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One is Never Alone with a Rubber Duck
Douglas Adams’s Absurd Fictional Universe
Douglas Adams’s Hitchhiker Series is not merely light-hearted comedy, but is underpinned by philosophical ideas like Existentialism and absurdity. It investigates madness as subjective reality and uses aliens to satirise the human condition.
Douglas Adams’s Hitchhiker Series is not merely light-hearted comedy, but is underpinned by philosophical ideas like Existentialism and absurdity. It investigates madness as subjective reality and uses aliens to satirise the human condition.
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21st Century China
Views from Australia
China is Australia’s ‘life-blood’. Leading academics dissect this complex relationship—from politics and law to Confucianism and ‘green’ cuisine—offering fresh insights for our shared future.
China is Australia’s ‘life-blood’. Leading academics dissect this complex relationship—from politics and law to Confucianism and ‘green’ cuisine—offering fresh insights for our shared future.
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Byron’s Temperament
Essays in Body and Mind
This edited volume is the first to draw together dominant strains in critical thinking about Byron’s temperament and behaviour, using discourses and paradigms drawn from various disciplines, including literary studies, history of medicine, behaviourism, and cultural studies.
This edited volume is the first to draw together dominant strains in critical thinking about Byron’s temperament and behaviour, using discourses and paradigms drawn from various disciplines, including literary studies, history of medicine, behaviourism, and cultural studies.
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Margaret Storm Jameson
Writing in Dialogue
Storm Jameson’s writing mirrored the 20th century. This first collection of essays devoted to her work reassesses her pivotal role, analysing her engagement with war, fascism, and socialism, and reveals a sequence of unpublished letters.
Storm Jameson’s writing mirrored the 20th century. This first collection of essays devoted to her work reassesses her pivotal role, analysing her engagement with war, fascism, and socialism, and reveals a sequence of unpublished letters.
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Fortune and Fatality
Performing the Tragic in Early Modern France
Tragedy, from Corneille to Racine, has grounded the French literary canon. This book challenges conventional interpretations, exploring the philosophical, theatrical, and performative aspects of the tragic in sixteenth and seventeenth-century France.
Tragedy, from Corneille to Racine, has grounded the French literary canon. This book challenges conventional interpretations, exploring the philosophical, theatrical, and performative aspects of the tragic in sixteenth and seventeenth-century France.
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This interdisciplinary collection explores how early modern texts were appropriated by individuals and groups. Case studies show how a text's physical form impacts its readership, concluding that texts hold no fixed meaning but are interpreted by each reader.
This interdisciplinary collection explores how early modern texts were appropriated by individuals and groups. Case studies show how a text’s physical form impacts its readership, concluding that texts hold no fixed meaning but are interpreted by each reader.
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Imagining the Mexican Revolution
Versions and Visions in Literature and Visual Culture
In this original collection of essays, leading Mexicanists evaluate the cultural legacy of Mexico’s 1910 Revolution. These cutting-edge essays examine the literary and visual representations of this landmark event and the complexity of its aftermath.
In this original collection of essays, leading Mexicanists evaluate the cultural legacy of Mexico’s 1910 Revolution. These cutting-edge essays examine the literary and visual representations of this landmark event and the complexity of its aftermath.
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The Genesis of Genesis
The Mytho-Empiricism of Creation
The Genesis of Genesis compares creation myths of ancient Egypt, Greece, and Mesopotamia with the Judaic cosmogony of Genesis. It contrasts their deterministic mythologies with the unique Judaic reliance on the word as the creative agent.
The Genesis of Genesis compares creation myths of ancient Egypt, Greece, and Mesopotamia with the Judaic cosmogony of Genesis. It contrasts their deterministic mythologies with the unique Judaic reliance on the word as the creative agent.
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China Views Nine-Eleven
Essays in Transnational American Studies
In this collection of essays, scholars, mostly from China, address how Nine-Eleven affected the United States globally and at home. They discuss foreign policy, internal politics, and cultural repercussions, viewing the events in a much broader historical context.
In this collection of essays, scholars, mostly from China, address how Nine-Eleven affected the United States globally and at home. They discuss foreign policy, internal politics, and cultural repercussions, viewing the events in a much broader historical context.
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From twelve years of producing ancient plays for contemporary audiences, these translations of Sophocles and Euripides are accessible and speakable. They maintain the poetry of tragedy without being archaic, accompanied by essays on drama, irony, and emotion.
From twelve years of producing ancient plays for contemporary audiences, these translations of Sophocles and Euripides are accessible and speakable. They maintain the poetry of tragedy without being archaic, accompanied by essays on drama, irony, and emotion.
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Hermione's bag, Nanny McPhee's magic—all trace their lineage to Mary Poppins. The first book of its kind, this collection explores her vast legacy, tracing her iconic personality, teaching methods, and magical accessories through popular films, TV shows, and books.
Hermione’s bag, Nanny McPhee’s magic—all trace their lineage to Mary Poppins. The first book of its kind, this collection explores her vast legacy, tracing her iconic personality, teaching methods, and magical accessories through popular films, TV shows, and books.
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Ethical Aestheticism in the Early Works of Henry James
The Shadow of John Ruskin
This study reveals parallels between the aestheticism of Henry James and John Ruskin. Rather than placing James in a single category, it demonstrates how he interfused Romanticism and realism, drawing on German thought and French realism to establish his own aestheticism.
This study reveals parallels between the aestheticism of Henry James and John Ruskin. Rather than placing James in a single category, it demonstrates how he interfused Romanticism and realism, drawing on German thought and French realism to establish his own aestheticism.
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Dealing with modern issues in the field of English studies, this work evaluates traditionalism and contemporaneity and proposes new theoretical and critical paradigms. It focuses on the practical criticism and the study of particular linguistic, literary, and cultural phenomena.
Dealing with modern issues in the field of English studies, this work evaluates traditionalism and contemporaneity and proposes new theoretical and critical paradigms. It focuses on the practical criticism and the study of particular linguistic, literary, and cultural phenomena.
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Though resented, grief and grieving occupy a significant place in culture. Culture and the Rites/Rights of Grief offers an intellectual excursion into their imposing presence at the intersection of present-day literary, cultural and political phenomena.
Though resented, grief and grieving occupy a significant place in culture. Culture and the Rites/Rights of Grief offers an intellectual excursion into their imposing presence at the intersection of present-day literary, cultural and political phenomena.
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Following the recent ‘turn to religion’ that has been so important to English Studies in the 21st century, this monograph builds on many of the recent biographies of Shakespeare that have explored the playwright’s religious views, with a specific focus on his King Lear.
Following the recent ‘turn to religion’ that has been so important to English Studies in the 21st century, this monograph builds on many of the recent biographies of Shakespeare that have explored the playwright’s religious views, with a specific focus on his King Lear.
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Irish Studies in Britain
New Perspectives on History and Literature
These essays explore how religious and political identity shaped Irish experiences from the 17th to 20th centuries. The collection examines key historical events and literary responses, addressing themes of national identity, culture, and literary influence.
These essays explore how religious and political identity shaped Irish experiences from the 17th to 20th centuries. The collection examines key historical events and literary responses, addressing themes of national identity, culture, and literary influence.
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Home and Away
The Place of the Child Writer
The first contribution to literary juvenilia studies in the past decade, this volume theorises the current state of this field and exemplifies it in action, showing the importance of the familiar world of home and the territory of adulthood to the imaginations of young authors.
The first contribution to literary juvenilia studies in the past decade, this volume theorises the current state of this field and exemplifies it in action, showing the importance of the familiar world of home and the territory of adulthood to the imaginations of young authors.
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This book revisits images of the Balkans in twentieth-century travel writing, mirroring the region's turbulent changes. It explores divergent and often contradictory views on the region’s path to reconciling its unique heritage with a European identity.
This book revisits images of the Balkans in twentieth-century travel writing, mirroring the region’s turbulent changes. It explores divergent and often contradictory views on the region’s path to reconciling its unique heritage with a European identity.
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Beyond the Night
Creatures of Life, Death and the In-Between
From Beowulf to Buffy, this collection analyzes old and new creatures in popular culture. Beyond the Night offers insights into the monstrous, exploring their significance for society in relation to sexuality, gender, social change, and otherness.
From Beowulf to Buffy, this collection analyzes old and new creatures in popular culture. Beyond the Night offers insights into the monstrous, exploring their significance for society in relation to sexuality, gender, social change, and otherness.
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This volume analyzes research that oversteps disciplinary boundaries, exploring new fields and methodologies emerging in a globalized academic environment. It assesses theories on inter- and transdisciplinarity and measures their impact on literature and the humanities.
This volume analyzes research that oversteps disciplinary boundaries, exploring new fields and methodologies emerging in a globalized academic environment. It assesses theories on inter- and transdisciplinarity and measures their impact on literature and the humanities.
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