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Texts and Textiles
Affect, Synaesthesia and Metaphor in Fiction
This study illustrates how fiction that makes use of textiles as an essential element utilizes synaesthetic writing and metaphor to create an affective link to, and response in, the reader. These links and responses are assessed using affect theory and work on synaesthesia.
This study illustrates how fiction that makes use of textiles as an essential element utilizes synaesthetic writing and metaphor to create an affective link to, and response in, the reader. These links and responses are assessed using affect theory and work on synaesthesia.
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That Elusive Fountain of Wisdom
A Tale of the Human Thirst for Knowledge
In the university town of Leuven, Belgium, visiting scholars pursue their personal and academic objectives. What starts out as an academic sojourn becomes a life-changing experience as their paths cross and they learn about each other, themselves, and life itself.
In the university town of Leuven, Belgium, visiting scholars pursue their personal and academic objectives. What starts out as an academic sojourn becomes a life-changing experience as their paths cross and they learn about each other, themselves, and life itself.
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The Aesthetics of Failure
Inexpressibility in Samuel Beckett’s Fiction
This book explores the ethical aspects of Samuel Beckett’s aesthetics of failure through his connection to Maurice Blanchot and Emmanuel Levinas. It traces Beckett's 'unwording' to analyze how inexpressibility is bound with ethical responsibility.
This book explores the ethical aspects of Samuel Beckett’s aesthetics of failure through his connection to Maurice Blanchot and Emmanuel Levinas. It traces Beckett’s ‘unwording’ to analyze how inexpressibility is bound with ethical responsibility.
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This interdisciplinary collection of essays examines the persistence of African cultural traditions in the Americas. Scholars explore how people of the African diaspora used literature, music, dance, and religion to survive and resist colonialism and racism.
This interdisciplinary collection of essays examines the persistence of African cultural traditions in the Americas. Scholars explore how people of the African diaspora used literature, music, dance, and religion to survive and resist colonialism and racism.
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This study engages the Afropolitan debate through the literary flâneur—an aimless city wanderer. Analyzing texts set in African and global cities, it addresses issues of belonging and gestures towards new ways of understanding what it means to be an African in the world today.
This study engages the Afropolitan debate through the literary flâneur—an aimless city wanderer. Analyzing texts set in African and global cities, it addresses issues of belonging and gestures towards new ways of understanding what it means to be an African in the world today.
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The Afterlives of Narratives
Adaptation and Appropriation in British Theatre and Performance
This book analyzes how narratives are reinterpreted in British theatre. Discussing case studies from Shakespeare to Zadie Smith, this volume interrogates adaptation and appropriation, exploring the dialogic relationship between source texts and their contemporary reimaginings.
This book analyzes how narratives are reinterpreted in British theatre. Discussing case studies from Shakespeare to Zadie Smith, this volume interrogates adaptation and appropriation, exploring the dialogic relationship between source texts and their contemporary reimaginings.
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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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Adopting a sympathetic attitude towards the French plight during German occupation in the 1940s, Sangster examines the nature of de Gaulle’s myth-building, demonstrating that historical mythology is part of every country’s history when seeking its own redemption from the past.
Adopting a sympathetic attitude towards the French plight during German occupation in the 1940s, Sangster examines the nature of de Gaulle’s myth-building, demonstrating that historical mythology is part of every country’s history when seeking its own redemption from the past.
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This book explores the cultural field of poiesis—creativity in art, science, and philosophy. It connects the creative act to metaphysical spirituality and the sacred, revealing it as a synthesis of opposites like intuition and reason that is fundamental to human existence.
This book explores the cultural field of poiesis—creativity in art, science, and philosophy. It connects the creative act to metaphysical spirituality and the sacred, revealing it as a synthesis of opposites like intuition and reason that is fundamental to human existence.
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A pioneering comparative study of Halide Edib Adıvar and Lady Augusta Gregory. It explores how these female activists and anti-imperialists challenged British imperialism, using literature to shape their national identities despite their different cultural backgrounds.
A pioneering comparative study of Halide Edib Adıvar and Lady Augusta Gregory. It explores how these female activists and anti-imperialists challenged British imperialism, using literature to shape their national identities despite their different cultural backgrounds.
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The Aphorisms of Yi Deok-mu
Musings of a Grateful Reader
This volume brings together excerpts from Seongyuldang nongso and Imokgusimseo by the 18th-century scholar Yi Deok-mu. The thoughtful discourse presented here offers considerable comfort and joy to contemporary readers, in an age sadly dominated by a dog-eat-dog mentality.
This volume brings together excerpts from Seongyuldang nongso and Imokgusimseo by the 18th-century scholar Yi Deok-mu. The thoughtful discourse presented here offers considerable comfort and joy to contemporary readers, in an age sadly dominated by a dog-eat-dog mentality.
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The Apparelling of Truth
Literature and Literary Culture in the Reign of James VI; A Festschrift for Roderick J. Lyall
This collection of essays offers new perspectives on the literature and culture of the reign of James VI. Its emphasis is on the continuities in literary culture throughout his rule, extending beyond the court to regional and international contexts.
This collection of essays offers new perspectives on the literature and culture of the reign of James VI. Its emphasis is on the continuities in literary culture throughout his rule, extending beyond the court to regional and international contexts.
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The Art of Allusion in Chinese Poetry
Analysing the Works of Li Shangyin
This book explores the rhetorical function of allusion in Li Shangyin’s poems, formulating an English taxonomy for the practice in Chinese poetry. It challenges conventional gendered allegory, revealing how Li’s manipulation of history produces metaphorical and ambiguous effects.
This book explores the rhetorical function of allusion in Li Shangyin’s poems, formulating an English taxonomy for the practice in Chinese poetry. It challenges conventional gendered allegory, revealing how Li’s manipulation of history produces metaphorical and ambiguous effects.
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This book explores representation, transmission and circulation of memory, and how personal and collective memory shapes meanings, values, attitudes and identities. Its focus is on memory as malleable patterns and strategies that highlight the unity of memory and its diversity.
This book explores representation, transmission and circulation of memory, and how personal and collective memory shapes meanings, values, attitudes and identities. Its focus is on memory as malleable patterns and strategies that highlight the unity of memory and its diversity.
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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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The Beauty of Convention
Essays in Literature and Culture
This volume explores the beauty of convention, viewing form as a keeper of meaning. It asks how conventions generate beauty and gain stability, examining literature, music, dance, and sculpture through diverse cultural and critical perspectives.
This volume explores the beauty of convention, viewing form as a keeper of meaning. It asks how conventions generate beauty and gain stability, examining literature, music, dance, and sculpture through diverse cultural and critical perspectives.
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The Black Musketeer
Reevaluating Alexandre Dumas within the Francophone World
Alexandre Dumas, grandson of a slave, has become a symbol in France's debates on colonial history, race, and identity. This is the first major work to re-evaluate his life and legacy, providing new ways of interpreting his classics in a francophone context.
Alexandre Dumas, grandson of a slave, has become a symbol in France’s debates on colonial history, race, and identity. This is the first major work to re-evaluate his life and legacy, providing new ways of interpreting his classics in a francophone context.
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The Body of the Postmodernist Narrator
Between Violence and Artistry
This book reads postmodern fiction through the bodies of its narrators. Using Lacanian psychoanalysis and feminist theory, it explores trauma, murder, and desire, exposing the body as the site of repressed knowledge, resistance, and artistic resolution.
This book reads postmodern fiction through the bodies of its narrators. Using Lacanian psychoanalysis and feminist theory, it explores trauma, murder, and desire, exposing the body as the site of repressed knowledge, resistance, and artistic resolution.
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This collection explores intercultural and transcultural studies in Bosnia and Herzegovina, showcasing contributions from local scholars across medieval, modern, and postmodern eras. It strengthens transcultural exchanges and helps navigate cultural differences in today's world.
This collection explores intercultural and transcultural studies in Bosnia and Herzegovina, showcasing contributions from local scholars across medieval, modern, and postmodern eras. It strengthens transcultural exchanges and helps navigate cultural differences in today’s world.
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In The Canterbury Tales Revisited, diverse international scholars offer 21st-century interpretations. Articles cover new areas like Chaucer and Judaism, Queer studies, and feminism, with an insightful opening piece by eminent Medievalist David Matthews.
In The Canterbury Tales Revisited, diverse international scholars offer 21st-century interpretations. Articles cover new areas like Chaucer and Judaism, Queer studies, and feminism, with an insightful opening piece by eminent Medievalist David Matthews.
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