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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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From Fin de Siècle to Semi-Centennial Drama of Europe
Dramatic Texts and Perspectives
This book offers groundbreaking interpretations of timeless 19th and 20th-century drama. Using new critical methods like Cultural Memory and Vulnerability studies, it builds inroads to both obscure and notable texts, connecting the past to a vigilant future for researchers.
This book offers groundbreaking interpretations of timeless 19th and 20th-century drama. Using new critical methods like Cultural Memory and Vulnerability studies, it builds inroads to both obscure and notable texts, connecting the past to a vigilant future for researchers.
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This book explores new research in English Studies, rethinking its relationship with other disciplines. The collection covers topics like memory, trauma, migration, identity, and posthumanism with a critical approach to biases related to race, gender, and sexual orientation.
This book explores new research in English Studies, rethinking its relationship with other disciplines. The collection covers topics like memory, trauma, migration, identity, and posthumanism with a critical approach to biases related to race, gender, and sexual orientation.
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Studies and Essays on Romance Literatures
A Labyrinth of Interpretations
This collection of essays is a journey into 20th-century masterpieces. From Pessoa to García Márquez, these studies re-read famous works of Romance literature to highlight their deep and hidden truths, metaphorically bridging the two sides of the Atlantic.
This collection of essays is a journey into 20th-century masterpieces. From Pessoa to García Márquez, these studies re-read famous works of Romance literature to highlight their deep and hidden truths, metaphorically bridging the two sides of the Atlantic.
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This work of literary criticism offers a detailed study of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales," demonstrating his imaginative insights into the drama of human life. It reveals his continuing relevance by exploring themes of domestic violence, trust, and the need for new perspectives.
This work of literary criticism offers a detailed study of Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales,” demonstrating his imaginative insights into the drama of human life. It reveals his continuing relevance by exploring themes of domestic violence, trust, and the need for new perspectives.
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A governess at an isolated country house becomes convinced that ghosts are corrupting two children, but only she sees them. This study argues her narration reveals a double consciousness, a severe indictment of the possessiveness which led to the story’s tragic climax.
A governess at an isolated country house becomes convinced that ghosts are corrupting two children, but only she sees them. This study argues her narration reveals a double consciousness, a severe indictment of the possessiveness which led to the story’s tragic climax.
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This study explores Franz Kafka’s fiction through his innovative dream technique. Using Sigmund Freud’s research and existentialist thought, it provides a unique perspective on the uncanny "Kafkaesque" atmosphere, extrapolating dream features into speculative metaphysical areas.
This study explores Franz Kafka’s fiction through his innovative dream technique. Using Sigmund Freud’s research and existentialist thought, it provides a unique perspective on the uncanny “Kafkaesque” atmosphere, extrapolating dream features into speculative metaphysical areas.
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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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African Tragedy
A Novel by Wulf Sachs
Unknown since 1946, African Tragedy is the original version of Wulf Sachs’s famous Black Hamlet. This enthralling novel tells the story of John Chawafambira, an nganga in a psychic and political struggle within the inhospitable Johannesburg of the 1930s.
Unknown since 1946, African Tragedy is the original version of Wulf Sachs’s famous Black Hamlet. This enthralling novel tells the story of John Chawafambira, an nganga in a psychic and political struggle within the inhospitable Johannesburg of the 1930s.
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This collection considers how women writers subvert normative structures in their adaptations of fairy tales. Writers like Anne Sexton and Angela Carter reimagine the genre, long associated with conservative values, as an instrument for social critique of traditional structures.
This collection considers how women writers subvert normative structures in their adaptations of fairy tales. Writers like Anne Sexton and Angela Carter reimagine the genre, long associated with conservative values, as an instrument for social critique of traditional structures.
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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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This book proves that when science and literature, especially poetry, interact, transdisciplinary fields are created. Merging diverse disciplines offers solutions to wicked problems by finding common ground, connecting the academy to society, and reshaping the world.
This book proves that when science and literature, especially poetry, interact, transdisciplinary fields are created. Merging diverse disciplines offers solutions to wicked problems by finding common ground, connecting the academy to society, and reshaping the world.
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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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Christian Inversion of Jewish Nationalist Monotheism
Clawing Our Way Back
Jesus's movement bridged the divide between Jew and Gentile. Unlike the traditional messianic expectation of a conqueror, he promoted a spiritual, apolitical union based on personal reform. His followers were a nation of priests, not warriors, for all humanity.
Jesus’s movement bridged the divide between Jew and Gentile. Unlike the traditional messianic expectation of a conqueror, he promoted a spiritual, apolitical union based on personal reform. His followers were a nation of priests, not warriors, for all humanity.
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The Phenomenology of Movement and Rest
Wandering and Dwelling with Naipaul, Sebald and Tranströmer
This book is a phenomenological exploration of wandering and dwelling in the works of V. S. Naipaul, W. G. Sebald, and T. G. Tranströmer. It is the first study of their common engagement with the existential themes of movement and rest, which testify to our primal human desires.
This book is a phenomenological exploration of wandering and dwelling in the works of V. S. Naipaul, W. G. Sebald, and T. G. Tranströmer. It is the first study of their common engagement with the existential themes of movement and rest, which testify to our primal human desires.
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This book questions the relevance of travel writing in a flagrantly unequal world. It examines how acclaimed writers like V.S. Naipaul and Amitav Ghosh engage with the socio-political realities of post-independence India, revealing the interplay of travel, politics, and history.
This book questions the relevance of travel writing in a flagrantly unequal world. It examines how acclaimed writers like V.S. Naipaul and Amitav Ghosh engage with the socio-political realities of post-independence India, revealing the interplay of travel, politics, and history.
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The Life and Novels of Isabella St John
The Regency Revisited
In the generation after Jane Austen, Isabella St John went further with her sharply satirical picture of the English upper class. Born an aristocrat, her novels use authentic inside knowledge to boldly tackle women’s rights and social injustice with humour and acute observation.
In the generation after Jane Austen, Isabella St John went further with her sharply satirical picture of the English upper class. Born an aristocrat, her novels use authentic inside knowledge to boldly tackle women’s rights and social injustice with humour and acute observation.
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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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Persistently ignored or demonised by 19th-century British travellers, Romanians were viewed as a decadent "Oriental Other." This volume explores these representations in ten travelogues, analysing them through the lens of British expansionism and Victorian racial discourse.
Persistently ignored or demonised by 19th-century British travellers, Romanians were viewed as a decadent “Oriental Other.” This volume explores these representations in ten travelogues, analysing them through the lens of British expansionism and Victorian racial discourse.
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Indian Diaspora
Immigrants’ Experiences in Literature
Borders give rise to division, the suffering of homelessness, and the loss of culture. This book ties together the stories of uprooted migrants, refugees, and exiles—including writers like Jhumpa Lahiri and Kiran Desai—who use their writing to highlight migration concerns.
Borders give rise to division, the suffering of homelessness, and the loss of culture. This book ties together the stories of uprooted migrants, refugees, and exiles—including writers like Jhumpa Lahiri and Kiran Desai—who use their writing to highlight migration concerns.
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