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Kassis focuses on Iceland as a nineteenth-century utopian locus in the light of racial theories attached to the country’s national framework, investigating how nineteenth-century travellers defined their national identity and gender in relation to Iceland.
Kassis focuses on Iceland as a nineteenth-century utopian locus in the light of racial theories attached to the country’s national framework, investigating how nineteenth-century travellers defined their national identity and gender in relation to Iceland.
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War and Words
Representations of Military Conflict in Literature and the Media
This edited volume examines the methods, conventions and pitfalls of constructing verbal accounts of military conflict in literature and the media, bringing together such diverse material as canonical literature, war veterans’ testimonies, computer games, and propaganda.
This edited volume examines the methods, conventions and pitfalls of constructing verbal accounts of military conflict in literature and the media, bringing together such diverse material as canonical literature, war veterans’ testimonies, computer games, and propaganda.
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The Golden Age
Nostalgia in Word and Image
This volume investigates the diverse applications and conceptions of the term ‘The Golden Age’, and its connection to feelings of nostalgia from a range of perspectives, with a strong focus on the relationship between word and image.
This volume investigates the diverse applications and conceptions of the term ‘The Golden Age’, and its connection to feelings of nostalgia from a range of perspectives, with a strong focus on the relationship between word and image.
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Jawdat Haydar’s Poetic Legacy
Issues of Modernity, Belonging, Language, and Transcendence
This proceedings of the first Jawdat Haydar international conference comprises papers on the English-language poems of the Lebanese poet. It will appeal to both academic and non-academic readers interested in the field of 20th century English-language world literature.
This proceedings of the first Jawdat Haydar international conference comprises papers on the English-language poems of the Lebanese poet. It will appeal to both academic and non-academic readers interested in the field of 20th century English-language world literature.
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Doris Lessing
Poetics of Being and Time
Majoul investigates various facets of Doris Lessing’s writing, viewing her as a historiographer and a transnational mediator between the East and the West. She also establishes an analogy between Lessing’s texts and various other works, including Salman Rushdie’s Shame.
Majoul investigates various facets of Doris Lessing’s writing, viewing her as a historiographer and a transnational mediator between the East and the West. She also establishes an analogy between Lessing’s texts and various other works, including Salman Rushdie’s Shame.
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Deceptive Fictions
Narrating Trauma and Violence in Contemporary Writing
This book explores how contemporary fiction uses trauma and violence. It argues these texts are counter-narratives to postmodern thought, using the body and experiential reality to reassert the individual as an ethical agent and originator of meaning.
This book explores how contemporary fiction uses trauma and violence. It argues these texts are counter-narratives to postmodern thought, using the body and experiential reality to reassert the individual as an ethical agent and originator of meaning.
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Gendering Commitment
Re-thinking Social and Ethical Engagement in Modern Italian Culture
This collection challenges the assumption that engagement in Italian culture is a male domain. It analyses the work of those typically excluded from the debate: female writers, artists, and others who insist on questioning and denouncing social realities.
This collection challenges the assumption that engagement in Italian culture is a male domain. It analyses the work of those typically excluded from the debate: female writers, artists, and others who insist on questioning and denouncing social realities.
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Unali discusses the centuries-old familiarity between Europe and China, exploring European nations’ admiration for the distant Asian country, and their attempt at capturing the meaning of its ancient culture and language.
Unali discusses the centuries-old familiarity between Europe and China, exploring European nations’ admiration for the distant Asian country, and their attempt at capturing the meaning of its ancient culture and language.
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This multifaceted study of Toni Morrison’s fiction investigates racism and dismemberment from historical, psychological, and cultural perspectives. It likens racism’s impact to the splitting of bodies and traumatic memories to offer a new analysis of her work.
This multifaceted study of Toni Morrison’s fiction investigates racism and dismemberment from historical, psychological, and cultural perspectives. It likens racism’s impact to the splitting of bodies and traumatic memories to offer a new analysis of her work.
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Out of Deadlock
Female Emancipation in Sara Paretsky’s V.I. Warshawski Novels, and her Influence on Contemporary Crime Fiction
Sara Paretsky’s V.I. Warshawski series revolutionized crime fiction with a feminist perspective, raising awareness of social concerns. This collection of academic essays explores her influence on female authors worldwide who adopt a similar stance.
Sara Paretsky’s V.I. Warshawski series revolutionized crime fiction with a feminist perspective, raising awareness of social concerns. This collection of academic essays explores her influence on female authors worldwide who adopt a similar stance.
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Jane Austen’s Emma
A Close Reading Companion, Volume I
Combining an academic’s knowledge with a fan’s enthusiasm, this chapter-by-chapter companion to Jane Austen's Emma offers lucid and surprising interpretations that will illuminate the novel for first-time and experienced readers alike.
Combining an academic’s knowledge with a fan’s enthusiasm, this chapter-by-chapter companion to Jane Austen’s Emma offers lucid and surprising interpretations that will illuminate the novel for first-time and experienced readers alike.
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This work analyzes Nabokov’s prefaces to offer a new perspective on authorship. The author, neither dead nor tyrannical, alternates between authoritative apparition and disappearance, deconstructing the myth of Nabokov’s arrogance to unearth his vulnerability.
This work analyzes Nabokov’s prefaces to offer a new perspective on authorship. The author, neither dead nor tyrannical, alternates between authoritative apparition and disappearance, deconstructing the myth of Nabokov’s arrogance to unearth his vulnerability.
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Exploring Creative Writing
Voices from the Great Writing International Creative Writing Conference
This volume offers a collection of articles based on presentations given in recent years at the annual Great Writing International Creative Writing conference. Creative writers included here are drawn from around the world, including the USA, Australia, Korea, and Finland.
This volume offers a collection of articles based on presentations given in recent years at the annual Great Writing International Creative Writing conference. Creative writers included here are drawn from around the world, including the USA, Australia, Korea, and Finland.
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This collection of essays focuses on the relevance of Henry James’s work for understanding current problems. Studies explore his influence on modernist and postmodern writers and his connections to visual and new media, revealing continuities between his era and our own.
This collection of essays focuses on the relevance of Henry James’s work for understanding current problems. Studies explore his influence on modernist and postmodern writers and his connections to visual and new media, revealing continuities between his era and our own.
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A Time to Reason and Compare
International Modernism Revisited One Hundred Years After
Commemorating the centenary of decisive events in the history of international Modernism, this collection provides a critical assessment of the movement’s intentions and accomplishments, discussing its impact in a variety of contexts.
Commemorating the centenary of decisive events in the history of international Modernism, this collection provides a critical assessment of the movement’s intentions and accomplishments, discussing its impact in a variety of contexts.
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Traditional Chinese Rites and Rituals provides an overview of important social practices. While explaining how these rites are performed, it also introduces the reasons why norms are followed, offering a kaleidoscopic perspective on Chinese culture.
Traditional Chinese Rites and Rituals provides an overview of important social practices. While explaining how these rites are performed, it also introduces the reasons why norms are followed, offering a kaleidoscopic perspective on Chinese culture.
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Graham Greene’s Narrative in Spain
Criticism, Translations and Censorship (1939-1975)
This monograph details the literary contact between Graham Greene and Franco’s Spain, providing an overview of the roles played by national literary criticism and the book industry in the reception of his works, and the influence exerted by the regime in the publishing process.
This monograph details the literary contact between Graham Greene and Franco’s Spain, providing an overview of the roles played by national literary criticism and the book industry in the reception of his works, and the influence exerted by the regime in the publishing process.
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Making History Happen
Caribbean Poetry in America
This book examines how transnational women poets of the black diaspora, including Lorna Goodison and Claudia Rankine, use mobility and memory to create renewed identities and a sense of belonging, calling attention to an urgent new body of writing.
This book examines how transnational women poets of the black diaspora, including Lorna Goodison and Claudia Rankine, use mobility and memory to create renewed identities and a sense of belonging, calling attention to an urgent new body of writing.
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This book explores the reciprocal cultural relations between Greece and Britain. It covers figures from Shakespeare and Milton to the philhellenes Shelley and Byron, offering an insightful contribution to a better understanding between the people of these two countries.
This book explores the reciprocal cultural relations between Greece and Britain. It covers figures from Shakespeare and Milton to the philhellenes Shelley and Byron, offering an insightful contribution to a better understanding between the people of these two countries.
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Front investigates the use of the notion of time and temporality and its various conceptualizations in theories of the new physics as a thematic and formal framework for the British novel of the twenty-first century.
Front investigates the use of the notion of time and temporality and its various conceptualizations in theories of the new physics as a thematic and formal framework for the British novel of the twenty-first century.
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