The Orpheus Myth in Milton’s “L’Allegro”, “Il Penseroso”, and “Lycidas”
A Peircean Reading
This study uncovers the Orpheus myth as the key to Milton's early poems, triggering their opposing voices and framing the profound journey from innocence to enlightenment.
This study uncovers the Orpheus myth as the key to Milton’s early poems, triggering their opposing voices and framing the profound journey from innocence to enlightenment.
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The Occidentocentric Fallacy
Turning Literature into a Province
What is literature? Grbić brings together perspectives from both non-Western cultures and minority cultures within a supposed West, awakening the reader to the fact that, incredibly, literature in its total, all-human realization, is something yet to be discovered.
What is literature? Grbić brings together perspectives from both non-Western cultures and minority cultures within a supposed West, awakening the reader to the fact that, incredibly, literature in its total, all-human realization, is something yet to be discovered.
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Fear, Trauma and Paranoia in Bret Easton Ellis’s Oeuvre
Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter
Párraga studies the role fear, trauma and paranoia play in Bret Easton Ellis’ novels and collections of short stories. He shows that these aspects are fundamental not only to Ellis’ work, but also to contemporary American literature and, indeed, American culture and society.
Párraga studies the role fear, trauma and paranoia play in Bret Easton Ellis’ novels and collections of short stories. He shows that these aspects are fundamental not only to Ellis’ work, but also to contemporary American literature and, indeed, American culture and society.
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Samuel Beckett and Europe
History, Culture, Tradition
This conference proceedings presents an international response to the question of what ‘Europe’ might mean for understandings of Samuel Beckett’s oeuvre. It examines this issue to reflect the ways in which Beckett’s work challenges and enlivens his status as a ‘European writer’.
This conference proceedings presents an international response to the question of what ‘Europe’ might mean for understandings of Samuel Beckett’s oeuvre. It examines this issue to reflect the ways in which Beckett’s work challenges and enlivens his status as a ‘European writer’.
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Texts and Territories
Historicized Fiction and Fictionalised History in Medieval England and Beyond
History turns into literary narrative, and narrative turns into history. This volume explores how medieval texts straddle this borderland, engaging with an array of texts from 11th-15th century England to uncover under-explored concepts of the past and historiography.
History turns into literary narrative, and narrative turns into history. This volume explores how medieval texts straddle this borderland, engaging with an array of texts from 11th-15th century England to uncover under-explored concepts of the past and historiography.
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Recovering History through Fact and Fiction
Forgotten Lives
This collection reclaims the histories of figures forgotten by time and offers fresh perspectives on those distorted by fame, including Mary Shelley, Judy Garland, and J.R.R. Tolkien. It provides a needed snapshot of new research on biography and its many variations.
This collection reclaims the histories of figures forgotten by time and offers fresh perspectives on those distorted by fame, including Mary Shelley, Judy Garland, and J.R.R. Tolkien. It provides a needed snapshot of new research on biography and its many variations.
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Skaris comprehensively explores the ways in which women were portrayed as striving for self-fulfilment through emotional, mental, and creative endeavours that have not always been fully appreciated as ‘work’ in critical accounts of nineteenth-and-twentieth-century fiction.
Skaris comprehensively explores the ways in which women were portrayed as striving for self-fulfilment through emotional, mental, and creative endeavours that have not always been fully appreciated as ‘work’ in critical accounts of nineteenth-and-twentieth-century fiction.
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Nayebpour re-evaluates George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss with the help of terminologies borrowed from cognitive narratology in order to shed new light on the significance of one-track minds in this narrative.
Nayebpour re-evaluates George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss with the help of terminologies borrowed from cognitive narratology in order to shed new light on the significance of one-track minds in this narrative.
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This book explicates the effect of increasing land transactions on social mobility in rural India. It argues that villages near cities are no longer simple communities, but are more complex and mobile as a result of urban expansion, contextualizing this within the state's laws.
This book explicates the effect of increasing land transactions on social mobility in rural India. It argues that villages near cities are no longer simple communities, but are more complex and mobile as a result of urban expansion, contextualizing this within the state’s laws.
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Railway Discourse
Linguistic and Stylistic Representations of the Train in the Anglophone World
Adami considers the train trope in a variety of cultural, literary and linguistic contexts, from contemporary crime fiction and dystopian graphic narratives to postcolonial railway travelogues, by employing a range of methods and frameworks.
Adami considers the train trope in a variety of cultural, literary and linguistic contexts, from contemporary crime fiction and dystopian graphic narratives to postcolonial railway travelogues, by employing a range of methods and frameworks.
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This volume includes ten essays on American, British and Canadian writers’ biographies and family histories, ranging from Woolf’s Orlando (1928) to Zanganeh’s The Enchanter (2011), analysing the connection between biography and fiction in the light of postmodernism.
This volume includes ten essays on American, British and Canadian writers’ biographies and family histories, ranging from Woolf’s Orlando (1928) to Zanganeh’s The Enchanter (2011), analysing the connection between biography and fiction in the light of postmodernism.
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How can artists create with few resources? How can they be supported? This book explores these questions through the lived experiences of artists in São Paulo, Brazil. A testimonial narrative, it's an inspiring guide for artists, culture managers, and intellectuals worldwide.
How can artists create with few resources? How can they be supported? This book explores these questions through the lived experiences of artists in São Paulo, Brazil. A testimonial narrative, it’s an inspiring guide for artists, culture managers, and intellectuals worldwide.
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The Construction of Latina/o Literary Imaginaries
Essays on Alternative Worldviews
This monograph explores the cultural and historical imaginary expressed in literary works that emphasize Latina/o world views. It employs critical approaches based on discourse and cultural analyses that highlight individual and collective identity.
This monograph explores the cultural and historical imaginary expressed in literary works that emphasize Latina/o world views. It employs critical approaches based on discourse and cultural analyses that highlight individual and collective identity.
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This study discusses the modernization of Egypt and Turkey through the works of Nobel laureates Naguib Mahfouz and Orhan Pamuk. Their generational novels reflect the historical and cultural transformations as families transition from conservatism to modernity.
This study discusses the modernization of Egypt and Turkey through the works of Nobel laureates Naguib Mahfouz and Orhan Pamuk. Their generational novels reflect the historical and cultural transformations as families transition from conservatism to modernity.
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English Narrative Poetry
A Babel of Voices
This book explores how poets have manipulated voice in English narrative poetry. Journeying from the Renaissance to the contemporary, from Shakespeare to Bernardine Evaristo, it reveals how a babel of voices can represent real life by mimicking the voices of women and men.
This book explores how poets have manipulated voice in English narrative poetry. Journeying from the Renaissance to the contemporary, from Shakespeare to Bernardine Evaristo, it reveals how a babel of voices can represent real life by mimicking the voices of women and men.
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An extensive study of the work of Femi Osofisan, one of Nigeria’s pivotal dramatists and postcolonial playwrights, this text details a variety of his plays to gather insights into the role of art in social change, and discusses the relationship between literature and politics.
An extensive study of the work of Femi Osofisan, one of Nigeria’s pivotal dramatists and postcolonial playwrights, this text details a variety of his plays to gather insights into the role of art in social change, and discusses the relationship between literature and politics.
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This volume explores Byron’s Don Juan, from its politics, treatment of women, and comic rhymes to its importance in Spain and Russia. It delves into Byron's sources, Mary Shelley's vital role, and the poem's legacy among artists from Tirso de Molina to Johnny Depp.
This volume explores Byron’s Don Juan, from its politics, treatment of women, and comic rhymes to its importance in Spain and Russia. It delves into Byron’s sources, Mary Shelley’s vital role, and the poem’s legacy among artists from Tirso de Molina to Johnny Depp.
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This book challenges Sino-western dualism with a multi-dimensional model for cross-cultural research. By separating spatial and temporal dimensions, it reconceptualises the relationship between China and the West, seeking new pathways for understanding.
This book challenges Sino-western dualism with a multi-dimensional model for cross-cultural research. By separating spatial and temporal dimensions, it reconceptualises the relationship between China and the West, seeking new pathways for understanding.
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The Italian Short Story through the Centuries
The Met(A)morphoses of the Novella
This collection of essays gathers together Italian and American scholars to provide a cooperative analysis of the Italian short story, beginning in the fourteenth century with Giovanni Boccaccio and arriving at the twentieth century with Alberto Moravia and Anna Maria Ortese.
This collection of essays gathers together Italian and American scholars to provide a cooperative analysis of the Italian short story, beginning in the fourteenth century with Giovanni Boccaccio and arriving at the twentieth century with Alberto Moravia and Anna Maria Ortese.
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Queer Rebellion in the Novels of Michelle Cliff
Intersectionality and Sexual Modernity
Ilmonen highlights Jamaican-American author Michelle Cliff’s literary rebellion against the colonial, gendered and racist norms of Western Modernity. She also considers myths, rites, and cultural memory as sites of healing in the midst of colonial bodily politics.
Ilmonen highlights Jamaican-American author Michelle Cliff’s literary rebellion against the colonial, gendered and racist norms of Western Modernity. She also considers myths, rites, and cultural memory as sites of healing in the midst of colonial bodily politics.
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