Precarity in Culture
Precarious Lives, Uncertain Futures
By inviting scholars from different disciplines to apply multiple critical lenses, this volume explores the different facets of our precarious world, providing insights into the challenges of our possible futures.
By inviting scholars from different disciplines to apply multiple critical lenses, this volume explores the different facets of our precarious world, providing insights into the challenges of our possible futures.
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Northrop Frye’s Lectures
Student Notes from His Courses, 1947–1955
This collection provides a transcription of fifteen sets of notes taken by Northrop Frye’s students in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and is the only available extended record of the courses taught by the great Canadian literary critic and humanist.
This collection provides a transcription of fifteen sets of notes taken by Northrop Frye’s students in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and is the only available extended record of the courses taught by the great Canadian literary critic and humanist.
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Oscar Wilde’s Elegant Republic
Transformation, Dislocation and Fantasy in fin-de-siècle Paris
Using Oscar Wilde as a connecting thread, this monograph navigates the question of Paris’ popularity as a place of both innovation and exile in the late nineteenth century. It uses French, English and American sources to offer an exploration of both the city and its communities.
Using Oscar Wilde as a connecting thread, this monograph navigates the question of Paris’ popularity as a place of both innovation and exile in the late nineteenth century. It uses French, English and American sources to offer an exploration of both the city and its communities.
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Time’s Fool
Essays in Context
A memorial to the life work of A. Clare Brandabur, this collection presents essays on a wide range of notable writers from James Joyce to Kazuo Ishiguro, Michael Ondaatje, Yaşar Kemal, Cormac McCarthy, Abdulrahman Munif, and many others.
A memorial to the life work of A. Clare Brandabur, this collection presents essays on a wide range of notable writers from James Joyce to Kazuo Ishiguro, Michael Ondaatje, Yaşar Kemal, Cormac McCarthy, Abdulrahman Munif, and many others.
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The Selected Letters of Katharine Tynan
Poet and Novelist
Poet, novelist, and fighter for justice, Katharine Tynan (1859–1931) wrote through the turbulent times of Irish politics, the Great War, and civil war. An early friend of W. B. Yeats, her autobiographies and letters provide valuable insight into her extraordinary life.
Poet, novelist, and fighter for justice, Katharine Tynan (1859–1931) wrote through the turbulent times of Irish politics, the Great War, and civil war. An early friend of W. B. Yeats, her autobiographies and letters provide valuable insight into her extraordinary life.
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Trends in Language Assessment Research and Practice
The View from the Middle East and the Pacific Rim
The contributions brought together here offer a fresh look at language assessment in the Middle East and the Pacific Rim and provides a unique overview of contemporary language assessment research.
The contributions brought together here offer a fresh look at language assessment in the Middle East and the Pacific Rim and provides a unique overview of contemporary language assessment research.
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This insightful work traces the genealogy of Triple Consciousness through the lens of black feminist thought. Highlighting the resistance and resilience of black women, it is an essential companion for students and scholars in women's, ethnic, and African American studies.
This insightful work traces the genealogy of Triple Consciousness through the lens of black feminist thought. Highlighting the resistance and resilience of black women, it is an essential companion for students and scholars in women’s, ethnic, and African American studies.
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Invisible Fences, Intertwined Lives
Stories from the North East of India
The popular image of India’s Northeast as a conflict zone is an incomplete, distorted picture. This book intervenes by bringing together translated narratives of inter-community togetherness and fellow-feeling, revealing a more comprehensive and human idea about the region.
The popular image of India’s Northeast as a conflict zone is an incomplete, distorted picture. This book intervenes by bringing together translated narratives of inter-community togetherness and fellow-feeling, revealing a more comprehensive and human idea about the region.
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Don Quixote Untethered
Madness and Philosophy in La Mancha
This book unmasks *Don Quixote* as a key baroque masterpiece, exposing the era’s art as a tool of political manipulation. Cervantes’s genius was to wield the Baroque against itself, creating a mad knight who is a startling reflection of us.
This book unmasks *Don Quixote* as a key baroque masterpiece, exposing the era’s art as a tool of political manipulation. Cervantes’s genius was to wield the Baroque against itself, creating a mad knight who is a startling reflection of us.
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Thomas Hardy’s career as an architect profoundly shaped his literary imagination. This pioneering study explores the ethical, political, and aesthetic implications of his engagement with architecture, from the symbolic weight of ruins to memory and desire in built form.
Thomas Hardy’s career as an architect profoundly shaped his literary imagination. This pioneering study explores the ethical, political, and aesthetic implications of his engagement with architecture, from the symbolic weight of ruins to memory and desire in built form.
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Time and space in fiction are not given; they are built. This book reveals how figurative language actively constructs narrative worlds, reshaping our understanding of human experience and cultural imagination.
Time and space in fiction are not given; they are built. This book reveals how figurative language actively constructs narrative worlds, reshaping our understanding of human experience and cultural imagination.
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The Self, the Other and the World
Epistemology and Ethics in Joseph Conrad's Oeuvre
This book examines Joseph Conrad’s narratives and the protagonists’ confrontation with alterity—the self, the other, and the external world. It uniquely links Conradian ethics to the thought of Emmanuel Levinas, arguing that the meeting with the Other determines self-knowledge.
This book examines Joseph Conrad’s narratives and the protagonists’ confrontation with alterity—the self, the other, and the external world. It uniquely links Conradian ethics to the thought of Emmanuel Levinas, arguing that the meeting with the Other determines self-knowledge.
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Octavio Paz and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Studies in Biography, Poetry, and Poetics
This book explores Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Octavio Paz, two Mexican writers separated by centuries yet united by their defiance of religious and political orthodoxies. It analyzes their landmark poems, El Sueño and Blanco, and includes an English translation of El Sueño.
This book explores Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Octavio Paz, two Mexican writers separated by centuries yet united by their defiance of religious and political orthodoxies. It analyzes their landmark poems, El Sueño and Blanco, and includes an English translation of El Sueño.
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Re-reading Kazantzakis’s Askitiki
Centenary Reflections
Emerging and established scholars plunge into the abyss of Kazantzakis’s most arresting philosophical treatise, Askitiki. This volume sheds new light on one of his most misunderstood works, bringing fresh voices to the study of one of Greece’s most important figures.
Emerging and established scholars plunge into the abyss of Kazantzakis’s most arresting philosophical treatise, Askitiki. This volume sheds new light on one of his most misunderstood works, bringing fresh voices to the study of one of Greece’s most important figures.
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This book investigates how myth and folklore in Indian fiction are paradoxically used to generate new modes of writing. It explores this stylistic innovation, the use of an 'oral narrative style', and the relationship between women and folklore in South Asian tradition.
This book investigates how myth and folklore in Indian fiction are paradoxically used to generate new modes of writing. It explores this stylistic innovation, the use of an ‘oral narrative style’, and the relationship between women and folklore in South Asian tradition.
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In Argentina, Chile, and Spain, playwrights addressed the national traumas of dictatorship by creating “posttraumatic theater.” This book argues these plays represent national crises by taking on stylistic features that mimic the symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder.
In Argentina, Chile, and Spain, playwrights addressed the national traumas of dictatorship by creating “posttraumatic theater.” This book argues these plays represent national crises by taking on stylistic features that mimic the symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder.
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Physicians and Their Literary Work
Romanian Physicians and their Literary Vision
This book connects medicine and literature, analyzing how the medical profession shaped the work of doctor-authors. It reveals how they built a unique literary identity, changing our perception of the human being. For doctors and literary scholars alike.
This book connects medicine and literature, analyzing how the medical profession shaped the work of doctor-authors. It reveals how they built a unique literary identity, changing our perception of the human being. For doctors and literary scholars alike.
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This collection of 350 poems about Mark Twain explores a neglected dimension of his popular reception. Ranging from anonymous rhymes to highbrow tributes, they trace the crests in Twain’s fame over the decades, proving useful to general readers, teachers, and scholars.
This collection of 350 poems about Mark Twain explores a neglected dimension of his popular reception. Ranging from anonymous rhymes to highbrow tributes, they trace the crests in Twain’s fame over the decades, proving useful to general readers, teachers, and scholars.
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The first comprehensive study in English of the detective novel in Puerto Rico, from its origins in 1984 to the present. This book establishes a canon for the genre, analyzing some 50 works to reveal a diverse and innovative literary tradition on the island.
The first comprehensive study in English of the detective novel in Puerto Rico, from its origins in 1984 to the present. This book establishes a canon for the genre, analyzing some 50 works to reveal a diverse and innovative literary tradition on the island.
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A Shakespearean Reading of Pirandello’s Henry IV
A Comparative Analysis
This innovative comparative analysis of Shakespeare's Hamlet and Pirandello's Enrico IV delves into the intertextual relationship between the two tragedies, presenting an original interpretation that connects concepts like original sin, farce, and simulacrum.
This innovative comparative analysis of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Pirandello’s Enrico IV delves into the intertextual relationship between the two tragedies, presenting an original interpretation that connects concepts like original sin, farce, and simulacrum.
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