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This book analyzes madness in masterpieces of 19th and 20th-century Spanish literature. It explores how conceptions of madness intersect with love, religion, and politics in works by writers like Galdós, Unamuno, Pardo Bazán, and others.
This book analyzes madness in masterpieces of 19th and 20th-century Spanish literature. It explores how conceptions of madness intersect with love, religion, and politics in works by writers like Galdós, Unamuno, Pardo Bazán, and others.
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Out of Deadlock
Female Emancipation in Sara Paretsky’s V.I. Warshawski Novels, and her Influence on Contemporary Crime Fiction
Sara Paretsky’s V.I. Warshawski series revolutionized crime fiction with a feminist perspective, raising awareness of social concerns. This collection of academic essays explores her influence on female authors worldwide who adopt a similar stance.
Sara Paretsky’s V.I. Warshawski series revolutionized crime fiction with a feminist perspective, raising awareness of social concerns. This collection of academic essays explores her influence on female authors worldwide who adopt a similar stance.
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Ideological Battlegrounds – Constructions of Us and Them Before and After 9/11
Volume 2 Perspectives in Language
Focusing on language and discourse, this volume explores the construction of “Us” and “Them” in texts before and after 9/11. The book shows how language reflects the tragic event, bringing us closer to understanding its roots, consequences, and relevance today.
Focusing on language and discourse, this volume explores the construction of “Us” and “Them” in texts before and after 9/11. The book shows how language reflects the tragic event, bringing us closer to understanding its roots, consequences, and relevance today.
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Thus Burst Hippocrene
Studies in the Olympian Imagination
These daring essays connect literary titans from Homer and Dante to Shakespeare and Li Bo. The author’s rare multi-lingual approach uncovers startling new insights for scholars and curious readers alike.
These daring essays connect literary titans from Homer and Dante to Shakespeare and Li Bo. The author’s rare multi-lingual approach uncovers startling new insights for scholars and curious readers alike.
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Traditional Chinese Rites and Rituals provides an overview of important social practices. While explaining how these rites are performed, it also introduces the reasons why norms are followed, offering a kaleidoscopic perspective on Chinese culture.
Traditional Chinese Rites and Rituals provides an overview of important social practices. While explaining how these rites are performed, it also introduces the reasons why norms are followed, offering a kaleidoscopic perspective on Chinese culture.
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This collection of essays focuses on Anglo-American modernist fiction, considering it in the instances in which it transcends itself, moving towards postmodernist self-irony. It follows how these modernist authors’ perspectives on literature evolved with the changing world.
This collection of essays focuses on Anglo-American modernist fiction, considering it in the instances in which it transcends itself, moving towards postmodernist self-irony. It follows how these modernist authors’ perspectives on literature evolved with the changing world.
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Apocalyptic Projections
A Study of Past Predictions, Current Trends and Future Intimations as Related to Film and Literature
Apocalyptic Projections have been pondered since Biblical times. While the concept of apocalypse evokes images of total oblivion, threads of possibility and redemption offer a potential fabric of hope.
Apocalyptic Projections have been pondered since Biblical times. While the concept of apocalypse evokes images of total oblivion, threads of possibility and redemption offer a potential fabric of hope.
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Mathew presents six essays, each of which is an invitation to the reader to form an opinion on what care happens to be. Each chapter looks at care in a different setting, and a variety of psychoanalytic frameworks are employed on which to hang arguments.
Mathew presents six essays, each of which is an invitation to the reader to form an opinion on what care happens to be. Each chapter looks at care in a different setting, and a variety of psychoanalytic frameworks are employed on which to hang arguments.
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This book explores dystopian British views of Serbia as a travel destination from 1717 to 1911. Travel accounts depict a politically unstable region on the fringe of the Orient, demonising Serbia's national struggle while shedding light on its national awakening.
This book explores dystopian British views of Serbia as a travel destination from 1717 to 1911. Travel accounts depict a politically unstable region on the fringe of the Orient, demonising Serbia’s national struggle while shedding light on its national awakening.
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This Landscape’s Fierce Embrace
The Poetry of Francis Harvey
This book is a tribute to poet Francis Harvey. Admirers celebrate his work in a collection of essays, poems, and art exploring the Donegal landscape. Though critically acclaimed, this is the first book-length critical study of his achievement.
This book is a tribute to poet Francis Harvey. Admirers celebrate his work in a collection of essays, poems, and art exploring the Donegal landscape. Though critically acclaimed, this is the first book-length critical study of his achievement.
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Labels and Locations
Gender, Family, Class and Caste – The Short Narratives of South Asian Diaspora in Australia
This book critically examines identity, gender, family, and class in the short narratives of South Asian diaspora writers in Australia. By focusing on this much-neglected group, it fills a crucial gap in the broader critical rubric of diaspora studies.
This book critically examines identity, gender, family, and class in the short narratives of South Asian diaspora writers in Australia. By focusing on this much-neglected group, it fills a crucial gap in the broader critical rubric of diaspora studies.
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Worlds So Strange and Diverse
Towards a Genological Taxonomy of Non-mimetic Literature
This analysis of contemporary fantasy literature explores unmapped territories of the genre. Building on major previous theories, it offers a new, comprehensive taxonomy of fantastic fiction based on the notion of supragenological types.
This analysis of contemporary fantasy literature explores unmapped territories of the genre. Building on major previous theories, it offers a new, comprehensive taxonomy of fantastic fiction based on the notion of supragenological types.
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Man Up
A Study of Gendered Expectations of Masculinities at the Fin de Siècle
The rise of the New Woman during the fin de siècle created a crisis for traditional Victorian masculinity. This book examines how male authors like Conan Doyle and Bram Stoker explored the upheaval of gender roles, asking what it meant to be a man in a rapidly changing world.
The rise of the New Woman during the fin de siècle created a crisis for traditional Victorian masculinity. This book examines how male authors like Conan Doyle and Bram Stoker explored the upheaval of gender roles, asking what it meant to be a man in a rapidly changing world.
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Essays on Unfamiliar Travel-Writing
Off the Beaten Track
Butler presents essays on travel-narratives, including writing by people who travelled from the East to the West, as well as those going the usual way. He gives, in an informal style, discussions about identity, otherness and stereotyping as they are displayed in the narratives.
Butler presents essays on travel-narratives, including writing by people who travelled from the East to the West, as well as those going the usual way. He gives, in an informal style, discussions about identity, otherness and stereotyping as they are displayed in the narratives.
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Making History Happen
Caribbean Poetry in America
This book examines how transnational women poets of the black diaspora, including Lorna Goodison and Claudia Rankine, use mobility and memory to create renewed identities and a sense of belonging, calling attention to an urgent new body of writing.
This book examines how transnational women poets of the black diaspora, including Lorna Goodison and Claudia Rankine, use mobility and memory to create renewed identities and a sense of belonging, calling attention to an urgent new body of writing.
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Urban Monstrosities
Perversity and Upheaval in the Unreal City
The contributors here show how artists and writers across the past two hundred years figure the monster as a barometer of changing urban patterns. Here, monstrosity becomes the herald of embryonic social forms and marginalized populations in portrayals of cities across media.
The contributors here show how artists and writers across the past two hundred years figure the monster as a barometer of changing urban patterns. Here, monstrosity becomes the herald of embryonic social forms and marginalized populations in portrayals of cities across media.
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Mistress, Mother, Muse
An Exploration of the Female in Modern and Contemporary Mediterranean Literature
Palaska fills a vacuum in comparative literary studies in laying the foundations for Mediterraneanism to develop as an area in literary studies. She discusses aspects of female liminality, including motherhood, sexuality and creativity, in three distinctive Mediterranean cultures
Palaska fills a vacuum in comparative literary studies in laying the foundations for Mediterraneanism to develop as an area in literary studies. She discusses aspects of female liminality, including motherhood, sexuality and creativity, in three distinctive Mediterranean cultures
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Fear, Trauma and Paranoia in Bret Easton Ellis’s Oeuvre
Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter
Párraga studies the role fear, trauma and paranoia play in Bret Easton Ellis’ novels and collections of short stories. He shows that these aspects are fundamental not only to Ellis’ work, but also to contemporary American literature and, indeed, American culture and society.
Párraga studies the role fear, trauma and paranoia play in Bret Easton Ellis’ novels and collections of short stories. He shows that these aspects are fundamental not only to Ellis’ work, but also to contemporary American literature and, indeed, American culture and society.
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While early Twentieth Century London embraced Modernism, in Wales the opposite was true. This study traces the Welsh poets and novelists who found their master in William Wordsworth, illuminating an unexpected flare-up of Romanticism.
While early Twentieth Century London embraced Modernism, in Wales the opposite was true. This study traces the Welsh poets and novelists who found their master in William Wordsworth, illuminating an unexpected flare-up of Romanticism.
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Displaced Women
Multilingual Narratives of Migration in Europe
These interdisciplinary essays explore women’s narratives of displacement, transcending the idea of ‘national identity’. The contributors compel us to rethink ‘mother tongue’ and linguistic ownership, and ask how women express their ‘permanent strangeness’.
These interdisciplinary essays explore women’s narratives of displacement, transcending the idea of ‘national identity’. The contributors compel us to rethink ‘mother tongue’ and linguistic ownership, and ask how women express their ‘permanent strangeness’.
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