Collaboration, Exchange and Transformation in Literary and Cultural Practices
Intercultural Conversations
This collection of essays focuses on the transformational potential of intercultural conversations. Through respectful dialogue, we can resist narrow conceptions of history and identity, and instead forge new, exciting and transcendent modes of being.
This collection of essays focuses on the transformational potential of intercultural conversations. Through respectful dialogue, we can resist narrow conceptions of history and identity, and instead forge new, exciting and transcendent modes of being.
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Contextual Confluence
Media, Text and Traditions
This book explores the radical mutuality of media, literature, and culture. Through Black feminist ethics, postcolonial female visibility, and ecological reimaginings, it reveals literature as a living archive of resistance, reinvention, and reconciliation.
This book explores the radical mutuality of media, literature, and culture. Through Black feminist ethics, postcolonial female visibility, and ecological reimaginings, it reveals literature as a living archive of resistance, reinvention, and reconciliation.
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Around the World in Fifty Books
Collected Essays on Contemporary Writers
This collection of fifty essays on contemporary writers is a symbolic map to today’s literature. A journey around the world in fifty books, this volume offers original perspectives and a fresh glimpse of contemporary fiction from across the globe.
This collection of fifty essays on contemporary writers is a symbolic map to today’s literature. A journey around the world in fifty books, this volume offers original perspectives and a fresh glimpse of contemporary fiction from across the globe.
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Comparative Translation Assessment
Quantifying Quality
This book presents a daring hypothesis: quantity and quality are two sides of one coin. Using a novel Token Equivalence Method, it focuses on what is preserved in translation, proving that somewhere in the deep layer of everything, quality is the meaning of quantity.
This book presents a daring hypothesis: quantity and quality are two sides of one coin. Using a novel Token Equivalence Method, it focuses on what is preserved in translation, proving that somewhere in the deep layer of everything, quality is the meaning of quantity.
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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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This book redefines “homes,” real and imagined, in Asian diasporic literature. It explores the emotional journey of migration, exile, and uprootedness, mourning the loss of “homes” while celebrating the resilience and adaptability that lead to the creation of new ones.
This book redefines “homes,” real and imagined, in Asian diasporic literature. It explores the emotional journey of migration, exile, and uprootedness, mourning the loss of “homes” while celebrating the resilience and adaptability that lead to the creation of new ones.
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Picture books are invaluable expressions of national identity. As quality translated children's books grow in number, they can foster shared meanings across borders. This book explores picture books in Australia and China, making it essential for students, teachers, and parents.
Picture books are invaluable expressions of national identity. As quality translated children’s books grow in number, they can foster shared meanings across borders. This book explores picture books in Australia and China, making it essential for students, teachers, and parents.
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D. H. Lawrence Then and Now
An A to Z of Lawrence Studies
In 26 short, alphabetically arranged chapters, this jargon-free book explores the strange, often offensive ideas that accompanied D. H. Lawrence's genius. It offers a surprising new portrait that will intrigue even those who know his work well.
In 26 short, alphabetically arranged chapters, this jargon-free book explores the strange, often offensive ideas that accompanied D. H. Lawrence’s genius. It offers a surprising new portrait that will intrigue even those who know his work well.
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Giacomo Matteotti and the Birth of Anti-Fascism
Selected Journalistic Writings (1901-1924)
Giacomo Matteotti was an anti-fascist icon murdered after denouncing the violence and corruption of Mussolini's dictatorship. This volume includes a significant selection of his writings, speeches, and letters, most of which are appearing in English for the first time.
Giacomo Matteotti was an anti-fascist icon murdered after denouncing the violence and corruption of Mussolini’s dictatorship. This volume includes a significant selection of his writings, speeches, and letters, most of which are appearing in English for the first time.
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This book analyzes Henrik Ibsen’s thinking on female subjugation and oppression in 19th-century society. Through a lens of his major plays, including *A Doll’s House* and *Hedda Gabler*, it explores his treatment of women and their harassment in every sphere of their lives.
This book analyzes Henrik Ibsen’s thinking on female subjugation and oppression in 19th-century society. Through a lens of his major plays, including *A Doll’s House* and *Hedda Gabler*, it explores his treatment of women and their harassment in every sphere of their lives.
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Memories in Lace
Testimonials of Greek Women in Diaspora
Xénia, a Greek American, visits the island of Zakynthos to research the lives of elderly women. She collects and “crochets” their memories into interconnected stories of immigration, crisis, and intergenerational resilience, which transmute into a choral storytelling experience.
Xénia, a Greek American, visits the island of Zakynthos to research the lives of elderly women. She collects and “crochets” their memories into interconnected stories of immigration, crisis, and intergenerational resilience, which transmute into a choral storytelling experience.
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The Remapping of Spain
La Leyenda Negra
This volume analyzes depictions of Spain in ten Western travelogues. Shaped by the "Black Legend" of a brutal empire, these writers observed the country's transformation from a superpower into a fallen kingdom struggling to reconstruct its identity after the Disaster of 1898.
This volume analyzes depictions of Spain in ten Western travelogues. Shaped by the “Black Legend” of a brutal empire, these writers observed the country’s transformation from a superpower into a fallen kingdom struggling to reconstruct its identity after the Disaster of 1898.
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The Moroccan Diasporic and Transnational Experiences
Space, Media, and Narratives
Moroccan diasporic narratives navigate the spaces between the country of origin and residence. These spaces are central to cultural survival and community identity, forging identities that are dynamic and plural rather than fixed and singular.
Moroccan diasporic narratives navigate the spaces between the country of origin and residence. These spaces are central to cultural survival and community identity, forging identities that are dynamic and plural rather than fixed and singular.
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The Post-Independence Dilemma
A Study of Neo-Colonialism
This book re-examines the post-independence condition, revealing how the end of empire gave way to new forms of domination. Engaging with Achebe, Ngũgĩ, and Rushdie, it challenges myths of liberation and shows how art can resist empire’s legacies.
This book re-examines the post-independence condition, revealing how the end of empire gave way to new forms of domination. Engaging with Achebe, Ngũgĩ, and Rushdie, it challenges myths of liberation and shows how art can resist empire’s legacies.
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Thus Burst Hippocrene
Studies in the Olympian Imagination
These daring essays connect literary titans from Homer and Dante to Shakespeare and Li Bo. The author’s rare multi-lingual approach uncovers startling new insights for scholars and curious readers alike.
These daring essays connect literary titans from Homer and Dante to Shakespeare and Li Bo. The author’s rare multi-lingual approach uncovers startling new insights for scholars and curious readers alike.
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Dicite, Pierides
Classical Studies in Honour of Stratis Kyriakidis
From Homeric epic to Virgil's Aeneid and the epigrams of Geminus, these sixteen essays offer fresh, thoughtful readings of classical literature.
From Homeric epic to Virgil’s Aeneid and the epigrams of Geminus, these sixteen essays offer fresh, thoughtful readings of classical literature.
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Composed in the 1630s, Giambattista Basile’s The Tale of Tales (the Pentameron) is a wicked parody of the Decameron. Among its fifty stories are the earliest literary versions of famous fairy tales such as Cinderella, Rapunzel, and The Sleeping Beauty.
Composed in the 1630s, Giambattista Basile’s The Tale of Tales (the Pentameron) is a wicked parody of the Decameron. Among its fifty stories are the earliest literary versions of famous fairy tales such as Cinderella, Rapunzel, and The Sleeping Beauty.
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The Selected Letters of Charles Whibley
Scholar and Critic
Scholar Charles Whibley straddled the Victorian age and the modern world. After his journalistic grounding with W.E. Henley, he moved in Parisian circles with Mallarmé and later befriended T.S. Eliot, who called his column “Musings without Method” a masterpiece of journalism.
Scholar Charles Whibley straddled the Victorian age and the modern world. After his journalistic grounding with W.E. Henley, he moved in Parisian circles with Mallarmé and later befriended T.S. Eliot, who called his column “Musings without Method” a masterpiece of journalism.
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This volume explores D. H. Lawrence’s search for an ideal primitive society. Combining literature and photography, it analyses Sicilian and Sardinian society, offering new perspectives on *Sea and Sardinia*, including its ecological approach, gender roles, and local identity.
This volume explores D. H. Lawrence’s search for an ideal primitive society. Combining literature and photography, it analyses Sicilian and Sardinian society, offering new perspectives on *Sea and Sardinia*, including its ecological approach, gender roles, and local identity.
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Voices from Early China
The Odes Demystified
The Chinese “Book of Odes” (1000-600 B.C.) is one of the world's earliest literary works. This new translation cuts through centuries of obscurity to reveal the poems' human charm, while also restoring the original speech-music, lost for millennia.
The Chinese “Book of Odes” (1000-600 B.C.) is one of the world’s earliest literary works. This new translation cuts through centuries of obscurity to reveal the poems’ human charm, while also restoring the original speech-music, lost for millennia.
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