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Microhistory and the Picaresque Novel
A First Exploration into Commensurable Perspectives
This is the first book to combine scholarship on the picaresque novel with microhistory. This innovative volume brings together expert scholars to reveal how microhistory can shed new light on classic novels and their marginal protagonists.
This is the first book to combine scholarship on the picaresque novel with microhistory. This innovative volume brings together expert scholars to reveal how microhistory can shed new light on classic novels and their marginal protagonists.
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This book reveals Shakespeare as an early modern materialist inspired by Lucretius. In chapters on six important plays, it demonstrates how he writes an “atomic” poetry of joining and splitting language to explore the art of nature and the nature of art.
This book reveals Shakespeare as an early modern materialist inspired by Lucretius. In chapters on six important plays, it demonstrates how he writes an “atomic” poetry of joining and splitting language to explore the art of nature and the nature of art.
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As Mirrors Are Lonely
A Lacanian Reading on the Modern Irish Novel
This new study investigates how Irish writers since the sixties have responded to a changing world, re-examining their work through the theory of Jacques Lacan. It focuses on John McGahern, Brian Moore and John Broderick, exploring gender and family.
This new study investigates how Irish writers since the sixties have responded to a changing world, re-examining their work through the theory of Jacques Lacan. It focuses on John McGahern, Brian Moore and John Broderick, exploring gender and family.
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This volume treats travel writing as "foreign correspondence," a concept oscillating between the private and the public. The essays offer readings of accounts by early modern and more recent travellers, revealing the complex cultural negotiations between them.
This volume treats travel writing as “foreign correspondence,” a concept oscillating between the private and the public. The essays offer readings of accounts by early modern and more recent travellers, revealing the complex cultural negotiations between them.
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This collection of essays focuses on the relevance of Henry James’s work for understanding current problems. Studies explore his influence on modernist and postmodern writers and his connections to visual and new media, revealing continuities between his era and our own.
This collection of essays focuses on the relevance of Henry James’s work for understanding current problems. Studies explore his influence on modernist and postmodern writers and his connections to visual and new media, revealing continuities between his era and our own.
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Eleven scholars challenge the popular vision of the American South as an ill region. They interpret its “sickly” culture not as a problem, but as an opportunity and a springboard to cultural revitalization and a new kind of “health”.
Eleven scholars challenge the popular vision of the American South as an ill region. They interpret its “sickly” culture not as a problem, but as an opportunity and a springboard to cultural revitalization and a new kind of “health”.
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Enforcing and Eluding Censorship
British and Anglo-Italian Perspectives
How is censorship enforced and eluded? This volume explores the different ways of censorship in the Italian and Anglo-American worlds, from institutional control and discourse regulation to textual and ideological manipulation that provide a biased view of reality.
How is censorship enforced and eluded? This volume explores the different ways of censorship in the Italian and Anglo-American worlds, from institutional control and discourse regulation to textual and ideological manipulation that provide a biased view of reality.
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Bridges, Borders and Bodies
Transgressive Transculturality in Contemporary South Asian Diasporic Women’s Novels
This book investigates South Asian women’s fiction, where protagonists' identity negotiations are read as transgressions. Using postcolonial and feminist criticism, it explores narratives addressing the ambivalent tensions of diaspora and patriarchy.
This book investigates South Asian women’s fiction, where protagonists’ identity negotiations are read as transgressions. Using postcolonial and feminist criticism, it explores narratives addressing the ambivalent tensions of diaspora and patriarchy.
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The Wild Pig
A Bilingual Edition of Pierre Boudot’s Le cochon sauvage
In war-torn Algeria, a narrator travels a land of stunning beauty, meditating on good and evil. As a primordial wildness wells within him, he chooses solitude. But will he be able to avoid confronting the wild beast in its lair?
In war-torn Algeria, a narrator travels a land of stunning beauty, meditating on good and evil. As a primordial wildness wells within him, he chooses solitude. But will he be able to avoid confronting the wild beast in its lair?
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Rewriting Wrongs
French Crime Fiction and the Palimpsest
The palimpsest, a reused artifact bearing traces of its past, is a fertile metaphor for crime fiction. This collection of essays explores its various manifestations in French crime fiction, where detective discovery often involves rewriting criminal or historical events.
The palimpsest, a reused artifact bearing traces of its past, is a fertile metaphor for crime fiction. This collection of essays explores its various manifestations in French crime fiction, where detective discovery often involves rewriting criminal or historical events.
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Shakespeare and Tyranny
Regimes of Reading in Europe and Beyond
This book shows Shakespeare as an unwitting commentator on unsettling political events. Essays explore how his plays have been used to reflect, legitimize, or challenge authoritarian rule in Europe, North Africa, South America, and beyond.
This book shows Shakespeare as an unwitting commentator on unsettling political events. Essays explore how his plays have been used to reflect, legitimize, or challenge authoritarian rule in Europe, North Africa, South America, and beyond.
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Protean Selves
First-Person Voices in Twenty-First-Century French and Francophone Narratives
What does it mean to write “I” in a world where technology and globalization have complicated notions of authenticity and selfhood? This collection of essays explores the intricate relations between language, self, and identity through the analysis of the first-person voice.
What does it mean to write “I” in a world where technology and globalization have complicated notions of authenticity and selfhood? This collection of essays explores the intricate relations between language, self, and identity through the analysis of the first-person voice.
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Fighting Cane and Canon
Abhimanyu Unnuth and the Case of World Literature in Mauritius
This book explores the persistence of Hindi poetry in Mauritius through the work of Abhimanyu Unnuth. His writing captures a postcolonial people's reevaluation of history, labor, and identity, raising crucial questions about language and canonicity in World Literature.
This book explores the persistence of Hindi poetry in Mauritius through the work of Abhimanyu Unnuth. His writing captures a postcolonial people’s reevaluation of history, labor, and identity, raising crucial questions about language and canonicity in World Literature.
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This collection of essays explores how scholars, critics, and artists have reflected upon and re-imagined Charles Dickens’s texts. It offers a vast array of interdisciplinary approaches—from gender studies to film—attesting to his global appeal.
This collection of essays explores how scholars, critics, and artists have reflected upon and re-imagined Charles Dickens’s texts. It offers a vast array of interdisciplinary approaches—from gender studies to film—attesting to his global appeal.
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Imagining Home
Exilic Reconstructions in Norma Manea and Andrei Codrescu’s Diasporic Narratives
Tracing the nomadic lives of two exiled writers, this book redefines Romanian and American identity. It offers a crucial new context for Eastern European immigrant narratives.
Tracing the nomadic lives of two exiled writers, this book redefines Romanian and American identity. It offers a crucial new context for Eastern European immigrant narratives.
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The Common Touch
Popular Literature from the Elizabethans to the Restoration, Volume I
While figures like Shakespeare dominated the literary scene, what was the vast majority of society really reading and singing? This anthology answers that question with a selection of broadside ballads, witch trial reports, and political newsbooks.
While figures like Shakespeare dominated the literary scene, what was the vast majority of society really reading and singing? This anthology answers that question with a selection of broadside ballads, witch trial reports, and political newsbooks.
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Food is central to children’s literature. This collection examines the uses of food in books from the nineteenth century to modern fantasy, showing how it reflects society and culture and is used by authors to instruct and deliver moral messages.
Food is central to children’s literature. This collection examines the uses of food in books from the nineteenth century to modern fantasy, showing how it reflects society and culture and is used by authors to instruct and deliver moral messages.
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Revisiting Loss
Memory, Trauma and Nostalgia in the Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro
Loss defines Kazuo Ishiguro’s narrators, whose reconstructions of the past are exercises in misremembering and self-deception. This first book-length study of memory in his novels offers a thoroughly researched, interdisciplinary survey of his entire output.
Loss defines Kazuo Ishiguro’s narrators, whose reconstructions of the past are exercises in misremembering and self-deception. This first book-length study of memory in his novels offers a thoroughly researched, interdisciplinary survey of his entire output.
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This multifaceted study of Toni Morrison’s fiction investigates racism and dismemberment from historical, psychological, and cultural perspectives. It likens racism’s impact to the splitting of bodies and traumatic memories to offer a new analysis of her work.
This multifaceted study of Toni Morrison’s fiction investigates racism and dismemberment from historical, psychological, and cultural perspectives. It likens racism’s impact to the splitting of bodies and traumatic memories to offer a new analysis of her work.
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Who Defines Me
Negotiating Identity in Language and Literature
Identity is unstable, constructed by variables like ethnicity, race, gender, and culture. Who Defines Me is an interdisciplinary study exploring this negotiation through language and literature, with a focus on Arabs, Muslims, and racial identity in America.
Identity is unstable, constructed by variables like ethnicity, race, gender, and culture. Who Defines Me is an interdisciplinary study exploring this negotiation through language and literature, with a focus on Arabs, Muslims, and racial identity in America.
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