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The Worlds of Elias Canetti
Centenary Essays
The essays gathered here challenge conventional wisdom about Nobel laureate Elias Canetti. This volume introduces us to a Canetti we have not yet known, one who belongs to the twenty-first century, and opens up new areas to scholarly investigation.
The essays gathered here challenge conventional wisdom about Nobel laureate Elias Canetti. This volume introduces us to a Canetti we have not yet known, one who belongs to the twenty-first century, and opens up new areas to scholarly investigation.
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This compendium advances analytical perspectives regarding a highly transcultural and changing African continent enmeshed in the vestiges of slavery and the complex dynamics of post-colonialism, with particular emphasis on Africa and its Lusophone and Afro-Hispanic diaspora.
This compendium advances analytical perspectives regarding a highly transcultural and changing African continent enmeshed in the vestiges of slavery and the complex dynamics of post-colonialism, with particular emphasis on Africa and its Lusophone and Afro-Hispanic diaspora.
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This interdisciplinary analysis demonstrates not only how a culture is preserved in a text, but how that text can in turn define its culture, even redefine its history, by exploring how all texts and their contexts are constructs.
This interdisciplinary analysis demonstrates not only how a culture is preserved in a text, but how that text can in turn define its culture, even redefine its history, by exploring how all texts and their contexts are constructs.
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The World as a Global Agora
Critical Perspectives on Public Space
Ranging from architecture to gender studies, the essays in this collection explore public space as a vital aspect of public life. The authors agree that no matter what form it takes, public space remains fundamental to all societies as the basis for civic action.
Ranging from architecture to gender studies, the essays in this collection explore public space as a vital aspect of public life. The authors agree that no matter what form it takes, public space remains fundamental to all societies as the basis for civic action.
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Migration and Exile
Charting New Literary and Artistic Territories
This volume challenges the boundaries between American studies, exploring exile and migration. It asks how crossing borders affects notions of home, nation, and language, charting new literary and artistic territories in exilic creation.
This volume challenges the boundaries between American studies, exploring exile and migration. It asks how crossing borders affects notions of home, nation, and language, charting new literary and artistic territories in exilic creation.
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Revealing the importance of valuing literature that has travelled over bodies of water, this volume emphasizes the common theme that water unites nations and their readers through literature. Topics examined range from South Africa’s ongoing crises to reinvented poetry.
Revealing the importance of valuing literature that has travelled over bodies of water, this volume emphasizes the common theme that water unites nations and their readers through literature. Topics examined range from South Africa’s ongoing crises to reinvented poetry.
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The Surplus of Culture
Sense, Common-sense, Non-sense
This volume presents the surplus of culture: the added value of irony, irrationality, and absurdity that subverts mainstream culture. It dwells at the risky intersection of untamed interpretation and tradition, where entrenched notions reveal their shattering nature.
This volume presents the surplus of culture: the added value of irony, irrationality, and absurdity that subverts mainstream culture. It dwells at the risky intersection of untamed interpretation and tradition, where entrenched notions reveal their shattering nature.
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Affect and the Performative Dimension of Fear in the Indian English Novel
Tumults of the Imagination
De Riso presents a critical reading of various Indian English novels to provide a literary account of three fundamental moments in India’s history: namely, the Partition of 1947, the Naxalbari movement, and Indira Gandhi’s Emergency.
De Riso presents a critical reading of various Indian English novels to provide a literary account of three fundamental moments in India’s history: namely, the Partition of 1947, the Naxalbari movement, and Indira Gandhi’s Emergency.
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This work observes vignettes of Montenegro in Anglo-American creative writing and films from the late 18th century until 2016. It follows these vignettes chronologically to point out how their rhetoric dangerously builds a caricature of Montenegro.
This work observes vignettes of Montenegro in Anglo-American creative writing and films from the late 18th century until 2016. It follows these vignettes chronologically to point out how their rhetoric dangerously builds a caricature of Montenegro.
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Mapping Appetite
Essays on Food, Fiction and Culture
This collection of case studies explores the representation of food in cultural texts, from post-colonial fiction to magazines and cookbooks. The essays show how food narratives reveal crucial issues of gender, nation, race, and power in contemporary culture.
This collection of case studies explores the representation of food in cultural texts, from post-colonial fiction to magazines and cookbooks. The essays show how food narratives reveal crucial issues of gender, nation, race, and power in contemporary culture.
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Understanding the Newspaper Business in Nigeria
A Resource Book
Bringing together articles on newspaper writing and reporting, this resource book sensitizes would-be journalists to the arts of reporting and writing. In addition, it exposes them to the ways in which newspaper readership can be sustained in the age of online messaging.
Bringing together articles on newspaper writing and reporting, this resource book sensitizes would-be journalists to the arts of reporting and writing. In addition, it exposes them to the ways in which newspaper readership can be sustained in the age of online messaging.
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Minor Mythologies as Popular Literature
A Student's Guide to Texts and Films
This is the first single-author study of the genres and roots of popular literature in its relation to film and television, exploring the effects of academic snobbery on the teaching of popular literature. It challenges perceived notions of popular literature.
This is the first single-author study of the genres and roots of popular literature in its relation to film and television, exploring the effects of academic snobbery on the teaching of popular literature. It challenges perceived notions of popular literature.
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The Seventh Age of Man
Issues, Challenges, and Paradoxes
The contributors to this text focused on old age are drawn from a wide range of fields of expertise, and utilise various methodological approaches, from sociological case studies to discourse analysis, to address questions centred around what it means to be old.
The contributors to this text focused on old age are drawn from a wide range of fields of expertise, and utilise various methodological approaches, from sociological case studies to discourse analysis, to address questions centred around what it means to be old.
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The African American Journey to the Power Dome
Wright, Ellison, Baldwin
Sharma explores the African American journey from the plantation to the power dome through multiple socio-artistic perspectives of Black American authorship. She throws light on the transforming status of America’s Native Son and the marked visibility of its Invisible Man.
Sharma explores the African American journey from the plantation to the power dome through multiple socio-artistic perspectives of Black American authorship. She throws light on the transforming status of America’s Native Son and the marked visibility of its Invisible Man.
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Postmodernism and After
Visions and Revisions
This collection of essays reflects on developments in literature pointing beyond postmodernism. Diagnosing its exhaustion, these articles trace a return to traditional concepts and invite a reconsideration of truth and meaning in our new literary age.
This collection of essays reflects on developments in literature pointing beyond postmodernism. Diagnosing its exhaustion, these articles trace a return to traditional concepts and invite a reconsideration of truth and meaning in our new literary age.
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Kassis describes American perceptions of the Nordic countries which contributed to the construction of the 19th-century American national identity. He explores how Nordic unity and the Americanisation of Northern Europe link to Americans’ utopian reflection on Nordic societies.
Kassis describes American perceptions of the Nordic countries which contributed to the construction of the 19th-century American national identity. He explores how Nordic unity and the Americanisation of Northern Europe link to Americans’ utopian reflection on Nordic societies.
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Crafting Infinity
Reworking Elements in Irish Culture
This collection of essays investigates how traditional Irish culture has been revised and repackaged. Contributors reveal how artists, writers, and emigrants re-interpreted and reshaped Irish myths, music, and history, crafting an infinite legacy.
This collection of essays investigates how traditional Irish culture has been revised and repackaged. Contributors reveal how artists, writers, and emigrants re-interpreted and reshaped Irish myths, music, and history, crafting an infinite legacy.
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Confining Spaces, Resistant Subjectivities
Toward a Metachronous Discourse of Literary Mapping and Transformation in Postcolonial Women’s Writing
This book offers a contemporary re-reading of postcolonial women’s narratives, focusing on female oppression, voice, and agency. An analysis of unconventional spaces of female resistance, such as prison and madness, yields surprising results.
This book offers a contemporary re-reading of postcolonial women’s narratives, focusing on female oppression, voice, and agency. An analysis of unconventional spaces of female resistance, such as prison and madness, yields surprising results.
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This multidisciplinary collection offers new perspectives on Celtic culture, literature, and linguistics. Scholars address established themes and unexplored areas, highlighting connections between academia and popular culture to broaden the horizon of Celtic scholarship.
This multidisciplinary collection offers new perspectives on Celtic culture, literature, and linguistics. Scholars address established themes and unexplored areas, highlighting connections between academia and popular culture to broaden the horizon of Celtic scholarship.
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This book is a study of ideologies and conflicts related to Nation and Identity in contemporary English literature. It explores the individual’s pursuit of identity amid nationalist conflicts, racial confrontations, and postcolonial legacies.
This book is a study of ideologies and conflicts related to Nation and Identity in contemporary English literature. It explores the individual’s pursuit of identity amid nationalist conflicts, racial confrontations, and postcolonial legacies.
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