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Recovering History through Fact and Fiction
Forgotten Lives
This collection reclaims the histories of figures forgotten by time and offers fresh perspectives on those distorted by fame, including Mary Shelley, Judy Garland, and J.R.R. Tolkien. It provides a needed snapshot of new research on biography and its many variations.
This collection reclaims the histories of figures forgotten by time and offers fresh perspectives on those distorted by fame, including Mary Shelley, Judy Garland, and J.R.R. Tolkien. It provides a needed snapshot of new research on biography and its many variations.
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Bridges, Borders and Bodies
Transgressive Transculturality in Contemporary South Asian Diasporic Women’s Novels
This book investigates South Asian women’s fiction, where protagonists' identity negotiations are read as transgressions. Using postcolonial and feminist criticism, it explores narratives addressing the ambivalent tensions of diaspora and patriarchy.
This book investigates South Asian women’s fiction, where protagonists’ identity negotiations are read as transgressions. Using postcolonial and feminist criticism, it explores narratives addressing the ambivalent tensions of diaspora and patriarchy.
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Defining and Redefining Space in the English-Speaking World
Contacts, Frictions, Clashes
Focusing on contacts, frictions, and clashes, this collection explores their spatial nature, highlighting the stakes of (re)definitions of space. It examines how efforts, such as defining and mapping spaces, lead to geographical, social, political, and aesthetic definitions.
Focusing on contacts, frictions, and clashes, this collection explores their spatial nature, highlighting the stakes of (re)definitions of space. It examines how efforts, such as defining and mapping spaces, lead to geographical, social, political, and aesthetic definitions.
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Toward a Linguistic and Literary Revision of Cultural Paradigms
Common and/or Alien
This publication considers the great divides between identity and otherness in order to recover a sense of cultural identity which is at once polymorphous and polyphonic.
This publication considers the great divides between identity and otherness in order to recover a sense of cultural identity which is at once polymorphous and polyphonic.
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Esther Tusquets
Scholarly Correspondences
This volume reviews the life and work of Spanish writer Esther Tusquets (1936–2012). The essays contained offer new readings of the author’s canonical fiction and delve into the largely unexplored terrain of her non-fiction.
This volume reviews the life and work of Spanish writer Esther Tusquets (1936–2012). The essays contained offer new readings of the author’s canonical fiction and delve into the largely unexplored terrain of her non-fiction.
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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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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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States of Decadence
On the Aesthetics of Beauty, Decline and Transgression across Time and Space Volume 2
This two-part anthology focuses on the literary and cultural phenomenon of decadence, with particular attention given to literature from the end of the 1800s. It goes beyond literary studies too, drawing on a number of the tropes and themes of decadence in the arts and culture.
This two-part anthology focuses on the literary and cultural phenomenon of decadence, with particular attention given to literature from the end of the 1800s. It goes beyond literary studies too, drawing on a number of the tropes and themes of decadence in the arts and culture.
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Retold Stories, Untold Histories
Maxine Hong Kingston and Leslie Marmon Silko on the Politics of Imagining the Past
This text explores how Maxine Hong Kingston and Leslie Marmon Silko challenge official history. Coming from marginalized groups, both writers use creative writing to reconstruct silenced pasts and counter stereotypical narratives of American identity.
This text explores how Maxine Hong Kingston and Leslie Marmon Silko challenge official history. Coming from marginalized groups, both writers use creative writing to reconstruct silenced pasts and counter stereotypical narratives of American identity.
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This book analyzes madness in masterpieces of 19th and 20th-century Spanish literature. It explores how conceptions of madness intersect with love, religion, and politics in works by writers like Galdós, Unamuno, Pardo Bazán, and others.
This book analyzes madness in masterpieces of 19th and 20th-century Spanish literature. It explores how conceptions of madness intersect with love, religion, and politics in works by writers like Galdós, Unamuno, Pardo Bazán, and others.
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Man Up
A Study of Gendered Expectations of Masculinities at the Fin de Siècle
The rise of the New Woman during the fin de siècle created a crisis for traditional Victorian masculinity. This book examines how male authors like Conan Doyle and Bram Stoker explored the upheaval of gender roles, asking what it meant to be a man in a rapidly changing world.
The rise of the New Woman during the fin de siècle created a crisis for traditional Victorian masculinity. This book examines how male authors like Conan Doyle and Bram Stoker explored the upheaval of gender roles, asking what it meant to be a man in a rapidly changing world.
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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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Urban Monstrosities
Perversity and Upheaval in the Unreal City
The contributors here show how artists and writers across the past two hundred years figure the monster as a barometer of changing urban patterns. Here, monstrosity becomes the herald of embryonic social forms and marginalized populations in portrayals of cities across media.
The contributors here show how artists and writers across the past two hundred years figure the monster as a barometer of changing urban patterns. Here, monstrosity becomes the herald of embryonic social forms and marginalized populations in portrayals of cities across media.
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Displaced Women
Multilingual Narratives of Migration in Europe
These interdisciplinary essays explore women’s narratives of displacement, transcending the idea of ‘national identity’. The contributors compel us to rethink ‘mother tongue’ and linguistic ownership, and ask how women express their ‘permanent strangeness’.
These interdisciplinary essays explore women’s narratives of displacement, transcending the idea of ‘national identity’. The contributors compel us to rethink ‘mother tongue’ and linguistic ownership, and ask how women express their ‘permanent strangeness’.
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International scholars offer a varied picture of our changing world, discussing the shifting borders of convention in literature, culture, film, music, and art. These complex essays offer fresh views that will stimulate intellectual debate.
International scholars offer a varied picture of our changing world, discussing the shifting borders of convention in literature, culture, film, music, and art. These complex essays offer fresh views that will stimulate intellectual debate.
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A Rich Field Full of Pleasant Surprises
Essays on Contemporary Literature in Honour of Professor Socorro Suárez Lafuente
A vibrant snapshot of English Studies today. These essays on literature, film, gender, and media celebrate global culture in a tribute to the inspiring teaching of Professor Socorro Suárez Lafuente.
A vibrant snapshot of English Studies today. These essays on literature, film, gender, and media celebrate global culture in a tribute to the inspiring teaching of Professor Socorro Suárez Lafuente.
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Enforcing and Eluding Censorship
British and Anglo-Italian Perspectives
How is censorship enforced and eluded? This volume explores the different ways of censorship in the Italian and Anglo-American worlds, from institutional control and discourse regulation to textual and ideological manipulation that provide a biased view of reality.
How is censorship enforced and eluded? This volume explores the different ways of censorship in the Italian and Anglo-American worlds, from institutional control and discourse regulation to textual and ideological manipulation that provide a biased view of reality.
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Anti-Heroes in the Works of Easton Ellis, Coe, Martel and Tsiolkas
Masculinity in Crisis
What does it mean to be “a man” today? This book delves into the shame, struggle, and precariousness inherent in modern masculinity. Through the lens of characters in contemporary novels, it illuminates the overlooked, vulnerable nature of the masculine experience.
What does it mean to be “a man” today? This book delves into the shame, struggle, and precariousness inherent in modern masculinity. Through the lens of characters in contemporary novels, it illuminates the overlooked, vulnerable nature of the masculine experience.
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Biography of a Blunder
Base and Superstructure in Marx and Later
Edara proposes a radical departure from the predominant understanding of Marx’s base and superstructure thesis, arguing that the common substitution of Marx’s restricted version with the extended thesis is a blunder and the result of tortuous theoretical developments.
Edara proposes a radical departure from the predominant understanding of Marx’s base and superstructure thesis, arguing that the common substitution of Marx’s restricted version with the extended thesis is a blunder and the result of tortuous theoretical developments.
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An extensive study of the work of Femi Osofisan, one of Nigeria’s pivotal dramatists and postcolonial playwrights, this text details a variety of his plays to gather insights into the role of art in social change, and discusses the relationship between literature and politics.
An extensive study of the work of Femi Osofisan, one of Nigeria’s pivotal dramatists and postcolonial playwrights, this text details a variety of his plays to gather insights into the role of art in social change, and discusses the relationship between literature and politics.
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