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This collection of scholarly discussions explores the legacy of Tennessee Williams. Probing his drama, fiction, and unpublished work, it covers all aspects of his career, including his relationships with contemporaries, offering fresh perspectives for all readers.
This collection of scholarly discussions explores the legacy of Tennessee Williams. Probing his drama, fiction, and unpublished work, it covers all aspects of his career, including his relationships with contemporaries, offering fresh perspectives for all readers.
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“Catch if you can your country’s moment”
Recovery and Regeneration in the Poetry of Adrienne Rich
These essays explore Adrienne Rich’s work, arguing for a shift from her personal feminist awakening to her later, public re-imagination of America. A transformative cartographer of words, Rich remaps our culture for the marginalized and the resistant.
These essays explore Adrienne Rich’s work, arguing for a shift from her personal feminist awakening to her later, public re-imagination of America. A transformative cartographer of words, Rich remaps our culture for the marginalized and the resistant.
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With Poetry and Philosophy
Four Dialogic Studies—Wordsworth, Browning, Hopkins and Hardy
This book explores the dialogue between poetry and philosophy, from Kant and Wordsworth to Adorno and Hardy. Outlining a new ‘dialogic’ approach, it produces considerations on language and thought that are unexpected, yet strangely fitting.
This book explores the dialogue between poetry and philosophy, from Kant and Wordsworth to Adorno and Hardy. Outlining a new ‘dialogic’ approach, it produces considerations on language and thought that are unexpected, yet strangely fitting.
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This book explores how literature portrays riots not as chaos, but as popular politics. Spanning from Shakespeare to postcolonial uprisings, these essays analyze the charged language of power and resistance, revealing the tension between official culture and the crowd.
This book explores how literature portrays riots not as chaos, but as popular politics. Spanning from Shakespeare to postcolonial uprisings, these essays analyze the charged language of power and resistance, revealing the tension between official culture and the crowd.
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Cultural Status, Genre and Critique
An incisive collection of essays exploring subversive texts, with readings of authors such as Kazuo Ishiguro, Neil Gaiman, and Philip Pullman, and filmmakers such as Terry Gilliam and Orson Welles.
An incisive collection of essays exploring subversive texts, with readings of authors such as Kazuo Ishiguro, Neil Gaiman, and Philip Pullman, and filmmakers such as Terry Gilliam and Orson Welles.
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H. G. Wells
Interdisciplinary Essays
H. G. Wells is known for his ‘scientific romances,’ but he was a polymath. This collection of new essays examines his varied writings, from works like The Time Machine to lesser-known novels, assessing his lasting philosophical and political impact.
H. G. Wells is known for his ‘scientific romances,’ but he was a polymath. This collection of new essays examines his varied writings, from works like The Time Machine to lesser-known novels, assessing his lasting philosophical and political impact.
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Once upon a Time
Myth, Fairy Tales and Legends in Margaret Atwood’s Writings
Essays by influential scholars explore Margaret Atwood’s use of myth, fairy tales, and archetypal narratives to illuminate her fiction and poetry. This collection demonstrates how Atwood revisions old stories, creating a familiar yet unique reading experience.
Essays by influential scholars explore Margaret Atwood’s use of myth, fairy tales, and archetypal narratives to illuminate her fiction and poetry. This collection demonstrates how Atwood revisions old stories, creating a familiar yet unique reading experience.
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The Everyday Fantasic
Essays on Science Fiction and Human Being
The Everyday Fantastic is a collection of essays born from a love for science fiction. Writers from the humanities, social sciences, and sciences view the genre beyond mere entertainment, engaging the fundamental questions explored in its myriad forms.
The Everyday Fantastic is a collection of essays born from a love for science fiction. Writers from the humanities, social sciences, and sciences view the genre beyond mere entertainment, engaging the fundamental questions explored in its myriad forms.
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Schoolhouse Gothic
Haunted Hallways and Predatory Pedagogues in Late Twentieth-Century American Literature and Scholarship
The Schoolhouse Gothic draws on Gothic metaphors—curses of power inequities, schools as traps—to interrogate American education. It suggests something sinister lies behind the academy's benevolent exterior, producing paranoia, violence, and monstrosity.
The Schoolhouse Gothic draws on Gothic metaphors—curses of power inequities, schools as traps—to interrogate American education. It suggests something sinister lies behind the academy’s benevolent exterior, producing paranoia, violence, and monstrosity.
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This collection of essays explores the intersections of public and private life in eighteenth-century Britain, an era of major change. Scholars offer fresh perspectives on canonical works, cultural exchange, fashion, gossip, and gender issues.
This collection of essays explores the intersections of public and private life in eighteenth-century Britain, an era of major change. Scholars offer fresh perspectives on canonical works, cultural exchange, fashion, gossip, and gender issues.
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Postcolonialism
South/African Perspectives
Can literature recenter postcolonial studies? Through a South African lens, these essays move beyond theory to the subjective power of literary texts, challenging us to see our interconnected worlds anew.
Can literature recenter postcolonial studies? Through a South African lens, these essays move beyond theory to the subjective power of literary texts, challenging us to see our interconnected worlds anew.
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Hungarian Perspectives on the Western Canon
Post-Comparative Readings
In this collection, Hungarian literature is read together with canonical works of the Western literary tradition. The text scrutinises the distinction between “major” and “minor” literatures, showing that this can highlight previously unknown components of the literary tradition.
In this collection, Hungarian literature is read together with canonical works of the Western literary tradition. The text scrutinises the distinction between “major” and “minor” literatures, showing that this can highlight previously unknown components of the literary tradition.
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Land and Landscape in Francographic Literature
Remapping Uncertain Territories
As globalization displaces bodies, landscape becomes a potent source for identity. This collection examines how contemporary French literature re-maps post-colonial worlds, exploring dispossession, resistance, and re-appropriation in a constructed literary space.
As globalization displaces bodies, landscape becomes a potent source for identity. This collection examines how contemporary French literature re-maps post-colonial worlds, exploring dispossession, resistance, and re-appropriation in a constructed literary space.
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This study examines the work of Edwin Morgan, a poet admired for his experimental writings and diverse output. Chapters cover his vision poems, his use of the grotesque, adaptations of the elegy, and his enterprise of “voicing” the universe.
This study examines the work of Edwin Morgan, a poet admired for his experimental writings and diverse output. Chapters cover his vision poems, his use of the grotesque, adaptations of the elegy, and his enterprise of “voicing” the universe.
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Naturalisme et excès visuels
pantomime, parodie, image, fête. Mélanges en l'honneur de David Baguley
Ce recueil explore l’esthétique naturaliste sous un jour nouveau à travers le concept d’excès. Pantomime, parodie, image et fête : ces quatre facettes révèlent la prédominance du corporel et du visuel au cœur d'un naturalisme foncièrement moderne.
Ce recueil explore l’esthétique naturaliste sous un jour nouveau à travers le concept d’excès. Pantomime, parodie, image et fête : ces quatre facettes révèlent la prédominance du corporel et du visuel au cœur d’un naturalisme foncièrement moderne.
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Renaissance Tales of Desire
Hermaphroditus and Salmacis, Theseus and Ariadne, Ceyx and Alcione and Orpheus his Journey to Hell. A Revised and Augmented Edition
This edition of mythological tales from Ovid highlights the epyllion, a genre that influenced Marlowe and Shakespeare. While concerned with metamorphosis, these witty narrative poems also express deep male anxiety about female desire in early modern England.
This edition of mythological tales from Ovid highlights the epyllion, a genre that influenced Marlowe and Shakespeare. While concerned with metamorphosis, these witty narrative poems also express deep male anxiety about female desire in early modern England.
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Death and Fantasy
Essays on Philip Pullman, C. S. Lewis, George MacDonald and R. L. Stevenson
This collection of essays explores how a range of fantasy texts deal with the reality of death, uncovering fascinating links and tensions between the writers.
This collection of essays explores how a range of fantasy texts deal with the reality of death, uncovering fascinating links and tensions between the writers.
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In the Jaws of the Leviathan
Genocide Fiction and Film
How do we witness the unspeakable? This book analyzes portrayals of genocide in film and fiction from Africa, Asia, and South America. It contrasts the indirect metaphors of commercial media with the direct, personal gazes found in experimental works.
How do we witness the unspeakable? This book analyzes portrayals of genocide in film and fiction from Africa, Asia, and South America. It contrasts the indirect metaphors of commercial media with the direct, personal gazes found in experimental works.
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This book tackles the challenges of translating children’s literature, from picturebooks to classics like Beatrix Potter and Tolkien. It examines the active role of translators and publishers, linking theory with practice through diverse examples.
This book tackles the challenges of translating children’s literature, from picturebooks to classics like Beatrix Potter and Tolkien. It examines the active role of translators and publishers, linking theory with practice through diverse examples.
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“Divining Thoughts”
Future Directions in Shakespeare Studies
The next generation of Shakespeare scholars offers a glimpse into the future of Renaissance Studies. These essays explore new territory and redefine previous work, demonstrating, as Professor Stanley Wells states, that "the future of... scholarship... is in good hands.”
The next generation of Shakespeare scholars offers a glimpse into the future of Renaissance Studies. These essays explore new territory and redefine previous work, demonstrating, as Professor Stanley Wells states, that “the future of… scholarship… is in good hands.”
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