Barrie, Hook, and Peter Pan
Studies in Contemporary Myth; Estudios sobre un mito contemporáneo
He is the boy who will never grow up, yet he is over a century old. A powerful icon, he seems to have been floating in our culture forever. This book is a tribute to this dear, mysterious, and seductive character who is now more alive than ever.
He is the boy who will never grow up, yet he is over a century old. A powerful icon, he seems to have been floating in our culture forever. This book is a tribute to this dear, mysterious, and seductive character who is now more alive than ever.
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This collection of essays explores how scholars, critics, and artists have reflected upon and re-imagined Charles Dickens’s texts. It offers a vast array of interdisciplinary approaches—from gender studies to film—attesting to his global appeal.
This collection of essays explores how scholars, critics, and artists have reflected upon and re-imagined Charles Dickens’s texts. It offers a vast array of interdisciplinary approaches—from gender studies to film—attesting to his global appeal.
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The Proceedings of the 19th Annual History of Medicine Days Conference 2010
The University of Calgary Faculty of Medicine, Alberta, Canada
Discover new voices in the history of medicine. This illustrated volume features student research on nursing, public health, psychiatry, eugenics, and more. It also includes the compelling keynote address from the conference.
Discover new voices in the history of medicine. This illustrated volume features student research on nursing, public health, psychiatry, eugenics, and more. It also includes the compelling keynote address from the conference.
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One World Periphery Reads the Other
Knowing the “Oriental” in the Americas and the Iberian Peninsula
These essays study the decentering interplay between “peripheral” areas and marginalized social groups. They explore rich “South-South” cross-cultural exchanges that disrupt the center-periphery dichotomy, creating multiple centers without Western mediation.
These essays study the decentering interplay between “peripheral” areas and marginalized social groups. They explore rich “South-South” cross-cultural exchanges that disrupt the center-periphery dichotomy, creating multiple centers without Western mediation.
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How does humour work? This book tests Attardo & Raskin’s General Theory of Verbal Humor, proposing a new ‘humorist reading’. By providing the tools to ask ‘why is this humorous?’, it offers a valuable new way to understand any literary text.
How does humour work? This book tests Attardo & Raskin’s General Theory of Verbal Humor, proposing a new ‘humorist reading’. By providing the tools to ask ‘why is this humorous?’, it offers a valuable new way to understand any literary text.
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Memory, Narrative and Forgiveness
Perspectives on the Unfinished Journeys of the Past
Drawing on South Africa's TRC and global case studies, scholars explore the themes of memory, narrative, and forgiveness. This book analyzes the path to reconciliation and healing for societies ravaged by mass violence and unspeakable injustice.
Drawing on South Africa’s TRC and global case studies, scholars explore the themes of memory, narrative, and forgiveness. This book analyzes the path to reconciliation and healing for societies ravaged by mass violence and unspeakable injustice.
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Literature, History, Choice
The Principle of Alternative History in Literature (S.Y. Agnon, The City with All That is Therein)
This study offers a new theory of alternative history. Through a key work by Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon, it reveals this principle is not just a genre, but fundamental to the very act of reading—shaping plot, character, and imagination.
This study offers a new theory of alternative history. Through a key work by Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon, it reveals this principle is not just a genre, but fundamental to the very act of reading—shaping plot, character, and imagination.
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George Bellows Revisited
New Considerations of the Painter’s Oeuvre
The artwork of one of the most important 20th-century American painters and printmakers, George Bellows, is studied in this essay collection. Innovative research is offered that probes his oeuvre from multiple viewpoints, challenging widely-held perceptions of Bellows.
The artwork of one of the most important 20th-century American painters and printmakers, George Bellows, is studied in this essay collection. Innovative research is offered that probes his oeuvre from multiple viewpoints, challenging widely-held perceptions of Bellows.
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Downloading the Poetic Self
An Anatomy of Poetic Character
An autobiography of a writer’s existence in poetry—the tracks left by a clumsy bear taming himself in public. It will light fires, inspiring you to find language as daring as your life and proving that poetry is essential to a good life.
An autobiography of a writer’s existence in poetry—the tracks left by a clumsy bear taming himself in public. It will light fires, inspiring you to find language as daring as your life and proving that poetry is essential to a good life.
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Featuring papers from the Science Fiction Symposia, this volume demonstrate the diversity and adaptability of science fiction as a tool for asking and answering impossible questions. It explores how it challenges boundaries, whether conceptual, literary or metaphorical.
Featuring papers from the Science Fiction Symposia, this volume demonstrate the diversity and adaptability of science fiction as a tool for asking and answering impossible questions. It explores how it challenges boundaries, whether conceptual, literary or metaphorical.
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The Inside of a Shell
Alice Munro’s Dance of the Happy Shades
Worldwide specialists examine the first steps of Nobel laureate Alice Munro. This collection of essays offers new critical perspectives on her debut, Dance of the Happy Shades, revealing how these early stories foreshadow the patterns and themes of her celebrated later work.
Worldwide specialists examine the first steps of Nobel laureate Alice Munro. This collection of essays offers new critical perspectives on her debut, Dance of the Happy Shades, revealing how these early stories foreshadow the patterns and themes of her celebrated later work.
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PIERIDES IV This volume examines Terence as both an interpreter of literary traditions and a subject of critical reception. It explores his experimental comedies, focusing on the meaning of his work in relation to his predecessors, contemporaries, and posterity.
PIERIDES IV
This volume examines Terence as both an interpreter of literary traditions and a subject of critical reception. It explores his experimental comedies, focusing on the meaning of his work in relation to his predecessors, contemporaries, and posterity.
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Ireland and Dysfunction
Critical Explorations in Literature and Film
At the intersection of cultural, literary and film studies, this compilation explores how dysfunction is tackled in Irish studies. It also investigates how mediation, managing, healing and transcending help in understanding the construction process of an Irish identity today.
At the intersection of cultural, literary and film studies, this compilation explores how dysfunction is tackled in Irish studies. It also investigates how mediation, managing, healing and transcending help in understanding the construction process of an Irish identity today.
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Re-Entering Old Spaces
Essays on Anglo-American Literature
Using “old spaces” as a metaphorical tool, this book reintroduces established topics with new approaches. Contributors explore how spaces—physical, symbolic, and aesthetic—are created and recreated through writing, reflecting both their "visitors" and their "hosts."
Using “old spaces” as a metaphorical tool, this book reintroduces established topics with new approaches. Contributors explore how spaces—physical, symbolic, and aesthetic—are created and recreated through writing, reflecting both their “visitors” and their “hosts.”
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In a world of deepening conflict, what is solidarity today? This interdisciplinary volume analyzes the concept from philosophical, social, political, and artistic perspectives, exploring its relation to memory and inspiring readers to help victims of exclusion.
In a world of deepening conflict, what is solidarity today? This interdisciplinary volume analyzes the concept from philosophical, social, political, and artistic perspectives, exploring its relation to memory and inspiring readers to help victims of exclusion.
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The Whirlwind of Passion
New Critical Perspectives on William Shakespeare
This collection of essays by distinguished scholars provides fresh insight into Shakespearean studies. It explores the Bard’s oeuvre through critical, performance, and comparative analyses, emphasizing the playwright’s relevance today.
This collection of essays by distinguished scholars provides fresh insight into Shakespearean studies. It explores the Bard’s oeuvre through critical, performance, and comparative analyses, emphasizing the playwright’s relevance today.
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Current Issues in Second/Foreign Language Teaching and Teacher Development
Research and Practice
Representing presentations given at the 17th World Congress of the International Association of Applied Linguistics, the chapters here discuss issues related to second language acquisition, teaching and teacher education in a variety of contexts from around the world.
Representing presentations given at the 17th World Congress of the International Association of Applied Linguistics, the chapters here discuss issues related to second language acquisition, teaching and teacher education in a variety of contexts from around the world.
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The Dan Brown Craze
An Analysis of His Formula for Thriller Fiction
Zhang and Zhu investigate why the work of Dan Brown has attained such global appeal, from a Chinese perspective, and provide a detailed exploration of his plots, characterisation, themes, and techniques.
Zhang and Zhu investigate why the work of Dan Brown has attained such global appeal, from a Chinese perspective, and provide a detailed exploration of his plots, characterisation, themes, and techniques.
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Observing Napoleon’s march from Elba to his defeat at Waterloo was Byron’s friend J.C. Hobhouse. This book presents an essay on Byron and Napoleon, Byron’s poems, and Hobhouse’s letters and mostly unpublished diary from the thick of things in Paris.
Observing Napoleon’s march from Elba to his defeat at Waterloo was Byron’s friend J.C. Hobhouse. This book presents an essay on Byron and Napoleon, Byron’s poems, and Hobhouse’s letters and mostly unpublished diary from the thick of things in Paris.
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The Reptant Eagle
Essays on Carlos Fuentes and the Art of the Novel
Carlos Fuentes was a leading voice in Latin America’s Boom generation. The Reptant Eagle collects essays by renowned scholars that offer innovative readings of his major works and trace his contribution to the uninterrupted tradition of the art of the novel.
Carlos Fuentes was a leading voice in Latin America’s Boom generation. The Reptant Eagle collects essays by renowned scholars that offer innovative readings of his major works and trace his contribution to the uninterrupted tradition of the art of the novel.
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