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The Poetics of Uncontrollability in Keats’s Endymion
Language Theory and Romantic Periodicals
Anselmo reconstructs the linguistic context of the 18th and early-19th centuries to explain the reviewers’ unease regarding Endymion. She shows that 18th-century prescriptivism arose from an anxiety of language and the desire to control language informed Romantic criticism.
Anselmo reconstructs the linguistic context of the 18th and early-19th centuries to explain the reviewers’ unease regarding Endymion. She shows that 18th-century prescriptivism arose from an anxiety of language and the desire to control language informed Romantic criticism.
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The Power of Culture
Encounters between China and the United States
This edited collection, comprising mainly Chinese academics and students, focuses upon the role of culture in Sino-American affairs, showing how cultural factors are enormously significant in affecting how Chinese and Americans think about and approach each other.
This edited collection, comprising mainly Chinese academics and students, focuses upon the role of culture in Sino-American affairs, showing how cultural factors are enormously significant in affecting how Chinese and Americans think about and approach each other.
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The Racialization of the Occult in Nineteenth Century British Literature
Dark Magic from 1850-1900
In nineteenth-century Britain, the occult was both a source of support and a threat to society. This book examines novels from 1850-1900 to trace how the representation of occult practitioners participated in and contributed to the racialization of the occult.
In nineteenth-century Britain, the occult was both a source of support and a threat to society. This book examines novels from 1850-1900 to trace how the representation of occult practitioners participated in and contributed to the racialization of the occult.
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The Reality behind Barbara Pym’s Excellent Women
The Troublesome Woman Revealed
This book analyses Barbara Pym’s work through the image of the troublesome woman. It highlights her feminist ideas, hidden in village settings and revealed by these women. Exploring Pym's published and unpublished writings shows her as a complex person.
This book analyses Barbara Pym’s work through the image of the troublesome woman. It highlights her feminist ideas, hidden in village settings and revealed by these women. Exploring Pym’s published and unpublished writings shows her as a complex person.
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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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The Right Sort of Woman
Victorian Travel Writers and the Fitness of an Empire
Nineteenth-century British women’s travel writing reveals how they found freedom abroad. Far from strict Victorian codes, they participated in men’s sports, improving their health and confidence. This shaped feminism and the revolutionary image of the New Woman.
Nineteenth-century British women’s travel writing reveals how they found freedom abroad. Far from strict Victorian codes, they participated in men’s sports, improving their health and confidence. This shaped feminism and the revolutionary image of the New Woman.
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The Rise and Fall of Baby Boomers
The Long, Strange Trip of a Generation
The baby boomer generation reshaped the world, but now younger generations blame them for damaging the nation and planet. This fact-based, objective history contextualizes this deep generational divide, a key theme in contemporary American culture.
The baby boomer generation reshaped the world, but now younger generations blame them for damaging the nation and planet. This fact-based, objective history contextualizes this deep generational divide, a key theme in contemporary American culture.
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Rimbaud’s provocative dictum that “I is an other” is reflected in this anthology, which discusses a wide-ranging array of twentieth-century and contemporary minority American modes of life writing with regards to identity, relationality, agency, and ethno-racial issues.
Rimbaud’s provocative dictum that “I is an other” is reflected in this anthology, which discusses a wide-ranging array of twentieth-century and contemporary minority American modes of life writing with regards to identity, relationality, agency, and ethno-racial issues.
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The Shakespearean Search for Archetypes
The Mirror and the Signet
Shakespeare’s mythopoetic figures are not transcendental but are batteries of condensed cultural meaning. This book finds in these archetypes the explanation for why his work responds through time to perspectives as different as psychological, feminist, and postcolonial.
Shakespeare’s mythopoetic figures are not transcendental but are batteries of condensed cultural meaning. This book finds in these archetypes the explanation for why his work responds through time to perspectives as different as psychological, feminist, and postcolonial.
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The Silence of Fallout
Nuclear Criticism in a Post-Cold War World
How do we address the nuclear question in a post-Cold War world? Scholars of Nuclear Criticism converse with emergent voices, renewing this conversation and taking it in exciting new directions for future generations caught in a struggle with nuclear legacies.
How do we address the nuclear question in a post-Cold War world? Scholars of Nuclear Criticism converse with emergent voices, renewing this conversation and taking it in exciting new directions for future generations caught in a struggle with nuclear legacies.
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This book explores the psychological, social, and cultural significance of Westerns. While the stories may have simple plots, their cultural importance is a very complicated matter. Discover the psychological and social pleasures and benefits that explain why people read them.
This book explores the psychological, social, and cultural significance of Westerns. While the stories may have simple plots, their cultural importance is a very complicated matter. Discover the psychological and social pleasures and benefits that explain why people read them.
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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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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 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 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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This landmark collection is the first of critical responses to novelist Thea Astley. It includes essays from leading critics, three essays by Astley herself, a major interview with her, and the first Thea Astley lecture by Kate Grenville.
This landmark collection is the first of critical responses to novelist Thea Astley. It includes essays from leading critics, three essays by Astley herself, a major interview with her, and the first Thea Astley lecture by Kate Grenville.
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This book explores the rich cultural meanings in Vietnamese picturebooks. It's a tool for intercultural understanding, a vital connection to heritage for Vietnamese children at home and abroad, and a step toward a society built on harmony, equality, and love.
This book explores the rich cultural meanings in Vietnamese picturebooks. It’s a tool for intercultural understanding, a vital connection to heritage for Vietnamese children at home and abroad, and a step toward a society built on harmony, equality, and love.
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This “Self” Which Is Not One
Women’s Life Writing in French
This collection examines women’s life-writing from across the Francophone world. Uniting postcolonial, psychoanalytic, and gender studies, it explores how female autobiographies from Africa, the Caribbean, and Europe write the self as a fragmented, plural construct.
This collection examines women’s life-writing from across the Francophone world. Uniting postcolonial, psychoanalytic, and gender studies, it explores how female autobiographies from Africa, the Caribbean, and Europe write the self as a fragmented, plural construct.
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Three Long Poems in Athens
Erēmē Gē-Perama-Kleftiko
Poetic narratives travel through Athens, cutting into the city’s past and opening up its microcosm. This book features the first English translation of three Modern Greek poems, active political texts offering a unique itinerary through the city from the 1980s to the 2010s.
Poetic narratives travel through Athens, cutting into the city’s past and opening up its microcosm. This book features the first English translation of three Modern Greek poems, active political texts offering a unique itinerary through the city from the 1980s to the 2010s.
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Thy Truth Then Be Thy Dowry
Questions of Inheritance in American Women's Literature
This collection of essays offers new insights into inheritance in American women’s writing. Contributors examine women’s problematic relationship to their legacy, revealing strategies of resistance and empowerment used to cope with the burden or lack of inheritance.
This collection of essays offers new insights into inheritance in American women’s writing. Contributors examine women’s problematic relationship to their legacy, revealing strategies of resistance and empowerment used to cope with the burden or lack of inheritance.
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