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English Without Boundaries
Reading English from China to Canada
This conference proceedings demonstrates the strength of English studies across the world, with contributions from scholars in China, Finland, Israel, Italy, Japan and Portugal, as well as from Canada, the UK and the USA, showing the energy and breadth of English studies today.
This conference proceedings demonstrates the strength of English studies across the world, with contributions from scholars in China, Finland, Israel, Italy, Japan and Portugal, as well as from Canada, the UK and the USA, showing the energy and breadth of English studies 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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Caraivan examines issues central to the South African writer’s works, including annihilating racial oppression and the racism-led psychological alienation. She also focuses on literary topics specific to Gordimer’s post-Apartheid writings.
Caraivan examines issues central to the South African writer’s works, including annihilating racial oppression and the racism-led psychological alienation. She also focuses on literary topics specific to Gordimer’s post-Apartheid writings.
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For students and professionals of textual analysis, this book offers a new way to understand fiction. It replaces traditional linear models with flexible, circular methods that prevent errors of interpretation while providing the keys for testing a reading's validity.
For students and professionals of textual analysis, this book offers a new way to understand fiction. It replaces traditional linear models with flexible, circular methods that prevent errors of interpretation while providing the keys for testing a reading’s validity.
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Modern African American Poets
From Hughes to Parker
Spanning the Harlem Renaissance to the present, this book offers new perspectives on poets like Hughes and Cullen, viewed through self-acceptance and self-dejection. It explores multi-ethnic roots, Dual Inheritance Theory, and the redefinition of black womanhood.
Spanning the Harlem Renaissance to the present, this book offers new perspectives on poets like Hughes and Cullen, viewed through self-acceptance and self-dejection. It explores multi-ethnic roots, Dual Inheritance Theory, and the redefinition of black womanhood.
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This collection tackles the problem of fictionality and reality in contemporary theatre. It analyzes how phenomena like new media and post-dramatic forms challenge the basic dichotomy between the fictional and the real on which Western theatre is based.
This collection tackles the problem of fictionality and reality in contemporary theatre. It analyzes how phenomena like new media and post-dramatic forms challenge the basic dichotomy between the fictional and the real on which Western theatre is based.
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Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi
A Taste for Eccentricity
More than a hostess or a footnote to Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi was a pioneering writer. This volume links her subversive biography to her innovative works, revealing how a scandalous marriage launched her career as a public author.
More than a hostess or a footnote to Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi was a pioneering writer. This volume links her subversive biography to her innovative works, revealing how a scandalous marriage launched her career as a public author.
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“What Countrey’s This? And Whither Are We Gone?”
Papers presented at the Twelfth International Conference on the Literature of Region and Nation (Aberdeen University, 30th July – 2nd August 2008)
This volume includes twenty-two peer-reviewed papers from an international conference on the Literature of Region and Nation. The essays explore literature from all five continents, considering diaspora, exile, language, and cultural interactions.
This volume includes twenty-two peer-reviewed papers from an international conference on the Literature of Region and Nation. The essays explore literature from all five continents, considering diaspora, exile, language, and cultural interactions.
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American Modernism
Cultural Transactions
This book explores American literary modernism as a by-product of cultural transactions between the United States and Europe. Eminent scholars re-examine the works of Wharton, Pound, and Eliot, viewing American literature in a broad international context.
This book explores American literary modernism as a by-product of cultural transactions between the United States and Europe. Eminent scholars re-examine the works of Wharton, Pound, and Eliot, viewing American literature in a broad international context.
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Food and Appetites
The Hunger Artist and the Arts
This book traces food as hunger, desire, and appetite in the arts. Examining hunger in literature and art, it explores food's significance as a metaphor for social class, inequality, and gluttony, revealing the problems of excessive human cravings.
This book traces food as hunger, desire, and appetite in the arts. Examining hunger in literature and art, it explores food’s significance as a metaphor for social class, inequality, and gluttony, revealing the problems of excessive human cravings.
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The physical body is an inescapable object of inquiry in life writing. This collection of new essays by established and emerging scholars offers a timely, interdisciplinary study with subjects ranging from Wharton and Stein to disability memoirs.
The physical body is an inescapable object of inquiry in life writing. This collection of new essays by established and emerging scholars offers a timely, interdisciplinary study with subjects ranging from Wharton and Stein to disability memoirs.
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The Essays of Chitta Ranjan Das on Literature, Culture, and Society
On the Side of Life in Spite of
The essays of Chitta Ranjan Das present a different vision of the post-colonial imagination. This book offers radical new pathways, breaking conventional boundaries between the periphery and the centre, literature and life, and East and West.
The essays of Chitta Ranjan Das present a different vision of the post-colonial imagination. This book offers radical new pathways, breaking conventional boundaries between the periphery and the centre, literature and life, and East and West.
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Business and Institutional Translation
New Insights and Reflections
As the demand for economic, business, and financial translation increases, this peer-reviewed publication gathers practitioners, researchers, and teachers to discuss new issues in institutional, finance, and specialized translation.
As the demand for economic, business, and financial translation increases, this peer-reviewed publication gathers practitioners, researchers, and teachers to discuss new issues in institutional, finance, and specialized translation.
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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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A World of Lost Innocence
The Fiction of Elizabeth Bowen
A World of Lost Innocence charts the psychological journey from innocence to experience in Elizabeth Bowen's fiction, exploring her characters' confrontations with identity, sexuality, and politics.
A World of Lost Innocence charts the psychological journey from innocence to experience in Elizabeth Bowen’s fiction, exploring her characters’ confrontations with identity, sexuality, and politics.
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A Portrait of the Lady in Modern American Literature
Poor Little Rich Girl
This collection of fifteen original essays and a reprint of a classic essay reconsiders the figure of the woman in distress in canonical American texts. In taking up the question “What does a woman want?” it finds answers in artistic endeavour, political agency, and independence.
This collection of fifteen original essays and a reprint of a classic essay reconsiders the figure of the woman in distress in canonical American texts. In taking up the question “What does a woman want?” it finds answers in artistic endeavour, political agency, and independence.
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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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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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Shota Rustaveli's The Knight in the Panther’s Skin organically unites the cultural traditions of the Christian West and Muslim East. This book conducts comparative research, showing the similarities and differences between the works of Rustaveli and Nizami Ganjavi.
Shota Rustaveli’s The Knight in the Panther’s Skin organically unites the cultural traditions of the Christian West and Muslim East. This book conducts comparative research, showing the similarities and differences between the works of Rustaveli and Nizami Ganjavi.
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Censorship across Borders
The Reception of English Literature in Twentieth-Century Europe
These essays explore European censorship of English literature, revealing why authors like Joyce and Orwell were targeted by opposing ideologies, from conservative Catholic morality to communism. This study uncovers the complex relationship between the state and culture.
These essays explore European censorship of English literature, revealing why authors like Joyce and Orwell were targeted by opposing ideologies, from conservative Catholic morality to communism. This study uncovers the complex relationship between the state and culture.
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