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This collection revises subjectivity with postmodern theories, introducing a dynamic subjectivity to minority and colonial/postcolonial texts. Exploring intersubjectivity as a hybrid and flexible space, contributors discuss how different subjectivities negotiate and interrelate.
This collection revises subjectivity with postmodern theories, introducing a dynamic subjectivity to minority and colonial/postcolonial texts. Exploring intersubjectivity as a hybrid and flexible space, contributors discuss how different subjectivities negotiate and interrelate.
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The Edges of Trauma
Explorations in Visual Art and Literature
A collection of essays on visual art and literature that explores the cultural construction of trauma. Scholars offer new perspectives on historical traumas and canonical texts, examining how the non-experience of trauma finds its way into artistic representation.
A collection of essays on visual art and literature that explores the cultural construction of trauma. Scholars offer new perspectives on historical traumas and canonical texts, examining how the non-experience of trauma finds its way into artistic representation.
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Is the Theatre of the Absurd a viable option to express the horror of the post-9/11 era? This book reflects on the tradition's ongoing currency and its changing contours in the plays of American dramatist Rajiv Joseph, establishing its continued relevance today.
Is the Theatre of the Absurd a viable option to express the horror of the post-9/11 era? This book reflects on the tradition’s ongoing currency and its changing contours in the plays of American dramatist Rajiv Joseph, establishing its continued relevance today.
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The Emergence of Discourses and Cultural Hegemony
A Study of Edward W. Said’s Orientalism
Edward W. Said’s seminal text Orientalism disrupted how the Orient understands itself. This book focuses on his work, analyzing how the discourse of orientalism perpetrated the West's cultural hegemony and the internal hegemony within the non-western world.
Edward W. Said’s seminal text Orientalism disrupted how the Orient understands itself. This book focuses on his work, analyzing how the discourse of orientalism perpetrated the West’s cultural hegemony and the internal hegemony within the non-western world.
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The Empty Too
Language and Philosophy in the Works of Samuel Beckett
This controversial study argues that for Beckett, pure language is reality. While the world we perceive cannot be proved to exist, language survives to become the real. Beckett’s art is his philosophy, a thinking that surpasses the major philosophers.
This controversial study argues that for Beckett, pure language is reality. While the world we perceive cannot be proved to exist, language survives to become the real. Beckett’s art is his philosophy, a thinking that surpasses the major philosophers.
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The Epistemology of Utopia
Rhetoric, Theory and Imagination
Utopianism nurtures possibilities by critiquing and transforming the world. This volume provides critical revisions of the field through essays on topics ranging from Plato’s Republic and More’s Utopia to modern-day cosmopolitics and science.
Utopianism nurtures possibilities by critiquing and transforming the world. This volume provides critical revisions of the field through essays on topics ranging from Plato’s Republic and More’s Utopia to modern-day cosmopolitics and science.
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The Essays of Chitta Ranjan Das on Literature, Culture, and Society
On the Side of Life in Spite of
The essays of Chitta Ranjan Das present a different vision of the post-colonial imagination. This book offers radical new pathways, breaking conventional boundaries between the periphery and the centre, literature and life, and East and West.
The essays of Chitta Ranjan Das present a different vision of the post-colonial imagination. This book offers radical new pathways, breaking conventional boundaries between the periphery and the centre, literature and life, and East and West.
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Challenging the view that only realist texts are ethical, this volume argues that the parodic and self-conscious games of experimental fiction offer a powerful critique of received truths, practicing an ethics of alterity. It examines key British novels.
Challenging the view that only realist texts are ethical, this volume argues that the parodic and self-conscious games of experimental fiction offer a powerful critique of received truths, practicing an ethics of alterity. It examines key British novels.
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The Ethical Work of Literature in a Post-Humanist World
Don DeLillo, Arendt and Badiou
This title examines the contention that, in an era where the relevance of the literary novel is compromised, the novel remains an important means of exploring and interrogating societies and culture. It does this through readings of a selection of Don DeLillo’s later novels.
This title examines the contention that, in an era where the relevance of the literary novel is compromised, the novel remains an important means of exploring and interrogating societies and culture. It does this through readings of a selection of Don DeLillo’s later novels.
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The Everyday
Experiences, Concepts, and Narratives
This inter-disciplinary book explores the slippery notion of ‘Everyday Life’. With contributions from fields like art history, cultural studies, and anthropology, it provides a unique space for exploring how everyday life intersects with key debates.
This inter-disciplinary book explores the slippery notion of ‘Everyday Life’. With contributions from fields like art history, cultural studies, and anthropology, it provides a unique space for exploring how everyday life intersects with key debates.
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The Everyday Fantasic
Essays on Science Fiction and Human Being
The Everyday Fantastic is a collection of essays born from a love for science fiction. Writers from the humanities, social sciences, and sciences view the genre beyond mere entertainment, engaging the fundamental questions explored in its myriad forms.
The Everyday Fantastic is a collection of essays born from a love for science fiction. Writers from the humanities, social sciences, and sciences view the genre beyond mere entertainment, engaging the fundamental questions explored in its myriad forms.
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The Evil, the Fated, the Biblical
The Latent Metaphysics of Cormac McCarthy
This book offers an existentialist theological approach to Cormac McCarthy's novels, focusing on the drama of evil and violence omnipresent in his work. It provides a complete picture of McCarthy’s contest with one of humanity's most troublesome issues.
This book offers an existentialist theological approach to Cormac McCarthy’s novels, focusing on the drama of evil and violence omnipresent in his work. It provides a complete picture of McCarthy’s contest with one of humanity’s most troublesome issues.
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This book offers a biopolitical analysis of the Harry Potter series. Applying the theories of Foucault, Hardt, and Negri, it reveals how the fantasy world both perpetuates power inequalities and provides a dissident perspective on power relations.
This book offers a biopolitical analysis of the Harry Potter series. Applying the theories of Foucault, Hardt, and Negri, it reveals how the fantasy world both perpetuates power inequalities and provides a dissident perspective on power relations.
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Has 20th-century theory failed us? In a world of resurgent bigotry, this book seeks new phenomenological ways to understand the Other.
Has 20th-century theory failed us? In a world of resurgent bigotry, this book seeks new phenomenological ways to understand the Other.
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The Failed Text
Literature and Failure
The history of literature is not merely a succession of successful works, but also a concatenation of failed projects and unappreciated innovations. These essays explore exemplary failures, arguing that they are as crucial as successes in literary history.
The history of literature is not merely a succession of successful works, but also a concatenation of failed projects and unappreciated innovations. These essays explore exemplary failures, arguing that they are as crucial as successes in literary history.
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The Failure of Augustus
Essays on the Interpretation of a Paradox
Though he had a proud and clear aim, in the end, Augustus was defeated by his own persistence. Using contemporaneous sources and Augustus’ own words, Judge’s study explores this downfall. It also argues for the primacy of original sources in historical interpretation.
Though he had a proud and clear aim, in the end, Augustus was defeated by his own persistence. Using contemporaneous sources and Augustus’ own words, Judge’s study explores this downfall. It also argues for the primacy of original sources in historical interpretation.
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Richard Dadd is a trickster, an Elizabethan Puck in a Victorian insane asylum. His existence foreshadows the inexplicable labyrinths of contemporary existence, entering the fragmented shards of today’s world long before the artists who would try to map it.
Richard Dadd is a trickster, an Elizabethan Puck in a Victorian insane asylum. His existence foreshadows the inexplicable labyrinths of contemporary existence, entering the fragmented shards of today’s world long before the artists who would try to map it.
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The Fairy-Tale Vanguard
Literary Self-Consciousness in a Marvelous Genre
The fairy tale has long been a laboratory for authors to experiment with literary boundaries. This essay collection adopts a historical approach, offering case studies on English, French, German, and other texts from the 17th to 21st century by authors like Andersen and Coover.
The fairy tale has long been a laboratory for authors to experiment with literary boundaries. This essay collection adopts a historical approach, offering case studies on English, French, German, and other texts from the 17th to 21st century by authors like Andersen and Coover.
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The Familiar Essay, Romantic Affect and Metropolitan Culture
The Sweet Security of Streets
Through close readings of texts by Lamb, De Quincey and Poe, among others, Hull argues that the familiar essay in the Romantic period embodies a quintessentially metropolitan mode of affect, and that its generic traits predispose it to the expression of a detached state of mind.
Through close readings of texts by Lamb, De Quincey and Poe, among others, Hull argues that the familiar essay in the Romantic period embodies a quintessentially metropolitan mode of affect, and that its generic traits predispose it to the expression of a detached state of mind.
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The Famished Road
Ben Okri’s Imaginary Homelands
This volume offers a journey into Ben Okri’s The Famished Road. Contributors look beyond pre-conceived categories to embrace the otherness of the text, offering new ways of reading Okri’s prose and reliance on myth. Includes an exclusive interview with Ben Okri.
This volume offers a journey into Ben Okri’s The Famished Road. Contributors look beyond pre-conceived categories to embrace the otherness of the text, offering new ways of reading Okri’s prose and reliance on myth. Includes an exclusive interview with Ben Okri.
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