James Balakier
ISBN13: 9781604977233
Date: 28-Oct-10
The exciting discovery and identification of Thomas Traherne's lost manuscripts at the beginning of the twentieth century aroused an intense interest among poetry lovers and scholars of seventeenth-century literature, which has continued to this day. This is the first book-length study to concentrate on the multiple roles played by Felicity in his canon, including Traherne’s far-reaching repudiation of the materialist ideas of Thomas Hobbes.
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Colm McKeogh
ISBN13: 9781604976342
Date: 28-Oct-09
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) was the most influential, challenging, and provocative pacifist of his generation. In this first study of Tolstoy’s pacifism, Colm McKeogh unravels the complexities of Tolstoy’s writings on Christianity and political violence. This work serves scholars of political science by bringing together relevant extracts from Tolstoy’s writings and providing a succinct treatment of the core political issues.
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Reconstructing Identity and Truth
John Dean
ISBN13: 9781604976311
Date: 28-Sep-09
Through a postcolonial lens, this study negotiates travel and encounter narratives that imagine and re-imagine New Mexico during one of its most dynamic shifts in identity: from the mid-19th century (when the United States conquered Mexico and made New Mexico a U.S. territory) to the mid-20th century when the Native American literary renaissance began). Issues of identity (transformed by the New Mexico landscape) and race, religion and culture (through the lens of colonialism) are illuminated and clearly explained .
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Authoritarian Command Versus Gift Exchange
Bonnie S. McDougall
ISBN13: 9781604977462
Date: 03-Jun-11
Written by renowned sinologist Bonnie McDougall, this is the first full-length, detailed, and theorized treatment in any language of Chinese-English literary translation transactions and will stand as the major primary source of future studies. It opens up new corners of modern Chinese culture and society that sinologists have hitherto overlooked.
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