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This book analyzes the spacetime continuum in science fiction, synthesizing cutting-edge research from literary analysis, quantum physics, and astrophysics. These essays offer fresh views and analytical tools to stimulate the curiosity of educators, researchers, and students.
This book analyzes the spacetime continuum in science fiction, synthesizing cutting-edge research from literary analysis, quantum physics, and astrophysics. These essays offer fresh views and analytical tools to stimulate the curiosity of educators, researchers, and students.
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As ecocriticism shifts to focus on local and unheard voices, this volume presents diverse perspectives from Kerala’s rich literary texts. Weaving a unique ecocritical narrative, these essays are written by award-winning writers in Malayalam.
As ecocriticism shifts to focus on local and unheard voices, this volume presents diverse perspectives from Kerala’s rich literary texts. Weaving a unique ecocritical narrative, these essays are written by award-winning writers in Malayalam.
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Literature and the Japanese War of Aggression against China
Investigations and Criticisms
This book defines “Invasion Literature,” revealing the pivotal role of Japanese writing in the war against China. It traces the genre’s origins, key authors, and post-war legacy, giving vital attention to powerful but long-neglected literary works.
This book defines “Invasion Literature,” revealing the pivotal role of Japanese writing in the war against China. It traces the genre’s origins, key authors, and post-war legacy, giving vital attention to powerful but long-neglected literary works.
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The Cultural and Historical Heritage of Colonialism
Interrogating the Postcolony
Decades after independence, why do many African nations still mimic the West at their own culture's expense? This book presents a bold challenge: to build a humane society by grounding it in local experience and synthesizing the best of indigenous and foreign values.
Decades after independence, why do many African nations still mimic the West at their own culture’s expense? This book presents a bold challenge: to build a humane society by grounding it in local experience and synthesizing the best of indigenous and foreign values.
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This book surveys Chinese ancient currency through the ages, exploring the history of currency exchange between China and other countries like ancient Greece and Rome. It considers the influence of Chinese currency on Asia and its interaction with European and American coins.
This book surveys Chinese ancient currency through the ages, exploring the history of currency exchange between China and other countries like ancient Greece and Rome. It considers the influence of Chinese currency on Asia and its interaction with European and American coins.
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Paradoxes in Selected Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath
Daemonic Angels
This book explores the poetry of Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath without sensationalizing the writers or their work. It adopts a multi-pronged approach to provide a holistic view of the issues, similarities, and differences in the poetry of the two women.
This book explores the poetry of Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath without sensationalizing the writers or their work. It adopts a multi-pronged approach to provide a holistic view of the issues, similarities, and differences in the poetry of the two women.
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The Heraldic World of Lawrence Durrell
The Man, His Circle, and His Art (Durrell Studies 4)
This book presents unorthodox explorations of Alexandria, the city at the heart of Durrell’s writing. It offers an insight into his Sicilian Carousel and a unique reading of his Alexandria Quartet in light of the art and landscape of ancient Egypt.
This book presents unorthodox explorations of Alexandria, the city at the heart of Durrell’s writing. It offers an insight into his Sicilian Carousel and a unique reading of his Alexandria Quartet in light of the art and landscape of ancient Egypt.
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Postcolonial African women have often been represented as weak, subaltern, and speechless. This book shows how Ngugi and Adichie’s novels break from these clichés, depicting the African woman in a versatile and powerful way.
Postcolonial African women have often been represented as weak, subaltern, and speechless. This book shows how Ngugi and Adichie’s novels break from these clichés, depicting the African woman in a versatile and powerful way.
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Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Academic and Societal Implications
What are the implications for human society of a sophisticated extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) operating on Earth? This book explores this question from a multidisciplinary perspective. Any contact with ETI will be a paradigm changer, and we must prepare for this transition.
What are the implications for human society of a sophisticated extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) operating on Earth? This book explores this question from a multidisciplinary perspective. Any contact with ETI will be a paradigm changer, and we must prepare for this transition.
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This book details the unique 20th-century alliance between small Albania and giant China. Based on specific interests, this relationship unfolded from initial optimism to sworn animosity, cracking when China established a new affinity with the USA.
This book details the unique 20th-century alliance between small Albania and giant China. Based on specific interests, this relationship unfolded from initial optimism to sworn animosity, cracking when China established a new affinity with the USA.
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T. S. Eliot’s famous poetry expresses not a rejection of faith, but a struggle with it. This book explores how he and Michelangelo wrestled with the highest meanings of existence, seeking to express a modernist view of mystical awe—the experience of God.
T. S. Eliot’s famous poetry expresses not a rejection of faith, but a struggle with it. This book explores how he and Michelangelo wrestled with the highest meanings of existence, seeking to express a modernist view of mystical awe—the experience of God.
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Nurses are motivated by compassion, but how does this 'soft' value fit into modern, evidence-based healthcare? This book answers that question, showing that compassion is not old-fashioned but an indispensable necessity for high-quality, evidence-based nursing care.
Nurses are motivated by compassion, but how does this ‘soft’ value fit into modern, evidence-based healthcare? This book answers that question, showing that compassion is not old-fashioned but an indispensable necessity for high-quality, evidence-based nursing care.
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This lucid account of J. M. Coetzee’s South African career provides an inside view of apartheid madness. Linking his nonfictional thought with his fiction, it suggests the insanity of apartheid lies in the social deformation and pathological attachments it encourages.
This lucid account of J. M. Coetzee’s South African career provides an inside view of apartheid madness. Linking his nonfictional thought with his fiction, it suggests the insanity of apartheid lies in the social deformation and pathological attachments it encourages.
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How Adaptations Awaken the Literary Canon
Transformative Reimaginings
This book illuminates how reimagining narratives creates empowerment. It explores adaptations—from classic literature to fairy tales—that retell and awaken the literary canon, interrogating conventions and revealing the unique power of reframing stories.
This book illuminates how reimagining narratives creates empowerment. It explores adaptations—from classic literature to fairy tales—that retell and awaken the literary canon, interrogating conventions and revealing the unique power of reframing stories.
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King James and the Theatre of Witches
Subversion upon the Jacobean Stage
This book analyzes the “witch plays” of Renaissance England and their response to King James I. Once a fevered witch-hunter and author of *Daemonologie*, the monarch saw his beliefs both catered to and subverted on stage by dramatists like Shakespeare and Jonson.
This book analyzes the “witch plays” of Renaissance England and their response to King James I. Once a fevered witch-hunter and author of *Daemonologie*, the monarch saw his beliefs both catered to and subverted on stage by dramatists like Shakespeare and Jonson.
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This book reveals overlooked keys to Jane Austen’s work: the link between ill-assorted married couples, heredity, and inheritance laws. Her heroines are keen observers of the resulting social ills, and their personal developments mirror the momentous changes in their world.
This book reveals overlooked keys to Jane Austen’s work: the link between ill-assorted married couples, heredity, and inheritance laws. Her heroines are keen observers of the resulting social ills, and their personal developments mirror the momentous changes in their world.
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As Los Angeles became multi-national, its novels changed greatly. This volume highlights brilliant fiction from Latino/a, African-American, women, and LGBTQ writers who transformed genres, alongside rediscovered novels that explored 20th century class conflicts.
As Los Angeles became multi-national, its novels changed greatly. This volume highlights brilliant fiction from Latino/a, African-American, women, and LGBTQ writers who transformed genres, alongside rediscovered novels that explored 20th century class conflicts.
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This critical study of Hughes’s poetry from 1957 to 1989 explores how his fascination with violence developed into a vision of cosmic energy. It charts his transition from a poet of ‘blood and guts’ into a messiah of ‘bio-centric life’.
This critical study of Hughes’s poetry from 1957 to 1989 explores how his fascination with violence developed into a vision of cosmic energy. It charts his transition from a poet of ‘blood and guts’ into a messiah of ‘bio-centric life’.
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This book proposes a framework for rethinking world literature in nomadic terms. A unique, itinerant scholarly autobiography, it exemplifies how literary and cultural comparisons are shaped by real-life circumstances, violence, and wars across the globe.
This book proposes a framework for rethinking world literature in nomadic terms. A unique, itinerant scholarly autobiography, it exemplifies how literary and cultural comparisons are shaped by real-life circumstances, violence, and wars across the globe.
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New Thoughts on Old Books
Why Read Homer, Milton, or a Medieval Nun at a Time like This?
Why continue reading “classic” texts today? This book is not a defense of the literary canon. Instead, professors of English offer thoughtful, engaging, personal responses, inviting readers to revisit “old assignments” in new terms.
Why continue reading “classic” texts today? This book is not a defense of the literary canon. Instead, professors of English offer thoughtful, engaging, personal responses, inviting readers to revisit “old assignments” in new terms.
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