relationship to Italy much less so. His stay there represented ‘the turning-point of his career.’ This book focuses on his major Italian writings, Pictures from Italy and Little Dorrit.
Dickens’s relationship with America has been amply studied, his no less important relationship to Italy much less so. His stay there represented ‘the turning-point of his career.’ This book focuses on his major Italian writings, Pictures from Italy and Little Dorrit.
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