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Literature, Theory and the History of Ideas
An Updated Compendium
How do power structures shape our notions of identity, gender, and culture? This collection interrogates these crucial questions across literature, film, and cultural theory, making it a vital resource for scholars and students.
How do power structures shape our notions of identity, gender, and culture? This collection interrogates these crucial questions across literature, film, and cultural theory, making it a vital resource for scholars and students.
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This collection explores our relationship with the natural world and how literature clarifies it in ways science and politics cannot. As we face environmental change, literature becomes equipment for living, helping us make sense of our world and decide how to act.
This collection explores our relationship with the natural world and how literature clarifies it in ways science and politics cannot. As we face environmental change, literature becomes equipment for living, helping us make sense of our world and decide how to act.
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Living and Learning in Dissimilitude Without Dissonance
Wording Otherness
In an age of globalisation, being other is what we all have in common. This volume offers insights into how contemporary literature explores this paradox, revealing the underlying message: to confront otherness is to encounter ourselves in the mirror of culture.
In an age of globalisation, being other is what we all have in common. This volume offers insights into how contemporary literature explores this paradox, revealing the underlying message: to confront otherness is to encounter ourselves in the mirror of culture.
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Where is Shakespeare in the 21st century? In global cinema, graphic novels, sci-fi television, and Jewish revenge films. This collection assesses the active world of Shakespearean adaptation, considering where he is now and where his works might be going.
Where is Shakespeare in the 21st century? In global cinema, graphic novels, sci-fi television, and Jewish revenge films. This collection assesses the active world of Shakespearean adaptation, considering where he is now and where his works might be going.
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This title covers literature from the beginning of the Jacobean period to the end of the Victorian era. Centring on the city of London, it explores different aspects of the interaction of literature and place, covering works by major figures within this time period.
This title covers literature from the beginning of the Jacobean period to the end of the Victorian era. Centring on the city of London, it explores different aspects of the interaction of literature and place, covering works by major figures within this time period.
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Lovely Violence
Chrétien de Troyes’ Critical Romances
In Lovely Violence, Jørgen Bruhn rereads Chrétien de Troyes’ chivalric novels through contemporary concerns of gender and violence. The medieval characters are both shockingly strange and reassuringly recognisable. The Middle Ages may not be so unmodern after all.
In Lovely Violence, Jørgen Bruhn rereads Chrétien de Troyes’ chivalric novels through contemporary concerns of gender and violence. The medieval characters are both shockingly strange and reassuringly recognisable. The Middle Ages may not be so unmodern after all.
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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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Malady and Mortality
Illness, Disease and Death in Literary and Visual Culture
This study examines visual and literary responses to, and representations of, illness, dying and death from the perspective of the chronically ill, their families and carers, medics, artists, photographers, authors, and academics.
This study examines visual and literary responses to, and representations of, illness, dying and death from the perspective of the chronically ill, their families and carers, medics, artists, photographers, authors, and academics.
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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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This volume discusses the critical views of Polish and Russian women writers from the 19th to 21st centuries. The articles explore constructions of femininity, trauma, body, and sexuality, tracing the parallels and differences in their work.
This volume discusses the critical views of Polish and Russian women writers from the 19th to 21st centuries. The articles explore constructions of femininity, trauma, body, and sexuality, tracing the parallels and differences in their work.
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This accessible guide explores literary theory through Marina Warner’s fiction, covering pressing issues like colonialism, displacement, and women's oppression. Blending close textual analysis with jargon-free overviews, it is ideal for students, researchers, and teachers.
This accessible guide explores literary theory through Marina Warner’s fiction, covering pressing issues like colonialism, displacement, and women’s oppression. Blending close textual analysis with jargon-free overviews, it is ideal for students, researchers, and teachers.
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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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Margaret Atwood and Social Justice
A Writer's Evolving Ideology
Margaret Atwood is a writer, not an ideologue. This book traces the evolution of her social justice concerns through her major fiction—from women's rights and environmentalism to critiques of corporate oppression, right-wing governments, and racial injustice.
Margaret Atwood is a writer, not an ideologue. This book traces the evolution of her social justice concerns through her major fiction—from women’s rights and environmentalism to critiques of corporate oppression, right-wing governments, and racial injustice.
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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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This collection of essays marks a different approach to Mark Twain. It explores how geography—from the Mississippi River to Europe and beyond—influenced his work. These essays use Twain’s concepts of space to help us understand his greatest masterpieces.
This collection of essays marks a different approach to Mark Twain. It explores how geography—from the Mississippi River to Europe and beyond—influenced his work. These essays use Twain’s concepts of space to help us understand his greatest masterpieces.
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This work moves among sociolinguistics, critical discourse analysis and translation issues, exploring some of the most representative works by Philip and Johnson, noting their efforts to give to the Caribbean legacy and language the prestige they deserve.
This work moves among sociolinguistics, critical discourse analysis and translation issues, exploring some of the most representative works by Philip and Johnson, noting their efforts to give to the Caribbean legacy and language the prestige they deserve.
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Hermione's bag, Nanny McPhee's magic—all trace their lineage to Mary Poppins. The first book of its kind, this collection explores her vast legacy, tracing her iconic personality, teaching methods, and magical accessories through popular films, TV shows, and books.
Hermione’s bag, Nanny McPhee’s magic—all trace their lineage to Mary Poppins. The first book of its kind, this collection explores her vast legacy, tracing her iconic personality, teaching methods, and magical accessories through popular films, TV shows, and books.
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Masquerade and Femininity
Essays on Russian and Polish Women Writers
These essays on Russian and Polish women writers explore femininity through the lens of masquerade. They scrutinize the gap between lived female experience and the culturally constructed masks women wear, combining East European literary and gender studies.
These essays on Russian and Polish women writers explore femininity through the lens of masquerade. They scrutinize the gap between lived female experience and the culturally constructed masks women wear, combining East European literary and gender studies.
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Chowaniec offers the first systematic overview of Poland’s literary and cultural environment since 1989 from the perspective of women’s writing, surveying the political and social transformations of this period through a close reading of prominent Polish female novelists.
Chowaniec offers the first systematic overview of Poland’s literary and cultural environment since 1989 from the perspective of women’s writing, surveying the political and social transformations of this period through a close reading of prominent Polish female novelists.
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Memories in Lace
Testimonials of Greek Women in Diaspora
Xénia, a Greek American, visits the island of Zakynthos to research the lives of elderly women. She collects and “crochets” their memories into interconnected stories of immigration, crisis, and intergenerational resilience, which transmute into a choral storytelling experience.
Xénia, a Greek American, visits the island of Zakynthos to research the lives of elderly women. She collects and “crochets” their memories into interconnected stories of immigration, crisis, and intergenerational resilience, which transmute into a choral storytelling experience.
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