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Television Series as Literature

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This book explores how television series can be understood as a form of literature, bridging the gap between literary and television studies. It goes beyond existing adaptation studies and narratological approaches to television series in both its scope and depth. The respective…

Joseph Conrad and Postcritique: Politics of Hope, Politics of Fear

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'This collection of essays is a significant contribution to both Conrad studies and the critique / postcritique debate. Through a series of original, insightful and pertinently suggestive critical essays, focussed largely on canonical works by Conrad (Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim…

Translating Feminism: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Text, Place and A…

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In these times of the intensified transnational flows of feminist knowledges, translation has become central to the cross-border travels of feminist theories and practices. This innovative multidisciplinary book gathers a rich range of essays from diverse epistemological formati…

Reading Malaysian Literature in English: Ethnicity, Gender, Diaspora, and Nationalism

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This book brings together fourteen articles by prominent critics of Malaysian Anglophone literature from five different countries: Australia, Italy, Malaysia, Singapore, and the US. It investigates the thematic and stylistic trends in the literary products of selected writers of…

Thinking Fascism analyzes three works by women writers - Djuna Barnes's Nightwood (1936), Marguerite Yourcenar's Denier du reve (1934), and Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas (1938) - that engage, directly or indirectly, with fascist politics and ideology. Through these analyses, th…

Thinking fascism: sapphic modernism and fascist modernity

by Carlston, Erin G.

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Thinking Fascism analyzes three works by women writers - Djuna Barnes's Nightwood (1936), Marguerite Yourcenar's Denier du reve (1934), and Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas (1938) - that engage, directly or indirectly, with fascist politics and ideology. Through these analyses, th…

Dirty Hearts: The History of Shindō Renmei

by Morais, Fernando

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Fernando Morais' Dirty Hearts is a tour de force of literary journalism that investigates the discriminatory treatment of the Japanese immigrant community in Brazil during World War II and in the aftermath of Japan's defeat and unconditional surrender. In contrast to the internm…

The seventeenth century is considered the Dutch Golden Age, a time when the Dutch were at the forefront of social change, economics, the sciences, and art. In Dutch Culture in the Golden Age, eminent historian J. Price goes beyond the standard descriptions of the cultural achi…

Restoring paradise: Western esotericism, literature, art, and conscio…

by Versluis, Arthur

fromSUNY series in Western esoteric traditions

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"Focusing on how spiritual initiation takes place in Western esoteric religious, literary, and artistic traditions from antiquity to the present, Restoring Paradise provides an introduction to Western esotericism, including early modern esoteric movements like alchemy, Christian…

Transcendence: philosophy, literature, and theology approach the…

by Schwartz, Regina M.

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In "Transcendence," thinkers from John Milbank, Graham Ward, and Kevin Hart, to Thomas Carlson, Slavoj Zizek, and Jean-Luc Marion have come together to create the definitive analysis of this key concept in modern theological and philosophical thought.

Transcendence: philosophy, literature, and theology approach the…

by Schwartz, Regina M.

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This volume addresses a sophisticated conceptual problem that has had strong currency in recent theological and philosophical arguments - the relationship of transcendence to power.

Images: a reader

by Manghani, Sunil, Simons, Jon, Piper, Arthur

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This text provides a map of the differences and similarities between the various disciplinary approaches to images, breaking the grounds for a new interdisciplinary study of the images, in the arts, humanities and beyond.

Blessings in disguise, or, The morality of evil

by Starobinski, Jean

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In the literature and aesthetic theory of modern times, we have witnessed the revival of the claim that the conventions and artifices of civilization are the source of many ills. Far from establishing harmonious relationships between individuals, they have sometimes legitimized …

Figures in black: words, signs, and the "racial" self

by Gates, Henry Louis Jr

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In this volume, Gates focuses critical attention on the most repressed element of African-American criticism - the language of the text. Incorporating the theoretical insights of critics such as Bakhtin, Foucault, Lacan, Derrida, and Bloom, he explores the work of a wide range o…

Figures in Black: words, signs, and the "racial" self

by Gates, Henry Louis Jr

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Argues that Black literature cannot be characterized strictly as social realism, and offers a textual analysis of works by eighteenth- to twentieth-century Black writers.

The Early Evolutionary Imagination: Literature and Human Nature

by Jonsson, Emelie

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"Jonsson is the first scholar in this historical field to assimilate the most recent empirical knowledge about our evolved human nature and the psychology of imagination. Her theoretical framework provides robust explanatory power, her interpretive critiques are incisive and aut…

The Detective's Companion in Crime Fiction: A Study in Sidekicks

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This book aims to establish the position of the sidekick character in the crime and detective fiction literary genres. It re-evaluates the traditional view that the sidekick character in these genres is often overlooked as having a small, generic or singular role-either to act a…