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This book tackles cultural transformations across the English-speaking world in literature, painting, architecture, photography and film. It provides readers with tools to decipher these dynamic phenomena and understand the new life they infuse into cultures.
This book tackles cultural transformations across the English-speaking world in literature, painting, architecture, photography and film. It provides readers with tools to decipher these dynamic phenomena and understand the new life they infuse into cultures.
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This collection explores our relationship with the natural world and how literature clarifies it in ways science and politics cannot. As we face environmental change, literature becomes equipment for living, helping us make sense of our world and decide how to act.
This collection explores our relationship with the natural world and how literature clarifies it in ways science and politics cannot. As we face environmental change, literature becomes equipment for living, helping us make sense of our world and decide how to act.
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Creative Interventions
The Role of Intellectuals in Contemporary Italy
Who are “intellectuals”? Are they an endangered species? This collection of essays examines the changing role, function, and self-perception of Italian intellectuals since World War II, with comparative essays on their place in other Western cultures.
Who are “intellectuals”? Are they an endangered species? This collection of essays examines the changing role, function, and self-perception of Italian intellectuals since World War II, with comparative essays on their place in other Western cultures.
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Shakespeare’s Double-Dealing Comedies
Deciphering the “Problem Plays”
Are Shakespeare’s pure heroines secretly obscene? Is Henry V’s barbarism a hilarious parody? This book argues that when the Bard seems inept, he’s at his most subversive. Rethink what you know and discover the hidden satire in his greatest works.
Are Shakespeare’s pure heroines secretly obscene? Is Henry V’s barbarism a hilarious parody? This book argues that when the Bard seems inept, he’s at his most subversive. Rethink what you know and discover the hidden satire in his greatest works.
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Reclaiming Home, Remembering Motherhood, Rewriting History
African American and Afro-Caribbean Women’s Literature in the Twentieth Century
This collection of essays examines how African American and Afro-Caribbean women writers reclaim home, motherhood, and history. Through their female characters, they create more inclusive concepts of community, gender, and history.
This collection of essays examines how African American and Afro-Caribbean women writers reclaim home, motherhood, and history. Through their female characters, they create more inclusive concepts of community, gender, and history.
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This collection of essays marks a different approach to Mark Twain. It explores how geography—from the Mississippi River to Europe and beyond—influenced his work. These essays use Twain’s concepts of space to help us understand his greatest masterpieces.
This collection of essays marks a different approach to Mark Twain. It explores how geography—from the Mississippi River to Europe and beyond—influenced his work. These essays use Twain’s concepts of space to help us understand his greatest masterpieces.
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Narrative, Social Myth and Reality in Contemporary Scottish and Irish Women’s Writing
Kennedy, Lochhead, Bourke, Ní Dhuibhne, and Carr
This book analyzes the link between myth, identity, and reality, examining how contemporary Scottish and Irish women writers reconfigure normative stories to create new possibilities for feminine identity and social order.
This book analyzes the link between myth, identity, and reality, examining how contemporary Scottish and Irish women writers reconfigure normative stories to create new possibilities for feminine identity and social order.
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Identity, Nation, Discourse
Latin American Women Writers and Artists
This volume explores women’s literary production in Latin America and how their works engage with identity, nationhood, and gender. Prominent scholars examine how women writers carve out space within national discourses and critically re-work literary genres.
This volume explores women’s literary production in Latin America and how their works engage with identity, nationhood, and gender. Prominent scholars examine how women writers carve out space within national discourses and critically re-work literary genres.
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Taking a Hard Look
Gender and Visual Culture
This volume takes a hard look at the creative intersection of gender and visual culture. It explores how visual culture is gendered and questions debilitating role models, creating a dialogue with international theory from a South perspective.
This volume takes a hard look at the creative intersection of gender and visual culture. It explores how visual culture is gendered and questions debilitating role models, creating a dialogue with international theory from a South perspective.
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South Asia and its Others
Reading the “Exotic”
These essays reveal how writers of South Asian descent use "exoticization" as a strategic tool. They critically examine casteism, religious intolerance, and gender violence, uncovering the ambiguity that continues to mark marginalized identities today.
These essays reveal how writers of South Asian descent use “exoticization” as a strategic tool. They critically examine casteism, religious intolerance, and gender violence, uncovering the ambiguity that continues to mark marginalized identities today.
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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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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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Women Editing/Editing Women
Early Modern Women Writers and the New Textualism
This collection applies “the new textualism” to early modern women writers. Fusing seminal essays with original research, it offers a solution to editing authors with little biographical data by focusing on the material history of the text itself.
This collection applies “the new textualism” to early modern women writers. Fusing seminal essays with original research, it offers a solution to editing authors with little biographical data by focusing on the material history of the text itself.
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The Nordic Storyteller
Essays in Honour of Niels Ingwersen
Nineteen essays explore Nordic storytelling, from oral traditions like folklore and legend to the great literary works of authors like H. C. Andersen, Ibsen, and Isak Dinesen. The volume demonstrates the enduring power of narrative in Scandinavian life.
Nineteen essays explore Nordic storytelling, from oral traditions like folklore and legend to the great literary works of authors like H. C. Andersen, Ibsen, and Isak Dinesen. The volume demonstrates the enduring power of narrative in Scandinavian life.
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Fortune and Fatality
Performing the Tragic in Early Modern France
Tragedy, from Corneille to Racine, has grounded the French literary canon. This book challenges conventional interpretations, exploring the philosophical, theatrical, and performative aspects of the tragic in sixteenth and seventeenth-century France.
Tragedy, from Corneille to Racine, has grounded the French literary canon. This book challenges conventional interpretations, exploring the philosophical, theatrical, and performative aspects of the tragic in sixteenth and seventeenth-century France.
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This book presents the garden, comparing historical and contemporary models across literature, art, architecture, and philosophy. These contexts form “the metaphor of the garden”: a space where the order of Nature complements our understanding of reality.
This book presents the garden, comparing historical and contemporary models across literature, art, architecture, and philosophy. These contexts form “the metaphor of the garden”: a space where the order of Nature complements our understanding of reality.
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Romanticism Gendered
Male Writers as Readers of Women’s Writing in Romantic Correspondence
This study examines the letters of the great male Romantics—Byron, Coleridge, Keats, Scott, Shelley, and Wordsworth—to discover their views on women writers. Their correspondence reveals a long list of now-marginalized female authors, offering a new gendered perspective.
This study examines the letters of the great male Romantics—Byron, Coleridge, Keats, Scott, Shelley, and Wordsworth—to discover their views on women writers. Their correspondence reveals a long list of now-marginalized female authors, offering a new gendered perspective.
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Schoolhouse Gothic
Haunted Hallways and Predatory Pedagogues in Late Twentieth-Century American Literature and Scholarship
The Schoolhouse Gothic draws on Gothic metaphors—curses of power inequities, schools as traps—to interrogate American education. It suggests something sinister lies behind the academy's benevolent exterior, producing paranoia, violence, and monstrosity.
The Schoolhouse Gothic draws on Gothic metaphors—curses of power inequities, schools as traps—to interrogate American education. It suggests something sinister lies behind the academy’s benevolent exterior, producing paranoia, violence, and monstrosity.
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Kate Chopin in the Twenty-First Century
New Critical Essays
This collection of essays updates Kate Chopin scholarship for the 21st century. Breaking from familiar feminist trends, these essays explore her stories and novels through lenses of race, class, gender, and culture, offering fresh readings of The Awakening.
This collection of essays updates Kate Chopin scholarship for the 21st century. Breaking from familiar feminist trends, these essays explore her stories and novels through lenses of race, class, gender, and culture, offering fresh readings of The Awakening.
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You are What You Eat
Literary Probes into the Palate
This collection offers tantalizing essays on the culture of food in literature. Exploring works by authors from John Milton to J.K. Rowling, it covers topics from feminist theory to film, appealing to students, food enthusiasts, and scholars alike.
This collection offers tantalizing essays on the culture of food in literature. Exploring works by authors from John Milton to J.K. Rowling, it covers topics from feminist theory to film, appealing to students, food enthusiasts, and scholars alike.
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