Idioms of Ontology
A Phenomenological Study of Whitman
Walt Whitman is a philosophical poet, but this aspect of his work is often neglected. This book throws the Whitmanesque self into a phenomenological context, examining the notion of selfhood against the views of Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Levinas.
Walt Whitman is a philosophical poet, but this aspect of his work is often neglected. This book throws the Whitmanesque self into a phenomenological context, examining the notion of selfhood against the views of Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Levinas.
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Cavafy’s preoccupation with the fragile human condition—illness, old age, and death—continues to challenge readers. This book draws on the medical humanities to provide a new framework for his poetry, for literary scholars and medical practitioners alike.
Cavafy’s preoccupation with the fragile human condition—illness, old age, and death—continues to challenge readers. This book draws on the medical humanities to provide a new framework for his poetry, for literary scholars and medical practitioners alike.
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Images in Words
Only History Exists
This compendium of William Mallinson’s poetry and prose is a vehicle to demonstrate that only history—in its purest form, the past—exists. It briefly evaluates the circumstances that led to each poem and story but avoids analysis, stressing the importance of emotion in reading.
This compendium of William Mallinson’s poetry and prose is a vehicle to demonstrate that only history—in its purest form, the past—exists. It briefly evaluates the circumstances that led to each poem and story but avoids analysis, stressing the importance of emotion in reading.
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As the British Empire defined itself against alleged Celtic backwardness, Irish nationalism surged. This book investigates how 19th-century racist and nationalist discourses shaped Irish identity, exploring travelogues that cast the island as both a utopia and a dystopia.
As the British Empire defined itself against alleged Celtic backwardness, Irish nationalism surged. This book investigates how 19th-century racist and nationalist discourses shaped Irish identity, exploring travelogues that cast the island as both a utopia and a dystopia.
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This book explores the experience of contemporary Australian intellectuals in Italy, analysing works by Jeffrey Smart, Shirley Hazzard, Robert Dessaix, and Peter Robb. It uncovers an image of the country starkly different from any before.
This book explores the experience of contemporary Australian intellectuals in Italy, analysing works by Jeffrey Smart, Shirley Hazzard, Robert Dessaix, and Peter Robb. It uncovers an image of the country starkly different from any before.
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These provocative essays examine how blackness has been configured in cultural productions from the modern German-speaking world, tracing crucial shifts from colonial notions of race to the recodification of blackness as American and an entry-point into modernity.
These provocative essays examine how blackness has been configured in cultural productions from the modern German-speaking world, tracing crucial shifts from colonial notions of race to the recodification of blackness as American and an entry-point into modernity.
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Imagining Home
Exilic Reconstructions in Norma Manea and Andrei Codrescu’s Diasporic Narratives
Tracing the nomadic lives of two exiled writers, this book redefines Romanian and American identity. It offers a crucial new context for Eastern European immigrant narratives.
Tracing the nomadic lives of two exiled writers, this book redefines Romanian and American identity. It offers a crucial new context for Eastern European immigrant narratives.
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Imagining Italy
Victorian Writers and Travellers
This book approaches the Victorian fascination with Italy from a broad, theoretical perspective. Going beyond Dickens, it examines travel writing and visual representations to show how Victorian stereotypes continue to inform contemporary tourism.
This book approaches the Victorian fascination with Italy from a broad, theoretical perspective. Going beyond Dickens, it examines travel writing and visual representations to show how Victorian stereotypes continue to inform contemporary tourism.
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Imagining the Mexican Revolution
Versions and Visions in Literature and Visual Culture
In this original collection of essays, leading Mexicanists evaluate the cultural legacy of Mexico’s 1910 Revolution. These cutting-edge essays examine the literary and visual representations of this landmark event and the complexity of its aftermath.
In this original collection of essays, leading Mexicanists evaluate the cultural legacy of Mexico’s 1910 Revolution. These cutting-edge essays examine the literary and visual representations of this landmark event and the complexity of its aftermath.
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Imagology Profiles
The Dynamics of National Imagery in Literature
This volume expands the field of imagology with new critical analyses, introducing concepts like "geo-imagology" and linking the field to post-colonialism. Essays focus on shifting national and peripheral identities, gender, mobile imagery, and well-established stereotypes.
This volume expands the field of imagology with new critical analyses, introducing concepts like “geo-imagology” and linking the field to post-colonialism. Essays focus on shifting national and peripheral identities, gender, mobile imagery, and well-established stereotypes.
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Implied Irony in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
To Be Mistress of Pemberley!
This book presents a new approach to irony in free indirect discourse (FID) through an analytical reading of Pride and Prejudice. It argues that a multistage theory best explains how irony is generated, making this essential reading for scholars of narrative technique.
This book presents a new approach to irony in free indirect discourse (FID) through an analytical reading of Pride and Prejudice. It argues that a multistage theory best explains how irony is generated, making this essential reading for scholars of narrative technique.
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In and Out
Eccentricity in Britain
This book provides an overview of the critical history of eccentricity, a defining feature of the English character. It explores the eccentric’s paradoxical status as both outsider and insider, and the struggle to retain individuality against standardization.
This book provides an overview of the critical history of eccentricity, a defining feature of the English character. It explores the eccentric’s paradoxical status as both outsider and insider, and the struggle to retain individuality against standardization.
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In and Out of Africa
Exploring Afro-Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian, and Latin-American Connections
This anthology explores the deep historical and cultural bonds connecting Africa to the Afro-Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian, and Latin American worlds. Scholars and artists examine themes of colonization, slavery, identity, and migration through new artistic prisms.
This anthology explores the deep historical and cultural bonds connecting Africa to the Afro-Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian, and Latin American worlds. Scholars and artists examine themes of colonization, slavery, identity, and migration through new artistic prisms.
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This work of literary criticism offers a detailed study of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales," demonstrating his imaginative insights into the drama of human life. It reveals his continuing relevance by exploring themes of domestic violence, trust, and the need for new perspectives.
This work of literary criticism offers a detailed study of Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales,” demonstrating his imaginative insights into the drama of human life. It reveals his continuing relevance by exploring themes of domestic violence, trust, and the need for new perspectives.
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In Search of the Medieval Voice
Expressions of Identity in the Middle Ages
This collection of articles is an intriguing way of looking at medieval identity. Reaching beyond literature, this book examines the authorial and pictorial voice, the voice of national identity, and even the physical attributes a medieval voice may have had.
This collection of articles is an intriguing way of looking at medieval identity. Reaching beyond literature, this book examines the authorial and pictorial voice, the voice of national identity, and even the physical attributes a medieval voice may have had.
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In the Jaws of the Leviathan
Genocide Fiction and Film
How do we witness the unspeakable? This book analyzes portrayals of genocide in film and fiction from Africa, Asia, and South America. It contrasts the indirect metaphors of commercial media with the direct, personal gazes found in experimental works.
How do we witness the unspeakable? This book analyzes portrayals of genocide in film and fiction from Africa, Asia, and South America. It contrasts the indirect metaphors of commercial media with the direct, personal gazes found in experimental works.
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In the Mirror of the Past
Of Fantasy and History
Confronted by overwhelming events, we turn to myth. These essays discuss myth in modern speculative fiction, showing how fantasy becomes a mythic mirror in which we hope to see answers to vexing questions or a reality superior to our own.
Confronted by overwhelming events, we turn to myth. These essays discuss myth in modern speculative fiction, showing how fantasy becomes a mythic mirror in which we hope to see answers to vexing questions or a reality superior to our own.
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This book details the unique 20th-century alliance between small Albania and giant China. Based on specific interests, this relationship unfolded from initial optimism to sworn animosity, cracking when China established a new affinity with the USA.
This book details the unique 20th-century alliance between small Albania and giant China. Based on specific interests, this relationship unfolded from initial optimism to sworn animosity, cracking when China established a new affinity with the USA.
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This essay collection explores inconsistency in the major Latin epics of the Flavian Age. Leading experts demonstrate that inconsistency is often a strategic device, and its careful study yields precious insights into the poets' artistic, thematic, and ideological agendas.
This essay collection explores inconsistency in the major Latin epics of the Flavian Age. Leading experts demonstrate that inconsistency is often a strategic device, and its careful study yields precious insights into the poets’ artistic, thematic, and ideological agendas.
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Incorporations of Chineseness
Hybridity, Bodies, and Chinese American Literature
Through a repositioning of the Chinese component of Asian America in relation to modern transformations of Chinese identity, Fusco reads Asian American literature in relation to historical events and geopolitical changes that have informed the construction of “Chineseness”.
Through a repositioning of the Chinese component of Asian America in relation to modern transformations of Chinese identity, Fusco reads Asian American literature in relation to historical events and geopolitical changes that have informed the construction of “Chineseness”.
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