Myth, Language and Tradition
A Study of Yeats, Stevens, and Eliot in the Context of Heidegger’s Search for Being
"Levity of Design" voices a critique of present-day society from within. J. H. Prynne’s poetry overcomes the impasse of poststructuralism, seeking a language in which the notion of man can be restituted as a viable category in late modernity.
“Levity of Design” voices a critique of present-day society from within. J. H. Prynne’s poetry overcomes the impasse of poststructuralism, seeking a language in which the notion of man can be restituted as a viable category in late modernity.
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Between Illusionism and Anti-Illusionism
Self-Reflexivity in the Chosen Novels of J. M. Coetzee
This critical study explores J. M. Coetzee’s distinction between “illusionism” (realism) and “anti-illusionism” (self-reflexivity). It demonstrates that these traditions are complementary, analyzing his novels in light of his critical essays.
This critical study explores J. M. Coetzee’s distinction between “illusionism” (realism) and “anti-illusionism” (self-reflexivity). It demonstrates that these traditions are complementary, analyzing his novels in light of his critical essays.
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Narrative, Social Myth and Reality in Contemporary Scottish and Irish Women’s Writing
Kennedy, Lochhead, Bourke, Ní Dhuibhne, and Carr
This book analyzes the link between myth, identity, and reality, examining how contemporary Scottish and Irish women writers reconfigure normative stories to create new possibilities for feminine identity and social order.
This book analyzes the link between myth, identity, and reality, examining how contemporary Scottish and Irish women writers reconfigure normative stories to create new possibilities for feminine identity and social order.
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The Deconstructive Owl of Minerva
An Examination of Schizophrenia through Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Postmodernism
This book uses philosophy, psychoanalysis, and postmodernism to deconstruct schizophrenia. It challenges symptomatic treatment by seeking alternative ways to understand the plurivalent language of the condition, opening new spaces for cultural articulation.
This book uses philosophy, psychoanalysis, and postmodernism to deconstruct schizophrenia. It challenges symptomatic treatment by seeking alternative ways to understand the plurivalent language of the condition, opening new spaces for cultural articulation.
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Retold Stories, Untold Histories
Maxine Hong Kingston and Leslie Marmon Silko on the Politics of Imagining the Past
This text explores how Maxine Hong Kingston and Leslie Marmon Silko challenge official history. Coming from marginalized groups, both writers use creative writing to reconstruct silenced pasts and counter stereotypical narratives of American identity.
This text explores how Maxine Hong Kingston and Leslie Marmon Silko challenge official history. Coming from marginalized groups, both writers use creative writing to reconstruct silenced pasts and counter stereotypical narratives of American identity.
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Early Modern Communi(cati)ons
Studies in Early Modern English Literature and Culture
This volume demonstrates the connections that bind Elizabethan and Jacobean cultural studies with Shakespearean investigations. Essays explore early modern culture and Shakespeare’s works, from their socio-historical context to present-day interpretations.
This volume demonstrates the connections that bind Elizabethan and Jacobean cultural studies with Shakespearean investigations. Essays explore early modern culture and Shakespeare’s works, from their socio-historical context to present-day interpretations.
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This volume analyses how feminism has shaped Polish literature, film and language, seeking to identify what is particular to the Polish feminist experience. Scholars examine Polish cultural history and memory through the transformations of the last two centuries.
This volume analyses how feminism has shaped Polish literature, film and language, seeking to identify what is particular to the Polish feminist experience. Scholars examine Polish cultural history and memory through the transformations of the last two centuries.
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Unsettling Stories
Settler Postcolonialism and the Short Story Composite
The first study of postcolonialism and the short story composite, this book considers how the form expresses writing on settler terrain. Uniquely comparing American, Canadian, and Australian literature, it explores difficult affiliations to place, home, and nation.
The first study of postcolonialism and the short story composite, this book considers how the form expresses writing on settler terrain. Uniquely comparing American, Canadian, and Australian literature, it explores difficult affiliations to place, home, and nation.
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The Edges of Trauma
Explorations in Visual Art and Literature
A collection of essays on visual art and literature that explores the cultural construction of trauma. Scholars offer new perspectives on historical traumas and canonical texts, examining how the non-experience of trauma finds its way into artistic representation.
A collection of essays on visual art and literature that explores the cultural construction of trauma. Scholars offer new perspectives on historical traumas and canonical texts, examining how the non-experience of trauma finds its way into artistic representation.
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Thy Truth Then Be Thy Dowry
Questions of Inheritance in American Women's Literature
This collection of essays offers new insights into inheritance in American women’s writing. Contributors examine women’s problematic relationship to their legacy, revealing strategies of resistance and empowerment used to cope with the burden or lack of inheritance.
This collection of essays offers new insights into inheritance in American women’s writing. Contributors examine women’s problematic relationship to their legacy, revealing strategies of resistance and empowerment used to cope with the burden or lack of inheritance.
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Popular Appeal
Books and Films in Contemporary Youth Culture
In a world of urgent social change, young people are devouring fiction about identity and transition. This book examines how popular genres are being redefined to explore today's key questions about the environment, identity, and our place in a fragile world.
In a world of urgent social change, young people are devouring fiction about identity and transition. This book examines how popular genres are being redefined to explore today’s key questions about the environment, identity, and our place in a fragile world.
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Grotesque Anatomies
Menippean Satire since the Renaissance
This study defines Menippean satire as a literary version of the grotesque. Through revisionist readings of canonical works from Pope’s Dunciad to Eliot’s The Waste Land, it changes our understanding of them and traces the form to the present day.
This study defines Menippean satire as a literary version of the grotesque. Through revisionist readings of canonical works from Pope’s Dunciad to Eliot’s The Waste Land, it changes our understanding of them and traces the form to the present day.
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Protean Selves
First-Person Voices in Twenty-First-Century French and Francophone Narratives
What does it mean to write “I” in a world where technology and globalization have complicated notions of authenticity and selfhood? This collection of essays explores the intricate relations between language, self, and identity through the analysis of the first-person voice.
What does it mean to write “I” in a world where technology and globalization have complicated notions of authenticity and selfhood? This collection of essays explores the intricate relations between language, self, and identity through the analysis of the first-person voice.
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POCA 2007
Postgraduate Cypriot Archaeology Conference
This multidisciplinary collection of papers on the history and archaeology of Cyprus spans from the prehistoric to the medieval times. It is a significant contribution to archaeological research that will engage scholars and provide the groundwork for future ideas.
This multidisciplinary collection of papers on the history and archaeology of Cyprus spans from the prehistoric to the medieval times. It is a significant contribution to archaeological research that will engage scholars and provide the groundwork for future ideas.
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Society Building
A China Model of Social Development
This volume presents research by non-Chinese scholars on "society building," an indigenous concept guiding China's social development. It tackles topics from infrastructure's social impact to soft power, offering a unique understanding of China today.
This volume presents research by non-Chinese scholars on “society building,” an indigenous concept guiding China’s social development. It tackles topics from infrastructure’s social impact to soft power, offering a unique understanding of China today.
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Reclaiming Home, Remembering Motherhood, Rewriting History
African American and Afro-Caribbean Women’s Literature in the Twentieth Century
This collection of essays examines how African American and Afro-Caribbean women writers reclaim home, motherhood, and history. Through their female characters, they create more inclusive concepts of community, gender, and history.
This collection of essays examines how African American and Afro-Caribbean women writers reclaim home, motherhood, and history. Through their female characters, they create more inclusive concepts of community, gender, and history.
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While early Twentieth Century London embraced Modernism, in Wales the opposite was true. This study traces the Welsh poets and novelists who found their master in William Wordsworth, illuminating an unexpected flare-up of Romanticism.
While early Twentieth Century London embraced Modernism, in Wales the opposite was true. This study traces the Welsh poets and novelists who found their master in William Wordsworth, illuminating an unexpected flare-up of Romanticism.
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Balkans and Islam
Encounter, Transformation, Discontinuity, Continuity
This multidisciplinary volume offers a special approach to the evolution of Islam in the Balkans. Accessible to students, academics, and the general reader, it provides knowledge of the region’s past and present, with hope for an integrated future.
This multidisciplinary volume offers a special approach to the evolution of Islam in the Balkans. Accessible to students, academics, and the general reader, it provides knowledge of the region’s past and present, with hope for an integrated future.
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The Narcissism Conundrum
Mapping the Mindscape of Ernest Hemingway through an Enquiry into his Epistolary and Literary Corpus
This psycho-biographic analysis dissects Hemingway’s works and letters to reveal the man behind the glamorous persona. It unearths a tradition of narcissistic self-fictionalization, enabling aficionados to decipher the conundrum of his mystic persona.
This psycho-biographic analysis dissects Hemingway’s works and letters to reveal the man behind the glamorous persona. It unearths a tradition of narcissistic self-fictionalization, enabling aficionados to decipher the conundrum of his mystic persona.
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Revolutionary Leaves
The Fiction of Mark Z. Danielewski
Hailed as the most exciting author in contemporary American literature, Mark Z. Danielewski's fiction is explored in Revolutionary Leaves. This collection of essays discusses his major works, House of Leaves and Only Revolutions, from a variety of perspectives.
Hailed as the most exciting author in contemporary American literature, Mark Z. Danielewski’s fiction is explored in Revolutionary Leaves. This collection of essays discusses his major works, House of Leaves and Only Revolutions, from a variety of perspectives.
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