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Justinus Kerner's Travel Shadows (1811) is no ordinary travelogue. It is a highly imaginative, surreal concoction of grotesque, satirical, and folkloric elements, presenting a journey as a grandiose shadow show. Now available in its first English translation.
Justinus Kerner’s Travel Shadows (1811) is no ordinary travelogue. It is a highly imaginative, surreal concoction of grotesque, satirical, and folkloric elements, presenting a journey as a grandiose shadow show. Now available in its first English translation.
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Bloomsbury Influences
Papers from the Bloomsbury Adaptations Conference, Bath Spa University, 5-6 May 2011
Explore the dialogue between the Bloomsbury Group and contemporary culture. These essays reveal their lasting influence on art and literature, examining connections to modern figures like Jeanette Winterson and Ali Smith.
Explore the dialogue between the Bloomsbury Group and contemporary culture. These essays reveal their lasting influence on art and literature, examining connections to modern figures like Jeanette Winterson and Ali Smith.
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Towards a Poetics of Postmodern Drama
A Study of Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard
This study reveals Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard as postmodern playwrights. Their contradictory dramas subvert theatrical convention to challenge our very understanding of truth, history, and the human subject.
This study reveals Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard as postmodern playwrights. Their contradictory dramas subvert theatrical convention to challenge our very understanding of truth, history, and the human subject.
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This collection of peer-reviewed papers, from an international conference in Japan, explores the cultural cross-fertilisation between the literatures of East and West. The collection demonstrates the stimulating effect of cross-cultural literary studies.
This collection of peer-reviewed papers, from an international conference in Japan, explores the cultural cross-fertilisation between the literatures of East and West. The collection demonstrates the stimulating effect of cross-cultural literary studies.
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Adapting Gaskell
Screen and Stage Versions of Elizabeth Gaskell’s Fiction
This collection charts the adaptation of Gaskell’s fiction, placing her alongside authors like Shakespeare, Austen and Dickens. It will surely prompt more investigations into the adaptability of her work. – Deborah Cartmell
This collection charts the adaptation of Gaskell’s fiction, placing her alongside authors like Shakespeare, Austen and Dickens. It will surely prompt more investigations into the adaptability of her work.
– Deborah Cartmell
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New Wests and Post-Wests
Literature and Film of the American West
This collection offers critical approaches to an American West that never was—a mythic space, not a geographical place. New scholarship explores multiple "New Wests" in film and literature, moving beyond traditional views with unique international perspectives.
This collection offers critical approaches to an American West that never was—a mythic space, not a geographical place. New scholarship explores multiple “New Wests” in film and literature, moving beyond traditional views with unique international perspectives.
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Mutual (In)Comprehensions
France and Britain in the Long Nineteenth Century
This collection of essays explores the complex relationship between France and Britain in the nineteenth century. With both admiration and anxiety, each nation used its “best enemy” to shape its own national identity through art, literature, and history.
This collection of essays explores the complex relationship between France and Britain in the nineteenth century. With both admiration and anxiety, each nation used its “best enemy” to shape its own national identity through art, literature, and history.
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Salome
The Image of a Woman Who Never Was; Salome
Though her name means “peaceful,” Salome is linked to the beheading of John the Baptist. This history describes how the myth of Salome was created through art, literature, and music, and how her image as evil varied according to prevailing cultural myths surrounding women.
Though her name means “peaceful,” Salome is linked to the beheading of John the Baptist. This history describes how the myth of Salome was created through art, literature, and music, and how her image as evil varied according to prevailing cultural myths surrounding women.
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This compilation of essays examines the nexus between artists, their art, and society. Through a diverse group of artists, it explores important issues like the representation of the Other and the construction of the self, offering fascinating insights.
This compilation of essays examines the nexus between artists, their art, and society. Through a diverse group of artists, it explores important issues like the representation of the Other and the construction of the self, offering fascinating insights.
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This book scrutinises the complexities of adapting plays across cultures. Through modern British theatre, it explores the split between state-imposed and personal identity in an age of globalism, arguing for the need to transcend cultural frontiers.
This book scrutinises the complexities of adapting plays across cultures. Through modern British theatre, it explores the split between state-imposed and personal identity in an age of globalism, arguing for the need to transcend cultural frontiers.
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Peeping Through the Holes
Twenty-First Century Essays on Psycho
These essays on Psycho, the novel and the film, invite you to that peculiar house on the hill. Leave all hope behind and enter at your own risk. The Bates’ terrifying rollercoaster welcomes you. Nothing is over here… at least not until it overcomes you.
These essays on Psycho, the novel and the film, invite you to that peculiar house on the hill. Leave all hope behind and enter at your own risk. The Bates’ terrifying rollercoaster welcomes you. Nothing is over here… at least not until it overcomes you.
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International scholars explore the connections between film, modernist literature, and the arts. Essays highlight cinema's impact on writers like T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf, and on directors from Charlie Chaplin to Alfred Hitchcock.
International scholars explore the connections between film, modernist literature, and the arts. Essays highlight cinema’s impact on writers like T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf, and on directors from Charlie Chaplin to Alfred Hitchcock.
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Text in Contemporary Theatre
The Baltics within the World Experience
This collection of articles is devoted to the relationship between text and performance in contemporary theatre. Focusing on the Baltics but with wider insight into world drama, this book is recommended for both theatre and drama theoreticians and practitioners.
This collection of articles is devoted to the relationship between text and performance in contemporary theatre. Focusing on the Baltics but with wider insight into world drama, this book is recommended for both theatre and drama theoreticians and practitioners.
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Öztürk gets to the core of Hardy’s ‘tragic vision’: the destruction of self through the dramatic interplay between character and circumstance. This study brilliantly captures Hardy's stark statement about life itself, filling the need for newer interpretations.
Öztürk gets to the core of Hardy’s ‘tragic vision’: the destruction of self through the dramatic interplay between character and circumstance. This study brilliantly captures Hardy’s stark statement about life itself, filling the need for newer interpretations.
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Ruptures in the Western Empire
White Female Captives and Cinematic Orientalism
This book investigates the representation of white female captives in Moorish thralldom in Western cinema. It deconstructs how these stories were used for imperialist ambitions and, by rereading this visual culture, gives voice to the stereotyped "other".
This book investigates the representation of white female captives in Moorish thralldom in Western cinema. It deconstructs how these stories were used for imperialist ambitions and, by rereading this visual culture, gives voice to the stereotyped “other”.
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The European Avant-Garde
Text and Image
This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores European Avant-Garde movements (1900-1940) in text and image. Covering movements like Futurism and Surrealism, it examines themes of the body, translation, identity, and exile.
This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores European Avant-Garde movements (1900-1940) in text and image. Covering movements like Futurism and Surrealism, it examines themes of the body, translation, identity, and exile.
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Bad Pennies and Dead Presidents
Money in Modern American Drama
This study analyzes the treatment of money in American plays from the Great Depression to the 21st century. Money emerges as an ambivalent force: a malevolent abstraction robbing us of reality, and a powerful metaphor for the American ideal of “self-making.”
This study analyzes the treatment of money in American plays from the Great Depression to the 21st century. Money emerges as an ambivalent force: a malevolent abstraction robbing us of reality, and a powerful metaphor for the American ideal of “self-making.”
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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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Transgressing Women
Space and The Body in Contemporary Noir Thrillers
Transgressing Women focuses on the 'other' female characters of the noir world, beyond the femme fatale. The book traces these transgressive figures in contemporary novels and films, analyzing their dramatic evolution through feminist and postmodernist theory.
Transgressing Women focuses on the ‘other’ female characters of the noir world, beyond the femme fatale. The book traces these transgressive figures in contemporary novels and films, analyzing their dramatic evolution through feminist and postmodernist theory.
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The Future of Text and Image
Collected Essays on Literary and Visual Conjunctures
This volume explores the evolving relationship between text and image in literature. Scholars examine this dynamic across diverse forms—from novels and poetry to collage books and digital poetry—reflecting the significance of the visual in today’s image culture.
This volume explores the evolving relationship between text and image in literature. Scholars examine this dynamic across diverse forms—from novels and poetry to collage books and digital poetry—reflecting the significance of the visual in today’s image culture.
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