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City University of Hong Kong Press Developing the Heart: E.M. Forster and India
Book SynopsisEnglish novelist E.M. Forster wrote his last and best-loved work, A Passage to India, both as a paean to his love for India and as a tribute to the relationships he formed with Indians.Forster became entranced by the India of the Raj at a young ape, and his love affair with the sub-continent, its princes, and peoples, was to last all his life. At his most socially transgressive, it was with Indians that Forster chose to connect and with whom he put into effect his belief in man's duty to value friendship over state or ideology. His time in India was undoubtedly when he was at his most human and most vulnerable.At once a contemporary reflection on India's rich history and a biographical retelling of Forster's travels through the country in the early 1900s, Developing the Heart delves into the past to better understand the profound impact certain events and people had on his writing. In doing so, it allows readers to look on as Forster matures and softens over time in his behaviour with others as well as with himself. Often using Forster's own words to evoke a vivid landscape, this is the story of the most dramatic and exotic part of the life of one of England's greatest novelists.Table of Contents Part One Masood India Passage Out Bapu Sahib Passage Home Rooms with No View Troubles Private Secretary Kanaya Chhatarpur Going Home England Again A Passage to India Part Two Indian Echoes Broken Promises Two Ends to an Era Broadcasting to India The Longest Journey The Hill of Devi Final Passage
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The Chinese University Press The Classic Chinese Novel: A Critical Introduction
Book SynopsisC. T. Hsia (Chih-tsing Hsia) studies in depth six landmarks of Chinese fiction: The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, The Water Margin, Journey to the West, Chin P’ing Mei, The Scholars, and Dream of the Red Chamber. While he provides pertinent historical and bibliographical information for the proper appreciation of each novel, his focus is mainly critical as he examines in detail its structure and style, and analyzes its major character and episodes in relation to its moral or philosophic themes. Many Western classics are cited for relevant comparison, and generous excerpts from each novel, most of them newly translated, permit the reader to sample the flavor of the original. Hailed as a classic upon its publication in 1968, The Classic Chinese Novel has remained the best singlevolume critical introduction to the subject for the serious student as well as the cultivated reader.
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University of Hawai'i Press The Critical Villa: Essays in Literary Criticism
Book SynopsisThe essays in this collection examine the evolution of Filipino fiction and poetry.
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University of the West Indies Press Parallel Visions, Confluent Worlds: Five Comparative Postcolonial Studies of Caribbean and Irish Novels in English, 1925-1965
Book SynopsisThe Republic of Ireland left the British Commonwealth in 1949. It was traditionally overlooked by developing trends of Commonwealth literary studies from the 1960s, which tended to examine the cultural production of countries still under Commonwealth rule. From the late 1960s onwards, however, scholars of Irish literature and indeed across postcolonial studies have examined Ireland’s unique and comparative literary, historical, cultural and geographical features in relation to the contexts of broader postcolonial debates. To date, nonetheless, there has yet to be a dedicated comparative study of how the specific genre of the Irish novel developed throughout the twentieth century as a means of giving imaginative expression to particular decolonizing processes in Ireland as it disengaged from the dominant discourses of British colonial rule.Ireland’s history is clearly different from that of the former colonies of the British West Indies. Richard McGuire takes this point into account, and in Parallel Visions, Confluent Worlds he investigates how extensively the Irish novel, particularly from the 1920s, expresses forms and themes recognized by many scholars and critics to be key postcolonial concerns in West Indian novels of the same period. The British West Indies serves as a strong suitable comparative case for examination, since it has such an established wealth of study in relation to its postcolonial dimensions. This book compares five pairings of Irish and Caribbean texts that explore issues such as evolving representations of “native” peoples, late-colonial anxiety, the subversive power of women in a patriarchal-imperialist society. Migration, and the experience of growing up amid anti-colonial violence.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Space, Place and Capitalism: The Literary
Book SynopsisThis book is an original contribution to literary geography and commentaries on the work of David Ireland. It plots the relationship between the spaces and places of 1970s Australian capitalism as it evolves through Ireland’s 1971 Miles Franklin prize-winning novel The Unknown Industrial Prisoner. In particular, the book theorises the relationship between space and place in literature through two highly innovative arguments: a focus on the spatial unconscious as a means to assess and track the spatiality of capitalism in the novel form; and the articulation of a regime of space through the perceived, conceived and lived constitution of space. Drawing together concepts from radical geography and structural Marxist literary theory, it explores the dominance of the regime of abstract space in the Australian context. The text also examines the nature and possibilities of place-based strategies of resistance, and concludes by suggesting opportunities for future research and plotting the ways in which The Unknown Industrial Prisoner continues to speak to contemporary Australia.Trade Review“Heino’s project is a compelling one. His efforts to demonstrate the power of literary geography to analyse class and power issues work well in relation to his analysis of The Unidentified Industrial Prisoner. His book is a timely reminder of the power inherent in Australian literature, which still deserves recognition among the ‘old world’ reading publics.” (Dave McLaughlin, Environment, Space, Place, Vol. 14 (2), 2022)Table of ContentsChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Space and place in radical geography Chapter 3: Literary geography, the spatial unconscious and The Unknown Industrial Prisoner Chapter 4: Abstract space (with antipodean characteristics?) Chapter 5: The spatial state Chapter 6: Resistance – the struggle for place Chapter 7: The limits to the Home Beautiful Chapter 8: Conclusion
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Editorial A Contracorriente 2666: en búsqueda de la totalidad perdida
Book SynopsisEs 2666 de Roberto Bolano una novela total? Pueden coexistir fragmentos y totalidades en un mismo libro? Hay una columna vertebral que estructure la multitud de espacios, personajes y temas representados en 2666? Estas y otras preguntas son el objeto de estudio del presente libro, donde la cuestion de la totalidad - concepto omnipresente en los estudios del escritor chileno, si bien poco explorado - es el tema principal.
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Gaspar & Rimbau Ballard. El tiempo desolado.
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Galaxia Gutenberg, S.L. Cuentos negros
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Escribir Literatura Infantil Y Juvenil
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Escribir fantástico Manual de escritura de
Book SynopsisLiteratura no mimética y supresión de la incredulidad. Cosmogénesis y ubicaciónespacio temporal. Clasificación y efecto de la literatura no realista. Literaturafantástica y de terror. Ciencia ficción, épica y realismo mágico.Estos son solo algunos de los temas por los que transita este manual (acorde altemario de los cursos oficiales de Escuela de Escritores y editado por AlejandroMarcos), pensado para aquellos que deseen adentrarse ?desde los márgenesal centro? y explorar las innumerables opciones que los subgéneros fantásticosnos conceden, entre ellas la de representar la realidad en la que vivimos o trasladarnosa otros mundos sin abandonar del todo el que habitamos.Con un generoso repaso clasificatorio, un recorrido por los principales autores, puntosde vista u opciones, y bien acompañado de un gran número de técnicas narrativas, coneste manual aprenderemos cómo hacerlo.
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Oxford University Press King Arthur and His Knights
Book SynopsisIncludes an extensive introduction encompassing biographical, and critical material which makes it ideal for students.Trade Review"I admire both the introduction and the selections."--David Wallace, University of Minnesota "Excellent intro - the illustrations are a nice touch as well. An update of the bibliographical essay (it goes only as late as 1971) is my only suggestion for improvement. I will definately use it again next spring for my intro. to medieval English literature class."--Robert W. Barrett, Jr., University of Pennsylvania "Invaluable selection from the greatest English Arthurian work, and indispensable foundation for the study of the contemporary legend."--Professor Thomas A. Shippey, St. Louis University "I've used this book for years."--Deborah J. Hyland, St. Louis University "The best student edition of Malory available. It cleaves Keith Baines's limp translation from the brain pan to the saddle bow."--Lan Lipscomb, Troy State University, A
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Oxford University Press, USA Jane Austens Emma A Casebook Casebooks in
Book SynopsisAlthough Jane Austen famously referred to Emma as a heroine whom no one but myself will much like, the irony of her remark has been obvious since the first appearance of her novel in December 1815. The central character may have attracted diverse reactions, but there can be no doubt about the endless enjoyment afforded to generations of readers. The essays in this collection demonstrate the varied delights of reading Emma. Most have been written in the last twenty years, but each draws on the cumulative body of scholarship and critical analysis that has built up since the novel was first published. The purpose of the collection is to introduce readers of Austen to new ways of interpreting her most substantial and rewarding novel. Each essay engages with Emma, but there is considerable dialogue taking place between the different approaches, which collectively contributes to the enriched readings of Austen''s work. The collection opens with an introduction encouraging readers to re-read Emma, and to find its pleasures magnified by the critical interpretations and scholarship represented in this casebook.Table of ContentsIntroduction by Fionna Stafford Acknowledgements 1: 'Opinions of Emma' collected by Jane Austen (1816) 2: Walter Scott, Unsigned review of Emma (1816) 3: Reginald Farrer, 'Jane Austen, ob. July 18, 1817' (1917) 4: Lionel Trilling, 'Emma and the Legend of Jane Austen' (1957) 5: Wayne C. Booth, 'Control of Distance in Jane Austen's Emma' (1961) 6: Claudia L. Johnson, 'Woman, lovely woman reigns alone' (1988) 7: Joseph Litvak, 'Reading Characters: Self, Society and Text in Emma' (1985) 8: John Dussinger, 'Desire: Emma in Love' (1990) 9: John Wiltshire, 'Emma: The Picture of Health' (1992) 10: Mary Waldron, 'Men of Sense and Silly Wives: The Confusion of Mr Knightley' (1999) 11: Linda Troost and Sayre Greenfield, 'Filming Highbury: Reducing the Community in Emma to the Screen' (1999) 12: Gayle Wald, 'Clueless in the neo-colonial world order' (2000) 13: Brian Southam, 'Emma: England, Peace, and Patriotism' (2000) 14: Frances Ferguson, Jane Austen, Emma and the Impact of Form' (2000)
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Oxford University Press HOMERS ALLUSIVE ART C
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Oxford University Press Placeless People
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Nineteenth Century Periodical Press and the Development of Detective Fiction Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
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Taylor & Francis Biofictional Histories Mutations and Forms
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Taylor & Francis The Radical Ecology of the Shelleys
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Taylor & Francis On Declaring Love EighteenthCentury Literature and Jane Austen Routledge Studies in EighteenthCentury Literature
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Narrating African FutureS Interventions and Agencies in African and African diasporic fiction
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Narrative Reliability Racial Conflicts and Ideology in the Modern Novel Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
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Taylor & Francis Discourse Deixis in Metafiction The Language of Metanarration Metalepsis and Disnarration Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Oriental Tale in England in the Eighteenth Century Routledge Revivals
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Oriental Tale in England in the Eighteenth Century
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Dickens Nicholas Nickleby and the Dance of Death Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Lucas Malet Dissident Pilgrim Critical Essays Among the Victorians and Modernists
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Taylor & Francis Dickens and the Myth of the Reader
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Excursions into Modernism Women Writers Travel
Book SynopsisPositioned at a crossroads between feminist geographies and modernist studies, Excursions into Modernism considers transnational modernist fiction in tandem with more rarely explored travel narratives by women of the period who felt increasingly free to journey abroad and redefine themselves through travel. In an era when Western artists, writers, and musicians sought ''primitive'' ideas for artistic renewal, Joyce E. Kelley locates a key similarity between fiction and travel writing in the way women authors use foreign experiences to inspire innovations with written expression and self-articulation. She focuses on the pairing of outward journeys with more inward, introspective ones made possible through reconceptualizing and mobilizing elements of women''s traditional corporeal and domestic geographies: the skin, the ill body, the womb, and the piano. In texts ranging from Jean Rhys''s Voyage in the Dark to Virginia Woolf''s The Voyage Out and from Evelyn Scott''s Escapade to DorothyTrade Review'In her groundbreaking new book Excursions Into Modernism, Joyce E. Kelley shows how travel shaped the production of women’s imaginative fiction in ways not always acknowledged in conventional genealogies of modernism. By addressing issues of race and class, and by focusing on concepts such as illness, pregnancy, and even the piano, Kelley provides a rich, thoughtful, and rigorous reevaluation of the landscape of modernism even as she extends its geography not only externally on the globe but internally. Kelley's book will prove to be indispensable not only to the field of travel studies but to the new modernist studies as well.' David Farley, St John's University, USATable of ContentsIntroduction: women, travel, and the body; Increasingly imaginative geographies: excursions into otherness, fantasy, and Modernism in early 20th-century women’s travel writing; Narratives of passing: transdermal excursions in Larsen, Rhys, and Hall; Modernist fever: the ‘undiscovered countries’ of illness; ‘I am going on and on to the end of myself where something else begins’: travel, pregnancy, and Modernism; ‘It carried her out of the house, out of the world’: Modernist women writers and the piano; Conclusion: final excursions: Rebecca West’s Black Lamb and Grey Falcon; Bibliography; Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Murakami Haruki and Our Years of Pilgrimage
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Murakami Haruki and Our Years of Pilgrimage
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ecofeminism and the Indian Novel Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
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Taylor & Francis Transatlantic Footholds TurnoftheCentury American Women Writers and British Reviewers Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Edward Lloyd and His World
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Exploring the Horror of Supernatural Fiction
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Taylor & Francis Ltd JM Coetzee Fictions of the Real
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Taylor & Francis Victorian Coral Islands of Empire Mission and the Boys Adventure Novel Studies in Childhood 1700 to the Present
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Lao Shes Teahouse and Its Two English Translations
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Taylor & Francis Contemporary Rewritings of Liminal Women Echoes of the Past Among the Victorians and Modernists
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Jane Austens Men Rewriting Masculinity in the Romantic Era Routledge Studies in Romanticism
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Taylor & Francis Out of Reach The Ideal Girl in American Girls Serial Literature Childrens Literature and Culture
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Taylor & Francis Narrative Authority and Homeostasis in the Novels of Doris Lessing and Carmen Martn Gaite 7 Routledge Library Editions Modern Fiction
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Myth of Superwoman
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Taylor & Francis John le Carr 18 Routledge Library Editions Modern Fiction
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Taylor & Francis Bicentennial Essays on Jane Austens Afterlives Historical Womens Writing
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Taylor & Francis The Literary History of the Igbo Novel
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Taylor & Francis TwentiethCentury Literary Encounters in China Modernism Travel and Form Routledge Studies in TwentiethCentury Literature
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