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Uncover the provocative history of sexuality, eroticism, and gender in French & Francophone literature. From Zola’s challenge to rape to the feminism of Djebar, this book reveals a literary tradition long engaged with redefining desire.
Uncover the provocative history of sexuality, eroticism, and gender in French & Francophone literature. From Zola’s challenge to rape to the feminism of Djebar, this book reveals a literary tradition long engaged with redefining desire.
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Islam in Contemporary Africa
On Violence, Terrorism and Development
Scholars, Christians, and Muslims analyze the impact of terrorism on Islam, harmony, and development in Africa. These essays examine the global war on terror from diverse perspectives including jurisprudence, history, gender, and international diplomacy.
Scholars, Christians, and Muslims analyze the impact of terrorism on Islam, harmony, and development in Africa. These essays examine the global war on terror from diverse perspectives including jurisprudence, history, gender, and international diplomacy.
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“This Shipwreck of Fragments”
Historical Memory, Imaginary Identities, and Postcolonial Geography in Caribbean Culture and Literature
This book examines Caribbean cultural identities beyond the popular perception of hybridity. Drawing on literature and music from the Hispanic and Francophone Caribbean, it reveals troubled pasts and current problems eclipsed by the "tropical getaway" myth.
This book examines Caribbean cultural identities beyond the popular perception of hybridity. Drawing on literature and music from the Hispanic and Francophone Caribbean, it reveals troubled pasts and current problems eclipsed by the “tropical getaway” myth.
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This book explores the thought of pragmatist and semiotics founder Charles Sanders Peirce. Contributions by leading scholars are divided into three areas: Semiotics and the Logic of Inquiry, Abduction and Mathematics, and Peirce and the Western Tradition.
This book explores the thought of pragmatist and semiotics founder Charles Sanders Peirce. Contributions by leading scholars are divided into three areas: Semiotics and the Logic of Inquiry, Abduction and Mathematics, and Peirce and the Western Tradition.
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What is the relation between drama and its critics? Drama is itself a critical genre, showing up the problems of human existence. Plays critique society and themselves, while also spurring critique from the audiences and reviewers who are intrinsic to theatre.
What is the relation between drama and its critics? Drama is itself a critical genre, showing up the problems of human existence. Plays critique society and themselves, while also spurring critique from the audiences and reviewers who are intrinsic to theatre.
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Shakespeare’s Double-Dealing Comedies
Deciphering the “Problem Plays”
Are Shakespeare’s pure heroines secretly obscene? Is Henry V’s barbarism a hilarious parody? This book argues that when the Bard seems inept, he’s at his most subversive. Rethink what you know and discover the hidden satire in his greatest works.
Are Shakespeare’s pure heroines secretly obscene? Is Henry V’s barbarism a hilarious parody? This book argues that when the Bard seems inept, he’s at his most subversive. Rethink what you know and discover the hidden satire in his greatest works.
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This book is a study of ideologies and conflicts related to Nation and Identity in contemporary English literature. It explores the individual’s pursuit of identity amid nationalist conflicts, racial confrontations, and postcolonial legacies.
This book is a study of ideologies and conflicts related to Nation and Identity in contemporary English literature. It explores the individual’s pursuit of identity amid nationalist conflicts, racial confrontations, and postcolonial legacies.
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Narrating the Storm
Sociological Stories of Hurricane Katrina
This volume of sixteen narratives from Hurricane Katrina shows how “personal” experiences with disaster are not so personal. These stories reveal how inequality and injustice related to race, class, and gender are unveiled and exacerbated by disaster.
This volume of sixteen narratives from Hurricane Katrina shows how “personal” experiences with disaster are not so personal. These stories reveal how inequality and injustice related to race, class, and gender are unveiled and exacerbated by disaster.
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Prepare for university-level texts. This coursebook teaches strategies and vocabulary to build confidence and proficiency. Develop academic skills with lively exercises that weave the excitement of the Internet into your daily English communication.
Prepare for university-level texts. This coursebook teaches strategies and vocabulary to build confidence and proficiency. Develop academic skills with lively exercises that weave the excitement of the Internet into your daily English communication.
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Interrogating the War on Terror
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Is the so-called war on terror justified? This book presents a critique of contemporary war culture, bringing together international political, philosophical, legal, and artistic perspectives to explore the devastating effects of this global conflict.
Is the so-called war on terror justified? This book presents a critique of contemporary war culture, bringing together international political, philosophical, legal, and artistic perspectives to explore the devastating effects of this global conflict.
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Advances in Business in Asia
The Opportunities, Threats, and Future Trends of Businesses in China, India and the ASEAN Countries
Examine current trends, opportunities, and challenges for organisations in Asia, with a specific focus on China, India, and the ASEAN region. This book is a compilation of peer-reviewed papers by eminent academics in their fields of expertise.
Examine current trends, opportunities, and challenges for organisations in Asia, with a specific focus on China, India, and the ASEAN region. This book is a compilation of peer-reviewed papers by eminent academics in their fields of expertise.
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Third Agents
Secret Protagonists of the Modern Imagination
This book explores the 'third agent'—a secret protagonist of the modern imagination. A liminal figure transgressing social and cultural boundaries, this agent inhabits in-between territories as the adventurer, the bastard, the poet, and the outcast.
This book explores the ‘third agent’—a secret protagonist of the modern imagination. A liminal figure transgressing social and cultural boundaries, this agent inhabits in-between territories as the adventurer, the bastard, the poet, and the outcast.
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In Memoriam
Commemoration, Communal Memory and Gender Values in the Ancient Graeco-Roman World
Ancient societies deliberately perpetuated the memory of individuals and events. This volume discusses the creation of memory in the Graeco-Roman world, asking how an individual’s gender and social status affected their chances of being remembered after death.
Ancient societies deliberately perpetuated the memory of individuals and events. This volume discusses the creation of memory in the Graeco-Roman world, asking how an individual’s gender and social status affected their chances of being remembered after death.
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The human body is always changing its meanings. Why did Puritans stop addressing God as Mother? How did Victorian women’s sports grow? How transgressive was the ‘dandy’? This lively volume explores the variety of body-studies and their answers.
The human body is always changing its meanings. Why did Puritans stop addressing God as Mother? How did Victorian women’s sports grow? How transgressive was the ‘dandy’? This lively volume explores the variety of body-studies and their answers.
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19th Century Maharashtra
A Reassessment
A fresh look at 19th-century Maharashtra, a society at a crossroads. The book critiques its literature and social reforms, arguing elite attempts were limited. It highlights the radicality of subalterns like Mahatma Phule, whose experience spurred real change.
A fresh look at 19th-century Maharashtra, a society at a crossroads. The book critiques its literature and social reforms, arguing elite attempts were limited. It highlights the radicality of subalterns like Mahatma Phule, whose experience spurred real change.
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Ferocious Things
Jean Rhys and the Politics of Women’s Melancholia
It’s fatal making a fuss ... . In Ferocious Things, Cathleen Maslen shows how Jean Rhys’s inscription of feminine anguish is a literary transgression. Rhys defies cultural interdictions, and her work poses vital questions for feminist and post-colonial debates.
It’s fatal making a fuss … .
In Ferocious Things, Cathleen Maslen shows how Jean Rhys’s inscription of feminine anguish is a literary transgression. Rhys defies cultural interdictions, and her work poses vital questions for feminist and post-colonial debates.
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Medieval Metaphysics, or is it “Just Semantics”? (Volume 7
Proceedings of the Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics)
Medieval thinkers, driven by metaphysical and epistemological commitments, sought to discern how concepts latch onto reality. This book follows these attempts concerning the signification of theological discourse, Trinitarian semantics, and essential definition.
Medieval thinkers, driven by metaphysical and epistemological commitments, sought to discern how concepts latch onto reality. This book follows these attempts concerning the signification of theological discourse, Trinitarian semantics, and essential definition.
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This is the first volume to chart Samuel Beckett’s truly global influence. From Coetzee to DeLillo, commentators explore how his revolutionary art presents a profound challenge and liberation to authors, pushing at the very boundaries of literature.
This is the first volume to chart Samuel Beckett’s truly global influence. From Coetzee to DeLillo, commentators explore how his revolutionary art presents a profound challenge and liberation to authors, pushing at the very boundaries of literature.
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This book argues for a version of semanticalism, treating semantic properties as emergent and natural. They are needed to explain how linguistic expressions guide us to reality. We ought to accept semantic properties since our best theory of the world makes reference to them.
This book argues for a version of semanticalism, treating semantic properties as emergent and natural. They are needed to explain how linguistic expressions guide us to reality. We ought to accept semantic properties since our best theory of the world makes reference to them.
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China and the West
Encounters with the Other in Culture, Arts, Politics and Everyday Life
This collection scrutinises how China and the West interact in culture, arts, politics and everyday life. The essays analyse new dynamics that challenge authoritative views and deconstruct traditional responses to otherness within globalisation.
This collection scrutinises how China and the West interact in culture, arts, politics and everyday life. The essays analyse new dynamics that challenge authoritative views and deconstruct traditional responses to otherness within globalisation.
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