Making Sense in an Age of Absurdity
Brent C. Sleasman
ISBN13: 9781604977912
Date: 31-Dec-11
The life and work of Albert Camus provides insight into how to navigate through an absurd historical moment. This is the first book-length study that situates Camus’s work within the study of communication ethics and philosophy of communication, guiding readers on reinterpreting Camus’s work for the twenty-first century. Through this study, it becomes clear that Camus was an implicit philosopher of communication with deep ethical commitments.
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The Theater of Kang-baek Lee (Hardcover)
translated by Alyssa Kim and Hyung-jin Lee
ISBN13: 9781934043929
Date: 28-Nov-07
This translation is the first English-language anthology culled from Kang-baek Lee's works of more than forty plays and a major contribution to the limited English-language translations of modern South Korean drama in general.
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Feminist and Intercultural Approaches
Iris Hsin-chun Tuan
ISBN13: 9781934043103
Date: 28-Apr-07
Although several important playwrights and directors have staged vital gender critiques of national and international practices, almost no critic has remarked upon them. This study is the first to do so.
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Fragmenting the Realistic Stage
David K. Sauer
ISBN13: 9781604977578
Date: 18-Jun-11
This study seeks to reunite American drama with more of the mainstream of American literature using contemporary literary theories of feminism, Derrida, Lacan, as well as the nature of language. It also focuses on the theatrical ways that plays work through performance and staging.
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Rereading Nineteenth-Century Women Writers
Tamara Wagner
ISBN13: 9781604976076
Date: 28-May-09
This landmark book provides a critical reconsideration of nineteenth-century women’s writing by exploring the significance of antifeminist representations for literary developments in the century’s second half. It makes an important contribution to the study of Victorian literature and especially of recently rediscovered popular writers.
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Dawn Lewcock
ISBN13: 9781604975499
Date: 28-Sep-08
Usually recognised as the first professional woman writer, Aphra Behn (1640–1689) has become a popular subject for academic study. The study considers how Behn has constructed her plays and used their staging to ensure the perceptions and apprehensions she wants from that audience.
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Food and Identity in Late Twentieth-Century American Ethnic Literature
William R. Dalessio
ISBN13: 9781604978018
Date: 18-Mar-12
Over the last forty years, scenes that prominently feature acts of preparing and eating food have filled the pages of novels and memoirs written by American immigrants and their descendants because these writers understand that eating is more than a purely biological function but, instead, works to define who we are in the United States and abroad. This book critically analyzes eight of these pieces of ethnic American literature, which demonstrate the important role that cooking and eating play in the process of identity formation.
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The Catcher in the Rye, Moby-Dick, and Hamlet
William Glasser
ISBN13: 9781604976229
Date: 28-Jul-09
The close––yet undiscovered––relationship that exists between these three works offers readers a more revealing light that shines forth from each of them upon the other two, bringing a greater clarity to these always-challenging literary creations. This book offers, in detail, clarifying studies of the writer's craft as pursued by three master craftsmen in the act of achieving their literary masterpieces.
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Mythos, Theory, and Practice
R. Victoria Arana
ISBN13: 9781604975956
Date: 28-Apr-09
“This book succeeds in one of the most difficult tasks of literary criticism. It demonstrates how deeply Auden’s style and diction are essential bearers of complex meanings, and it does so in a lucid and exciting way. It marks a major advance in Auden studies and its insights will serve the needs of readers at all levels of experience.” — Professor Edward Mendelson, Columbia University
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Chinese Children in Australia
Ruying Qi
ISBN13: 9781604977745
Date: 28-Nov-11
“A detailed, fascinating account of Mandarin-English bilingual first language acquisition that not only provides rich and unique empirical data but also addresses a range of theoretical and methodological questions that are central to the study of language acquisition, bilingualism, and child development. It will no doubt become a key reference ...” – Professor Li Wei, University of London
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Framing the Contemporary
Neil Murphy and Wai-chew Sim
ISBN13: 9781604975413
Date: 28-Nov-08
In this outstanding collection of essays, Neil Murphy and Wai-chew Sim seek not so much to demarcate the field of British Asian fiction, but to offer due acknowledgment of the artistic merit of the works of selected authors and simultaneously register their cultural significance.
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The Seductive Play of Language
Bernadette Brennan
ISBN13: 9781604975642
Date: 28-Nov-08
Brian Castro’s fiction is becoming increasingly recognized for its brilliance around the world. In this first critical study of Brian Castro’s work, Bernadette Brennan offers original and creative readings of Castro’s eight published novels.
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Ouyang Yu
ISBN13: 9781604975161
Date: 28-Sep-08
This is an important book that illustrates how the “Other” is represented and will be a valuable book for those in Australian studies, Asian studies, and literary studies.
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T. S. Eliot's Response to Percy Shelley
Peter Lowe
ISBN13: 9781934043349
Date: 28-Oct-06
A valuable contribution to the field of Eliot studies that sheds light on a case of poetic influence that has been largely overlooked in previous criticism of arguably the foremost poet of the Twentieth Century.
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Response to The Da Vinci Code as Impression Management
John Dillon and William McKeel
ISBN13: 9781934043684
Date: 18-Jul-07
The first book to study how "major Christian religions online” responded, and content-analyzes the messages put forth to deal with public perceptions of The Da Vinci Code.
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Christian de Chalonge’s Docteur Petiot and Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Delicatessen
Esther Rowlands
ISBN13: 9781604976441
Date: 28-Nov-09
This book seeks to establish a new way of examining not only history but contemporary manners of historical representation on film, as well as their cultural and philosophical implications. It aims to advance new ways of investigating the past with films that are, on the surface, only tangentially related to traditional manners of historical representation.
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A Textual Archaeology of the Yi jing
Scott Davis
ISBN13: 9781604978087
Date: 08-Aug-12
This highly unique study focuses on the archaic core of the Classic of Changes and proposes a structural anthropological analysis for two reasons. First, unlike many treatments of the Yi jing, there is a concern to place the text carefully in the context of the ancient culture which created it. Second, the approach differs from traditional exegesis which did not and ultimately could not address problems of textual understanding in a holistic sense. This book is not a translation of the Classic of Changes; it is a careful interpretation, or rather method of exploration, of the connectivities and topography of the text as a whole.
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Gillian Dooley
ISBN13: 9781604976731
Date: 18-Mar-10
As a novelist born in and living most of his life in South Africa, J. M. Coetzee has been viewed by many readers and critics through an ideological lens, which he has always resisted to a greater or lesser extent. Most studies on J. M. Coetzee's works focus on the political or post-colonial aspects and resist allegorical readings. This unique study delves into his use of language and languages: the choice of tenses, the surprising flights of imagery to be found amidst the taut elegance of his narrative style; and also the multilingual sensibilities he shares with many of his characters, not excluding the non-verbal language of music.
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From Rehearsal to Production
Jennifer Lanipekun
ISBN13: 9781604977691
Date: 18-Sep-11
Whilst centring specifically on opera as a medium, the examination unpicks general processes of theatrical rehearsal, profiling individuals at work in a systematic way that begins to uncover and identify patterns of behavior. The study, thus, draws important lessons from observation of that process which can then be applied to future experience, assisting the novice especially, whose previous recourse was mainly limited to trial-and-error approaches within their own personal production experience.
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Hyphenated Identities and Border Crossings
Amal Talaat Abdelrazek
ISBN13: 9781934043714
Date: 28-Jan-08
A profound study of how contemporary Arab American women writers who have been marginalized and silenced, especially after 9/11 ...
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Political Thought In Du Fu’s Poetry (752–757)
David K. Schneider
ISBN13: 9781604978391
Date: 28-Dec-12
“This is the best study of a single Chinese poet I have seen in decades. And the best study of Du Fu known to me. David Schneider goes beyond previous works in revealing what might be called the source of Du Fu’s gravitas. ... Schneider writes eloquently and clearly, and is a very fine translator indeed, and gives us some of the very finest translations of Du Fu we now possess.” – Jonathan Chaves, George Washington University
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Jacopo Corrado
ISBN13: 9781604975291
Date: 08-Sep-08
This groundbreaking book is about Angolan literature and culture. It investigates a segment of Angolan history and literature, with which even Portuguese-speaking readers are generally not familiar.
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Romantic Antiquarians and the Euro-American Invention of Native American Prehistory
De Villo Sloan
ISBN13: 9781604975031
Date: 28-May-08
In this highly unique and beautifully written book, Professor De Villo Sloan applies literary analysis to antiquarian writing––a body of work most often associated with the history of archaeology.
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Katarzyna Malecka
ISBN13: 9781604975727
Date: 28-Dec-08
Hailed as one of the most powerful and moving poets of his generation, Galway Kinnell has been commended by critics who often pair his name with such famous predecessors as Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, Robert Frost, W. B. Yeats, Rainer Maria Rilke, T. S. Eliot, and Theodore Roethke. This innovative book makes a significant contribution to scholarship on Galway Kinnell.
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Sexuality and the Literary Karyûkai
Cynthia Gralla
ISBN13: 9781604977288
Date: 28-Dec-10
In breadth and accomplishment, Japan's demimonde literature rivals that of any other national literature; yet very little work analyzing the cultural, psychological, and textual significance of this space has been published to date. This book analyzes representations of the demimonde in Japanese literature and other arts from the beginning of the twentieth century to the early 1990s, through fiction, critical essays, films, photographs, and performances by Nagai Kafû, Kôda Aya, Tanizaki Junichiro, Kuki Shûzô, Mishima Yukio, Hosoe Eikoh, Tamura Taijiro, Murakami Ryû, Ohno Kazuo, and Matsumoto Toshio.
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National Innovation and the Transformation of a Region
Carin Holroyd and Kenneth Coates
ISBN13: 9781604978056
Date: 26-Jul-12
China, South Korea, Taiwan and Japan are more than prominent players in the new digital economy. As a collective force, East Asia dominates the global digital shift, producing much of the technology that underpins global digital integration and, now, establishing a steadily expanding presence in terms of digital content. This book argues that the underappreciated scale of East Asian activity in this key sector is setting up the region as a global leader in the new economy, quietly building global dominance in manufacturing, digital implementations and, most recently, digital content production.
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Moving Toward Postconventional Representations
Nancy Viva Davis Halifax
ISBN13: 9781604976113
Date: 28-May-09
Disability and illness are not easy subjects to write about in a direct manner. However, this remarkable book presents a story of illness and disability, experiences which collectively enrich and challenge our understandings of embodiment, narrative, social structures, identity and politics--the full continuum of what it means and has meant, to be human.
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Michael Cribb
ISBN13: 9781604976571
Date: 18-Dec-09
This book is a timely study into the nature of extended discourse and the problems that non-native speakers have in constructing this. It specifically focuses on discourse that is multi-propositional, that is, extended turns and monologues, and analyses this for breaks in coherence and comprehensibility brought about by miscues in semantic and pragmatic features at the discourse level. This book will be of interest to applied linguistics and English-language teaching practitioners around the world as well as academics involved in the testing of spoken English.
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Marc Schuster
ISBN13: 9781604975048
Date: 18-Mar-08
Although many critics have glossed the affinities between DeLillo and Baudrillard, this is the first book-length study to explore the relationship between the American author and the French theorist.
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Assessing the Limits of Metatheatre
Daniel K. Jernigan
ISBN13: 9781604975420
Date: 28-Nov-08
This collection of essays is impressive in its breadth, ranging over English, Irish, American, and Continental dramatists. Many of the plays given extended treatment are frequently anthologized and/or taught.
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Andrew Kimbrough
ISBN13: 9781604977301
Date: 01-Jan-11
This is the first book of theatre studies to identify and articulate theories of voice as expressed in the philosophies, human sciences, and physical sciences of the twentieth century. It also identifies parallels between the theories and the vocal practices of twentieth-century performances that shared similar concerns with issues of language and mediation. This book adopts as a central premise that the introduction and proliferation of electronic forms of communication stimulated the interest in voice and language in the scholarly discourses of the twentieth century and stimulated as well the fascination with the sounds of the voice as expressed in the twentieth-century avant garde.
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A Study of Contemporary African Literature
Walter P. Collins
ISBN13: 9781604976649
Date: 18-Jan-10
There exists an abundance of deft scholarship and critical analyses, even in the most recent publications by African and Western theorists, of the works of recognized African authors. This volume offers insightful general analysis and critical evaluation of new writers’ works in order to showcase their contributions to the body of African literature. It examines nine contemporary writers whose works (written almost entirely in the colonial languages of English and French) in some way update and refocus African literature for the new century.
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National and Cultural Identity in 1930s and 1940s England
Peter Lowe
ISBN13: 9781604978131
Date: 08-Jun-12
This book is concerned with the period in which the discussion of English identity assumed such importance because it could not be assumed that the nation itself would survive. The debate over the country’s identity, structure, and future direction was very real, and many of the issues it stimulated are very much a part of the ongoing discussion of England’s identity today. As such, this book is a valuable addition to collections in literature and history.
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Stephen Faison
ISBN13: 9781604975734
Date: 28-Nov-08
Faison effectively challenges the frequent assertion that the intellectual and creative sources of film noir are to be found in European thinkers and movements, and establishes film noir, like hard-boiled fiction, as a uniquely American phenomenon.
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Andrew Zhonghu Yan
ISBN13: 9781604977530
Date: 18-Jun-11
In this existential reading of the Analects, the author takes Paul Tillich as an omnipresent dialogical partner because his existential theology was at one time very influential in the West and currently very popular in Chinese academia. The study's most important contribution is how it reveals the religious or theological dimension of the Confucian Analects.
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The Cultural Production of Controversial Women Authors
Aijun Zhu
ISBN13: 9781934043127
Date: 28-Apr-07
A significant contribution to studies in Chinese literature and culture. Scholars will benefit greatly from the author's sharp awareness of the changing geopolitical mapping of Chineseness.
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The Danger and the Sexual Threat
Jennifer Hedgecock
ISBN13: 9781604975185
Date: 28-May-08
In this well-argued book, the author rejects the stereotypical mid-Victorian femme fatale portrayed by conservative ideologues critiquing popular fiction by Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Honoré de Balzac, and William Makepeace Thackeray.
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Ghada Sasa
ISBN13: 9781604975352
Date: 28-Sep-08
This interesting book examines the representation of female characters in American naturalism and argues that women in American naturalism are often represented as femmes fatales.
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Discourse, Politics, and Culture
Amadou Fofana
ISBN13: 9781604978315
Date: 28-Nov-12
Ousmane Sembène was a Senegalese film director, producer, and writer whom the Los Angeles Times considered one of the greatest authors of Africa. Often called the "father of African film," Sembène strongly believed that African films should be geared primarily toward educating the masses. This study examines the artistry of Sembène’s films and interprets the meaning conveyed by images through their placement and function within the films. It also contributes new insights into Sembène’s interpretations of cultural practices and the meanings he ascribes to social behaviors.
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Noah McLaughlin
ISBN13: 9781604976830
Date: 18-Mar-10
The relationship of French national identity to its cinema is a well-established field. Yet so far, most studies have either taken a broad historical approach or focused on a particular director or period. Using various theoretical approaches, this book investigates an area that is––as of today––either ill or untreated by scholars: what is the relationship of film form to the historical and social reflections of a given work, whether they be overt or hidden?
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Aesthetics and Creation
Gao Xingjian
ISBN13: 9781604978360
Date: 28-Nov-12
Nobel Laureate Gao Xingjian is amongst the most challenging writers of the present era. He has probed the dynamics of Chinese and European literature and developed unique strategies for the writing of seventeen plays, two novels, a collection of short stories and a collection of poems. He has also written two collections of criticism. The present collection takes the title "Aesthetics and Creation" from the name of the Chinese collection from which most of these essays are drawn, but it also includes some of Gao’s most recent unpublished essays.
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Nationalities, Identities, and the Performing Body of Work
Thomas F. Connolly
ISBN13: 9781604976823
Date: 18-Mar-10
Despite the significance of performers and the material culture of performance to national culture, there has been far too much pigeon-holing of the topics that inform the cultural study of nation, identity, and performance. Spanning across playwrights, performers, critics, and theatrical commemorations, this book raises controversy about familiar figures and brings attention to neglected ones. It is an important book for all in theatre, cultural studies, and literature collections.
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Sanna Inthorn
ISBN13: 9781934043950
Date: 28-Dec-07
This book makes an important contribution to the study of German national identity by offering a detailed and large-scale academic analysis of how German media discourse between 1998 and 2005 represents German national identity.
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A Longitudinal Study on the Acquisition of the English Article System
Yong Lang
ISBN13: 9781604976700
Date: 28-Jan-10
This book which details an in-depth longitudinal study of Chinese ESL learners' acquisition process of English articles helps fill the gap in needed research of the challenges faced by ESL learners.While the findings from this study challenge several claims documented in current L2 research literature on one hand, it also casts some much-needed light on the acquisition processes of English articles by Chinese ESL learners.
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A Novel on Lesbian Desire in the Middle East by Elham Mansour. Translated and Edited with an Introduction by Samar Habib
Elham Mansour / Edited and Translated by Samar Habib
ISBN13: 9781604975024
Date: 08-Feb-08
This long-awaited critical translation provides the English reader access to a novel which deals candidly and positively with one of the most important and taboo issues of contemporary Arab society––(homo)sexuality.
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David Waterman
ISBN13: 9781934043226
Date: 02-Dec-06
"Waterman contributes to an understanding of Lessing's worldview by appropriately exploring global identities, shared cultural traditions, and morphing colonial experiments." - Doris Lessing Studies
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The Romantic Tradition
Robin Mookerjee
ISBN13: 9781604975086
Date: 18-May-08
This book is a valuable source for scholars with an interest in Emerson and Pound Studies, the intellectual traditions leading to Modernism, and the Objectivist and Black Mountain schools of American poetry.
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Salman Rushdie, Bharati Mukherjee, and V.S. Naipaul
Cristina Emanuela Dascalu
ISBN13: 9781934043738
Date: 28-Nov-07
An eloquently argued book with meticulous theoretical groundwork, Imaginary Homelands of Writers in Exile presents a most lucid and concise examination of exile.
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Chinese Martial Arts Fiction and Modern Chinese Literary History
Ann Huss and Jianmei Liu
ISBN13: 9781934043080
Date: 28-May-07
This pioneering book is the first English-language collection of academic articles on Jin Yong's works. It introduces an important dissenting voice in Chinese literature to the English-speaking audience.
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Man of the American Stage
Lynn Matluck Brooks
ISBN13: 9781604977752
Date: 18-Oct-11
This book takes the perspective of the theater as a crucible for the forging of American identity and culture. John Durang (1768–1822) is both an exemplary and a remarkable figure in early American theater. Among the first native-born Americans to appear on the stage, he was the first to make the theater his life.
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Honorifics, Narrative, and Ideology in Air Force Talk
Edith A. Disler
ISBN13: 9781604975383
Date: 28-Aug-08
In this landmark book, the author opens the door to considerations of power, gender dynamics, and language and ideology in a community that has not yet been studied using the techniques of discourse analysis.
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Ethnogenesis in Context
Antonio Olliz Boyd
ISBN13: 9781604977042
Date: 08-Aug-10
By exploring the works of Latin American novelists, poets, and lyricists, this study shows how they creatively expose their most intimate feelings on ethnic Blackness through a semiotic reliance on the inner voice. At the same time, the
reader becomes a witness to the writers’ associations with a sense of
Africanness as it artistically affects them and their communities in
their formulations of self-identity.
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A Processability Perspective
Satomi Kawaguchi
ISBN13: 9781604976854
Date: 28-Apr-10
Given the important implications of language on cultural understanding and improved communication in today’s society, the process of second language acquisition deserves much attention. This book makes a substantial contribution to second language acquisition (SLA) studies, especially for its discussion of speech processing involved in L2 sentence production and because it accounts for learning a language which is typologically distant from the native languages of the learners.
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Questions of Responsibility in Literary Studies
Daniel Jernigan, Neil Murphy, Brendan Quigley, and Tamara Wagner
ISBN13: 9781604976052
Date: 28-May-09
This unique book covers a wide gamut of literary periods and genres, including essays on Victorian literature and modernism, as well as several studies on narrative, but the central ethos emerges from considerations of issues of responsibility and irresponsibility as they find expression in literary study, and in ethics. It is an important book for all literature and literary theory collections.
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The Tradition and Poetics of Tihuashi
Daan Pan
ISBN13: 9781604977417
Date: 28-Jan-11
This book is the first book-length study in English that addresses the subject of Chinese tihuashi exclusively through inquiries of historical and critical synthesis. Shedding interartistic and cross-cultural light on this genre, it is a concise pioneering study intended to provoke further research on tihuashi and also pave the way for a study of its comparability with ekphrastic poetry.
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Political Essays on Women, Culture, and Nation
Anita Anantharam
ISBN13: 9781604976717
Date: 28-Jul-10
This volume of translations of Mahadevi Varma’s feminist political essays is the first of its kind. While there is ample work on Varma in Hindi, scholars of feminism (and students of Hindi who are in the nascent stages of language acquisition) have nowhere to turn for a comprehensive sampling of her work. This book now helps fill the void with contributions from some of the highly regarded experts in the world of Hindi today.
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Liangwen Kuo
ISBN13: 9781604976878
Date: 18-Apr-10
Migration documentary films played an important role in promoting Australian images to the outside world. This innovative book is the first in the field that comes with a systematic and comprehensive study of migration documentary films in post-war Australia. Scholars and students whose interests include documentary films, immigration, ethnicity, national identity, and propaganda would find this book to be a valuable resource.
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A Western and Eastern Cage of Female Entrapment
Pamela Allegretto-Diiulio
ISBN13: 9781934043615
Date: 28-Nov-07
" ... a monumental publication: it represents one of the first important critical studies of Mahfouz’s art—in itself a noteworthy achievement"
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Japanese Representations of the Pacific
Naoto Sudo
ISBN13: 9781604977318
Date: 28-Nov-10
This book deals mainly with 20th-century discourses on postcolonial relationships between Japanese and Pacific Islanders, as have been produced and transformed through the world powers’ colonial dynamics over the islands and sea. It examines Japanese images or representations of the area, especially Micronesia on which the term Nanyo centered.
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Role and Representation in Charles Dickens' Novels, Twentieth-Century Fiction, and Film
Jan Alber
ISBN13: 9781934043608
Date: 18-Aug-07
"Almost formalistic in its exhaustive analysis...Alber carefully examines the experience of imprisonment as these narratives present it to those who have not been incarcerated. Recommended." - CHOICE
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New Forms of Historical Memory
Jordana Finnegan
ISBN13: 9781604975192
Date: 18-Jun-08
A vital addition to American studies and literature, this insightful book analyzes New Western autobiographical narratives that contest conventional colonial understandings of race, gender, and landscape.
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A Lacanian View
Roger Sedarat
ISBN13: 9781604977424
Date: 31-Jan-11
This post-structural reading allows for arguably the closest consideration as to how voices take shape in the New England region based upon how the various speakers view the landscape they inhabit through a version of Emerson’s perspective via his paradoxically “transparent eyeball”–– an invisible presence that remains in the foreground because of rhetoric that describes it.
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David Waterman
ISBN13: 9781604976496
Date: 28-Nov-09
In this critical study, David Waterman examines questions of social representation in all of Pat Barker’s novels, published over the last twenty-five years, from Union Street (1982) to the recent Life Class (2007). This is an important book for scholars interested in contemporary British fiction, women’s writing, and social-psychological approaches to literature.
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Postcolonial, Transnational, and Literary Perspectives
Chantal Zabus and Silvia Nagy-Zekmi
ISBN13: 9781604977400
Date: 31-Jan-11
The word “empire” augurs new forms of sovereignty that have toppled the “nation-state” and “imperialism,” which was engendered by the European powers during the process of colonization. This book extends the application of postcolonial theories to reflect not only on the traditional relations between colonizer and colonized but also on those between metropolis and colonies in the Maghreb, France, Latin America, England, the United States, the Caribbean, and Australia.
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Steven Rawle
ISBN13: 9781604977455
Date: 28-Mar-11
Hal Hartley was one of the leading lights of the independent American cinema boom of the late 1980s and 1990s. Although his work never achieved the kind of crossover commercial success that other indie directors experienced, his work exhibits one of the most distinctive voices in recent American cinema. With this first critical study of Hal Hartley’s work, Steven Rawle examines the physical and cultural performance practices at play in Hartley’s work. Focusing on the critical emphasis on performance and the performer in Hartley’s work, the book charts the development of this central facet of his films, from The Unbelievable Truth to the digital features.
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The Making of a Storyworld
Pia Masiero
ISBN13: 9781604977547
Date: 28-Mar-11
This book traces Zuckerman’s fictional birth through all of Philip Roth’s works to explore how Roth has been progressively creating and refining this mask and his voice as a means to come to terms with his own biography, his history, and his own self as a writer. This study's major contribution is its unique focus on the inner, that is to say, narratological logic of the fictional world presided over by Nathan Zuckerman and in the contextual attention to how form in its panoply of aspects triggers reader responses and activities.
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Ibrahima Diallo
ISBN13: 9781604977240
Date: 28-Oct-10
This book is a comprehensive study on the current language policies and practices in Senegal. It illuminates the tension that has arisen from the enduring colonial legacies and their influences in postcolonial language policies in Senegal. In addition to a detailed history with supporting facts and figures, this study also links socioeconomic, cultural, and political events in its analysis of the unstoppable rise of Wolof, which is posing a significant threat to the already-fragile local linguistic ecology.
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Paul Sharrad
ISBN13: 9781604975604
Date: 28-Nov-08
This innovative book is the successful outcome of a difficult feat––it represents an interesting new approach to a well-trodden field of study. This book will contribute significantly to postcolonial studies and advances the ever more richly complicated discourse that has emerged in the field.
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Nathanael O'Reilly
ISBN13: 9781604977110
Date: 08-Aug-10
Essay collections focusing on the postcolonial nature of national and regional literatures have previously been published; however, this is the first collection to focus exclusively on Australian literature as postcolonial literature and the first collection of essays on Australian literature in which all the contributors write from a postcolonial theoretical perspective. It is thus a groundbreaking work that makes an important contribution to both Australian literary studies and postcolonial studies.
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The Rise of Journalistic Double-Mindedness, 1917–1941
Burton St. John III
ISBN13: 9781604977066
Date: 28-May-10
Increasingly, Americans are turning away from the traditional press––especially newspapers––for the news of the day. In fact, by May 2009, a Pew survey revealed that 63 percent of Americans said they would not miss their paper if it ceased publishing. Inspired by the works of Pierre Bourdieu, James Carey, and Michael Schudson, this work finds that journalism’s current problems with pertinence lies within an unreflexive relationship with those who would offer the helping hand of propaganda materials.
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Robert Lumsden
ISBN13: 9781604975260
Date: 28-Jan-09
"This book is a valuable resource, particularly for students and teachers of
poetry, but also for those with an interest in the place of theory in literary studies. Rarely ever is theory illustrated so clearly in practice. The author’s passion for poetry, and its place on university curricula, is laudable, and a voice currently much needed among professional academics." - Transnational Literature
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Literature, Otherness, and the Possibility of an Ethical Reading
Jeremy Fernando
ISBN13: 9781604976335
Date: 28-Oct-09
This book attempts to conceive of the possibility of an ethics of reading––“reading” being understood as the relation to an other that occurs prior to any semantic or formal identification, and therefore prior to any attempt at assimilating what is being read to the one who reads.
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The Outside in the Fiction of Don DeLillo
Tyler H. Kessel
ISBN13: 9781604977554
Date: 18-May-11
This study argues for a new model of reading landscape in the twentieth- and twenty-first-century American novel. The author takes as exemplary the novels of Don DeLillo—and in particular the main focus of this study, The Body Artist—which have constructed landscapes that exceed the limits of geography, time, and perception.
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Carolyn Brown
ISBN13: 9781604979374
Date: 23-Mar-18
“This is truly a great contribution not only to Lu Xun studies but also to modern Chinese intellectual history. The approach is seminal and convincing. The arguments based on close reading of the texts are careful, coherent, and revealing. What Carolyn T. Brown has accomplished in this book is akin to a highly skilled doctor who makes an accurate etiological diagnosis." —Guoxiang Peng, Zhejiang University
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Transmissions and Transformations in East Asia
Nanxiu Qian, Richard J. Smith, and Bowei Zhang
ISBN13: 9781604979879
Date: 25-Mar-20
"Represents the best scholarship in Sinosphere studies that discusses how literary Sinitic texts and Chinese cultural products were transmitted, transformed and domesticated in East Asia." —Professor Benjamin Wai-ming Ng, Chinese University of Hong Kong
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Liu Zaifu
ISBN13: 9781604975246
Date: 28-May-08
This book is the much-awaited English translation of Liu Zaifu’s book, Reflections on Dream of the Red Chamber. With its highly original approach to its subject, this book will be an essential resource for English-speaking readers interested in the classical novel as well as those interested in contemporary literary criticism in China.
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Enrique Morales-Díaz
ISBN13: 9781604976175
Date: 28-May-09
This is the first critical study of Reinaldo Arenas from a postcolonial venue. It is an important book for all those in Latin American studies and postcolonial studies.
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Portrayals in Fiction, Drama, Music, and Film
Lisa Dallape Matson
ISBN13: 9781604976762
Date: 18-Mar-10
This book examines the treatment of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his work in twentieth and twenty-first century fiction, drama, music, and film, specifically since 1950. The author strives to clarify the many Dante Gabriel Rossettis, using thirteen of the thirty easily identifiable roles in this system of representation which the author has identified herself—roles by which Rossetti is described and portrayed. This book is an important book for all British literature and art collections.
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Translational Sinophone Identities in the Nanyang Literary World
E. K. Tan
ISBN13: 9781604978407
Date: 08-Jan-13
This is the first book devoted to Sinophone Southeast Asian literature in the English-speaking world. Conceptually innovative and flawlessly written, this book makes an important contribution ... Anyone interested in questions of identity calibrated through such vectors as language, culture, history, geography, and nationality will find this book to be extremely valuable. This is an impressive accomplishment.” – Professor Shu-mei Shih, University of California at Los Angeles
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New Perspectives on The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Julie Cairnie and Marion Walls
ISBN13: 9781604975512
Date: 28-Aug-08
The book comprises work by academics, a librarian, and the widow of Tressell’s biographer, Fred Ball. The focus is on continuity and change in terms of how Tressell’s text is read.
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Michael McIntyre
ISBN13: 9781604976120
Date: 28-Aug-09
This work enumerates the rationales for maintaining heritage languages and examines one particular exemplary campaign to reverse the slide to language death. This is an important book for all scholars and other individuals who are interested in the Gaelic and other Celtic languages; endangered-language maintenance, survival, and revival; and issues surrounding indigenous and language-minority populations.
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Cracking Metaphors in Ideological and Poetic Discourse in the Third Space
Mika Yoshimoto
ISBN13: 9781604975895
Date: 18-Dec-09
This beautifully written work will be an important book for all involved in second language learning, including curriculum theorists as well as researchers concerned with connections between language and identity, poetic inquiry and discourse, narrative theory, and autoethnography.
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Subjectivity and Desire in the Works of Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson
Gemma López
ISBN13: 9781934043851
Date: 28-Nov-07
This book is highly unique as general studies on issues of desire, narrative, and subjectivity tend to focus on the literature produced over the nineteenth century, but not on contemporary literature.
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Jean Harlow, Mae West, Lana Turner, and Jayne Mansfield
Jessica Hope Jordan
ISBN13: 9781604976632
Date: 18-Dec-09
The sex goddess is often thought by feminist film theorists to be little more than a projection of the male imaginary. However, this book makes a necessary correction to this trend by demonstrating how the actresses performing the role of sex goddess in fact use the feminine imaginary to create their own agency. This is an important book for all those in film, film history, film theory, gender and sexuality studies, women’s studies, and American studies collections.
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Joel Gwynne and Angelia Poon
ISBN13: 9781604978247
Date: 28-Dec-12
As the first critical collection of essays to consider the representation of sexuality across such a wide variety of contemporary writing, Sexuality and Contemporary Literature analytically foregrounds insights into the historical and current arrangements of sexuality that contemporary literature provides, while also inviting the reader to imagine other possibilities for the future that literary texts open up.
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Peter Usher
ISBN13: 9781604977332
Date: 28-Nov-10
In this book, renowned astronomy expert Peter Usher analyzes five plays, Hamlet, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Cymbeline, The Merchant of Venice, and The Winter’s Tale. With painstaking thoroughness, he dissects the plays and reveals that, contrary to current belief, Shakespeare was well aware of the scientific revolutions of his time.
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Literary Expatriate and Cosmopolitan Humanist
Brigitta Olubas
ISBN13: 9781604978049
Date: 28-May-12
"Lucidly written, theoretically sophisticated, and scrupulously researched, Brigitta Olubas' account of Shirley Hazzard shows us just how this great cosmopolitan novelist has produced a body of work that lies outside and beyond 'terrain of the nation.'" – Michael Gorra, Mary Augusta Jordan Professor of English, Smith College
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Language, Class, and the Chinese of Singapore, 1945–2000
Ernest Koh
ISBN13: 9781604976779
Date: 18-Mar-10
In a critical study that has no parallel among existing works on Singapore history, this book dispenses with the homogenous historical experience that is commonly presumed in the writing of Singapore’s national past after 1945 and explores how the enforcement of a uniform language policy by the Singapore government for cultural and economic purposes has created underappreciated social and economic divides among the Chinese of Singapore both between and within families.
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Dawn Lewcock
ISBN13: 9781604975789
Date: 18-Dec-08
This is new work which uses dramaturgical and scenographical analysis of selected plays and masques, against known theatrical history, to discover how the staging of painted settings was organised from c1605 to c1700. This kind of investigation into the links between masque staging and the staging of plays has not been done in quite this manner before.
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Nickolas A. Haydock
ISBN13: 9781604977660
Date: 08-Jul-11
Robert Henryson (considered “the last medieval poet”) is widely deemed the most accomplished poet writing in the British Isles between the death of Chaucer and the flowering of English poetry in the early-modern period. However, A generation has passed without a full-length study on him until now.
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Geography, Cartography, and Literature
Ao Wang
ISBN13: 9781604979411
Date: 01-Aug-18
"Ao Wang’s new book, executed with critical insight and poetic sensitivity, encompasses diverse literary forms and lends new nuances to our understanding of mid-Tang literature. Imaginative and inspiring, it is a significant contribution to the study of medieval Chinese literature and cultural history." —Xiaofei Tian, Harvard University
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Dress and Fashion in Literature
Cynthia Kuhn and Cindy Carlson
ISBN13: 9781934043837
Date: 28-Nov-07
The first academic volume to address such an extensive range of texts. An essential resource for anyone interested in the history of dress and its artistic representations and significations.
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The Fictional World of Mo Yan
Shelley W. Chan
ISBN13: 9781604977196
Date: 29-Dec-10
Mo Yan, the most prolific writer in present-day China as well as one of its most prominent avant-gardists, is an author whose literary works have enjoyed an enormous readership and have caught much critical attention not only in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan but also in many other countries around the world. This book provides the most comprehensive exposition of Mo Yan’s fiction in any language.
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Essays and Poems on Audience in Performance
Monica Prendergast
ISBN13: 9781604975390
Date: 28-Sep-08
Drawing on key findings discovered in this extensive literature review, the author goes on to present a number of chapters that theorize how spectatorship may become a central concern of curriculum through committed and teacher-facilitated attendance of live performance.
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Print Culture, Human Labor, and New Modes of Critique in Charles Dickens's Hard Times, Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley, and George Eliot's Felix Holt
John C. Murray
ISBN13: 9781604976687
Date: 18-Jan-10
This book employs Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley (1849), Charles Dickens’s Hard Times (1854), and George Eliot’s Felix Holt (1866) to evidence how the growth of capitalist production and the development of new technologies of industry within the early- to mid-Victorian periods inspired the prioritization of the printed word over oratory and speech as a means for fulfilling the linguistic power exchanges found common in spoken discourse. This book serves to fill this gap in Victorian studies.
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The Value of Collaborative Play
Mark Fearnow
ISBN13: 9781934043431
Date: 28-Feb-07
Surprisingly little has been published on the questions of what theatre actually is and what participants in theatre derive from the experience. This book investigates theatre as a means of social connection.
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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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Histories of Violence in Magical Realist Fiction
Eugene Arva
ISBN13: 9781604977776
Date: 28-Aug-11
“This book contributes to the growing body of critical thought on magical realism ... by integrating postcolonial and metropolitan texts, it shows that magical realism is not only a postcolonial phenomenon but also belongs in meaningful ways to world literature in all cultural contexts..." – Prof. Wendy B. Faris, University of Texas at Arlington
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Harper and the Editing of Jennie Gerhardt
Annemarie Koning Whaley
ISBN13: 9781604976434
Date: 28-Nov-09
This book is the first extensive study of the damaging effects of the editorial process on a significant work of American literature. This study carefully compares the restored edition to the 1911 edition, revealing clear and precise patterns to the Harper editing. It is an important work for collections of American literature, Theodore Dreiser, textual studies, early twentieth-century cultural studies (especially those interested in ethnicity), and early twentieth-century historical studies.
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The Significance of Disability and Physical Differences in 19th-Century Fiction
Lillian Craton
ISBN13: 9781604976533
Date: 18-Dec-09
This book is a unique aesthetic analysis of freak show imagery as it appears in Victorian popular fiction, including the works of Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Guy de Maupassant, Florence Marryat, and Lewis Carroll. This book applies the practices of disability studies to the context of Victorian popular fiction. It offers new ways of reading the works of some of the nineteenth century’s most beloved writers through their approach to physical difference.
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Abigail Burnham Bloom and Mary Sanders Pollock
ISBN13: 9781604977868
Date: 28-Nov-11
This volume recognizes the popularity of nineteenth-century British literature with adaptors who have appreciated the value of the original works while repackaging their classic themes for contemporary audiences. This collection includes discussion of works by authors such as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as adaptations by such diverse and masterful directors as Ernst Lubitsch, Stanley Kubrick, Atom Egoyan, and Francis Ford Coppola.
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Lance Rubin
ISBN13: 9781604975444
Date: 28-Aug-08
This unique book explores sites of memory, including historiography, the rhetoric of imperialism, the revival in historical romantic fiction, the rise of photography, the boom in monument construction, the beginnings of modern advertising, the interest in spiritualism and the occult, and literary history itself.
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Leo Daugherty
ISBN13: 9781604977127
Date: 08-Aug-10
Many other books and articles have taken the position that real historical persons are represented in Shakespeare’s Sonnets and have attempted to identify them. But no previous study has considered the large amount of new evidence presented here (some of it historical and some of it textual), and none has made a logical case as powerful and persuasive regarding these identifications as the one constructed here.
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Brenda Liddy
ISBN13: 9781604975239
Date: 08-Jul-08
Extremely well researched, this book provides the reader with an understanding of theoretical perspectives, relevant criticism, and women’s dramatic writing of the seventeenth century.
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Yuxin Ma
ISBN13: 9781604976601
Date: 18-Jan-10
This book examines how women journalists constructed Chinese feminism and debated patriarchy and women’s roles in the newly created public space of print media during the period of 1898–1937. It takes a historical approach in its examination and uses gender as an analytical category to study the significance of women's press writings in the years of nation building. This book is an important book for collections in Asian studies, journalism history, and women’s studies.
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The Creation of Image and Culture by Hollywood in the 1960s and 1970s
Robert Marcink
ISBN13: 9781604977721
Date: 26-Aug-11
By breaking down iconic films like Easy Rider, Dirty Harry, Jaws, and Rocky, character studies like Scarecrow, Blue Collar, and Hard Times, and cult favorites like Joe, Billy Jack, and Medium Cool, author Robert A. Marcink provides a comprehensive look at how Hollywood’s choice played a significant role in shaping the modern working class.
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