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Does literature merely reflect society, or does it create and transform reality? Is it a tool of social power, or a source of pleasure? The essays in this volume explore the complex relations between literature and society from diverse angles and eras.
Does literature merely reflect society, or does it create and transform reality? Is it a tool of social power, or a source of pleasure? The essays in this volume explore the complex relations between literature and society from diverse angles and eras.
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This collection of critical essays examines New York through its literature, exploring the city's contradictions: possibility and self-realization versus corruption and despair. The literature of New York is as complex and creative as the City itself.
This collection of critical essays examines New York through its literature, exploring the city’s contradictions: possibility and self-realization versus corruption and despair. The literature of New York is as complex and creative as the City itself.
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Literature, History, Choice
The Principle of Alternative History in Literature (S.Y. Agnon, The City with All That is Therein)
This study offers a new theory of alternative history. Through a key work by Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon, it reveals this principle is not just a genre, but fundamental to the very act of reading—shaping plot, character, and imagination.
This study offers a new theory of alternative history. Through a key work by Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon, it reveals this principle is not just a genre, but fundamental to the very act of reading—shaping plot, character, and imagination.
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Literature, Performance, and Somaesthetics
Studies in Agency and Embodiment
These essays view textual and extra-textual worlds as an intimate continuum. Drawing from philosophical somaesthetics and performance studies, they explore the agency of the embodied self, examining literary characters, canons, and reception on a physical, visceral level.
These essays view textual and extra-textual worlds as an intimate continuum. Drawing from philosophical somaesthetics and performance studies, they explore the agency of the embodied self, examining literary characters, canons, and reception on a physical, visceral level.
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Literature, Rhetoric and Values
Selected Proceedings of a Conference held at the University of Waterloo, 3-5 June 2011
These essays use cutting-edge scholarship to investigate the evolving values of the modern world, confronting issues like torture, genocide, and environmental apocalypse. Authors essay the ethical dimensions of works from whisky bottles to graphic novels.
These essays use cutting-edge scholarship to investigate the evolving values of the modern world, confronting issues like torture, genocide, and environmental apocalypse. Authors essay the ethical dimensions of works from whisky bottles to graphic novels.
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Literature, Theory and the History of Ideas
An Updated Compendium
How do power structures shape our notions of identity, gender, and culture? This collection interrogates these crucial questions across literature, film, and cultural theory, making it a vital resource for scholars and students.
How do power structures shape our notions of identity, gender, and culture? This collection interrogates these crucial questions across literature, film, and cultural theory, making it a vital resource for scholars and students.
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This collection explores our relationship with the natural world and how literature clarifies it in ways science and politics cannot. As we face environmental change, literature becomes equipment for living, helping us make sense of our world and decide how to act.
This collection explores our relationship with the natural world and how literature clarifies it in ways science and politics cannot. As we face environmental change, literature becomes equipment for living, helping us make sense of our world and decide how to act.
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Literature’s Contributions to Scientific Knowledge
How Novels Explored New Ideas about Human Nature
Interdisciplinary scholarship holds the promise of the unification of all knowledge. Through its wide-ranging analysis, this volume demonstrates, ¬in a careful and original manner, how literary fiction has contributed to the scientific understanding of human nature.
Interdisciplinary scholarship holds the promise of the unification of all knowledge. Through its wide-ranging analysis, this volume demonstrates, ¬in a careful and original manner, how literary fiction has contributed to the scientific understanding of human nature.
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Literatures in the Digital Era
Theory and Praxis
This book analyses the impacts of digital technology on literature. It explores how computer resources are used to preserve and study texts, the birth of a new digital literature, and the emergence of new literary theories pointing to a new humanism.
This book analyses the impacts of digital technology on literature. It explores how computer resources are used to preserve and study texts, the birth of a new digital literature, and the emergence of new literary theories pointing to a new humanism.
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War is a terrible disaster, yet it is a universal characteristic of human existence. Why? This multi-disciplinary collection of essays explores the transformation of the war experience into chronicles of hope and despair, from Herodotus up to the present day.
War is a terrible disaster, yet it is a universal characteristic of human existence. Why? This multi-disciplinary collection of essays explores the transformation of the war experience into chronicles of hope and despair, from Herodotus up to the present day.
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Living and Learning in Dissimilitude Without Dissonance
Wording Otherness
In an age of globalisation, being other is what we all have in common. This volume offers insights into how contemporary literature explores this paradox, revealing the underlying message: to confront otherness is to encounter ourselves in the mirror of culture.
In an age of globalisation, being other is what we all have in common. This volume offers insights into how contemporary literature explores this paradox, revealing the underlying message: to confront otherness is to encounter ourselves in the mirror of culture.
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Local Governments and the Public Health Delivery System in Kerala
Lessons of Collaborative Governance
This monograph considers a new public health model in the Indian state Kerala, which is unique in achieving human and social development with a low level of economic development.
This monograph considers a new public health model in the Indian state Kerala, which is unique in achieving human and social development with a low level of economic development.
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Where is Shakespeare in the 21st century? In global cinema, graphic novels, sci-fi television, and Jewish revenge films. This collection assesses the active world of Shakespearean adaptation, considering where he is now and where his works might be going.
Where is Shakespeare in the 21st century? In global cinema, graphic novels, sci-fi television, and Jewish revenge films. This collection assesses the active world of Shakespearean adaptation, considering where he is now and where his works might be going.
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This title covers literature from the beginning of the Jacobean period to the end of the Victorian era. Centring on the city of London, it explores different aspects of the interaction of literature and place, covering works by major figures within this time period.
This title covers literature from the beginning of the Jacobean period to the end of the Victorian era. Centring on the city of London, it explores different aspects of the interaction of literature and place, covering works by major figures within this time period.
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Looking Back at the Jazz Age
New Essays on the Literature and Legacy of an Iconic Decade
Resulting from the Jazz Age’s prominence in recent popular culture, this title not only deepens the reader’s knowledge of this iconic period, but also provides a better understanding of its persistent presence “in our time.”
Resulting from the Jazz Age’s prominence in recent popular culture, this title not only deepens the reader’s knowledge of this iconic period, but also provides a better understanding of its persistent presence “in our time.”
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This book considers love and laughter in the four romans galants of Aymé Dubois-Jolly. Though the love is unashamedly erotic, the novels are redeemed by comic elements and elegant prose, with nods to the literary giants of the eighteenth century.
This book considers love and laughter in the four romans galants of Aymé Dubois-Jolly. Though the love is unashamedly erotic, the novels are redeemed by comic elements and elegant prose, with nods to the literary giants of the eighteenth century.
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This book’s study of the love letters and romantic novels of the Napoleonic coterie reveals the emerging political landscape of the Napoleonic war period through extended metaphors of love and patriotism. It describes how these letters were largely framed by concepts of love.
This book’s study of the love letters and romantic novels of the Napoleonic coterie reveals the emerging political landscape of the Napoleonic war period through extended metaphors of love and patriotism. It describes how these letters were largely framed by concepts of love.
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Love, Sorrow and Joy
A New Voice in Irish Avant-Garde Poetry
The poetic and philosophic insights in this book are new and fresh. Like the mystical writers of old, Gillespie explores doubt, hope, and the search for true self-identity, generating a new and profound experience.
The poetic and philosophic insights in this book are new and fresh. Like the mystical writers of old, Gillespie explores doubt, hope, and the search for true self-identity, generating a new and profound experience.
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Lovely Violence
Chrétien de Troyes’ Critical Romances
In Lovely Violence, Jørgen Bruhn rereads Chrétien de Troyes’ chivalric novels through contemporary concerns of gender and violence. The medieval characters are both shockingly strange and reassuringly recognisable. The Middle Ages may not be so unmodern after all.
In Lovely Violence, Jørgen Bruhn rereads Chrétien de Troyes’ chivalric novels through contemporary concerns of gender and violence. The medieval characters are both shockingly strange and reassuringly recognisable. The Middle Ages may not be so unmodern after all.
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This book reveals Shakespeare as an early modern materialist inspired by Lucretius. In chapters on six important plays, it demonstrates how he writes an “atomic” poetry of joining and splitting language to explore the art of nature and the nature of art.
This book reveals Shakespeare as an early modern materialist inspired by Lucretius. In chapters on six important plays, it demonstrates how he writes an “atomic” poetry of joining and splitting language to explore the art of nature and the nature of art.
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