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This collection of essays explores the rhetoric of fiction, showing how authors from Fielding and Austen to Barnes and Ishiguro achieve their effects. It consists of readings that show rhetoric in action—an invitation to the reader to take part in the fun.
This collection of essays explores the rhetoric of fiction, showing how authors from Fielding and Austen to Barnes and Ishiguro achieve their effects. It consists of readings that show rhetoric in action—an invitation to the reader to take part in the fun.
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Englishness and Post-imperial Space
The Poetry of Philip Larkin and Ted Hughes
Milton Sarkar investigates the English mind-set immediately after British withdrawal from the colonies, and examines how the loss of power and global prestige affected the poetry of Philip Larkin and Ted Hughes, who returned to archetypal English customs and conventions.
Milton Sarkar investigates the English mind-set immediately after British withdrawal from the colonies, and examines how the loss of power and global prestige affected the poetry of Philip Larkin and Ted Hughes, who returned to archetypal English customs and conventions.
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The Social Sense of the Human Experience
Thinking about Vom Menschen of Werner Sombart
In a crisis where society is no longer human by definition, the human element must be rediscovered. This book revitalizes the sense of the human—a compass that, though often misunderstood, is now more essential than ever.
In a crisis where society is no longer human by definition, the human element must be rediscovered. This book revitalizes the sense of the human—a compass that, though often misunderstood, is now more essential than ever.
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Mohammed presents an appraisal of George Bernard Shaw’s position on women in his plays, exploring the ways in which the playwright addresses gender inequality and his attempts to project a “new woman” who is the pursuer rather than the pursued.
Mohammed presents an appraisal of George Bernard Shaw’s position on women in his plays, exploring the ways in which the playwright addresses gender inequality and his attempts to project a “new woman” who is the pursuer rather than the pursued.
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Cryptohistories is a collection of essays analysing cryptic discourses in history. The focus is on history as a subjective narrative, a conscious construct, and manipulation, exploring the mechanics of the rise and popularity of such narrative strategies.
Cryptohistories is a collection of essays analysing cryptic discourses in history. The focus is on history as a subjective narrative, a conscious construct, and manipulation, exploring the mechanics of the rise and popularity of such narrative strategies.
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Random Thoughts
Essays in Criticism
This collection of critical essays ranges from Shakespeare to Rushdie, covering Indian, British, and African writers. Addressing poetry, fiction, and drama with a fresh approach, the book is a valuable resource for students, teachers, and researchers of English literature.
This collection of critical essays ranges from Shakespeare to Rushdie, covering Indian, British, and African writers. Addressing poetry, fiction, and drama with a fresh approach, the book is a valuable resource for students, teachers, and researchers of English literature.
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Byron’s Temperament
Essays in Body and Mind
This edited volume is the first to draw together dominant strains in critical thinking about Byron’s temperament and behaviour, using discourses and paradigms drawn from various disciplines, including literary studies, history of medicine, behaviourism, and cultural studies.
This edited volume is the first to draw together dominant strains in critical thinking about Byron’s temperament and behaviour, using discourses and paradigms drawn from various disciplines, including literary studies, history of medicine, behaviourism, and cultural studies.
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An aristocratic lady, Halma, uses her inheritance to found a Christian society for the needy. Her family, believing she is as mad as the disgraced priest Nazarín whom she harbors, works to defeat her. A fortunate denouement comes from the priest himself.
An aristocratic lady, Halma, uses her inheritance to found a Christian society for the needy. Her family, believing she is as mad as the disgraced priest Nazarín whom she harbors, works to defeat her. A fortunate denouement comes from the priest himself.
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From Damascus to Beirut
Contested Cities in Arab Writing (1969-1989)
This monograph analyses the way four contemporary novels engage with the phenomena of nationalism, feminism, post- and neo-colonialism, civil war, and social change in the Arab world using an urban scenario as their privileged point of observation.
This monograph analyses the way four contemporary novels engage with the phenomena of nationalism, feminism, post- and neo-colonialism, civil war, and social change in the Arab world using an urban scenario as their privileged point of observation.
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Margaret Atwood’s Apocalypses features essays on Atwood’s poetry, The Handmaid’s Tale, and the MaddAddam trilogy. The collection traces the theme of apocalypse through her work using lenses like disability studies, theology, and ecofeminism.
Margaret Atwood’s Apocalypses features essays on Atwood’s poetry, The Handmaid’s Tale, and the MaddAddam trilogy. The collection traces the theme of apocalypse through her work using lenses like disability studies, theology, and ecofeminism.
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Eleven scholars challenge the popular vision of the American South as an ill region. They interpret its “sickly” culture not as a problem, but as an opportunity and a springboard to cultural revitalization and a new kind of “health”.
Eleven scholars challenge the popular vision of the American South as an ill region. They interpret its “sickly” culture not as a problem, but as an opportunity and a springboard to cultural revitalization and a new kind of “health”.
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Mistress, Mother, Muse
An Exploration of the Female in Modern and Contemporary Mediterranean Literature
Palaska fills a vacuum in comparative literary studies in laying the foundations for Mediterraneanism to develop as an area in literary studies. She discusses aspects of female liminality, including motherhood, sexuality and creativity, in three distinctive Mediterranean cultures
Palaska fills a vacuum in comparative literary studies in laying the foundations for Mediterraneanism to develop as an area in literary studies. She discusses aspects of female liminality, including motherhood, sexuality and creativity, in three distinctive Mediterranean cultures
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This volume explores identity formation in Afro-Hispanic and African contexts, re-contextualizing diaspora beyond debates of voluntary migration versus traumatic exile. Essays cover countries like Cuba, Spain, and Angola, and themes from religion to politics.
This volume explores identity formation in Afro-Hispanic and African contexts, re-contextualizing diaspora beyond debates of voluntary migration versus traumatic exile. Essays cover countries like Cuba, Spain, and Angola, and themes from religion to politics.
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Fundamental Shakespeare
New Perspectives on Gender, Psychology and Politics
This volume sheds fresh light on, and offers new insights to, a wide range of topics including politics, psychology and discourse, by discussing the work of Shakespeare from an Eastern perspective.
This volume sheds fresh light on, and offers new insights to, a wide range of topics including politics, psychology and discourse, by discussing the work of Shakespeare from an Eastern perspective.
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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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This edited collection examines the various ways combinatory processes influence the work of the Italian author Italo Calvino. Comprising chapters by six literary scholars, it asserts that the Ligurian writer’s creativity often stems from his contemplation of literature.
This edited collection examines the various ways combinatory processes influence the work of the Italian author Italo Calvino. Comprising chapters by six literary scholars, it asserts that the Ligurian writer’s creativity often stems from his contemplation of literature.
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This book offers new ways of thinking about identity by analyzing embodiment in the plays of Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco and Jean-Paul Sartre. It provides a new method for analyzing how characters form, or attempt to form, their ever-changing identities.
This book offers new ways of thinking about identity by analyzing embodiment in the plays of Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco and Jean-Paul Sartre. It provides a new method for analyzing how characters form, or attempt to form, their ever-changing identities.
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The Oracle of the “tiny finger snap of time”
A Study of Novels with a Specific Time Culture
This unique collection of essays explores the use of time in the novel. Writers analyze novels and one film within specific time cultures, covering concepts from inner, felt, and cosmic time to time running backwards, hinting at the future of the novel.
This unique collection of essays explores the use of time in the novel. Writers analyze novels and one film within specific time cultures, covering concepts from inner, felt, and cosmic time to time running backwards, hinting at the future of the novel.
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This collection of essays offers a theoretical overview of fantastic literature. An accessible introduction to the field, it analyzes works by authors such as H.P. Lovecraft, George R.R. Martin, and Neil Gaiman alongside world literature classics.
This collection of essays offers a theoretical overview of fantastic literature. An accessible introduction to the field, it analyzes works by authors such as H.P. Lovecraft, George R.R. Martin, and Neil Gaiman alongside world literature classics.
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Questions of Authority
A Reading of Hamlet
Zouidi examines the issues of authority and authorship in William Shakespeare’s problematic masterpiece Hamlet. In doing so, he argues that the Bard seeks to eternalize himself through his play, that Hamlet dramatizes the authorial quest for sempiternity.
Zouidi examines the issues of authority and authorship in William Shakespeare’s problematic masterpiece Hamlet. In doing so, he argues that the Bard seeks to eternalize himself through his play, that Hamlet dramatizes the authorial quest for sempiternity.
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