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War is a terrible disaster, yet it is a universal characteristic of human existence. Why? This multi-disciplinary collection of essays explores the transformation of the war experience into chronicles of hope and despair, from Herodotus up to the present day.
War is a terrible disaster, yet it is a universal characteristic of human existence. Why? This multi-disciplinary collection of essays explores the transformation of the war experience into chronicles of hope and despair, from Herodotus up to the present day.
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Transnational England
Home and Abroad, 1780-1860
Transnational England sheds light on how England’s encounters with other cultures shaped its identity. Through literature from 1780-1860, these essays reveal how global connections simultaneously fostered and challenged the sovereignty of the English nation.
Transnational England sheds light on how England’s encounters with other cultures shaped its identity. Through literature from 1780-1860, these essays reveal how global connections simultaneously fostered and challenged the sovereignty of the English nation.
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Not Far From Here
The Paris Symposium on Raymond Carver
Hailed as the “American Chekhov,” Raymond Carver’s work has international appeal, yet critical attention has been mostly US-based. This collection of essays by international scholars provides readers with new and multinational insights into his poetry and fiction.
Hailed as the “American Chekhov,” Raymond Carver’s work has international appeal, yet critical attention has been mostly US-based. This collection of essays by international scholars provides readers with new and multinational insights into his poetry and fiction.
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Dancing the Tao
Le Guin and Moral Development
This book takes an original approach to Ursula K. Le Guin’s work, linking her Taoist upbringing to moral development. It emphasizes her depiction of child abuse and its aftereffects, exploring how morality develops through self-awareness and voice.
This book takes an original approach to Ursula K. Le Guin’s work, linking her Taoist upbringing to moral development. It emphasizes her depiction of child abuse and its aftereffects, exploring how morality develops through self-awareness and voice.
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The first study of Osbern Bokenham since the discovery of his lost magnum opus. It reveals how Bokenham negotiates his marginality to claim poetic authority, countering patriarchal history by asserting an alternative, spiritual matrilineage.
The first study of Osbern Bokenham since the discovery of his lost magnum opus. It reveals how Bokenham negotiates his marginality to claim poetic authority, countering patriarchal history by asserting an alternative, spiritual matrilineage.
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Restless Travellers
Quests for Identity across European and American Time and Space
This book explores literature of travel and identity. From Britain's imperial age to North America, it examines writers who narrate journeys into distant lands, the female self, and the quest for belonging in the face of empire, race, and migration.
This book explores literature of travel and identity. From Britain’s imperial age to North America, it examines writers who narrate journeys into distant lands, the female self, and the quest for belonging in the face of empire, race, and migration.
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Glocal Ireland
Current Perspectives on Literature and the Visual Arts
Ireland's transformation from the Celtic Tiger's boom to its dramatic downfall has redefined the nation's identity. This volume explores the interplay of the local and the global in contemporary Irish literature, culture, and cinema.
Ireland’s transformation from the Celtic Tiger’s boom to its dramatic downfall has redefined the nation’s identity. This volume explores the interplay of the local and the global in contemporary Irish literature, culture, and cinema.
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The Poetics of Passage
Christa Wolf, Time, and Narrative
The Poetics of Passage discusses Christa Wolf’s guiding concerns: the experience and representation of time and history. This study outlines her critical engagement with memory and the writing process, formulating a poetics of contemporaneity.
The Poetics of Passage discusses Christa Wolf’s guiding concerns: the experience and representation of time and history. This study outlines her critical engagement with memory and the writing process, formulating a poetics of contemporaneity.
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Explore how the movements of antillanité, créolité, and littérature-monde break from the literary center to forge authentic identities and a new genre.
Explore how the movements of antillanité, créolité, and littérature-monde break from the literary center to forge authentic identities and a new genre.
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This collection of articles explores globalization's impact on literary production. Featuring non-Eurocentric perspectives, it comments on today's literary market, highlighting unexpected global exchanges and challenging the ongoing debate on “world literature”.
This collection of articles explores globalization’s impact on literary production. Featuring non-Eurocentric perspectives, it comments on today’s literary market, highlighting unexpected global exchanges and challenging the ongoing debate on “world literature”.
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Chronology of Portuguese Literature
1128-2000
The first Chronology of Portuguese Literature published in any language, this book presents a year-by-year list of significant works from 1128 to 2000. It documents the development of Portuguese letters and includes the birth and death dates of each author.
The first Chronology of Portuguese Literature published in any language, this book presents a year-by-year list of significant works from 1128 to 2000. It documents the development of Portuguese letters and includes the birth and death dates of each author.
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Reimagining the War Memorial, Reinterpreting the Great War
The Formats of British Commemorative Fiction
This analysis of British war memorials in literature and film shows how they create diverse interpretations of the Great War, from the futility myth to the imperial sublime. At its heart is a core conflict: condemning a war while honouring the men who fought in it.
This analysis of British war memorials in literature and film shows how they create diverse interpretations of the Great War, from the futility myth to the imperial sublime. At its heart is a core conflict: condemning a war while honouring the men who fought in it.
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This is the first book to focus entirely on time, space and narrative in Jeanette Winterson's works. Scholars provide different perspectives, from postmodernism to quantum physics and queer theory, offering fresh approaches to her major fiction.
This is the first book to focus entirely on time, space and narrative in Jeanette Winterson’s works. Scholars provide different perspectives, from postmodernism to quantum physics and queer theory, offering fresh approaches to her major fiction.
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How do our identities and values change as places themselves are transformed? This collection brings together scholars from a range of disciplines, each shedding light on how place is both a transforming subject and a transformed object.
How do our identities and values change as places themselves are transformed? This collection brings together scholars from a range of disciplines, each shedding light on how place is both a transforming subject and a transformed object.
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This collection offers creative and critical responses to making, breaking, and negotiating boundaries. A startling reassessment of its subject, it erases the borders between the critical, the creative, and the cultural with passion and precision.
This collection offers creative and critical responses to making, breaking, and negotiating boundaries. A startling reassessment of its subject, it erases the borders between the critical, the creative, and the cultural with passion and precision.
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Legilimens!
Perspectives in Harry Potter Studies
Legilimens is the spell to see into another’s mind. This collection brings together anthropologists, theologians, historians, and rhetoricians to see into the Harry Potter texts, deliberating over the greater scholarly significance of these rich works.
Legilimens is the spell to see into another’s mind. This collection brings together anthropologists, theologians, historians, and rhetoricians to see into the Harry Potter texts, deliberating over the greater scholarly significance of these rich works.
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Poland’s Angry Romantic
Two Poems and a Play by Juliusz Słowacki
Juliusz Słowacki is one of Poland’s most important writers, but little known in the West. This much-needed introduction contains his popular play Balladina, his meditative poem Agamemnon’s Tomb, and his hilarious mock-epic Beniowski.
Juliusz Słowacki is one of Poland’s most important writers, but little known in the West. This much-needed introduction contains his popular play Balladina, his meditative poem Agamemnon’s Tomb, and his hilarious mock-epic Beniowski.
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The Gothic Byron argues that the Gothic element in Byron’s work has been undervalued. It explores his reading of Gothic novels, the Gothic in his own tales and poetry, and his profound influence on writers like Charlotte and Emily Brontë.
The Gothic Byron argues that the Gothic element in Byron’s work has been undervalued. It explores his reading of Gothic novels, the Gothic in his own tales and poetry, and his profound influence on writers like Charlotte and Emily Brontë.
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Mary Shelley
Her Circle and Her Contemporaries
This collection of essays expands critical consideration of Mary Shelley’s placement within the Romantic age. Her texts converse with those of her family and contemporaries, including her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley, illuminating the contexts in which they were composed.
This collection of essays expands critical consideration of Mary Shelley’s placement within the Romantic age. Her texts converse with those of her family and contemporaries, including her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley, illuminating the contexts in which they were composed.
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Poetry, the Geometry of the Living Substance
Four Essays on Ágnes Nemes Nagy
The first study in English of modernist Hungarian poet Ágnes Nemes Nagy. Through close readings of her poetry and prose, this book explores the relation between language, trauma, and memory, drawing parallels with thinkers like Rilke and Beckett.
The first study in English of modernist Hungarian poet Ágnes Nemes Nagy. Through close readings of her poetry and prose, this book explores the relation between language, trauma, and memory, drawing parallels with thinkers like Rilke and Beckett.
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