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American Authorship and Autobiographical Narrative explores the contorted and often conflicted relationship writers have with their images and reputations as authors, particularly when they choose to write about themselves and their personal lives. By...

Queer Narratives of the Caribbean Diaspora: Exploring Tactics combines the fields of queer and diasporic writing. It opens up an entire new domain where social and cultural meanings of sexuality within Caribbean space become objects of historical,...

After the first phase of industrialization in Britain, the child emerged as both a victim of and a threat to capitalism. This book explores the changing relationship between the child and capitalist society in the works of some of the most important...

Utopianism, Modernism, and Literature in the Twentieth Century considers the links between utopianism and modernism in two ways: as an under-theorized nexus of aesthetic and political interactions; and as a sphere of confluences that challenges accepted...

A volume of specially commissioned papers which draws on the diverse expertise of academic researchers, policy makers and educational practitioners to address the changing patterns of competition and provision, in international higher education. Topics...

Bringing together high profile scholars in the fields of Deleuze and postcolonial studies, this book highlights the overlooked connections between two major schools of contemporary criticism and establishes a new critical discourse for postcolonial...

Each with their own logic, fictional and historical worlds provide different ways to view reality. This book is about those worlds, past and present, and it concentrates on literature and history as two of the keys to culture. Underneath a dazzling...

This is the first book-length critical study of E. B. White, the American essayist and author of the beloved Stuart Little, Charlotte's Web, and The Trumpet of the Swan. Complementing On the Familiar Essay, this book is intended for anyone interested in...

This book is a conceptualization of the literary aesthetic in relation to ethics, in particular, an ethics for a concern for the Self. Bringing Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's constructivist thinking into a practical domain, Sabrina Achilles rethinks...

Arthasástra is made as a compendium of almost all the Arthasástras, which, in view of acquisition and maintenance of the earth, have been composed by ancient teachers.This book is basically a collection of shlokas which have been written in prose. It is...

This collection of essays stems from the conference 'Nineteenth-Century Literature and Aesthetics', which was held at the University of Milan in 2006 and organised by the editors of this volume. The interface between word and image covered in these...

From the first stirrings of modernism to contemporary poetics, the modernist aesthetic project could be described as a form of phenomenological reduction that attempts to return to the invisible and unsayable foundations of human perception and...

Esta monografía presenta resultados del proyecto de investigación CULTURFIL El objetivo principal es establecer un marco de referencia sobre la proyección cultural, tomando como modelo las principales ferias internacionales del libro y sus invitados de...

This book addresses contemporary Nevada fiction as one of the most probing literary explorations of the American West. It is argued that recent fictional representations of Nevada both encompass some common thematic trends in contemporary western writing...

Der vorliegende Band erkundet die deutsche Dante-Rezeption in der Literatur und den Künsten im 20. Jahrhundert an verschiedenartigen Beispielen und dokumentiert so die Vielfalt der von der Divina Commedia ausgehenden künstlerischen Anregungen in Moderne...

Este libro invita a un peregrinaje o viaje a través del tiempo desde los orígenes de la presencia de la materia de Bretaña hasta su auge contemporáneo en la peninsula ibérica, en todas sus lenguas y culturas, desde adaptaciones de los Lais medievales...

Die Beiträge dieses Bandes gehen aus der im Dezember 2011 vom Max-Herrmann-Neiße-Institut veranstalteten internationalen Tagung hervor. Sie verorten das vielseitige Werk Max Herrmann-Neißes im Kontext der literarischen Moderne, indem sie seine...

Das Werk Carl Sternheims wurde lange primär unter weltanschaulichen Vorzeichen rezipiert. Sein Dramen- wie Prosawerk gilt es jedoch mit Blick auf die ästhetischen Debatten seiner Zeit zu beleuchten. Dieser Band nimmt eine solche Neubewertung vor,...

This book looks at the way that Mozambican and Angolan literary works seek to narrate, re-create and make sense of the postcolonial nation, via three broad themes: the role of history; the recurring image of the voyage; and discursive/narrative...

The central theme of landscape has long been associated with the construction and expression of Irish national identity, particularly in relation to rural Ireland, which traditionally has been regarded as an important source of national heritage and...

Based on a dialogical premise, this book provides a comparative analysis of two interrelated literary fields: postcolonial and women's/feminist, viewed through the ideological and aesthetic prism of the grotesque. The author examines the work of...

In the twilight of life, a black ribbon emerges from a frame and coils itself inside the mind of one of the great French chroniclers of the internal. Across the world, a young girl stares at an image in a book: a woman, naked but for slippers, jewels,...

ଭାଷା ମାଧ୍ୟମରେ ଆମେ ନିଜର ମନର ଅନ୍ତର ଚିନ୍ତାକୁ ଗଢ଼ିଥାଉ ଓ ଭାବକୁ ଅନ୍ୟ ନିକଟରେ ପ୍ରକାଶ କରିଥାଉ । ବକ୍ତା ଓ ଶ୍ରୋତା ପରସ୍ପର ମଧ୍ୟରେ ଭାବବିନିମୟ କରିବା ନିମିତ୍ତ ଖୋଜିଥାନ୍ତି କିଛି ଶବ୍ଦ ଏବଂ ଶବ୍ଦଗୁଡ଼ିକ ଶୃଙ୍ଖଳିତ ଭାବରେ ସଜ୍ଜିତ ହୋଇ ଭାବପ୍ରକାଶ କରିବାରେ ସହାୟକ ହୋଇଥାନ୍ତି । କହିବାକୁ ଗଲେ...

Franco Moretti's GRAPHS, MAPS, TREES: ABSTRACT MODELS FOR LITERARY HISTORY is one of the most provocative recent works of literary history. The present volume collects generalist and specialist, academic and nonacademic responses by statisticians,...

Historic Certainties Respecting The Early History Of America: Developed In A Critical Examination Of The Book Of The Chronicles Of The Land Of Ecnarf (1851) is a book written by Newlight, Aristarchus. This book is a critical examination of the history of...

Das Buch präsentiert eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit der zeitgenössischen westlichen Literaturtheorie, beschreibt ihre Mängel und argumentiert, dass die Akzeptanz westlicher Literaturtheorie in akademischen Kreisen in China ein Phänomen der...

Shakespeares Venus und Adonis im Verh�����ltnis zu Ovids Metamorphosen und Constables Schafergesang (1890) von Durnhofer, Max ist ein Buch, das sich mit der Beziehung zwischen Shakespeares Venus und Adonis, Ovids Metamorphosen und Constables...

In their sparse and isolated spaces, Samuel Beckett's figures imagine the touch of a lost love or dream of the comfort and care that the hands of a dear one might bring. Applying philosophical writings that feature sensation, particularly touch, Trish...

British Women's Life Writing, 1760-1840 brings together for the first time a wide range of print and manuscript sources in order to explore the innovative ways in which women wrote the stories of their lives and the lives of others. It argues for the...

The Postcolonial Cultural Industry makes a much needed intervention into the field of postcolonial studies by unpacking its relation to the cultural industry. It analyses cultural productions not as aesthetic objects, or as pure disposable commodities,...

Exploring the Limits of the Human through Science Fiction examines the genre of science fiction as its own form of critical theory and argues that it proves crucial to understanding the human in the postmodern era. Featuring chapters on novels, films, and

Heroic Revivals from Carlyle to Yeats reassesses the cultural and political dimensions of the Irish Revival's heroic ideal and explores its implications for the construction of Irish modernity. By foregrounding the heroic ideal, it shows how the cultural...

This volume brings together twelve papers by linguists and philosophers contributing novel empirical and formal considerations to theorizing about vagueness. Three main issues are addressed: gradable expressions and comparison, the semantics of degree...

Green Studies is a booming area for study and The Green Studies Reader is a fantastically comprehensive selection of critical texts which address the connection between ecology, culture, and literature. It offers a complete guide to the growing area of...

This volume analyzes the Serial podcast, situating it in the trajectory of other popular crime narratives and contemporary cultural theory. Contributors focus on topics such as the ethics of the use of fiction techniques in investigative journalism, the...

Over the past decade 'singularity' has been a prominent term in a broad range of fields, ranging from philosophy to literary and cultural studies to science and technology studies. This volume intervenes in this broad discussion of singularity and its...

Foreword by Bernard Crick PART I: PORTRAYAL OF CONTINENT Charlotte Bront�s Alternative European Community; J.B.Gordon Nation and Narration: Continental Europe and the English Novel; S.Mergenthal Guglhupf and Ancient Castles: Images of Austria and Germany...

General Introduction PART I: ARE DISTINCTIONS BETWEEN GENRES STILL RELEVANT? A Compulsive Search for Taxinomy? Major Themes and Genres PART II: REALITY, REALISM AND MIMESIS A Brief Historical Reminder of the Relationship Between Art and Mimesis Art and a...

Preface The Philosophical Realism of Virginia Woolf Bertrand Russell: The Logic of a Literary Symbol Bloomsbury Letters Keynes, Lawrence and Cambridge Revisited E.M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Literary History Towards the Literary History of A...

Introduction PART ONE: A TALE OF TWO DISCOURSES 'Knowledge is Power': The Working Class 'Unstampeds' as an Example of Public Discourse The Formation of the Journalistic Field PART TWO: DISCOURSE AND METHOD: OPTIONS FOR SOCIOLOGY Beyond the Prison-House...

Acknowledgements Preface; M.Grey Contributors Introduction; A.Hogan & A.Bradstock The Drunkard, the Brute and the Paterfamilias: The Temperance Fiction of the Early Victorian Writer Sarah Stickney Ellis; H.Twycross-Martin The Tenant of Wildfell Hall:...

Turning Tide: The Ebb and Flow of Hawaiian Nationality is an indepth study of the evolution of modern Hawai'i and the background of the sovereignty movement. It is a topic which on account of the potential consequences deserves close scrutiny. Many...