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The Event, the Subject, and the Artwork
Into the Twenty-First Century
This collection explores art's power to mediate political events, creating temporal ruptures and heralding an indescribable future.
This collection explores art’s power to mediate political events, creating temporal ruptures and heralding an indescribable future.
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Stage Migrants
Representations of the Migrant Other in Modern Irish Drama
This volume investigates how recent migration is reflected in Irish culture, focusing on the representation of outsiders in theatre. It explores debates on national identity, multiculturalism, and racism in plays whose topics are central to any global community.
This volume investigates how recent migration is reflected in Irish culture, focusing on the representation of outsiders in theatre. It explores debates on national identity, multiculturalism, and racism in plays whose topics are central to any global community.
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A hazy cloud of facts and fiction surrounds paedophilia and its relation to Child Sexual Abuse. This book analyzes their depiction in contemporary British and American drama, illustrating the ambiguity of the topic and asking difficult questions.
A hazy cloud of facts and fiction surrounds paedophilia and its relation to Child Sexual Abuse. This book analyzes their depiction in contemporary British and American drama, illustrating the ambiguity of the topic and asking difficult questions.
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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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“Hours like bright sweets in a jar”
Time and Temporality in Literature and Culture
Investigating time from interdisciplinary perspectives, these essays explore resistance against the hegemony of linear time. Literary, cinematographic, and cultural practices enact exploding temporalities to reflect the multifaceted human experience of time.
Investigating time from interdisciplinary perspectives, these essays explore resistance against the hegemony of linear time. Literary, cinematographic, and cultural practices enact exploding temporalities to reflect the multifaceted human experience of time.
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Adaptations
Some Journeys from Words to Visuals
This book explores the journey of written text to the screen, focusing on cinematic adaptations of Indian and international literary works. It engages with issues like ‘fidelity’ and ‘intertextuality’ in the works of Tagore, Satyajit Ray, and others.
This book explores the journey of written text to the screen, focusing on cinematic adaptations of Indian and international literary works. It engages with issues like ‘fidelity’ and ‘intertextuality’ in the works of Tagore, Satyajit Ray, and others.
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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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This book explores fragments of tragedy in postmodern film. While postmodernism broke the continuous chain of tragedy from Ancient Greece, its aspects persist in films with themes of chaos, violence, paranoia, and alienation.
This book explores fragments of tragedy in postmodern film. While postmodernism broke the continuous chain of tragedy from Ancient Greece, its aspects persist in films with themes of chaos, violence, paranoia, and alienation.
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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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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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We Speak a Different Tongue
Maverick Voices and Modernity 1890–1939
This collection challenges the privileging of modernism, focusing instead on modernity. It foregrounds marginalised writers—from H.G. Wells to Djuna Barnes—who responded to the era's tensions with innovations distinct from modernist experimentation.
This collection challenges the privileging of modernism, focusing instead on modernity. It foregrounds marginalised writers—from H.G. Wells to Djuna Barnes—who responded to the era’s tensions with innovations distinct from modernist experimentation.
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These essays engage with the connection between aesthetics and radical politics. Moving beyond Marxist approaches, they explore culture from other radical positions—anarchist, autonomist, and ecological—revealing an exhilarating break with earlier cultural critique.
These essays engage with the connection between aesthetics and radical politics. Moving beyond Marxist approaches, they explore culture from other radical positions—anarchist, autonomist, and ecological—revealing an exhilarating break with earlier cultural critique.
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Debating with the Eumenides
Aspects of the Reception of Greek Tragedy in Modern Greece
Greek tragedy takes pride of place in the dialogue between modern Greece and its classical past. In this volume, scholars explore how tragic myth has been reimagined in modern Greek drama and poetry, with extensive coverage of major authors like Cavafy, Seferis, and Ritsos.
Greek tragedy takes pride of place in the dialogue between modern Greece and its classical past. In this volume, scholars explore how tragic myth has been reimagined in modern Greek drama and poetry, with extensive coverage of major authors like Cavafy, Seferis, and Ritsos.
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Oancea analyses sociolinguistic features of adolescent speech that occur in natural, spontaneous, everyday speech, suggesting that variation is a characteristic of natural language, and that fully understanding language requires grasping the nature and function of variation.
Oancea analyses sociolinguistic features of adolescent speech that occur in natural, spontaneous, everyday speech, suggesting that variation is a characteristic of natural language, and that fully understanding language requires grasping the nature and function of variation.
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Heinz-Uwe Haus, a leading voice in the collapse of communism in the GDR, combined politics and theatre. In this book, he provides a unique insider's narrative of German unification and its aftermath, widening the context to current issues through the lens of theatre.
Heinz-Uwe Haus, a leading voice in the collapse of communism in the GDR, combined politics and theatre. In this book, he provides a unique insider’s narrative of German unification and its aftermath, widening the context to current issues through the lens of theatre.
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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 Language of the Arts and Literature
An English-Romanian and Romanian-English Dictionary
This dictionary brings into contact two cultures, namely English and Romanian, by facilitating communication in the fields of visual and performing arts and literature. It will help translators, interpreters and students to communicate better in both English and Romanian.
This dictionary brings into contact two cultures, namely English and Romanian, by facilitating communication in the fields of visual and performing arts and literature. It will help translators, interpreters and students to communicate better in both English and Romanian.
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Why do adults write about the child and why do they choose to depict children? Georgieva looks at various examples from literature, art and film to analyze aspects of adults’ outlook on the child, and what it tells us about the adult, paying special attention to the “eye” motif.
Why do adults write about the child and why do they choose to depict children? Georgieva looks at various examples from literature, art and film to analyze aspects of adults’ outlook on the child, and what it tells us about the adult, paying special attention to the “eye” motif.
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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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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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