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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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As the British Empire defined itself against alleged Celtic backwardness, Irish nationalism surged. This book investigates how 19th-century racist and nationalist discourses shaped Irish identity, exploring travelogues that cast the island as both a utopia and a dystopia.
As the British Empire defined itself against alleged Celtic backwardness, Irish nationalism surged. This book investigates how 19th-century racist and nationalist discourses shaped Irish identity, exploring travelogues that cast the island as both a utopia and a dystopia.
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Jamaican Poet Laureate Lorna Goodison's poetry uses Sufism to heal the trauma of the Middle Passage. This book examines how she applies Sufi ideals to a Caribbean context, showing how its message resonates with Jamaican-based religions and creates a new literary canon.
Jamaican Poet Laureate Lorna Goodison’s poetry uses Sufism to heal the trauma of the Middle Passage. This book examines how she applies Sufi ideals to a Caribbean context, showing how its message resonates with Jamaican-based religions and creates a new literary canon.
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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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Hoshi considers Lawrence’s exploration of relativity in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European cultural climate of Modernism and examines his representation of this theoretical concept in four of his more well-known works.
Hoshi considers Lawrence’s exploration of relativity in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European cultural climate of Modernism and examines his representation of this theoretical concept in four of his more well-known works.
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Narrative Framing in Contemporary American Novels
Twice-Mediated Fiction
Studniarz studies several doubly-mediated texts published 1968-2014, including John Gardner’s “The King’s Indian” and Paul Auster’s “Travels in the Scriptorium”. He sparks the revival of interest in fictions in parentheses, showing the need for research into more recent novels.
Studniarz studies several doubly-mediated texts published 1968-2014, including John Gardner’s “The King’s Indian” and Paul Auster’s “Travels in the Scriptorium”. He sparks the revival of interest in fictions in parentheses, showing the need for research into more recent novels.
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In a world turned upside-down, this essay collection shows the vital role of the humanities. It explores how societies have historically coped with distressing change to address today's crises—from climate change and racism to the worldwide crisis of democracy.
In a world turned upside-down, this essay collection shows the vital role of the humanities. It explores how societies have historically coped with distressing change to address today’s crises—from climate change and racism to the worldwide crisis of democracy.
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Land Writings
Excursions in the Footprints of Edward Thomas
Arranging itself around a number of journeys in pursuit of the early twentieth century poet and nature writer, this monograph provides a personal and moving tale of encountering literature in landscape, retreading Edward Thomas’s footprints for the last four years of his life.
Arranging itself around a number of journeys in pursuit of the early twentieth century poet and nature writer, this monograph provides a personal and moving tale of encountering literature in landscape, retreading Edward Thomas’s footprints for the last four years of his life.
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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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Multicultural Narratives
Traces and Perspectives
Unpacking multiculturalism in literature, this interdisciplinary collection reveals how narratives subvert fixed notions of race, nation, and identity. A vital resource of theoretical and analytical essays for scholars, students, and researchers.
Unpacking multiculturalism in literature, this interdisciplinary collection reveals how narratives subvert fixed notions of race, nation, and identity. A vital resource of theoretical and analytical essays for scholars, students, and researchers.
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Outraged and Amazed
Transgressing the South in Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!
Outraged and Amazed explores how Absalom, Absalom!’s characters resist social limits and wrest control of their identities through storytelling, resulting in a tangled, plausible but unverifiable story of the South that is both fictive and true.
Outraged and Amazed explores how Absalom, Absalom!’s characters resist social limits and wrest control of their identities through storytelling, resulting in a tangled, plausible but unverifiable story of the South that is both fictive and true.
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The Aphorisms of Yi Deok-mu
Musings of a Grateful Reader
This volume brings together excerpts from Seongyuldang nongso and Imokgusimseo by the 18th-century scholar Yi Deok-mu. The thoughtful discourse presented here offers considerable comfort and joy to contemporary readers, in an age sadly dominated by a dog-eat-dog mentality.
This volume brings together excerpts from Seongyuldang nongso and Imokgusimseo by the 18th-century scholar Yi Deok-mu. The thoughtful discourse presented here offers considerable comfort and joy to contemporary readers, in an age sadly dominated by a dog-eat-dog mentality.
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Panecka interprets the poetry of Ted Hughes as a product of shamanic performance, the work of a mystic and a healer. She shows that the Poet Laureate claimed that England had lost her soul, which he proposed to retrieve through veneration of Nature.
Panecka interprets the poetry of Ted Hughes as a product of shamanic performance, the work of a mystic and a healer. She shows that the Poet Laureate claimed that England had lost her soul, which he proposed to retrieve through veneration of Nature.
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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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Garfield Lau investigates how the breakdown of the family and the conventional gendering of roles gives rise to terrorist violence as portrayed in various African Anglophone narratives by internationally renowned authors including Chinua Achebe, Doris Lessing, and J.M. Coetzee.
Garfield Lau investigates how the breakdown of the family and the conventional gendering of roles gives rise to terrorist violence as portrayed in various African Anglophone narratives by internationally renowned authors including Chinua Achebe, Doris Lessing, and J.M. Coetzee.
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Ireland’s Cultural Empire
Contacts, Comparisons, Translations
This volume highlights Ireland’s cultural and linguistic influence in the world. Contributions focus on 18th, 19th and 20th century Irish writers who export their legacy abroad, in addition to offering new perspectives on Irish emigration to Australia and the USA.
This volume highlights Ireland’s cultural and linguistic influence in the world. Contributions focus on 18th, 19th and 20th century Irish writers who export their legacy abroad, in addition to offering new perspectives on Irish emigration to Australia and the USA.
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This title enquires into the processes by which certain contemporary women pay testimony to history. It examines the reasons why they recreate the past, whether political, social or artistic, and the strategies employed to establish a comparison with the present.
This title enquires into the processes by which certain contemporary women pay testimony to history. It examines the reasons why they recreate the past, whether political, social or artistic, and the strategies employed to establish a comparison with the present.
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You Girls Stay Here
Gender Roles in Popular British Children’s Adventure Fiction, 1930-70
Poynter explores a period long considered to be of poor quality as regards children’s books. She discusses a range of themes, such as female agency, power and courage, and additionally gives a linguistic analysis of selected texts, while also adopting a socio-cultural approach.
Poynter explores a period long considered to be of poor quality as regards children’s books. She discusses a range of themes, such as female agency, power and courage, and additionally gives a linguistic analysis of selected texts, while also adopting a socio-cultural approach.
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Millard provides substantial interpretations of a number of works of the American West that investigate the idea of “origin”. He advocates the value of individual works as depictions of the modern West and the importance of the concept of origins to interpretation more generally.
Millard provides substantial interpretations of a number of works of the American West that investigate the idea of “origin”. He advocates the value of individual works as depictions of the modern West and the importance of the concept of origins to interpretation more generally.
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Ngongkum’s innovative reading of Dennis Brutus’ poetry underlines its concern for suffering humanity in the apartheid context and beyond. She brings to the fore the different motifs, strategies and artistry with which Brutus succeeds in initiating revolt through art.
Ngongkum’s innovative reading of Dennis Brutus’ poetry underlines its concern for suffering humanity in the apartheid context and beyond. She brings to the fore the different motifs, strategies and artistry with which Brutus succeeds in initiating revolt through art.
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