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The Nordic Storyteller
Essays in Honour of Niels Ingwersen
Nineteen essays explore Nordic storytelling, from oral traditions like folklore and legend to the great literary works of authors like H. C. Andersen, Ibsen, and Isak Dinesen. The volume demonstrates the enduring power of narrative in Scandinavian life.
Nineteen essays explore Nordic storytelling, from oral traditions like folklore and legend to the great literary works of authors like H. C. Andersen, Ibsen, and Isak Dinesen. The volume demonstrates the enduring power of narrative in Scandinavian life.
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Imagining the Mexican Revolution
Versions and Visions in Literature and Visual Culture
In this original collection of essays, leading Mexicanists evaluate the cultural legacy of Mexico’s 1910 Revolution. These cutting-edge essays examine the literary and visual representations of this landmark event and the complexity of its aftermath.
In this original collection of essays, leading Mexicanists evaluate the cultural legacy of Mexico’s 1910 Revolution. These cutting-edge essays examine the literary and visual representations of this landmark event and the complexity of its aftermath.
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Innocence and Loss
Representations of War and National Identity in the United States
A fierce outcry for war has long dominated American culture, a deadly current coursing throughout its history. This collection of essays explores how the “compulsive redeployment of innocence” in America’s wars “endlessly defers a national reckoning.”
A fierce outcry for war has long dominated American culture, a deadly current coursing throughout its history. This collection of essays explores how the “compulsive redeployment of innocence” in America’s wars “endlessly defers a national reckoning.”
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In 1763, The Ladies Complete Letter-Writer was the first manual exclusively for women in eighteenth-century Britain. It questioned pre-conceived ideas on women and their writing. Unedited since 1765, it is now presented with a new introduction and notes.
In 1763, The Ladies Complete Letter-Writer was the first manual exclusively for women in eighteenth-century Britain. It questioned pre-conceived ideas on women and their writing. Unedited since 1765, it is now presented with a new introduction and notes.
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Creative Interventions
The Role of Intellectuals in Contemporary Italy
Who are “intellectuals”? Are they an endangered species? This collection of essays examines the changing role, function, and self-perception of Italian intellectuals since World War II, with comparative essays on their place in other Western cultures.
Who are “intellectuals”? Are they an endangered species? This collection of essays examines the changing role, function, and self-perception of Italian intellectuals since World War II, with comparative essays on their place in other Western cultures.
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Soft-Shed Kisses
Re-visioning the Femme Fatale in English Poetry of the 19th Century
The femme fatale of 19th-century poetry symbolises an intractable mystery and a refusal to be defined. This book interrogates the fatal woman motif in poems by Keats, Shelley, Tennyson, Rossetti and Swinburne, enriched by visual art and cultural background.
The femme fatale of 19th-century poetry symbolises an intractable mystery and a refusal to be defined. This book interrogates the fatal woman motif in poems by Keats, Shelley, Tennyson, Rossetti and Swinburne, enriched by visual art and cultural background.
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At Whom Are We Laughing?
Humor in Romance Language Literatures
At whom are we really laughing? This collection of scholarly papers explores humor across the centuries in the literatures of Italy, France, and the Iberian Peninsula, revealing diverse aspects of wit little known to the general reader.
At whom are we really laughing? This collection of scholarly papers explores humor across the centuries in the literatures of Italy, France, and the Iberian Peninsula, revealing diverse aspects of wit little known to the general reader.
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Dystopia(n) Matters
On the Page, on Screen, on Stage
Reputed scholars explain why dystopia is important. Through studies of literature, film, and theatre, they argue that while dystopia has invaded contemporary discourse, utopia has not been eradicated. The tension between them is instrumental to our future.
Reputed scholars explain why dystopia is important. Through studies of literature, film, and theatre, they argue that while dystopia has invaded contemporary discourse, utopia has not been eradicated. The tension between them is instrumental to our future.
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This collection of essays explores how scholars, critics, and artists have reflected upon and re-imagined Charles Dickens’s texts. It offers a vast array of interdisciplinary approaches—from gender studies to film—attesting to his global appeal.
This collection of essays explores how scholars, critics, and artists have reflected upon and re-imagined Charles Dickens’s texts. It offers a vast array of interdisciplinary approaches—from gender studies to film—attesting to his global appeal.
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Downloading the Poetic Self
An Anatomy of Poetic Character
An autobiography of a writer’s existence in poetry—the tracks left by a clumsy bear taming himself in public. It will light fires, inspiring you to find language as daring as your life and proving that poetry is essential to a good life.
An autobiography of a writer’s existence in poetry—the tracks left by a clumsy bear taming himself in public. It will light fires, inspiring you to find language as daring as your life and proving that poetry is essential to a good life.
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Featuring papers from the Science Fiction Symposia, this volume demonstrate the diversity and adaptability of science fiction as a tool for asking and answering impossible questions. It explores how it challenges boundaries, whether conceptual, literary or metaphorical.
Featuring papers from the Science Fiction Symposia, this volume demonstrate the diversity and adaptability of science fiction as a tool for asking and answering impossible questions. It explores how it challenges boundaries, whether conceptual, literary or metaphorical.
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Ireland and Dysfunction
Critical Explorations in Literature and Film
At the intersection of cultural, literary and film studies, this compilation explores how dysfunction is tackled in Irish studies. It also investigates how mediation, managing, healing and transcending help in understanding the construction process of an Irish identity today.
At the intersection of cultural, literary and film studies, this compilation explores how dysfunction is tackled in Irish studies. It also investigates how mediation, managing, healing and transcending help in understanding the construction process of an Irish identity today.
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In a world of deepening conflict, what is solidarity today? This interdisciplinary volume analyzes the concept from philosophical, social, political, and artistic perspectives, exploring its relation to memory and inspiring readers to help victims of exclusion.
In a world of deepening conflict, what is solidarity today? This interdisciplinary volume analyzes the concept from philosophical, social, political, and artistic perspectives, exploring its relation to memory and inspiring readers to help victims of exclusion.
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This volume explores a multiplicity of “ways of being”, including the adoption of an ethnic position, the enactment of gender, the conception of childhood and artistic visions of urban life. It features discourses of identity and “ways of performing” identity in literature.
This volume explores a multiplicity of “ways of being”, including the adoption of an ethnic position, the enactment of gender, the conception of childhood and artistic visions of urban life. It features discourses of identity and “ways of performing” identity in literature.
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New Literature in Chinese
China and the World
Shoutong discusses the connotations of the concept of “Modern Chinese Literature”, as well as its basic categories. He argues that such fields as “World Chinese Literature” should unite in the area of “New Literature in Chinese”, as they share a language, culture and tradition.
Shoutong discusses the connotations of the concept of “Modern Chinese Literature”, as well as its basic categories. He argues that such fields as “World Chinese Literature” should unite in the area of “New Literature in Chinese”, as they share a language, culture and tradition.
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Essays on Unfamiliar Travel-Writing
Off the Beaten Track
Butler presents essays on travel-narratives, including writing by people who travelled from the East to the West, as well as those going the usual way. He gives, in an informal style, discussions about identity, otherness and stereotyping as they are displayed in the narratives.
Butler presents essays on travel-narratives, including writing by people who travelled from the East to the West, as well as those going the usual way. He gives, in an informal style, discussions about identity, otherness and stereotyping as they are displayed in the narratives.
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This book examines the diverse literature and culture of Newfoundland and Labrador. Scholars and writers explore its unique context across fiction, poetry, and filmmaking, bringing Indigenous histories to the foreground and encouraging international dialogue.
This book examines the diverse literature and culture of Newfoundland and Labrador. Scholars and writers explore its unique context across fiction, poetry, and filmmaking, bringing Indigenous histories to the foreground and encouraging international dialogue.
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Post Celtic Tiger Ireland
Exploring New Cultural Spaces
This anthology provides the reader with an exploration of various artistic works which grew out of the post-Celtic Tiger era in Ireland. In assessing the aftermath of this period and its impact on Ireland today, the contributors also allude to its future evolution and trends.
This anthology provides the reader with an exploration of various artistic works which grew out of the post-Celtic Tiger era in Ireland. In assessing the aftermath of this period and its impact on Ireland today, the contributors also allude to its future evolution and trends.
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Studies in Philology
Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies in Modern Languages
This volume offers a holistic view of Philology, showing the thin line that separates Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies. It is a miscellanea of studies on Modern Language research, focusing on Spanish, English and French.
This volume offers a holistic view of Philology, showing the thin line that separates Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies. It is a miscellanea of studies on Modern Language research, focusing on Spanish, English and French.
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Displacing the Anxieties of Our World
Spaces of the Imagination
Discussing fictive spaces of literature, film, and video-gaming, this compilation bridges the imagined space between 17th-century utopia and 21st-century dystopia. It argues that the space of imagination offers a virtual battleground—and the possibility of triumph.
Discussing fictive spaces of literature, film, and video-gaming, this compilation bridges the imagined space between 17th-century utopia and 21st-century dystopia. It argues that the space of imagination offers a virtual battleground—and the possibility of triumph.
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