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Literature’s Contributions to Scientific Knowledge
How Novels Explored New Ideas about Human Nature
Interdisciplinary scholarship holds the promise of the unification of all knowledge. Through its wide-ranging analysis, this volume demonstrates, ¬in a careful and original manner, how literary fiction has contributed to the scientific understanding of human nature.
Interdisciplinary scholarship holds the promise of the unification of all knowledge. Through its wide-ranging analysis, this volume demonstrates, ¬in a careful and original manner, how literary fiction has contributed to the scientific understanding of human nature.
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The Fiction of Abdulrazak Gurnah
Journeys through Subalternity and Agency
This insightful work on Abdulrazak Gurnah’s fiction explores themes of oppression, agency, memory, and race. Approaching his work from multiple angles, it takes his fiction beyond the postcolonial perspective into vast new arenas of literary theory.
This insightful work on Abdulrazak Gurnah’s fiction explores themes of oppression, agency, memory, and race. Approaching his work from multiple angles, it takes his fiction beyond the postcolonial perspective into vast new arenas of literary theory.
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This book offers a theoretical and practical treatment of World and Comparative Literature from the perspective of “peripheral” cultures. It aims to transcend the monologues of cultural “centres,” advocating for creative dialogues and a mutually enriching symbiotic relationship.
This book offers a theoretical and practical treatment of World and Comparative Literature from the perspective of “peripheral” cultures. It aims to transcend the monologues of cultural “centres,” advocating for creative dialogues and a mutually enriching symbiotic relationship.
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Disability in Spanish-speaking and U.S. Chicano Contexts
Critical and Artistic Perspectives
Covering the period from the seventeenth century to the contemporary era, diverse geographic areas, and multiple artistic genres, this eclectic collection of academic essays, creative writing, and mixed media photo-images focuses on myriad representations of disability.
Covering the period from the seventeenth century to the contemporary era, diverse geographic areas, and multiple artistic genres, this eclectic collection of academic essays, creative writing, and mixed media photo-images focuses on myriad representations of disability.
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Helen Waddell’s classic novel tells the powerful love story of 12th-century teacher Peter Abelard and the learned Heloise. This annotated edition introduces the extensive literary and historical sources Waddell incorporated into the best-selling story of love and theology.
Helen Waddell’s classic novel tells the powerful love story of 12th-century teacher Peter Abelard and the learned Heloise. This annotated edition introduces the extensive literary and historical sources Waddell incorporated into the best-selling story of love and theology.
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Contemporary Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Writing Back to History and Oppression
This book explores how contemporary children’s and young adult novels write back to history and oppression. Analyzing works from across the globe, it investigates how these narratives raise vital questions about identity, power, language, and social justice.
This book explores how contemporary children’s and young adult novels write back to history and oppression. Analyzing works from across the globe, it investigates how these narratives raise vital questions about identity, power, language, and social justice.
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Greek Lyric Poetry and Its Influence
Texts, Iconography, Music and Cinema
Composed 25 centuries ago, Greek lyric poems sing of everyday life, presenting a living portrait of the ancient Greeks. This multidisciplinary volume offers literary analyses, studies the poems' reflection in Greek art, and explores their connection to music and modern cinema.
Composed 25 centuries ago, Greek lyric poems sing of everyday life, presenting a living portrait of the ancient Greeks. This multidisciplinary volume offers literary analyses, studies the poems’ reflection in Greek art, and explores their connection to music and modern cinema.
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This volume of original essays explores the meaning of water in creative narratives by African Americans. Across literature, film, and music, these writers embody provocative, innovative, and refreshing ways to contemplate water in Black American artistic expressivity.
This volume of original essays explores the meaning of water in creative narratives by African Americans. Across literature, film, and music, these writers embody provocative, innovative, and refreshing ways to contemplate water in Black American artistic expressivity.
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The first study of its kind, this collection explores Beowulf’s extensive impact on contemporary culture. Topics range from film, television, and video games to graphic novels and children’s literature, demonstrating the epic poem's continuing cultural power.
The first study of its kind, this collection explores Beowulf’s extensive impact on contemporary culture. Topics range from film, television, and video games to graphic novels and children’s literature, demonstrating the epic poem’s continuing cultural power.
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The Legacy of Karen Gershon
Child Survivor to Author and Poet
Based on private archives, this is the story of Karen Gershon, a child survivor rescued on the Kindertransport whose writing became the voice of a generation. It reveals her search for identity and home, and a family's struggle with immigration and inherited trauma.
Based on private archives, this is the story of Karen Gershon, a child survivor rescued on the Kindertransport whose writing became the voice of a generation. It reveals her search for identity and home, and a family’s struggle with immigration and inherited trauma.
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Stuart Hood’s year fighting with the Italian Resistance in WWII shaped his peacetime trajectory. This collection assesses the achievements of this broadcaster, media studies pioneer, translator, and novelist, showing how his life offers fresh insights into 20th-century history.
Stuart Hood’s year fighting with the Italian Resistance in WWII shaped his peacetime trajectory. This collection assesses the achievements of this broadcaster, media studies pioneer, translator, and novelist, showing how his life offers fresh insights into 20th-century history.
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International Perspectives on Multilingual Literatures
From Translingualism to Language Mixing
This collection of essays charts interactions between majority and minority languages. Through case studies of authors like Elena Ferrante, Yoko Tawada, and Dylan Thomas, it explores migration, self-translation, language death, and power in (post-)colonial contexts.
This collection of essays charts interactions between majority and minority languages. Through case studies of authors like Elena Ferrante, Yoko Tawada, and Dylan Thomas, it explores migration, self-translation, language death, and power in (post-)colonial contexts.
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This study applies postcolonial theory to Eastern Europe, arguing that ideological domination engenders similar forms of cultural resistance. It offers a comparative framework, revealing a shared imaginative space in authors like Milan Kundera and Salman Rushdie.
This study applies postcolonial theory to Eastern Europe, arguing that ideological domination engenders similar forms of cultural resistance. It offers a comparative framework, revealing a shared imaginative space in authors like Milan Kundera and Salman Rushdie.
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Best known as the creator of the Moomins, Tove Jansson was also a novelist, painter, and cartoonist. This collection of essays by leading scholars discusses her children's fiction alongside her adult writing and visual art, revealing an extraordinary artist.
Best known as the creator of the Moomins, Tove Jansson was also a novelist, painter, and cartoonist. This collection of essays by leading scholars discusses her children’s fiction alongside her adult writing and visual art, revealing an extraordinary artist.
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Perspectives on Ecocriticism
Local Beginnings, Global Echoes
This volume gathers together papers presented at the conference “Ecocriticism in the Nordic Countries; Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow”. The chapters engage with topics such as the Anthropocene, sustainability, and civilizational critique, as well as dark ecology and animal studies.
This volume gathers together papers presented at the conference “Ecocriticism in the Nordic Countries; Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow”. The chapters engage with topics such as the Anthropocene, sustainability, and civilizational critique, as well as dark ecology and animal studies.
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Gloria Naylor’s Fiction
Contemporary Explorations of Class and Capitalism
This text offers innovative ways of analyzing economics in Gloria Naylor’s fiction, using interpretive strategies which are applicable to the entire tradition of African American literature. The writers gathered here embody years of insightful and vigorous Naylor scholarship.
This text offers innovative ways of analyzing economics in Gloria Naylor’s fiction, using interpretive strategies which are applicable to the entire tradition of African American literature. The writers gathered here embody years of insightful and vigorous Naylor scholarship.
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100 Years of the American Dream
Representations and Conceptions in American Literature, 1919-2019
This collection offers examinations of the American Dream across a diverse range of works. Each chapter’s innovative insights transcend literary critique to touch upon issues of economics, education, gender, immigration, psychology, race, and religion.
This collection offers examinations of the American Dream across a diverse range of works. Each chapter’s innovative insights transcend literary critique to touch upon issues of economics, education, gender, immigration, psychology, race, and religion.
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H. G. Wells
Interdisciplinary Essays
H. G. Wells is known for his ‘scientific romances,’ but he was a polymath. This collection of new essays examines his varied writings, from works like The Time Machine to lesser-known novels, assessing his lasting philosophical and political impact.
H. G. Wells is known for his ‘scientific romances,’ but he was a polymath. This collection of new essays examines his varied writings, from works like The Time Machine to lesser-known novels, assessing his lasting philosophical and political impact.
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Fantasy, Art and Life
Essays on George MacDonald, Robert Louis Stevenson and Other Fantasy Writers
William Gray’s Fantasy, Art and Life examines how life is affirmed and enhanced through fantasy literature. Focusing on George MacDonald and Robert Louis Stevenson, it explores how their Scottish backgrounds shaped their engagement with "The Fantastic Imagination."
William Gray’s Fantasy, Art and Life examines how life is affirmed and enhanced through fantasy literature. Focusing on George MacDonald and Robert Louis Stevenson, it explores how their Scottish backgrounds shaped their engagement with “The Fantastic Imagination.”
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Reading Old English Wisdom
The Fetters in the Frost
This book translates and comments on a selection of superb Old English wisdom poems. Composed from the ninth to eleventh centuries, they mingle Christian beliefs with pre-Christian sensibilities, exploring how the human psyche responds to life's challenges.
This book translates and comments on a selection of superb Old English wisdom poems. Composed from the ninth to eleventh centuries, they mingle Christian beliefs with pre-Christian sensibilities, exploring how the human psyche responds to life’s challenges.
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