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Elemental Encounters in the Contemporary Irish Novel
Reading as Touching
Reading is touching. Words pierce flesh like a knife. Storytelling breathes with air, fire, earth and water. This book explores how novels by Irish authors John Banville and Mary Morrissy revitalise these elements with sensual, social, and tactile textures.
Reading is touching. Words pierce flesh like a knife. Storytelling breathes with air, fire, earth and water. This book explores how novels by Irish authors John Banville and Mary Morrissy revitalise these elements with sensual, social, and tactile textures.
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Vanishing Voices
Silence(s) in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, T. S. Eliot and R. S. Thomas
This first study bringing together Hopkins, Eliot, and Thomas explores silence in their poetry. Situated at the crossroads of poetics, philosophy, and theology, it shows how the poets sought a new language to talk about the Ineffable God and one’s experience of the divine.
This first study bringing together Hopkins, Eliot, and Thomas explores silence in their poetry. Situated at the crossroads of poetics, philosophy, and theology, it shows how the poets sought a new language to talk about the Ineffable God and one’s experience of the divine.
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Interwar Women’s Comic Fiction
‘Have Women a Sense of Humour?’
This collection of essays examines overlooked women novelists of the interwar period. The essays discuss how they used comic structures to critique the dominant patriarchal structures of their time, offering alternative, subversive views of the world.
This collection of essays examines overlooked women novelists of the interwar period. The essays discuss how they used comic structures to critique the dominant patriarchal structures of their time, offering alternative, subversive views of the world.
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A World Government in Action
A New Pragmatic Ideology for Global Politics
This volume presents a significantly different interpretation of society and international relations. It highlights the route to release the world from its greatest problems, assure the survival of humankind, and germinate life quality and healthcare for all.
This volume presents a significantly different interpretation of society and international relations. It highlights the route to release the world from its greatest problems, assure the survival of humankind, and germinate life quality and healthcare for all.
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Swiftian Inspirations
The Legacy of Jonathan Swift from the Enlightenment to the Age of Post-Truth
This book analyzes the legacy of Swiftian satire from the Enlightenment to the age of post-truth and Brexit. It explores truth, madness, film adaptations of Gulliver’s Travels, and the politics of language to reveal Swift's enduring relevance for today's world.
This book analyzes the legacy of Swiftian satire from the Enlightenment to the age of post-truth and Brexit. It explores truth, madness, film adaptations of Gulliver’s Travels, and the politics of language to reveal Swift’s enduring relevance for today’s world.
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Neoliberalism, Oligarchy and Politics of the Event
At the Edge of Chaos
This book shows that today’s oligarchic politics result from the fall of mass movements. The rule is reversed into a cybernetic market where transnational corporations control states, rendering sovereignty an illusion and threatening the very essence of society.
This book shows that today’s oligarchic politics result from the fall of mass movements. The rule is reversed into a cybernetic market where transnational corporations control states, rendering sovereignty an illusion and threatening the very essence of society.
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Seeking a Home for Poetry in a Nomadic World
Joseph Brodsky and Ágnes Lehóczky
This study explores the trespassing of linguistic borders through poets Joseph Brodsky and Ágnes Lehóczky. In their search for identity, these “nomadic” authors adopt English, confronting the fluid nature of language itself and forging new expressions for our future.
This study explores the trespassing of linguistic borders through poets Joseph Brodsky and Ágnes Lehóczky. In their search for identity, these “nomadic” authors adopt English, confronting the fluid nature of language itself and forging new expressions for our future.
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Jamesian Cultural Anxiety in the East and West
The Co-Constitutive Nature of the Cosmopolite Spirit
This volume explores the world that shaped Henry James’s work through themes of cultural anxiety. Each chapter offers a new way of reading his work to generate insights, establish intercultural understandings, and define the Jamesian worldview as universal.
This volume explores the world that shaped Henry James’s work through themes of cultural anxiety. Each chapter offers a new way of reading his work to generate insights, establish intercultural understandings, and define the Jamesian worldview as universal.
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This first book on Naomi Alderman’s work highlights her transcultural recasting of British and Jewish traditions. The analysis focuses on relevant topics including gender and sexual orientation, the rewriting of the Sacred Scriptures, and feminist posthuman dystopias.
This first book on Naomi Alderman’s work highlights her transcultural recasting of British and Jewish traditions. The analysis focuses on relevant topics including gender and sexual orientation, the rewriting of the Sacred Scriptures, and feminist posthuman dystopias.
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This volume examines anguish in late 19th–early 20th century art, literature, and philosophy. It reveals the tension between anguish and art, showing how historical events and new inquiries generated an anguish that proved uniquely fertile for artists.
This volume examines anguish in late 19th–early 20th century art, literature, and philosophy. It reveals the tension between anguish and art, showing how historical events and new inquiries generated an anguish that proved uniquely fertile for artists.
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This study examines Pope's translation of the Odyssey through Graham Harman's Object-Oriented Ontology. It explores the poems' figurative language to uncover a withdrawn reality, contrasting it with a sensual world of shimmering objects from the quotidian to the bizarre.
This study examines Pope’s translation of the Odyssey through Graham Harman’s Object-Oriented Ontology. It explores the poems’ figurative language to uncover a withdrawn reality, contrasting it with a sensual world of shimmering objects from the quotidian to the bizarre.
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A narrative and photographic journey of the 18 hotels and apartments where James Joyce lived in 1920s-30s Paris. Arriving to finish Ulysses, he stayed for 20 years. This guide provides new insights into his life, based on the changing locations of his residences.
A narrative and photographic journey of the 18 hotels and apartments where James Joyce lived in 1920s-30s Paris. Arriving to finish Ulysses, he stayed for 20 years. This guide provides new insights into his life, based on the changing locations of his residences.
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Traumatic Experience and Repressed Memory in Magical Realist Novels
Speaking the Unspeakable
This book explores how magical realism gives literary representation to the historical trauma of the Holocaust, slavery, and apartheid. It analyses how unspoken memories, particularly those of female victims, become narratives that highlight a universal experience of trauma.
This book explores how magical realism gives literary representation to the historical trauma of the Holocaust, slavery, and apartheid. It analyses how unspoken memories, particularly those of female victims, become narratives that highlight a universal experience of trauma.
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The Essays of Chitta Ranjan Das on Literature, Culture, and Society
On the Side of Life in Spite of
The essays of Chitta Ranjan Das present a different vision of the post-colonial imagination. This book offers radical new pathways, breaking conventional boundaries between the periphery and the centre, literature and life, and East and West.
The essays of Chitta Ranjan Das present a different vision of the post-colonial imagination. This book offers radical new pathways, breaking conventional boundaries between the periphery and the centre, literature and life, and East and West.
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Tales for Shakespeare
Stories That Inspired the Plays
Was Shakespeare a plagiarist? Discover the original tales behind seven of his most beloved plays. This collection presents the full source texts in modern spelling, with introductions, notes, a new translation, and a fascinating look at the Bard's creative process.
Was Shakespeare a plagiarist? Discover the original tales behind seven of his most beloved plays. This collection presents the full source texts in modern spelling, with introductions, notes, a new translation, and a fascinating look at the Bard’s creative process.
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Alexandre Dumas as a French Symbol since 1870
All for One and One for All in a Global France
The mixed-race author of *The Three Musketeers*, Alexandre Dumas has long been a controversial symbol in France. This collection explores how his legacy became a battleground for a nation grappling with its colonial past, diversity, and its own identity.
The mixed-race author of *The Three Musketeers*, Alexandre Dumas has long been a controversial symbol in France. This collection explores how his legacy became a battleground for a nation grappling with its colonial past, diversity, and its own identity.
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This volume explores rewritings of the Robinson Crusoe desert island myth. It offers a unique historical scope, ranging from medieval precursors to modern cinematic adaptations, and analyzes the genre through themes of colonialism, environmentalism, and industrial progress.
This volume explores rewritings of the Robinson Crusoe desert island myth. It offers a unique historical scope, ranging from medieval precursors to modern cinematic adaptations, and analyzes the genre through themes of colonialism, environmentalism, and industrial progress.
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Encounters in Greek and Irish Literature
Creativity, Translations and Critical Perspectives
Literary experts and novelists explore the relationships between Greek and Irish writing. Through fiction, self-reflective essays, and discussions, this volume considers two literatures at the edges of Europe. Selected works are presented in both Greek and English.
Literary experts and novelists explore the relationships between Greek and Irish writing. Through fiction, self-reflective essays, and discussions, this volume considers two literatures at the edges of Europe. Selected works are presented in both Greek and English.
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A pioneering comparative study of Halide Edib Adıvar and Lady Augusta Gregory. It explores how these female activists and anti-imperialists challenged British imperialism, using literature to shape their national identities despite their different cultural backgrounds.
A pioneering comparative study of Halide Edib Adıvar and Lady Augusta Gregory. It explores how these female activists and anti-imperialists challenged British imperialism, using literature to shape their national identities despite their different cultural backgrounds.
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Traditional criticism is inadequate for modernist poetry. This book offers a new methodology, showing how these poems are built around deep-level propositions. By comparing images, readers can reconstruct meaning and uncover signifying mechanisms that may well be universal.
Traditional criticism is inadequate for modernist poetry. This book offers a new methodology, showing how these poems are built around deep-level propositions. By comparing images, readers can reconstruct meaning and uncover signifying mechanisms that may well be universal.
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