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Voices from Early China
The Odes Demystified
The Chinese “Book of Odes” (1000-600 B.C.) is one of the world's earliest literary works. This new translation cuts through centuries of obscurity to reveal the poems' human charm, while also restoring the original speech-music, lost for millennia.
The Chinese “Book of Odes” (1000-600 B.C.) is one of the world’s earliest literary works. This new translation cuts through centuries of obscurity to reveal the poems’ human charm, while also restoring the original speech-music, lost for millennia.
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This is the first book of academic criticism on the connection between Christianity and the detective story. It covers Chesterton, Sayers, and contemporary TV crime dramas, making the case that mystery writing provides both entertainment and religious insight.
This is the first book of academic criticism on the connection between Christianity and the detective story. It covers Chesterton, Sayers, and contemporary TV crime dramas, making the case that mystery writing provides both entertainment and religious insight.
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Myth, Language and Tradition
A Study of Yeats, Stevens, and Eliot in the Context of Heidegger’s Search for Being
"Levity of Design" voices a critique of present-day society from within. J. H. Prynne’s poetry overcomes the impasse of poststructuralism, seeking a language in which the notion of man can be restituted as a viable category in late modernity.
“Levity of Design” voices a critique of present-day society from within. J. H. Prynne’s poetry overcomes the impasse of poststructuralism, seeking a language in which the notion of man can be restituted as a viable category in late modernity.
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The Industrial Novels
Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley, Charles Dickens’ Hard Times and Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South
Providing an historical and theoretical framework for reading three important novels by Charlotte Brontë, Dickens and Gaskell, Balkaya analyses these authors’ strategies for radical reform through improvements in the living and working conditions of the working class.
Providing an historical and theoretical framework for reading three important novels by Charlotte Brontë, Dickens and Gaskell, Balkaya analyses these authors’ strategies for radical reform through improvements in the living and working conditions of the working class.
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This collection of papers is divided into two categories: poetry and prose. The poetry section covers the Pre-Romantic, Romantic, modern, and contemporary eras, while the prose section concerns the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
This collection of papers is divided into two categories: poetry and prose. The poetry section covers the Pre-Romantic, Romantic, modern, and contemporary eras, while the prose section concerns the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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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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Uncertain Justice
Crimes and Retribution in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction
Il giallo, Italy's crime genre, confronts uncomfortable truths about the nation. Uncertain Justice explores how contemporary noir debates unresolved history, the problematic family, and a flawed justice system, exposing injustice through the power of the word.
Il giallo, Italy’s crime genre, confronts uncomfortable truths about the nation. Uncertain Justice explores how contemporary noir debates unresolved history, the problematic family, and a flawed justice system, exposing injustice through the power of the word.
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The contributions here explore a wealth of topics in children’s and young adult (YA) literature and culture, and include an examination of the Watchbird cartoons by Munro Leaf, the role of public youth librarians, and the use of popular video games in the secondary classroom.
The contributions here explore a wealth of topics in children’s and young adult (YA) literature and culture, and include an examination of the Watchbird cartoons by Munro Leaf, the role of public youth librarians, and the use of popular video games in the secondary classroom.
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Imagology Profiles
The Dynamics of National Imagery in Literature
This volume expands the field of imagology with new critical analyses, introducing concepts like "geo-imagology" and linking the field to post-colonialism. Essays focus on shifting national and peripheral identities, gender, mobile imagery, and well-established stereotypes.
This volume expands the field of imagology with new critical analyses, introducing concepts like “geo-imagology” and linking the field to post-colonialism. Essays focus on shifting national and peripheral identities, gender, mobile imagery, and well-established stereotypes.
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The Construction of Latina/o Literary Imaginaries
Essays on Alternative Worldviews
This monograph explores the cultural and historical imaginary expressed in literary works that emphasize Latina/o world views. It employs critical approaches based on discourse and cultural analyses that highlight individual and collective identity.
This monograph explores the cultural and historical imaginary expressed in literary works that emphasize Latina/o world views. It employs critical approaches based on discourse and cultural analyses that highlight individual and collective identity.
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History, Politics, Identity
Reading Literature in a Changing World
This book highlights issues of culture and identity, focusing on how cultural encounters are changing the world and its reflection in literature. Emphasizing cultural pluralism and the necessity of coexistence, this collection will appeal to scholars and the general public.
This book highlights issues of culture and identity, focusing on how cultural encounters are changing the world and its reflection in literature. Emphasizing cultural pluralism and the necessity of coexistence, this collection will appeal to scholars and the general public.
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Dancing the Tao
Le Guin and Moral Development
This book takes an original approach to Ursula K. Le Guin’s work, linking her Taoist upbringing to moral development. It emphasizes her depiction of child abuse and its aftereffects, exploring how morality develops through self-awareness and voice.
This book takes an original approach to Ursula K. Le Guin’s work, linking her Taoist upbringing to moral development. It emphasizes her depiction of child abuse and its aftereffects, exploring how morality develops through self-awareness and voice.
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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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Ethics and Poetics
Ethical Recognitions and Social Reconfigurations in Modern Narratives
This book explores the ethics of fiction, showing how literariness itself generates ethical communication. Authors investigate how modern narratives refine our understanding of recognition, disclosing how the reading experience can regenerate real social spaces.
This book explores the ethics of fiction, showing how literariness itself generates ethical communication. Authors investigate how modern narratives refine our understanding of recognition, disclosing how the reading experience can regenerate real social spaces.
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Constructing Identities
The Interaction of National, Gender and Racial Borders
Border studies examines the conflicts and resolutions that occur when groups come into contact. This peer-reviewed selection of papers focuses on historical, national, gender, and racial borders, and their implications in the construction of an identity.
Border studies examines the conflicts and resolutions that occur when groups come into contact. This peer-reviewed selection of papers focuses on historical, national, gender, and racial borders, and their implications in the construction of an identity.
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Experiencing Gender
International Approaches
This publication investigates the concept of gender in an international context. Focusing on various critical approaches, it explores how gender identities are shaped by socio-cultural factors, and provides a map of how gender experiences are represented in the arts.
This publication investigates the concept of gender in an international context. Focusing on various critical approaches, it explores how gender identities are shaped by socio-cultural factors, and provides a map of how gender experiences are represented in the arts.
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At Whom Are We Laughing?
Humor in Romance Language Literatures
At whom are we really laughing? This collection of scholarly papers explores humor across the centuries in the literatures of Italy, France, and the Iberian Peninsula, revealing diverse aspects of wit little known to the general reader.
At whom are we really laughing? This collection of scholarly papers explores humor across the centuries in the literatures of Italy, France, and the Iberian Peninsula, revealing diverse aspects of wit little known to the general reader.
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The Duel between Sir Alexander Boswell and James Stuart
Scottish Squibs and Pistols at Dawn
Tory poet Sir Alexander Boswell's savage lampoons of his Whig cousin, James Stuart, led to a fatal duel. This book tells the compelling story of their quarrel—a turning point in Scottish politics—and for the first time includes many of Boswell’s witty poems.
Tory poet Sir Alexander Boswell’s savage lampoons of his Whig cousin, James Stuart, led to a fatal duel. This book tells the compelling story of their quarrel—a turning point in Scottish politics—and for the first time includes many of Boswell’s witty poems.
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Ungrateful Daughters
Third Wave Feminist Writings
Has the third wave of feminism spawned a literary movement? This book analyzes the fiction, memoirs, and anthologies of third wave writers like Rebecca Walker and Michelle Tea, defining a unique “third wave sensibility” and asking: does literary success help women’s liberation?
Has the third wave of feminism spawned a literary movement? This book analyzes the fiction, memoirs, and anthologies of third wave writers like Rebecca Walker and Michelle Tea, defining a unique “third wave sensibility” and asking: does literary success help women’s liberation?
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The Famished Road
Ben Okri’s Imaginary Homelands
This volume offers a journey into Ben Okri’s The Famished Road. Contributors look beyond pre-conceived categories to embrace the otherness of the text, offering new ways of reading Okri’s prose and reliance on myth. Includes an exclusive interview with Ben Okri.
This volume offers a journey into Ben Okri’s The Famished Road. Contributors look beyond pre-conceived categories to embrace the otherness of the text, offering new ways of reading Okri’s prose and reliance on myth. Includes an exclusive interview with Ben Okri.
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