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Equine Fictions
Human–Horse Relationships in Twenty-First-Century Writing
This innovative volume explores the powerful human-horse bond in 21st-century fiction and autobiography from the perspectives of affect and politics. It analyzes how narratives of healing, mourning, and identity are shaped by gender and nation in contemporary writing.
This innovative volume explores the powerful human-horse bond in 21st-century fiction and autobiography from the perspectives of affect and politics. It analyzes how narratives of healing, mourning, and identity are shaped by gender and nation in contemporary writing.
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Post/modern Dracula
From Victorian Themes to Postmodern Praxis
This collection explores the postmodern in Bram Stoker’s Victorian novel and the Victorian in Francis Ford Coppola’s film, demonstrating how the century separating them binds more than it divides. These essays reveal why Dracula remains forever post/modern.
This collection explores the postmodern in Bram Stoker’s Victorian novel and the Victorian in Francis Ford Coppola’s film, demonstrating how the century separating them binds more than it divides. These essays reveal why Dracula remains forever post/modern.
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In an era of standardization, dialect and patois are marks of identity. No in-depth treatment has been offered as to the causes and consequences of language mixing from both linguistic and literary views. This book aims to fill this lack of analysis.
In an era of standardization, dialect and patois are marks of identity. No in-depth treatment has been offered as to the causes and consequences of language mixing from both linguistic and literary views. This book aims to fill this lack of analysis.
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This book explores a critical, often overlooked feature of Edwin Arlington Robinson’s poetry: his puzzling method of narration. It argues that a proper understanding of his poems is impossible without analyzing this unique approach, shaped by his New England and Puritan roots.
This book explores a critical, often overlooked feature of Edwin Arlington Robinson’s poetry: his puzzling method of narration. It argues that a proper understanding of his poems is impossible without analyzing this unique approach, shaped by his New England and Puritan roots.
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Margaret Atwood and Social Justice
A Writer's Evolving Ideology
Margaret Atwood is a writer, not an ideologue. This book traces the evolution of her social justice concerns through her major fiction—from women's rights and environmentalism to critiques of corporate oppression, right-wing governments, and racial injustice.
Margaret Atwood is a writer, not an ideologue. This book traces the evolution of her social justice concerns through her major fiction—from women’s rights and environmentalism to critiques of corporate oppression, right-wing governments, and racial injustice.
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The Rise and Fall of Baby Boomers
The Long, Strange Trip of a Generation
The baby boomer generation reshaped the world, but now younger generations blame them for damaging the nation and planet. This fact-based, objective history contextualizes this deep generational divide, a key theme in contemporary American culture.
The baby boomer generation reshaped the world, but now younger generations blame them for damaging the nation and planet. This fact-based, objective history contextualizes this deep generational divide, a key theme in contemporary American culture.
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Mobile Identities
Race, Ethnicity, and Borders in Contemporary Literature and Culture
Through international case studies, this volume uses border studies, postcolonial discourse, and globalization theory to explore identity. It argues that identities are mobile and in flux, challenging stereotypes and revealing ethnicity as a complex category.
Through international case studies, this volume uses border studies, postcolonial discourse, and globalization theory to explore identity. It argues that identities are mobile and in flux, challenging stereotypes and revealing ethnicity as a complex category.
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Achilles beyond Fury
Other Faces of the Hero
Ten insightful essays explore the fury of Achilles. This investigation uncovers new perspectives on the wrathful warrior, from parallels with the biblical Samson and the consequences of his actions to his lasting influence in Roman iconography and contemporary cinema.
Ten insightful essays explore the fury of Achilles. This investigation uncovers new perspectives on the wrathful warrior, from parallels with the biblical Samson and the consequences of his actions to his lasting influence in Roman iconography and contemporary cinema.
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Recent Scholarship on Japan
Classical to Contemporary
This collection of cutting-edge scholarship surveys Japanese literature from classical to contemporary. It explores works from Heian-era female authors to Haruki Murakami, relating them to Japanese society, the global context, and the vital role of translation.
This collection of cutting-edge scholarship surveys Japanese literature from classical to contemporary. It explores works from Heian-era female authors to Haruki Murakami, relating them to Japanese society, the global context, and the vital role of translation.
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This book explores how Gabonese writer Sylvie Ntsame’s novels challenge patriarchal traditions that silence women. Ntsame counters racism and the objectification of the black female body with depictions of idealized interracial love, calling for understanding between cultures.
This book explores how Gabonese writer Sylvie Ntsame’s novels challenge patriarchal traditions that silence women. Ntsame counters racism and the objectification of the black female body with depictions of idealized interracial love, calling for understanding between cultures.
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Conrad and the Being of the World
A Reading in Speculative Metaphysics
Why does Joseph Conrad’s universe feel so opaque and withdrawn? This unique study uses Object-Oriented Ontology to explore what lies hidden in his work, shedding new light on Conrad and articulating a metaphysical structure for his world, the universe, and ourselves.
Why does Joseph Conrad’s universe feel so opaque and withdrawn? This unique study uses Object-Oriented Ontology to explore what lies hidden in his work, shedding new light on Conrad and articulating a metaphysical structure for his world, the universe, and ourselves.
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A World Government in Action
A New Pragmatic Ideology for Global Politics
This volume presents a significantly different interpretation of society and international relations. It highlights the route to release the world from its greatest problems, assure the survival of humankind, and germinate life quality and healthcare for all.
This volume presents a significantly different interpretation of society and international relations. It highlights the route to release the world from its greatest problems, assure the survival of humankind, and germinate life quality and healthcare for all.
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Reconstructing Female Sexuality and Deconstructing Male Anxiety
Black Hole or Living Hall?
Challenging patriarchal narratives, this study explores the symbolism of female genitalia in literature and myth. It celebrates female procreational power, positioning the reproductive body as an enduring gateway between animate and inanimate realms—both alluring and repelling.
Challenging patriarchal narratives, this study explores the symbolism of female genitalia in literature and myth. It celebrates female procreational power, positioning the reproductive body as an enduring gateway between animate and inanimate realms—both alluring and repelling.
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Humour and Identity in Jewish American Fiction
No Laughing Matter
This book explores the connection between humour and identity in contemporary Jewish American literature. It is a serious investigation into the strategic use of humour in identity formation, revealing the serious undertones in works that may first appear merely humorous.
This book explores the connection between humour and identity in contemporary Jewish American literature. It is a serious investigation into the strategic use of humour in identity formation, revealing the serious undertones in works that may first appear merely humorous.
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This collection offers fresh perspectives on Gissing’s place in fin-de-siècle literature. Interdisciplinary readings place him in dialogue with figures from Dickens to Foucault, challenging his status as a simple realist and revealing his complex modernity.
This collection offers fresh perspectives on Gissing’s place in fin-de-siècle literature. Interdisciplinary readings place him in dialogue with figures from Dickens to Foucault, challenging his status as a simple realist and revealing his complex modernity.
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How Adaptations Awaken the Literary Canon
Transformative Reimaginings
This book illuminates how reimagining narratives creates empowerment. It explores adaptations—from classic literature to fairy tales—that retell and awaken the literary canon, interrogating conventions and revealing the unique power of reframing stories.
This book illuminates how reimagining narratives creates empowerment. It explores adaptations—from classic literature to fairy tales—that retell and awaken the literary canon, interrogating conventions and revealing the unique power of reframing stories.
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This collection of essays explores crisis in contemporary British fiction. Examining authors like Kazuo Ishiguro and Julian Barnes, this volume investigates crisis as a challenge to power structures, highlighting the urgent social and ethical concerns in their work.
This collection of essays explores crisis in contemporary British fiction. Examining authors like Kazuo Ishiguro and Julian Barnes, this volume investigates crisis as a challenge to power structures, highlighting the urgent social and ethical concerns in their work.
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This volume examines how trauma alters women’s identities, from individual experiences to national political abuses. The book shows that language has a transformative power for healing, as women use autobiography and memoir to free themselves and reinvent the form.
This volume examines how trauma alters women’s identities, from individual experiences to national political abuses. The book shows that language has a transformative power for healing, as women use autobiography and memoir to free themselves and reinvent the form.
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Black British Women’s Writing in the 1970s and Beyond
Away from Home
This collection of essays examines Black British women writers published from the 1970s to the 2000s. Connected to the UK through migration yet attached to their cultural origins, their work explores a crucial question: how were they able to conceptualise ‘home’ in their fiction?
This collection of essays examines Black British women writers published from the 1970s to the 2000s. Connected to the UK through migration yet attached to their cultural origins, their work explores a crucial question: how were they able to conceptualise ‘home’ in their fiction?
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The Art of Allusion in Chinese Poetry
Analysing the Works of Li Shangyin
This book explores the rhetorical function of allusion in Li Shangyin’s poems, formulating an English taxonomy for the practice in Chinese poetry. It challenges conventional gendered allegory, revealing how Li’s manipulation of history produces metaphorical and ambiguous effects.
This book explores the rhetorical function of allusion in Li Shangyin’s poems, formulating an English taxonomy for the practice in Chinese poetry. It challenges conventional gendered allegory, revealing how Li’s manipulation of history produces metaphorical and ambiguous effects.
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