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This book focuses on the controversy over social and fictional entities. Fictionalists claim we only make-believe they exist. Creationists argue they are real products of human activity. By evaluating both stances, this book sheds new light on the debate.
This book focuses on the controversy over social and fictional entities. Fictionalists claim we only make-believe they exist. Creationists argue they are real products of human activity. By evaluating both stances, this book sheds new light on the debate.
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Muses and Measures
Empirical Research Methods for the Humanities
This book is required reading for humanistic disciplines. Too often, scholars present theories without knowing how to test them empirically. In an engaging way, the authors teach statistics, leading students through projects to analyze their own gathered data.
This book is required reading for humanistic disciplines. Too often, scholars present theories without knowing how to test them empirically. In an engaging way, the authors teach statistics, leading students through projects to analyze their own gathered data.
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Novelist, playwright and diarist, Frances Burney’s journey to recognition has been a long one. This volume covers her remarkable career, showing her rise from a minor precursor to Jane Austen to a powerful and influential writer in her own right.
Novelist, playwright and diarist, Frances Burney’s journey to recognition has been a long one. This volume covers her remarkable career, showing her rise from a minor precursor to Jane Austen to a powerful and influential writer in her own right.
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Post-National Enquiries
Essays on Ethnic and Racial Border Crossings
These studies address cultural narratives of border crossings in Europe and the United States. The essays show how the migrant challenges the view that people belong to one nation-state, exploring race, whiteness, and ethnic identity in fiction and cinema.
These studies address cultural narratives of border crossings in Europe and the United States. The essays show how the migrant challenges the view that people belong to one nation-state, exploring race, whiteness, and ethnic identity in fiction and cinema.
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(Dis)Entangling Darwin
Cross-disciplinary Reflections on the Man and His Legacy
Driven by a childlike curiosity and an appetite for discovery, Charles Darwin dedicated his life to “disentangling confusions.” His legacy remains as controversial and exhilarating today as it was then, challenging scholars and inspiring new research.
Driven by a childlike curiosity and an appetite for discovery, Charles Darwin dedicated his life to “disentangling confusions.” His legacy remains as controversial and exhilarating today as it was then, challenging scholars and inspiring new research.
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The Empty Too
Language and Philosophy in the Works of Samuel Beckett
This controversial study argues that for Beckett, pure language is reality. While the world we perceive cannot be proved to exist, language survives to become the real. Beckett’s art is his philosophy, a thinking that surpasses the major philosophers.
This controversial study argues that for Beckett, pure language is reality. While the world we perceive cannot be proved to exist, language survives to become the real. Beckett’s art is his philosophy, a thinking that surpasses the major philosophers.
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Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi
A Taste for Eccentricity
More than a hostess or a footnote to Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi was a pioneering writer. This volume links her subversive biography to her innovative works, revealing how a scandalous marriage launched her career as a public author.
More than a hostess or a footnote to Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi was a pioneering writer. This volume links her subversive biography to her innovative works, revealing how a scandalous marriage launched her career as a public author.
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Patrick McGrath
Directions and Transgressions
This is the first collected volume dedicated to the work of Patrick McGrath. Scholars survey his 25-year career, from his Gothic tales of transgression and decay to the growing complexity of his recent fiction. Features an exclusive afterword by the author.
This is the first collected volume dedicated to the work of Patrick McGrath. Scholars survey his 25-year career, from his Gothic tales of transgression and decay to the growing complexity of his recent fiction. Features an exclusive afterword by the author.
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The Aesthetics of Failure
Inexpressibility in Samuel Beckett’s Fiction
This book explores the ethical aspects of Samuel Beckett’s aesthetics of failure through his connection to Maurice Blanchot and Emmanuel Levinas. It traces Beckett's 'unwording' to analyze how inexpressibility is bound with ethical responsibility.
This book explores the ethical aspects of Samuel Beckett’s aesthetics of failure through his connection to Maurice Blanchot and Emmanuel Levinas. It traces Beckett’s ‘unwording’ to analyze how inexpressibility is bound with ethical responsibility.
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A Wounded Deer
The Effects of Incest on the Life and Poetry of Emily Dickinson
What made Emily Dickinson a recluse and dynamic poet? This book argues her enigmatic poetry originated from a personal exposure to incest, and examines how she used her craft to transition from victim to survivor.
What made Emily Dickinson a recluse and dynamic poet? This book argues her enigmatic poetry originated from a personal exposure to incest, and examines how she used her craft to transition from victim to survivor.
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In The Canterbury Tales Revisited, diverse international scholars offer 21st-century interpretations. Articles cover new areas like Chaucer and Judaism, Queer studies, and feminism, with an insightful opening piece by eminent Medievalist David Matthews.
In The Canterbury Tales Revisited, diverse international scholars offer 21st-century interpretations. Articles cover new areas like Chaucer and Judaism, Queer studies, and feminism, with an insightful opening piece by eminent Medievalist David Matthews.
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Sacred and Immoral
On the Writings of Chuck Palahniuk
This is the first scholarly anthology on Chuck Palahniuk’s work beyond Fight Club. It provides the most comprehensive resource to date, featuring new critical analyses, the most complete bibliographies, and a new interview with the author himself.
This is the first scholarly anthology on Chuck Palahniuk’s work beyond Fight Club. It provides the most comprehensive resource to date, featuring new critical analyses, the most complete bibliographies, and a new interview with the author himself.
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Coleridge’s Chrysopoetics
Alchemy, Authorship and Imagination
This book assesses alchemy in Coleridge’s conception of authorship. It argues that for Coleridge, the author must become other to become himself. This alchemical view demonstrates a unique link between plagiarism and creativity, redefining originality itself.
This book assesses alchemy in Coleridge’s conception of authorship. It argues that for Coleridge, the author must become other to become himself. This alchemical view demonstrates a unique link between plagiarism and creativity, redefining originality itself.
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Forces of Nature
Natural(-izing) Gender and Gender(-ing) Nature in the Discourses of Western Culture
Forces of Nature investigates the relationship between the natural world and gender and sexuality. This collection explores how nature has shaped our understandings of femininity, masculinity, and homosexuality, revealing an intimate, inseparable human connection to nature.
Forces of Nature investigates the relationship between the natural world and gender and sexuality. This collection explores how nature has shaped our understandings of femininity, masculinity, and homosexuality, revealing an intimate, inseparable human connection to nature.
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Fabricating the Body
Effects of Obligation and Exchange in Contemporary Discourse
Fabricating the Body draws on disability, gender, and psychoanalytic studies to situate the body as a site of identity, obligation, and exchange. It stimulates conversation on "indebted" bodies, marginalization, and the ethical costs of societal progress.
Fabricating the Body draws on disability, gender, and psychoanalytic studies to situate the body as a site of identity, obligation, and exchange. It stimulates conversation on “indebted” bodies, marginalization, and the ethical costs of societal progress.
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Hilarion’s Asse
Laurence Sterne and Humour
Nine authors unlock Laurence Sterne's kaleidoscopic humour. This volume explores its many facets—the genial, bawdy, sentimental, philosophical, irreverent, and ludicrous—sending the classic text spiralling right off the page.
Nine authors unlock Laurence Sterne’s kaleidoscopic humour. This volume explores its many facets—the genial, bawdy, sentimental, philosophical, irreverent, and ludicrous—sending the classic text spiralling right off the page.
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This book explores transgression as a literary theme in twentieth-century novels. Analyzing fictional acts from murder to adultery, it reveals how narrative strategies like "unreliable narrators" challenge readers to question social norms and moral values.
This book explores transgression as a literary theme in twentieth-century novels. Analyzing fictional acts from murder to adultery, it reveals how narrative strategies like “unreliable narrators” challenge readers to question social norms and moral values.
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An exploration of the multiple meanings of “Spanishness” in 20th-21st century fiction. This book calls for a re-evaluation of what being Spanish means, analyzing themes like immigration, nationalism, and memory to dispel stereotypical notions of Spain.
An exploration of the multiple meanings of “Spanishness” in 20th-21st century fiction. This book calls for a re-evaluation of what being Spanish means, analyzing themes like immigration, nationalism, and memory to dispel stereotypical notions of Spain.
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Winifred Holtby, “A Woman In Her Time”
Critical Essays
This collection of critical essays sheds new light on Winifred Holtby, author of South Riding and a key figure of interwar Britain. It explores her novels, journalism, and passionate support for feminism, peace, and racial equality.
This collection of critical essays sheds new light on Winifred Holtby, author of South Riding and a key figure of interwar Britain. It explores her novels, journalism, and passionate support for feminism, peace, and racial equality.
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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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