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Routledge Revivals: Literary Fat Ladies (1987)
Rhetoric, Gender, Property
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
First published in 1987, the essays in this volume focus on questions of gender, property and power in the use of rhetoric and the practice of literary genres, and provide a historicised cultural critique. They analyse the links between rhetoric and property, but also representations of women as unruly,...
Economies of Desire at the Victorian Fin de Siècle
Libidinal Lives
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
This volume marks the first sustained study to interrogate how and why issues of sexuality, desire, and economic processes intersect in the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siècle. At the end of the nineteenth-century, the move towards new models of economic thought marked the transition...
The One vs. the Many
Minor Characters and the Space of the Protagonist in the Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Does a novel focus on one life or many? Alex Woloch uses this simple question to develop a powerful new theory of the realist novel, based on how narratives distribute limited attention among a crowded field of characters. His argument has important implications for both literary studies and narrative...
by C. Patell
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Through contemporary theories of cosmopolitanism and analyses of literary texts such as Heart of Darkness, Lilith's Brood, and Moby-Dick, this book explores the cosmopolitan impulses behind the literary imagination. Patell argues that cosmopolitanism regards human difference as an opportunity to be embraced rather than a problem to be solved.
Homes and Haunts
Touring Writers' Shrines and Countries
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
This is the first full-length study of literary tourism in North America as well as Britain, and a unique exploration of popular response to writers, literary house museums, and the landscapes or "countries " associated with their lives and works. An interdisciplinary study ranging from...
Saffron Shadows and Salvaged Scripts
Literary Life in Myanmar Under Censorship and in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
This book tells an ethnographic story of a secret literary culture that has recently emerged from its cocoon. Until 2012, Myanmar (also known as Burma) was ruled for fifty years by one of the most paranoid and repressive censorship regimes in history. The military junta enforced strict reading and...
by Nicholas Mason
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Literary Advertising and the Shaping of British Romanticism investigates the entwined histories of the advertising industry and the gradual commodification of literature over the course of the Romantic Century (1750–1850). In this engaging and detailed study, Nicholas Mason argues that the seemingly...
'Ecstatic Sound'
Music and Individuality in the Work of Thomas Hardy
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
This book studies the ways Hardy writes about music, and argues that this focus allows for a close and varied investigation of the affective dimensions of his poetry and fiction, and his recurrent preoccupations with time, community and love. Throughout his work Hardy associates music with moments...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
“Who’s afraid of Edna O’Brien?” asks an early interviewer in Conversations with Edna O’Brien. With over fifty years of published novels, biographies, plays, telecasts, short stories, and more, it is hard not to be intimidated by her. An acclaimed and controversial Irish writer, O’Brien...
Voice in Later Medieval English Literature
Public Interiorities
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
David Lawton approaches later medieval English vernacular culture in terms of voice. As texts and discourses shift in translation and in use from one language to another, antecedent texts are revoiced in ways that recreate them (as 'public interiorities') without effacing their history or future....
Crossing Borders
Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Given Christianity's valuation of celibacy and its persistent association of sexuality with the Fall and of women with sin, Western medieval attitudes toward the erotic could not help but be vexed. In contrast, eroticism is explicitly celebrated in a large number of theological, scientific, and literary...
Literature, Ethics, and Decolonization in Postwar France
The Politics of Disengagement
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
Against the background of intellectual and political debates in France during the 1950s and 1960s, Daniel Just examines literary narratives and works of literary criticism arguing that these texts are more politically engaged than they may initially appear. As writings by Roland Barthes, Maurice Blanchot,...
Intentions
Negotiated, Contested, and Ignored
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1998
The relationship between an author's and an audience's intentions is complex but need not preclude mutual engagement. This philosophical investigation challenges existing literary and rhetorical perspectives on intention and offers a new framework for understanding the negotiation of meaning. It describes...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
From the myths and legends that fashioned the identities of ancient city-states to the diversity of literary performance in contemporary cities around the world, literature and the city are inseparably entwined. The international team of scholars in this volume offers a comprehensive, accessible survey...