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The contributions here explore a wealth of topics in children’s and young adult (YA) literature and culture, and include an examination of the Watchbird cartoons by Munro Leaf, the role of public youth librarians, and the use of popular video games in the secondary classroom.
The contributions here explore a wealth of topics in children’s and young adult (YA) literature and culture, and include an examination of the Watchbird cartoons by Munro Leaf, the role of public youth librarians, and the use of popular video games in the secondary classroom.
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Baptiste explores the work of Frank Mundell, a late-Victorian author for the Sunday School Union. Mundell focused on heroism and represented various kinds of heroic deeds and figures, regardless of gender, in his books, and wrote for both educative and entertaining purposes.
Baptiste explores the work of Frank Mundell, a late-Victorian author for the Sunday School Union. Mundell focused on heroism and represented various kinds of heroic deeds and figures, regardless of gender, in his books, and wrote for both educative and entertaining purposes.
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Acculturation, Otherness, and Return in Adichie’s Americanah
Outside the Homeland
This title examines the concepts of diaspora in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah (2013), investigating the novel through diasporic concepts such as self and Otherness, acculturation, cultural diversity, hybridity, ambivalence and mimicry, unbelonging and return.
This title examines the concepts of diaspora in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah (2013), investigating the novel through diasporic concepts such as self and Otherness, acculturation, cultural diversity, hybridity, ambivalence and mimicry, unbelonging and return.
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Myth, Music and Ritual
Approaches to Comparative Literature
Divided into two, the essays here consider both myth and some of its contemporary reflections and the connection between myth, music and ritual. Subjects discussed include folklore, literature, traditional music, science-fiction, philosophy, and religion, among others.
Divided into two, the essays here consider both myth and some of its contemporary reflections and the connection between myth, music and ritual. Subjects discussed include folklore, literature, traditional music, science-fiction, philosophy, and religion, among others.
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This volume contains a variety of essays about Florida literature and history by scholars from across the state representing every kind of institution of higher learning, from community colleges to small liberal arts institutions to large universities.
This volume contains a variety of essays about Florida literature and history by scholars from across the state representing every kind of institution of higher learning, from community colleges to small liberal arts institutions to large universities.
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Margaret Atwood’s Dystopian Fiction
Fire Is Being Eaten
Unpacking themes of science, gender, and faith in Atwood's dystopias, this study reveals their startling relevance. It frames her novels within the urgent social, cultural, and political questions of our contemporary world, connecting her fiction to our reality.
Unpacking themes of science, gender, and faith in Atwood’s dystopias, this study reveals their startling relevance. It frames her novels within the urgent social, cultural, and political questions of our contemporary world, connecting her fiction to our reality.
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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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This book explores the cultural and psychological resonances in John B. Keane’s masterpiece, The Field. Applying psychological and post-colonial filters, it analyzes representations of gender and history to encourage a re-appraisal of this often overlooked Irish playwright.
This book explores the cultural and psychological resonances in John B. Keane’s masterpiece, The Field. Applying psychological and post-colonial filters, it analyzes representations of gender and history to encourage a re-appraisal of this often overlooked Irish playwright.
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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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Examining the politics of cultural identity, sexuality in the post-independence era, and Ireland’s culture of incarceration, amongst other themes, this conference proceedings enriches understandings of the social, cultural, and political dimensions of Beckett’s work.
Examining the politics of cultural identity, sexuality in the post-independence era, and Ireland’s culture of incarceration, amongst other themes, this conference proceedings enriches understandings of the social, cultural, and political dimensions of Beckett’s work.
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Stephen King in the New Millennium
Gothic Mediations on New Writing Materialities
This exciting exploration of Stephen King’s digital writing maneuvers and electronic ventures on online platforms unravels the author’s latest writing techniques and justifies his unprecedented success in the new millennium, tracing his shifts from print to the digital.
This exciting exploration of Stephen King’s digital writing maneuvers and electronic ventures on online platforms unravels the author’s latest writing techniques and justifies his unprecedented success in the new millennium, tracing his shifts from print to the digital.
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Quintessential Wilde
His Worldly Place, His Penetrating Philosophy and His Influential Aestheticism
Celebrating Oscar Wilde’s genius, this book explores a variety of subjects, including his travels, sexuality, novels, homosexuality, influence on others and morality. It offers historical, biographical, psychological and sociological perspectives written by international experts.
Celebrating Oscar Wilde’s genius, this book explores a variety of subjects, including his travels, sexuality, novels, homosexuality, influence on others and morality. It offers historical, biographical, psychological and sociological perspectives written by international experts.
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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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Surfing the Waves of Identity
Asian Representations on the American Stage
Asian Americans have often been viewed as a monolithic group. This book traces the origins and impacts of racist stereotypes through a chronological study of dramatists' works, offering nuanced perspectives on the evolving portrayals of Asian Americans in U.S. culture.
Asian Americans have often been viewed as a monolithic group. This book traces the origins and impacts of racist stereotypes through a chronological study of dramatists’ works, offering nuanced perspectives on the evolving portrayals of Asian Americans in U.S. culture.
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This book offers a critical review of Horacio Quiroga's work from the perspective of the border, verifying how the discourse of 19th-century Argentine nation-building reverberates in his literature. It grants a new status to his work, avoiding regionalist or realist readings.
This book offers a critical review of Horacio Quiroga’s work from the perspective of the border, verifying how the discourse of 19th-century Argentine nation-building reverberates in his literature. It grants a new status to his work, avoiding regionalist or realist readings.
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Mapping out the Rushdie Republic
Some Recent Surveys
This collection differs from existing studies on the work of Salman Rushdie by dint of its seriousness of intent and profundity of content. Every major writing of the writer is paid due attention as separate articles are devoted to every aspect of his literary persona.
This collection differs from existing studies on the work of Salman Rushdie by dint of its seriousness of intent and profundity of content. Every major writing of the writer is paid due attention as separate articles are devoted to every aspect of his literary persona.
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New Women’s Writing in Russia, Central and Eastern Europe
Gender, Generation and Identities
This book investigates the explosion of women’s writing in post-socialist Russia, Central and Eastern Europe. It explores why this writing has become so prominent, whether writers see their gender as a burden or empowering, and its links to nationality and class.
This book investigates the explosion of women’s writing in post-socialist Russia, Central and Eastern Europe. It explores why this writing has become so prominent, whether writers see their gender as a burden or empowering, and its links to nationality and class.
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Culture and Society in Crete
From Kornaros to Kazantzakis
The papers here explore original aspects of the Cretan cultural and historical tradition, offering unique insights into already established fields. As a result, they will appeal to scholars of modern Greek studies, Renaissance Studies and comparative literature, among others.
The papers here explore original aspects of the Cretan cultural and historical tradition, offering unique insights into already established fields. As a result, they will appeal to scholars of modern Greek studies, Renaissance Studies and comparative literature, among others.
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Dumitrașcu explores the intricate manifestations of contemporary power and the “resistance” and reaction to the dominant discourse in Jonathan Coe’s political fiction, covering the dismantling of the British social-democratic consensus, up to the new ideology of “Globalism.”
Dumitrașcu explores the intricate manifestations of contemporary power and the “resistance” and reaction to the dominant discourse in Jonathan Coe’s political fiction, covering the dismantling of the British social-democratic consensus, up to the new ideology of “Globalism.”
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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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