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Shipwreck and Island Motifs in Literature and the Arts
Inbunden, 2015
2186 kr
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The motifs of island and shipwreck have been present in literature and the arts from ancient times. Whether they occur as plot elements, as part of literary or film imagery, as symbols in paintings, as leitmotifs in songs, or as concepts in philosophical theories, both have always been a source of …
Configuring Masculinity in Theory and Literary Practice
Inbunden, 2015
1872 kr
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Configuring Masculinity in Theory and Literary Practice combines a critical survey of the most current developments in the emergent field of Masculinity Studies with both a historical overview of how masculinity has been constructed within British Literature from the Middle Ages to the present and …
Sound Effects: The Object Voice in Fiction
Inbunden, 2015
2186 kr
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Sound Effects combines literary criticism and psychoanalytic theory in eleven original articles which explore the potential of the object voice as an analytic tool to approach fiction. Alongside the gaze, the voice is Jacques Lacan’s original addition to the set of partial objects of classical …
Dracula and the Gothic in Literature, Pop Culture and the Arts
Inbunden, 2015
2286 kr
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This volume brings together fourteen articles that reappraise the productivity of Stoker’s Dracula and the strong influence it still exerts on today’s generations. The volume explores various multimodal and multimedia adaptations of the book, by critically examining its literary, cinematic, …
Middlebrow and Gender, 1890-1945
Inbunden, 2016
2529 kr
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Scholars of the middlebrow have demonstrated that the preferences and choices of both women writers and women readers have suffered considerably from the dismissive attitude of earlier critics. George Eliot’s famous attack on ‘Silly Novels by Lady Novelists’ set the tone for the long tradition of …
Silence in Modern Irish Literature
Inbunden, 2017
2315 kr
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Silence in Modern Irish Literature is the first book to focus exclusively on the treatment of silence in modern Irish literature. It reveals the wide spectrum of meanings that silence carries in modern Irish literature: a mark of historical loss, a form of resistance to authority, a force of social …
Conrad’s Presence in Contemporary Culture
Adaptations and Appropriations
Av Agnieszka Adamowicz-Pospiech
Inbunden, 2024
2001 kr
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The anthology consists of essays authored by scholars of different nationalities from diverse cultures, nations and primary languages. They cover Conrad’s presence across multiple media (fiction, films, comics, and graphic novels).The collection is unique because the contributors focused on …
"And Never Know the Joy"
Sex and the Erotic in English Poetry
Häftad, 2006
1273 kr
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“And Never Know the Joy” : Sex and the Erotic in English Poetry promises the reader much to enjoy and to reflect on: riddles and sex games; the grammar of relationships; the cunning psychology of bodily fantasies; sexuality as the ambiguous performance of words; the allure of music and its …
Disclosing Intertextualities
The Stories, Plays, and Novels of Susan Glaspell
Häftad, 2006
673 kr
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For the first time, this volume brings together essays by feminist, Americanist, and theater scholars who apply a variety of sophisticated critical approaches to Susan Glaspell’s entire oeuvre. Glaspell’s one-act play, “Trifles,” and the short story that she constructed from it, “A Jury of Her …
"After thirty Falls"
New Essays on John Berryman
Av Nils Philip Coleman, Philip McGowan
Inbunden, 2007
1858 kr
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Prefaced by an account of the early days of Berryman studies by bibliographer and scholar Richard J. Kelly, “After thirty Falls” is the first collection of essays to be published on the American poet John Berryman (1914-1972) in over a decade. The book seeks to provoke new interest in this …
Modernism Revisited
Transgressing Boundaries and Strategies of Renewal in American Poetry
Inbunden, 2007
1454 kr
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Offering essays from some of the leading academic writers and younger scholars in the field of American studies from both the United States and Europe, this volume constitutes a rich and varied reconsideration of Modernist American poetry. Its contributions fall into two general categories: new and …
Mighty Mass of Brick and Smoke
Victorian and Edwardian Representations of London
Inbunden, 2007
2050 kr
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Of all eras of London’s history, the Victorian and Edwardian city continues to stimulate the literary, visual, and popular imaginations like no other. This collection explores the unique relationship between the literary, and more broadly, artistic imagination and experience of the Victorian and …
Body and the Book
Writings on Poetry and Sexuality
Av Glennis Byron, Andrew J. Sneddon
Inbunden, 2008
2236 kr
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The stimulating mix of academics and practising poets that have contributed to this volume provides an unusual and illuminating integration of critical and creative practice and a vibrantly diverse approach to questions of poetry and sexuality. Each section of essays is complemented by poems which …
Authority Matters
Rethinking the Theory and Practice of Authorship
Inbunden, 2008
1818 kr
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In this wide ranging collection of essays, eleven literary scholars and creative writers examine authorship and authority in relation to the production and reception of cultural texts. Ranging in time from the Renaissance to the era of digital publishing, the essays invite us to reconsider the …
Becoming Visible
Women’s Presence in Late Nineteenth-Century America
Av Janet Floyd
Inbunden, 2010
2030 kr
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This exciting collection of interdisciplinary essays explores the later decades of the nineteenth century in America - the immediate postbellum period, the Gilded Age, and the Progressive Era - as a time of critical change in the cultural visibility of women, as they made new kinds of appearances …
Literary Utopias of Cultural Communities, 1790-1910
Inbunden, 2010
1758 kr
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This volume of essays by scholars in the field of English and American studies brings together a variety of perspectives on the utopian literature originating from cultural communities from 1790-1910. Ranging from the Lunar society to the Nationalist movement, and from the Transcendentalists to the …
Ethics and Trauma in Contemporary British Fiction
Av Susana Onega
Inbunden, 2011
1972 kr
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This volume is the first book of criticism to provide a systematic analysis of a corpus of emblematic contemporary British fictions from the combined perspective of trauma theory and ethics. Although the fictional work of writers such as Graham Swift has already been approached from this …
New Perspectives on Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Av Jessica Cox
Inbunden, 2012
1858 kr
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon, one of the most prolific authors of the Victorian period, remains best known for her sensation fiction, but over the course of a long career contributed to a multitude of literary genres, working as a journalist, short story writer and editor, as well as authoring more than …
George Moore: Across Borders
Inbunden, 2013
1887 kr
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A truly cosmopolitan Irish writer, George Moore (1852-1933) was a fascinating figure of the fin de siècle, moving between countries, crossing genre and medium boundaries, forever exploring and promulgating aesthetic trends and artistic developments: Naturalism in the novel and the theatre, …
Reading La3amon’s Brut
Approaches and Explorations
Inbunden, 2013
4626 kr
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For La3amon, or Lawman (both forms are used), a parish priest living on the Welsh March c.1200, the criteria of language, race and territory all provided ways of defining the nation state, which is why his Brut commands a diverse readership to-day. The range of view-points in this book reflects the …
Marginalized: Indian Poetry in English
Inbunden, 2014
1572 kr
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Indian writing in English, especially fiction, continues to capture the attention of readers all over the English-speaking world. Conversely, the strong and flourishing tradition of poetry in English from India has not impacted the contemporary world in the same manner as the fiction. This book …
Tennessee Williams and Europe
Intercultural Encounters, Transatlantic Exchanges
Av John S. Bak
Inbunden, 2014
2256 kr
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Tennessee Williams and Europe: Intercultural Encounters, Transatlantic Exchanges documents the bi-directional exchange of ideas and images between Williams and post-war Europe that have altered the artistic landscapes of both continents. Fifteen Williams scholars from around the world examine this …
Romantic Stage
A Many-Sided Mirror
Inbunden, 2015
1736 kr
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The Romantic Stage: A Many-Sided Mirror examines late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British theatre and drama with the conviction that they made an essential contribution to the aesthetic and ideological complexity of the British culture of the day. The essays collected in this volume …
Beyond Realism
Experimental and Unconventional Irish Drama since the Revival
Inbunden, 2014
1237 kr
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When W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory set out in 1897 to create an Irish theatre, they expressed their openness to dramatic experimentation. However, the Abbey Theatre that was their legacy increasingly came to resist non-traditional dramaturgy. Ranging over a period of more than a century, the essays …
