Ariadne’s Thread and the Labyrinth of Myth
Studies in Honour of Professor Ariadne Gartziou-Tatti
Follow the threads connecting Greek myth, ritual, and literature from Homer to Late Antiquity. This collection reveals how stories shaped the polis and morals, with new insights into the enduring power of supplication and the complex agency of female figures.
Follow the threads connecting Greek myth, ritual, and literature from Homer to Late Antiquity. This collection reveals how stories shaped the polis and morals, with new insights into the enduring power of supplication and the complex agency of female figures.
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Haptics of ‘Home’ and ‘Homemaking’ in South Asian Literature
Identification in Diasporic Fiction
This volume addresses critical questions of migration, displacement, exile, and identity in contemporary South Asian diasporic literature. Featuring works by experienced and young scholars, it is a fundamental contribution to the study of postcolonial diasporic writing.
This volume addresses critical questions of migration, displacement, exile, and identity in contemporary South Asian diasporic literature. Featuring works by experienced and young scholars, it is a fundamental contribution to the study of postcolonial diasporic writing.
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This book investigates the phenomenology of human longing through hermeneutics and metacognition. This collection of critiques examines fine art, poetry, and digital humanities, which aim to initiate self-reflection by creating interior space to overcome adversity.
This book investigates the phenomenology of human longing through hermeneutics and metacognition. This collection of critiques examines fine art, poetry, and digital humanities, which aim to initiate self-reflection by creating interior space to overcome adversity.
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This collection explores literary portrayals of food and drinks to reveal how they shed light on the complexities of identity and belonging. At the same time, it argues that food and drinks are a unifying force that transcends boundaries, pointing to universal human experiences.
This collection explores literary portrayals of food and drinks to reveal how they shed light on the complexities of identity and belonging. At the same time, it argues that food and drinks are a unifying force that transcends boundaries, pointing to universal human experiences.
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Atticism and Koine in Greek Prose Texts by Jewish Authors
Linguistic and Stylistic Studies
This book evaluates the Bible's linguistic and literary background, revealing its Hebrew and Greek traditions. It offers valuable information for scholars of religion and language, and a wider audience interested in the controversial language of Jesus and the first Christians.
This book evaluates the Bible’s linguistic and literary background, revealing its Hebrew and Greek traditions. It offers valuable information for scholars of religion and language, and a wider audience interested in the controversial language of Jesus and the first Christians.
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William Blake, Jacques Derrida and the Secret Heart of Deconstruction
The Dark Back of Time
This book reads Derrida’s deconstruction through Blake’s “Eternity is in love with the productions of time.” It takes deconstruction out of the seminar room, demonstrating its vital role in everyday life and revealing it as the invisible heart of both art and religion.
This book reads Derrida’s deconstruction through Blake’s “Eternity is in love with the productions of time.” It takes deconstruction out of the seminar room, demonstrating its vital role in everyday life and revealing it as the invisible heart of both art and religion.
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A Study in Guilt
The Supreme Manifestation of the Mind-Forged Manacle
Why do some feel the crushing weight of guilt while others feel none? This book investigates the psychology of remorse through harrowing events like WWII and the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, and the literary complicity of Hamlet's friends, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
Why do some feel the crushing weight of guilt while others feel none? This book investigates the psychology of remorse through harrowing events like WWII and the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, and the literary complicity of Hamlet’s friends, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
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Activism in the Works of the Beat Generation
Mapping Spaces
For the Beat Generation, the city was the stage. This book traces the literary maps of writers like Kerouac and Ginsberg, revealing how they used urban spaces to challenge norms on gender, race, and class, and uncovering their lasting legacy on modern culture.
For the Beat Generation, the city was the stage. This book traces the literary maps of writers like Kerouac and Ginsberg, revealing how they used urban spaces to challenge norms on gender, race, and class, and uncovering their lasting legacy on modern culture.
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Aspects of Time and Memory in Literature for Children and Young Adults
Mnemosyne for Children
A critical exploration of time and memory in children's media. Spanning three centuries, these essays analyze traumatic memory, post-memory, and the reimagining of the past in picturebooks, YA novels, films, and adaptations of classic fairy tales.
A critical exploration of time and memory in children’s media. Spanning three centuries, these essays analyze traumatic memory, post-memory, and the reimagining of the past in picturebooks, YA novels, films, and adaptations of classic fairy tales.
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Early British Comedy
A Critical Rethinking
This collection of sixteen British comedies from the 16th and 17th centuries includes everything from broad humour to heavy social satire. The analysis digs into each play’s embedded assumptions and social role, connecting the works to Elizabethan culture and our own time.
This collection of sixteen British comedies from the 16th and 17th centuries includes everything from broad humour to heavy social satire. The analysis digs into each play’s embedded assumptions and social role, connecting the works to Elizabethan culture and our own time.
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This book explores the enduring myth of Antigone and her timeless power of resistance. It shows how subjectivity is forged in crisis, tracing the myth to its reconstruction in Kamila Shamsie’s work, where Antigone is reborn as Aneeka, a modern Muslim British woman.
This book explores the enduring myth of Antigone and her timeless power of resistance. It shows how subjectivity is forged in crisis, tracing the myth to its reconstruction in Kamila Shamsie’s work, where Antigone is reborn as Aneeka, a modern Muslim British woman.
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A. D. Hope and the Ambivalence of Modernity
Reconsiderations
How did A. D. Hope react to modernity? What did he prize, what did he dislike, and how did he make use even of what he disliked? This book offers fresh answers to such questions from some of Australia's best-known scholars.
How did A. D. Hope react to modernity? What did he prize, what did he dislike, and how did he make use even of what he disliked? This book offers fresh answers to such questions from some of Australia’s best-known scholars.
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This book focuses on four fragmentary plays by Aristophanes which present characteristics not prominent in his extant work. As mythological comedies and parodies of tragedy, they exhibit elements of Middle and New Comedy, offering new insights into his influential innovations.
This book focuses on four fragmentary plays by Aristophanes which present characteristics not prominent in his extant work. As mythological comedies and parodies of tragedy, they exhibit elements of Middle and New Comedy, offering new insights into his influential innovations.
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Critical Coalitions
Literary Aesthetics and Beyond
Explore the dynamic interplay of literature and contemporary themes like postcoloniality, gender, and new media. Combining scholarly dialogue, no-holds-barred interviews, and poignant poetry, this book offers fresh perspectives on culture, identity, and representation.
Explore the dynamic interplay of literature and contemporary themes like postcoloniality, gender, and new media. Combining scholarly dialogue, no-holds-barred interviews, and poignant poetry, this book offers fresh perspectives on culture, identity, and representation.
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This book examines the connection between mediaeval mystery plays and masonic traditions. It explores how both use symbolic characters, archetypes, stories, and rituals to convey moral and spiritual teachings, a link rooted in the stonemasons’ guilds that performed these dramas.
This book examines the connection between mediaeval mystery plays and masonic traditions. It explores how both use symbolic characters, archetypes, stories, and rituals to convey moral and spiritual teachings, a link rooted in the stonemasons’ guilds that performed these dramas.
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To persuade, you need proof. But what counts as satisfactory proof varies by culture and context. This volume assembles experts to address the theme of proof in ancient Greek literature, from the lawcourts to drama and historiography, with a focus on the Athenian orators.
To persuade, you need proof. But what counts as satisfactory proof varies by culture and context. This volume assembles experts to address the theme of proof in ancient Greek literature, from the lawcourts to drama and historiography, with a focus on the Athenian orators.
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In his most controversial poetry, Horace is a writer in torment. This new interpretation reveals an artwork forged from the agony of expression—a book he may never have wanted to write. His fate is to be forever persecuted by his own masterpiece.
In his most controversial poetry, Horace is a writer in torment. This new interpretation reveals an artwork forged from the agony of expression—a book he may never have wanted to write. His fate is to be forever persecuted by his own masterpiece.
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Genre Studies in Focus
Transgression or Reconciliation
This collection of essays revises genre theory, exploring literary genres in transition. Adopting a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approach, contributors investigate genre hybridization and evolution, showing that genres are inherently hybrid and flexible.
This collection of essays revises genre theory, exploring literary genres in transition. Adopting a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approach, contributors investigate genre hybridization and evolution, showing that genres are inherently hybrid and flexible.
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Space, Identity and Discourse in Anglophone Studies
Crossing Boundaries
This book explores the intersections where cultures, languages, and spaces converge to shape identities. Examining literary works, political narratives, and language use, this collection contributes to scholarly dialogues on identity construction through border crossings.
This book explores the intersections where cultures, languages, and spaces converge to shape identities. Examining literary works, political narratives, and language use, this collection contributes to scholarly dialogues on identity construction through border crossings.
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Interpreting Suicide
Textuality of a Mortality
This critical contribution to suicidology analyzes suicides as ‘Texts’. Drawing on theorists like Barthes, Derrida, and Foucault, it explores the deaths of immortalised characters, forgotten writers, and the culturally devoiced by using literary and cultural theories.
This critical contribution to suicidology analyzes suicides as ‘Texts’. Drawing on theorists like Barthes, Derrida, and Foucault, it explores the deaths of immortalised characters, forgotten writers, and the culturally devoiced by using literary and cultural theories.
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