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Peter Cochran’s book charts Byron's profound influence on European literature, arguing that it was a mythical Byron who held sway. Europe's writers embraced the gloomy Byronic Hero, ignoring his satirical best, until Eliot, Joyce, and Yeats read him accurately.
Peter Cochran’s book charts Byron’s profound influence on European literature, arguing that it was a mythical Byron who held sway. Europe’s writers embraced the gloomy Byronic Hero, ignoring his satirical best, until Eliot, Joyce, and Yeats read him accurately.
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Deceptive Fictions
Narrating Trauma and Violence in Contemporary Writing
This book explores how contemporary fiction uses trauma and violence. It argues these texts are counter-narratives to postmodern thought, using the body and experiential reality to reassert the individual as an ethical agent and originator of meaning.
This book explores how contemporary fiction uses trauma and violence. It argues these texts are counter-narratives to postmodern thought, using the body and experiential reality to reassert the individual as an ethical agent and originator of meaning.
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Making History Happen
Caribbean Poetry in America
This book examines how transnational women poets of the black diaspora, including Lorna Goodison and Claudia Rankine, use mobility and memory to create renewed identities and a sense of belonging, calling attention to an urgent new body of writing.
This book examines how transnational women poets of the black diaspora, including Lorna Goodison and Claudia Rankine, use mobility and memory to create renewed identities and a sense of belonging, calling attention to an urgent new body of writing.
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The Inside of a Shell
Alice Munro’s Dance of the Happy Shades
Worldwide specialists examine the first steps of Nobel laureate Alice Munro. This collection of essays offers new critical perspectives on her debut, Dance of the Happy Shades, revealing how these early stories foreshadow the patterns and themes of her celebrated later work.
Worldwide specialists examine the first steps of Nobel laureate Alice Munro. This collection of essays offers new critical perspectives on her debut, Dance of the Happy Shades, revealing how these early stories foreshadow the patterns and themes of her celebrated later work.
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Islamic Postcolonialism
Islam and Muslim Identities in Four Contemporary British Novels
This book forges a new path with Islamic postcolonialism, using a Muslim perspective to challenge colonial legacies in Western writing. It explores the construction of Muslim identity in fiction by Kureishi, Ali, Aboulela, and Rushdie.
This book forges a new path with Islamic postcolonialism, using a Muslim perspective to challenge colonial legacies in Western writing. It explores the construction of Muslim identity in fiction by Kureishi, Ali, Aboulela, and Rushdie.
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This volume explores identity formation in Afro-Hispanic and African contexts, re-contextualizing diaspora beyond debates of voluntary migration versus traumatic exile. Essays cover countries like Cuba, Spain, and Angola, and themes from religion to politics.
This volume explores identity formation in Afro-Hispanic and African contexts, re-contextualizing diaspora beyond debates of voluntary migration versus traumatic exile. Essays cover countries like Cuba, Spain, and Angola, and themes from religion to politics.
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These essays explore how conversational exchanges in Early Modern England informed cultural productions. Conversation functioned as a method for creation and interpretation, a metamorphic force that did not simply reproduce, but transformed with each interaction.
These essays explore how conversational exchanges in Early Modern England informed cultural productions. Conversation functioned as a method for creation and interpretation, a metamorphic force that did not simply reproduce, but transformed with each interaction.
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This is the first woman’s travel narrative from late 19th-century colonial India. Krishnabhabini Das defied convention by writing about her life in England to educate fellow Indians on British culture, offering a rare female perspective on the colonial world.
This is the first woman’s travel narrative from late 19th-century colonial India. Krishnabhabini Das defied convention by writing about her life in England to educate fellow Indians on British culture, offering a rare female perspective on the colonial 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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In King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare explores political survival at court. This book offers a new perspective on monarchy by distinguishing authority from power, arguing that persuasion is essential to reinforcing royal rule and establishing the monarch.
In King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare explores political survival at court. This book offers a new perspective on monarchy by distinguishing authority from power, arguing that persuasion is essential to reinforcing royal rule and establishing the monarch.
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Following the Animal
Power, Agency, and Human-Animal Transformations in Modern, Northern-European Literature
Following the Animal analyses human-animal transformations in modern Nordic literature. It provides insights into the human-animal relationship and offers scholars a transferable strategy for approaching texts from a human-animal studies perspective.
Following the Animal analyses human-animal transformations in modern Nordic literature. It provides insights into the human-animal relationship and offers scholars a transferable strategy for approaching texts from a human-animal studies perspective.
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Teaching as a Human Experience
An Anthology of Contemporary Poems
The poems in this collection deal with the real-life worlds of teachers. This volume covers the manifold experiences, perspectives, and epiphanies of being an educator, giving creative voice to teachers and students and empowering readers with inspiration and personal agency.
The poems in this collection deal with the real-life worlds of teachers. This volume covers the manifold experiences, perspectives, and epiphanies of being an educator, giving creative voice to teachers and students and empowering readers with inspiration and personal agency.
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This volume explores how seventeenth-century intellectuals and officials conceived of interpretation and read their world. It examines practices from literature, translation, and science to political ceremonies, shedding new light on the culture of the period.
This volume explores how seventeenth-century intellectuals and officials conceived of interpretation and read their world. It examines practices from literature, translation, and science to political ceremonies, shedding new light on the culture of the period.
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Violence and Dystopia
Mimesis and Sacrifice in Contemporary Western Dystopian Narratives
A critical examination of imitative desire, scapegoating, and sacrifice in contemporary dystopian narratives through the lens of René Girard’s mimetic theory. It analyzes works by J.G. Ballard, Chuck Palahniuk, Margaret Atwood, and Will Self.
A critical examination of imitative desire, scapegoating, and sacrifice in contemporary dystopian narratives through the lens of René Girard’s mimetic theory. It analyzes works by J.G. Ballard, Chuck Palahniuk, Margaret Atwood, and Will Self.
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This collection of essays explores the rhetoric of fiction, showing how authors from Fielding and Austen to Barnes and Ishiguro achieve their effects. It consists of readings that show rhetoric in action—an invitation to the reader to take part in the fun.
This collection of essays explores the rhetoric of fiction, showing how authors from Fielding and Austen to Barnes and Ishiguro achieve their effects. It consists of readings that show rhetoric in action—an invitation to the reader to take part in the fun.
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This book offers new ways of thinking about identity by analyzing embodiment in the plays of Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco and Jean-Paul Sartre. It provides a new method for analyzing how characters form, or attempt to form, their ever-changing identities.
This book offers new ways of thinking about identity by analyzing embodiment in the plays of Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco and Jean-Paul Sartre. It provides a new method for analyzing how characters form, or attempt to form, their ever-changing identities.
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This book revisits images of the Balkans in twentieth-century travel writing, mirroring the region's turbulent changes. It explores divergent and often contradictory views on the region’s path to reconciling its unique heritage with a European identity.
This book revisits images of the Balkans in twentieth-century travel writing, mirroring the region’s turbulent changes. It explores divergent and often contradictory views on the region’s path to reconciling its unique heritage with a European identity.
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C. S. Lewis and the Inklings
Reflections on Faith, Imagination, and Modern Technology
The Inklings’ views on the negative impacts of technology and their resolution through fellowship and faith. Essays demonstrate how their literary craft can enchant readers, empowering them with a keener spiritual vision to tackle present concerns.
The Inklings’ views on the negative impacts of technology and their resolution through fellowship and faith. Essays demonstrate how their literary craft can enchant readers, empowering them with a keener spiritual vision to tackle present concerns.
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A Theory of General Semiotics
The Science of Signs, Sign-Systems, and Semiotic Reality
This book formulates the central laws of general semiotics, illustrating them with examples from various fields. These laws will prove useful for every branch of semiotics, both those already established and those that will appear in the future.
This book formulates the central laws of general semiotics, illustrating them with examples from various fields. These laws will prove useful for every branch of semiotics, both those already established and those that will appear in the future.
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Dream Tonight of Peacock Tails
Essays on the Fiftieth Anniversary of Thomas Pynchon’s V.
The first in-depth examination of Pynchon’s debut masterpiece. This collection of essays provides new insights into a too-often underestimated work that established Pynchon as one of the great masters of twentieth-century American literature.
The first in-depth examination of Pynchon’s debut masterpiece. This collection of essays provides new insights into a too-often underestimated work that established Pynchon as one of the great masters of twentieth-century American literature.
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