Literary studies: general

Irish literature since 1990: diverse voices

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This volume explores the meaning of republicanism in contemporary Ireland. While this has often been identified simply with nationalism, the book examines the connections, comparisons and contrasts between Irish republicanism and other strands of republican politics: the ideolog…

Irish Literature Since 1990: Diverse Voices

by Parker, Michael, Brewster, Scott

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This volume explores the meaning of republicanism in contemporary Ireland. While this has often been identified simply with nationalism, the book examines the connections, comparisons and contrasts between Irish republicanism and other strands of republican politics: the ideolog…

Irish Literature Since 1990: Diverse Voices

by Parker, Michael, Brewster, Scott

fromKnowledge Unlatched Select 2016

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This volume explores the meaning of republicanism in contemporary Ireland. While this has often been identified simply with nationalism, the book examines the connections, comparisons and contrasts between Irish republicanism and other strands of republican politics: the ideolog…

Irish literature since 1990: diverse voices

by Parker, Michael, Brewster, Scott, (Reader in English literature)

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This volume explores the meaning of republicanism in contemporary Ireland. While this has often been identified simply with nationalism, the book examines the connections, comparisons and contrasts between Irish republicanism and other strands of republican politics: the ideolog…

George Orwell and religion

by Brennan, Michael G.

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"Drawing on the full range of Orwell's public and private writing, Michael Brennan reassesses Orwell's lifelong engagement with religion in his life and work."

La mamma: interrogating a national stereotype

fromItalian and Italian American studies

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The idea of the "mamma italiana" is one of the most widespread and recognizable stereotypes in perceptions of Italian national character both within and beyond Italy.

Intimacy and celebrity in eighteenth-century literary culture: public interiors

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This book provides an expansive view of celebrity's intimate dimensions. In the process, it offers a timely reassessment of how notions of private and public were negotiated by writers, readers, actors and audiences in the early to mid-eighteenth century.

Queering childhood in early modern English drama and culture

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This volume analyzes early modern cultural representations of children and childhood through the literature and drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Contributors include leading international scholars of the English Renaissance whose essays consider asexuals and sodomite…

Inferences during reading

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"Inferencing is defined as 'the act of deriving logical conclusions from premises known or assumed to be true', and it is one of the most important processes necessary for successful comprehension during reading. This volume features contributions by distinguished researchers in…

From Orientalism to Cultural Capital: the Myth of Russia in British Literature of the 1…

by Soboleva, Olga, Wrenn, Angus

fromKnowledge Unlatched

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From Orientalism to Cultural Capital presents a fascinating account of the wave of Russophilia that pervaded British literary culture in the early twentieth century. The authors bring a new approach to the study of this period, exploring the literary phenomenon through two theor…

From Orientalism to Cultural Capital: the Myth of Russia in British Literature of the 1…

by Soboleva, Olga, Wrenn, Angus

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From Orientalism to Cultural Capital presents a fascinating account of the wave of Russophilia that pervaded British literary culture in the early twentieth century. The authors bring a new approach to the study of this period, exploring the literary phenomenon through two theor…

From orientalism to cultural capital: the myth of Russia in British literature of the 1…

by Soboleva, Olga, Wrenn, Angus James

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From Orientalism to Cultural Capital presents a fascinating account of the wave of Russophilia that pervaded British literary culture in the early twentieth century. The authors bring a new approach to the study of this period, exploring the literary phenomenon through two theor…

"Colonised by Wankers": Postcolonialism and Contemporary Scottish Fiction

by Homberg-Schramm, Jessica

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"Has Scotland suffered from colonial oppression by England for the last 300 years? While historiography may give an answer in the negative, this study reveals that the contemporary Scottish novel is haunted by strong feelings, marked by perceptions of abjection and inferiorisati…

Sexagon: Muslims, France and the sexualization of national…

by Mack, Mehammed Amadeus

fromModern language initiative

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In contemporary France, particularly in the banlieues of Paris, the figure of the young, virile, hypermasculine Muslim looms large. So large, in fact, it often supersedes liberal secular society's understanding of gender and sexuality altogether. Engaging the nexus of race, gend…

The Future of Philology: Proceedings of the 11th Annual Columbia Universit…

by Bajohr, Hannes, Dorvel, Benjamin R., Hessling, Vincent, Weitz, Tabea

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Philology, master science of the nineteenth century, has changed so radically over the course of the twentieth century that it is hardly recognizable in the twenty-first. Its scope has been transformed, its methodology contested, and its legitimacy called into doubt. Does it sti…

Gesturing toward reality: David Foster Wallace and philosophy

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"Asked in 2006 about the philosophical nature of his fiction, the late American writer David Foster Wallace replied, 'If some people read my fiction and see it as fundamentally about philosophical ideas, what it probably means is that these are pieces where the characters are no…

From the Old Country: Stories and Sketches of China and Taiwan

by Zhong, Lihe, McClellan, T. M.

fromModern Chinese literature from Taiwan

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Though he lived mostly in rural South Taiwan, Zhong Lihe (1915?1960) spent several years in Manchuria and Peking, moving among an eclectic mix of ethnicities, classes, and cultures. His fictional portraits unfold on Japanese battlefields and in Peking slums, as well as in the re…

Language lost and found: on Iris Murdoch and the limits of philosophical d…

by Forsberg, Niklas

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Language Lost and Found takes as its starting-point Iris Murdoch's claim that ""we have suffered a general loss of concepts."" By means of a thorough reading of Iris Murdoch's philosophy in the light of this difficulty, it offers a detailed examination of the problem of linguist…

Irigaray, incarnation and contemporary women's fiction

by Rine, Abigail

fromBloomsbury collections

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Drawing on the provocative recent work of feminist theorist Luce Irigaray, Irigaray, Incarnation and Contemporary Women's Fiction illuminates the vital and subversive role of literature in rewriting notions of the sacred. Abigail Rine demonstrates through careful readings how a …