Literary studies: general

The acoustics of the social on page and screen

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"Sound positions individuals as social subjects. The presence of human beings, animals, objects, or technologies reverberates into the spaces we inhabit and produces distinct soundscapes that render social practices, group associations, and socio-cultural tensions audible. The A…

Dangerous bodies: historicising the gothic corporeal

by Mulvey Roberts, Marie

fromManchester Gothic (Manchester, England)

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Through an investigation of the body and its oppression by the church, the medical profession and the state, 'Dangerous Bodies' reveals the actual horrors lying beneath fictional horror in settings as diverse as the monastic community, slave plantation, operating theatre, Jewish…

Asia in Western fiction

by Manchester University Press

fromStudies in imperialism (Manchester, England)

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'Asia in Western fiction' traces the depiction of Asia and of Asians in novels and other works of Western fiction, emphasising works available in English. It describes and analyses themes, stereotypes and clichés common to literature that have contributed to the understanding, a…

Michel Houellebecq and the Literature of Despair

by Houellebecq, Michel, Sweeney, Carole

fromContinuum literary studies

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"Widely acknowledged as an important, if highly controversial, figure in contemporary literature, French novelist and poet Michel Houellebecq has elicited diverse critical responses. In this book, Carole Sweeney examines his novels as a response to the advance of neoliberalism i…

Nonmodern practices: latour and literary studies

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"This collection of essays responds to the urgent call in the humanities to go beyond the act of negative critique which, so far, has been the dominant form of intellectual inquiry in academia. The contributors take their inspiration from Bruno Latour's pragmatic, relational app…

Frederick Douglass in Britain and Ireland, 1845-1895

by McKivigan, John R., Murray, Hannah-Rose

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This critical edition documents Frederick Douglass's relationship with Britain through unexplored oratory and print culture.

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 China…

Diderot et le temps

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Le rapport de Diderot au temps est profondément original : à bien des égards il déconcerte une approche classique de son œuvre ; à bien d'autres, il nous fait entrer d'emblée dans la profonde modernité de sa pensée et de ses pratiques d'écriture. C'est d'abord parce que le temps…

Culture as Soft Power: Bridging Cultural Relations, Intellectual Coopera…

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Including a thorough literature review and a number of case studies referred to cultural institutions and organisations, this book sheds light on different usages of culture as a source of soft power. Through an innovative and interdisciplinary approach, it addresses issues tack…

Annotated English translation of Tagore en las barrancas de san isidro

by Ocampo, Victoria

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A detailed account of Rabindranath's stay in Argentina, this book by Victoria Ocampo is an important document in tracing Indo-Argentine contact. This first English translation of the book makes it available to the larger English-speaking world. Its critical introduction uncovers…

The end of airports

by Schaberg, Christopher

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"If air travel was once the bold future, it has now settled into a mundane, on-going present. We no longer expect romantic experiences or sublime views, but just hope that we get from here to there with minimal hassle. In The End of Airports, Christopher Schaberg suggests that e…

Managing time: literature and devotion in early modern France

fromMedieval and early modern French studies

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This volume explores the theme of time in early modern France: time past, time present and time future, in literature and in life. Tragic drama in this period was haunted by the past, while in fiction there was a perennial fascination with an imagined future. At the same time, t…

John McGahern and modernism

by Robinson, Richard

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"John McGahern's work is not easily conceived of as belatedly modernist. His memorialising, faintly archaic style implies a concern with 'making it old' rather than new, suggesting the symptomatic diffidence of many who wrote in the wake of modernism. Nevertheless, McGahern's st…

Studying early printed books, 1450-1800: a practical guide

by Werner, Sarah

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"This part of the guide will provide an overview of printing a book, first describing the processes of making a book and then considering some of their consequences for the economics of book production. The second part of this guide will give more detailed information on these p…

Studying early printed books, 1450-1800: a practical guide

by Werner, Sarah

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"Studying Early Printed Books, 1450 - 1800 offers a guide to the fascinating process of how books were printed in the first centuries of the press and shows how the mechanics of making books shapes how we read and understand them. The author offers an insightful overview of how …