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Featuring papers from the Science Fiction Symposia, this volume demonstrate the diversity and adaptability of science fiction as a tool for asking and answering impossible questions. It explores how it challenges boundaries, whether conceptual, literary or metaphorical.
Featuring papers from the Science Fiction Symposia, this volume demonstrate the diversity and adaptability of science fiction as a tool for asking and answering impossible questions. It explores how it challenges boundaries, whether conceptual, literary or metaphorical.
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Mapping out the Rushdie Republic
Some Recent Surveys
This collection differs from existing studies on the work of Salman Rushdie by dint of its seriousness of intent and profundity of content. Every major writing of the writer is paid due attention as separate articles are devoted to every aspect of his literary persona.
This collection differs from existing studies on the work of Salman Rushdie by dint of its seriousness of intent and profundity of content. Every major writing of the writer is paid due attention as separate articles are devoted to every aspect of his literary persona.
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This volume explores a multiplicity of “ways of being”, including the adoption of an ethnic position, the enactment of gender, the conception of childhood and artistic visions of urban life. It features discourses of identity and “ways of performing” identity in literature.
This volume explores a multiplicity of “ways of being”, including the adoption of an ethnic position, the enactment of gender, the conception of childhood and artistic visions of urban life. It features discourses of identity and “ways of performing” identity in literature.
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This volume offers an approach to narratives in the 21st century, amid growing concern with the decreasing explanatory capacity of theoretical concepts and narrative configurations. It provides cutting-edge research from a variety of disciplines, including the social sciences.
This volume offers an approach to narratives in the 21st century, amid growing concern with the decreasing explanatory capacity of theoretical concepts and narrative configurations. It provides cutting-edge research from a variety of disciplines, including the social sciences.
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This collection studies processes of creating voices of the past to analyze and to juxtapose, discussing the educational community viewed through feminist theory. It explores facets of language to focus on metaphorical grammatical constructions, specific with form and function.
This collection studies processes of creating voices of the past to analyze and to juxtapose, discussing the educational community viewed through feminist theory. It explores facets of language to focus on metaphorical grammatical constructions, specific with form and function.
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This book explores representation, transmission and circulation of memory, and how personal and collective memory shapes meanings, values, attitudes and identities. Its focus is on memory as malleable patterns and strategies that highlight the unity of memory and its diversity.
This book explores representation, transmission and circulation of memory, and how personal and collective memory shapes meanings, values, attitudes and identities. Its focus is on memory as malleable patterns and strategies that highlight the unity of memory and its diversity.
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Like One of the Family
Domestic Workers, Race, and In/Visibility in The Help
Using the best-selling novel The Help and its 2011 film adaptation as a starting point, this collection considers why such sterilized versions of America’s complex racial history resonate so deeply in our contemporary timeframe.
Using the best-selling novel The Help and its 2011 film adaptation as a starting point, this collection considers why such sterilized versions of America’s complex racial history resonate so deeply in our contemporary timeframe.
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Malady and Mortality
Illness, Disease and Death in Literary and Visual Culture
This study examines visual and literary responses to, and representations of, illness, dying and death from the perspective of the chronically ill, their families and carers, medics, artists, photographers, authors, and academics.
This study examines visual and literary responses to, and representations of, illness, dying and death from the perspective of the chronically ill, their families and carers, medics, artists, photographers, authors, and academics.
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This monograph presents a survey and evaluation of Cavafy’s poetical work with an emphasis on his historical and didactic poems, examining the relationship between his writing and Aristotle’s Poetics for the first time.
This monograph presents a survey and evaluation of Cavafy’s poetical work with an emphasis on his historical and didactic poems, examining the relationship between his writing and Aristotle’s Poetics for the first time.
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Davis Wood explores James Fenimore Cooper and Cormac McCarthy as engaged in a complex legal and ethical dialogue regarding the disappearance of the nineteenth century frontier despite the centuries that separate their lives and their work.
Davis Wood explores James Fenimore Cooper and Cormac McCarthy as engaged in a complex legal and ethical dialogue regarding the disappearance of the nineteenth century frontier despite the centuries that separate their lives and their work.
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Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture
A Mosaic of Criticism
This collection of essays investigates various nuances of a wealth of topics in children’s and young adult literature and culture, from the representation of race and bullying in picture-books to environmentalism and religion in fantasy literature, among others.
This collection of essays investigates various nuances of a wealth of topics in children’s and young adult literature and culture, from the representation of race and bullying in picture-books to environmentalism and religion in fantasy literature, among others.
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Trans-Pacific Encounters
Asia and the Hispanic World
This title challenges the current dearth of studies of the literary, cultural, and historical relations between Asia and the Hispanic world, despite the fact that the origin of trans-pacific contact between these regions can be traced as far back as the pre-Columbian period.
This title challenges the current dearth of studies of the literary, cultural, and historical relations between Asia and the Hispanic world, despite the fact that the origin of trans-pacific contact between these regions can be traced as far back as the pre-Columbian period.
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Biography of a Blunder
Base and Superstructure in Marx and Later
Edara proposes a radical departure from the predominant understanding of Marx’s base and superstructure thesis, arguing that the common substitution of Marx’s restricted version with the extended thesis is a blunder and the result of tortuous theoretical developments.
Edara proposes a radical departure from the predominant understanding of Marx’s base and superstructure thesis, arguing that the common substitution of Marx’s restricted version with the extended thesis is a blunder and the result of tortuous theoretical developments.
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Victorian Murderesses
The Politics of Female Violence
Bulamur investigates the politics of female violence in four novels of the Victorian period, demonstrating how legal and even medical discourses endorsed Victorian domestic ideology and tackling the question of female agency.
Bulamur investigates the politics of female violence in four novels of the Victorian period, demonstrating how legal and even medical discourses endorsed Victorian domestic ideology and tackling the question of female agency.
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The first scholarly analysis to focus on the novels of the critically acclaimed Scottish writer Louise Welsh, this study explores the image of the labyrinth as one of the sites for horror in classic Gothic literature and its rewriting into 21st century Scotland.
The first scholarly analysis to focus on the novels of the critically acclaimed Scottish writer Louise Welsh, this study explores the image of the labyrinth as one of the sites for horror in classic Gothic literature and its rewriting into 21st century Scotland.
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This journal brings together current research on emotional intelligence, an important factor in the development of emotional competency and cognition. It represents a useful resource for teachers, researchers and students of adolescent psychology, and for mental health workers.
This journal brings together current research on emotional intelligence, an important factor in the development of emotional competency and cognition. It represents a useful resource for teachers, researchers and students of adolescent psychology, and for mental health workers.
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An Ethics of Reading
Interpretative Strategies for Contemporary Multicultural American Literature
Sandra Cox considers how writers of contemporary American fiction represent collective identities by producing literature that bears witness to cultural traumas, and situates novels that explore ethnic identity in conversation with one another.
Sandra Cox considers how writers of contemporary American fiction represent collective identities by producing literature that bears witness to cultural traumas, and situates novels that explore ethnic identity in conversation with one another.
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The Power of Culture
Encounters between China and the United States
This edited collection, comprising mainly Chinese academics and students, focuses upon the role of culture in Sino-American affairs, showing how cultural factors are enormously significant in affecting how Chinese and Americans think about and approach each other.
This edited collection, comprising mainly Chinese academics and students, focuses upon the role of culture in Sino-American affairs, showing how cultural factors are enormously significant in affecting how Chinese and Americans think about and approach each other.
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Contested Identities
Literary Negotiations in Time and Place
These essays address the force of literary texts on problematic identities. They explore texts that travel across borders, discovering in difference the very condition for a useful, if paradoxical, sense of personal or textual coherence.
These essays address the force of literary texts on problematic identities. They explore texts that travel across borders, discovering in difference the very condition for a useful, if paradoxical, sense of personal or textual coherence.
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Graham Greene’s Narrative in Spain
Criticism, Translations and Censorship (1939-1975)
This monograph details the literary contact between Graham Greene and Franco’s Spain, providing an overview of the roles played by national literary criticism and the book industry in the reception of his works, and the influence exerted by the regime in the publishing process.
This monograph details the literary contact between Graham Greene and Franco’s Spain, providing an overview of the roles played by national literary criticism and the book industry in the reception of his works, and the influence exerted by the regime in the publishing process.
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