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These essays offer a multifaceted discourse on the soul. Using a multicultural approach, they explore fundamental themes of human existence, revealing universal values in cultures distant in time and space through religious, philosophical, and historical debates.
These essays offer a multifaceted discourse on the soul. Using a multicultural approach, they explore fundamental themes of human existence, revealing universal values in cultures distant in time and space through religious, philosophical, and historical debates.
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This volume gathers evaluations of the soul from artistic, mystic, and theological perspectives. Explore the concept of the soul in its ethical and emotional dimensions across global cultures, from Christian and Oriental traditions to those of Ancient Egypt.
This volume gathers evaluations of the soul from artistic, mystic, and theological perspectives. Explore the concept of the soul in its ethical and emotional dimensions across global cultures, from Christian and Oriental traditions to those of Ancient Egypt.
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We are shaped by the places we inhabit, but what about characters who never change? This collection explores juvenile series books, where protagonists like Nancy Drew demonstrate that their impact on space is far greater than its impact on them—an exercise in spatial authority.
We are shaped by the places we inhabit, but what about characters who never change? This collection explores juvenile series books, where protagonists like Nancy Drew demonstrate that their impact on space is far greater than its impact on them—an exercise in spatial authority.
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This volume addresses the economy of the spectacular in Shakespeare’s plays, from early modern England to twenty-first-century adaptations. It asks what is behind the spectacular. Is there a manipulative purpose? How far-reaching are the political and ideological stakes?
This volume addresses the economy of the spectacular in Shakespeare’s plays, from early modern England to twenty-first-century adaptations. It asks what is behind the spectacular. Is there a manipulative purpose? How far-reaching are the political and ideological stakes?
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The Spectre of Defeat in Post-War British and US Literature
Experience, Memory and Post-Memory
History is written by the victors. But what if they perceive themselves as defeated? This collection examines how a sense of defeat undermines the certainties of victory, exploring UK and US fiction since WWI to offer an account of the victorious-yet-somehow-defeated.
History is written by the victors. But what if they perceive themselves as defeated? This collection examines how a sense of defeat undermines the certainties of victory, exploring UK and US fiction since WWI to offer an account of the victorious-yet-somehow-defeated.
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Alphonse de Lamartine’s prose-poem The Stonemason of Saint Point is the story of a peasant’s life, love and faith in the hills of Burgundy. In reality, it describes Lamartine’s own search for God through threatening and godless times in his country.
Alphonse de Lamartine’s prose-poem The Stonemason of Saint Point is the story of a peasant’s life, love and faith in the hills of Burgundy. In reality, it describes Lamartine’s own search for God through threatening and godless times in his country.
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The Subversive Storyteller
The Short Story Cycle and the Politics of Identity in America
The Subversive Storyteller examines how American authors adapted the short story cycle to convey subversive ideas. Authors from Hawthorne to Kingston exploited the genre's fragmented nature to reflect the changing realities of life and identity in America.
The Subversive Storyteller examines how American authors adapted the short story cycle to convey subversive ideas. Authors from Hawthorne to Kingston exploited the genre’s fragmented nature to reflect the changing realities of life and identity in America.
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The Survival of Myth
Innovation, Singularity and Alterity
What are myths? The Survival of Myth explores the continuing power of primal stories to inhabit our thinking. Contributors examine figures from the Bible to Cormac McCarthy to show how ancient stories give access to the unconscious and transform society.
What are myths? The Survival of Myth explores the continuing power of primal stories to inhabit our thinking. Contributors examine figures from the Bible to Cormac McCarthy to show how ancient stories give access to the unconscious and transform society.
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We have lost sight of Hamlet itself. This book looks beyond the play that has bedazzled critics for centuries to seek its historical distinctness, unraveling myths about the players, printers, patrons, and Shakespeare himself.
We have lost sight of Hamlet itself. This book looks beyond the play that has bedazzled critics for centuries to seek its historical distinctness, unraveling myths about the players, printers, patrons, and Shakespeare himself.
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Mazzi suggests, linguistically, that the study of reasoned argument is likely to have many potential applications in the context of Irish public discourse. He tackles the issue of the construction of argumentation in the judiciary and in the politics of the Irish Republic.
Mazzi suggests, linguistically, that the study of reasoned argument is likely to have many potential applications in the context of Irish public discourse. He tackles the issue of the construction of argumentation in the judiciary and in the politics of the Irish Republic.
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The Threat and Allure of the Magical
Selected Papers from the 17th Annual Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference, University of California, Berkeley
This collection of essays explores intersections between the occult and the political, and the entanglement of magic, modernity, media, and aesthetics. Topics range from the witch in print media and the Third Reich’s occult to 19th-century novellas and film.
This collection of essays explores intersections between the occult and the political, and the entanglement of magic, modernity, media, and aesthetics. Topics range from the witch in print media and the Third Reich’s occult to 19th-century novellas and film.
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These essays examine the travel writer’s self, revealing the carefully crafted persona of the traveler as a fiction. Exploring genres from diaries to film, they show that the most interesting subject of any travel account is the author.
These essays examine the travel writer’s self, revealing the carefully crafted persona of the traveler as a fiction. Exploring genres from diaries to film, they show that the most interesting subject of any travel account is the author.
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The Trilingual Literature of Polish Jews from Different Perspectives
In Memory of I.L. Peretz
Are the literary works of Polish Jews one unified literature in three languages, or is the literal corpus of each of these languages a separated literary phenomenon? Here, twenty-seven scholars explore different aspects of the multilingual literature of Eastern European Jews.
Are the literary works of Polish Jews one unified literature in three languages, or is the literal corpus of each of these languages a separated literary phenomenon? Here, twenty-seven scholars explore different aspects of the multilingual literature of Eastern European Jews.
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The Trinidad Dougla
Identity, Ethnicity and Lexical Choice
Through detailed case studies, Regis investigates the search for personal identity of Trinidad’s Douglas, the offspring of Indo-African unions, as they find themselves in a complex social, cultural and linguistic situation.
Through detailed case studies, Regis investigates the search for personal identity of Trinidad’s Douglas, the offspring of Indo-African unions, as they find themselves in a complex social, cultural and linguistic situation.
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The Unassuming Sky
The Life and Poetry of Timothy Corsellis
For the first time in a collected edition, the work of Timothy Corsellis. The poems tell the striking story of an unusual war poet whose life was cut tragically short: an RAF pilot who refused to bomb civilians, and his literary encounter with Stephen Spender.
For the first time in a collected edition, the work of Timothy Corsellis. The poems tell the striking story of an unusual war poet whose life was cut tragically short: an RAF pilot who refused to bomb civilians, and his literary encounter with Stephen Spender.
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The Unharnessed World
Janet Frame and Buddhist Thought
Though Janet Frame encountered Buddhism, her work has never been examined through its lens. This study shows how a Buddhist reading sheds new light on her mysterious texts, arguing Frame used its epistemology to approach the infinite and the Other.
Though Janet Frame encountered Buddhism, her work has never been examined through its lens. This study shows how a Buddhist reading sheds new light on her mysterious texts, arguing Frame used its epistemology to approach the infinite and the Other.
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Traditional criticism is inadequate for modernist poetry. This book offers a new methodology, showing how these poems are built around deep-level propositions. By comparing images, readers can reconstruct meaning and uncover signifying mechanisms that may well be universal.
Traditional criticism is inadequate for modernist poetry. This book offers a new methodology, showing how these poems are built around deep-level propositions. By comparing images, readers can reconstruct meaning and uncover signifying mechanisms that may well be universal.
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The Unknowable in Literature and Material Culture
Essays in Honour of Clive Thomson
How do we come to know the hidden, unspoken, and “unknowable”? Inspired by this question, the contributors to this volume explore fin de siècle homosexuality, Émile Zola as a seeker of concealed truths, crises of representation, and the dialogue between self and other.
How do we come to know the hidden, unspoken, and “unknowable”? Inspired by this question, the contributors to this volume explore fin de siècle homosexuality, Émile Zola as a seeker of concealed truths, crises of representation, and the dialogue between self and other.
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The Unspeakable
Representations of Trauma in Francophone Literature and Art
This volume explores how trauma, even when silenced, emerges in surprising ways in Francophone literature and art. It examines how expressive forms evoke a terrible reality, tackle ethical responsibility, and can ultimately lead to the process of healing.
This volume explores how trauma, even when silenced, emerges in surprising ways in Francophone literature and art. It examines how expressive forms evoke a terrible reality, tackle ethical responsibility, and can ultimately lead to the process of healing.
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The Urban Environmental Crisis in India
New Initiatives in Safe Water and Waste Management
This compendium represents a unique collection of thoughts and views of various water management experts. It highlights that the future of the emerging urban society lies in the proper management of waste and not in mere disposal.
This compendium represents a unique collection of thoughts and views of various water management experts. It highlights that the future of the emerging urban society lies in the proper management of waste and not in mere disposal.
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