Recovery and Transgression
Memory in American Poetry
This collection is devoted to the ways in which poetic texts shape, and are shaped by, personal and collective memory. It looks at the techniques through which the past is recovered and repurposed in poetry, using poems by T.S. Eliot and Susan Howe, among others, as examples.
This collection is devoted to the ways in which poetic texts shape, and are shaped by, personal and collective memory. It looks at the techniques through which the past is recovered and repurposed in poetry, using poems by T.S. Eliot and Susan Howe, among others, as examples.
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English Studies
New Perspectives
This volume offers a wide range of research on English literature, including Shakespearean, Victorian, and postcolonial studies. With articles on comparative and translation studies, it serves as a fruitful reference and a guide for young academics in their studies.
This volume offers a wide range of research on English literature, including Shakespearean, Victorian, and postcolonial studies. With articles on comparative and translation studies, it serves as a fruitful reference and a guide for young academics in their studies.
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Violence and Dystopia
Mimesis and Sacrifice in Contemporary Western Dystopian Narratives
A critical examination of imitative desire, scapegoating, and sacrifice in contemporary dystopian narratives through the lens of René Girard’s mimetic theory. It analyzes works by J.G. Ballard, Chuck Palahniuk, Margaret Atwood, and Will Self.
A critical examination of imitative desire, scapegoating, and sacrifice in contemporary dystopian narratives through the lens of René Girard’s mimetic theory. It analyzes works by J.G. Ballard, Chuck Palahniuk, Margaret Atwood, and Will Self.
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Ulysses Quotīdiānus
James Joyce’s Inverse Histories of the Everyday
George presents a multi-pronged inverse historical analysis of Joyce’s high-modernist magnum opus Ulysses, foregrounding the historicity of its unapologetic subject matter – the quotidian.
George presents a multi-pronged inverse historical analysis of Joyce’s high-modernist magnum opus Ulysses, foregrounding the historicity of its unapologetic subject matter – the quotidian.
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This volume explores a multiplicity of “ways of being”, including the adoption of an ethnic position, the enactment of gender, the conception of childhood and artistic visions of urban life. It features discourses of identity and “ways of performing” identity in literature.
This volume explores a multiplicity of “ways of being”, including the adoption of an ethnic position, the enactment of gender, the conception of childhood and artistic visions of urban life. It features discourses of identity and “ways of performing” identity in literature.
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Radical Contra-Diction
Coleridge, Revolution, Apostasy
This first book-length study of Coleridge’s reactions to the French Revolution examines his trajectory from ‘radical’ to ‘conservative’, and challenges the very notion that these labels can be applied to him.
This first book-length study of Coleridge’s reactions to the French Revolution examines his trajectory from ‘radical’ to ‘conservative’, and challenges the very notion that these labels can be applied to him.
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Probing the Skin
Cultural Representations of Our Contact Zone
Across art, literature, and medicine, these essays read the skin—as a sensual surface, a racial marker, and a canvas for tattoos, scars, and memory.
Across art, literature, and medicine, these essays read the skin—as a sensual surface, a racial marker, and a canvas for tattoos, scars, and memory.
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New Literature in Chinese
China and the World
Shoutong discusses the connotations of the concept of “Modern Chinese Literature”, as well as its basic categories. He argues that such fields as “World Chinese Literature” should unite in the area of “New Literature in Chinese”, as they share a language, culture and tradition.
Shoutong discusses the connotations of the concept of “Modern Chinese Literature”, as well as its basic categories. He argues that such fields as “World Chinese Literature” should unite in the area of “New Literature in Chinese”, as they share a language, culture and tradition.
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Experiencing Gender
International Approaches
This publication investigates the concept of gender in an international context. Focusing on various critical approaches, it explores how gender identities are shaped by socio-cultural factors, and provides a map of how gender experiences are represented in the arts.
This publication investigates the concept of gender in an international context. Focusing on various critical approaches, it explores how gender identities are shaped by socio-cultural factors, and provides a map of how gender experiences are represented in the arts.
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Given that correctly understanding the nature of perception will help to shed light on many other central philosophical issues, this book discusses the idea that our perceptual experiences represent the world as being a certain way, and so have representational content.
Given that correctly understanding the nature of perception will help to shed light on many other central philosophical issues, this book discusses the idea that our perceptual experiences represent the world as being a certain way, and so have representational content.
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Eiss explores how Eliot and Michelangelo struggle with the highest meanings of life in their artistic work and express what Rudolph Otto designates the mysterium tremendum. He reveals how Elliott struggled with his Christianity and turned to Michelangelo’s similar endeavour.
Eiss explores how Eliot and Michelangelo struggle with the highest meanings of life in their artistic work and express what Rudolph Otto designates the mysterium tremendum. He reveals how Elliott struggled with his Christianity and turned to Michelangelo’s similar endeavour.
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Telling Tales
Storytelling in Contemporary Spain
This volume explores how stories in Spanish fiction and film shape the nation's identity. Examining the impact of events like the Civil War and Franco's dictatorship, it reveals the close bond between real-world events and fictional stories.
This volume explores how stories in Spanish fiction and film shape the nation’s identity. Examining the impact of events like the Civil War and Franco’s dictatorship, it reveals the close bond between real-world events and fictional stories.
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This volume presents the state of the art of philosophical practice worldwide from the perspectives of leading philosophical practitioners, and demonstrates the breadth of philosophical practice and its various methodological directions..
This volume presents the state of the art of philosophical practice worldwide from the perspectives of leading philosophical practitioners, and demonstrates the breadth of philosophical practice and its various methodological directions..
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Essays on Unfamiliar Travel-Writing
Off the Beaten Track
Butler presents essays on travel-narratives, including writing by people who travelled from the East to the West, as well as those going the usual way. He gives, in an informal style, discussions about identity, otherness and stereotyping as they are displayed in the narratives.
Butler presents essays on travel-narratives, including writing by people who travelled from the East to the West, as well as those going the usual way. He gives, in an informal style, discussions about identity, otherness and stereotyping as they are displayed in the narratives.
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The German Historical Novel since the Eighteenth Century
More than a Bestseller
This collection looks at aesthetic and thematic continuities, as well as changes in the historical genre in Germany from the late 18th century to the present. It also gives insights into the novels’ political and socio-cultural implications and studies several historical novels.
This collection looks at aesthetic and thematic continuities, as well as changes in the historical genre in Germany from the late 18th century to the present. It also gives insights into the novels’ political and socio-cultural implications and studies several historical novels.
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A selection from the unpublished notebooks of Northrop Frye, Canada’s greatest literary critic. These insightful, startling, and unguarded passages reveal his fertile mind at work and showcase the seeds of the ideas he developed in his books and essays.
A selection from the unpublished notebooks of Northrop Frye, Canada’s greatest literary critic. These insightful, startling, and unguarded passages reveal his fertile mind at work and showcase the seeds of the ideas he developed in his books and essays.
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This book examines the diverse literature and culture of Newfoundland and Labrador. Scholars and writers explore its unique context across fiction, poetry, and filmmaking, bringing Indigenous histories to the foreground and encouraging international dialogue.
This book examines the diverse literature and culture of Newfoundland and Labrador. Scholars and writers explore its unique context across fiction, poetry, and filmmaking, bringing Indigenous histories to the foreground and encouraging international dialogue.
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This book studies the fictional representation of circles of artists and intellectuals, and other diverse associations that share the common trait of being small and subversive collectives, showing how such communities represent the “other side” of official institutions.
This book studies the fictional representation of circles of artists and intellectuals, and other diverse associations that share the common trait of being small and subversive collectives, showing how such communities represent the “other side” of official institutions.
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Post Celtic Tiger Ireland
Exploring New Cultural Spaces
This anthology provides the reader with an exploration of various artistic works which grew out of the post-Celtic Tiger era in Ireland. In assessing the aftermath of this period and its impact on Ireland today, the contributors also allude to its future evolution and trends.
This anthology provides the reader with an exploration of various artistic works which grew out of the post-Celtic Tiger era in Ireland. In assessing the aftermath of this period and its impact on Ireland today, the contributors also allude to its future evolution and trends.
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Social Networks in the Long Eighteenth Century
Clubs, Literary Salons, Textual Coteries
This collection uses social network analysis and digital humanities to re-imagine the 18th century as a networked community. It explores how clubs and associations formed public opinion, revealing surprising parallels to today's digital public sphere.
This collection uses social network analysis and digital humanities to re-imagine the 18th century as a networked community. It explores how clubs and associations formed public opinion, revealing surprising parallels to today’s digital public sphere.
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