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The Aesthetics of Failure
Inexpressibility in Samuel Beckett’s Fiction
This book explores the ethical aspects of Samuel Beckett’s aesthetics of failure through his connection to Maurice Blanchot and Emmanuel Levinas. It traces Beckett's 'unwording' to analyze how inexpressibility is bound with ethical responsibility.
This book explores the ethical aspects of Samuel Beckett’s aesthetics of failure through his connection to Maurice Blanchot and Emmanuel Levinas. It traces Beckett’s ‘unwording’ to analyze how inexpressibility is bound with ethical responsibility.
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Legilimens!
Perspectives in Harry Potter Studies
Legilimens is the spell to see into another’s mind. This collection brings together anthropologists, theologians, historians, and rhetoricians to see into the Harry Potter texts, deliberating over the greater scholarly significance of these rich works.
Legilimens is the spell to see into another’s mind. This collection brings together anthropologists, theologians, historians, and rhetoricians to see into the Harry Potter texts, deliberating over the greater scholarly significance of these rich works.
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Ancient genres were contested, hybrid and ambiguous. This volume presents case studies on understandings of genre, examining well-known texts like Ovid and late-antique works from Rome and Greece to Gaza and Syria.
Ancient genres were contested, hybrid and ambiguous. This volume presents case studies on understandings of genre, examining well-known texts like Ovid and late-antique works from Rome and Greece to Gaza and Syria.
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Topicality and Representation
Islam and Muslims in two Renaissance Plays
This book explores how topical concerns shaped Islamic figures in Elizabethan plays like Peele’s Battle of Alcazar and Percy’s Mahomet and his Heaven. It argues these characters were formed by contemporary issues, rendering the term ‘representation’ debatable.
This book explores how topical concerns shaped Islamic figures in Elizabethan plays like Peele’s Battle of Alcazar and Percy’s Mahomet and his Heaven. It argues these characters were formed by contemporary issues, rendering the term ‘representation’ debatable.
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Gaining a Face
The Romanticism of C.S. Lewis
This study traces the aspects of Lewis’s romantic thought as it is drawn from MacDonald, Wordsworth and other influences, and details how, beyond his fascination with joy, Lewis constructed a consistent romantic vision that allowed for a balance with reason.
This study traces the aspects of Lewis’s romantic thought as it is drawn from MacDonald, Wordsworth and other influences, and details how, beyond his fascination with joy, Lewis constructed a consistent romantic vision that allowed for a balance with reason.
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This Landscape’s Fierce Embrace
The Poetry of Francis Harvey
This book is a tribute to poet Francis Harvey. Admirers celebrate his work in a collection of essays, poems, and art exploring the Donegal landscape. Though critically acclaimed, this is the first book-length critical study of his achievement.
This book is a tribute to poet Francis Harvey. Admirers celebrate his work in a collection of essays, poems, and art exploring the Donegal landscape. Though critically acclaimed, this is the first book-length critical study of his achievement.
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Border Crossings
Narration, Nation and Imagination in Scots and Irish Literature and Culture
Borderlands are crucibles for diverse cultures and alternative histories. This collection explores the contested terrains of the British Isles, where borders extend beyond the geographical to the cultural, psychic, and social, shaping competing identities.
Borderlands are crucibles for diverse cultures and alternative histories. This collection explores the contested terrains of the British Isles, where borders extend beyond the geographical to the cultural, psychic, and social, shaping competing identities.
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This volume explores space as a construct of human activity. Essays cover topics from literature and film to cultural memory and cyberspace, outlining the shifts concerning existence and identity in continuously changing, transitory, in-between spaces.
This volume explores space as a construct of human activity. Essays cover topics from literature and film to cultural memory and cyberspace, outlining the shifts concerning existence and identity in continuously changing, transitory, in-between spaces.
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Southern Horrors
Northern Visions of the Mediterranean World
This book explores the Mediterranean's dark side through the eyes of Northern Europeans. Over four centuries, travellers saw not a sun-drenched ideal, but a world of cruelty, poverty, and superstition, telling us more about their own prejudices than the South.
This book explores the Mediterranean’s dark side through the eyes of Northern Europeans. Over four centuries, travellers saw not a sun-drenched ideal, but a world of cruelty, poverty, and superstition, telling us more about their own prejudices than the South.
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Literature, History, Choice
The Principle of Alternative History in Literature (S.Y. Agnon, The City with All That is Therein)
This study offers a new theory of alternative history. Through a key work by Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon, it reveals this principle is not just a genre, but fundamental to the very act of reading—shaping plot, character, and imagination.
This study offers a new theory of alternative history. Through a key work by Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon, it reveals this principle is not just a genre, but fundamental to the very act of reading—shaping plot, character, and imagination.
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This book contributes to the debate on economic stabilisation in developing countries affected by exchange rate volatility and high inflation. It provides a review of the literature and extends analytical models to test their relevance for policymakers.
This book contributes to the debate on economic stabilisation in developing countries affected by exchange rate volatility and high inflation. It provides a review of the literature and extends analytical models to test their relevance for policymakers.
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Notional Identities
Ideology, Genre and National Identity in Popular Scottish Fiction Since the Seventies
This book examines popular Scottish speculative and crime fiction from the 1970s onward, investigating how these works engaged with national identity, a tumultuous political climate, and their relationship to mainstream literary writing.
This book examines popular Scottish speculative and crime fiction from the 1970s onward, investigating how these works engaged with national identity, a tumultuous political climate, and their relationship to mainstream literary writing.
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The Post-Marked World
Theory and Practice in the 21st Century
"Post-isms" reject cultural certainties, demonstrating the instability of language and meaning. This volume investigates the term “post,” asking crucial questions: Do we need it anymore? Can it counter essentialism? Essays explore these issues from around the world.
“Post-isms” reject cultural certainties, demonstrating the instability of language and meaning. This volume investigates the term “post,” asking crucial questions: Do we need it anymore? Can it counter essentialism? Essays explore these issues from around the world.
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Though resented, grief and grieving occupy a significant place in culture. Culture and the Rites/Rights of Grief offers an intellectual excursion into their imposing presence at the intersection of present-day literary, cultural and political phenomena.
Though resented, grief and grieving occupy a significant place in culture. Culture and the Rites/Rights of Grief offers an intellectual excursion into their imposing presence at the intersection of present-day literary, cultural and political phenomena.
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This collection of scholarly critiques explores recent Indian English novels by authors such as Amitav Ghosh and Aravind Adiga. The volume focuses on emerging genres, from crime fiction and science fiction to LGBT voices and postcolonial narratives.
This collection of scholarly critiques explores recent Indian English novels by authors such as Amitav Ghosh and Aravind Adiga. The volume focuses on emerging genres, from crime fiction and science fiction to LGBT voices and postcolonial narratives.
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This collection explores risk-taking as agency in women's autobiographical narratives in French. Essays discuss courage, resilience, and freedom, examining how women challenge conventions and overcome obstacles to ameliorate their lives.
This collection explores risk-taking as agency in women’s autobiographical narratives in French. Essays discuss courage, resilience, and freedom, examining how women challenge conventions and overcome obstacles to ameliorate their lives.
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On Nabokov, Ayn Rand and the Libertarian Mind
What the Russian-American Odd Pair Can Tell Us about Some Values, Myths and Manias Widely Held Most Dear
Uniting the divergent worlds of Nabokov and Ayn Rand, this meditation explores libertarianism through the author's own conflicted relationship to the odd pair. A unique and charged look at the intersection of art and politics.
Uniting the divergent worlds of Nabokov and Ayn Rand, this meditation explores libertarianism through the author’s own conflicted relationship to the odd pair. A unique and charged look at the intersection of art and politics.
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How does humour work? This book tests Attardo & Raskin’s General Theory of Verbal Humor, proposing a new ‘humorist reading’. By providing the tools to ask ‘why is this humorous?’, it offers a valuable new way to understand any literary text.
How does humour work? This book tests Attardo & Raskin’s General Theory of Verbal Humor, proposing a new ‘humorist reading’. By providing the tools to ask ‘why is this humorous?’, it offers a valuable new way to understand any literary text.
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The Deconstructive Owl of Minerva
An Examination of Schizophrenia through Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Postmodernism
This book uses philosophy, psychoanalysis, and postmodernism to deconstruct schizophrenia. It challenges symptomatic treatment by seeking alternative ways to understand the plurivalent language of the condition, opening new spaces for cultural articulation.
This book uses philosophy, psychoanalysis, and postmodernism to deconstruct schizophrenia. It challenges symptomatic treatment by seeking alternative ways to understand the plurivalent language of the condition, opening new spaces for cultural articulation.
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Science, Fables and Chimeras
Cultural Encounters
Imagination, religion, and mythology have both helped and hindered scientific progress. This interdisciplinary book weaves together visual art, literature, and science to explore our fascination with potent symbols like dinosaurs, dragons, and the chimera.
Imagination, religion, and mythology have both helped and hindered scientific progress. This interdisciplinary book weaves together visual art, literature, and science to explore our fascination with potent symbols like dinosaurs, dragons, and the chimera.
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