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This book introduces the critical issues in Shakespeare’s plays. What is the secret of a character like Falstaff? What philosophical arguments do the problem plays introduce? What is the value of Shakespeare’s perspective for thinking effectively in our world now?
This book introduces the critical issues in Shakespeare’s plays. What is the secret of a character like Falstaff? What philosophical arguments do the problem plays introduce? What is the value of Shakespeare’s perspective for thinking effectively in our world now?
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Modern Fantasies on Love versus Classical Romances
On the Success of Fifty Shades of Grey
Viewed through quantum physics, love conquers nothing. This book introduces the Token Valence Method, which treats a word as a quantum state to reveal three models of love patterns in fiction: adaptation, alienation, and imagination.
Viewed through quantum physics, love conquers nothing. This book introduces the Token Valence Method, which treats a word as a quantum state to reveal three models of love patterns in fiction: adaptation, alienation, and imagination.
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Girlhood in British Coming-of-Age Novels
The Bildungsroman Heroine Revisited
Šnircová discusses a selection of coming-of-age narratives that offer a revisiting of the classic Bildungsroman heroine and present her developments in postwar and postmillennial British literature, drawing on the work of various feminist critics.
Šnircová discusses a selection of coming-of-age narratives that offer a revisiting of the classic Bildungsroman heroine and present her developments in postwar and postmillennial British literature, drawing on the work of various feminist critics.
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This study explores the intersection of masculinity and domesticity in contemporary film and literature. It argues that texts since the 1990s address “new fatherhood,” problematizing the legitimacy of “new fathers” and “alternative families.”
This study explores the intersection of masculinity and domesticity in contemporary film and literature. It argues that texts since the 1990s address “new fatherhood,” problematizing the legitimacy of “new fathers” and “alternative families.”
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This book explores liminal bodies and their delicate transactions: the body dying, opened in surgery, or living on through organ replacement. It also analyzes the contemporary body commissioned by mass-media, as seen through film, literature, and art.
This book explores liminal bodies and their delicate transactions: the body dying, opened in surgery, or living on through organ replacement. It also analyzes the contemporary body commissioned by mass-media, as seen through film, literature, and art.
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The emotive nature of myth lays the foundation of the research proposed for this trilingual volume, which encompasses a thorough and multifaceted study that offers guidelines and models capable of interpreting mythical-emotional phenomena.
The emotive nature of myth lays the foundation of the research proposed for this trilingual volume, which encompasses a thorough and multifaceted study that offers guidelines and models capable of interpreting mythical-emotional phenomena.
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Modernisation of Chinese Culture
Continuity and Change
This book maps Chinese modernisation, highlighting its relationship to historical and theoretical contexts. Going beyond economics, its multifaceted perspectives focus on overlooked issues in culture, ideology, and society, exploring tensions between tradition and modernity.
This book maps Chinese modernisation, highlighting its relationship to historical and theoretical contexts. Going beyond economics, its multifaceted perspectives focus on overlooked issues in culture, ideology, and society, exploring tensions between tradition and modernity.
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Reading America
New Perspectives on the American Novel
This collection of essays offers a refreshing perspective on classic American novels. It explores familiar texts through unfamiliar lenses, shedding light on surprising aspects of works by authors from Toni Morrison to F. Scott Fitzgerald.
This collection of essays offers a refreshing perspective on classic American novels. It explores familiar texts through unfamiliar lenses, shedding light on surprising aspects of works by authors from Toni Morrison to F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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Magnificent Obsessions
Honouring the Lives of Hazel Rowley
This volume is a tribute to the life and work of biographer Hazel Rowley. This collection of essays and creative writing responds to her many interests: biography, politics, questions of race and sexuality, and the lives of couples.
This volume is a tribute to the life and work of biographer Hazel Rowley. This collection of essays and creative writing responds to her many interests: biography, politics, questions of race and sexuality, and the lives of couples.
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This volume explores space as a construct of human activity. Essays cover topics from literature and film to cultural memory and cyberspace, outlining the shifts concerning existence and identity in continuously changing, transitory, in-between spaces.
This volume explores space as a construct of human activity. Essays cover topics from literature and film to cultural memory and cyberspace, outlining the shifts concerning existence and identity in continuously changing, transitory, in-between spaces.
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Ecstatic Consumption
The Spectacle of Global Dystopia in Contemporary American Literature
Radia argues how the culture of spectacle is ever-evolving and affecting the global dependence on consumption and its many different forms. She asks if avatar (anti)forms provide an escape into a utopian space or further enhance the dystopian ecstasy.
Radia argues how the culture of spectacle is ever-evolving and affecting the global dependence on consumption and its many different forms. She asks if avatar (anti)forms provide an escape into a utopian space or further enhance the dystopian ecstasy.
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A Window on the Italian Female Modernist Subjectivity
From Neera to Laura Curino
These essays explore how women at the forefront of Italian modernity—in literature, photography, and theatre—redefined the self amid societal change, aiming to define a female Italian Modernism complementary to its male counterpart.
These essays explore how women at the forefront of Italian modernity—in literature, photography, and theatre—redefined the self amid societal change, aiming to define a female Italian Modernism complementary to its male counterpart.
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This book explores a critical, often overlooked feature of Edwin Arlington Robinson’s poetry: his puzzling method of narration. It argues that a proper understanding of his poems is impossible without analyzing this unique approach, shaped by his New England and Puritan roots.
This book explores a critical, often overlooked feature of Edwin Arlington Robinson’s poetry: his puzzling method of narration. It argues that a proper understanding of his poems is impossible without analyzing this unique approach, shaped by his New England and Puritan roots.
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Echoing Voices in Italian Literature
Tradition and Translation in the 20th Century
This anthology explores the reception of classics and translation from modern languages as two different, yet synergic, ways of engaging with literary canons and established traditions in 20th-century Italy.
This anthology explores the reception of classics and translation from modern languages as two different, yet synergic, ways of engaging with literary canons and established traditions in 20th-century Italy.
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Coleridge’s Chrysopoetics
Alchemy, Authorship and Imagination
This book assesses alchemy in Coleridge’s conception of authorship. It argues that for Coleridge, the author must become other to become himself. This alchemical view demonstrates a unique link between plagiarism and creativity, redefining originality itself.
This book assesses alchemy in Coleridge’s conception of authorship. It argues that for Coleridge, the author must become other to become himself. This alchemical view demonstrates a unique link between plagiarism and creativity, redefining originality itself.
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New Approaches to Human Dignity in the Context of Qur’ānic Anthropology
The Quest for Humanity
Gathering modern Muslim and non-Muslim approaches to human dignity, this text presents approaches to Islamic theological anthropology. It focuses on the specific ‘grammars’ of anthropological narratives regarding the Qur’ān itself and performative discourse interpretations.
Gathering modern Muslim and non-Muslim approaches to human dignity, this text presents approaches to Islamic theological anthropology. It focuses on the specific ‘grammars’ of anthropological narratives regarding the Qur’ān itself and performative discourse interpretations.
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Metropolitan Mosaics and Melting-Pots
Paris and Montreal in Francophone Literatures
This series of essays explores how the concepts of the melting-pot and the mosaic have shaped the representation of Paris and Montreal in francophone literatures. Migrant writing poses questions of ethnicity and integration, challenging notions of the city and Frenchness.
This series of essays explores how the concepts of the melting-pot and the mosaic have shaped the representation of Paris and Montreal in francophone literatures. Migrant writing poses questions of ethnicity and integration, challenging notions of the city and Frenchness.
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Not So Innocent Abroad
The Politics of Travel and Travel Writing
Travel and travel writing are never innocent. This book offers a fresh approach, arguing that journeying always occurs within political systems. It reveals the political implications and dissimulated messages in travelogues from the 18th to 21st century.
Travel and travel writing are never innocent. This book offers a fresh approach, arguing that journeying always occurs within political systems. It reveals the political implications and dissimulated messages in travelogues from the 18th to 21st century.
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Hilarion’s Asse
Laurence Sterne and Humour
Nine authors unlock Laurence Sterne's kaleidoscopic humour. This volume explores its many facets—the genial, bawdy, sentimental, philosophical, irreverent, and ludicrous—sending the classic text spiralling right off the page.
Nine authors unlock Laurence Sterne’s kaleidoscopic humour. This volume explores its many facets—the genial, bawdy, sentimental, philosophical, irreverent, and ludicrous—sending the classic text spiralling right off the page.
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In 1819, Lady Frederica Murray kept a diary on one of the last Grand Tours. Never before published, this diary is a fascinating look at Europe through the eyes of an observant 19-year-old whose opinions on art, society, and travel were often remarkably open and cutting.
In 1819, Lady Frederica Murray kept a diary on one of the last Grand Tours. Never before published, this diary is a fascinating look at Europe through the eyes of an observant 19-year-old whose opinions on art, society, and travel were often remarkably open and cutting.
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