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Rediscovering French Science-Fiction in Literature, Film and Comics
From Cyrano to Barbarella
French science-fiction is as old as Cyrano de Bergerac’s trip to the moon and Jules Verne’s scientific adventures. This collection introduces its unique contributions to an English-speaking audience, exploring the genre's deep roots in literature, film, and graphic novels.
French science-fiction is as old as Cyrano de Bergerac’s trip to the moon and Jules Verne’s scientific adventures. This collection introduces its unique contributions to an English-speaking audience, exploring the genre’s deep roots in literature, film, and graphic novels.
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Offering 18 essays which critically examine the expanding canon of American children’s books against the backdrop of a social history comprised of a deep layering of struggle, this title charts new ground in how children’s literature is telling stories of historical trauma.
Offering 18 essays which critically examine the expanding canon of American children’s books against the backdrop of a social history comprised of a deep layering of struggle, this title charts new ground in how children’s literature is telling stories of historical trauma.
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Trends in Language Assessment Research and Practice
The View from the Middle East and the Pacific Rim
The contributions brought together here offer a fresh look at language assessment in the Middle East and the Pacific Rim and provides a unique overview of contemporary language assessment research.
The contributions brought together here offer a fresh look at language assessment in the Middle East and the Pacific Rim and provides a unique overview of contemporary language assessment research.
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Polyudova presents a unique study of Russian war songs created during and after World War II, showing how such songs provide illuminating insights into the musical culture of the former Soviet Union and modern Russia.
Polyudova presents a unique study of Russian war songs created during and after World War II, showing how such songs provide illuminating insights into the musical culture of the former Soviet Union and modern Russia.
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These twelve essays explore the fundamental role played by punctuation in the two semiotic fields of text and image. By bringing together authors from various fields, they offer new insights into the possibility and nature of the encounter between visual and textual creation.
These twelve essays explore the fundamental role played by punctuation in the two semiotic fields of text and image. By bringing together authors from various fields, they offer new insights into the possibility and nature of the encounter between visual and textual creation.
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Biography of a Blunder
Base and Superstructure in Marx and Later
Edara proposes a radical departure from the predominant understanding of Marx’s base and superstructure thesis, arguing that the common substitution of Marx’s restricted version with the extended thesis is a blunder and the result of tortuous theoretical developments.
Edara proposes a radical departure from the predominant understanding of Marx’s base and superstructure thesis, arguing that the common substitution of Marx’s restricted version with the extended thesis is a blunder and the result of tortuous theoretical developments.
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Space and Events
Spatial PPs and Motion VPs
This book offers a new perspective on the syntax and semantics of spatial adpositions, presenting them as Relators in motion events. It provides a syntactic-semantic model and analyses equivalent elements across English, Kurdish and Arabic.
This book offers a new perspective on the syntax and semantics of spatial adpositions, presenting them as Relators in motion events. It provides a syntactic-semantic model and analyses equivalent elements across English, Kurdish and Arabic.
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Liminal Dickens
Rites of Passage in His Work
This collection of essays cast new light on some surprisingly neglected areas of Dickens’s writings, namely the rites of passage represented by such transitional moments and ceremonies as birth/christenings, weddings/marriages, and death.
This collection of essays cast new light on some surprisingly neglected areas of Dickens’s writings, namely the rites of passage represented by such transitional moments and ceremonies as birth/christenings, weddings/marriages, and death.
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China From Where We Stand
Readings in Comparative Sinology
This anthology brings together powerful, diverse voices to define the boundaries and possibilities of the new field of Comparative Sinology, and redefines the boundaries of traditional academic study when trying to understand China and its place in the world today.
This anthology brings together powerful, diverse voices to define the boundaries and possibilities of the new field of Comparative Sinology, and redefines the boundaries of traditional academic study when trying to understand China and its place in the world today.
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Trans-Pacific Encounters
Asia and the Hispanic World
This title challenges the current dearth of studies of the literary, cultural, and historical relations between Asia and the Hispanic world, despite the fact that the origin of trans-pacific contact between these regions can be traced as far back as the pre-Columbian period.
This title challenges the current dearth of studies of the literary, cultural, and historical relations between Asia and the Hispanic world, despite the fact that the origin of trans-pacific contact between these regions can be traced as far back as the pre-Columbian period.
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Achieving Consilience
Translation Theories and Practice
The contributions here demonstrate how theories in Translation Studies can be fruitfully and systematically applied during the translation practice, thus offering a better understanding of the translator’s decision-making process.
The contributions here demonstrate how theories in Translation Studies can be fruitfully and systematically applied during the translation practice, thus offering a better understanding of the translator’s decision-making process.
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Words of Crisis, Crisis of Words
Ireland and the Representation of Critical Times
Authored by specialists in Irish Studies, this title provides reflections on the broad topic of crisis and Ireland, its description and representation, and the different ways in which difficulties have been discussed, imagined, or even solved within the Irish context.
Authored by specialists in Irish Studies, this title provides reflections on the broad topic of crisis and Ireland, its description and representation, and the different ways in which difficulties have been discussed, imagined, or even solved within the Irish context.
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The Haunted Muse
Gothic and Sentiment in American Literature
Magee proposes a link between the fears of usurped procreation elicited by the trials and fears of misdirected or usurped creativity, through an analysis of Gothic stories in which authors imagine their literary creations as children who have been transformed by malignant forces.
Magee proposes a link between the fears of usurped procreation elicited by the trials and fears of misdirected or usurped creativity, through an analysis of Gothic stories in which authors imagine their literary creations as children who have been transformed by malignant forces.
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Moon highlights the crucial role played by Victorian and Edwardian novelists in changing views of domestic violence, showing how their depictions of such violence interacted with changing paradigms of masculinity and femininity at the time.
Moon highlights the crucial role played by Victorian and Edwardian novelists in changing views of domestic violence, showing how their depictions of such violence interacted with changing paradigms of masculinity and femininity at the time.
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Incorporations of Chineseness
Hybridity, Bodies, and Chinese American Literature
Through a repositioning of the Chinese component of Asian America in relation to modern transformations of Chinese identity, Fusco reads Asian American literature in relation to historical events and geopolitical changes that have informed the construction of “Chineseness”.
Through a repositioning of the Chinese component of Asian America in relation to modern transformations of Chinese identity, Fusco reads Asian American literature in relation to historical events and geopolitical changes that have informed the construction of “Chineseness”.
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This collection brings together twenty-three scholars from thirteen countries to explore the dynamic and profound ways in which polemical theology, its discourses and codes, interacted with non-theological literary genres in the early modern era.
This collection brings together twenty-three scholars from thirteen countries to explore the dynamic and profound ways in which polemical theology, its discourses and codes, interacted with non-theological literary genres in the early modern era.
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The essays collected here explore the dynamics of myths throughout time and space, along with the mythmaking processes in various cultures, literatures and languages, bringing together not only classical myths, but also their contemporary constructions and reconstructions.
The essays collected here explore the dynamics of myths throughout time and space, along with the mythmaking processes in various cultures, literatures and languages, bringing together not only classical myths, but also their contemporary constructions and reconstructions.
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Jawdat Haydar’s Poetic Legacy
Issues of Modernity, Belonging, Language, and Transcendence
This proceedings of the first Jawdat Haydar international conference comprises papers on the English-language poems of the Lebanese poet. It will appeal to both academic and non-academic readers interested in the field of 20th century English-language world literature.
This proceedings of the first Jawdat Haydar international conference comprises papers on the English-language poems of the Lebanese poet. It will appeal to both academic and non-academic readers interested in the field of 20th century English-language world literature.
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The Whirlwind of Passion
New Critical Perspectives on William Shakespeare
This collection of essays by distinguished scholars provides fresh insight into Shakespearean studies. It explores the Bard’s oeuvre through critical, performance, and comparative analyses, emphasizing the playwright’s relevance today.
This collection of essays by distinguished scholars provides fresh insight into Shakespearean studies. It explores the Bard’s oeuvre through critical, performance, and comparative analyses, emphasizing the playwright’s relevance today.
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Questions of Authority
A Reading of Hamlet
Zouidi examines the issues of authority and authorship in William Shakespeare’s problematic masterpiece Hamlet. In doing so, he argues that the Bard seeks to eternalize himself through his play, that Hamlet dramatizes the authorial quest for sempiternity.
Zouidi examines the issues of authority and authorship in William Shakespeare’s problematic masterpiece Hamlet. In doing so, he argues that the Bard seeks to eternalize himself through his play, that Hamlet dramatizes the authorial quest for sempiternity.
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