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Henry Miller: new perspectives

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"Academic treatments of Henry Miller's works have never been numerous and for many years Miller was not a fashionable writer in literary studies. In fact, there exist only three collections of essays concerning Henry Miller's oeuvre. Since these books appeared, a new generation …

Afropolitanism and the novel: de-realizing Africa

by Harris, Ashleigh

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Introduction: de-realization and the African novel -- Part I: Afropolitanism and literary legitimacy -- De-realizing literary form and style -- Dissociation and Africa in the world -- Part II: De-realization and the aesthetics of irrealism -- Street lives and the limits of hustl…

Shakespeare and queer representation

by Guy-Bray, Stephen

fromSpotlight on Shakespeare

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Cymbeline -- King John -- Macbeth -- The rape of Lucrece -- The sonnets -- Venus and Adonis. "Shakespeare often uses representation not just a as a lens through which to tell a story, but as a textual tool in itself. In this engaging and accessible guidebook, Stephen Guy Bray u…

Gestures of testimony: torture, trauma, and affect in literature

by Richardson, Michael

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" After 9/11, the United States became a nation that sanctioned torture. Detainees across the globe were waterboarded, deprived of sleep, beaten by guards, blasted with deafening music and forced into obscene acts. Their torture presents a profound problem for literature: tortur…

Ezra Pound in the present: essays on Pound's contemporaneity

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" Was Ezra Pound the first theorist of world literature? Or did he inaugurate a form of comparative literature that could save the discipline from its untimely demise? Would he have welcomed the 2008 financial crisis? What might he say about America's economic dependence on Chin…

The Routledge companion to literature and disability

fromRoutledge Companions

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Disability in indigenous literature / Siobhan Senier -- Disability in black speculative fiction / Sami Schalk -- t4t : towards a crip ethics of trans literary criticism / Cameron Awkward Rich -- Challenging photocentrism : writing signs and bilingual deaf literatures / Kristen H…

Playfulness in Shakespearean adaptations

fromRoutledge Studies in Shakespeare

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"Four hundred years after William Shakespeare's death, his works continue to not only fill playhouses around the world, but also be adapted in various forms for consumption in popular culture, including in film, television, comics and graphic novels, and digital media. Drawing o…

Creating identity in the Victorian fictional autobiography

by Pennington, Heidi L.

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"This is the first book-length study of the fictional autobiography, a subgenre that is at once widely recognizable and rarely examined as a literary form with its own history and dynamics of interpretation. Heidi L. Pennington shows that the narrative form and genre expectation…

Raymond Chandler: the detections of totality

by Jameson, Fredric

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"The master of literary theory takes on the master of the detective novel Raymond Chandler, a dazzling stylist and portrayer of American life, holds a unique place in literary history, straddling both pulp fiction and modernism. With The Big Sleep, published in 1939, he left an …

Epidemic empire: colonialism, contagion, and terror, 1817-2020

by Raza Kolb, Anjuli Fatima

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Terrorism is a cancer, an infection, an epidemic, a plague. For more than a century, this metaphor has figured insurgent violence as contagion in order to contain its political energies. In Epidemic Empire, Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb shows that this trope began in responses to the …