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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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Fantasy literature is a provocation. Against the dominant skepticism of the age, it points to hope and trust. This collection of essays explores how fantasy brings spiritual and moral values back to the center, rekindling the hope of finding meaning.
Fantasy literature is a provocation. Against the dominant skepticism of the age, it points to hope and trust. This collection of essays explores how fantasy brings spiritual and moral values back to the center, rekindling the hope of finding meaning.
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Trans-Pacific Encounters
Asia and the Hispanic World
This title challenges the current dearth of studies of the literary, cultural, and historical relations between Asia and the Hispanic world, despite the fact that the origin of trans-pacific contact between these regions can be traced as far back as the pre-Columbian period.
This title challenges the current dearth of studies of the literary, cultural, and historical relations between Asia and the Hispanic world, despite the fact that the origin of trans-pacific contact between these regions can be traced as far back as the pre-Columbian period.
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This book explores liminal bodies and their delicate transactions: the body dying, opened in surgery, or living on through organ replacement. It also analyzes the contemporary body commissioned by mass-media, as seen through film, literature, and art.
This book explores liminal bodies and their delicate transactions: the body dying, opened in surgery, or living on through organ replacement. It also analyzes the contemporary body commissioned by mass-media, as seen through film, literature, and art.
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This volume examines how trauma alters women’s identities, from individual experiences to national political abuses. The book shows that language has a transformative power for healing, as women use autobiography and memoir to free themselves and reinvent the form.
This volume examines how trauma alters women’s identities, from individual experiences to national political abuses. The book shows that language has a transformative power for healing, as women use autobiography and memoir to free themselves and reinvent the form.
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Transmedia Storytelling
Pemberley Digital’s Adaptations of Jane Austen and Mary Shelley
This book charts Pemberley Digital’s transmedia adaptations of classic literature, interrogating their relationship with consumer culture. While appearing feminist, their narratives expose anxieties about unstable gender roles and financial vulnerability in the digital age.
This book charts Pemberley Digital’s transmedia adaptations of classic literature, interrogating their relationship with consumer culture. While appearing feminist, their narratives expose anxieties about unstable gender roles and financial vulnerability in the digital age.
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Triumphant Bodies
Sexual Political Conquest in Women’s Published Writing, 1660-1763
This study explores how professional female authors from Aphra Behn to Frances Brooke used a pliant vocabulary of sexuality and politics. This blending of language allowed women to provocatively challenge and rearticulate the terms of power and authority.
This study explores how professional female authors from Aphra Behn to Frances Brooke used a pliant vocabulary of sexuality and politics. This blending of language allowed women to provocatively challenge and rearticulate the terms of power and authority.
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Uncertain Justice
Crimes and Retribution in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction
Il giallo, Italy's crime genre, confronts uncomfortable truths about the nation. Uncertain Justice explores how contemporary noir debates unresolved history, the problematic family, and a flawed justice system, exposing injustice through the power of the word.
Il giallo, Italy’s crime genre, confronts uncomfortable truths about the nation. Uncertain Justice explores how contemporary noir debates unresolved history, the problematic family, and a flawed justice system, exposing injustice through the power of the word.
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Uncovering Caledonia
An Introduction to Scottish Studies
Uncover the burning cultural issues of modern Scotland from a non-native point of view. This book offers insight through the analysis of Scottish folk tales, legends, literature, and film, appealing to both scholars and the general reader.
Uncover the burning cultural issues of modern Scotland from a non-native point of view. This book offers insight through the analysis of Scottish folk tales, legends, literature, and film, appealing to both scholars and the general reader.
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Understanding Institutionalized Education
Towards a Different Philosophy of the School
This book opposes defining schools solely by their effectivity. It defends the school as a place that enables young people to become sociable and as a place of self-education, stressing the importance of teachers and curricula for creating social cohesion.
This book opposes defining schools solely by their effectivity. It defends the school as a place that enables young people to become sociable and as a place of self-education, stressing the importance of teachers and curricula for creating social cohesion.
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Ungrateful Daughters
Third Wave Feminist Writings
Has the third wave of feminism spawned a literary movement? This book analyzes the fiction, memoirs, and anthologies of third wave writers like Rebecca Walker and Michelle Tea, defining a unique “third wave sensibility” and asking: does literary success help women’s liberation?
Has the third wave of feminism spawned a literary movement? This book analyzes the fiction, memoirs, and anthologies of third wave writers like Rebecca Walker and Michelle Tea, defining a unique “third wave sensibility” and asking: does literary success help women’s liberation?
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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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Victorian Murderesses
The Politics of Female Violence
Bulamur investigates the politics of female violence in four novels of the Victorian period, demonstrating how legal and even medical discourses endorsed Victorian domestic ideology and tackling the question of female agency.
Bulamur investigates the politics of female violence in four novels of the Victorian period, demonstrating how legal and even medical discourses endorsed Victorian domestic ideology and tackling the question of female agency.
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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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Which Face of Witch
Self-Representations of Women as Witches in Works of Contemporary British Women Writers
Once a feared figure on the edge of society, the witch has been reclaimed by women as a feminist icon. This study investigates how contemporary British writers like Iris Murdoch, Jeanette Winterson, and Angela Carter interpret this ancient figure in creative ways.
Once a feared figure on the edge of society, the witch has been reclaimed by women as a feminist icon. This study investigates how contemporary British writers like Iris Murdoch, Jeanette Winterson, and Angela Carter interpret this ancient figure in creative ways.
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Personal essays illuminate the effects of whiteness in the workplace. Combining storytelling and scholarship, this collection makes a compelling case for changing the individuals and systems that perpetuate disparities in opportunity, advancement, and well-being.
Personal essays illuminate the effects of whiteness in the workplace. Combining storytelling and scholarship, this collection makes a compelling case for changing the individuals and systems that perpetuate disparities in opportunity, advancement, and well-being.
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Who Defines Me
Negotiating Identity in Language and Literature
Identity is unstable, constructed by variables like ethnicity, race, gender, and culture. Who Defines Me is an interdisciplinary study exploring this negotiation through language and literature, with a focus on Arabs, Muslims, and racial identity in America.
Identity is unstable, constructed by variables like ethnicity, race, gender, and culture. Who Defines Me is an interdisciplinary study exploring this negotiation through language and literature, with a focus on Arabs, Muslims, and racial identity in America.
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Winifred Holtby, “A Woman In Her Time”
Critical Essays
This collection of critical essays sheds new light on Winifred Holtby, author of South Riding and a key figure of interwar Britain. It explores her novels, journalism, and passionate support for feminism, peace, and racial equality.
This collection of critical essays sheds new light on Winifred Holtby, author of South Riding and a key figure of interwar Britain. It explores her novels, journalism, and passionate support for feminism, peace, and racial equality.
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Women and Literature in India
A Critical Perspective
This collection explores Indian women's writing, from ancient poets to contemporary voices, as a powerful tool for resistance and emancipation. The essays delve into the intersections of caste, class, and gender to reveal the complex, textured realities of women in India.
This collection explores Indian women’s writing, from ancient poets to contemporary voices, as a powerful tool for resistance and emancipation. The essays delve into the intersections of caste, class, and gender to reveal the complex, textured realities of women in India.
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This book analyzes feminist trauma fiction, exploring how authors like Margaret Atwood and Anita Desai detail the trauma women experience in a prejudiced world. It expands awareness of traumatic memory and warns that trauma gets reproduced if left unattended.
This book analyzes feminist trauma fiction, exploring how authors like Margaret Atwood and Anita Desai detail the trauma women experience in a prejudiced world. It expands awareness of traumatic memory and warns that trauma gets reproduced if left unattended.
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