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The short story is undergoing a renaissance. This collection celebrates its unique appeal, as scholars and writers explore its forms, genres, and international authors from James Joyce to Jorge Luis Borges. Integrating theory and practice, it appeals to writers and students.
The short story is undergoing a renaissance. This collection celebrates its unique appeal, as scholars and writers explore its forms, genres, and international authors from James Joyce to Jorge Luis Borges. Integrating theory and practice, it appeals to writers and students.
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The Significance of Wuthering Heights
An Elemental Love-Story
Wuthering Heights is perhaps the greatest love story ever imagined. It traces the absolute love of Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff from childhood to their deaths and beyond. When forced apart, they suffer hellish agony, their love as elemental as “the eternal rocks beneath”.
Wuthering Heights is perhaps the greatest love story ever imagined. It traces the absolute love of Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff from childhood to their deaths and beyond. When forced apart, they suffer hellish agony, their love as elemental as “the eternal rocks beneath”.
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The Silence of Fallout
Nuclear Criticism in a Post-Cold War World
How do we address the nuclear question in a post-Cold War world? Scholars of Nuclear Criticism converse with emergent voices, renewing this conversation and taking it in exciting new directions for future generations caught in a struggle with nuclear legacies.
How do we address the nuclear question in a post-Cold War world? Scholars of Nuclear Criticism converse with emergent voices, renewing this conversation and taking it in exciting new directions for future generations caught in a struggle with nuclear legacies.
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The Snare in the Constitution
Defoe and Swift on Liberty
This comparative study of Defoe and Swift explores their treatments of liberty. It examines the relationship between “snare” and “liberty” through the analogy of the political and human constitutions in their fictional and non-fictional works.
This comparative study of Defoe and Swift explores their treatments of liberty. It examines the relationship between “snare” and “liberty” through the analogy of the political and human constitutions in their fictional and non-fictional works.
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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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This volume brings together research on the poetry of less-explored modern Indian poets. The book explores the social, cultural and spiritual dimensions of these emerging poets, and will prove useful to students, teachers and all those interested in Indian English poetry.
This volume brings together research on the poetry of less-explored modern Indian poets. The book explores the social, cultural and spiritual dimensions of these emerging poets, and will prove useful to students, teachers and all those interested in Indian English poetry.
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This book explores the psychological, social, and cultural significance of Westerns. While the stories may have simple plots, their cultural importance is a very complicated matter. Discover the psychological and social pleasures and benefits that explain why people read them.
This book explores the psychological, social, and cultural significance of Westerns. While the stories may have simple plots, their cultural importance is a very complicated matter. Discover the psychological and social pleasures and benefits that explain why people read them.
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How can artists create with few resources? How can they be supported? This book explores these questions through the lived experiences of artists in São Paulo, Brazil. A testimonial narrative, it's an inspiring guide for artists, culture managers, and intellectuals worldwide.
How can artists create with few resources? How can they be supported? This book explores these questions through the lived experiences of artists in São Paulo, Brazil. A testimonial narrative, it’s an inspiring guide for artists, culture managers, and intellectuals worldwide.
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These essays offer a multifaceted discourse on the soul. Using a multicultural approach, they explore fundamental themes of human existence, revealing universal values in cultures distant in time and space through religious, philosophical, and historical debates.
These essays offer a multifaceted discourse on the soul. Using a multicultural approach, they explore fundamental themes of human existence, revealing universal values in cultures distant in time and space through religious, philosophical, and historical debates.
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This volume gathers evaluations of the soul from artistic, mystic, and theological perspectives. Explore the concept of the soul in its ethical and emotional dimensions across global cultures, from Christian and Oriental traditions to those of Ancient Egypt.
This volume gathers evaluations of the soul from artistic, mystic, and theological perspectives. Explore the concept of the soul in its ethical and emotional dimensions across global cultures, from Christian and Oriental traditions to those of Ancient Egypt.
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We are shaped by the places we inhabit, but what about characters who never change? This collection explores juvenile series books, where protagonists like Nancy Drew demonstrate that their impact on space is far greater than its impact on them—an exercise in spatial authority.
We are shaped by the places we inhabit, but what about characters who never change? This collection explores juvenile series books, where protagonists like Nancy Drew demonstrate that their impact on space is far greater than its impact on them—an exercise in spatial authority.
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This volume addresses the economy of the spectacular in Shakespeare’s plays, from early modern England to twenty-first-century adaptations. It asks what is behind the spectacular. Is there a manipulative purpose? How far-reaching are the political and ideological stakes?
This volume addresses the economy of the spectacular in Shakespeare’s plays, from early modern England to twenty-first-century adaptations. It asks what is behind the spectacular. Is there a manipulative purpose? How far-reaching are the political and ideological stakes?
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The Spectre of Defeat in Post-War British and US Literature
Experience, Memory and Post-Memory
History is written by the victors. But what if they perceive themselves as defeated? This collection examines how a sense of defeat undermines the certainties of victory, exploring UK and US fiction since WWI to offer an account of the victorious-yet-somehow-defeated.
History is written by the victors. But what if they perceive themselves as defeated? This collection examines how a sense of defeat undermines the certainties of victory, exploring UK and US fiction since WWI to offer an account of the victorious-yet-somehow-defeated.
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Alphonse de Lamartine’s prose-poem The Stonemason of Saint Point is the story of a peasant’s life, love and faith in the hills of Burgundy. In reality, it describes Lamartine’s own search for God through threatening and godless times in his country.
Alphonse de Lamartine’s prose-poem The Stonemason of Saint Point is the story of a peasant’s life, love and faith in the hills of Burgundy. In reality, it describes Lamartine’s own search for God through threatening and godless times in his country.
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The Subversive Storyteller
The Short Story Cycle and the Politics of Identity in America
The Subversive Storyteller examines how American authors adapted the short story cycle to convey subversive ideas. Authors from Hawthorne to Kingston exploited the genre's fragmented nature to reflect the changing realities of life and identity in America.
The Subversive Storyteller examines how American authors adapted the short story cycle to convey subversive ideas. Authors from Hawthorne to Kingston exploited the genre’s fragmented nature to reflect the changing realities of life and identity in America.
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The Survival of Myth
Innovation, Singularity and Alterity
What are myths? The Survival of Myth explores the continuing power of primal stories to inhabit our thinking. Contributors examine figures from the Bible to Cormac McCarthy to show how ancient stories give access to the unconscious and transform society.
What are myths? The Survival of Myth explores the continuing power of primal stories to inhabit our thinking. Contributors examine figures from the Bible to Cormac McCarthy to show how ancient stories give access to the unconscious and transform society.
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We have lost sight of Hamlet itself. This book looks beyond the play that has bedazzled critics for centuries to seek its historical distinctness, unraveling myths about the players, printers, patrons, and Shakespeare himself.
We have lost sight of Hamlet itself. This book looks beyond the play that has bedazzled critics for centuries to seek its historical distinctness, unraveling myths about the players, printers, patrons, and Shakespeare himself.
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Mazzi suggests, linguistically, that the study of reasoned argument is likely to have many potential applications in the context of Irish public discourse. He tackles the issue of the construction of argumentation in the judiciary and in the politics of the Irish Republic.
Mazzi suggests, linguistically, that the study of reasoned argument is likely to have many potential applications in the context of Irish public discourse. He tackles the issue of the construction of argumentation in the judiciary and in the politics of the Irish Republic.
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The Threat and Allure of the Magical
Selected Papers from the 17th Annual Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference, University of California, Berkeley
This collection of essays explores intersections between the occult and the political, and the entanglement of magic, modernity, media, and aesthetics. Topics range from the witch in print media and the Third Reich’s occult to 19th-century novellas and film.
This collection of essays explores intersections between the occult and the political, and the entanglement of magic, modernity, media, and aesthetics. Topics range from the witch in print media and the Third Reich’s occult to 19th-century novellas and film.
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These essays examine the travel writer’s self, revealing the carefully crafted persona of the traveler as a fiction. Exploring genres from diaries to film, they show that the most interesting subject of any travel account is the author.
These essays examine the travel writer’s self, revealing the carefully crafted persona of the traveler as a fiction. Exploring genres from diaries to film, they show that the most interesting subject of any travel account is the author.
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