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Alasdair Gray
Av Stephen Bernstein, Walter S.H. Lim
Inbunden, 1999
1218 kr
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Alasdair Gray is the first American study of this important Scottish novelist's work, and the first comprehensive study of his novels to appear anywhere. It encompasses the full range of Gray's career, from Lanark to Mavis Belfrage.
"Getting History Right"
East and West German Collective Memories of the Holocaust and War
Inbunden, 2010
1101 kr
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How do individuals, societies, and nations deal with their difficult pasts? "Getting History Right" examines this question in a comparative context by looking at an authoritarian East Germany and a pluralistic, democratic West Germany. Eschewing a narrow focus on elites, this work draws extensively …
Anglo-Irish Identities, 1571-1845
Av David A. Valone, Jill Marie Bradbury
Inbunden, 2008
1637 kr
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This book presents a series of essays that examine the ideological, personal, and political difficulties faced by the group variously termed the Anglo-Irish, the Protestant Ascendancy, or the English in Ireland, a group that existed in a world of contested ideological, political, and cultural …
In the Eye of the Storm
Contemporary Theatre in Barcelona
Inbunden, 2009
1612 kr
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Barcelona, the cultural epicenter of Catalunya, is presently experiencing the most dynamic and polemical period in its modern theater history. It is the commanding hub of an energetic theater scene that in recent years has witnessed an exuberant outpouring of new dramatists, a steady crescendo in …
Poetry as Individuality
The Discourse of Observation in Paul Celan
Inbunden, 2010
1393 kr
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The most significant European poet of the second half of the twentieth century, Paul Celan, viewed poetry as "the language of an individual that has become form," an individual that is constructed through the act of observation in the poem. Hillard argues that individuality is the crux of poetry …
Gothic Terrors
Incarceration, Duplication, and Bloodlust in Spanish Narrative
Inbunden, 2010
1393 kr
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Gothic Terrors brings together two discursive fields that have had very little contact hitherto: gothic studies and Hispanism. Though widely accepted in English studies, Hispanists seldom invoke the concept of a Gothic mode existing beyond its first appearance in the eighteenth century. …
Contemporary Uruguayan Poetry
A Bilingual Anthology
Inbunden, 2010
1800 kr
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This volume is intended as an introduction of contemporary poetry by notable Uruguayan poets to the English-reading world, but also to readers of Spanish unfamiliar with them. Each poet is represented by an ample and varied selection of poems originally published in Spanish, here with English …
"Getting History Right"
East and West German Collective Memories of the Holocaust and War
Häftad, 2013
737 kr
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How do individuals, societies, and nations deal with their difficult pasts? "Getting History Right" examines this question in a comparative context by looking at an authoritarian East Germany and a pluralistic, democratic West Germany. Eschewing a narrow focus on elites, this work draws extensively …
Memoir
Häftad, 2015
759 kr
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Memoir is Rosario Ferré’s account of her life both as a writer and as a member of a family at the center of the economic and political history of Puerto Rico during the American Century, one hundred years of territorial “non-incorporation” into the United States. The autobiography tells the story …
Memory, War, and Dictatorship in Recent Spanish Fiction by Women
Häftad, 2017
725 kr
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Memory, War, and Dictatorship in Recent Spanish Fiction by Women analyzes five novels by women writers that present women’s experiences during and after the Spanish Civil War and Franco dictatorship, highlighting the struggles of female protagonists of different ages to confront an unresolved …
Elizabeth Bishop's Prosaic
Häftad, 2017
725 kr
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Elizabeth Bishop is now recognized as one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century—a uniquely cosmopolitan writer with connections to the US, Canada, Brazil, and also the UK, given her neglected borrowings from many English authors, and her strong influence on modern British verse. Yet the …
Post-Conflict Central American Literature
Searching for Home and Longing to Belong
Häftad, 2015
822 kr
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Post-Conflict Central American Literature: Searching for Home and Longing to Belong studies often-overlooked contemporary poetry. Through the exploration of poetry and a select number of short stories, this book contemplates the meanings of home, belonging, and the homeland in post-conflict, …
Language of Robert Burns
Style, Ideology, and Identity
Häftad, 2015
822 kr
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This monograph offers a radical reconceptualization of the relationship between the poetics and practice of Robert Burns and reevaluates the nature of his role in the history of Scots. By drawing on ideas from twenty-first-century sociolinguistic theory, it seeks to transform the debate surrounding …
Spanish Women Travelers at Home and Abroad, 1850–1920
From Tierra del Fuego to the Land of the Midnight Sun
Häftad, 2015
985 kr
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Between 1850 and 1920 women’s travel and travel writing underwent an explosion. It was an exciting period in the history of travel, a golden age. While transportation had improved, mass tourism had not yet robbed journeys of their aura of adventure. Although British women were at the forefront of …
Authority, Piracy, and Captivity in Colonial Spanish American Writing
Juan de Castellanos's Elegies of Illustrious Men of the Indies
Häftad, 2019
611 kr
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Authority, Piracy, and Captivity in Colonial Spanish American Writing examines the intricate bond between poetry and history writing that shaped the theory and practice of empire in early colonial Spanish-American society. The book explores from diverse perspectives how epic and heroic poetry …
George Oppen
The Words in Action
Häftad, 2018
725 kr
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George Oppen's standing in American poetry has never been greater. Yet despite the mass of critical writing since his death in 1984, the essential basis of the verse—the words on the page and their acoustics—has rarely been the subject of discussion. In this book therefore Richard Swigg breaks away …
Descendants of Waverley
Romancing History in Contemporary Historical Fiction
Inbunden, 2016
2139 kr
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Descendants of Waverley examines contemporary novelists’ combination of historical authority and narrative art to create the “romance of history,” authentic and accessible depictions of the past. Rooted in histories of the novel beginning in the eighteenth century, but challenging conventional …
Descendants of Waverley: Romancing History in Contemporary Historical Fiction
Häftad, 2018
976 kr
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Pragmatism, and the Jurisprudence of Agon
Aesthetic Dissent and the Common Law
Inbunden, 2016
1230 kr
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This book argues that Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., helps us see the law through an Emersonian lens by the way in which he wrote his judicial dissents. Holmes’s literary style mimics and enacts two characteristics of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s thought: “superfluity” and the “poetics of transition,” …
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Pragmatism, and the Jurisprudence of Agon
Aesthetic Dissent and the Common Law
Häftad, 2018
708 kr
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This book argues that Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., helps us see the law through an Emersonian lens by the way in which he wrote his judicial dissents. Holmes’s literary style mimics and enacts two characteristics of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s thought: “superfluity” and the “poetics of transition,” …
Poetic Salvage
Reading Mina Loy
Häftad, 2019
660 kr
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Mina Loy—poet, artist, exile, and luminary—was a prominent and admired figure in the art and literary circles of Paris, Florence, and New York in the early years of the twentieth century. But over time, she gradually receded from public consciousness and her poetry went out of print. As part of the …
Lady Anne
A Chronicle in Verse
Av Antjie Krog
Häftad, 2017
431 kr
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Lady Anne: A Chronicle in Verse by Antjie Krog is the first English translation of an award winning book published in Afrikaans in 1989. It engages critically and creatively with a key moment of colonial history—the time Lady Anne Barnard spent at the Cape of Good Hope, from 1797 to 1802. Usually …
Poison's Dark Works in Renaissance England
Häftad, 2017
822 kr
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Poison's Dark Works in Renaissance England considers the ways sixteenth- and seventeenth-century fears of poisoning prompt new models for understanding the world even as the fictive qualities of poisoning frustrate attempts at certainty. Whether English writers invoke literal poisons, as they do in …
Romanticism, Gender, and Violence
Blake to George Sodini
Häftad, 2017
725 kr
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Combining queer theory with theories of affect, psychoanalysis, and Foucauldian genealogy, Romanticism, Gender, and Violence: Blake to George Sodini theorizes performative melancholia, a condition where, regardless of sexual orientation, overinvestment in gender norms causes subjects who are unable …
Don Quixote
The Re-accentuation of the World’s Greatest Literary Hero
Av Slav N. Gratchev, Howard Mancing
Häftad, 2019
708 kr
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This book is a unique scholarly attempt to examine Don Quixote from multiple angles to see how the re-accentuation of the world’s greatest literary hero takes place in film, theatre, and literature. To accomplish this task, eighteen scholars from the USA, Canada, Spain, and Great Britain have come …
