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This study explores the intersection of masculinity and domesticity in contemporary film and literature. It argues that texts since the 1990s address “new fatherhood,” problematizing the legitimacy of “new fathers” and “alternative families.”
This study explores the intersection of masculinity and domesticity in contemporary film and literature. It argues that texts since the 1990s address “new fatherhood,” problematizing the legitimacy of “new fathers” and “alternative families.”
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This “Self” Which Is Not One
Women’s Life Writing in French
This collection examines women’s life-writing from across the Francophone world. Uniting postcolonial, psychoanalytic, and gender studies, it explores how female autobiographies from Africa, the Caribbean, and Europe write the self as a fragmented, plural construct.
This collection examines women’s life-writing from across the Francophone world. Uniting postcolonial, psychoanalytic, and gender studies, it explores how female autobiographies from Africa, the Caribbean, and Europe write the self as a fragmented, plural construct.
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Fantasy literature is a provocation. Against the dominant skepticism of the age, it points to hope and trust. This collection of essays explores how fantasy brings spiritual and moral values back to the center, rekindling the hope of finding meaning.
Fantasy literature is a provocation. Against the dominant skepticism of the age, it points to hope and trust. This collection of essays explores how fantasy brings spiritual and moral values back to the center, rekindling the hope of finding meaning.
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This Watery World
Humans and the Sea
In this wonderfully wide-ranging volume, Messier and Batra have given us a fine collection of maritime riches. This Watery World reminds us that—onshore and inland—we are all in the grip of our images and interactions with the sea. —Professor Ashton Nichols
In this wonderfully wide-ranging volume, Messier and Batra have given us a fine collection of maritime riches. This Watery World reminds us that—onshore and inland—we are all in the grip of our images and interactions with the sea.
—Professor Ashton Nichols
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Sovereignty, Separatism, and Survivance
Ideological Encounters in the Literature of Native North America
This collection explores literary works by and about Native Americans, focusing on how they have navigated and resisted dominant white ideology. These essays examine the discrepancy between ideological representations and the actual lived experiences of native peoples.
This collection explores literary works by and about Native Americans, focusing on how they have navigated and resisted dominant white ideology. These essays examine the discrepancy between ideological representations and the actual lived experiences of native peoples.
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Sacred Space, Beloved City
Iris Murdoch’s London
Explore Iris Murdoch’s London. Essays and guided walks link her plots to real landmarks and routes, revealing how characters experience their surroundings. Illustrated with atmospheric sketches, the book includes a complete glossary of London places from her 26 novels.
Explore Iris Murdoch’s London. Essays and guided walks link her plots to real landmarks and routes, revealing how characters experience their surroundings. Illustrated with atmospheric sketches, the book includes a complete glossary of London places from her 26 novels.
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Writing America into the Twenty-First Century
Essays on the American Novel
This collection of essays presents a refreshing analysis of recent American fiction. Interrogating works by authors like Philip Roth, Don DeLillo, and Cormac McCarthy, it offers a new way to examine the American novel in the twenty-first century.
This collection of essays presents a refreshing analysis of recent American fiction. Interrogating works by authors like Philip Roth, Don DeLillo, and Cormac McCarthy, it offers a new way to examine the American novel in the twenty-first century.
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This collection of critical essays examines New York through its literature, exploring the city's contradictions: possibility and self-realization versus corruption and despair. The literature of New York is as complex and creative as the City itself.
This collection of critical essays examines New York through its literature, exploring the city’s contradictions: possibility and self-realization versus corruption and despair. The literature of New York is as complex and creative as the City itself.
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“A Warr So Desperate”
John Milton and Some Contemporaries on the Irish Rebellion
This book examines how John Milton, the famed champion of liberty, justified the brutal reconquest of Ireland. It situates his work within the anti-Catholic and ethnic prejudices of the time, arguing for his complicity in the colonial campaign.
This book examines how John Milton, the famed champion of liberty, justified the brutal reconquest of Ireland. It situates his work within the anti-Catholic and ethnic prejudices of the time, arguing for his complicity in the colonial campaign.
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This book explores the experience of contemporary Australian intellectuals in Italy, analysing works by Jeffrey Smart, Shirley Hazzard, Robert Dessaix, and Peter Robb. It uncovers an image of the country starkly different from any before.
This book explores the experience of contemporary Australian intellectuals in Italy, analysing works by Jeffrey Smart, Shirley Hazzard, Robert Dessaix, and Peter Robb. It uncovers an image of the country starkly different from any before.
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Acts of Memory
The Victorians and Beyond
For the Victorians, memory was inseparable from literature. This collection of lively essays offers a rich and diverse exploration of this interconnection, discussing well-known figures and texts alongside key psychological and philosophical works.
For the Victorians, memory was inseparable from literature. This collection of lively essays offers a rich and diverse exploration of this interconnection, discussing well-known figures and texts alongside key psychological and philosophical works.
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Rising from the Ruins
Roman Antiquities in Neoclassic Literature
John Dyer’s The Ruins of Rome (1740) revived a subgenre of landscape poetry dealing with the ancient world. Viewing relics as monuments of grandeur and impending death, these poets included personal emotions, a key element in the development of Romanticism.
John Dyer’s The Ruins of Rome (1740) revived a subgenre of landscape poetry dealing with the ancient world. Viewing relics as monuments of grandeur and impending death, these poets included personal emotions, a key element in the development of Romanticism.
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Byron and Scott
The Waverley Novels and Historical Engagement
Though traditionally seen as opposites, the writers Scott and Byron cherished a lifelong friendship. This study reveals how Scott’s invention of the historical novel was crucial to Byron’s later work, shaping the evolution of the Byronic Hero and Byron himself.
Though traditionally seen as opposites, the writers Scott and Byron cherished a lifelong friendship. This study reveals how Scott’s invention of the historical novel was crucial to Byron’s later work, shaping the evolution of the Byronic Hero and Byron himself.
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Craven uncovers Apostle Paul's ethics hidden in Hamlet, a discovery that unlocks seismic shifts in American culture and illuminates his own quest for power.
Craven uncovers Apostle Paul’s ethics hidden in Hamlet, a discovery that unlocks seismic shifts in American culture and illuminates his own quest for power.
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Ungrateful Daughters
Third Wave Feminist Writings
Has the third wave of feminism spawned a literary movement? This book analyzes the fiction, memoirs, and anthologies of third wave writers like Rebecca Walker and Michelle Tea, defining a unique “third wave sensibility” and asking: does literary success help women’s liberation?
Has the third wave of feminism spawned a literary movement? This book analyzes the fiction, memoirs, and anthologies of third wave writers like Rebecca Walker and Michelle Tea, defining a unique “third wave sensibility” and asking: does literary success help women’s liberation?
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This collection of essays analyzes environmental and ecocritical themes in science fiction and fantasy. It investigates how these genres address today’s ecological crises and the detrimental effects of environmental destruction, while also considering solutions.
This collection of essays analyzes environmental and ecocritical themes in science fiction and fantasy. It investigates how these genres address today’s ecological crises and the detrimental effects of environmental destruction, while also considering solutions.
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One is Never Alone with a Rubber Duck
Douglas Adams’s Absurd Fictional Universe
Douglas Adams’s Hitchhiker Series is not merely light-hearted comedy, but is underpinned by philosophical ideas like Existentialism and absurdity. It investigates madness as subjective reality and uses aliens to satirise the human condition.
Douglas Adams’s Hitchhiker Series is not merely light-hearted comedy, but is underpinned by philosophical ideas like Existentialism and absurdity. It investigates madness as subjective reality and uses aliens to satirise the human condition.
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This study explores the complex term reconciliation in Shakespeare's dramas. Contributors examine its theological, social, and political dimensions, including reconciliation with God, between persons, and its narrative significance in the plays.
This study explores the complex term reconciliation in Shakespeare’s dramas. Contributors examine its theological, social, and political dimensions, including reconciliation with God, between persons, and its narrative significance in the plays.
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This collection of essays bridges European and US approaches to children’s literature studies. Two main themes surface: ideology in children’s literature and images of childhood, alongside globalisation and the tension between pedagogy and aesthetics.
This collection of essays bridges European and US approaches to children’s literature studies. Two main themes surface: ideology in children’s literature and images of childhood, alongside globalisation and the tension between pedagogy and aesthetics.
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“The Given Note”
Traditional Music and Modern Irish Poetry
This book examines how traditional Irish music and song have influenced Irish poets. It looks at this influence historically and in contemporary work, focusing on six key poets, including Seamus Heaney, Ciaran Carson, and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill.
This book examines how traditional Irish music and song have influenced Irish poets. It looks at this influence historically and in contemporary work, focusing on six key poets, including Seamus Heaney, Ciaran Carson, and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill.
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