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Engaged Romanticism
Romanticism as Praxis
Exploring “engaged romanticism” as a practice rather than a historical period, these essays examine how writers deployed their talents to transform the public sphere. This collection sounds the depths of what engaged practice can accomplish, both in its own age and ours.
Exploring “engaged romanticism” as a practice rather than a historical period, these essays examine how writers deployed their talents to transform the public sphere. This collection sounds the depths of what engaged practice can accomplish, both in its own age and ours.
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Into the Mainstream
Essays on Spanish American and Latino Literature and Culture
This eclectic collection of essays on Spanish American and Latino culture espouses an inclusive approach. Established and developing voices blend high and low realms to reflect on a kaleidoscopic textuality and bring provocative subjects into the academic mainstream.
This eclectic collection of essays on Spanish American and Latino culture espouses an inclusive approach. Established and developing voices blend high and low realms to reflect on a kaleidoscopic textuality and bring provocative subjects into the academic mainstream.
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Truth to Power
Public Intellectuals In and Out of Academe
How can scholars penetrate the corporate media? This collection of articles explores the role of the intellectual in a society where privately owned media dominates public discourse. Never have their opinions been more crucial to the public good.
How can scholars penetrate the corporate media? This collection of articles explores the role of the intellectual in a society where privately owned media dominates public discourse. Never have their opinions been more crucial to the public good.
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The short story is undergoing a renaissance. This collection celebrates its unique appeal, as scholars and writers explore its forms, genres, and international authors from James Joyce to Jorge Luis Borges. Integrating theory and practice, it appeals to writers and students.
The short story is undergoing a renaissance. This collection celebrates its unique appeal, as scholars and writers explore its forms, genres, and international authors from James Joyce to Jorge Luis Borges. Integrating theory and practice, it appeals to writers and students.
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Travelling In and Out of Italy
19th and 20th-Century Notebooks, Letters and Essays
This study considers late 19th and 20th-century Italian writers like D’Annunzio, Pirandello, and Svevo through their notebooks and travel diaries, focusing on the journey to America—an Eden viewed with ambivalence as a land of freedom and oppression.
This study considers late 19th and 20th-century Italian writers like D’Annunzio, Pirandello, and Svevo through their notebooks and travel diaries, focusing on the journey to America—an Eden viewed with ambivalence as a land of freedom and oppression.
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Catalogues of Proper Names in Latin Epic Poetry
Lucretius - Virgil - Ovid
This book explores the poetic catalogue from Homer to Ovid. It examines how internal structural patterns and external framing devices evolved, contrasting Virgil’s supportive function with Lucretius’s subversion and Ovid’s sophisticated innovations.
This book explores the poetic catalogue from Homer to Ovid. It examines how internal structural patterns and external framing devices evolved, contrasting Virgil’s supportive function with Lucretius’s subversion and Ovid’s sophisticated innovations.
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Table Talk
Perspectives on Food in Medieval Italian Literature
These essays explore the multifaceted role of food within medieval Italian culture. Through the writings of authors from Dante and Boccaccio to Catherine of Siena, this volume examines the medical, religious, social, and political role of foodways.
These essays explore the multifaceted role of food within medieval Italian culture. Through the writings of authors from Dante and Boccaccio to Catherine of Siena, this volume examines the medical, religious, social, and political role of foodways.
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This collection gathers international experts on Iris Murdoch to promote the dialogue between philosophy and literature. Scholars first explore her philosophical concerns and their influence, then retrieve the underlying philosophical thinking from her novels.
This collection gathers international experts on Iris Murdoch to promote the dialogue between philosophy and literature. Scholars first explore her philosophical concerns and their influence, then retrieve the underlying philosophical thinking from her novels.
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Liminal Spaces
The Double Art of Carol Shields
This book offers a comprehensive reassessment of the work of Carol Shields. Arguing against enduring conceptions of Shields’s fiction as celebratory domestic miniaturism, the study presents her work as more expansive and equivocal than has sometimes been recognised, reading her texts as “liminal spaces” situated on a series of formal and thematic borders. Close attention is paid to Shields’s stylistic experimentation, to her subversions of auto/biography and historiography, and to the significance of her critical writing, while works which have previously received very little analysis, such as her early poetry…
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This anthology explores hybridity in Spanish culture from Imperial Spain to the twenty-first century. The literary and visual texts studied blur fixed boundaries between genres, cultures, and languages. A hybrid itself, this collection points to the future.
This anthology explores hybridity in Spanish culture from Imperial Spain to the twenty-first century. The literary and visual texts studied blur fixed boundaries between genres, cultures, and languages. A hybrid itself, this collection points to the future.
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Menotti Lerro is one of the most interesting poets of modern-day Europe. His poetry is concerned with powerful imagery, the vulnerability of the body, memory, and identity. For the first time, Lerro’s verse is available in English.
Menotti Lerro is one of the most interesting poets of modern-day Europe. His poetry is concerned with powerful imagery, the vulnerability of the body, memory, and identity. For the first time, Lerro’s verse is available in English.
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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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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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Chinese Women Writers in Diaspora
Jung Chang, Xinran, Hong Ying, Anchee Min, Adeline Yen Mah
Chinese Women Writers in Diaspora is a pioneering study of four writers whose popular and controversial works have received little scholarly attention: Xinran, Hong Ying, Anchee Min, and Adeline Yen Mah.
Chinese Women Writers in Diaspora is a pioneering study of four writers whose popular and controversial works have received little scholarly attention: Xinran, Hong Ying, Anchee Min, and Adeline Yen Mah.
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History, Politics, Identity
Reading Literature in a Changing World
This book highlights issues of culture and identity, focusing on how cultural encounters are changing the world and its reflection in literature. Emphasizing cultural pluralism and the necessity of coexistence, this collection will appeal to scholars and the general public.
This book highlights issues of culture and identity, focusing on how cultural encounters are changing the world and its reflection in literature. Emphasizing cultural pluralism and the necessity of coexistence, this collection will appeal to scholars and the general public.
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This collection of essays connects science fiction to our increasingly science-fictional world, tackling major ethical and political issues. "Will find a market both among academics and... undergraduates." - Dr. Farah Mendelsohn, Middlesex University
This collection of essays connects science fiction to our increasingly science-fictional world, tackling major ethical and political issues. “Will find a market both among academics and… undergraduates.” – Dr. Farah Mendelsohn, Middlesex University
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This book explores the transformation of Anglo-Greek relations since 1945, focusing on the perceptions of writers and organisations. This updated edition includes new chapters discussing the recent "Greek Crisis" and its portrayal in British media.
This book explores the transformation of Anglo-Greek relations since 1945, focusing on the perceptions of writers and organisations. This updated edition includes new chapters discussing the recent “Greek Crisis” and its portrayal in British media.
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Sophie’s Choice
A Contemporary Casebook
This casebook collects interpretations of William Styron’s controversial novel, Sophie's Choice. It focuses on key themes like its treatment of women, sexuality, and the Holocaust, with commentaries by Elie Wiesel, Gloria Steinem, and Styron himself.
This casebook collects interpretations of William Styron’s controversial novel, Sophie’s Choice. It focuses on key themes like its treatment of women, sexuality, and the Holocaust, with commentaries by Elie Wiesel, Gloria Steinem, and Styron himself.
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This book analyses British biographical plays about artists, arguing that dramatists place them in adverse situations. They emerge as flawed human beings, yet their genius and integrity endure. The book also addresses why so many of these plays exist.
This book analyses British biographical plays about artists, arguing that dramatists place them in adverse situations. They emerge as flawed human beings, yet their genius and integrity endure. The book also addresses why so many of these plays exist.
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A History of Armenian Women’s Writing
1880-1921
A History of Armenian Women’s Writing introduces the diversity of literature from 1880-1921. Focusing on six key authors, it reveals how their work formed a literary genealogy and guided debates on national identity, education, the family, and society.
A History of Armenian Women’s Writing introduces the diversity of literature from 1880-1921. Focusing on six key authors, it reveals how their work formed a literary genealogy and guided debates on national identity, education, the family, and society.
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