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This landmark collection is the first of critical responses to novelist Thea Astley. It includes essays from leading critics, three essays by Astley herself, a major interview with her, and the first Thea Astley lecture by Kate Grenville.
This landmark collection is the first of critical responses to novelist Thea Astley. It includes essays from leading critics, three essays by Astley herself, a major interview with her, and the first Thea Astley lecture by Kate Grenville.
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This collection brings together twenty-three scholars from thirteen countries to explore the dynamic and profound ways in which polemical theology, its discourses and codes, interacted with non-theological literary genres in the early modern era.
This collection brings together twenty-three scholars from thirteen countries to explore the dynamic and profound ways in which polemical theology, its discourses and codes, interacted with non-theological literary genres in the early modern era.
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Jamoussi explores two distinctive aspects of the allegorical stories of Theodore Francis Powys which are generally overlooked by his critics, namely supernatural visitors and animal symbolism, showing that they deserve close attention when discussing the writer’s work.
Jamoussi explores two distinctive aspects of the allegorical stories of Theodore Francis Powys which are generally overlooked by his critics, namely supernatural visitors and animal symbolism, showing that they deserve close attention when discussing the writer’s work.
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This book explores the rich cultural meanings in Vietnamese picturebooks. It's a tool for intercultural understanding, a vital connection to heritage for Vietnamese children at home and abroad, and a step toward a society built on harmony, equality, and love.
This book explores the rich cultural meanings in Vietnamese picturebooks. It’s a tool for intercultural understanding, a vital connection to heritage for Vietnamese children at home and abroad, and a step toward a society built on harmony, equality, and love.
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Theoretically Speaking about Literature
Understanding Theory in the Study of Literary Works
This book offers a practical insight into critical interpretation. By discussing a single text from the perspective of eighteen distinct theories, it makes complex ideas accessible and gives readers a comprehensible guide to the beliefs that underpin criticism.
This book offers a practical insight into critical interpretation. By discussing a single text from the perspective of eighteen distinct theories, it makes complex ideas accessible and gives readers a comprehensible guide to the beliefs that underpin criticism.
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Theory and Praxis
Indian and Western
This anthology of research papers critically explores contemporary literary theory. It provides a wide spectrum of theories—from postcolonialism to eco-criticism—and applies them to global texts, offering an interdisciplinary inquiry into human existence.
This anthology of research papers critically explores contemporary literary theory. It provides a wide spectrum of theories—from postcolonialism to eco-criticism—and applies them to global texts, offering an interdisciplinary inquiry into human existence.
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This volume explores the transformative humanities, a vision for transforming cultures, individuals, and society. Through scholarly essays on topics like posthumanism and film studies, it offers new perspectives to innovate and transform the world we live in.
This volume explores the transformative humanities, a vision for transforming cultures, individuals, and society. Through scholarly essays on topics like posthumanism and film studies, it offers new perspectives to innovate and transform the world we live in.
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Theory That Matters
What Practice After Theory
Theory That Matters offers an up-to-date assessment of literary and cultural theory. The volume launches a defence of theory, demonstrating this is not achieved at the expense of praxis, but by showing its currency through a variety of contexts.
Theory That Matters offers an up-to-date assessment of literary and cultural theory. The volume launches a defence of theory, demonstrating this is not achieved at the expense of praxis, but by showing its currency through a variety of contexts.
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This book shows how literature is central to children’s education. Literary works open young minds and help them understand the world. This approach motivates students to improve literacy skills and develop literary competence for independent interpretations.
This book shows how literature is central to children’s education. Literary works open young minds and help them understand the world. This approach motivates students to improve literacy skills and develop literary competence for independent interpretations.
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Third Agents
Secret Protagonists of the Modern Imagination
This book explores the 'third agent'—a secret protagonist of the modern imagination. A liminal figure transgressing social and cultural boundaries, this agent inhabits in-between territories as the adventurer, the bastard, the poet, and the outcast.
This book explores the ‘third agent’—a secret protagonist of the modern imagination. A liminal figure transgressing social and cultural boundaries, this agent inhabits in-between territories as the adventurer, the bastard, the poet, and the outcast.
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Thirty Years After
New Essays on Vietnam War Literature, Film and Art
The first major collection of Vietnam War criticism since the 1990s, these new essays on literature, film, and art explore the conflict's traumatic cultural legacy and enduring impact. An indispensable work for understanding this crucial period in history.
The first major collection of Vietnam War criticism since the 1990s, these new essays on literature, film, and art explore the conflict’s traumatic cultural legacy and enduring impact. An indispensable work for understanding this crucial period in history.
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This “Self” Which Is Not One
Women’s Life Writing in French
This collection examines women’s life-writing from across the Francophone world. Uniting postcolonial, psychoanalytic, and gender studies, it explores how female autobiographies from Africa, the Caribbean, and Europe write the self as a fragmented, plural construct.
This collection examines women’s life-writing from across the Francophone world. Uniting postcolonial, psychoanalytic, and gender studies, it explores how female autobiographies from Africa, the Caribbean, and Europe write the self as a fragmented, plural construct.
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This Is Her Century
A Study of Margaret Walker’s Work
This book is the first monograph on Margaret Walker, a writer who slipped to the margins of the African American literary canon. It is an attempt to establish the importance of Walker’s representation of twentieth-century America against its critical obscurity.
This book is the first monograph on Margaret Walker, a writer who slipped to the margins of the African American literary canon. It is an attempt to establish the importance of Walker’s representation of twentieth-century America against its critical obscurity.
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This Landscape’s Fierce Embrace
The Poetry of Francis Harvey
This book is a tribute to poet Francis Harvey. Admirers celebrate his work in a collection of essays, poems, and art exploring the Donegal landscape. Though critically acclaimed, this is the first book-length critical study of his achievement.
This book is a tribute to poet Francis Harvey. Admirers celebrate his work in a collection of essays, poems, and art exploring the Donegal landscape. Though critically acclaimed, this is the first book-length critical study of his achievement.
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This Watery World
Humans and the Sea
In this wonderfully wide-ranging volume, Messier and Batra have given us a fine collection of maritime riches. This Watery World reminds us that—onshore and inland—we are all in the grip of our images and interactions with the sea. —Professor Ashton Nichols
In this wonderfully wide-ranging volume, Messier and Batra have given us a fine collection of maritime riches. This Watery World reminds us that—onshore and inland—we are all in the grip of our images and interactions with the sea.
—Professor Ashton Nichols
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Thomas Hardy is regarded as a great tragic writer, while the value of his comic works is often ignored. This book examines his novels, short stories, and poetry in terms of farce, humour, satire, and wit, revealing how Hardy and Comedy are mutually illuminating.
Thomas Hardy is regarded as a great tragic writer, while the value of his comic works is often ignored. This book examines his novels, short stories, and poetry in terms of farce, humour, satire, and wit, revealing how Hardy and Comedy are mutually illuminating.
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Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain
A Reader’s Guide
Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain explores the philosophical dilemmas of the modern age. This comprehensive commentary explains all references and allusions in the seminal novel, enabling readers to understand and extract the maximum pleasure from it.
Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain explores the philosophical dilemmas of the modern age. This comprehensive commentary explains all references and allusions in the seminal novel, enabling readers to understand and extract the maximum pleasure from it.
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Thornton Wilder in Collaboration
Collected Essays on His Drama and Fiction
Evolving from papers given at the Second International Thornton Wilder Conference, the contributions examine Wilder’s work as both playwright and novelist, focusing upon how he drew on the collaborative mode of creativity required in the theatre, when writing drama and fiction.
Evolving from papers given at the Second International Thornton Wilder Conference, the contributions examine Wilder’s work as both playwright and novelist, focusing upon how he drew on the collaborative mode of creativity required in the theatre, when writing drama and fiction.
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Those Distant Shores
A Narrative of Human Restlessness
"Distant shores" represent the human yearning for fulfillment that makes us restless. This story follows the life-journeys of three Filipino friends and a young Spaniard whose very different paths intersect, exploring our fundamental restlessness and desire for transcendence.
“Distant shores” represent the human yearning for fulfillment that makes us restless. This story follows the life-journeys of three Filipino friends and a young Spaniard whose very different paths intersect, exploring our fundamental restlessness and desire for transcendence.
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This anthology presents three hundred Chinese cut verses, each with an English translation. The poems revolve around the poet’s life at Beijing Geely University, his vacations, and his experiences during the fight against the coronavirus.
This anthology presents three hundred Chinese cut verses, each with an English translation. The poems revolve around the poet’s life at Beijing Geely University, his vacations, and his experiences during the fight against the coronavirus.
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