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by F. Tolhurst
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Translation of Female Kingship provides the first feminist analysis of the part of The History of the Kings of Britain that most readers overlook: the reigns before and after Arthur's.
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Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
This collection of essays offers fresh analysis of topics in the exciting area of Atlantic World studies. Challenging standard assumptions, the essays advance the argument that the Atlantic Ocean was a region that encompassed ethnic and political boundaries, in which a sub-community shaped by culture and commerce arose.
Mapping Malory
Regional Identities and National Geographies in Le Morte Darthur
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Medievalists are increasingly grappling with spatial studies. This timely book argues that geography is a crucial element in Sir Thomas Malory's M orte Darthur and contributors shine a light on questions of politics and genre to help readers better understand Malory's world.
Utopia as Method
The Imaginary Reconstitution of Society
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
Utopia should be understood as a method rather than a goal. This book rehabilitates utopia as a repressed dimension of the sociological and in the process produces the Imaginary Reconstitution of Society, a provisional, reflexive and dialogic method for exploring alternative possible futures.
Social Reform in Gothic Writing
Fantastic Forms of Change, 1764-1834
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013
Social Reform in Gothic Writing provides a transatlantic view of the politically transformative power that Gothic texts effected during the Revolutionary era (1764-1834) through providing fresh readings of canonical and non-canonical writing in a wide variety of genres.
Politics and Public Space in Contemporary Argentine Poetry
The Lyric and the State
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
This book addresses the connection between political themes and literary form in the most recent Argentine poetry. Ben Bollig uses the concepts of “lyric” and “state” as twin coordinates for both an assessment of how Argentinian poets have conceived a political role for their work and how...
A Poetics of Relation
Caribbean Women Writing at the Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
A Poetics of Relation fosters a dialogue across islands and languages between established and lesser-known authors, bringing together archipelagic and diasporic voices from the Francophone and Hispanic Antilles. In this pan-diasporic study, Ferly shows that a comparative analysis of female narratives is often most pertinent across linguistic zones.
Faulkner’s Gambit
Chess and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
This book offers the first full-length study of the chess structures, motifs, and imagery in William Faulkner's Knight's Gambit . Wainwright looks at the importance of chess as a literary device and examines the structural analogy drawn between the game and linguistics by Ferdinand de Saussure.
From Uncle Tom's Cabin to The Help
Critical Perspectives on White-Authored Narratives of Black Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
This book surveys the cultural, literary, and cinematic impact of white-authored films and imaginative literature on American society from Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin to Kathryn Stockett's Th e Hel p .
International Perspectives on Suburbanization
A Post-Suburban World?
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
New urban developments such as office blocks, warehouses and retail complexes are increasingly common in outer city regions across the world. This book examines the processes of post-suburbanization in international perspective, exploring how developments across the world might be considered post-suburban.
by Felipe Cala Buendía
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
In Argentina, Colombia, and Peru, there has been an out-pouring of popular-performative activities that have asked citizens to pose questions about the social order and about the memories of recent atrocities. Cala Buendía looks at ways in which cultural producers adapted or developed strategies as resources for social actors to use for change.
Social Movements in Latin America
Neoliberalism and Popular Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
The authors trace out the development of capitalism and U.S. imperialism in Latin America in the latest phase of this development, from the installation of the new world order of neoliberal globalization in the early 1980s to the present when U.S. imperialism is held at bay, neoliberalism is in decline, and capitalism is in crisis.
George Eliot
Interviews and Recollections
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
Spanning her entire life, the fully annotated selections in this volume include well known recollections of the great Victorian novelist plus a large assortment not found in her biographies. Altogether they provide a fresh, vivid, and sometimes startling portrait of a controversial genius.
Victorian Unfinished Novels
The Imperfect Page
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012
The first detailed study on the subject of Victorian unfinished novels, this book sheds further light on novels by major authors that have been neglected by critical studies and focuses in a new way on critically acclaimed masterpieces, offering a counter-reading of the nineteenth-century literary canon.