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Performance and Performativity in Contemporary Indian Fiction in English
Av Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru
Häftad, 2015
1647 kr
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This book starts with a consideration of a 1997 issue of the New Yorker that celebrated fifty years of Indian independence, and goes on to explore the development of a pattern of performance and performativity in contemporary Indian fiction in English (Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy and Vikram …
Cultural Melancholia: US Trauma Discourses Before and After 9/11
Inbunden, 2015
2786 kr
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In Cultural Melancholia: US Trauma Discourses Before and After 9/11, Christina Cavedon frames her examination of 9/11 fiction, especially Jay McInerney’s The Good Life and Don DeLillo’s Falling Man, with a thorough discussion of what US reactions to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 …
Forgotten Film Adaptations of D.H. Lawrence’s Short Stories
Inbunden, 2016
1915 kr
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This book looks beyond fidelity to emphasize how each adaptation of D.H. Lawrence’s short stories functions as a creative response to a text, foregrounding the significance of its fluidity, transtextuality, and genre. The adaptations analysed range from the first to the most recent and draw …
Radical Planes? 9/11 and Patterns of Continuity
Inbunden, 2016
2125 kr
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Radical Planes? 9/11 and Patterns of Continuity, edited by Dunja M. Mohr and Birgit Däwes, explores the intersections between narrative disruption and continuity in post-9/11 narratives from an interdisciplinary transnational perspective, foregrounding the transatlantic cultural memory of 9/11. …
Jane Austen Speaks Norwegian
The Challenges of Literary Translation
Inbunden, 2018
1901 kr
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What can translations reveal about the global reception of any authorship? In Jane Austen Speaks Norwegian: The Challenges of Literary Translation, Marie Nedregotten Sørbø compares two novels and six translations of them. The discussion is entirely in English, as all Norwegian versions are …
Paul Muldoon and the Language of Poetry
Av Ruben Moi
Inbunden, 2020
2715 kr
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Paul Muldoon and the Language of Poetry is the first book in years that attends to the entire oeuvre of the Irish-American poet, critic, lyricist, dramatist and Princeton professor from his debut with New Weather in 1973 up to his very recent publications. Ruben Moi’s book explores, in …
Ethics and Aesthetics in Toni Morrison’s Fiction
Inbunden, 2018
1801 kr
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Ethics and Aesthetics in Toni Morrison’s Fiction investigates Morrison’s aesthetics in terms of narrative’s ethical import. Morrison’s writing is concerned with ethically debatable issues and it offers a problematic representation of human experiences in African American history. Whilst previous …
American Migrant Fictions
Space, Narrative, Identity
Av Sonia Weiner
Inbunden, 2018
1901 kr
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In American Migrant Fictions: Space, Narrative, Identity, Sonia Weiner focuses on novels of five American migrant writers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, who construct spatial paradigms within their narratives to explore questions of linguistic diversity, identities and …
Biblical Women in Contemporary Novels in English
From Margaret Atwood to Jenny Diski
Inbunden, 2020
2293 kr
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How are well-known female characters from the Bible represented in late 20th-century novels? In Biblical Women in Contemporary Novels in English, Ingrid Bertrand presents a detailed analysis of biblical rewritings by Roberts, Atwood, Tennant, Diamant and Diski focusing on six different women (Eve, …
Emblematic Strategies in Pre-Raphaelite Literature
Inbunden, 2019
2429 kr
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In this book, Heather McAlpine argues that emblematic strategies play a more central role in Pre-Raphaelite poetics than has been acknowledged, and that reading Pre-Raphaelite works with an awareness of these strategies permits a new understanding of the movement’s engagements with ontology, …
American History in Transition
From Religion to Science
Inbunden, 2020
2286 kr
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In American History in Transition, Yoshinari Yamaguchi provides fresh insights into early efforts in American history writing, ranging from Jeremy Belknap’s Massachusetts Historical Society to Emma Willard’s geographic history and Francis Parkman’s history of deep time to Henry Adams’s …
Women and Crime in Post-Transitional South African Crime Fiction
A Study of Female Victims, Perpetrators and Detectives
Inbunden, 2020
2015 kr
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In this ground-breaking study, Sabine Binder analyses the complex ways in which female crime fictional victims, detectives and perpetrators in South African crime fiction resonate with widespread and persistent real crimes against women in post-apartheid South Africa. Drawing on a wide range of …
T. S. Eliot’s Ascetic Ideal
Häftad, 2022
944 kr
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In T. S. Eliot’s Ascetic Ideal, Joshua Richards charts an intellectual history of T. S. Eliot’s interaction with asceticism. This history is drawn from Eliot’s own education in the topic with the texts he read integrated into detailed textual analysis. Eliot’s early encounters with the ascetic …
Twilight Histories
Nostalgia and the Victorian Historical Novel
Inbunden, 2022
2186 kr
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Twilight Histories explores the relationship between nostalgia and the Victorian historical novel, arguing that both responded to the turbulence brought by accelerating modernisation. Nostalgia began as a pathological homesickness, its first victims seventeenth-century soldiers serving abroad. Only …
Postmodernism in Arthur Miller’s Long-Late Period
Inbunden, 2025
1906 kr
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Having made his reputation in the 1940s and ‘50s, Arthur Miller continued to write into the twenty-first century, producing his final play in 2004, the year before his death. With little critical, academic, or theatrical attention being paid to his plays after 1968’s The Price, he had one of the …
Crime, Justice, and Defoe
Law Enforcement Reported and Imagined in Eighteenth-Century England
Av Jeanne Clegg
Inbunden, 2025
1986 kr
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Having filched a little white bundle from under the noses of an apothecary’s apprentice and his maid in London’s Leadenhall Street, Defoe’s Moll Flanders is sure that she will be "taken next time and be carry’d to Newgate and be Try’d for my Life". The likelihood of being arrested, tried and …
Reliques of Father Prout: A Critical Edition
Francis Sylvester Mahony
Av Francis Sylvester Mahony, Fergus Dunne
Inbunden, 2026
2315 kr
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The Reliques of Father Prout (1836) by Francis Sylvester Mahony is a key text in the early genealogy of the Anglo-Irish literary tradition. Initially published under the pseudonym of “Father Prout” in the London periodical, Fraser’s Magazine, Mahony’s eccentric essay collection garnered immediate …
Matter of Kings' Lives
The Design of Past and Present in the early fourteenth-century verse chronicles by Pierre de Langtoft and Robert Mannyng
Häftad, 1997
1483 kr
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The rhymed chronicles by Pierre de Langtoft and Robert Mannyng, written between c.1305 and 1338, form a unique pair in the history of English literature and historiography. Both were written in the North of England, both deal with the history of the kings of England from Brutus to the death of …
Theme Parks, Rainforests and Sprouting Wastelands
European essays on theory and performance in contemporary British fiction
Av Richard Todd
Häftad, 2000
959 kr
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This lively and fascinating new collection of European essays on contemporary Anglophone fiction has arisen out of the ESSE/3 Conference, which was held in Glasgow in September 1995. The contributors live and work in University English Departments in Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Germany, Hungary, …
Talking to the Dead
A Study of Irish Funerary Traditions
Häftad, 1998
844 kr
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Talking to the Dead is an essay on death and its tenacious hold on Irish culture. There are few traditions in which funerary motifs have been so ubiquitous in literature, popular rituals, folk representations, public rhetorics, even constructions of place. There are even fewer cultures in which …
Medieval Chronicle
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on the Medieval Chronicle. Driebergen/Utrecht 13-16 July 1996
Av Erik Kooper
Häftad, 1999
1515 kr
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In the summer of 1996 the first international conference was held on the medieval chronicle, a genre which until then had received but scant attention from historians or specialists in literary history or art history. There are several reasons why the chronicle is particularly suited as the topic …
United Stories of America
Studies in the Short Story Composite
Av Rolf Lundén
Häftad, 1999
915 kr
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This book discusses the American short story composite, or short story cycle, a neglected form of writing consisting of autonomous stories interlocking into a whole. The critical work done on this genre has so far focused on the closural strategies of the composites, on how unity is accomplished in …
Poetry and the Sense of Panic
Critical Essays on Elizabeth Bishop and John Ashbery
Av Lionel Kelly
Häftad, 2000
860 kr
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For all the disciplined artifice of Elizabeth Bishop and John Ashbery, the essays in this collection show that panic plays a crucial role in their work, giving substance to Bishop's claim that “an element of mortal panic and fear” underlines all art. Panic emerges as a condition of creative anxiety …
From Earth to Art
The Many Aspects of the Plant-World in Anglo-Saxon England. Proceedings of the First ASPNS Symposium, University of Glasgow, 5-7 April 2000
Av C.P. Biggam
Häftad, 2003
1631 kr
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From Earth to Art presents papers from the ‘Early Medieval Plant Studies’ symposium, a meeting designed to explore the various disciplines which could help to elucidate the plant-names of Anglo-Saxon England, many of which are not understood. The range of disciplines represented includes landscape …
Life of the Mind in Old English Poetry
Häftad, 2002
1120 kr
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Ideas about the human mind are culturally specific and over time vary in form and prominence. The Life of the Mind in Old English Poetry presents the first extensive exploration of Anglo-Saxon beliefs about the mind and how these views informed Old English poetry. It identifies in this poetry a …
Medieval Chronicle II
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on the Medieval Chronicle. Driebergen/Utrecht 16-21 July 1999
Av Erik Kooper
Häftad, 2002
1415 kr
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After the success of the first international conference on the medieval chronicle, it was decided that another would be in place. It was held in the summer of 1999, and again drew some 150 participants. There are several reasons why the chronicle is particularly suited as the topic of an …
In Words and Deeds
The Spectacle of Incest in English Renaissance Tragedy
Häftad, 2002
1415 kr
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Departing from earlier studies which regarded incest as a literary topos or dramatic metaphor foregrounding political, social, or legal issues, Words and Deeds: The Spectacle of Incest in English Renaissance Tragedy argues that the presence of incest on the Renaissance stage is a strategy for the …
Lexis and Texts in Early English
Studies presented to Jane Roberts
Häftad, 2001
1441 kr
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These papers reflect the long and distinguished career of Professor Jane Roberts in the field of medieval English studies, and especially her pioneering work on A Thesaurus of Old English, which provides novel source material for several of the contributions to the volume. Many of the papers deal …
Configuring Romanticism
Essays offered to C. C. Barfoot
Av Theo D'haen
Häftad, 2003
1530 kr
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Configuring Romanticism focuses on the ways in which “Romanticism” continues to change shape in light of new discoveries, new readings, new approaches. To this end, some essays here gathered offer novel interpretations of Romantic “classics” such as Wordsworth, Blake, and Southey, or discuss the …
Allegories of Telling
Self-Referential Narrative in Contemporary British Fiction
Av Lynn Wells
Häftad, 2003
966 kr
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Allegories of Telling: Self-Referential Narrative in Contemporary British Fiction has as its founding premise Ross Chambers’s notion that “one of the important powers of fiction is its power to theorize the act of storytelling in and through the act of storytelling.” In this critical study, Lynn …
