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Malady and Mortality
Illness, Disease and Death in Literary and Visual Culture
This study examines visual and literary responses to, and representations of, illness, dying and death from the perspective of the chronically ill, their families and carers, medics, artists, photographers, authors, and academics.
This study examines visual and literary responses to, and representations of, illness, dying and death from the perspective of the chronically ill, their families and carers, medics, artists, photographers, authors, and academics.
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D.H. Lawrence and the Marriage Matrix
Intertextual Adventures in Conflict, Renewal, and Transcendence
This innovative study of D. H. Lawrence’s fiction examines the dominant presence of a “marriage matrix”, showing how this intense pattern of preoccupation consistently engages with such important subjects in Lawrence’s life as depression, illness, friendship, and renewal.
This innovative study of D. H. Lawrence’s fiction examines the dominant presence of a “marriage matrix”, showing how this intense pattern of preoccupation consistently engages with such important subjects in Lawrence’s life as depression, illness, friendship, and renewal.
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Murdering Ministers
A Close Look at Shakespeare’s Macbeth in Text, Context and Performance
Delve into Macbeth as never before. This guide integrates centuries of criticism and performance to answer enduring questions (Why is the play cursed?), explores its explosive historical context, and reveals the hilarious dramatic irony often missed in the sombre tragedy.
Delve into Macbeth as never before. This guide integrates centuries of criticism and performance to answer enduring questions (Why is the play cursed?), explores its explosive historical context, and reveals the hilarious dramatic irony often missed in the sombre tragedy.
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Jimmy Du’s Essential Chinese
Jimmy Du’s Natural Language Works Second Edition
Master Mandarin Chinese in the shortest time possible with this audio-companion book. You'll “pick it up” naturally while relaxing, commuting, or travelling—no classrooms, grammar study, or written exercises. Simply listen, imitate, and put to use what you understand.
Master Mandarin Chinese in the shortest time possible with this audio-companion book. You’ll “pick it up” naturally while relaxing, commuting, or travelling—no classrooms, grammar study, or written exercises. Simply listen, imitate, and put to use what you understand.
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The Oracle of the “tiny finger snap of time”
A Study of Novels with a Specific Time Culture
This unique collection of essays explores the use of time in the novel. Writers analyze novels and one film within specific time cultures, covering concepts from inner, felt, and cosmic time to time running backwards, hinting at the future of the novel.
This unique collection of essays explores the use of time in the novel. Writers analyze novels and one film within specific time cultures, covering concepts from inner, felt, and cosmic time to time running backwards, hinting at the future of the novel.
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This volume represents a meeting ground for historians, philologists, and scholars of social science, to discuss places and roles of laughter in history, in historical narratives, and in cultural anthropology from prehistory to the present.
This volume represents a meeting ground for historians, philologists, and scholars of social science, to discuss places and roles of laughter in history, in historical narratives, and in cultural anthropology from prehistory to the present.
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This book examines how color is categorized and named in a number of languages, drawing on as-yet unexplored aspects of color language and categorization. Several approaches are taken to describe new research on how the concept is represented in various languages.
This book examines how color is categorized and named in a number of languages, drawing on as-yet unexplored aspects of color language and categorization. Several approaches are taken to describe new research on how the concept is represented in various languages.
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Like One of the Family
Domestic Workers, Race, and In/Visibility in The Help
Using the best-selling novel The Help and its 2011 film adaptation as a starting point, this collection considers why such sterilized versions of America’s complex racial history resonate so deeply in our contemporary timeframe.
Using the best-selling novel The Help and its 2011 film adaptation as a starting point, this collection considers why such sterilized versions of America’s complex racial history resonate so deeply in our contemporary timeframe.
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ELT Revisited
Some Theoretical and Practical Perspectives
Comprising papers from a conference for Czech teachers of English, this collection discusses a variety of English as a Foreign Language-related topics, including insights on classroom practice. It is relevant to any context where English is taught as a foreign or second language.
Comprising papers from a conference for Czech teachers of English, this collection discusses a variety of English as a Foreign Language-related topics, including insights on classroom practice. It is relevant to any context where English is taught as a foreign or second language.
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Knots like Stars
The ABC of Ecological Imagination in our Americas
This encyclopaedia of essays and aphorisms offers an ecological perspective on Latin American literature and arts. It is a response to the recent increase in the Hispanic population and influence, offering an understanding of the complexity of this diverse culture.
This encyclopaedia of essays and aphorisms offers an ecological perspective on Latin American literature and arts. It is a response to the recent increase in the Hispanic population and influence, offering an understanding of the complexity of this diverse culture.
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Disquiet on the Western Front
World War II and Postmodern Fiction
Using close readings of iconic literary texts, this groundbreaking study looks at the evolution of the war novel, tracing the movement from the modernist novel that followed World War I to the postmodernist novel that followed World War II.
Using close readings of iconic literary texts, this groundbreaking study looks at the evolution of the war novel, tracing the movement from the modernist novel that followed World War I to the postmodernist novel that followed World War II.
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Reflecting 9/11
New Narratives in Literature, Television, Film and Theatre
This collection challenges the view that artistic responses to 9/11 are limited. It traces the emergence of a new paradigm for discussing these narratives as self-conscious interventions that ask crucial questions about how 9/11 is being historicized.
This collection challenges the view that artistic responses to 9/11 are limited. It traces the emergence of a new paradigm for discussing these narratives as self-conscious interventions that ask crucial questions about how 9/11 is being historicized.
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Urban planning isn't about consensus—it's about resolving conflict. This book challenges the myth of a single public interest, reframing planning as a field of resolvable disputes. Through case studies, it uncovers pathways for deeper, more meaningful public participation.
Urban planning isn’t about consensus—it’s about resolving conflict. This book challenges the myth of a single public interest, reframing planning as a field of resolvable disputes. Through case studies, it uncovers pathways for deeper, more meaningful public participation.
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This monograph is devoted to contemporary Albanian poetry, given the important role it has continuously played in Albanian literature as a whole. It analyses particular literary periods and their representative poets from a comparative perspective.
This monograph is devoted to contemporary Albanian poetry, given the important role it has continuously played in Albanian literature as a whole. It analyses particular literary periods and their representative poets from a comparative perspective.
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Literature in Exile
Emigrants' Fiction 20th Century Experience
This conference proceedings provides the first in-depth analysis of the different angles of the problem of emigrant writing. It deals with such problems as the fate of writers opposing different political regimes and the place of such fiction within national literatures.
This conference proceedings provides the first in-depth analysis of the different angles of the problem of emigrant writing. It deals with such problems as the fate of writers opposing different political regimes and the place of such fiction within national literatures.
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The Golden Age
Nostalgia in Word and Image
This volume investigates the diverse applications and conceptions of the term ‘The Golden Age’, and its connection to feelings of nostalgia from a range of perspectives, with a strong focus on the relationship between word and image.
This volume investigates the diverse applications and conceptions of the term ‘The Golden Age’, and its connection to feelings of nostalgia from a range of perspectives, with a strong focus on the relationship between word and image.
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Indian Ocean Futures
Communities, Sustainability and Security
Rapid change in the Indian Ocean demands a revaluation of how communities, sustainability and security are constituted. This book examines the heritage, sustainability and security of the region to engage with the complex relations shaping its future.
Rapid change in the Indian Ocean demands a revaluation of how communities, sustainability and security are constituted. This book examines the heritage, sustainability and security of the region to engage with the complex relations shaping its future.
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Looking Back at the Jazz Age
New Essays on the Literature and Legacy of an Iconic Decade
Resulting from the Jazz Age’s prominence in recent popular culture, this title not only deepens the reader’s knowledge of this iconic period, but also provides a better understanding of its persistent presence “in our time.”
Resulting from the Jazz Age’s prominence in recent popular culture, this title not only deepens the reader’s knowledge of this iconic period, but also provides a better understanding of its persistent presence “in our time.”
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Personal and National Destinies in Independent India
A Study of Selected Indian English Novels
This is a study of fiction that re-writes the grand Indian narrative from a subaltern point of view. It pays tribute to the heroism of ordinary Indians, analyzing how distinguished novelists advocate for an inclusive, humane India, attempting to keep the soul of the nation alive.
This is a study of fiction that re-writes the grand Indian narrative from a subaltern point of view. It pays tribute to the heroism of ordinary Indians, analyzing how distinguished novelists advocate for an inclusive, humane India, attempting to keep the soul of the nation alive.
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A Far Light
A Reading of Beowulf
DiNapoli presents the complete Old English text of Beowulf, in short sections followed by verse translations and extensive commentaries, making this extraordinary literary achievement accessible to interested modern readers who are not familiar with the language it uses.
DiNapoli presents the complete Old English text of Beowulf, in short sections followed by verse translations and extensive commentaries, making this extraordinary literary achievement accessible to interested modern readers who are not familiar with the language it uses.
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