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“Catch if you can your country’s moment”
Recovery and Regeneration in the Poetry of Adrienne Rich
These essays explore Adrienne Rich’s work, arguing for a shift from her personal feminist awakening to her later, public re-imagination of America. A transformative cartographer of words, Rich remaps our culture for the marginalized and the resistant.
These essays explore Adrienne Rich’s work, arguing for a shift from her personal feminist awakening to her later, public re-imagination of America. A transformative cartographer of words, Rich remaps our culture for the marginalized and the resistant.
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Cultural Status, Genre and Critique
An incisive collection of essays exploring subversive texts, with readings of authors such as Kazuo Ishiguro, Neil Gaiman, and Philip Pullman, and filmmakers such as Terry Gilliam and Orson Welles.
An incisive collection of essays exploring subversive texts, with readings of authors such as Kazuo Ishiguro, Neil Gaiman, and Philip Pullman, and filmmakers such as Terry Gilliam and Orson Welles.
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Ben-Messahel investigates the issues of space, culture and identity in recent Australian fiction. Applying Nicolas Bourriaud’s concept of the Radicant, she discusses the work of 15 authors to show that, in Australia, cultural belonging is still a difficult process.
Ben-Messahel investigates the issues of space, culture and identity in recent Australian fiction. Applying Nicolas Bourriaud’s concept of the Radicant, she discusses the work of 15 authors to show that, in Australia, cultural belonging is still a difficult process.
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Third Agents
Secret Protagonists of the Modern Imagination
This book explores the 'third agent'—a secret protagonist of the modern imagination. A liminal figure transgressing social and cultural boundaries, this agent inhabits in-between territories as the adventurer, the bastard, the poet, and the outcast.
This book explores the ‘third agent’—a secret protagonist of the modern imagination. A liminal figure transgressing social and cultural boundaries, this agent inhabits in-between territories as the adventurer, the bastard, the poet, and the outcast.
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Essays on Shakespeare
Texts and Contexts
Dahiya highlights new aspects of several of Shakespeare’s plays, such as the role of women and the lower classes in the Roman tragedies. She also emphasizes the role of the early Shakespeare teachers at the first Indian College of Western Education.
Dahiya highlights new aspects of several of Shakespeare’s plays, such as the role of women and the lower classes in the Roman tragedies. She also emphasizes the role of the early Shakespeare teachers at the first Indian College of Western Education.
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Doris Lessing
Poetics of Being and Time
Majoul investigates various facets of Doris Lessing’s writing, viewing her as a historiographer and a transnational mediator between the East and the West. She also establishes an analogy between Lessing’s texts and various other works, including Salman Rushdie’s Shame.
Majoul investigates various facets of Doris Lessing’s writing, viewing her as a historiographer and a transnational mediator between the East and the West. She also establishes an analogy between Lessing’s texts and various other works, including Salman Rushdie’s Shame.
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The Oracle of the “tiny finger snap of time”
A Study of Novels with a Specific Time Culture
This unique collection of essays explores the use of time in the novel. Writers analyze novels and one film within specific time cultures, covering concepts from inner, felt, and cosmic time to time running backwards, hinting at the future of the novel.
This unique collection of essays explores the use of time in the novel. Writers analyze novels and one film within specific time cultures, covering concepts from inner, felt, and cosmic time to time running backwards, hinting at the future of the novel.
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International scholars offer a varied picture of our changing world, discussing the shifting borders of convention in literature, culture, film, music, and art. These complex essays offer fresh views that will stimulate intellectual debate.
International scholars offer a varied picture of our changing world, discussing the shifting borders of convention in literature, culture, film, music, and art. These complex essays offer fresh views that will stimulate intellectual debate.
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A Serious Genre
The Apology of Children's Literature
This anthology assembles an international team of by scholars and academics to investigate the value and impact of what, since the 19th century, has been called children’s literature from a number of perspectives, including classical Victorian children’s books.
This anthology assembles an international team of by scholars and academics to investigate the value and impact of what, since the 19th century, has been called children’s literature from a number of perspectives, including classical Victorian children’s books.
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Through Other Eyes
The Translation of Anglophone Literature in Europe
This volume investigates how English literary works have been translated and disseminated in Europe since the Renaissance. It explores translators’ intentions, faithfulness to the source text, and why translations are often portrayed in a different light to the original.
This volume investigates how English literary works have been translated and disseminated in Europe since the Renaissance. It explores translators’ intentions, faithfulness to the source text, and why translations are often portrayed in a different light to the original.
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This book offers new ways of thinking about identity by analyzing embodiment in the plays of Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco and Jean-Paul Sartre. It provides a new method for analyzing how characters form, or attempt to form, their ever-changing identities.
This book offers new ways of thinking about identity by analyzing embodiment in the plays of Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco and Jean-Paul Sartre. It provides a new method for analyzing how characters form, or attempt to form, their ever-changing identities.
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Irresolute Heresiarch
Catholicism, Gnosticism and Paganism in the Poetry of Czesław Miłosz
Was Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz a Catholic poet? Following a late-in-life admission of his Catholic intent, this book explores the wide range of religious themes in his poetry, from orthodox Christianity through Gnosticism and paganism.
Was Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz a Catholic poet? Following a late-in-life admission of his Catholic intent, this book explores the wide range of religious themes in his poetry, from orthodox Christianity through Gnosticism and paganism.
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Rethinking the Humanities
Paths and Challenges
Rethinking the Humanities reflects on the challenges facing the humanities in an era of globalization. Drawing on diverse perspectives, this volume surpasses the dominant rhetoric of crisis to open new fields of debate and offer innovative perspectives.
Rethinking the Humanities reflects on the challenges facing the humanities in an era of globalization. Drawing on diverse perspectives, this volume surpasses the dominant rhetoric of crisis to open new fields of debate and offer innovative perspectives.
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The Future of Philology
Proceedings of the 11th Annual Columbia University German Graduate Student Conference
Does philology still have a place? This volume collects essays by young philologists who show that the discipline’s core—the care for the text—wields competencies that are indispensable, confronting the “fate of a soft science in a hard world.”
Does philology still have a place? This volume collects essays by young philologists who show that the discipline’s core—the care for the text—wields competencies that are indispensable, confronting the “fate of a soft science in a hard world.”
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Nayebpour re-evaluates George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss with the help of terminologies borrowed from cognitive narratology in order to shed new light on the significance of one-track minds in this narrative.
Nayebpour re-evaluates George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss with the help of terminologies borrowed from cognitive narratology in order to shed new light on the significance of one-track minds in this narrative.
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This volume explores how seventeenth-century intellectuals and officials conceived of interpretation and read their world. It examines practices from literature, translation, and science to political ceremonies, shedding new light on the culture of the period.
This volume explores how seventeenth-century intellectuals and officials conceived of interpretation and read their world. It examines practices from literature, translation, and science to political ceremonies, shedding new light on the culture of the period.
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Kassis discusses British women travellers’ perceptions of Greece and the Orient from the late-eighteenth century until the late-Victorian era, exploring them in relation to the context that fuelled the conceptualisation of Greece as perilous to the British imperialist agenda.
Kassis discusses British women travellers’ perceptions of Greece and the Orient from the late-eighteenth century until the late-Victorian era, exploring them in relation to the context that fuelled the conceptualisation of Greece as perilous to the British imperialist agenda.
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The Occidentocentric Fallacy
Turning Literature into a Province
What is literature? Grbić brings together perspectives from both non-Western cultures and minority cultures within a supposed West, awakening the reader to the fact that, incredibly, literature in its total, all-human realization, is something yet to be discovered.
What is literature? Grbić brings together perspectives from both non-Western cultures and minority cultures within a supposed West, awakening the reader to the fact that, incredibly, literature in its total, all-human realization, is something yet to be discovered.
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A Rich Field Full of Pleasant Surprises
Essays on Contemporary Literature in Honour of Professor Socorro Suárez Lafuente
A vibrant snapshot of English Studies today. These essays on literature, film, gender, and media celebrate global culture in a tribute to the inspiring teaching of Professor Socorro Suárez Lafuente.
A vibrant snapshot of English Studies today. These essays on literature, film, gender, and media celebrate global culture in a tribute to the inspiring teaching of Professor Socorro Suárez Lafuente.
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Eiss explores how Eliot and Michelangelo struggle with the highest meanings of life in their artistic work and express what Rudolph Otto designates the mysterium tremendum. He reveals how Elliott struggled with his Christianity and turned to Michelangelo’s similar endeavour.
Eiss explores how Eliot and Michelangelo struggle with the highest meanings of life in their artistic work and express what Rudolph Otto designates the mysterium tremendum. He reveals how Elliott struggled with his Christianity and turned to Michelangelo’s similar endeavour.
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