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The Great War
Localities and Regional Identities
The First World War transformed British society. While most focus is on military aspects, this volume considers how these changes varied across Britain’s Home Front. Was there a common national response, or did strong regional identities prevail?
The First World War transformed British society. While most focus is on military aspects, this volume considers how these changes varied across Britain’s Home Front. Was there a common national response, or did strong regional identities prevail?
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The Polish Swan Triumphant
Essays on Polish and Comparative Literature from Kochanowski to Norwid
This collection of essays covers several centuries of Polish literature and its reception abroad, from the Renaissance poet Jan Kochanowski and the Baroque to the great precursor of modern poetry, Cyprian Norwid. It explores their influence on foreign poets.
This collection of essays covers several centuries of Polish literature and its reception abroad, from the Renaissance poet Jan Kochanowski and the Baroque to the great precursor of modern poetry, Cyprian Norwid. It explores their influence on foreign poets.
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PINTER ET CETERA collects essays arguing that Harold Pinter was not merely a unique writer, but an artist influencing and influenced by painters, filmmakers, and poets. This bold volume expands our understanding of Pinter's importance beyond the absurdist stage.
PINTER ET CETERA collects essays arguing that Harold Pinter was not merely a unique writer, but an artist influencing and influenced by painters, filmmakers, and poets. This bold volume expands our understanding of Pinter’s importance beyond the absurdist stage.
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Seeking Identity
Language in Society
Language defines who we are. Our choices reflect not only how we see ourselves, but how we are viewed by society. This book explores how identity is constructed through language, from ethnicity and gender to the influence of advertising and the media.
Language defines who we are. Our choices reflect not only how we see ourselves, but how we are viewed by society. This book explores how identity is constructed through language, from ethnicity and gender to the influence of advertising and the media.
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This book presents the latest approaches to Lexicology and Lexicography. It offers insights into specialized languages across diverse fields like cinema, fashion, law, and medicine, examining translation, word-formation, and teaching.
This book presents the latest approaches to Lexicology and Lexicography. It offers insights into specialized languages across diverse fields like cinema, fashion, law, and medicine, examining translation, word-formation, and teaching.
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International scholars offer a varied picture of our changing world, discussing the shifting borders of convention in literature, culture, film, music, and art. These complex essays offer fresh views that will stimulate intellectual debate.
International scholars offer a varied picture of our changing world, discussing the shifting borders of convention in literature, culture, film, music, and art. These complex essays offer fresh views that will stimulate intellectual debate.
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A World of Lost Innocence
The Fiction of Elizabeth Bowen
A World of Lost Innocence charts the psychological journey from innocence to experience in Elizabeth Bowen's fiction, exploring her characters' confrontations with identity, sexuality, and politics.
A World of Lost Innocence charts the psychological journey from innocence to experience in Elizabeth Bowen’s fiction, exploring her characters’ confrontations with identity, sexuality, and politics.
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Thomas Hardy is regarded as a great tragic writer, while the value of his comic works is often ignored. This book examines his novels, short stories, and poetry in terms of farce, humour, satire, and wit, revealing how Hardy and Comedy are mutually illuminating.
Thomas Hardy is regarded as a great tragic writer, while the value of his comic works is often ignored. This book examines his novels, short stories, and poetry in terms of farce, humour, satire, and wit, revealing how Hardy and Comedy are mutually illuminating.
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Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
Jenny Bell
Once a star of 19th-century French opera, Auber collaborated with librettist Scribe on *Jenny Bell*. Set in London, a diva loves a nobleman whose father objects. Featuring English motifs, this rich score is a charming work to be rediscovered.
Once a star of 19th-century French opera, Auber collaborated with librettist Scribe on *Jenny Bell*. Set in London, a diva loves a nobleman whose father objects. Featuring English motifs, this rich score is a charming work to be rediscovered.
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Creativity and Reproduction
Nineteenth Century Engraving and the Academy
This study investigates how engravers transformed a reproductive medium into a creative art. It traces their rise in the French academic system as they developed an independent artistic language and emerged as original artists, rivaling painters and sculptors.
This study investigates how engravers transformed a reproductive medium into a creative art. It traces their rise in the French academic system as they developed an independent artistic language and emerged as original artists, rivaling painters and sculptors.
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Understanding what others believe is essential. This collection of essays by international scholars examines the role of love in the world's major religions, eschewing the dangerous idea that all faiths are the same. An invaluable guide to dialogue.
Understanding what others believe is essential. This collection of essays by international scholars examines the role of love in the world’s major religions, eschewing the dangerous idea that all faiths are the same. An invaluable guide to dialogue.
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Filmmaker Billy Wilder considered himself a writer. This book offers academic yet accessible literary readings of nine of his most significant films, informed by literary criticism, Gender Studies, and Film Studies. For film students, English students and Wilder fans alike.
Filmmaker Billy Wilder considered himself a writer. This book offers academic yet accessible literary readings of nine of his most significant films, informed by literary criticism, Gender Studies, and Film Studies. For film students, English students and Wilder fans alike.
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The Hamlet Zone
Reworking Hamlet for European Cultures
For four hundred years, the myth of Hamlet has crossed Europe’s borders, spawning new, independent works of theatre, ballet, fiction, and film. This book examines how Hamlet, through translation and adaptation, became Europe's common cultural currency.
For four hundred years, the myth of Hamlet has crossed Europe’s borders, spawning new, independent works of theatre, ballet, fiction, and film. This book examines how Hamlet, through translation and adaptation, became Europe’s common cultural currency.
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For students of translation, linguistics, and languages, this book explores the relationship between translation and globalization. International scholars cover cultural communication, ethics, and media, blending theory with practice for a truly global perspective.
For students of translation, linguistics, and languages, this book explores the relationship between translation and globalization. International scholars cover cultural communication, ethics, and media, blending theory with practice for a truly global perspective.
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Rewriting/Reprising in Literature
The Paradoxes of Intertextuality
This book offers a fresh outlook on rewriting-reprising. Taking a text’s origin as untraceable, it reconsiders trauma in relation to creative repetition. The act of reprising is a creation ex nihilo: the repetitive stitching of what is constantly ripped up.
This book offers a fresh outlook on rewriting-reprising. Taking a text’s origin as untraceable, it reconsiders trauma in relation to creative repetition. The act of reprising is a creation ex nihilo: the repetitive stitching of what is constantly ripped up.
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Working the System in Sub-Saharan Africa
Global Values, National Citizenship and Local Politics in Historical Perspective
How are democracy and development negotiated in sub-Saharan Africa? This volume offers context-based analyses showing how local practices have been ‘working the system’ of global ideas, a process with a rich historical dimension often overlooked.
How are democracy and development negotiated in sub-Saharan Africa? This volume offers context-based analyses showing how local practices have been ‘working the system’ of global ideas, a process with a rich historical dimension often overlooked.
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The Famished Road
Ben Okri’s Imaginary Homelands
This volume offers a journey into Ben Okri’s The Famished Road. Contributors look beyond pre-conceived categories to embrace the otherness of the text, offering new ways of reading Okri’s prose and reliance on myth. Includes an exclusive interview with Ben Okri.
This volume offers a journey into Ben Okri’s The Famished Road. Contributors look beyond pre-conceived categories to embrace the otherness of the text, offering new ways of reading Okri’s prose and reliance on myth. Includes an exclusive interview with Ben Okri.
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Jean-Paul Sartre spent his life trying to write a book on ethics. This study examines his three incomplete attempts, from his post-war existentialist notes to the dialectical ethics of his later years and the final interviews before his death.
Jean-Paul Sartre spent his life trying to write a book on ethics. This study examines his three incomplete attempts, from his post-war existentialist notes to the dialectical ethics of his later years and the final interviews before his death.
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Unity in Diversity, Volume 1
Cultural Paradigm and Personal Identity
How is identity formed by culture and society? This collection of essays by multicultural scholars explores issues of difference, otherness, inclusion, and multiple ethnic, cultural, and gender identities from literary, social, and historical perspectives.
How is identity formed by culture and society? This collection of essays by multicultural scholars explores issues of difference, otherness, inclusion, and multiple ethnic, cultural, and gender identities from literary, social, and historical perspectives.
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Censorship across Borders
The Reception of English Literature in Twentieth-Century Europe
These essays explore European censorship of English literature, revealing why authors like Joyce and Orwell were targeted by opposing ideologies, from conservative Catholic morality to communism. This study uncovers the complex relationship between the state and culture.
These essays explore European censorship of English literature, revealing why authors like Joyce and Orwell were targeted by opposing ideologies, from conservative Catholic morality to communism. This study uncovers the complex relationship between the state and culture.
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