Inhabited by Stories
Critical Essays on Tales Retold
This book offers an alternative to intertextuality as influence and appropriation. Grounded in the lived experience of reading, it focuses on the expansion of experience created by telling and retelling stories, which inhabit us and enrich our responses.
This book offers an alternative to intertextuality as influence and appropriation. Grounded in the lived experience of reading, it focuses on the expansion of experience created by telling and retelling stories, which inhabit us and enrich our responses.
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Edward Thomas
A Mirror of England
Killed in WWI, Edward Thomas wrote his essential poems in just two years. This timely reappraisal surveys his entire achievement in verse and prose, challenging common views and revealing a complex poet for a new generation.
Killed in WWI, Edward Thomas wrote his essential poems in just two years. This timely reappraisal surveys his entire achievement in verse and prose, challenging common views and revealing a complex poet for a new generation.
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A new approach to culture relates personality to the genesis of myths and religions. Cultures, like man, pass through phases from childhood to old age. From sacred tales to modern myths like Superman, these stories provide meaning and motivation for human behavior.
A new approach to culture relates personality to the genesis of myths and religions. Cultures, like man, pass through phases from childhood to old age. From sacred tales to modern myths like Superman, these stories provide meaning and motivation for human behavior.
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Metropolis and Experience
Defoe, Dickens, Joyce
Reading Defoe, Dickens, and Joyce through Benjamin’s concepts of experience (Erlebnis and Erfahrung), this book traces the novel's critique of urban modernity from Defoe's narration of lived experience to Joyce's exuberant, joyous excess.
Reading Defoe, Dickens, and Joyce through Benjamin’s concepts of experience (Erlebnis and Erfahrung), this book traces the novel’s critique of urban modernity from Defoe’s narration of lived experience to Joyce’s exuberant, joyous excess.
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Ethics and Poetics
Ethical Recognitions and Social Reconfigurations in Modern Narratives
This book explores the ethics of fiction, showing how literariness itself generates ethical communication. Authors investigate how modern narratives refine our understanding of recognition, disclosing how the reading experience can regenerate real social spaces.
This book explores the ethics of fiction, showing how literariness itself generates ethical communication. Authors investigate how modern narratives refine our understanding of recognition, disclosing how the reading experience can regenerate real social spaces.
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This is the first book of academic criticism on the connection between Christianity and the detective story. It covers Chesterton, Sayers, and contemporary TV crime dramas, making the case that mystery writing provides both entertainment and religious insight.
This is the first book of academic criticism on the connection between Christianity and the detective story. It covers Chesterton, Sayers, and contemporary TV crime dramas, making the case that mystery writing provides both entertainment and religious insight.
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Does literature merely reflect society, or does it create and transform reality? Is it a tool of social power, or a source of pleasure? The essays in this volume explore the complex relations between literature and society from diverse angles and eras.
Does literature merely reflect society, or does it create and transform reality? Is it a tool of social power, or a source of pleasure? The essays in this volume explore the complex relations between literature and society from diverse angles and eras.
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The Beauty of Convention
Essays in Literature and Culture
This volume explores the beauty of convention, viewing form as a keeper of meaning. It asks how conventions generate beauty and gain stability, examining literature, music, dance, and sculpture through diverse cultural and critical perspectives.
This volume explores the beauty of convention, viewing form as a keeper of meaning. It asks how conventions generate beauty and gain stability, examining literature, music, dance, and sculpture through diverse cultural and critical perspectives.
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Southern Horrors
Northern Visions of the Mediterranean World
This book explores the Mediterranean's dark side through the eyes of Northern Europeans. Over four centuries, travellers saw not a sun-drenched ideal, but a world of cruelty, poverty, and superstition, telling us more about their own prejudices than the South.
This book explores the Mediterranean’s dark side through the eyes of Northern Europeans. Over four centuries, travellers saw not a sun-drenched ideal, but a world of cruelty, poverty, and superstition, telling us more about their own prejudices than the South.
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Tracing Henry James brings together 28 essays by established and newer scholars from eight countries. This diverse collection explores James’s shorter and longer fiction, his travel essays, criticism, and letters.
Tracing Henry James brings together 28 essays by established and newer scholars from eight countries. This diverse collection explores James’s shorter and longer fiction, his travel essays, criticism, and letters.
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C. S. Lewis and the Inklings
Discovering Hidden Truth
This volume offers essays on hiddenness and discovery in the works of the Inklings: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Owen Barfield, along with their influences G. K. Chesterton and George MacDonald. Explore their collaboration, linguistics, and more.
This volume offers essays on hiddenness and discovery in the works of the Inklings: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Owen Barfield, along with their influences G. K. Chesterton and George MacDonald. Explore their collaboration, linguistics, and more.
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This collection of essays by international scholars explores Henry James's use of duplicity—a key strategy in his arsenal of ambiguity. The essays examine duplicitous characters, subtexts, and self-representation in his fiction and non-fiction.
This collection of essays by international scholars explores Henry James’s use of duplicity—a key strategy in his arsenal of ambiguity. The essays examine duplicitous characters, subtexts, and self-representation in his fiction and non-fiction.
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Selected Poems
From Modernism to Now
Selected poems are reader-friendly, but who decides what’s included? The essays in this volume address this question, offering an overview of poetic writing from the modernists to today and new insight into how these slimmer volumes are produced.
Selected poems are reader-friendly, but who decides what’s included? The essays in this volume address this question, offering an overview of poetic writing from the modernists to today and new insight into how these slimmer volumes are produced.
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This volume shows there is much more to analysing literature than traditional studies. It demonstrates, in non-technical language, how diverse perspectives from psychology to computer science can offer new insights into literary texts, their readers, and effects.
This volume shows there is much more to analysing literature than traditional studies. It demonstrates, in non-technical language, how diverse perspectives from psychology to computer science can offer new insights into literary texts, their readers, and effects.
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Aimer et mourir
Love, Death and Women’s Lives in Texts of French Expression
These essays address how love and death are linked in women's lives. While male writers associate women's sexuality with death, women writers from Marguerite de Navarre to Amélie Nothomb rework the old formulae, offering love that defies death's frontiers.
These essays address how love and death are linked in women’s lives. While male writers associate women’s sexuality with death, women writers from Marguerite de Navarre to Amélie Nothomb rework the old formulae, offering love that defies death’s frontiers.
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In and Out of Africa
Exploring Afro-Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian, and Latin-American Connections
This anthology explores the deep historical and cultural bonds connecting Africa to the Afro-Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian, and Latin American worlds. Scholars and artists examine themes of colonization, slavery, identity, and migration through new artistic prisms.
This anthology explores the deep historical and cultural bonds connecting Africa to the Afro-Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian, and Latin American worlds. Scholars and artists examine themes of colonization, slavery, identity, and migration through new artistic prisms.
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Metropolitan Mosaics and Melting-Pots
Paris and Montreal in Francophone Literatures
This series of essays explores how the concepts of the melting-pot and the mosaic have shaped the representation of Paris and Montreal in francophone literatures. Migrant writing poses questions of ethnicity and integration, challenging notions of the city and Frenchness.
This series of essays explores how the concepts of the melting-pot and the mosaic have shaped the representation of Paris and Montreal in francophone literatures. Migrant writing poses questions of ethnicity and integration, challenging notions of the city and Frenchness.
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The Genesis of Genesis
The Mytho-Empiricism of Creation
The Genesis of Genesis compares creation myths of ancient Egypt, Greece, and Mesopotamia with the Judaic cosmogony of Genesis. It contrasts their deterministic mythologies with the unique Judaic reliance on the word as the creative agent.
The Genesis of Genesis compares creation myths of ancient Egypt, Greece, and Mesopotamia with the Judaic cosmogony of Genesis. It contrasts their deterministic mythologies with the unique Judaic reliance on the word as the creative agent.
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Border Crossings
Narration, Nation and Imagination in Scots and Irish Literature and Culture
Borderlands are crucibles for diverse cultures and alternative histories. This collection explores the contested terrains of the British Isles, where borders extend beyond the geographical to the cultural, psychic, and social, shaping competing identities.
Borderlands are crucibles for diverse cultures and alternative histories. This collection explores the contested terrains of the British Isles, where borders extend beyond the geographical to the cultural, psychic, and social, shaping competing identities.
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The Silence of Fallout
Nuclear Criticism in a Post-Cold War World
How do we address the nuclear question in a post-Cold War world? Scholars of Nuclear Criticism converse with emergent voices, renewing this conversation and taking it in exciting new directions for future generations caught in a struggle with nuclear legacies.
How do we address the nuclear question in a post-Cold War world? Scholars of Nuclear Criticism converse with emergent voices, renewing this conversation and taking it in exciting new directions for future generations caught in a struggle with nuclear legacies.
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