Literary Hermeneutics
From Methodology to Ontology
This book analyses the evolution of literary hermeneutics, tracing its transformation from a methodology of reading to an ontological instrument for redefining the self, highlighting its vital role in contemporary debates over interpretation.
This book analyses the evolution of literary hermeneutics, tracing its transformation from a methodology of reading to an ontological instrument for redefining the self, highlighting its vital role in contemporary debates over interpretation.
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Alphonse de Lamartine’s prose-poem The Stonemason of Saint Point is the story of a peasant’s life, love and faith in the hills of Burgundy. In reality, it describes Lamartine’s own search for God through threatening and godless times in his country.
Alphonse de Lamartine’s prose-poem The Stonemason of Saint Point is the story of a peasant’s life, love and faith in the hills of Burgundy. In reality, it describes Lamartine’s own search for God through threatening and godless times in his country.
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Despite efforts by ethnographic museums to acknowledge contemporary cultural practices and aesthetic expressions, this book reveals how the institution of the museum as such continues to be haunted by its previous, restrictive ideas of the other while talking about the self.
Despite efforts by ethnographic museums to acknowledge contemporary cultural practices and aesthetic expressions, this book reveals how the institution of the museum as such continues to be haunted by its previous, restrictive ideas of the other while talking about the self.
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Fighting Cane and Canon
Abhimanyu Unnuth and the Case of World Literature in Mauritius
This book explores the persistence of Hindi poetry in Mauritius through the work of Abhimanyu Unnuth. His writing captures a postcolonial people's reevaluation of history, labor, and identity, raising crucial questions about language and canonicity in World Literature.
This book explores the persistence of Hindi poetry in Mauritius through the work of Abhimanyu Unnuth. His writing captures a postcolonial people’s reevaluation of history, labor, and identity, raising crucial questions about language and canonicity in World Literature.
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The House, the World, and the Theatre
Self-Fashioning and Authorial Spaces in the Prefaces of Hawthorne, Dickens, and James
Cáffaro departs from three ideologically resonant spatial metaphors to discuss key aspects of nineteenth-century literature and culture, namely the way authors used their prefaces to fashion themselves to cater to ever-expanding audiences and to the new conditions of publishing.
Cáffaro departs from three ideologically resonant spatial metaphors to discuss key aspects of nineteenth-century literature and culture, namely the way authors used their prefaces to fashion themselves to cater to ever-expanding audiences and to the new conditions of publishing.
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This book reveals Shakespeare as an early modern materialist inspired by Lucretius. In chapters on six important plays, it demonstrates how he writes an “atomic” poetry of joining and splitting language to explore the art of nature and the nature of art.
This book reveals Shakespeare as an early modern materialist inspired by Lucretius. In chapters on six important plays, it demonstrates how he writes an “atomic” poetry of joining and splitting language to explore the art of nature and the nature of art.
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Mathew presents six essays, each of which is an invitation to the reader to form an opinion on what care happens to be. Each chapter looks at care in a different setting, and a variety of psychoanalytic frameworks are employed on which to hang arguments.
Mathew presents six essays, each of which is an invitation to the reader to form an opinion on what care happens to be. Each chapter looks at care in a different setting, and a variety of psychoanalytic frameworks are employed on which to hang arguments.
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Labels and Locations
Gender, Family, Class and Caste – The Short Narratives of South Asian Diaspora in Australia
This book critically examines identity, gender, family, and class in the short narratives of South Asian diaspora writers in Australia. By focusing on this much-neglected group, it fills a crucial gap in the broader critical rubric of diaspora studies.
This book critically examines identity, gender, family, and class in the short narratives of South Asian diaspora writers in Australia. By focusing on this much-neglected group, it fills a crucial gap in the broader critical rubric of diaspora studies.
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Imagining Home
Exilic Reconstructions in Norma Manea and Andrei Codrescu’s Diasporic Narratives
Tracing the nomadic lives of two exiled writers, this book redefines Romanian and American identity. It offers a crucial new context for Eastern European immigrant narratives.
Tracing the nomadic lives of two exiled writers, this book redefines Romanian and American identity. It offers a crucial new context for Eastern European immigrant narratives.
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Science, Gender and History
The Fantastic in Mary Shelley and Margaret Atwood
This study offers fresh readings of Mary Shelley and Margaret Atwood, comparing Frankenstein and The Last Man with The Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake to reveal an ongoing critique of oppressive science, gender ideologies, and environmental ruin.
This study offers fresh readings of Mary Shelley and Margaret Atwood, comparing Frankenstein and The Last Man with The Handmaid’s Tale and Oryx and Crake to reveal an ongoing critique of oppressive science, gender ideologies, and environmental ruin.
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The Wild Pig
A Bilingual Edition of Pierre Boudot’s Le cochon sauvage
In war-torn Algeria, a narrator travels a land of stunning beauty, meditating on good and evil. As a primordial wildness wells within him, he chooses solitude. But will he be able to avoid confronting the wild beast in its lair?
In war-torn Algeria, a narrator travels a land of stunning beauty, meditating on good and evil. As a primordial wildness wells within him, he chooses solitude. But will he be able to avoid confronting the wild beast in its lair?
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ELT Revisited
Some Theoretical and Practical Perspectives
Comprising papers from a conference for Czech teachers of English, this collection discusses a variety of English as a Foreign Language-related topics, including insights on classroom practice. It is relevant to any context where English is taught as a foreign or second language.
Comprising papers from a conference for Czech teachers of English, this collection discusses a variety of English as a Foreign Language-related topics, including insights on classroom practice. It is relevant to any context where English is taught as a foreign or second language.
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This is the first woman’s travel narrative from late 19th-century colonial India. Krishnabhabini Das defied convention by writing about her life in England to educate fellow Indians on British culture, offering a rare female perspective on the colonial world.
This is the first woman’s travel narrative from late 19th-century colonial India. Krishnabhabini Das defied convention by writing about her life in England to educate fellow Indians on British culture, offering a rare female perspective on the colonial world.
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Colonial Psychosocial
Reading William Lane
With blistering rhetoric, William Lane mesmerised colonial Australia, playing on its fears of disease, deformity and invasion. This book follows his life—from dark cities to a failed utopia—to trace how he shaped a lasting legacy of exclusion.
With blistering rhetoric, William Lane mesmerised colonial Australia, playing on its fears of disease, deformity and invasion. This book follows his life—from dark cities to a failed utopia—to trace how he shaped a lasting legacy of exclusion.
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The Age of Dystopia
One Genre, Our Fears and Our Future
This book examines the recent popularity of the dystopian genre in literature and film, connecting contemporary manifestations of dystopia to cultural trends and the implications of technological and social changes for the individual and society as a whole.
This book examines the recent popularity of the dystopian genre in literature and film, connecting contemporary manifestations of dystopia to cultural trends and the implications of technological and social changes for the individual and society as a whole.
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Minding the Gap
Writing across Thresholds and Fault Lines
This edited volume discusses writing non–fiction, media and genre, and addresses elements of identity, culture and linguistics in fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction as contributors consider the gaps that exist between the self as writer, and as reader.
This edited volume discusses writing non–fiction, media and genre, and addresses elements of identity, culture and linguistics in fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction as contributors consider the gaps that exist between the self as writer, and as reader.
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Rhetoric in the Twenty-First Century
An Interactive Oxford Symposium
The result of a symposium held in Oxford to consider the most fruitful trajectories of rhetoric in the 21st century, this collection assesses the various possible futures of the ancient discipline of rhetoric as it responds vitally to the evolving contexts of the new millennium.
The result of a symposium held in Oxford to consider the most fruitful trajectories of rhetoric in the 21st century, this collection assesses the various possible futures of the ancient discipline of rhetoric as it responds vitally to the evolving contexts of the new millennium.
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Writers with roots in Africa navigate new terrains and racialized identities in Europe. Through vibrant literature, they redefine identity and imagine the contours of a diverse, inclusive Europe, reckoning with its colonial history and its legacy.
Writers with roots in Africa navigate new terrains and racialized identities in Europe. Through vibrant literature, they redefine identity and imagine the contours of a diverse, inclusive Europe, reckoning with its colonial history and its legacy.
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The Chinese Language Demystified explores the unique features of Mandarin Chinese. While discussing aspects that make it seem ‘mysterious,’ the book investigates how it is used by the Chinese people despite its lack of formal grammatical structure.
The Chinese Language Demystified explores the unique features of Mandarin Chinese. While discussing aspects that make it seem ‘mysterious,’ the book investigates how it is used by the Chinese people despite its lack of formal grammatical structure.
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This volume is centred around the idea that the aim of literature is to build bridges, and, as such, focuses on the moral purpose of literature and its tendency to overcome divisive forces, using examples from texts across various geographical and cultural borders.
This volume is centred around the idea that the aim of literature is to build bridges, and, as such, focuses on the moral purpose of literature and its tendency to overcome divisive forces, using examples from texts across various geographical and cultural borders.
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