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From twelve years of producing ancient plays for contemporary audiences, these translations of Sophocles and Euripides are accessible and speakable. They maintain the poetry of tragedy without being archaic, accompanied by essays on drama, irony, and emotion.
From twelve years of producing ancient plays for contemporary audiences, these translations of Sophocles and Euripides are accessible and speakable. They maintain the poetry of tragedy without being archaic, accompanied by essays on drama, irony, and emotion.
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Investigating Arthur Upfield
A Centenary Collection of Critical Essays
This collection of critical essays by international scholars and novelists like Tony Hillerman celebrates Arthur Upfield, creator of Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte. The essays assess his place in the annals of crime fiction and Australian cultural history.
This collection of critical essays by international scholars and novelists like Tony Hillerman celebrates Arthur Upfield, creator of Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte. The essays assess his place in the annals of crime fiction and Australian cultural history.
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Invisible Fences, Intertwined Lives
Stories from the North East of India
The popular image of India’s Northeast as a conflict zone is an incomplete, distorted picture. This book intervenes by bringing together translated narratives of inter-community togetherness and fellow-feeling, revealing a more comprehensive and human idea about the region.
The popular image of India’s Northeast as a conflict zone is an incomplete, distorted picture. This book intervenes by bringing together translated narratives of inter-community togetherness and fellow-feeling, revealing a more comprehensive and human idea about the region.
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Ireland and Dysfunction
Critical Explorations in Literature and Film
At the intersection of cultural, literary and film studies, this compilation explores how dysfunction is tackled in Irish studies. It also investigates how mediation, managing, healing and transcending help in understanding the construction process of an Irish identity today.
At the intersection of cultural, literary and film studies, this compilation explores how dysfunction is tackled in Irish studies. It also investigates how mediation, managing, healing and transcending help in understanding the construction process of an Irish identity today.
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Ireland’s Cultural Empire
Contacts, Comparisons, Translations
This volume highlights Ireland’s cultural and linguistic influence in the world. Contributions focus on 18th, 19th and 20th century Irish writers who export their legacy abroad, in addition to offering new perspectives on Irish emigration to Australia and the USA.
This volume highlights Ireland’s cultural and linguistic influence in the world. Contributions focus on 18th, 19th and 20th century Irish writers who export their legacy abroad, in addition to offering new perspectives on Irish emigration to Australia and the USA.
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This collection gathers international experts on Iris Murdoch to promote the dialogue between philosophy and literature. Scholars first explore her philosophical concerns and their influence, then retrieve the underlying philosophical thinking from her novels.
This collection gathers international experts on Iris Murdoch to promote the dialogue between philosophy and literature. Scholars first explore her philosophical concerns and their influence, then retrieve the underlying philosophical thinking from her novels.
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Irish Childhoods
Children’s Fiction and Irish History
This book explores how contemporary Irish children’s fiction engages with the past. It reveals how constructions of childhood in novels and films are used to explore complex questions of Irish history, culture, and identity.
This book explores how contemporary Irish children’s fiction engages with the past. It reveals how constructions of childhood in novels and films are used to explore complex questions of Irish history, culture, and identity.
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O’Connor investigates the first time that Ireland, with an autonomous legislative parliament, met with large inward migration in the modern era. She explains the history of Ireland’s policy and public opinion toward inward migration and the treatment of migration today.
O’Connor investigates the first time that Ireland, with an autonomous legislative parliament, met with large inward migration in the modern era. She explains the history of Ireland’s policy and public opinion toward inward migration and the treatment of migration today.
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Irish Studies in Britain
New Perspectives on History and Literature
These essays explore how religious and political identity shaped Irish experiences from the 17th to 20th centuries. The collection examines key historical events and literary responses, addressing themes of national identity, culture, and literary influence.
These essays explore how religious and political identity shaped Irish experiences from the 17th to 20th centuries. The collection examines key historical events and literary responses, addressing themes of national identity, culture, and literary influence.
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Irony, Misogyny and Interpretation
Ambiguous Authority in Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche
How do we judge the misogyny of Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, and Schopenhauer when it might be ironic? This book argues that ironic ambiguity is a formative aspect of their texts, not an excuse, and explores the ethical problem this poses for interpretation.
How do we judge the misogyny of Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, and Schopenhauer when it might be ironic? This book argues that ironic ambiguity is a formative aspect of their texts, not an excuse, and explores the ethical problem this poses for interpretation.
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Irresolute Heresiarch
Catholicism, Gnosticism and Paganism in the Poetry of Czesław Miłosz
Was Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz a Catholic poet? Following a late-in-life admission of his Catholic intent, this book explores the wide range of religious themes in his poetry, from orthodox Christianity through Gnosticism and paganism.
Was Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz a Catholic poet? Following a late-in-life admission of his Catholic intent, this book explores the wide range of religious themes in his poetry, from orthodox Christianity through Gnosticism and paganism.
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Islam and the West
A Love Story?
Challenging common depictions of hostility, this collection locates threads of connection and ‘love’ between Islam and the West. Through media, literature, and cinema, it seeks to prompt meaningful dialogue and construct a healthier relationship.
Challenging common depictions of hostility, this collection locates threads of connection and ‘love’ between Islam and the West. Through media, literature, and cinema, it seeks to prompt meaningful dialogue and construct a healthier relationship.
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Islam in Contemporary Literature
Jihad, Revolution, Subjectivity
This volume presents authors from an Islamic background who search for a voice for individual rights. This study discusses an ongoing Reformation in Islam, focusing on the role of women, sexuality, the “clash of civilizations,” free speech, assimilation, and pluralism.
This volume presents authors from an Islamic background who search for a voice for individual rights. This study discusses an ongoing Reformation in Islam, focusing on the role of women, sexuality, the “clash of civilizations,” free speech, assimilation, and pluralism.
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Islamic Postcolonialism
Islam and Muslim Identities in Four Contemporary British Novels
This book forges a new path with Islamic postcolonialism, using a Muslim perspective to challenge colonial legacies in Western writing. It explores the construction of Muslim identity in fiction by Kureishi, Ali, Aboulela, and Rushdie.
This book forges a new path with Islamic postcolonialism, using a Muslim perspective to challenge colonial legacies in Western writing. It explores the construction of Muslim identity in fiction by Kureishi, Ali, Aboulela, and Rushdie.
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Islamophobia in American Literature
A Contrapuntal Reading of Two North American Bestsellers
What is Islamophobia? Many novels since 9/11 are criticised for promoting it, but what if an author is unintentionally biased? This study delimits Islamophobia on the construct of Orientalism by investigating bestselling novels and offering a model for deep contrapuntal reading.
What is Islamophobia? Many novels since 9/11 are criticised for promoting it, but what if an author is unintentionally biased? This study delimits Islamophobia on the construct of Orientalism by investigating bestselling novels and offering a model for deep contrapuntal reading.
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This lucid account of J. M. Coetzee’s South African career provides an inside view of apartheid madness. Linking his nonfictional thought with his fiction, it suggests the insanity of apartheid lies in the social deformation and pathological attachments it encourages.
This lucid account of J. M. Coetzee’s South African career provides an inside view of apartheid madness. Linking his nonfictional thought with his fiction, it suggests the insanity of apartheid lies in the social deformation and pathological attachments it encourages.
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James Joyce and After
Writer and Time
This volume of essays examines time in literature, from the modernist revolution initiated by Joyce to the present. It offers new readings of Joyce’s work and explores subjective time in writers like Coetzee and collective experience in post-9/11 fiction.
This volume of essays examines time in literature, from the modernist revolution initiated by Joyce to the present. It offers new readings of Joyce’s work and explores subjective time in writers like Coetzee and collective experience in post-9/11 fiction.
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Jamesian Cultural Anxiety in the East and West
The Co-Constitutive Nature of the Cosmopolite Spirit
This volume explores the world that shaped Henry James’s work through themes of cultural anxiety. Each chapter offers a new way of reading his work to generate insights, establish intercultural understandings, and define the Jamesian worldview as universal.
This volume explores the world that shaped Henry James’s work through themes of cultural anxiety. Each chapter offers a new way of reading his work to generate insights, establish intercultural understandings, and define the Jamesian worldview as universal.
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Jane Austen’s Emma
A Close Reading Companion, Volume I
Combining an academic’s knowledge with a fan’s enthusiasm, this chapter-by-chapter companion to Jane Austen's Emma offers lucid and surprising interpretations that will illuminate the novel for first-time and experienced readers alike.
Combining an academic’s knowledge with a fan’s enthusiasm, this chapter-by-chapter companion to Jane Austen’s Emma offers lucid and surprising interpretations that will illuminate the novel for first-time and experienced readers alike.
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Jawdat Haydar’s Poetic Legacy
Issues of Modernity, Belonging, Language, and Transcendence
This proceedings of the first Jawdat Haydar international conference comprises papers on the English-language poems of the Lebanese poet. It will appeal to both academic and non-academic readers interested in the field of 20th century English-language world literature.
This proceedings of the first Jawdat Haydar international conference comprises papers on the English-language poems of the Lebanese poet. It will appeal to both academic and non-academic readers interested in the field of 20th century English-language world literature.
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