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Colonialism, Culture, Whales
The Cetacean Quartet
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018
Colonialism, Culture, Whales: The Cetacean Quartet explores how our attitudes to whales, whale hunting, and whale watching expose colonial attitudes to the natural world in modern Western culture. Foraging across the disciplines and moving between ideas and methods drawn from postcolonial criticism,...
by Dr Marina MacKay
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
The modernist period was an era of world war and violent revolution. Covering a wide range of authors from Joseph Conrad and Thomas Hardy at the beginning of the period to Elizabeth Bowen and Samuel Beckett at the end, this book situates modernism's extraordinary literary achievements in their contexts...
Jewish Feeling
Difference and Affect in Nineteenth-Century Jewish Women's Writing
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Jewish Feeling brings together affect theory and Jewish Studies to trace Jewish difference in literary works by nineteenth-century Anglo-Jewish authors. Dwor argues that midrash, a classical rabbinic interpretive form, is a site of Jewish feeling and that literary works underpinned by midrashic concepts...
Portraits of Wittgenstein
Abridged Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
Portraits of Wittgenstein is a major collection of memoirs and reflections on one of the most influential and yet elusive personalities in the history of modern philosophy, Ludwig Wittgenstein. Featuring a wealth of illuminating and profound insights into Wittgenstein's extraordinary life, this unique...
Aesthetics and Ethics in Twenty-First Century British Novels
Zadie Smith, Nadeem Aslam, Hari Kunzru and David Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
A fresh set of concerns face the twenty-first century British novelist. In this study of the four key novelists Zadie Smith, Nadeem Aslam, Hari Kunzru and David Mitchell, the
the changes in narrative approaches and critical directions of a new post-1989 fiction are explored.
Close readings...
Present Tense
A Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
The invention of the present-tense novel is a literary event whose importance is on par with the discovery of perspective in painting. From the first novels shaped by interior monologues and the use of the present tense in the tradition of modernism, the present tense has, over the course of its century-long...
Virginia Woolf's Late Cultural Criticism
The Genesis of 'The Years', 'Three Guineas' and 'Between the Acts'
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
After the Modernist literary experiments of her earlier work, Virginia Woolf became increasingly concerned with overt social and political commentary in her later writings, which are preoccupied with dissecting the links between patriarchy, patriotism, imperialism and war. This book unravels the complex...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
For better or worse, America lives in the age of “worlded” literature. Not the world literature of nations and nationalities considered from most powerful and wealthy to the least. And not the world literature found with a map. Rather, the worlded literature of individuals crossing borders, mixing...
by Laurajane Smith, Emma Waterton
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
This book traces the development of 'community archaeology', identifying both its advantages and disadvantages by describing how and why tensions have arisen between archaeological and community understandings of the past. The focus of this book is the conceptual disjunction between heritage and data...
Feminist Moments
Reading Feminist Texts
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
The challenges presented by feminism to traditional understandings of representation, normative values, power relations and the political are not simply the product of late-20th century thinking. Feminist Moments, in examining some of the pivotal texts in the history of feminist thought, demonstrates...
Thinking Home
Interdisciplinary Dialogues
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018
Thinking Home challenges and extends the existing scholarship on the subject of 'home' in a period which has seen unprecedented levels of movement cross the globe. Sanja Bahun and Bojana Petric have collated essays that revisit existing ideas to introduce new ways of thinking on home, from the individual...
The Courage to Imagine
The Child Hero in Children's Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
The act of imagining lies at the very heart of children's engagements with literature and with the plots and characters they encounter in their favorite stories. The Courage to Imagine is a landmark new study of that fundamental act of imagining. Roni Natov focuses on the ways in which children's...
The Testimonies of Russian and American Postmodern Poetry
Reference, Trauma, and History
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
This book challenges the belief in the purely linguistic nature of contemporary poetry and offers an interpretation of late twentieth-century Russian poetry as a testimony to the unforeseen annulment of communist reality and its overnight displacement by a completely unfathomable post-totalitarian...
Telling in Henry James
The Web of Experience and the Forms of Reality
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Telling in Henry James argues that James's contribution to narrative and narrative theories is a lifelong exploration of how to "tell," but not, as Douglas has it in "The Turn of the Screw" in any "literal, vulgar way." James's fiction offers multiple, and often contradictory,...