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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Bicentenary Essays Essays and Studies 1992
Inbunden, 1992
988 kr
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Essays on Shelley's achievements and distinctive qualities as a writer covering the whole range of his work.This volume brings together important new readings of Shelley's poetry by British critics. All of the contributors are aware of Shelley's controversial political views, and assume from the …
Feminist Linguistics in Literary Criticism
Av Katie Wales
Inbunden, 1994
979 kr
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Essays employing close scrutiny of texts to clarify gender issues in feminist literary criticism.One of the major problems in feminist literary criticism is the tendency to generalise when exploring language and gender. This volume clarifies the issues involved and tests generalisations by specific …
Translating Literature
Inbunden, 1997
979 kr
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The problems of translating literature explored through both theoretical approaches and practical case studies.Interest in the issues of translation continues to grow, and is reflected in this collection of essays by specialists in both literature and translation studies, all of whom have …
Romanticism and Gender
Inbunden, 1998
979 kr
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New approaches to women writers and attitudes to women in the Romantic period, principally focused on North America.Focusing on the period from 1770 to 1830, this collection deploys recent thinking on women in the romantic period to define an agenda which will shape studies in this area into the …
Postcolonial Theory and Criticism
Av Laura Chrisman, Benita Parry
Inbunden, 2000
979 kr
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Articles on the historical, social and political realities of postcolonialism as expressed in contemporary writing.Contemporary postcolonial studies represent a controversial area of debate. This collection seeks a more pragmatic approach to the subject, taking into account its historical, social …
Gothic
Av Fred Botting
Inbunden, 2001
988 kr
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From Horace Walpole to Angela Carter and the X-Files, new and familiar texts are reassessed, and common readings of Gothic themes and critical approaches to the genre are interrogated.The popularity of Gothic fictions, themes and films suggests that the genre is the norm as much as the dark …
Victorian Women Poets
Inbunden, 2005
988 kr
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Specially commissioned essays offer revisionary readings of canonical poets and bring into focus rediscovered writers.The specially commissioned essays in Victorian Women Poets, written by scholars from Britain and North America, offer revisionary readings of canonical poets and bring into focus …
Contemporary British Women Writers
Av Emma Parker
Inbunden, 2004
988 kr
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Essays illustrating the range and diversity of post-1970 British women writers.Despite the enduring popularity of contemporary women's writing, British women writers have received scant critical attention. They tend to be overshadowed by their American counterparts in the media and have come to be …
Literature and the Visual Media
Av David Seed
Inbunden, 2005
977 kr
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Essays on the links between film and fiction, and their mutual influence.Fiction and film interrelate closely to each other, and the specially commissioned essays in this volume all consider different aspects of this relationship. Beginning with discussions of Dickens and Victorian literature, the …
Globalisation and its Discontents
Writing the Global Culture
Av Stan Smith
Inbunden, 2006
977 kr
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Essays discussing the concept of globalisation as present in works of art and literature.Like Freud's `civilisation', globalisation is both cause and consequence of its own discontents, visible at times only in the resistances it generates. Study of the phenomenon has until recently been confined …
Slavery and the Cultures of Abolition
Essays Marking the Bicentennial of the British Abolition Act of 1807
Av Brycchan Carey, Brycchan Carey m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
883 kr
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Slavery as depicted in literature and culture is examined in this wide-ranging collection.On 25 March 1807, the bill for the abolition of the Slave Trade within the British colonies was passed by an overwhelming majority in the House of Commons, becoming law from 1 May. This new collection of …
Literature and Science
Inbunden, 2008
977 kr
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Essays exploring the complex relationship between literature and science.In 1959 C. P. Snow memorably described the `gulf of mutual incomprehension' which existed between `literary intellectuals' and scientists, referring to them as `two cultures'. This volume looks at the extent to which this has …
Writer in the Academy: Creative Interfrictions
Inbunden, 2011
827 kr
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From a range of perspectives, the essays in this volume tackle some of the most urgent issues facing the creative writer in today's academic institutions.For many years now the professional "creative writer" within universities and other institutions has encompassed a range of roles, embracing a …
Dickens and Modernity
Av Juliet John
Inbunden, 2012
977 kr
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Essays exploring the ways in which Dickens' vision is both so much of its time, and yet has so much resonance for today.The scale of the 2012 bicentenary celebrations of Dickens's birth is testimony to his status as one of the most globally popular literary authors the world has ever seen. Yet …
British Literature and Print Culture
Av Sandro Jung
Inbunden, 2013
977 kr
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The complexity of print culture in Britain between the seventeenth and nineteenth century is investigated in these wide-ranging articles.The essays collected here offer examinations of bibliographical matters, publishing practices, the illustration of texts in a variety of engraved media, little …
War and Literature
Inbunden, 2014
860 kr
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Considerations of writing about war, in war, because of war, and against war, in a wide range of texts from the middle ages onwards.War was the first subject of literature; at times, war has been its only subject. In this volume, the contributors reflect on the uneasy yet symbiotic relations of war …
Writing Europe, 500-1450
Texts and Contexts
Av Aidan Conti, Orietta Da Rold m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
511 kr
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Essays on the writing and textual culture of Europe in the middle ages.Medieval Europe was characterized by a sophisticated market for the production, exchange and sale of written texts. This volume brings together papers on a range of topics, centred on manuscript studies and textual criticism, …
Writing China
Essays on the Amherst Embassy (1816) and Sino-British Cultural Relations
Av Peter J. Kitson, Robert Markley
Inbunden, 2016
860 kr
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New essays on the cultural representations of the relationship between Britain and China in the nineteenth century, focussing on the Amherst diplomatic problem.On 29 August 1816, Lord Amherst, exhausted after travelling overnight during an embassy to China, was roughly handled in an attempt to …
Textual Distortion
Av Elaine Treharne, Greg Walker
Inbunden, 2017
444 kr
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The notion of what it means to "distort" a text is here explored through a rich variety of individual case studies.Distortion is nearly always understood as negative. It can be defined as perversion, impairment, caricature, corruption, misrepresentation, or deviation. Unlike its close neighbour, …
English: Shared Futures
Av Robert Eaglestone, Gail Marshall
Inbunden, 2018
535 kr
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Essays exploring the opportunities for and challenges to the discipline of English language and literature in education.The study of English literature, language, culture and creative writing is an important and dynamic enterprise. English: Shared Futures celebrates the discipline's intellectual …
Slow Scholarship
Medieval Research and the Neoliberal University
Inbunden, 2019
535 kr
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A powerful claim for the virtues of a more thoughtful and collegiate approach to the academy today.This book offers a response to the culture of metrics, mass digitisation, and accountability (as opposed to responsibility, or citizenship) that has developed in higher education world wide, as …
Literature and Ageing
Inbunden, 2020
511 kr
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New approaches to the topics of old age and becoming old depicted in a range of texts from modern literature.The central focus of this book is the experience of growing old as represented in literature from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day: an experience shaped by changes in longevity, …
Literature of Hell
Av Margaret, Kean, Margaret Kean
Inbunden, 2021
511 kr
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Essays considering the representation and perception of hell in a variety of texts.Narratives of a descent to the underworld, of the sights to be seen and the punishments meted out there, have kept a hold on the popular imagination for millennia. The legacy from doctrinal warnings and the deep-set …
The Waste Land after One Hundred Years
Inbunden, 2022
649 kr
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An exploration of the legacy of The Waste Land on the centenary of its original publication, looking at the impact it had had upon criticism and new poetries across one hundred years.T. S. Eliot first published his long poem The Waste Land in 1922. The revolutionary nature of the work was …
Literature and Politics of the Environment
Inbunden, 2023
605 kr
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Essays exploring interrelated strands of material ecologies, past and present British politics, and the act of writing, through a rich variety of case studies.Much as the complexities of climate change and the Anthropocene have queried the limits and exclusions of literary representation, so, too, …
Literature and Institutions of Welfare
Av Jess Cotton
Inbunden, 2024
605 kr
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Perspectives on the ways in which welfarist ideology has underpinned the teaching, reading and production of literature from the 1930s to the present.The welfare state in Britain established a new level of access to literature as a public good alongside other national resources that were grounded …
Textual Cultures: Cultural Texts
Av Orietta Da Rold, Elaine Treharne
Inbunden, 2010
521 kr
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New essays reappraising the history of the book, manuscripts, and texts.The dynamic fields of the history of the book and the sociology of the text are the areas this volume investigates, bringing together ten specially commissioned essays that between them demonstrate a range of critical and …
