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Our Orwell, Right or Left
The Continued Importance of One Writer to the World of Western Politics
George Orwell's work has been used and misused by the Left and Right, creating a battle over his legacy. This book decodes why both sides claim him, juxtaposing his writing with their dubious claims and showing how his warnings remain alarmingly prescient.
George Orwell’s work has been used and misused by the Left and Right, creating a battle over his legacy. This book decodes why both sides claim him, juxtaposing his writing with their dubious claims and showing how his warnings remain alarmingly prescient.
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This essay collection explores inconsistency in the major Latin epics of the Flavian Age. Leading experts demonstrate that inconsistency is often a strategic device, and its careful study yields precious insights into the poets' artistic, thematic, and ideological agendas.
This essay collection explores inconsistency in the major Latin epics of the Flavian Age. Leading experts demonstrate that inconsistency is often a strategic device, and its careful study yields precious insights into the poets’ artistic, thematic, and ideological agendas.
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Encountering Ephemera 1500-1800
Scholarship, Performance, Classroom
This collection redefines ephemera by challenging the opposition between the transitory and the enduring. Essays explore how materials from broadside ballads to performance reveal the dynamic unfixity of early modern and eighteenth-century cultural practices.
This collection redefines ephemera by challenging the opposition between the transitory and the enduring. Essays explore how materials from broadside ballads to performance reveal the dynamic unfixity of early modern and eighteenth-century cultural practices.
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Troubled Legacies
Heritage/Inheritance in American Minority Literatures
What is being passed on? These essays explore heritage in American minority literatures. From the trauma of the past to new conceptions of ethnicity based on fluidity and performativity, these works question a "post-racial" society and ask: who shall inherit America?
What is being passed on? These essays explore heritage in American minority literatures. From the trauma of the past to new conceptions of ethnicity based on fluidity and performativity, these works question a “post-racial” society and ask: who shall inherit America?
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The Poetics of Uncontrollability in Keats’s Endymion
Language Theory and Romantic Periodicals
Anselmo reconstructs the linguistic context of the 18th and early-19th centuries to explain the reviewers’ unease regarding Endymion. She shows that 18th-century prescriptivism arose from an anxiety of language and the desire to control language informed Romantic criticism.
Anselmo reconstructs the linguistic context of the 18th and early-19th centuries to explain the reviewers’ unease regarding Endymion. She shows that 18th-century prescriptivism arose from an anxiety of language and the desire to control language informed Romantic criticism.
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The Dan Brown Craze
An Analysis of His Formula for Thriller Fiction
Zhang and Zhu investigate why the work of Dan Brown has attained such global appeal, from a Chinese perspective, and provide a detailed exploration of his plots, characterisation, themes, and techniques.
Zhang and Zhu investigate why the work of Dan Brown has attained such global appeal, from a Chinese perspective, and provide a detailed exploration of his plots, characterisation, themes, and techniques.
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Ulysses Quotīdiānus
James Joyce’s Inverse Histories of the Everyday
George presents a multi-pronged inverse historical analysis of Joyce’s high-modernist magnum opus Ulysses, foregrounding the historicity of its unapologetic subject matter – the quotidian.
George presents a multi-pronged inverse historical analysis of Joyce’s high-modernist magnum opus Ulysses, foregrounding the historicity of its unapologetic subject matter – the quotidian.
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Christine Brooke-Rose
The Chameleonic Text Between Self-Reflexivity and Narrative Experiment
Experimental writer Christine Brooke-Rose puzzled critics with her fractal identity. This book settles the ambiguities of her work, charting the chameleonic features of her highly experimental novels and their unifying intertextual web.
Experimental writer Christine Brooke-Rose puzzled critics with her fractal identity. This book settles the ambiguities of her work, charting the chameleonic features of her highly experimental novels and their unifying intertextual web.
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European identity is both a problem and an opportunity. This interdisciplinary volume examines its complex facets—from cultural politics to digital media—to clarify and even create a new sense of what it means to be European.
European identity is both a problem and an opportunity. This interdisciplinary volume examines its complex facets—from cultural politics to digital media—to clarify and even create a new sense of what it means to be European.
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In 1863, disguised as a dervish, Vambery journeyed through Central Asia. He visited Khiva, Bokhara, and Samarkand in their final years of independence, describing caravan life and local customs while in constant danger of exposure.
In 1863, disguised as a dervish, Vambery journeyed through Central Asia. He visited Khiva, Bokhara, and Samarkand in their final years of independence, describing caravan life and local customs while in constant danger of exposure.
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“Imperialists in Broken Boots”
Poor Whites and Philanthropy in Southern African Writing
This book argues that in Southern Africa, ‘poor white’ was not a narrow economic category but a term for those who threatened to collapse racial, sexual, and class boundaries. It studies writers who either embraced this threat or argued for a solution.
This book argues that in Southern Africa, ‘poor white’ was not a narrow economic category but a term for those who threatened to collapse racial, sexual, and class boundaries. It studies writers who either embraced this threat or argued for a solution.
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Kılıç re-reads Milton’s Paradise Lost in the light of his political views as reflected in his earlier political pamphlets. He argues that, using his epic poem as a medium of expression, Milton created a political subtext which reflected the social panorama of his England.
Kılıç re-reads Milton’s Paradise Lost in the light of his political views as reflected in his earlier political pamphlets. He argues that, using his epic poem as a medium of expression, Milton created a political subtext which reflected the social panorama of his England.
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With no scan or blood test for migraine, diagnosis relies entirely on language. This book explores the vital relation between words and pain, considering how persons with migraine make their experience ‘readable’ and how fictional texts ‘perform’ migraine.
With no scan or blood test for migraine, diagnosis relies entirely on language. This book explores the vital relation between words and pain, considering how persons with migraine make their experience ‘readable’ and how fictional texts ‘perform’ migraine.
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“A Warr So Desperate”
John Milton and Some Contemporaries on the Irish Rebellion
This book examines how John Milton, the famed champion of liberty, justified the brutal reconquest of Ireland. It situates his work within the anti-Catholic and ethnic prejudices of the time, arguing for his complicity in the colonial campaign.
This book examines how John Milton, the famed champion of liberty, justified the brutal reconquest of Ireland. It situates his work within the anti-Catholic and ethnic prejudices of the time, arguing for his complicity in the colonial campaign.
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This book explores transgression as a literary theme in twentieth-century novels. Analyzing fictional acts from murder to adultery, it reveals how narrative strategies like "unreliable narrators" challenge readers to question social norms and moral values.
This book explores transgression as a literary theme in twentieth-century novels. Analyzing fictional acts from murder to adultery, it reveals how narrative strategies like “unreliable narrators” challenge readers to question social norms and moral values.
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Southern Horrors
Northern Visions of the Mediterranean World
This book explores the Mediterranean's dark side through the eyes of Northern Europeans. Over four centuries, travellers saw not a sun-drenched ideal, but a world of cruelty, poverty, and superstition, telling us more about their own prejudices than the South.
This book explores the Mediterranean’s dark side through the eyes of Northern Europeans. Over four centuries, travellers saw not a sun-drenched ideal, but a world of cruelty, poverty, and superstition, telling us more about their own prejudices than the South.
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A Time to Reason and Compare
International Modernism Revisited One Hundred Years After
Commemorating the centenary of decisive events in the history of international Modernism, this collection provides a critical assessment of the movement’s intentions and accomplishments, discussing its impact in a variety of contexts.
Commemorating the centenary of decisive events in the history of international Modernism, this collection provides a critical assessment of the movement’s intentions and accomplishments, discussing its impact in a variety of contexts.
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Words into Pictures
E. E. Cummings’ Art Across Borders
This collection of new essays explores E. E. Cummings as both poet and artist. Bringing together the verbal and the visual, the volume examines under-researched fields of his unique, genre-crossing work.
This collection of new essays explores E. E. Cummings as both poet and artist. Bringing together the verbal and the visual, the volume examines under-researched fields of his unique, genre-crossing work.
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This collection considers how women writers subvert normative structures in their adaptations of fairy tales. Writers like Anne Sexton and Angela Carter reimagine the genre, long associated with conservative values, as an instrument for social critique of traditional structures.
This collection considers how women writers subvert normative structures in their adaptations of fairy tales. Writers like Anne Sexton and Angela Carter reimagine the genre, long associated with conservative values, as an instrument for social critique of traditional structures.
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The Partition of India
Beyond Improbable Lines
This anthology considers the representation of one of the most traumatic events in the history of India―the 1947 Partition―in literature and cinematographic adaptations. It discusses various strategies of representation at work in the process of remembering Partition.
This anthology considers the representation of one of the most traumatic events in the history of India―the 1947 Partition―in literature and cinematographic adaptations. It discusses various strategies of representation at work in the process of remembering Partition.
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