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Facing the Crises
Anglophone Literature in the Postmodern World
This collection of essays explores "crisis" in Anglo-American literature and culture. It analyzes our relationship to technology and the virtual, rethinks literary genres, and shows why humanist research is crucial for understanding the human condition.
This collection of essays explores “crisis” in Anglo-American literature and culture. It analyzes our relationship to technology and the virtual, rethinks literary genres, and shows why humanist research is crucial for understanding the human condition.
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Facing Trauma in Contemporary American Literary Discourse
Stories of Survival and Possibility
In a culture where trauma breeds fear and aggression, this book turns to literature. Analyzing works by authors like Toni Morrison and Louise Erdrich, it shows how a good story can become a space for curiosity and healing in the face of uncertainty.
In a culture where trauma breeds fear and aggression, this book turns to literature. Analyzing works by authors like Toni Morrison and Louise Erdrich, it shows how a good story can become a space for curiosity and healing in the face of uncertainty.
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In the early twentieth century, fairy tales became political tools used to define a nation’s identity and justify claims to statehood in countries like Romania and Ireland. This book investigates the interweave of poetics and politics during the rise of modernist nationalism.
In the early twentieth century, fairy tales became political tools used to define a nation’s identity and justify claims to statehood in countries like Romania and Ireland. This book investigates the interweave of poetics and politics during the rise of modernist nationalism.
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Behind every crime novel is a family. Some are crime syndicates; others are dysfunctional, tearing themselves apart. Not everyone escapes alive. This collection of essays explores crime fiction, the family, and the disastrous impact society can have on personal relationships.
Behind every crime novel is a family. Some are crime syndicates; others are dysfunctional, tearing themselves apart. Not everyone escapes alive. This collection of essays explores crime fiction, the family, and the disastrous impact society can have on personal relationships.
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This book examines the changing roles of fathers in the nineteenth century as seen in Victorian authors' lives and fiction. They explored conflicting expectations of fatherhood, yielding memorable portrayals and asking a question still relevant today: What makes a good father?
This book examines the changing roles of fathers in the nineteenth century as seen in Victorian authors’ lives and fiction. They explored conflicting expectations of fatherhood, yielding memorable portrayals and asking a question still relevant today: What makes a good father?
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This book analyzes Henrik Ibsen’s thinking on female subjugation and oppression in 19th-century society. Through a lens of his major plays, including *A Doll’s House* and *Hedda Gabler*, it explores his treatment of women and their harassment in every sphere of their lives.
This book analyzes Henrik Ibsen’s thinking on female subjugation and oppression in 19th-century society. Through a lens of his major plays, including *A Doll’s House* and *Hedda Gabler*, it explores his treatment of women and their harassment in every sphere of their lives.
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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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Food in American Culture and Literature
Places at the Table
Carving a unique space in food studies, these multifaceted essays blend cultural analysis with history and sociology. These cultural critiques force the reader to consider what food means, and will mean, in the United States.
Carving a unique space in food studies, these multifaceted essays blend cultural analysis with history and sociology. These cultural critiques force the reader to consider what food means, and will mean, in the United States.
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Forces of Nature
Natural(-izing) Gender and Gender(-ing) Nature in the Discourses of Western Culture
Forces of Nature investigates the relationship between the natural world and gender and sexuality. This collection explores how nature has shaped our understandings of femininity, masculinity, and homosexuality, revealing an intimate, inseparable human connection to nature.
Forces of Nature investigates the relationship between the natural world and gender and sexuality. This collection explores how nature has shaped our understandings of femininity, masculinity, and homosexuality, revealing an intimate, inseparable human connection to nature.
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This volume treats travel writing as "foreign correspondence," a concept oscillating between the private and the public. The essays offer readings of accounts by early modern and more recent travellers, revealing the complex cultural negotiations between them.
This volume treats travel writing as “foreign correspondence,” a concept oscillating between the private and the public. The essays offer readings of accounts by early modern and more recent travellers, revealing the complex cultural negotiations between them.
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Fortune and Fatality
Performing the Tragic in Early Modern France
Tragedy, from Corneille to Racine, has grounded the French literary canon. This book challenges conventional interpretations, exploring the philosophical, theatrical, and performative aspects of the tragic in sixteenth and seventeenth-century France.
Tragedy, from Corneille to Racine, has grounded the French literary canon. This book challenges conventional interpretations, exploring the philosophical, theatrical, and performative aspects of the tragic in sixteenth and seventeenth-century France.
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This collection of essays challenges French-centered conceptions of francophonie. It proposes a pluricentric view, reading cultural forms from the Caribbean, Africa, and Quebec as products of their own contexts, revealing a Frenchness that is truly plural.
This collection of essays challenges French-centered conceptions of francophonie. It proposes a pluricentric view, reading cultural forms from the Caribbean, Africa, and Quebec as products of their own contexts, revealing a Frenchness that is truly plural.
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Davis Wood explores James Fenimore Cooper and Cormac McCarthy as engaged in a complex legal and ethical dialogue regarding the disappearance of the nineteenth century frontier despite the centuries that separate their lives and their work.
Davis Wood explores James Fenimore Cooper and Cormac McCarthy as engaged in a complex legal and ethical dialogue regarding the disappearance of the nineteenth century frontier despite the centuries that separate their lives and their work.
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Are Game of Thrones and feminism compatible? This book shows how the series’ female characters use revenge to acquire autonomy. Drawing on Renaissance Revenge Tragedies and modern feminism, it interprets Game of Thrones as a contemporary, feminist version of a Revenge Tragedy.
Are Game of Thrones and feminism compatible? This book shows how the series’ female characters use revenge to acquire autonomy. Drawing on Renaissance Revenge Tragedies and modern feminism, it interprets Game of Thrones as a contemporary, feminist version of a Revenge Tragedy.
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Containing commentaries on contemporary representations of gender and identity, the contributions here encompass readings of cinema, advertisements and literary texts and are pertinent for scholars in media studies, cultural studies, gender studies, sociology and literature.
Containing commentaries on contemporary representations of gender and identity, the contributions here encompass readings of cinema, advertisements and literary texts and are pertinent for scholars in media studies, cultural studies, gender studies, sociology and literature.
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Gendering Commitment
Re-thinking Social and Ethical Engagement in Modern Italian Culture
This collection challenges the assumption that engagement in Italian culture is a male domain. It analyses the work of those typically excluded from the debate: female writers, artists, and others who insist on questioning and denouncing social realities.
This collection challenges the assumption that engagement in Italian culture is a male domain. It analyses the work of those typically excluded from the debate: female writers, artists, and others who insist on questioning and denouncing social realities.
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Gloria Naylor’s Fiction
Contemporary Explorations of Class and Capitalism
This text offers innovative ways of analyzing economics in Gloria Naylor’s fiction, using interpretive strategies which are applicable to the entire tradition of African American literature. The writers gathered here embody years of insightful and vigorous Naylor scholarship.
This text offers innovative ways of analyzing economics in Gloria Naylor’s fiction, using interpretive strategies which are applicable to the entire tradition of African American literature. The writers gathered here embody years of insightful and vigorous Naylor scholarship.
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Graham Greene’s Narrative in Spain
Criticism, Translations and Censorship (1939-1975)
This monograph details the literary contact between Graham Greene and Franco’s Spain, providing an overview of the roles played by national literary criticism and the book industry in the reception of his works, and the influence exerted by the regime in the publishing process.
This monograph details the literary contact between Graham Greene and Franco’s Spain, providing an overview of the roles played by national literary criticism and the book industry in the reception of his works, and the influence exerted by the regime in the publishing process.
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Grotesque Revisited
Grotesque and Satire in the Post/Modern Literature of Central and Eastern Europe
This collection of essays explores the grotesque in modern Central and Eastern European writing, focusing on the Soviet era. Scholars analyze the relationship between the socio-political background and subversive literary representations of the grotesque.
This collection of essays explores the grotesque in modern Central and Eastern European writing, focusing on the Soviet era. Scholars analyze the relationship between the socio-political background and subversive literary representations of the grotesque.
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Gynocritics and the Traversals of Women’s Writing
Intersections of Diverse Critical Essays
This volume's scholarly articles use feminist approaches to re-read male-centered narratives, revealing how women's rights and roles have been historically undermined. The book offers a space for scholars to contribute to the development of a more egalitarian world.
This volume’s scholarly articles use feminist approaches to re-read male-centered narratives, revealing how women’s rights and roles have been historically undermined. The book offers a space for scholars to contribute to the development of a more egalitarian world.
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