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This book critically examines the historical views of Japanese right-wing scholars, focusing on the post-Cold War intellectual right. Using in-depth case studies, it analyzes representative figures and criticizes their viewpoints on the Japanese cultural invasion of China.
This book critically examines the historical views of Japanese right-wing scholars, focusing on the post-Cold War intellectual right. Using in-depth case studies, it analyzes representative figures and criticizes their viewpoints on the Japanese cultural invasion of China.
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The Rise and Fall of Baby Boomers
The Long, Strange Trip of a Generation
The baby boomer generation reshaped the world, but now younger generations blame them for damaging the nation and planet. This fact-based, objective history contextualizes this deep generational divide, a key theme in contemporary American culture.
The baby boomer generation reshaped the world, but now younger generations blame them for damaging the nation and planet. This fact-based, objective history contextualizes this deep generational divide, a key theme in contemporary American culture.
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Oscar Wilde’s Elegant Republic
Transformation, Dislocation and Fantasy in fin-de-siècle Paris
Using Oscar Wilde as a connecting thread, this monograph navigates the question of Paris’ popularity as a place of both innovation and exile in the late nineteenth century. It uses French, English and American sources to offer an exploration of both the city and its communities.
Using Oscar Wilde as a connecting thread, this monograph navigates the question of Paris’ popularity as a place of both innovation and exile in the late nineteenth century. It uses French, English and American sources to offer an exploration of both the city and its communities.
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Novelist Winifred Holtby (South Riding) was a strong feminist who died aged only 37. This collection presents her mostly unpublished poems, which chart her life, her loves, the war, and her profound friendship with fellow writer Vera Brittain.
Novelist Winifred Holtby (South Riding) was a strong feminist who died aged only 37. This collection presents her mostly unpublished poems, which chart her life, her loves, the war, and her profound friendship with fellow writer Vera Brittain.
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While the 1588 Spanish Armada is famous, its impact on literature has long been neglected. This book presents the conflict through the literature of both nations, offering a view from Spanish and English voices: Shakespeare and Marlowe are flanked by Cervantes and Lope de Vega.
While the 1588 Spanish Armada is famous, its impact on literature has long been neglected. This book presents the conflict through the literature of both nations, offering a view from Spanish and English voices: Shakespeare and Marlowe are flanked by Cervantes and Lope de Vega.
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What kinds of worlds will exist in our future? How will technology shape our cities, homes, and ourselves? This collection of essays explores science fiction's new spaces—from utopias and dystopias to alien cityscapes—and discusses capitalism, equality, and feminist critique.
What kinds of worlds will exist in our future? How will technology shape our cities, homes, and ourselves? This collection of essays explores science fiction’s new spaces—from utopias and dystopias to alien cityscapes—and discusses capitalism, equality, and feminist critique.
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Waymarking Italy’s Influence on the American Environmental Imagination While on Pilgrimage to Assisi
A 200-kilometre walk from La Verna to Assisi becomes a “deep-travel” journey into Italy's influence on environmental thought. This study shows how traversing texts and trails reveals the debt owed to the Italian landscape in how we conceive of the natural world.
A 200-kilometre walk from La Verna to Assisi becomes a “deep-travel” journey into Italy’s influence on environmental thought. This study shows how traversing texts and trails reveals the debt owed to the Italian landscape in how we conceive of the natural world.
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An Existentialist Theory of the Human Spirit (Volume 2)
To Create and Believe... or Not
From sexuality and religion to quantum physics, this volume traces existentialism's vast influence. It explores global mysticism, the minds of outcasts like van Gogh and Artaud, and the profound link between the absurd and the cosmos.
From sexuality and religion to quantum physics, this volume traces existentialism’s vast influence. It explores global mysticism, the minds of outcasts like van Gogh and Artaud, and the profound link between the absurd and the cosmos.
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Islam in Contemporary Literature
Jihad, Revolution, Subjectivity
This volume presents authors from an Islamic background who search for a voice for individual rights. This study discusses an ongoing Reformation in Islam, focusing on the role of women, sexuality, the “clash of civilizations,” free speech, assimilation, and pluralism.
This volume presents authors from an Islamic background who search for a voice for individual rights. This study discusses an ongoing Reformation in Islam, focusing on the role of women, sexuality, the “clash of civilizations,” free speech, assimilation, and pluralism.
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The Spectre of Defeat in Post-War British and US Literature
Experience, Memory and Post-Memory
History is written by the victors. But what if they perceive themselves as defeated? This collection examines how a sense of defeat undermines the certainties of victory, exploring UK and US fiction since WWI to offer an account of the victorious-yet-somehow-defeated.
History is written by the victors. But what if they perceive themselves as defeated? This collection examines how a sense of defeat undermines the certainties of victory, exploring UK and US fiction since WWI to offer an account of the victorious-yet-somehow-defeated.
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Alice Munro’s Bestiary
A Book of Human and Non-Human Animals
Inspired by medieval bestiaries, this alphabet book juxtaposes medieval illuminations with Alice Munro excerpts featuring animals. It explores how Munro troubles the boundary between human and non-human, solving some enigmas of her stories while suggesting new riddles.
Inspired by medieval bestiaries, this alphabet book juxtaposes medieval illuminations with Alice Munro excerpts featuring animals. It explores how Munro troubles the boundary between human and non-human, solving some enigmas of her stories while suggesting new riddles.
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Edward Dorn, Charles Olson, and the American West
Beatniks and Cowboys
This book examines Edward Dorn's poetics of the 20th-century American West and the influence of his mentor Charles Olson, considering the most important poetic representations of the West to come out of the Beat Movement and avant-garde literary scene.
This book examines Edward Dorn’s poetics of the 20th-century American West and the influence of his mentor Charles Olson, considering the most important poetic representations of the West to come out of the Beat Movement and avant-garde literary scene.
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This book presents 13 biographies of women in the Transcendentalist movement. While names like Emerson and Thoreau are familiar, figures like Elizabeth Peabody, Sarah Freeman Clark, and others in this volume deserve to be known for their vital contributions to the movement.
This book presents 13 biographies of women in the Transcendentalist movement. While names like Emerson and Thoreau are familiar, figures like Elizabeth Peabody, Sarah Freeman Clark, and others in this volume deserve to be known for their vital contributions to the movement.
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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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Glycoscience
The Intriguing Area to Understand Human Biology, Health and Disease
This book presents compact data in glycoscience, a developing field linking biology, chemistry, and medicine. It covers the structure, biosynthesis, and biological roles of carbohydrates, highlighting their connection to cancer, hereditary disorders, and other human diseases.
This book presents compact data in glycoscience, a developing field linking biology, chemistry, and medicine. It covers the structure, biosynthesis, and biological roles of carbohydrates, highlighting their connection to cancer, hereditary disorders, and other human diseases.
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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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This study explores how Ahlam Mosteghanemi’s novels on the Algerian War’s trauma challenge the myth of a single national story, revealing nationhood as a polyphonic dialogue of competing memories and imagined futures.
This study explores how Ahlam Mosteghanemi’s novels on the Algerian War’s trauma challenge the myth of a single national story, revealing nationhood as a polyphonic dialogue of competing memories and imagined futures.
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Uncovering Machiavelli's sources, from Livy to Boccaccio, these essays trace surprising connections to Shakespeare and Mantegna, revealing how and why Christian authors drew on the pre-Christian world.
Uncovering Machiavelli’s sources, from Livy to Boccaccio, these essays trace surprising connections to Shakespeare and Mantegna, revealing how and why Christian authors drew on the pre-Christian world.
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King James and the Theatre of Witches
Subversion upon the Jacobean Stage
This book analyzes the “witch plays” of Renaissance England and their response to King James I. Once a fevered witch-hunter and author of *Daemonologie*, the monarch saw his beliefs both catered to and subverted on stage by dramatists like Shakespeare and Jonson.
This book analyzes the “witch plays” of Renaissance England and their response to King James I. Once a fevered witch-hunter and author of *Daemonologie*, the monarch saw his beliefs both catered to and subverted on stage by dramatists like Shakespeare and Jonson.
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Literature and Geography
The Writing of Space throughout History
Space has now replaced time as the main category of literary analysis, and is considered to be a central metaphor and topos. As such, this book examines the cross-fertilization of geography and literature as disciplines, languages and methodologies.
Space has now replaced time as the main category of literary analysis, and is considered to be a central metaphor and topos. As such, this book examines the cross-fertilization of geography and literature as disciplines, languages and methodologies.
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