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The Politics of Poetics
Poetry and Social Activism in Early-Modern through Contemporary Italy
This book analyzes Italian poetry that aims not to represent the world, but to enact a change upon it. Using the metaphor of the rhizome—a subversive, unpredictable growth—it explores poetics as an agent of social transformation, a revolt from within.
This book analyzes Italian poetry that aims not to represent the world, but to enact a change upon it. Using the metaphor of the rhizome—a subversive, unpredictable growth—it explores poetics as an agent of social transformation, a revolt from within.
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The Politics of Traumatic Literature
Narrating Human Psyche and Memory
The essays here offer insights into the analysis of traumatic literary studies wherein language is used as a medium of expression so as to interpret man, psyche and memory. They make literature the partner of a dialogue with psychology, in order to better comprehend the psyche.
The essays here offer insights into the analysis of traumatic literary studies wherein language is used as a medium of expression so as to interpret man, psyche and memory. They make literature the partner of a dialogue with psychology, in order to better comprehend the psyche.
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This book addresses the blurred lines between magic, religion, and science in Spanish literature and history. It explores the divide between white and black magic, Alfonso X’s court, and a window of quasi-tolerance amidst Muslims, Jews, and Christians.
This book addresses the blurred lines between magic, religion, and science in Spanish literature and history. It explores the divide between white and black magic, Alfonso X’s court, and a window of quasi-tolerance amidst Muslims, Jews, and Christians.
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The Post-Marked World
Theory and Practice in the 21st Century
"Post-isms" reject cultural certainties, demonstrating the instability of language and meaning. This volume investigates the term “post,” asking crucial questions: Do we need it anymore? Can it counter essentialism? Essays explore these issues from around the world.
“Post-isms” reject cultural certainties, demonstrating the instability of language and meaning. This volume investigates the term “post,” asking crucial questions: Do we need it anymore? Can it counter essentialism? Essays explore these issues from around the world.
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This study examines how postcolonial literature depicts the body as a site of resistance. Focusing on diasporic authors from Africa and Southeast Asia in London, it reveals bodies performing queer space and time to redefine the postcolonial.
This study examines how postcolonial literature depicts the body as a site of resistance. Focusing on diasporic authors from Africa and Southeast Asia in London, it reveals bodies performing queer space and time to redefine the postcolonial.
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In a postmodern world where grand narratives have collapsed, Michel Tournier's mission is to create a new mythology. He reworks established myths and legends, allowing the reader to take the place of the author and create their own individual mythology.
In a postmodern world where grand narratives have collapsed, Michel Tournier’s mission is to create a new mythology. He reworks established myths and legends, allowing the reader to take the place of the author and create their own individual mythology.
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This book argues that postmodernist historiographic metafiction is not just self-referential, but hetero-referential. Using Peter Ackroyd’s Chatterton, it shows how texts create their own worlds while referring to an external reality, even if that reality is a human construct.
This book argues that postmodernist historiographic metafiction is not just self-referential, but hetero-referential. Using Peter Ackroyd’s Chatterton, it shows how texts create their own worlds while referring to an external reality, even if that reality is a human construct.
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The Power of Culture
Encounters between China and the United States
This edited collection, comprising mainly Chinese academics and students, focuses upon the role of culture in Sino-American affairs, showing how cultural factors are enormously significant in affecting how Chinese and Americans think about and approach each other.
This edited collection, comprising mainly Chinese academics and students, focuses upon the role of culture in Sino-American affairs, showing how cultural factors are enormously significant in affecting how Chinese and Americans think about and approach each other.
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The Power of Form
Recycling Myths
Once dismissed as primitive fancy, myths are now seen as complex symbolic narratives that carry meaning. This interdisciplinary volume studies how myths are recycled within heritage, examining their personal and political implications for societies making sense of life.
Once dismissed as primitive fancy, myths are now seen as complex symbolic narratives that carry meaning. This interdisciplinary volume studies how myths are recycled within heritage, examining their personal and political implications for societies making sense of life.
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The Principle of Relations
Paradigma Principia Relationum
This volume presents a new paradigm for the entirety of reality. The Principle of Relations is applied to all fields, from the universe and elementary particles to human relations, offering a platform to understand gravity, energy, cancer, poverty, and prosperity.
This volume presents a new paradigm for the entirety of reality. The Principle of Relations is applied to all fields, from the universe and elementary particles to human relations, offering a platform to understand gravity, energy, cancer, poverty, and prosperity.
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The Proceedings of the 19th Annual History of Medicine Days Conference 2010
The University of Calgary Faculty of Medicine, Alberta, Canada
Discover new voices in the history of medicine. This illustrated volume features student research on nursing, public health, psychiatry, eugenics, and more. It also includes the compelling keynote address from the conference.
Discover new voices in the history of medicine. This illustrated volume features student research on nursing, public health, psychiatry, eugenics, and more. It also includes the compelling keynote address from the conference.
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The Prophets and the Goddess
W. B. Yeats, Aleister Crowley, Ezra Pound, Robert Graves and the Chthonic Esoteric Tradition
Psilopoulos discusses how W. B. Yeats, Aleister Crowley, Ezra Pound and Robert Graves had access to the forbidden knowledge of the Goddess. These four poets experienced a confrontation with their unconscious and let the grace of the Goddess touch their heart strings.
Psilopoulos discusses how W. B. Yeats, Aleister Crowley, Ezra Pound and Robert Graves had access to the forbidden knowledge of the Goddess. These four poets experienced a confrontation with their unconscious and let the grace of the Goddess touch their heart strings.
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The Quality of Life
Essays on Cultural Politics, 1978-2018
Spanning 40 years, these essays explore the political dimensions of cultural life. They include seminal papers that pioneered the concept of Cultural Democracy and close readings of novels and plays that explore how all forms of self-expression have a political message.
Spanning 40 years, these essays explore the political dimensions of cultural life. They include seminal papers that pioneered the concept of Cultural Democracy and close readings of novels and plays that explore how all forms of self-expression have a political message.
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The Racialization of the Occult in Nineteenth Century British Literature
Dark Magic from 1850-1900
In nineteenth-century Britain, the occult was both a source of support and a threat to society. This book examines novels from 1850-1900 to trace how the representation of occult practitioners participated in and contributed to the racialization of the occult.
In nineteenth-century Britain, the occult was both a source of support and a threat to society. This book examines novels from 1850-1900 to trace how the representation of occult practitioners participated in and contributed to the racialization of the occult.
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The Reality behind Barbara Pym’s Excellent Women
The Troublesome Woman Revealed
This book analyses Barbara Pym’s work through the image of the troublesome woman. It highlights her feminist ideas, hidden in village settings and revealed by these women. Exploring Pym's published and unpublished writings shows her as a complex person.
This book analyses Barbara Pym’s work through the image of the troublesome woman. It highlights her feminist ideas, hidden in village settings and revealed by these women. Exploring Pym’s published and unpublished writings shows her as a complex person.
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The Reception of Shakespeare’s Works in Greece
Not for an Age, but for All Time!
This book contains new information on Shakespeare’s life and works. It compares the Greek translations with the English text of 8 plays and provides an annotated bibliography of over 230 Greek translations, placing Shakespeare first among foreign writers in Greece.
This book contains new information on Shakespeare’s life and works. It compares the Greek translations with the English text of 8 plays and provides an annotated bibliography of over 230 Greek translations, placing Shakespeare first among foreign writers in Greece.
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This book provides critical research on the representation of ideologies in electronic media for children and young adults, including TV cartoons, animation, videos, and computer games. It will appeal to anyone interested in cultural studies, sociology, and ideology.
This book provides critical research on the representation of ideologies in electronic media for children and young adults, including TV cartoons, animation, videos, and computer games. It will appeal to anyone interested in cultural studies, sociology, and ideology.
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This collection of essays offers a comparative perspective on social hybridity in contemporary novels. It explores the challenge of center and periphery, examining the dynamics of power, marginality, and space to shed new light on the contemporary novel as a whole.
This collection of essays offers a comparative perspective on social hybridity in contemporary novels. It explores the challenge of center and periphery, examining the dynamics of power, marginality, and space to shed new light on the contemporary novel as a whole.
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The Reptant Eagle
Essays on Carlos Fuentes and the Art of the Novel
Carlos Fuentes was a leading voice in Latin America’s Boom generation. The Reptant Eagle collects essays by renowned scholars that offer innovative readings of his major works and trace his contribution to the uninterrupted tradition of the art of the novel.
Carlos Fuentes was a leading voice in Latin America’s Boom generation. The Reptant Eagle collects essays by renowned scholars that offer innovative readings of his major works and trace his contribution to the uninterrupted tradition of the art of the novel.
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An extensive study of the work of Femi Osofisan, one of Nigeria’s pivotal dramatists and postcolonial playwrights, this text details a variety of his plays to gather insights into the role of art in social change, and discusses the relationship between literature and politics.
An extensive study of the work of Femi Osofisan, one of Nigeria’s pivotal dramatists and postcolonial playwrights, this text details a variety of his plays to gather insights into the role of art in social change, and discusses the relationship between literature and politics.
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