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American Romanticism and the Popularization of Literary Education - Hardcover
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by Clemens Spahr (Author)American Romanticism and the Popularization of Literary Education focuses on three Romantic educational genres and their institutional and media contexts: the conversation, literary journalism, and the public lecture. The genres discussed in this book illustrate the ways in which the Transcendentalists engaged nineteenthcentury media and educational institutions in order to fully realize their projects. The book also charts the development from the semi-public convers...
Lenard D. Moore and African American Haiku: Merging Traditions - Hardcover
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by Ce Rosenow (Author)Lenard D. Moore and African American Haiku: Merging Traditions identifies Moore as a primary figure in the American Haiku Movement as well as a significant contributor to the field of African American haiku. Ce Rosenow analyzes the ways in which Moore combines haiku with a variety of other traditions: African American storytelling, jazz poetry, ekphrasis, and elegies. An examination of Moore's haibun, a Japanese form combining prose and haiku, reveals the further develop...
The Construction of Marginalities and Narrative Imaginary in Mohamed Zafzaf's Texts: The Postcolony in Secrets and Intimacies - Hardcover
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by Lhoussain Simour (Author)With a postcolonially-inflected concern, this book attempts to approach in an interdisciplinary manner a set of narratives that have not been previously explored in western academia. It offers a discussion about the aesthetic, discursive, and cultural implications of Zafzāf 's works that rethink canonical formations of literary texts in Morocco.Author BiographyLhoussain Simour is associate professor of English and cultural studies at Hassan II University of Casabla...
The French Historical Narrative and the Fall of France: Simone Weil and Her Contemporaries Face the Debacle - Paperback
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by Christine Ann Evans (Author)The fall of France in June 1940, La Débâcle, posed a challenge to France's understanding of itself. Could the existing "sacred" narrative of French history established by the Third Republic hold in the face of the defeat of France's military and political systems, both built upon its foundations? The French Historical Narrative and the Fall of France: Simone Weil and her Contemporaries Face the Debacle focuses on assessments of the Debacle and places Simone Weil...
Ecology, Spirituality, and Cosmology in Edwidge Danticat: Crossroads as Ritual - Hardcover
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by Joyce White (Author)Returning to the cosmological and ontological center of Africana spirituality, Ecology, Spirituality, and Cosmology in Edwidge Danticat: Crossroads as Ritual explores the ways in which Danticat texts awaken Africana consciousness and clarify identity and subjectivity.Author BiographyJoyce White is assistant professor of Gullah Geechee Literature and Cultures at Georgia Southern University. Number of Pages: 176 Dimensions: 0.56 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Dat...
The Functions of Unnatural Death in Stephen King: Murder, Sickness, and Plots - Hardcover
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by Rebecca Frost (Author)The Functions of Unnatural Death in Stephen King: Murder, Sickness, and Plots examines the function of death in over thirty of King's works to parse out the ways the Master of Horror plays with the idea of death and approaches it from multiple angles.Author BiographyRebecca Frost, PhD, is an independent scholar and co-chair for the Stephen King Area of the National Popular Culture Association Conference. Number of Pages: 208 Dimensions: 0.63 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Ye...
Wetlands and Western Cultures: Denigration to Conservation - Hardcover
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by Rod Giblett (Author)In Wetlands and Western Cultures: Denigration to Conservation, Rod Giblett examines the portrayal of wetlands in Western culture and argues for their conservation.Author BiographyRod Giblett is honorary associate professor of environmental humanities at Deakin University. Number of Pages: 238 Dimensions: 0.56 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: May 19, 2021
The French Historical Narrative and the Fall of France: Simone Weil and her Contemporaries Face the Debacle - Hardcover
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by Christine Ann Evans (Author)The French Historical Narrative and the Fall of France focuses on assessments of the fall of France in June 1940 and its impact on France's historical narrative, placing Simone Weil's writing of 1938 to 1943 within this continuum. Number of Pages: 142 Dimensions: 0.5 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: July 19, 2022
Into the Fantastical Spaces of Contemporary Japanese Literature - Paperback
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by Mina Qiao (Editor), Anthony Bekirov (Contribution by), Francesca Bianco (Contribution by)Into the Fantastical Spaces of Contemporary Japanese Literature examines selected contemporary Japanese writers and their use of fantastical spaces. Such spaces grant access to phenomena occluded from everyday life, including the geographically peripheral, the culturally marginalized, the psychologically liminal, and the physically intangible.Author BiographyDr. Mina Qiao teaches Japanese literature at...
Phillis Wheatley as Prophetic Poet: You Must Be Born Again - Hardcover
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by Wallis C. Baxter III (Author)In You Must Be Born Again: Phillis Wheatley as Prophetic Poet, the author argues that Phillis Wheatley is the mother of liberation theology. The author uses Wheatley's poetry and life experiences to create a portrait of Wheatley beyond that of a poet. Wheatley is described as both poet and visionary who wrestles with God during the creative process. The lyrical expressions of Wheatley's poetry unlock the spiritual impressions on her heart. The author sets up t...
Environmental Postcolonialism: A Literary Response - Hardcover
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by Shubhanku Kochar (Editor), Anjum Khan (Editor), Shubhanku Kochar (Contribution by)Environmental Postcolonialism investigates the environmental ramifications of colonialism and furnishes a hopeful ecocritical vision of a postcolonial world. Author BiographyShubhanku Kochar is assistant professor at University School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi. M. Anjum Khan is assistant professor of English in Avinashilingam Institute for Home Scien...
Culinary Diplomacy's Role in the Immigrant Experience: Fiction and Memoirs of Middle Eastern Women - Hardcover
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by Jennifer Gray (Author)Culinary Diplomacy's Role in the Immigrant Experience: Fiction and Memoirs of Middle Eastern Women is the first contribution to literary food study to examine Middle Eastern women's writing. Using twenty-first century transnational theory, the volume establishes books with recipes as tools of culinary diplomacy. Author BiographyJennifer Gray is assistant professor of English at Tennessee Tech University. Number of Pages: 144 Dimensions: 0.5 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date...
Antiheroines of Contemporary Media: Saints, Sinners, and Survivors - Paperback
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by Melanie Haas (Editor), N. A. Pierce (Editor), Gretchen Busl (Editor)This text offers a critical engagement with media and cultural theory to analyze how the antiheroine trope is employed to challenge the socio-political discourses scripted in contemporary narratives. Each chapter works to complicate our understandings of women characters and the intersections of identity, power, and culture that shape them.Author BiographyMelanie Haas is chair of the Department of Humanities and Social Sci...
Royalty in Twenty-First Century Children's and Young Adult Literature: Reshaping the Folktale and Disney Tradition - Hardcover
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by Amie A. Doughty (Author)Doughty examines twenty-first century children's and young adult literature featuring royal characters, exploring different ways that authors reshape traditional folktale and Disney royals to create new royals that transform the traditional roles. She explores royals in terms of gender, queerness, and race and ethnicity.Author BiographyAmie A. Doughty is professor of English at the State University of New York, Oneonta. Number of Pages: 172 Dimensions: 0.56 x 9 x 6 ...
Playful Wisdom: Reimagining the Sacred in American Literature, from Walden to Gilead - Paperback
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by Robert Leigh Davis (Author)This book examines play and religion in American literature, exploring a unique kind of modern piety that arises not based on fixed doctrines or ecclesiastical structures, but on a light-handed responsiveness of spirit that constantly adapts to new perspectives and revises fixed assumptions in the light of new experiences.Author BiographyRobert Leigh Davis is professor emeritus at Wittenberg University. Number of Pages: 252 Dimensions: 0.57 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated...
Displacing Fictions of Orhan Pamuk: Beyond the Bridge - Hardcover
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by Hande G?ses (Author)This book argues for a rethinking of the role of world literature through new readings of Orhan Pamuk. Drawing on the intrinsic connection between the bridge metaphor and Pamuk's work, the author identifies the new metaphors that are better suited for the discipline of world literature.Author BiographyHande G?ses is instructor at Capilano University. Number of Pages: 210 Dimensions: 0.63 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: November 21, 2023
Francophone Sephardic Fiction: Writing Migration, Diaspora, and Modernity - Hardcover
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by Judith Roumani (Author)This book argues that modern francophone Sephardic novels, mainly from North Africa, draw on oral storytelling as well as modern and postmodern techniques to express the experience of migration, producing innovative imagined portable homelands with which the migrants successfully confront new societies, languages, and cultures.Author BiographyJudith Roumani is founder and director of the Jewish Institute of Pitigliano. Number of Pages: 182 Dimensions: 0.56 x 9 x 6 IN...
Dante Satiro: Satire in Dante Alighieri's Comedy and Other Works - Paperback
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by Fabian Alfie (Editor), Nicolino Applauso (Editor)This collection of essays explores the concept and tradition of satire in relation to Dante's Comedy and his other works, and the modern reception of Dante's satire in contemporary American culture. It is the first comprehensive study on Dante and satire within his entire corpus that has ever been published in recent times.Author BiographyFabian Alfie is professor of Italian at the University of Arizona. Nicolino Applauso is visiting assista...
Creating Your Own Space: The Metaphor of the House in Feminist Literature - Paperback
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by María Davis (Author)Creating Your Own Space explores the reasons for the use of the house as a metaphor by analyzing two literary works and a particular metaphor, such as the house as a prison or the house as a place of economic freedom.Author BiographyMaria Davis is visiting assistant professor of Spanish at Oxford College of Emory University. Number of Pages: 84 Dimensions: 0.2 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: August 22, 2022
The Poetry and Music of Joaquín Sabina: An Angel with Black Wings - Paperback
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by Daniel J. Nappo (Author)The Poetry and Music of Joaquín Sabina: An Angel with Black Wings is an exploration of the life, music, and song lyrics of the Spanish singer-songwriter Joaquín Sabina. Using lyrics from Sabina's discography, Daniel J. Nappo analyzes his use of rhetorical and poetic devices, his ability as a narrator, and compares his work to that of Bob Dylan.Author BiographyDaniel J. Nappo is professor of Spanish at the University of Tennessee at Martin. Number of Pages: 204 Dimen...
African American Literature of the Twenty-First Century and the Black Arts: The Case of John Edgar Wideman - Hardcover
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by Stephen Casmier (Author)The six novels that John Edgar Wideman wrote from 1987 to 2017 enable reassessment of the quarantining of the Black Arts movement by African American literary history. These works transform the novel into a charm or functional tool of the black arts, taking writing beyond the act of written representation.Author BiographyStephen Casmier is associate professor in the department of English at Saint Louis University. Number of Pages: 230 Dimensions: 0.69 x 9 x 6 IN Pub...
Ma Yuan: The Chinese Avant-Garde, Metafiction, and Post-Postmodernism - Hardcover
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by Will Gatherer (Author)This study provides a comprehensive analysis of the works of Ma Yuan--of China's most important contemporary authors--and analyzes the shifting dynamics of metafiction, postmodernism, post-socialism, and post-postmodernism in a Chinese context.Author BiographyWill Gatherer is lecturer in Chinese at the University of Queensland. Number of Pages: 176 Dimensions: 0.56 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: November 15, 2021
Queer Transgressions in Twentieth-Century Polish Fiction: Gender, Nation, Politics - Paperback
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by Jack J. B. Hutchens (Author)This book analyzes the subversive power of twentieth-century Polish fiction, showing that it helped to undermine nationalist and homophobic ideologies that are still at play in Poland today. The author argues that the transgressive reading of Polish literature can challenge the many binaries that conservative, heteronormative ideology depends upon.Author BiographyJack J. B. Hutchens teaches courses on Polish literature and culture in the Department of Modern Lan...
Philosophical Children in Literary Situations: Toward a Phenomenology of Childhood - Paperback
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by Peter Costello (Author)This book is a series of readings of phenomenological texts and novels for children that carves out an interdisciplinary space that allows phenomenology to offer provocative literary analyses.Author BiographyPeter R. Costello is professor of philosophy and of public and community service at Providence College. Number of Pages: 188 Dimensions: 0.43 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: August 18, 2022
Translated Memories: Transgenerational Perspectives on the Holocaust - Paperback
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by Bettina Hofmann (Editor), Anne Ranasinghe (Contribution by), Bettina Hofmann (Contribution by)This book engages with cultural memory in literature and other media of the second and third generations of Holocaust survivors who are confronted with language loss, language acquisition and multiple issues of translation of inherited and received cultural memory.Author BiographyBettina Hofmann teaches American studies at the University of Wuppertal. She recently co-edited the volumes Life Writin...
The Unknown Satanic Verses Controversy on Race and Religion - Hardcover
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by Üner Daglier (Author)Decades after its publication, Salman Rushdie's controversial novel The Satanic Verses remains much talked about and little understood. The Unknown Satanic Verses Controversy on Race and Religion now responds to this critical gap through painstakingly detailed attention to the totality of Rushdie's text.Author BiographyÜner Daglier is independent scholar. Number of Pages: 178 Dimensions: 0.56 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: May 19, 2020
The Paths of Zatoichi: The Global Influence of the Blind Swordsman - Hardcover
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by Jonathan Wroot (Author)The Paths of Zatoichi charts the history and influence of the Japanese film and television franchise about Zatoichi the blind swordsman. The franchise is comprised of 29 films and 100 TV episodes (starring the famous Shintaro Katsu, who starred in 26 of the 29 feature films). They all follow the adventures of a blind masseur in medieval Japan, who wanders from village to village and often has to defend himself with his deadly sword skills. The first film was released...
Contested Borders: Queer Politics and Cultural Translation in Contemporary Francophone Writing from the Maghreb - Hardcover
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by William J. Spurlin (Author)Contested Borders broadens understandings of dissident sexualities in Africa through focusing specifically on the Maghreb. It examines new representations of same-sex desire emerging in new francophone life writing, memoir, and literature from Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia.Author BiographyWilliam J. Spurlin is Professor of English, Brunel University, London Number of Pages: 262 Dimensions: 0.75 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: June 22, 2022
American Trickster: Trauma, Tradition and Brer Rabbit - Paperback
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by Emily Zobel Marshall (Author)This book examines the cultural significance of the North American trickster figure Brer Rabbit.Author BiographyEmily Zobel Marshall is lecturer in the School of Cultural Studies at Leeds Beckett University. Number of Pages: 182 Dimensions: 0.42 x 9 x 6 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: March 16, 2021
Theorizing Glissant: Sites and Citations - Paperback
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by John E. Drabinski (Editor), Marisa Parham (Editor)This edited collection gathers together leading commentators on the work of Édouard Glissant in order to theorize the philosophical significance of his work.Author BiographyJohn E. Drabinski is professor of Black Studies at Amherst College. His many publications include Levinas and the Postcolonial (2011), which won the Frantz Fanon Book Prize, Godard Between Identity and Difference (2008) and Sensibility and Singularity (2001). Hi is co-ed...
Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival: A Critical Anthology - Hardcover
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by Dennis Wilson Wise (Editor)In Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival, editor Dennis Wilson Wise argues that speculative poets over the last century have initiated a long unrecognized revival of medieval alliterative poetics. This anthology collects for the first time those poets--C. S. Lewis, Poul Anderson, and others--who have fomented this revival.Author BiographyDennis Wilson Wise is professor of practice and director of undergraduate studies for the English Department a...
Diplomacy in Postwar British Literature and Culture - Hardcover
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by Caroline Zoe Krzakowski (Author)In Diplomacy in Postwar British Literature and Culture, Krzakowski shows how matters of international relations--refugee crises, tribunals, espionage, and diplomatic practice--have influenced the thematic and formal concerns of twentieth-century cultural production.Author BiographyCaroline Zoe Krzakowski is associate professor of English at Northern Michigan University. Number of Pages: 208 Dimensions: 0.63 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: May 16, 2023