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Censorship across Borders
The Reception of English Literature in Twentieth-Century Europe
These essays explore European censorship of English literature, revealing why authors like Joyce and Orwell were targeted by opposing ideologies, from conservative Catholic morality to communism. This study uncovers the complex relationship between the state and culture.
These essays explore European censorship of English literature, revealing why authors like Joyce and Orwell were targeted by opposing ideologies, from conservative Catholic morality to communism. This study uncovers the complex relationship between the state and culture.
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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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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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Imagology Profiles
The Dynamics of National Imagery in Literature
This volume expands the field of imagology with new critical analyses, introducing concepts like "geo-imagology" and linking the field to post-colonialism. Essays focus on shifting national and peripheral identities, gender, mobile imagery, and well-established stereotypes.
This volume expands the field of imagology with new critical analyses, introducing concepts like “geo-imagology” and linking the field to post-colonialism. Essays focus on shifting national and peripheral identities, gender, mobile imagery, and well-established stereotypes.
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The Construction of Latina/o Literary Imaginaries
Essays on Alternative Worldviews
This monograph explores the cultural and historical imaginary expressed in literary works that emphasize Latina/o world views. It employs critical approaches based on discourse and cultural analyses that highlight individual and collective identity.
This monograph explores the cultural and historical imaginary expressed in literary works that emphasize Latina/o world views. It employs critical approaches based on discourse and cultural analyses that highlight individual and collective identity.
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At Whom Are We Laughing?
Humor in Romance Language Literatures
At whom are we really laughing? This collection of scholarly papers explores humor across the centuries in the literatures of Italy, France, and the Iberian Peninsula, revealing diverse aspects of wit little known to the general reader.
At whom are we really laughing? This collection of scholarly papers explores humor across the centuries in the literatures of Italy, France, and the Iberian Peninsula, revealing diverse aspects of wit little known to the general reader.
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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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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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Black Writers and the Left examines the fraught relationship between African American intellectuals and the leftist movement in the early twentieth century, featuring unpublished interviews and archival research on figures like Langston Hughes and Richard Wright.
Black Writers and the Left examines the fraught relationship between African American intellectuals and the leftist movement in the early twentieth century, featuring unpublished interviews and archival research on figures like Langston Hughes and Richard Wright.
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This book investigates language contact and the language-culture relationship, as well as stylistic and syntactic perspectives on the English language. It also looks at 20th-century literature and theoretical approaches in cultural studies.
This book investigates language contact and the language-culture relationship, as well as stylistic and syntactic perspectives on the English language. It also looks at 20th-century literature and theoretical approaches in cultural studies.
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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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Popular Appeal
Books and Films in Contemporary Youth Culture
In a world of urgent social change, young people are devouring fiction about identity and transition. This book examines how popular genres are being redefined to explore today's key questions about the environment, identity, and our place in a fragile world.
In a world of urgent social change, young people are devouring fiction about identity and transition. This book examines how popular genres are being redefined to explore today’s key questions about the environment, identity, and our place in a fragile world.
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Rewriting Wrongs
French Crime Fiction and the Palimpsest
The palimpsest, a reused artifact bearing traces of its past, is a fertile metaphor for crime fiction. This collection of essays explores its various manifestations in French crime fiction, where detective discovery often involves rewriting criminal or historical events.
The palimpsest, a reused artifact bearing traces of its past, is a fertile metaphor for crime fiction. This collection of essays explores its various manifestations in French crime fiction, where detective discovery often involves rewriting criminal or historical events.
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Other Voices
Three Centuries of Cultural Dialogue between Russia and Western Europe
This volume highlights the diverse cultural dialogue between Russia and Western Europe since the eighteenth century, exploring mutual perceptions, literary comparisons, artistic influences, and pivotal physical encounters.
This volume highlights the diverse cultural dialogue between Russia and Western Europe since the eighteenth century, exploring mutual perceptions, literary comparisons, artistic influences, and pivotal physical encounters.
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This book discusses intellectual militancy and activism in Festus Iyayi’s literary works. It shows how this activism impacts marginalized individuals who struggle for social justice, and will appeal to those interested in human rights, power dynamics, and state violence.
This book discusses intellectual militancy and activism in Festus Iyayi’s literary works. It shows how this activism impacts marginalized individuals who struggle for social justice, and will appeal to those interested in human rights, power dynamics, and state violence.
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Reception Studies and Adaptation
A Focus on Italy
This volume explores the Italian adaptation of English literary, multimedia, and audiovisual texts. It investigates how translation choices, by imprinting "Italianness" on the original, can alter a work's meaning and success, directing or even undermining audience reception.
This volume explores the Italian adaptation of English literary, multimedia, and audiovisual texts. It investigates how translation choices, by imprinting “Italianness” on the original, can alter a work’s meaning and success, directing or even undermining audience reception.
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Women Poets and Myth in the 20th and 21st Centuries
On Sappho’s Website
This book examines women poets and theorists who engage with myth. From H.D. to Margaret Atwood and Anne Carson, they rewrite old myths and create new ones for the present, interrogating their power to articulate our reality and act as catalysts for new ideas.
This book examines women poets and theorists who engage with myth. From H.D. to Margaret Atwood and Anne Carson, they rewrite old myths and create new ones for the present, interrogating their power to articulate our reality and act as catalysts for new ideas.
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Displacing the Anxieties of Our World
Spaces of the Imagination
Discussing fictive spaces of literature, film, and video-gaming, this compilation bridges the imagined space between 17th-century utopia and 21st-century dystopia. It argues that the space of imagination offers a virtual battleground—and the possibility of triumph.
Discussing fictive spaces of literature, film, and video-gaming, this compilation bridges the imagined space between 17th-century utopia and 21st-century dystopia. It argues that the space of imagination offers a virtual battleground—and the possibility of triumph.
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Myths in Crisis
The Crisis of Myth
This volume examines how 20th and 21st-century crises affect myth, analysing the crisis of its structure and the terminology threatening its study. Prestigious researchers explore ancient and modern literary myths and those in the material world.
This volume examines how 20th and 21st-century crises affect myth, analysing the crisis of its structure and the terminology threatening its study. Prestigious researchers explore ancient and modern literary myths and those in the material world.
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Patriarchy in Eclipse
The Femme Fatale and the New Woman in American Literature and Culture 1870-1920
This book examines two types of women in post-Civil War literature and art: the femme fatale and the New Woman. It explores how they challenged patriarchal culture and why they precipitated so much intellectual and artistic angst in their educated male readers.
This book examines two types of women in post-Civil War literature and art: the femme fatale and the New Woman. It explores how they challenged patriarchal culture and why they precipitated so much intellectual and artistic angst in their educated male readers.
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