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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This book explores the origins of American literary deconstruction through the work of Mikhail M. Bakhtin. By comparing Bakhtin to the Yale School, it offers a new point of departure for one of the most influential movements in literary theory.
This book explores the origins of American literary deconstruction through the work of Mikhail M. Bakhtin. By comparing Bakhtin to the Yale School, it offers a new point of departure for one of the most influential movements in literary theory.
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Science and American Literature in the 20th and 21st Centuries
From Henry Adams to John Adams
This book explores the uneasy relationship between American literature and science. It examines how scientific discourse informs literary writing, from the history of science and neurosciences to the ethics of progress and the influence of digital technology.
This book explores the uneasy relationship between American literature and science. It examines how scientific discourse informs literary writing, from the history of science and neurosciences to the ethics of progress and the influence of digital technology.
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Politics, Poetics, Affect
Re-visioning César Vallejo
This book re-visions the life and work of Peruvian poet César Vallejo. Ten essays are grouped into sections on Politics, Poetics and Affect, exploring his rivalry with Neruda, the role of the human body in his work, and his lasting influence.
This book re-visions the life and work of Peruvian poet César Vallejo. Ten essays are grouped into sections on Politics, Poetics and Affect, exploring his rivalry with Neruda, the role of the human body in his work, and his lasting influence.
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Visions and Revisions
The Word and the Text
Literary texts draw on other texts and ideas to communicate. This book offers new ways to understand the creations of writers like William Blake, Salman Rushdie, and Hilary Mantel, exploring their labours with form and affinities to the Western spiritual tradition.
Literary texts draw on other texts and ideas to communicate. This book offers new ways to understand the creations of writers like William Blake, Salman Rushdie, and Hilary Mantel, exploring their labours with form and affinities to the Western spiritual tradition.
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Churchill’s Socialism
Political Resistance in the Plays of Caryl Churchill
While Caryl Churchill is celebrated, her socialism has been overlooked in favour of gender and postmodern themes. This book examines eight of her plays, reframing her work within socialist discourses to produce persuasive political readings of her drama.
While Caryl Churchill is celebrated, her socialism has been overlooked in favour of gender and postmodern themes. This book examines eight of her plays, reframing her work within socialist discourses to produce persuasive political readings of her drama.
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Postcolonial Odysseys
Derek Walcott’s Voyages of Homecoming
This study charts Derek Walcott's postcolonial voyage through Homer's *Odyssey*. It explores the tension between the outward journey and the homecoming, revealing how a modern master can reclaim and transform an ancient epic.
This study charts Derek Walcott’s postcolonial voyage through Homer’s *Odyssey*. It explores the tension between the outward journey and the homecoming, revealing how a modern master can reclaim and transform an ancient epic.
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An American Voltaire
Essays in Memory of J. Patrick Lee
This collection of essays honors Voltaire scholar J. Patrick Lee. It includes seventeen essays by prominent international scholars on French eighteenth-century studies, covering topics from Voltaire and censorship to satire, opera, art, and the Enlightenment.
This collection of essays honors Voltaire scholar J. Patrick Lee. It includes seventeen essays by prominent international scholars on French eighteenth-century studies, covering topics from Voltaire and censorship to satire, opera, art, and the Enlightenment.
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This exciting collection of original essays on early modern women’s writing introduces little-known writers and offers new critical strategies. The authors explore diverse genres, integrating literary history with religion, legal issues, and genre questions.
This exciting collection of original essays on early modern women’s writing introduces little-known writers and offers new critical strategies. The authors explore diverse genres, integrating literary history with religion, legal issues, and genre questions.
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American Literary-Political Engagements
From Poe to James
From Poe to James, 19th-century authors confronted their era's most urgent political questions. This book reveals how they transformed debates on democracy, social justice, and law into powerful and enduring works of literary art.
From Poe to James, 19th-century authors confronted their era’s most urgent political questions. This book reveals how they transformed debates on democracy, social justice, and law into powerful and enduring works of literary art.
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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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Ruskin in Perspective
Contemporary Essays
This vibrant collection of illustrated essays draws John Ruskin’s ideas together around perspective. Offering a new interdisciplinary approach, it examines his legacy and shows how Ruskin can still teach us to read and see.
This vibrant collection of illustrated essays draws John Ruskin’s ideas together around perspective. Offering a new interdisciplinary approach, it examines his legacy and shows how Ruskin can still teach us to read and see.
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Positioning the New
Chinese American Literature and the Changing Image of the American Literary Canon
This volume explores Chinese American authors' place in the Western literary canon. It questions not only whether this literature is inside or outside the canon, but if a canon should exist at all, probing the by-products of cultural fusion and collision.
This volume explores Chinese American authors’ place in the Western literary canon. It questions not only whether this literature is inside or outside the canon, but if a canon should exist at all, probing the by-products of cultural fusion and collision.
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John Dos Passos
Biography and Critical Essays
These essays explore Dos Passos’s writings through the lens of biography, aesthetics, and social critique. They examine his innovative literary techniques and his status as a towering figure of American Modernism who chronicled an era that shattered the ‘American Dream’.
These essays explore Dos Passos’s writings through the lens of biography, aesthetics, and social critique. They examine his innovative literary techniques and his status as a towering figure of American Modernism who chronicled an era that shattered the ‘American Dream’.
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Florida Studies
Proceedings of the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Florida College English Association
This eclectic mix of Florida literature and history features essays by scholars on topics as diverse as Florida's first black general, poet Wallace Stevens, EPCOT theme park, the rhetoric of Carl Haissen, and Jim Morrison’s use of Floridian imagery.
This eclectic mix of Florida literature and history features essays by scholars on topics as diverse as Florida’s first black general, poet Wallace Stevens, EPCOT theme park, the rhetoric of Carl Haissen, and Jim Morrison’s use of Floridian imagery.
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Cherchez la femme
Women and Values in the Francophone World
Challenging centuries of male-defined values, these essays explore how women of the Francophone world created new aesthetic, cultural, and social standards, from antiquity to today.
Challenging centuries of male-defined values, these essays explore how women of the Francophone world created new aesthetic, cultural, and social standards, from antiquity to today.
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Mining the Meaning
Cultural Representations of the 1984-5 UK Miners’ Strike
This innovative study provides a critical introduction to cultural representations of the 1984–5 miners’ strike. Analysing writings, music, and film from strikers and artists, it explores the battle to ‘author’ the conflict and challenges our understanding of this period.
This innovative study provides a critical introduction to cultural representations of the 1984–5 miners’ strike. Analysing writings, music, and film from strikers and artists, it explores the battle to ‘author’ the conflict and challenges our understanding of this period.
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But He Talked of the Temple of Man’s Body
Blake’s Revelation Unlocked
This poetic study is a response to Locke’s philosophy through an analysis of Blake’s linguistic practices. It reads like a narrative of an effort to build, destroy, and rebuild, revealing Blake’s criticism of Locke as a critique of modernity itself.
This poetic study is a response to Locke’s philosophy through an analysis of Blake’s linguistic practices. It reads like a narrative of an effort to build, destroy, and rebuild, revealing Blake’s criticism of Locke as a critique of modernity itself.
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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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Rethinking the Vanguard
Aesthetic and Political Positions in the Modernist Debate, 1917-1962
This study re-interprets the historical avant-garde from 1917 to 1962, focusing on the convergence of aesthetics and politics. From the Bolshevik Revolution to decolonizing movements, it reveals the vanguard's transformation and its relevance today.
This study re-interprets the historical avant-garde from 1917 to 1962, focusing on the convergence of aesthetics and politics. From the Bolshevik Revolution to decolonizing movements, it reveals the vanguard’s transformation and its relevance today.
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