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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Colonial Psychosocial
Reading William Lane
With blistering rhetoric, William Lane mesmerised colonial Australia, playing on its fears of disease, deformity and invasion. This book follows his life—from dark cities to a failed utopia—to trace how he shaped a lasting legacy of exclusion.
With blistering rhetoric, William Lane mesmerised colonial Australia, playing on its fears of disease, deformity and invasion. This book follows his life—from dark cities to a failed utopia—to trace how he shaped a lasting legacy of exclusion.
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This book examines how color is categorized and named in a number of languages, drawing on as-yet unexplored aspects of color language and categorization. Several approaches are taken to describe new research on how the concept is represented in various languages.
This book examines how color is categorized and named in a number of languages, drawing on as-yet unexplored aspects of color language and categorization. Several approaches are taken to describe new research on how the concept is represented in various languages.
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Come Weep With Me
Loss and Mourning in the Writings of Caribbean Women Writers
This groundbreaking anthology examines loss and mourning in the work of Caribbean women writers like Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid, and Maryse Condé. These original essays explore slavery, dictatorships, and disaster, challenging customary discourses on loss.
This groundbreaking anthology examines loss and mourning in the work of Caribbean women writers like Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid, and Maryse Condé. These original essays explore slavery, dictatorships, and disaster, challenging customary discourses on loss.
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This book explicates the effect of increasing land transactions on social mobility in rural India. It argues that villages near cities are no longer simple communities, but are more complex and mobile as a result of urban expansion, contextualizing this within the state's laws.
This book explicates the effect of increasing land transactions on social mobility in rural India. It argues that villages near cities are no longer simple communities, but are more complex and mobile as a result of urban expansion, contextualizing this within the state’s laws.
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Communication in Postmodern Urban Fiction
The Shadow of Imagination
Exploring urban fiction from the 1980s to the early 2000s, this book reveals an anxiety about the loss of self in our digital age. From Auster and Ellis to Palahniuk and DeLillo, it highlights how distanced communication triggers an imagination of violence and destruction.
Exploring urban fiction from the 1980s to the early 2000s, this book reveals an anxiety about the loss of self in our digital age. From Auster and Ellis to Palahniuk and DeLillo, it highlights how distanced communication triggers an imagination of violence and destruction.
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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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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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Nurses are motivated by compassion, but how does this 'soft' value fit into modern, evidence-based healthcare? This book answers that question, showing that compassion is not old-fashioned but an indispensable necessity for high-quality, evidence-based nursing care.
Nurses are motivated by compassion, but how does this ‘soft’ value fit into modern, evidence-based healthcare? This book answers that question, showing that compassion is not old-fashioned but an indispensable necessity for high-quality, evidence-based nursing care.
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This book discusses memory construction associated with war, genocide, and colonialism. It offers an interdisciplinary examination of how conflict memories reshape history and identity, destabilizing fixed meanings and clarifying our invisible bonds to the past.
This book discusses memory construction associated with war, genocide, and colonialism. It offers an interdisciplinary examination of how conflict memories reshape history and identity, destabilizing fixed meanings and clarifying our invisible bonds to the past.
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Conrad and the Being of the World
A Reading in Speculative Metaphysics
Why does Joseph Conrad’s universe feel so opaque and withdrawn? This unique study uses Object-Oriented Ontology to explore what lies hidden in his work, shedding new light on Conrad and articulating a metaphysical structure for his world, the universe, and ourselves.
Why does Joseph Conrad’s universe feel so opaque and withdrawn? This unique study uses Object-Oriented Ontology to explore what lies hidden in his work, shedding new light on Conrad and articulating a metaphysical structure for his world, the universe, and ourselves.
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Conrad’s Destructive Element
The Metaphysical World-View Unifying Lord Jim
This new interpretation of Lord Jim uses Conrad's manuscript to reveal the novel as a unified whole. It refutes critics by showing how one metaphysical question gives the story a fixed pattern of meaning from beginning to end, just as Conrad claimed.
This new interpretation of Lord Jim uses Conrad’s manuscript to reveal the novel as a unified whole. It refutes critics by showing how one metaphysical question gives the story a fixed pattern of meaning from beginning to end, just as Conrad claimed.
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In the sphere of Indian English literature, Indian English fiction after the end of the 1980s has emerged as a new “canon”. This monograph highlights the process of literary canon formation in Indian universities, and examines such fiction as an alternative literary canon.
In the sphere of Indian English literature, Indian English fiction after the end of the 1980s has emerged as a new “canon”. This monograph highlights the process of literary canon formation in Indian universities, and examines such fiction as an alternative literary canon.
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Constructing a System of Irregularities
The Poetry of Bei Dao, Yang Lian, and Duoduo
Chee Lay Tan investigates the poetics of three renowned contemporary Chinese poets—Bei Dao, Yang Lian and Duoduo—exiled from China after the 1989 Tiananmen student movement. The author constructs a hermeneutical system that examines the irregularities and polysemy of these poets.
Chee Lay Tan investigates the poetics of three renowned contemporary Chinese poets—Bei Dao, Yang Lian and Duoduo—exiled from China after the 1989 Tiananmen student movement. The author constructs a hermeneutical system that examines the irregularities and polysemy of these poets.
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Constructing Identities
The Interaction of National, Gender and Racial Borders
Border studies examines the conflicts and resolutions that occur when groups come into contact. This peer-reviewed selection of papers focuses on historical, national, gender, and racial borders, and their implications in the construction of an identity.
Border studies examines the conflicts and resolutions that occur when groups come into contact. This peer-reviewed selection of papers focuses on historical, national, gender, and racial borders, and their implications in the construction of an identity.
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Constructing the Literary Self
Race and Gender in Twentieth-Century Literature
This volume explores the quest for self-definition among previously excluded groups. Its thirteen essays by recognized scholars depict strategies of escaping oppression through the lens of race, gender, sexuality, assimilation, and the family.
This volume explores the quest for self-definition among previously excluded groups. Its thirteen essays by recognized scholars depict strategies of escaping oppression through the lens of race, gender, sexuality, assimilation, and the family.
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Contemporary Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Writing Back to History and Oppression
This book explores how contemporary children’s and young adult novels write back to history and oppression. Analyzing works from across the globe, it investigates how these narratives raise vital questions about identity, power, language, and social justice.
This book explores how contemporary children’s and young adult novels write back to history and oppression. Analyzing works from across the globe, it investigates how these narratives raise vital questions about identity, power, language, and social justice.
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Contemporary Crime Fiction
Crossing Boundaries, Merging Genres
This book presents nine compelling essays on contemporary crime fiction, bringing fresh perspectives to the vibrant genre. Topics range from domestic noir and historical crime to race and ethnicity, examining authors like Gillian Flynn, Ian Rankin, and Tana French.
This book presents nine compelling essays on contemporary crime fiction, bringing fresh perspectives to the vibrant genre. Topics range from domestic noir and historical crime to race and ethnicity, examining authors like Gillian Flynn, Ian Rankin, and Tana French.
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Contemporary Debates in Human Rights and Literature
The Idea of Humanity
This book offers fresh perspectives on human rights in literature, providing cutting-edge readings of specific works. It engages with current debates about how rights are portrayed across identity, culture, and politics, highlighting human rights as a universal concern.
This book offers fresh perspectives on human rights in literature, providing cutting-edge readings of specific works. It engages with current debates about how rights are portrayed across identity, culture, and politics, highlighting human rights as a universal concern.
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Contemporary Indian English Poetry and Drama
Changing Canons and Responses
This anthology of essays maps contemporary Indian English poetry and drama, exploring new themes and techniques in the post-globalization era. It considers whether the canon has widened to include innovative forms and generate novel perspectives.
This anthology of essays maps contemporary Indian English poetry and drama, exploring new themes and techniques in the post-globalization era. It considers whether the canon has widened to include innovative forms and generate novel perspectives.
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