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Environment at the Margins
Literary and Environmental Studies in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2011
Environment at the Margins brings literary and environmental studies into a robust interdisciplinary dialogue, challenging dominant ideas about nature, conservation, and development in Africa and exploring alternative narratives offered by writers and environmental thinkers. The essays bring together...
Voices of Fire
Reweaving the Literary Lei of Pele and Hi’iaka
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Stories of the volcano goddess Pele and her youngest sister Hi‘iaka, patron of hula, are most familiar as a form of literary colonialism—first translated by missionary descendants and others, then co-opted by Hollywood and the tourist industry. But far from quaint tales for amusement, the Pele and...
Marxism, Postcolonial Theory, and the Future of Critique
Critical Engagements with Benita Parry
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2018
Using the aesthetic and political concerns of Parry’s oeuvre as a touchstone, this book explores new directions for postcolonial studies, Marxist literary criticism, and world literature in the contemporary moment, seeking to re-imagine the field, and alongside it, new possibilities for left critique....
A History of Ottoman Poetry Volume V
Volume V: 1859-
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
The History of Ottoman Poetry, first published in six volumes between 1900 and 1909, was the principal product of E.J.W. Gibb’s devotion to Ottoman Turkish literature. By the time of his early death in 1901 only the first volume had appeared in print. The remainder was almost complete and was seen...
Contemporary Writing and the Politics of Space
Borders, Networks, Escape Lines
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
This collective volume explores questions of space in contemporary literary texts from a range of theoretical perspectives. In addition to mapping the «spatial turn» in literary and cultural studies, this volume also brings together studies that apply spatial theory to the analysis of literary texts....
by César Aira
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
New in the New Directions Pearls series: an extremely rich mad scientist attempts to clone a leading genius in a bid to take over the world.
César is a translator who’s fallen on very hard times due to the global economic downturn; he is also an author, and a mad scientist hell-bent on world...
French Global
A New Approach to Literary History
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
Recasting French literary history in terms of the cultures and peoples that interacted within and outside of France's national boundaries, this volume offers a new way of looking at the history of a national literature, along with a truly global and contemporary understanding of language, literature,...
by Steve Wallis
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
The city of Portsmouth has a long literary history. It is perhaps best-known as the birthplace of Charles Dickens in 1812, and the house in which he was born is one of the city's many tourist attractions. In the 1880s H. G. Wells spent several years here as an apprentice and his unhappy experiences...
The Bioregional Imagination
Literature, Ecology, and Place
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Bioregionalism is an innovative way of thinking about place and planet from an ecological perspective. Although bioregional ideas occur regularly in ecocritical writing, until now no systematic effort has been made to outline the principles of bioregional literary criticism and to use it as a way...
New Brunswick at the Crossroads
Literary Ferment and Social Change in the East
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
What is the relationship between literature and the society in which it incubates? Are there common political, social, and economic factors that predominate during periods of heightened literary activity? New Brunswick at the Crossroads: Literary Ferment and Social Change in the East considers these...
Writing Alberta
Building on a Literary Identity
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2017
Alberta writing has a long tradition. Beginning with the pictographs of Writing-on-Stone, followed by Euro-Canadian exploration texts, the post-treaty writing of the agrarian colonization period, and into the present era, Alberta writing has come to be seen as a distinct literature. In this volume...
Literary Agents in the Transatlantic Book Trade
American Fiction, French Rights, and the Hoffman Agency
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
By way of a case study of one of the oldest French book agencies, Agence Hoffman, this book analyzes the role played by French literary agents in the importation of US fiction and literature into France in the years following World War II. It sheds light on the material conditions of the circulation...
Spirit in the Dark
A Religious History of Racial Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Most of the major black literary and cultural movements of the twentieth century have been understood and interpreted as secular, secularizing and, at times, profane. In this book, Josef Sorett demonstrates that religion was actually a formidable force within these movements, animating and organizing...
The Short Story in Midcentury America
Countercultural Form in the Work of Bowles, McCarthy, Welty, and Williams
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
The Short Story in Midcentury America provides in-depth case studies of four major writers of the post–World War II era—Paul Bowles, Mary McCarthy, Eudora Welty, and Tennessee Williams—examining how they used the contained aesthetics of short fiction to map out an oppositional stance to the...