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This volume examines past and contemporary Maghrebean texts to explore what it means to be Maghrebean. Scholars focus on the importance of poetics in (re)making roots and (re)tracing routes, mapping the history, art, and literature of the Maghreb region.
This volume examines past and contemporary Maghrebean texts to explore what it means to be Maghrebean. Scholars focus on the importance of poetics in (re)making roots and (re)tracing routes, mapping the history, art, and literature of the Maghreb region.
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Four Plays about Disability
Agency
Four plays unearth hidden histories of disability. Revisit the Whitechapel murders, uncover Nazi genocide, and witness a Victorian prostitute's survival in what Joyce Carol Oates calls “the triumph of twisted.”
Four plays unearth hidden histories of disability. Revisit the Whitechapel murders, uncover Nazi genocide, and witness a Victorian prostitute’s survival in what Joyce Carol Oates calls “the triumph of twisted.”
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This book examines the reception of visual arts across cultures and times. It focuses on the migration of images: how they travel from one medium to another, and how they migrate from an artefact into the human body, a process explored through various disciplines.
This book examines the reception of visual arts across cultures and times. It focuses on the migration of images: how they travel from one medium to another, and how they migrate from an artefact into the human body, a process explored through various disciplines.
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Performing Memories
Media, Creation, Anthropology, and Remembrance
Why is the contemporary world haunted by memory? This collection of essays explores the cultural and artistic tensions in representing the past. Scholars analyze how memory is elaborated, contested, and shared through literature, film, technology, and myth.
Why is the contemporary world haunted by memory? This collection of essays explores the cultural and artistic tensions in representing the past. Scholars analyze how memory is elaborated, contested, and shared through literature, film, technology, and myth.
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Celebrating Flamenco’s Tangled Roots
The Body Questions
This collection of essays poses questions about queerness, race, and the dancing body. The contributions come together across disciplines in the whirling, raucous, and messy spaces where the body is free—to celebrate its questioning and the wisdom and knowledge it holds.
This collection of essays poses questions about queerness, race, and the dancing body. The contributions come together across disciplines in the whirling, raucous, and messy spaces where the body is free—to celebrate its questioning and the wisdom and knowledge it holds.
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Westerns
Paperback Novels and Movies from Hollywood
Popular Westerns powerfully impacted U.S. and European culture. Collected here are new studies of classic films by John Ford and Clint Eastwood, as well as new studies of seldom-studied writers such as Charles Portis and Oakley Hall.
Popular Westerns powerfully impacted U.S. and European culture. Collected here are new studies of classic films by John Ford and Clint Eastwood, as well as new studies of seldom-studied writers such as Charles Portis and Oakley Hall.
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John Guare’s Theatre
The Art of Connecting
John Guare’s aesthetic principle: a play must be grounded in reality; only then can it soar. This study explores his dramas, which soar by interrupting action, mixing genres, and taking hairpin turns to explore the American heritage and Dream.
John Guare’s aesthetic principle: a play must be grounded in reality; only then can it soar. This study explores his dramas, which soar by interrupting action, mixing genres, and taking hairpin turns to explore the American heritage and Dream.
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These essays analyse the influences that shaped fictional selves on the early modern English stage. Specialists discuss plays by Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Jonson, revealing the stage self as a site of rich historical and discursive forces beyond the theatre.
These essays analyse the influences that shaped fictional selves on the early modern English stage. Specialists discuss plays by Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Jonson, revealing the stage self as a site of rich historical and discursive forces beyond the theatre.
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The Ravenclaw Chronicles
Reflections from Edinboro
What if there is much more to the Harry Potter saga than a simple tale? The Ravenclaw Chronicles collects select articles from academic conferences discussing the story's intellectual and ethical issues from diverse perspectives like philosophy and history.
What if there is much more to the Harry Potter saga than a simple tale? The Ravenclaw Chronicles collects select articles from academic conferences discussing the story’s intellectual and ethical issues from diverse perspectives like philosophy and history.
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From Word to Canvas
Appropriations of Myth in Women’s Aesthetic Production
This innovative collection of essays examines how women artists and writers use myth to explore feminine identity. Spanning literature, performance, and visual art, these global contributions reveal a powerful “feminine gaze” that gives myths new force.
This innovative collection of essays examines how women artists and writers use myth to explore feminine identity. Spanning literature, performance, and visual art, these global contributions reveal a powerful “feminine gaze” that gives myths new force.
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This unique collection of essays explores the relationships between power and culture in sub-Saharan Africa through its French-language literature and cinema. Its deft analyses move beyond the rhetoric of crisis to present a critical reflection linked to global culture.
This unique collection of essays explores the relationships between power and culture in sub-Saharan Africa through its French-language literature and cinema. Its deft analyses move beyond the rhetoric of crisis to present a critical reflection linked to global culture.
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This collection explores the politics of cultural memory. From monuments to film and literature, it shows how cultural memory is actively made: the site of a struggle over meanings that serves various political and cultural purposes.
This collection explores the politics of cultural memory. From monuments to film and literature, it shows how cultural memory is actively made: the site of a struggle over meanings that serves various political and cultural purposes.
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Le mensonge
Multidisciplinary Perspectives in French Studies
This collection of essays considers the political, social, and artistic impact of the dichotomy of truth and lies in French culture. Bringing together research from diverse disciplines, this work is of great relevance to students and researchers alike.
This collection of essays considers the political, social, and artistic impact of the dichotomy of truth and lies in French culture. Bringing together research from diverse disciplines, this work is of great relevance to students and researchers alike.
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Bringing Literature and Linguistics into EFL Classrooms
Insights from Research and Classroom Practice
This book bridges the gap between linguistics, literature, and English language teaching. Drawing on educators’ experiences from around the world, it balances research with practical applications on how to use literary texts and linguistic theories in the classroom.
This book bridges the gap between linguistics, literature, and English language teaching. Drawing on educators’ experiences from around the world, it balances research with practical applications on how to use literary texts and linguistic theories in the classroom.
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For William Morris, beauty in daily life was revolutionary. These essays explore how the everyday—from domestic interiors to utopian socialism—informed his art, politics, and radical call for social transformation, a vision that remains powerfully relevant.
For William Morris, beauty in daily life was revolutionary. These essays explore how the everyday—from domestic interiors to utopian socialism—informed his art, politics, and radical call for social transformation, a vision that remains powerfully relevant.
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Moving Forward
Tradition and Transformation
This collection explores ‘tradition and transformation’. Early-career researchers from the arts and social sciences boldly explore the tension between past and future, respecting history while effecting change. Accessible to a non-specialist audience.
This collection explores ‘tradition and transformation’. Early-career researchers from the arts and social sciences boldly explore the tension between past and future, respecting history while effecting change. Accessible to a non-specialist audience.
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The Apothecary’s Chest
Magic, Art and Medication
This collection of essays explores the intertwined notions of magic, science, and superstition in figures like the apothecary, alchemist, and shaman. Topics range from the mystical traits of mundane materials to the origins of the occult and the modern poet.
This collection of essays explores the intertwined notions of magic, science, and superstition in figures like the apothecary, alchemist, and shaman. Topics range from the mystical traits of mundane materials to the origins of the occult and the modern poet.
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This collection explores the Berlin Wall in language, literature, and visual media. Essays discuss its portrayal as a dividing and uniting boundary, its continued existence in the minds of Germans, and how controversial the division of Germany remains.
This collection explores the Berlin Wall in language, literature, and visual media. Essays discuss its portrayal as a dividing and uniting boundary, its continued existence in the minds of Germans, and how controversial the division of Germany remains.
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What is the relation between drama and its critics? Drama is itself a critical genre, showing up the problems of human existence. Plays critique society and themselves, while also spurring critique from the audiences and reviewers who are intrinsic to theatre.
What is the relation between drama and its critics? Drama is itself a critical genre, showing up the problems of human existence. Plays critique society and themselves, while also spurring critique from the audiences and reviewers who are intrinsic to theatre.
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This book presents writings on Heinz-Uwe Haus's productions of Brecht and ancient Greek drama in Cyprus and Greece, beginning with his 1975 launch of the Cyprus National Theatre. It includes reviews, academic articles, and reflections by Haus, cast members, and designers.
This book presents writings on Heinz-Uwe Haus’s productions of Brecht and ancient Greek drama in Cyprus and Greece, beginning with his 1975 launch of the Cyprus National Theatre. It includes reviews, academic articles, and reflections by Haus, cast members, and designers.
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