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The Nordic literary canon is transforming. This book highlights how migration, minority, and queer literatures challenge national identity. It showcases the plurality of voices questioning the fundamentals of canon formation and Nordic self-understanding.
The Nordic literary canon is transforming. This book highlights how migration, minority, and queer literatures challenge national identity. It showcases the plurality of voices questioning the fundamentals of canon formation and Nordic self-understanding.
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Those Distant Shores
A Narrative of Human Restlessness
"Distant shores" represent the human yearning for fulfillment that makes us restless. This story follows the life-journeys of three Filipino friends and a young Spaniard whose very different paths intersect, exploring our fundamental restlessness and desire for transcendence.
“Distant shores” represent the human yearning for fulfillment that makes us restless. This story follows the life-journeys of three Filipino friends and a young Spaniard whose very different paths intersect, exploring our fundamental restlessness and desire for transcendence.
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See Shakespeare with fresh eyes. Through a “triple vision” method—as reality, poem, and play—this guide transforms Hamlet, Othello, and Macbeth into powerful tools for critical thinking in your everyday life.
See Shakespeare with fresh eyes. Through a “triple vision” method—as reality, poem, and play—this guide transforms Hamlet, Othello, and Macbeth into powerful tools for critical thinking in your everyday life.
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Reconsidering Shakespeare’s ‘Lateness’
Studies in the Last Plays
This book reconsiders Shakespeare’s “lateness” by analyzing his last plays. It reveals a pattern of steady artistic development, arguing that his final works show a continuation of his sustained professional energy and ongoing self-challenge.
This book reconsiders Shakespeare’s “lateness” by analyzing his last plays. It reveals a pattern of steady artistic development, arguing that his final works show a continuation of his sustained professional energy and ongoing self-challenge.
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Telling and Re-telling Stories
Studies on Literary Adaptation to Film
The contributions brought together here offer a comprehensive and authoritative study of literary adaptation to film, providing valuable study cases which suggest both the continuity and variety of adaptation theories.
The contributions brought together here offer a comprehensive and authoritative study of literary adaptation to film, providing valuable study cases which suggest both the continuity and variety of adaptation theories.
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That Elusive Fountain of Wisdom
A Tale of the Human Thirst for Knowledge
In the university town of Leuven, Belgium, visiting scholars pursue their personal and academic objectives. What starts out as an academic sojourn becomes a life-changing experience as their paths cross and they learn about each other, themselves, and life itself.
In the university town of Leuven, Belgium, visiting scholars pursue their personal and academic objectives. What starts out as an academic sojourn becomes a life-changing experience as their paths cross and they learn about each other, themselves, and life itself.
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This book revisits images of the Balkans in twentieth-century travel writing, mirroring the region's turbulent changes. It explores divergent and often contradictory views on the region’s path to reconciling its unique heritage with a European identity.
This book revisits images of the Balkans in twentieth-century travel writing, mirroring the region’s turbulent changes. It explores divergent and often contradictory views on the region’s path to reconciling its unique heritage with a European identity.
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Jamoussi explores two distinctive aspects of the allegorical stories of Theodore Francis Powys which are generally overlooked by his critics, namely supernatural visitors and animal symbolism, showing that they deserve close attention when discussing the writer’s work.
Jamoussi explores two distinctive aspects of the allegorical stories of Theodore Francis Powys which are generally overlooked by his critics, namely supernatural visitors and animal symbolism, showing that they deserve close attention when discussing the writer’s work.
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Gayatri Spivak
Deconstruction and the Ethics of Postcolonial Literary Interpretation
This compelling critical work explains the notoriously difficult theories of Gayatri Spivak. It is an in-depth study of her ethics of postcolonial interpretation, analyzing her readings of canonical texts to reveal new tools for interpreting the “wholly Other.”
This compelling critical work explains the notoriously difficult theories of Gayatri Spivak. It is an in-depth study of her ethics of postcolonial interpretation, analyzing her readings of canonical texts to reveal new tools for interpreting the “wholly Other.”
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A New Theory of Mind
The Theory of Narrative Thought
This book presents a unique way of understanding how humans think. It argues that narratives are the natural mode of thinking, that the “urge” to think narratively reflects known neurological processes and enables us to transcend our evolutionary limits and shape our own futures.
This book presents a unique way of understanding how humans think. It argues that narratives are the natural mode of thinking, that the “urge” to think narratively reflects known neurological processes and enables us to transcend our evolutionary limits and shape our own futures.
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Which Face of Witch
Self-Representations of Women as Witches in Works of Contemporary British Women Writers
Once a feared figure on the edge of society, the witch has been reclaimed by women as a feminist icon. This study investigates how contemporary British writers like Iris Murdoch, Jeanette Winterson, and Angela Carter interpret this ancient figure in creative ways.
Once a feared figure on the edge of society, the witch has been reclaimed by women as a feminist icon. This study investigates how contemporary British writers like Iris Murdoch, Jeanette Winterson, and Angela Carter interpret this ancient figure in creative ways.
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Stirring Age
Scott, Byron and the Historical Romance
This original study explores two giants of 19th century literature, Scott and Byron, and their experimental genre-splicing. They sought to return history and romance to their native complementarity, using the historical to revive romance models.
This original study explores two giants of 19th century literature, Scott and Byron, and their experimental genre-splicing. They sought to return history and romance to their native complementarity, using the historical to revive romance models.
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Eva Figes’ Writings
A Journey through Trauma
Offering an overview of the life and literary career of the prolific writer Eva Figes, this book places her extensive production within the various literary movements that shaped the previous century, using the theoretical background provided by ethics and trauma studies.
Offering an overview of the life and literary career of the prolific writer Eva Figes, this book places her extensive production within the various literary movements that shaped the previous century, using the theoretical background provided by ethics and trauma studies.
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Worlds So Strange and Diverse
Towards a Genological Taxonomy of Non-mimetic Literature
This analysis of contemporary fantasy literature explores unmapped territories of the genre. Building on major previous theories, it offers a new, comprehensive taxonomy of fantastic fiction based on the notion of supragenological types.
This analysis of contemporary fantasy literature explores unmapped territories of the genre. Building on major previous theories, it offers a new, comprehensive taxonomy of fantastic fiction based on the notion of supragenological types.
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These essays explore how conversational exchanges in Early Modern England informed cultural productions. Conversation functioned as a method for creation and interpretation, a metamorphic force that did not simply reproduce, but transformed with each interaction.
These essays explore how conversational exchanges in Early Modern England informed cultural productions. Conversation functioned as a method for creation and interpretation, a metamorphic force that did not simply reproduce, but transformed with each interaction.
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Out of the London fog, a mysterious stranger seeks lodging, but a horrifying secret lurks behind his gentlemanly façade. Can Mrs Bunting uncover his true nature and avert disaster? This thriller was the first novelization of the "Jack the Ripper" murders.
Out of the London fog, a mysterious stranger seeks lodging, but a horrifying secret lurks behind his gentlemanly façade. Can Mrs Bunting uncover his true nature and avert disaster? This thriller was the first novelization of the “Jack the Ripper” murders.
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Troubled Legacies
Heritage/Inheritance in American Minority Literatures
What is being passed on? These essays explore heritage in American minority literatures. From the trauma of the past to new conceptions of ethnicity based on fluidity and performativity, these works question a "post-racial" society and ask: who shall inherit America?
What is being passed on? These essays explore heritage in American minority literatures. From the trauma of the past to new conceptions of ethnicity based on fluidity and performativity, these works question a “post-racial” society and ask: who shall inherit America?
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A Serious Genre
The Apology of Children's Literature
This anthology assembles an international team of by scholars and academics to investigate the value and impact of what, since the 19th century, has been called children’s literature from a number of perspectives, including classical Victorian children’s books.
This anthology assembles an international team of by scholars and academics to investigate the value and impact of what, since the 19th century, has been called children’s literature from a number of perspectives, including classical Victorian children’s books.
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Christine Brooke-Rose
The Chameleonic Text Between Self-Reflexivity and Narrative Experiment
Experimental writer Christine Brooke-Rose puzzled critics with her fractal identity. This book settles the ambiguities of her work, charting the chameleonic features of her highly experimental novels and their unifying intertextual web.
Experimental writer Christine Brooke-Rose puzzled critics with her fractal identity. This book settles the ambiguities of her work, charting the chameleonic features of her highly experimental novels and their unifying intertextual web.
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Following the Animal
Power, Agency, and Human-Animal Transformations in Modern, Northern-European Literature
Following the Animal analyses human-animal transformations in modern Nordic literature. It provides insights into the human-animal relationship and offers scholars a transferable strategy for approaching texts from a human-animal studies perspective.
Following the Animal analyses human-animal transformations in modern Nordic literature. It provides insights into the human-animal relationship and offers scholars a transferable strategy for approaching texts from a human-animal studies perspective.
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