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Idioms of Ontology
A Phenomenological Study of Whitman
Walt Whitman is a philosophical poet, but this aspect of his work is often neglected. This book throws the Whitmanesque self into a phenomenological context, examining the notion of selfhood against the views of Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Levinas.
Walt Whitman is a philosophical poet, but this aspect of his work is often neglected. This book throws the Whitmanesque self into a phenomenological context, examining the notion of selfhood against the views of Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Levinas.
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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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Miracle Enough
Papers on the Works of Mervyn Peake
This is the first comparable collection of essays on Mervyn Peake ever published. Selected from an international conference, these papers by scholars and artists take a wide variety of approaches to his work—from the Gormenghast trilogy to his poetry and art.
This is the first comparable collection of essays on Mervyn Peake ever published. Selected from an international conference, these papers by scholars and artists take a wide variety of approaches to his work—from the Gormenghast trilogy to his poetry and art.
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The Lives of Texts
Exploring the Metaphor
Exploring the metaphor of a text as a living organism, this book traces life-like phenomena—birth, maturation, death, and resurrection—in literature from the Middle Ages to popular culture, including works by Mary Shelley, J.K. Rowling, and Neil Gaiman.
Exploring the metaphor of a text as a living organism, this book traces life-like phenomena—birth, maturation, death, and resurrection—in literature from the Middle Ages to popular culture, including works by Mary Shelley, J.K. Rowling, and Neil Gaiman.
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As Time Goes By
Portraits of Age
This volume provides literary analyses of ageing through writers from Cervantes to Cixous. Exploring universal themes, these essays offer portraits of what age is, has been, and might be, demonstrating literature's power to reflect social trends.
This volume provides literary analyses of ageing through writers from Cervantes to Cixous. Exploring universal themes, these essays offer portraits of what age is, has been, and might be, demonstrating literature’s power to reflect social trends.
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Theory That Matters
What Practice After Theory
Theory That Matters offers an up-to-date assessment of literary and cultural theory. The volume launches a defence of theory, demonstrating this is not achieved at the expense of praxis, but by showing its currency through a variety of contexts.
Theory That Matters offers an up-to-date assessment of literary and cultural theory. The volume launches a defence of theory, demonstrating this is not achieved at the expense of praxis, but by showing its currency through a variety of contexts.
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Hilarion’s Asse
Laurence Sterne and Humour
Nine authors unlock Laurence Sterne's kaleidoscopic humour. This volume explores its many facets—the genial, bawdy, sentimental, philosophical, irreverent, and ludicrous—sending the classic text spiralling right off the page.
Nine authors unlock Laurence Sterne’s kaleidoscopic humour. This volume explores its many facets—the genial, bawdy, sentimental, philosophical, irreverent, and ludicrous—sending the classic text spiralling right off the page.
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Myth as Symbol
A Psychoanalytic Study in Contemporary German Literature
Reconsidering the connection between literature and psychoanalysis, this study explores the modern literary reworking of myth. From Jungian archetypes to the Freudian unconscious, it analyzes figures like Undine and Medea to explore timeless questions.
Reconsidering the connection between literature and psychoanalysis, this study explores the modern literary reworking of myth. From Jungian archetypes to the Freudian unconscious, it analyzes figures like Undine and Medea to explore timeless questions.
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Visions and Revisions
The Word and the Text
Literary texts draw on other texts and ideas to communicate. This book offers new ways to understand the creations of writers like William Blake, Salman Rushdie, and Hilary Mantel, exploring their labours with form and affinities to the Western spiritual tradition.
Literary texts draw on other texts and ideas to communicate. This book offers new ways to understand the creations of writers like William Blake, Salman Rushdie, and Hilary Mantel, exploring their labours with form and affinities to the Western spiritual tradition.
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Poetry and Voice
A Book of Essays
This international collection of essays fuses critical and creative treatments of poetic voice. Contributors give rare insights into inner poetic processes and artistic debates, approaching the question of what it is to ‘find a voice’ in poetry from multiple angles.
This international collection of essays fuses critical and creative treatments of poetic voice. Contributors give rare insights into inner poetic processes and artistic debates, approaching the question of what it is to ‘find a voice’ in poetry from multiple angles.
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Literature, Rhetoric and Values
Selected Proceedings of a Conference held at the University of Waterloo, 3-5 June 2011
These essays use cutting-edge scholarship to investigate the evolving values of the modern world, confronting issues like torture, genocide, and environmental apocalypse. Authors essay the ethical dimensions of works from whisky bottles to graphic novels.
These essays use cutting-edge scholarship to investigate the evolving values of the modern world, confronting issues like torture, genocide, and environmental apocalypse. Authors essay the ethical dimensions of works from whisky bottles to graphic novels.
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This study locates five contemporary British poets in a counter-cultural tradition responding to state power. From Celtic druids to Thatcherism, these shamanic poets use ‘archaic techniques of ecstasy’ to wrest spirituality from religion and politics.
This study locates five contemporary British poets in a counter-cultural tradition responding to state power. From Celtic druids to Thatcherism, these shamanic poets use ‘archaic techniques of ecstasy’ to wrest spirituality from religion and politics.
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Claiming Sylvia Plath
The Poet as Exemplary Figure
Claiming Sylvia Plath is a critical study of the public obsession with the poet. It explores how she has been claimed by critics, feminists, and biographers to further theories, politics, and careers, offering new perspectives on her public image.
Claiming Sylvia Plath is a critical study of the public obsession with the poet. It explores how she has been claimed by critics, feminists, and biographers to further theories, politics, and careers, offering new perspectives on her public image.
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This volume analyses how feminism has shaped Polish literature, film and language, seeking to identify what is particular to the Polish feminist experience. Scholars examine Polish cultural history and memory through the transformations of the last two centuries.
This volume analyses how feminism has shaped Polish literature, film and language, seeking to identify what is particular to the Polish feminist experience. Scholars examine Polish cultural history and memory through the transformations of the last two centuries.
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This book focuses on the controversy over social and fictional entities. Fictionalists claim we only make-believe they exist. Creationists argue they are real products of human activity. By evaluating both stances, this book sheds new light on the debate.
This book focuses on the controversy over social and fictional entities. Fictionalists claim we only make-believe they exist. Creationists argue they are real products of human activity. By evaluating both stances, this book sheds new light on the debate.
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Explore how the movements of antillanité, créolité, and littérature-monde break from the literary center to forge authentic identities and a new genre.
Explore how the movements of antillanité, créolité, and littérature-monde break from the literary center to forge authentic identities and a new genre.
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This interdisciplinary collection explores how the past is retold and rewritten. Scholars analyze history's representation in fiction, media, and political discourse, from postcolonial and feminist perspectives to unorthodox visions in speculative fiction.
This interdisciplinary collection explores how the past is retold and rewritten. Scholars analyze history’s representation in fiction, media, and political discourse, from postcolonial and feminist perspectives to unorthodox visions in speculative fiction.
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Early Modern Communi(cati)ons
Studies in Early Modern English Literature and Culture
This volume demonstrates the connections that bind Elizabethan and Jacobean cultural studies with Shakespearean investigations. Essays explore early modern culture and Shakespeare’s works, from their socio-historical context to present-day interpretations.
This volume demonstrates the connections that bind Elizabethan and Jacobean cultural studies with Shakespearean investigations. Essays explore early modern culture and Shakespeare’s works, from their socio-historical context to present-day interpretations.
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Shifting the Compass
Pluricontinental Connections in Dutch Colonial and Postcolonial Literature
The study of Dutch colonial literature has traditionally focused on the motherland, ignoring the global network. This collection of articles shifts the compass of analysis to present new perspectives on the pluricontinental contacts within this vast network.
The study of Dutch colonial literature has traditionally focused on the motherland, ignoring the global network. This collection of articles shifts the compass of analysis to present new perspectives on the pluricontinental contacts within this vast network.
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Out of the Shadows
The Life and Works of Mary De Morgan
Who was Mary De Morgan? Overshadowed by her family, she was a writer, spiritualist, social reformer, and early feminist. This book reveals a complex "New Woman" and explains why George Bernard Shaw considered her a “devil incarnate.”
Who was Mary De Morgan? Overshadowed by her family, she was a writer, spiritualist, social reformer, and early feminist. This book reveals a complex “New Woman” and explains why George Bernard Shaw considered her a “devil incarnate.”
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