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Book SynopsisLiterature in a Digital Age: An Introduction guides readers through the most salient theoretical, interpretive, and creative possibilities opened up by the shift to digital literary forms such as e-books, digital archives, and electronic literature. While Digital Humanities (DH) has been hailed as the 'next big thing' in literary studies, many students and scholars remain perplexed as to what a DH approach to literature entails, and skeptical observers continue to see literature and the digital world as fundamentally incompatible. In its argument that digital and traditional scholarship should be placed in dialogue with each other, this book contextualizes the advent of the digital in literary theory, explores the new questions readers can ask of texts when they become digitized, and investigates the challenges that fresh forms of born-digital fiction pose to existing models of literary analysis.Table of Contents1. Is literature dying in the digital age?; 2. Digitization; 3. Born digital; Coda: print in the digital age.

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Book SynopsisThis selection from the writings of C. S. Lewis gathers together forty book reviews, never before reprinted, as well as four major essays which have been unavailable for many decades. A fifth essay, ''Image and Imagination'', is published for the first time. Taken together, the collection presents some of Lewis''s finest literary criticism and religious exposition. The essays and reviews substantiate his reputation as an eloquent and authoritative critic across a wide range of literature, and as a keen judge of contemporary scholarship, while his reviews of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings will be of additional interest to scholars and students of fantasy.Trade Review'C. S. Lewis [was] one of the very best critics writing in English in the twentieth century, vivid, provoking, and eloquent, as well as deeply learned in the literature of Europe from the ancient classics to his own time, with a special mastery of medieval and Renaissance poetry. He is now popularly better known for his fiction and his religious writings than his literary criticism. But it is his gifts as a critic which will endure as his truly pre-eminent legacy. Like Samuel Johnson, on whose personality and writings Lewis modelled himself, he is a commentator whose insights and opinions are enriching even when one disagrees with them, raising central questions and offering challenging perspectives … There is no essay by Lewis on any writer that does not provoke attention and inspire awe at his energy and clarity of mind.' Claude Rawson, Yale University'Almost nothing Lewis wrote is without apercu, often unexpected, always cogently expressed.' Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsPart I. Reflections on Literature; Part II. The Inklings; Part of The Lord of the Rings); Part of The Lord of the Rings); The Return of the King (being the Third Part of The Lord of the Rings); Part of The Lord of the Rings); Part III. Reflections on Christianity; Part IV. Classical Literature; Part V. Medieval and Renaissance Literature; Part VI. Milton and Later English Literature.

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Book SynopsisHow have our conceptions of truth been shaped by romantic literature? This question lies at the heart of this examination of the concept of truth both in romantic writing and in modern criticism. The romantic idea of truth has long been depicted as aesthetic, imaginative and ideal. Tim Milnes challenges this picture, demonstrating a pragmatic strain in the writing of Keats, Shelley and Coleridge in particular, that bears a close resemblance to the theories of modern pragmatist thinkers such as Donald Davidson and JÃrgen Habermas. Romantic pragmatism, Milnes argues, was in turn influenced by recent developments within linguistic empiricism. This book will be of interest to readers of romantic literature, but also to philosophers, literary theorists, and intellectual historians.Trade Review"This very original, timely and deftly-written study joins a conspicuous body of critical work on British romantic literature and pragmatics....an engaging and fascinating reading of three major poets of British Romanticism." -Annalisa Volpone, NBOL 19"“Clearly written, with a stimulating breadth of research and depth of scholarship, Milnes' work provides an important link between modern linguistic/pragmatic philosophy and romantic/empiricist poetics. Recognizing precedent study in “the discourse of communicative rationality,” Milnes cites often and judiciously Kathleen Wheeler, Paul Hamilton, and Angela Esterhammer as central to the “the pragmatic, future-directed accent of romantic literature” -William C. Horrell,Wordsworth Circle"This very original, timely and deftly-written study joins a conspicuous body of critical work on British romantic literature and pragmatics….Milnes' book offers an engaging and fascinating reading of three major poets of British Romanticism.” -Annalisa Volpone,NBOL-19Table of ContentsIntroduction: the pragmatics of romantic idealism; 1. Romanticising pragmatism: dialogue and critical method; 2. Pragmatising romanticism: radical empiricism from Reid to Rorty; 3. This living Keats: truth, deixis, and correspondence; 4. An unremitting interchange: Shelley, elenchus, and the education of error; 5. The embodiment of reason: Coleridge on language, logic, and ethics; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisT. S. Eliot''s The Waste Land is often considered to be the most important poem written in English in the twentieth century. The poem dramatically shattered old patterns of form and style, proposed a new paradigm for poetry and poetic thought, demanded recognition from all literary quarters, and changed the ways in which it was possible to approach, read, or write poetry. The Waste Land helped to define the literary and artistic period known as modernism. This Companion is the first to be dedicated to the work as a whole, offering fifteen new essays by international scholars and covering an extensive range of topics. Written in a style that is at once sophisticated and accessible, these fresh critical perspectives will serve as an invaluable guide for scholars, students, and general readers alike--Table of Contents1. 'The world has seen strange revolutions since I died': The Waste Land and the Great War Jean-Michel Rabaté; 2. Geographies of space: mapping and reading the cityscape Spencer Morrison; 3. 'Mixing/memory and desire': what Eliot's biography can tell us Lyndall Gordon; 4. Religions east and west in The Waste Land Barry Spurr; 5. Popular culture in The Waste Land David E. Chinitz and Julia E. Daniel; 6. Form, voice, and the avant-garde Michael Levenson; 7. Dialectical collaboration: editing The Waste Land Jewel Spears Brooker; 8. Doing tradition in different voices: pastiche in The Waste Land Michael Coyle; 9. Gender and obscenity in The Waste Land Rachel Potter; 10. Trauma and violence in The Waste Land Richard Badenhausen; 11. Psychology, psychoanalysis, and new subjectives in The Waste Land Eve Sorum; 12. The Waste Land as ecocritique Gabrielle McIntire; Coda: The Waste Land's afterlife: the poem's reception in the twentieth century and beyond Tony Cuda.

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Book SynopsisIn satire, evil, folly, and weakness are held up to ridicule - to the delight of some and the outrage of others. Satire may claim the higher purpose of social critique or moral reform, or it may simply revel in its own transgressive laughter. It exposes frauds, debunks ideals, binds communities, starts arguments, and evokes unconscious fantasies. It has been a central literary genre since ancient times, and has become especially popular and provocative in recent decades. This new introduction to satire takes a historically expansive and theoretically eclectic approach, addressing a range of satirical forms from ancient, Renaissance, and Enlightenment texts through contemporary literary fiction, film, television, and digital media. The beginner in need of a clear, readable overview and the scholar seeking to broaden and deepen existing knowledge will both find this a lively, engaging, and reliable guide to satire, its history, and its continuing relevance in the world.Table of ContentsPart I: 1. What is satire?; 2. What isn't satire?; Part II: 3. Classical origins; 4. Renaissance satire: rogues, clowns, fools, satyrs; 5. Enlightenment satire: the prose tradition; 6. Verse satire from Rochester to Byron; Part III. Transition: Satire and the Novel: 7. Small worlds: the comedy of manners; 8. Unfortunate travelers: the picaresque; 9. The Menippean novel; 10. Satire and popular culture since 1900; Epilogue: Charlie Hebdo, satire and the politics of community.

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Book SynopsisThe Poetics of Insecurity addresses a key concern of modern America - security - through close readings of American literary works. It combines literary studies with the philosophy of time and sociological theories of modernity, and provides new approaches to canonical American authors from the past two centuries.Trade Review'The Poetics of Insecurity is an impressive and accomplished work that analyzes a range of American narratives from the early Republic to our present moment to show how an interest in and exploration of 'security' has been central to American literature and culture. Voelz makes contributions to multiple fields, including not only American literature broadly construed, but also narrative theory; it also joins a growing body of work exploring the intersections of the literary with non-literary conceptions of security, and contributes to recent work focused on chance and/or accident in American literary history.' Steven Belletto, Lafayette College, Pennsylvania'The strength of Voelz's readings lies in their attentiveness to the ambivalent affective dimensions of insecurity, the intermingling of fear and desire that accompanies the contemplation of an uncertain future.' Deborah Thurman, The Review of English StudiesTable of Contents1. Introduction: security and the uncertain worlds of fiction; 2. The virtue of uncertainty: securing the republic in Arthur Mervyn; 3. Harriet Jacobs's imagined community of insecurity; 4. Willa Cather and the security of radical contingency; 5. Cold War liberalism and Flannery O'Connor's 'The Displaced Person'; 6. In the future, toward death: finance capitalism and security in DeLillo's cosmopolis; Epilogue.

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Book SynopsisThis book considers how ''affect'', the experience of feeling or emotion, has developed as a critical concept within literary studies in different periods and through a range of approaches. Stretching from the classical to the contemporary, the first section of the book, ''Origins'', considers the importance of particular areas of philosophy, theory, and criticism that have been important for conceptualizing affect and its relation to literature. Includes ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, eighteenth-century aesthetics, Marxist theory, psychoanalysis, queer theory, and postcolonial theory. The chapters of the second section, ''Developments'', correspond to those of the previous section and build on their insights through readings of particular texts. The final ''Applications'' section is focused on contemporary and future lines of enquiry, and revolves around a particular set of concerns: media and communications, capitalism, and an environment of affective relations that extend to ecTrade Review'A seminal body of meticulous, informative, and deftly presented scholarship, Affect and Literature is an extraordinary and unreservedly recommended addition to community and academic library Literary Criticism & Theory collections and supplemental curriculum reading lists.' Jim Cox, The Midwest Book ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction: affect and literature Alex Houen; Part I. Origins: 1. Poetic fear-related affects and society in Greco-Roman antiquity Dana LaCourse Munteanu; 2. Secondary affect in Lessing, Mendelssohn, and Nicolai Stefan Uhlig; 3. Affect and life in Spinoza, Nietzsche, and Bergson John Protevi; 4. Feelings under the microscope: new critical affect Helen Thaventhiran; 5. 'We manufacture fun: capital and the production of affect Ross Wilson; 6. Jacques Lacan's evanescent affects Jean-Michel Rabaté; 7. The durability of affect and the ageing of gay male queer theory Geoff Gilbert; 8. Affect, meaning, becoming, and power: Massumi, Spinoza, Deleuze, and neuroscience Anthony Uhlmann; 9. Translating postcolonial affect Sneja Gunew; 10. Making sorrow sweet: emotion and empathy in the experience of fiction Alison Denham; Part II. Developments: 11. Feeling feelings in early modern England Benedict S. Robinson; 12. Laughable poetry Matthew Bevis; 13. Modernism, formal innovation, and affect in some contemporary Irish novels Derek Attridge; 14. The antihumanist tone Christopher Nealon; 15. Bette Davis's eyes and minoritarian survival: camp, melodrama, and spectatorship Amber Musser; 16. Affective form Ankhi Mukherjee; 17. Subaltern affects Stephen Morton; Part III. Applications: 18. Affect and environment in contemporary ecopoetics Margaret Ronda; 19. Contemporary crisis fictions: twenty-first century disaffection Emily Horton; 20. Shiny happy imperialism: an affective exploration of 'ways of life' in the war on terror Amira Jarmakani; 21. The digital's amodal affect Andrew Murphie; 22. Digital special affects: on exhilaration and the STUN in CGI blockbuster films Eric Jenkins; 23. Cartesian affect Claire Colebrook.

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Book SynopsisHomer was the greatest and most influential Greek poet. This book explores central themes in the reception of the Homeric poems in antiquity, and pays particular attention to Homer's importance in shaping ancient culture. It will appeal to all those seriously interested in Greek and Roman literature and culture.Trade Review'… endlessly interesting book … the importance of [Hunter]'s elegant elucidation of the historical 'reception' of Homer is that it casts instructive light on the ancient world.' Classics For All'H. convincingly demonstrates how greatly modern interpretations of perennially popular Homeric scenes (such as Odysseus among the Sirens or Achilles and his lyre) can be enriched by engaging with ancient readers as diverse as Horace, Dio Chrysostom, Clement of Alexandria and Sextus Empiricus along the way.' Anna Stelow, Religious Studies ReviewTable of Contents1. Placing Homer; 2. Homer and the divine; 3. The Golden Verses; 4. Homer among the scholars; 5. The pleasures of song.

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Book SynopsisThis Element is for anyone interested in the processes of canon-formation, world literatures in general and African literature in particular. It offers a fresh and exciting perspective on canon-formation and contestation that draws on original archival and field research.Trade Review'… [Madhu Krishnan] makes a compelling argument for expanding and also questioning the dominant perspective of literary and book studies on canonization and African literature.' Dorit Neumann, Westfälische Wilhelms-UniversitätTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Publishing Africa on a global scale; 2. Contemporary canons; 3. Alternative landscapes; Bibliography.

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The New Feminist Literary Studies presents sixteen essays by leading and emerging scholars that examine contemporary feminism and the most pressing issues of today. The book is divided into three sections. This first section , ''Frontiers'', contains essays on issues and phenomena that may be considered, if not new, then newly and sometimes uneasily prominent in the public eye: transfeminism, the sexual violence highlighted by #MeToo, Black motherhood, migration, sex worker rights, and celebrity feminism. Essays in the second section, ''Fields'', specifically intervene into long-constituted or relatively new academic fields and areas of theory: disability studies, eco-theory, queer studies, and Marxist feminism. Finally, the third section, ''Forms'', is dedicated to literary genres and tackles novels of domesticity, feminist dystopias, young adult fiction, feminist manuals and manifestos, memoir, and poetry. Together these essays provide new interventions into the thinking and theorisi

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Book SynopsisWhereas previous books have explored how literature depicts or discusses scientific concepts, this book argues that literature is a technology. It shows how literature has been shaped by technological revolutions, and reveals the essential work that literature has done in helping to uncover the consequences of new technologies.Table of ContentsList of figures; List of contributors; Timeline; Introduction Adam Hammond; Part I. Origins: 1. Orality and writing I. J. MacRae; 2. Manuscript Bonnie Mak; 3. The hand press, 1450–1800 Paula McDowell; 4. The mechanical press, 1800–1900 Simon Reader; 5. The typewriter Darren Wershler; 6. Literature in the electric age Lise Jaillant; 7. Digital text Maxwell Foxman; Part II. Developments: 8. Prostheses Alice Hall; 9. Clocks Scott Lightsey; 10. Compasses Chris Barrett; 11. Telescopes Peter C. Herman; 12. Steam engines Nicola Kirkby; 13. Wires Aaron Worth; 14. Cameras Beci Carver; 15. Phonographs Jason Camlot; 16. Waves and rays Jennifer A. Janechek; 17. The bomb Ann Larabee; 18. Networks David Ciccoricco; Part III. Applications: 19. Distant reading Natalie M. Houston; 20. Visualization Daniel Carter; 21. Digital editions Susan Brown; Index.

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Book Synopsis''Romanticism'', though a debated term, is broadly understood as a cultural movement which gripped the European imagination in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Embodying a poetics of feeling intersecting with nature and the notion of the sublime, its experiential aesthetics were furthermore bound up with ideas of personal and political rebellion. Michael Ferber''s lively anthology includes lesser-known verse from the best-known poets, as well as a few fine poems by little-known poets. Perfect for readers who would like to enjoy the many riches of arguably poetry''s greatest era, or for those already familiar with the poets but who would welcome some happy surprises, this varied international selection includes verse translated from six languages, with several poems appearing in the original language alongside its translation. This engaging selection features concise, informative headnotes and a helpful introduction that charts a course to understanding the Romantic mTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Charlotte Smith; 2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; 3. William Blake; 4.Robert Burns; 5. Friedrich Schiller ; 6. Helen Maria Williams; 6. André Chénier; 7. Friedrich Hölderlin; 7. Sophie Mereau; 8. William Wordsworth; 9. Sir Walter Scott; 10. Friedrich Schlegel; 11. Samuel Taylor Coleridge; 12. Robert Southey; 13. Ugo Foscolo; 14. Clemens Brentano; 15. Thomas Moore; 16. Karoline von Günderode; 17. Leigh Hunt; 18. Marceline Desbordes-Valmore; 19. Joseph Freiherr on Eichendorff; 20. Lord Byron; 21. Susan Evance; 22. Alphonse de Lamartine; 23. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822; 24. John Clare; 25. Felicia Dorothea Hemans; 26. William Cullen Bryant; 27. John Keats; 28. Annette von Droste-Hülshoff; 29. Alfred de Vigny; 30. Heinrich Heine; 31. Giacomo Leopardi; 32. Anton Delvig; 33. Amable Tastu; 34. Adam Mickiewicz; 35. Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin; 36. Victor Hugo; 37. Letitia Elizabeth Landon; 38. Alexander Odoevsky; 39. Ralph Waldo Emerson; 40. Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve; 41. Elizabeth Barrett Browning; 42. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; 43. Gérard de Nerval; 44. Edgar Allen Poe; 45. Alfred de Musset; 46. Théophile Gautier; 47. Mikhail Lermontov; 48. Emily Brontë; 49. Walt Whitman; 50. Emily Dickinson; 51. Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer; 52. William Butler Yeats.

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Book SynopsisTerrorism has long been a major shaping force in the world. However, the meanings of terrorism, as a word and as a set of actions, are intensely contested. This volume explores how literature has dealt with terrorism from the Renaissance to today, inviting the reader to make connections between older instances of terrorism and contemporary ones, and to see how the various literary treatments of terrorism draw on each other. The essays demonstrate that the debates around terrorism only give the fictive imagination more room, and that fiction has a great deal to offer in terms of both understanding terrorism and our responses to it. Written by historians and literary critics, the essays provide essential knowledge to understand terrorism in its full complexity. As befitting a global problem, this book brings together a truly international group of scholars, with representatives from America, Scotland, Canada, New Zealand, Italy, Israel, and other countries.Table of ContentsIntroduction Peter C. Herman; Part I. Origins: The Varieties of Terrorism: 1. Savagery and the sacred: the rhetoric of terror and its consequences in the scriptural monotheisms Reuven Firestone; 2. Early modern terrorism Robert Appelbaum; 3. 'Carrying patriotism in their hearts': the terror in the French Revolution Lindsay Parker; 4. Methodology and martyrs: Irish American Republicanism in the late nineteenth century Gillian O'Brien; 5. 'Play's the thing': how governments in nineteenth and early twentieth century North America used 'terrorism to further their own ends Nathan Greenfield; 6. The nation-state's other: postcolonial terrorism in the Indian context Rini Bhattacharya Mehta; 7. Conflict and violence in the early Northern-Irish troubles Simon Prince; 8. Social-revolutionary violence in Western Europe: the case of the Red Brigades' trajectory, during the 1970s and early 1980s Lorenzo Bosi; 9. Terrorism in the Middle East David Cook; Part II. Development: Terrorism in Literature: 10. Terrorism in literature to 1642 Robert Appelbaum; 11. 'Terror in inquisition': terrorists and inquisitors in the British Gothic literature of the 1790s Joseph Crawford; 12. 'Parliament is burning': dynamite, terrorism and the English novel Deaglán Ó Donghaile; 13. Dostoevsky's terrorism trilogy Lynn Patyk; 14. Perils and pleasures of the bloody oath: the nihilist conspiracy in American popular fiction, 1881–1901 Ann Larabaee; 15. Staging the limit: Albert Camus's just assassins and the il/legitimacy of terrorism Ève Morisi; 16. Gillo Pontecorvo's Battle of Algiers and terrorism on film Tony Shaw; 17. 'Something in the making': writing in the troubles and the singularity of Northern Irish literature Tom Walker; 18. No heroes in a cycle of violence: collaborators, perpetrators and the never-ending terror of the Arab-Israeli conflict Rachel S. Harris; 19. 'Why do they hate us?' Terrorists in American and British fiction of the mid-2000s Michael C. Frank; 20. Terrorism in theory David Simpson; Part III. Applications: Terrorism Today: 21. Sympathy for the devil: evil, taboo, and the terrorist figure in literature Richard Jackson; 22. War after war: terrorism and retaliation in Don DeLillo's Point Omega Linda Kauffman; 23. Conceptual confusion: the ambiguities of the war on terror in Roy-Bhattacharya's The Watch and O'Hagan's The Illuminations Tim Gauthier; 24. Terror, testament, and trial Ian Ward; 25. Global terror/global literature Daniel O'Gorman; 26. Recipient unknown: terrorism and the other in post-9/11 American poetry Ann Keniston; 27. Samson among the terrorologists Peter C. Herman; 28. Afterword Alex Houen.

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Book SynopsisIn the twentieth century, cumulative millions of readers received books by mail from clubs like the Book-of-the-Month Club, the Book Society or Bertelsmann Club. This Element offers an introduction to book clubs as a distribution channel and cultural phenomenon, and shows that book clubs and book commerce are linked inextricably. It argues that a global perspective is necessary to understand the cultural and economic impact of book clubs in the twentieth and into the twenty-first century. It also explores central reasons for book club membership, condensing them into four succinct categories: convenience, community, concession and, most importantly, curation. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Book clubs: definition and basic structure; 3. Books for the masses: book clubs in the twentieth century; 4. Chances and challenges for book clubs today; 5. Conclusions and outlook.

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book specifically devoted to the new modernist studies. Bringing together a range of perspectives on the past, present, and future of this vibrant, complicated scholarly enterprise, the collection reconsiders its achievements and challenges as both a mode of inquiry and an institutional formation. In its first section, the volume offers a fresh history of the new modernist studies'' origins amid the intellectual configurations of the end of the twentieth century and changing views of the value, ?influence, and scope of modernism. In the second section a dozen leading scholars examine recent trends in modernist scholarship to suggest possible new paths of research, showing how the field continues to engage with other areas of study and how it makes a case for the ongoing meaning of modernist literature and art in the contemporary world.Table of ContentsIntroduction Douglas Mao; Part I. Histories; 1. History's Prehistory: Modernist Studies before the New Michael North; 2. Scholarship's Turn: Origins and Effects of the New Modernist Studies Mark Wollaeger; Part II. Horizons: 3. Planetarity's Edges: Modernist Studies and the Bounds of Modernism María del Pilar Blanco; 4. Religion's Configurations:Modernism, Empire, Comparison Susan Stanford Friedman; 5. Disability's Disruptions: Embodiment and the New Modernist Studies Maren Linett; 6. Affect's Vocabularies: Literature and Feeling after 1890 David James; 7. Invisibility's Arts: The Seen and the Unseen in Modernism and Modernist Studies Sarah Cole; 8. Black Writing's Visuals: African American Modernism in Nugent, Ligon, and Rankine Miriam Thaggert; 9. Noir Film's Soundtracks: Jazz, Black Transnationalism, and Postcolonial Genres of Criminality Edwin Hill; 10. Language's Hopes: Global Modernism and the Science of Debabelization Aarthi Vadde; 11. Revolution's Demands: Modernism, Socialist Realism, and the Manifesto Steven Lee; 12. Feminism's Archives: Intersectionality with Loy and Mendelssohn Sara Crangle; 13. Risk's Instruments: Speculation, Futurity, and Modernist Finance Gayle Rogers; 14. Deep Time's Hauntings: Modernism and Alternative Chronology Paul Saint-Amour.

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Book SynopsisA collection of essays from one of the world's greatest scholars of Latin literature and Roman culture. Covers ancient epic, historiography, lyric, elegy, and drama, with a particular focus on ancient literary criticism, comparative religion, historicism and the technology of the ancient book. With a foreword by Stephen Hinds.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Si licet et fas est: Ovid's Fasti and the problem of free speech under the Principate; 2. 'Shall I compare thee ...?' Catullus 68 and the limits of analogy; 3. Towards an account of the ancient world's concepts of fictive belief; 4. Horace and the Greek lyric poets; 5. Criticism ancient and modern; 6. The odiousness of comparisons: Horace on literary history and the limitations of synkrisis; 7. Vna cum scriptore meo: poetry, principate, and the traditions of literary history in the Epistle to Augustus; 8. Two Virgilian acrostics: certissima signa? (with Damien Nelis); 9. Catullus and the Roman paradox epigram; 10. Becoming an authority: Horace on his own reception; 11. Fathers and sons: the Manlii Torquati and family continuity in Catullus and Horace; 12. Doing the numbers: the Roman mathematics of civil war in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra; 13. Crediting Pseudolus: trust, belief, and the credit crunch in Plautus' Pseudolus; 14. Hic finis fandi: On the absence of punctuation for the endings (and beginnings) of speeches in Latin poetic texts; 15. Representation and the materiality of the book in Catullus' polymetrics; 16. Catullus 61: Epithalamium and comparison; 17. Ovid's Ciceronian literary history: end-career chronology and autobiography; 18. Horace and the literature of the past: lyric, epic, and history in Odes 4; 19. Forma manet facti (Ov. Fast. 2.379): aetiologies of myth and ritual in Ovid's Fasti and Metamorphoses.

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Book SynopsisWe live in a networked world. Online social networking platforms and the World Wide Web have changed how society thinks about connectivity. Because of the technological nature of such networks, their study has predominantly taken place within the domains of computer science and related scientific fields. But arts and humanities scholars are increasingly using the same kinds of visual and quantitative analysis to shed light on aspects of culture and society hitherto concealed. This Element contends that networks are a category of study that cuts across traditional academic barriers, uniting diverse disciplines through a shared understanding of complexity in our world. Moreover, we are at a moment in time when it is crucial that arts and humanities scholars join the critique of how large-scale network data and advanced network analysis are being harnessed for the purposes of power, surveillance, and commercial gain. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Frameworks: 1. Networks are always metaphorical; 2. Historical threads; Part II Cultural Networks: 3. Culture is data; 4. Visual networks; Part III Manoeuvres: 5. Quantifying culture; 6. Networking the 'Divided Kingdom'.

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Book SynopsisMany twentieth-century literary writers were directly involved in political parties and causes, and many viewed their writing as part of their activism. This book explores literature's direct relationship to politics, offering new ways of thinking about the troubled relationship between literature and politics.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Christos Hadjiyiannis and Rachel Potter; Part I. 1900–1945: Ideas and Governance: 1. Liberalism Christos Hadjiyiannis; 2. Communism Matthew Taunton; 3. Fascism Charles Ferrall and Dougal McNeill; 4. Suffragism Clara Jones; 5. Pacifism Bárbara Gallego Larrarte; Part II. 1945–1989: New Nations and New Frontiers: 6. Partitions Anindya Raychaudhuri; 7. Federalism Ryan Weberling; 8. Cold War Rachel Potter; 9. Irish Nationalism Emer Nolan; 10. Black Nationalism GerShun Avilez; 11. Caribbean Nationalisms Alison Donnell; 12. African Nationalisms Donna V. Jones; 13. Apartheid Corinne Sandwith; Part III. 1989–2000: Rights and Activisms: 14. Women's Rights Rachele Dini; 15. Sexual Rights Jo Winning; 16. Indigenous Rights Christina Turner; 17. Environmental Rights Jos Smith; 18. Neoliberalism Peter Boxall.

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Book SynopsisThis Element inquires into the notion of 'difference' in relation to books, offering a unique interdisciplinary exploration of literature as culture and commodity in a digital age. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.Table of Contents1. Introduction: (Re-)thinking 'Difference'; 2. What's the 'Difference'? 'Difference' as Discourse, Policy and Brand/ing; 3. Are Books Still Different? 'Difference' in a Digital Age; 4. Marketing 'Difference' in a Network of Networks: Bernardine Evaristo; 5. Conclusion: the book as affect and the novel as network.

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Book SynopsisThis recently discovered treatise on poetics from 1599, the end of the most revolutionary decade in English literary history, includes discussions of the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Gavin Alexander's groundbreaking edition, with introduction and commentary, makes William Scott's powerful work newly available to students and scholars of English Renaissance literature.Trade Review'Alexander's editorial skills are dazzling … All writers should be blessed with such editors.' Russ McDonald, The Times Literary Supplement'… Alexander's edition of William Scott's Model of Poesy is exemplary … for anyone working in any way with the literature, and the literary scene, of the sixteenth century's last two or three decades, Scott's Model is indispensable, and it is our immense good fortune that its first modern edition has been prepared by someone with the technical expertise … the capacity for thorough research … and the stylistic elegance of Gavin Alexander.' Roger Kuin, The Spenser Review'Scott's manuscript provides critics with fresh access to a comprehensive and well-arranged early modern exegesis on poetic theory and practice … Scott's treatise, and Alexander's edition, offers perhaps the most exciting literary discovery of recent years.' Hannah Leah Crummé, Renaissance Quarterly'Gavin Alexander's splendid scholarly edition of William Scott's Model of Poesy (1599) contributes to early modern literary studies in ways that will have lasting effects … In ambition and comprehensiveness, Alexander's contribution as an editor matches that of Scott as a critic … So learned in the rhetorical and critical traditions known to the Elizabethans is Alexander's introduction that it stands as a major work of scholarship in its own right.' Donald Stump, Sydney Journal'The recent discovery of the manuscript of William Scott's previously unknown Model of Poesy (c.1599), with its wealth of allusions to contemporary writers including Shakespeare, Spenser, Sidney, and Daniel, represents a major addition to the corpus of Elizabethan literary criticism. And Gavin Alexander's magisterial edition, exemplary in the range and depth of its scholarship, is in every way worthy of its subject.' Stanley Wells, The Shakespeare Birthplace TrustTable of ContentsPreface; Introduction: William Scott (c.1571–c.1617); The Model in context; Form and method; Textual introduction; The Model of Poesy; Commentary; Appendices: Appendix 1. The dedication to Scott's Du Bartas; Appendix 2. Scott's letter to Cecil; Appendix 3. Scott's will.

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book to demonstrate the value of prose analysis - both appreciative and interpretive in its ''evaluations'' - across dozens of authors, including Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Don DeLillo, and Toni Morrison. The Value of Style in Fiction is designed not just for students and scholars of the English novel - and its verbal ''microplots'' - but also for anyone interested in mastering the art of the sentence by ''writing along with'' its finest examplars in a fully descriptive account: a stylistic challenge in its own right exemplified by Stewart''s multifaceted critical modelling. Beginning with a state-of-the-field survey of prose poetics, this manual of invested reading concludes with an ''Inventory'' of terms (bolded throughout) drawn primarily from grammar, rhetoric, etymology, and phonetics, but also narratology and poetic theory: a glossary whose consultation can help cross-map certain verbal tendencies in literary-historical evolution and its separate landmark writTrade Review'Written in an exacting, witty and distinctive prose style of its own, this book is both a manifesto for reading for style and a first-rate demonstration of it, by a scholar-critic long known for practicing exactly the kind of critical attention called for and modelled here. Given a returning interest in prose poetics, this seems like the right book by the right critic at the right time.' Daniel Tyler, University of Cambridge'The Value of Style in Fiction ... offers itself to those seeking to learn the craft of attentive reading and inventive writing at the level of the sentence as a form of mini-plot.' Philip Davis, Victorian StudiesTable of Contents1. Introduction: verbal investments – richness, wealth, value; 2. Emergent turns: Defoe toward Dickens; 3. Stylistic microplots: Melville to Miéville; 4. A rhetorical spectrum: Wharton, Woolf, Waugh, Wallace, and beyond; 5. Inventory: some terms of engagement – A to Z.

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Book SynopsisIn a post-digital media landscape tracked endlessly by streams and feeds of images, it is clearer than ever that photography is an art poised between arresting singularity and ambiguous plurality. Drawing on work in visual culture studies that emphasizes the interplay between still and moving images, In and Out of Sight provides a provocative new account of the relationship between photography and modernist literature--a literature which has long been considered to trace, in its formal experimentation, the influence of modern visual technologies. Making pioneering claims about the importance of photography to the writing of Gertrude Stein, Jean Toomer, John Dos Passos, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Alix Beeston traverses the history of photography in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. From the composite experiments of Francis Galton to the epic portrait project of August Sander; from the surrealist self-fashioning of Claude Cahun to the reappropriation of lynching photographTrade ReviewBeestons methodology has all the hallmarks and pleasures of the current trend in literary studies that blends theoretical subtlety—ably moving between the various branches of media and visual studies, as well as feminist theory and theories of modernity—with archival detail. ... This is an exciting debut, one which discloses through its study of the past consequential insights about how we intercept and areintercepted by mediated forms in our present. * Feminist Modernist Studies *Beeston's probing, artful, and original In and Out of Sight: Modernist Writing and the Photographic Unseen extends and redirects [the] dialogue between modernist literature and visual media. ... In and Out of Sight is a genuinely interdisciplinary project; its author is as conversant in moving-image studies as she is in modernist literary studies. Beeston sustains her range of references through what she identifies as a sort of critical montage, a methodology that poses important questions for the future of modernist studies. ... Beeston encodes her 'strong' combination of theoretical, formalist, and archival rigor within an open—composite, fractured, sutured—reading practice. It is this openness...that is sure to make it durable for generations of future scholars. * Stephen Pasqualina, Modernism/modernity *In and Out of Sight is powered by a truly interdisciplinary gathering of proofs and examples taken from photography, literature, history, and theory from the modernist moment and our own. [This book] may be the most thrilling offering of 2018". * Shawna Ross, The Year's Work in English Studies *Alix Beeston's bold and challenging new book offers a corrective to [Gertrude] Stein's statement of filmic equivalence, asking that we linger instead with the strangeness of photography when trying to account for literary modernism's interest in serial form. â Beeston carefully establishes a body of criticism into which her own book might be situated and forges an exciting direction for future work in modernist studies, photography and literature, still-moving studies, and feminist studies. * Louise Hornby , University of California, Los Angeles , Modern Language Review *Beeston's impressive first book makes significant contributions not just to the reading of literary and visual modernism but to the understanding of gender, race, and class in twentieth-century American culture... The theoretical and critical analyses of In and Out of Sight reveal how the tensions of the photographic unseen and the still-moving field exist in the representations of gender, race, and class that American visual or verbal images and texts subordinate. * Joseph R. Millichap , MFS Modern Fiction Studies *Alix Beeston's In and Out of Sight is one of several exciting and innovative accounts of the relation between literature and photography to appear in recent years, studies that have charted a new course for the field away from a focus on questions of realism and indexicality... the readings that emerge are powerful and persuasive... [it] is a welcome contribution to modernist and visual studies, persuasive evidence that these intertwined fields remain as vibrant as ever. * Stuart Burrows, American Literary History *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Things Normally Unseen Chapter 1: Bodies Bad and Gentle: The Surrealist Convulsions of Gertrude Stein's Three Lives Chapter 2: Black Flesh is White Ash: Reframing Jean Toomer's Cane Chapter 3: Frozen in the Glassy, Bluestreaked Air: John Dos Passos's Photographic Metropolis Chapter 4: Torn, Burned, and Yet Dancing: The Hollywood Writing of F. Scott Fitzgerald Coda: Shared Hallucinations Works Cited

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Book SynopsisThese essays, as selected and translated by Stephen Heath, are among the finest writings Barthes ever published on film and photography, and on the phenomena of sound and image. The classic pieces Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narrative and The Death of the Author are also included.

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Book Synopsis"A beautifully cadenced work of art—it will remind some readers of Nabokov's classic Speak, Memory."—Joyce Carol OatesTrade Review"Trains of Thought is a beautifully cadenced work of art... A brilliant memoir, both contemplative and sensuous; elegiac and radiant with hope." Joyce Carol Oates

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Book SynopsisBrings Christian theology, creative literature and literary critical theory into dialogue on the theme of 'the end'. This book also considers scientific views on the nature of time. It provides an exegesis of novels, plays and poems by such writers as John Fowles, Julian Barnes, Doris Lessing, Samuel Beckett, T S Eliot, and Virginia Woolf.Trade Review"As the field of literature and theology develops and becomes more sophisticated, so Fiddes is contributing at the cutting edge. His work is genuinely interdisciplinary, and his choice of texts is faultless. He initiates a learned and helpful dialogue with major theologians. I will certainly use this as a textbook in my teaching - it's one I have been looking for, for some time, indeed." David Jasper, Dean of Divinity and Professor of Literature and Theology, Glasgow University "This is a marvellous book which combines a variety of literatures, from the popular to the literary classics and new classics. That Fiddes can move so easily among these is impressive. Also impressive is his command of literary theory and theology, along with scientific theory. I recommend it with absolutely no reservations." Carolyn Jones Medine, Professor of Religious Studies and English, Louisiana State University "This book on eschatology is almost certainly like no other you have read. Through its dialogue between theology and literature it uniquely stimulates theological reflection and offers resources for pastoral care and preaching. It is a remarkable, if sometimes demanding, book, and a rewarding and recommended read." Regent's Reviews "A highly specialized survey of contemporary theology, literature, and critical theory dealing with the perception of endings ... No student of theology or literature should overlook this book." First Things "This book succeeds in finding fresh insights into eschatology at the interface of religion and literature and is a fine achievement. It is not always an easy book to read but is always a worthwhile one." The Baptist Ministers' Journal "In The Promised End, Fiddes offers a unique synthesis of interdisciplinary measures, offering theologically refreshing insights, on the end that is not so much perceived as promised. In the area where religion, literature and science often clash, Fiddes is remarkably clever at pointing out their potential for unification." Research News and Opportunities in Science and Theology "Fiddes' clarity regarding the theorists mentioned above, and his wide-ranging knowledge of theological studies are to be commended. However, the impressive aspect of his dialogue is the truly deep and profound grasp of the theological ideas that are shown to be lurking within the literary texts. One comes away with the sense that theological issues can be powerfully demonstrated in the context of literary works, and that even works which may not immediately seem "theological" are in fact pervaded by metaphysical concerns in ways we may not have clearly imagined." Religion and Literature "It is fortunate that Fiddes' literary judgements are as acute as his theological acumen, and for both we are much in his debt." TheologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Part I: Facing the End:. 1. The Problem of Closure: John Fowles' the French Lieutenant's Woman and Julian Barnes' Flaubert's Parrot. 2. Theology and Literature - A Dialogue. 3. The End Organizes the Human Story: Frank Kermode. 4. The End Discloses a Desired World: Northrop Frye. 5. Biblical Eschatology and Openness. 6. Closure and Openness in Ending. Part II: Deferment and Hope:. 7. The End Defers Meaning: Jacques Derrida. 8. Death and the Other. 9. Openness and Relativism. 10. The End Opens Hope: Paul Ricoeur. 11. Hope and a Passion for the Possible. 12. Hoping in the Face of Death. Part III: Taking Death Seriously:. 13. A Journey to Nothingness: Shakespeare's King Lear. 14. Human Surplus and Excess. 15. Images of a Desirable and Undesirable World. 16. The Configuring of Time. 17. Looking Upon Death. 18. Death the Last Enemy. 19. Creation from Nothing. Part IV: A Question of Identity:. 20. Resurrection and the Idea of Replication. 21. Problems About Identity. 22. Closing the Gap? A Modified Dualism. 23. The Person and the Finality of Death. 24. Survival and Relationships: Doris Lessing's Memoirs of A Survivor. 25. Corporate Resurrection. 26. The Identity of the Self: Lessing's the Making of the Representative for Planet 8. 27. The Making of the Person. Part V: the Eternal Moment:. 28. The Problem of Fragmentation By Time: T.S. Eliot's 'Ash Wednesday'. 29. The Problem of Isolation in Time: Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway. 30. Eliot and the Timeless Moment: the Four Quartets. 31. Eternity as Simultaneity?. 32. The Healing of Time. 33. Woolf and the Symbols of Eternity: to the Lighthouse and Between the Acts. Part VI: Expecting the Unexpected:. 34. Two Parables of Waiting. 35. The Reversal of Expectations. 36. Two Plays of Waiting: Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot and Endgame. 37. The Futility of Waiting: (A) Waiting for the 'Not Yet'. 38. Waiting For a Possible Future. 39. The Futility of Waiting: (B) A Programmed Future. Part VII: The Arrow of Time:. 40. The One-Way Flight of the Arrow. 41. The Arrow Points Backwards: Martin Amis' Time's Arrow. 42. The Counter-Movement to Evolution. 43. Cycles of Torment and Renewal: Flann O'Brien's the Third Policeman and James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. 44. Preservation and Retroaction. 45. The Eternal Dance. Part VIII: A Fuller Presence:. 46. The Desire for Presence. 47. Millennium and Utopia. 48. Fictional Images of Utopia: Aldous Huxley's Island and Ursula Leguin's the Dispossessed. 49. The Postmodern Critique of Full Presence. 50. Absence at the Heart of Existence. 51. Theological Versions of Hidden Presence. 52. The Millennial Hope. Part IX: Our Eternal Dwelling-Place:. 53. Participating in Triune Relationships. 54. Dwelling in Triune Spaces. 55. Particularity and Eschatology. 56. The Eternal City. Index.

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Book SynopsisThe author reconstructs the relation of the novel to 19th-century law courts. He argues that the courts, newly fashioned as a site in which to orchestrate voices and reconstruct stories, arose as a cultural presence influencing the shape of the English novel.Trade ReviewAmong those texts that attend both to historical environment and formal or generic pressures, Jonathan H. Grossman's The Art of Alibi stands out. -- Andrew H. Miller Studies in English Literature 2003 [An] absorbing study of the cultural influence of the law courts on the Victorian novel... Grossman's refusal to simply draw an analogy between trials and novels distinguishes his argument from others working in the crossover territory between legal studies and literary criticism. -- David McAllister Times Literary Supplement 2003 Grossman's innovative study is a provocative reconsideration of the early nineteenth-century novel and should stimulate further exploration of the generative intersection of law and literature. -- Gareth Cordery Dickens Quarterly 2004Table of ContentsContents: List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction ONE: From Scaffold to Law Court, from Criminal Broadsheet and Biography to Newspaper Novel TWO: Caleb Williams and the Novel's Forensic Form THREE: Mary Shelley's Legal Frankenstein FOUR: Victorian Courthouse Structures FIVE: Mary Barton's Telltale Evidence SIX: The Newgate Novel and Advent of Detective Fiction Conclusion Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThe result is a study that underscores how Baudelaire's legacy continues to energize literary engagements with the violence of modernity.Trade ReviewAmbitious and thought-provoking... The Violence of Modernity is an important, enlightening book. -- Susan Blood H-France 2007 A thought-provoking and carefully researched study which offers a captivating perspective on Baudelaire's poetry. -- Nicole Fayard French Studies 2008 Offers a refreshingly innovative approach not just to Baudelaire but also to broader critical interpretations of violence, modernity, irony, politics, and form. -- Helen Abbott Modern Language Review 2008 Admirable study. -- Peter Childs Symploke 2008 A major contribution to the study of Baudelaire and his influence... It has a great deal to offer not only scholars of French literature, but to anyone interested in the complex intersections between literature and history. -- Alison James Modern Philology 2009 At a time when we are more than ever encouraged to distinguish between good guys and bad guys, it is refreshing to read a work that illustrates the impossibility of such clear-cut distinctions. -- Nicole Asquith Substance 2009 One of the most solidly critically informed works in the field. -- Michael R. Finn South Central Review 2009Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionPart I: Violence and Representation in Baudelaire1. Baudelaire's Victims and Executioners: From the Symptoms of Trauma to a Critique of Violence2. Passages from Form to Politics: Baudelaire's Le Spleen de Paris3. Bodies in Motion, Texts on Stage: Baudelaire's Women and the Forms of ModernityPart II: Unlikely Contestations: Baudelaire's Legacy Revisited4. Matter's Revenge on Form: Bad Girls Talk Back5. Broken Engagements: Albert Camus and the Poetics of TerrorAfterwordNotesWorks CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisS. Latin American Studies, 1940-2000Trade ReviewThe close reading required by these essays is well worth the time. -- Marcia G. Synnott Journal of American History 2007Table of ContentsJohn Guillory, "Who's Afraid of Marcel Proust? The Failure of General Education in the American University"; Roger L. Geiger, "Demography and Curriculum: The Humanities in American Higher Education from the 1950s through the 1980s"; Joan Shelley Rubin, "The Scholar and the World: Academic Humanists and General Readers"; Martin Jay, "The Ambivalent Virtues of Mendacity: How Europeans Taught (Some of Us) to Learn to Love the Lies of Politics"; James T. Kloppenberg, "The Place of Value in a Culture of Facts: Truth and Historicism"; Bruce Kuklick, "Philosophy and Inclusion in the United States, 1929-2001"; John T. McGreevy, "Catholics, Catholicism, and the Humanities, 1945-1985"; Jonathan Scott Holloway, "The Black Scholar, the Humanities, and the Politics of Racial Knowledge Since 1945"; Rosalind Rosenberg, "Women in the Humanities: Taking Their Place"; Leila Zenderland, "American Studies and the Expansion of the Humanities"; David C. Engerman, "The Ironies of the Iron Curtain: The Cold War and the Rise of Russian Studies"; Andrew E. Barshay, "What is Japan to Us"?; Rolena Adorno, "Havana and Macondo: The Humanities Side of U.S. Latin American Studies, 1940-2000".

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Book SynopsisPresents a discussion of how key concepts from cognitive science complicate our cultural interpretations of strange literary phenomena. This title discusses motifs of confused identity and of twins in drama, and science fiction's use of robots, cyborgs, and androids. It reveals the range of key concepts from science in literary interpretation.Trade ReviewThe book is stylistically well-written and features interesting readings of various texts. -- Marcus Hartner Zeitschrift fuer Anglistik und Amerikanistik 2009 The author gives herself a refreshingly modest assignment: to demonstrate that a certain cognitive predisposition has contributed to the development of, and continued interest in, specific literary motifs that occur across a wide variety of cultures. This is all that she tries to do, and she does it very well. Philosophy and Literature 2009 Zunshine renders the book accessible to the general reader. -- Aristie Trendel CerclesTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPart 1: "But what am I, then?": Chasing Personal Essences across National Literatures1. Ural Mountains–Rome–London2. Essentialism, Functionalism, and Cognitive Psychology3. Possible Evolutionary Origins of Essentialist Thinking4. "A bullet's a bullet's a bullet!"5. Talk to the Door Politely or Tickle It in Exactly the Right Place6. Resisting Essentialism7. The Ever-Receding "Essence" of Sosia8. Identical Twins and Theater9. How Is Mr. Darcy Different from Colin Firth?10. Looking for the Real Mademoiselle11. "Mahatma Gandhi: war!" "But he was a pacifist." "Right! War!"Part 2: Why Robots Go Astray, or The Cognitive Foundations of the Frankenstein Complex1. What Is the Frankenstein Complex?2. On Zygoons, Thricklers, and Kerpas3. Theory of Mind4. Theory of Mind and Categorization: Preliminary Implications5. Concepts That Resist Categorization6. . . . and the Stories They Make Possible7. The Stories That Can Be Told about a Talking Needle8. Asimov's "The Bicentennial Man"9. Cognitive Construction of "Undoubted Facts": "The Bicentennial Man" and the Logic of Essentialism10. Made to Rebel11. Why Phyllis Is Still a Robot12. . . . and Why Rei Toei Is Not13. More Human Than Thou (Piercy's He, She and It)14. Made to Pray15. Made to Serve. Made to Obey. Made to Break HeartsPart 3: Some Species of Nonsense1. How Nonsense Makes Sense in The Hunting of the Snark2. "Strings of Impossibilia" and What They Tell Us about the Value of Nonsense3. "Painters of the Unimaginable," or More aboutReally Strange ConceptsConclusion: Almost beyond FictionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisPart III, Identities, examines the key role of memory in contemporary constructions of identity under the headings of Gender, Race/Nation, and Diaspora.Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsIntroductionPart I: Beginnings1. Classical and Early Modern Ideas of Memory2. Enlightenment and Romantic Memory3. Memory and Late ModernityPart II: Positionings4. Collective Memory5. Jewish Memory Discourse6. TraumaPart III: Identities7. Gender8. Race/Nation9. DisaporaBiographical Details of Editors and Contributing EditorsIndex

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Book SynopsisReiss, New York University; Kathleen M. Sands, University of Massachusetts, Boston; David Scott, Columbia University; George Steiner, University of Geneva; Olga Taxidou, University of EdinburghTrade Review[A] stimulating symposium. Times Literary Supplement This is a stimulating and provocative collection. Anyone interested in our cultural and political fascination with 'endless Tragedie' will find plenty of red meat here. -- Adrian Streete English 2010Table of ContentsIntroductionPart One: Defining TragedyGeorge Steiner // "Tragedy," ReconsideredSimon Goldhill // Generalizing About TragedyWai Chee Dimock // After Troy: Homer, Euripides, Total WarKathleen M. Sands // Tragedy, Theology, and Feminism in the Time After TimeJoshua Foa Dienstag // Tragedy, Pessimism, NietzschePart Two: Rethinking the History of TragedyPage duBois // Toppling the Hero: Polyphony in the Tragic CityMartha C. Nussbaum // The "Morality of Pity": Sophocles' PhiloctetesSimon Critchley // I Want to Die, I Hate My Life— Phaedra's MalaisePart Three: Tragedy and ModernityDavid Scott // Tragedy's Time: Postemancipation Futures Past and PresentStanley Corngold // Sebald's TragedyOlga Taxidou // Machines and Models for Modern Tragedy: Brecht/Berlau, Antigone- Model 1948Timothy J. Reiss // Transforming Polities and Selves:Greek Antiquity, West African ModernityPart Four: Tragedy, Film, Popular CultureElisabeth Bronfen // Femme Fatale—Negotiations of Tragic DesireHeather K. Love // Spectacular Failure: The Figure of the Lesbian in Mulholland DriveMichel Maffesoli // The Return of the Tragic in Postmodern SocietiesTerry Eagleton // CommentaryNotes on ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisHumanities, film studies, and social science scholars will find this book a valuable contribution to the philosophical literature on cinema and its pertinence in contemporary life.Trade ReviewMarrati's slender but incisive treatment of Deleuze's unification of philosophy with the art of cinema is an indispensable work for new and advanced Deleuze scholars grappling with the thick weave of film analyses cum philosophical expositions... Essential. Choice Beautifully written and expertly translated, Paola Marrati's Gilles Deleuze: Cinema and Philosophy brings much needed clarity to Deleuze's two monumental works on cinema. -- Joe Hughes Rain Taxi Review of Books Readers looking for an introduction to Deleuze's work on cinema will find it in Marrati's evident commitment to precision and her remarkable clarity in the face of a series of notoriously complex texts. -- Alexander Thimons Scope A surprising, rewarding, and insightful text that breaks new ground, Cinema and Philosophy does a great service: it helps us believe in a 'new' and compelling future for Deleuzian studies of film and philosophy. -- Meredith C. Ward MLN Marrati's highly informative and carefully argued book touches on significant elements of the link between cinema and philosophy in Deleuze's work. This is a stimulating, sharp and keenly argued book. Analysis and MetaphysicsTable of ContentsPreface to the English-language EditionAcknowledgmentsFrequently Cited TextsIntroduction1. Images in Movement and Movement-Images2. Cinema and Perception3. The Montage of the Whole4. Postwar Cinema5. The Time0Image6. Images and Immanence: The Problem of the WorldConclusionAppendix: A Lost Everyday: Deleuze and Cavell on HollywoodNotesWorks CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisAccessibly written and timely, The Return of Ulysses establishes the Odyssey as the founding text of Western Civilization and offers a major contribution to the study of Homer's epic poem, as well as modern insight into its cultural reception and continuing imprint on society.Trade ReviewBritish scholar Edith Hall takes 15 aspects of the Odyssey and traces their permutations from ancient times to today. The result is engrossing and enlightening. Author Magazine 2008 Hall is the optimistic traveller par excellence and leads us on a stimulating journey, roving far and wide through both time and space in pursuit of her hero. Times Higher Education Supplement 2008 [Hall] fills her pages with sharp and often surprising observations about the 'Odyssey' and its spiritual children. She devotes much attention to film ('The Searchers,' 'The Natural,' 'Cold Mountain' and many others), but even reflected in this modern medium, she realizes, the 'Odyssey' owes a measure of its allure to its sheer, echoing antiquity. Reading her good-humored and accessible book is like conversing across the ages. New York Times Book Review 2008 Hall's study of the Odyssey is thorough, entertaining and well referenced. She offers many ways for the reader to relate Homer's epic to more modern works of literature, art and film, thus bridging the gap between old and new. Suite101.com The book sparkles with the excitement... Times Literary Supplement 2008 The Return of Ulysses is a sweeping tour of almost all one could wish to demonstrate about the spell of Homer. -- Zbigniew Janowski First Things 2008 A true cultural treat awaits readers with ears and eyes attuned to both the higher and lower reaches of culture and in want of expert crosscultural, socioliterary criticism. Nostalgia may not generally be what it used to be, but Professor Hall has made a herculean stab at convincing us that there can be exceptions. Anglo-Hellenic Review 2009 Edith Hall takes us on a tour of global culture high and low, mostly from the last hundred years, to demonstrate how Homer's great poem continues to permeate our sensibility and imagination. She is an informative and enthusiastic guide. London Review of Books 2009 Though conversant with Homeric scholarship and the imperatives of postmodern literary criticism, Hall never burdens her prose with theoretic jargon... A goldmine of fascinating information on the persistence of thematic archetypes first formulated in Homer's great epic. Highly recommended. Choice 2009 An extraordinary wide-ranging, clearly written, instructive, and engaging survey of the cultural reception of the poem from antiquity to the early twenty-first century. -- Seth L. Schein New England Classical Journal 2009 The scope of the book is breathtaking and Hall, Odysseus-like, deftly navigates across the rich landscape she unfolds before us, guiding us through its landmarks with a style that is clear, engaging, and at times outright funny. -- Silvia Montiglio Classical World 2010 A monumental overlook at the Homerian classic from all angles and a work which should keep the brain busy through just about any outer circumstance. -- Marilis Hornridge Lincoln Country News [Damariscotta, Maine] 2010Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPart I: Generic Mutations1. Embarkation2. Turning Phrases3. Shape-Shifting4. Telling Takes5. Singing SongsPart II: World and Society6. Facing Frontiers7. Colonial Conflict8. Rites of Man9. Women's Work10. Class ConsciousnessPart III: Mind and Psyche11. Brain Power12. Exile from Ithaca13. Blood Bath14. Sex and Sexuality15. Dialogue with DeathNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe Neural Sublime features an array of cognitive and neuroscientific approaches, providing an engaging and readable introduction to the emergent field of cognitive literary studies.Trade ReviewThis exemplary book may prove one of the most influential books on Romantic literature for decades to come... Essential. Choice 2011 A work of considerable variety and ambition, engagingly written, refreshingly undogmatic in its methods and generous in acknowledging related work in the field, The Neural Sublime will be essential reading for those interested in romanticism's relationship with the human sciences; it is also highly recommended for anyone in the field of romantic studies partial to interdisciplinary conversations. -- Tim Milnes Review of English Studies 2011Table of ContentsPreface1. Introduction: Cognitive Historicism2. The Neural Sublime3. The Romantic Image, the Mind's Eye, and the History of the Senses4. Romantic Apostrophe: Everyday Discourse, Overhearing, and Poetic Address5. Reading Minds—and Bodies—in Emma6. Romantic Incest: Literary Representation and the Biology of Mind7. Language Strange: Motherese, the Semiotic, and Romantic PoetryNotesWorks CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisHis organization of the works and his supplementary material provide both students and scholars with a concise overview of Faulkner studies from its New Critical beginnings through its current engagements with theory and history.Trade ReviewA fine pick and a vital addition to any literary studies collection. Midwest Book Review 2011Table of ContentsPrefacePart I: Myth and ReligionChapter 1. Christian Symbols in Light in AugustChapter 2. Light in August: The Calvinism of William FaulknerChapter 3. The Role of Myth in Absalom, Absalom!Part II: Temporality, History, and TraumaChapter 4. Enigmas of Being in As I Lay DyingChapter 5. "If Was Existed": Faulkner's Prophets and the Patterns of HistoryChapter 6. On Lamentation and the Redistribution of Possessions: Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! and the New SouthChapter 7. "So I, who had never had a war . . .": William Faulkner, War, and the Modern ImaginationChapter 8. Accounting for Slavery: Economic Narratives in Morrison and FaulknerPart III: Gender and Race: Affect, the Body, and IdentityChapter 9. Faulkner's Garden: Woman and the Immemorial EarthChapter 10. "The Beautiful One": Caddy Compson as Heroine of The Sound and the FuryChapter 11. Devious Channels of Decorous Ordering: A Lover's Discourse in Absalom, Absalom!Chapter 12. Linda Snopes Kohl: Faulkner's Radical WomanChapter 13. Faulkner's Return to the Freudian Father: Sanctuary ReconsideredChapter 14. The Picture of Charles Bon: Oscar Wilde's Trip through Faulkner's YoknapatawphaChapter 15. Extremities of the Body: The Anoptic Corporeality of As I Lay DyingPart IV: Modernity and Modernist TechniqueChapter 16. Faulkner's Pylon and the Structure of ModernityChapter 17. Gothicism in Sanctuary: The Black Pall and the Crap TableChapter 18. Faulkner's Storied Novel: Go Down, Moses and the Translation of TimeChapter 19. From Place to Place in The Sound and the Fury: The Syntax of InterrogationAppendix A. Alternative Grouping of Essays Appendix B. Chronological Listing of All Essays on Faulkner Published in MFSList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisAnd discovering a usable American past, as Wyatt shows, enables us to confront the urgencies of our present moment.Trade ReviewA useful introduction to a broad canon of 20th-century authors, this book touches on important issues in literary-historical scholarship and uses clear, conversational language deliberately devoid of jargon; a distinctive feature of the discussion is Wyatt's pointed use of a first-person personal voice that blends his autobiographical insights with his critical readings... Highly recommended. Choice 2011Table of ContentsTo the ReaderAcknowledments1. The Body and the Corporation2. Double Consciousness3. Pioneering Women4. Performing Maleness5. Colored Me6. The Rumor of Race7. The Depression8. The Second World War9. Civil Rights10. Love and Separateness11. Revolt and Reaction12. The Postmodern13. Studying War14. Slavery and Memory15. Pa Not Pa16. After InnocenceA Personal NoteNotesWorks CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisIn so doing, Machor takes us ever closer to understanding the particular and varying reading strategies of historical audiences and how they impacted authors' conceptions of their own readership.Trade Review"An important book that fills significant gaps in literary and historical scholarship on the reading, reception, publishing, and interpretation of antebellum fiction." (Barbara Hochman, Ben Gurion University)"Table of ContentsPrefacePart I: Reading Reading Historically1. Historical Hermeneutics, Reception Theory, and the Social Conditions of Reading in Antebellum America2. Interpretive Strategies and Informed Reading in the Antebellum Public SpherePart II: Contextual Receptions, Reading Experiences, and Patterns of Response: Four Case Studies3. "These Days of Double Dealing": Informed Response, Reader Appropriation, and the Tales of Poe4. Multiple Audiences and Melville's Fiction: Receptions, Recoveries, and Regressions5. Response as (Re)Construction: The Reception of Catharine Sedgwick's Novels6. Mercurial Readings: The Making and Unmaking of Caroline Chesebro'Conclusion: American Literary History and the Historical Study of Interpretive PracticesNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisIn this study by an expert on learning and computers, the author argues that artificial intelligence must be based on real human intelligence.Table of Contents Knowledge is stories where stories come from and why we tell them understanding other people's stories indexing stories shaping memory story skeletons knowing the stories of your culture stories and intelligence.

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Book SynopsisElizabeth Bowen began reviewing books in August 1935. By that time she was already an experienced fiction writer with four short-story collections and four novels to her credit. This fascinating collection of reviews is filled with first impressions of novels, autobiographies, memoirs, illustrated books, biographies of politicians and artists, short-story collections, and literary criticism.Trade ReviewIn her eclectic reviews, Bowen offers a comparably generous refusal to simplify. Her loyalty is to the fiction that shows human existence to be a "fascinating (if maddening), iridescent, quivering, mysterious, and, above all, exciting affair". As she might have put it, "certainly read this book"" - Times Literary Supplement, March 17 2017.

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Book SynopsisThis innovative study brings the early writings of Mikhail Bakhtin into conversation with Max Scheler and Fyodor Dostoevsky to explore the question of what makes emotional co-experiencing ethically and spiritually productive. Applying this rich and previously neglected theoretical apparatus in a literary analysis, Wyman examines the obstacles to active empathy in Dostoevsky's fictional world.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Anti-Book makes a significant contribution to current scholarship by expanding the theoretical contexts for artists' books and media projects."—Patrick Greaney, author of Quotational Practices: Repeating the Future in Contemporary Art"Nicholas Thoburn’s socio-material approach, rooted in political theory and critical thought, exposes the complicity between systems of signification in capitalism and books as expressive objects. Drawing on historical examples as well as those of supposedly post-digital print, Thoburn takes apart myths of avant-garde autonomy as well as worn-out claims about resistant media, showing that the ‘anti-book’ can (still) work as an alternative to commodified culture."—Johanna Drucker, University of California, Los Angeles"Thoburn invites us to challenge the commodity form of books—to stop imagining books as transcendent intellectual, moral, and aesthetic goods unsullied by commerce."—Monoskop Log "Anti-Book presents a rich and convincingly argued analysis of the disparate ways in which political works engage with and subvert their materiality." —Cultural StudiesTable of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgments 1. One Manifesto Less: Material Text and the Anti-Book 2. Communist Objects and Small Press Pamphlets 3. Root, Fascicle, Rhizome: Forms and Passions of the Political Book 4. What Matter Who’s Speaking? The Politics of Anonymous Authorship 5. Proud to be Flesh: Diagrammatic Publishing in Mute Magazine 6. Unidentified Narrative Objects: Wu Ming’s Political Mythopoesis Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: An Adventure of ThoughtNicholas Gaskill and A. J. NocekPart I. Speculation beyond the Bifurcation1. A Constructivist Reading of Process and RealityIsabelle Stengers2. Scientism and the Modern WorldJeffrey A. Bell3. What Is the Style of Matters of Concern?Bruno Latour4. The Technics of Prehension: On the Photography of Nicholas BaierNathan BrownPart II. The Metaphysics of Creativity5. Whitehead’s Involution of an Outside ChancePeter Canning6. Multiplicity and Mysticism: Toward a New Mystagogy of BecomingRoland Faber7. The Event and the Occasion: Deleuze, Whitehead, and CreativityKeith Robinson8. Whitehead and Schools X, Y, and ZGraham Harman9. Whitehead’s Curse?James Williams10. Cutting away from Smooth Space: Alfred North Whitehead’s Extensive Continuum in Parametric SoftwareLuciana ParisiPart III. Process Ecology11. Possessive Subjects: A Speculative Interpretation of NonhumansDidier Debaise12. Another RegardErin Manning13. Of “Experiential Togetherness”: Toward a More Robust EmpiricismSteven Meyer14. The Order of Nature and the Creation of SocietiesMichael Halewood15. Imaginative Chemistry: Synthetic Ecologies and the Construction of LifeA. J. NocekContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisA Dictionary of Postmodernism presents an authoritative A-Z of the critical terms and central figures related to the origins and evolution of postmodernist theory and culture.Trade Review“Quirky, colourful and polemical, this volume is as much mosaic as dictionary, re-laying and reconfiguring established positions, suggesting new angles, and helping current understanding both to encompass, and perhaps finally move beyond, postmodern theories so influential in the late twentieth century.”—Randall Stevenson, University of Edinburgh “Niall Lucy's Dictionary of Postmodernism is as sharp and sprightly an assembly of essays on postmodernism as one could wish for, which demonstrates the continuing traction and reach of postmodern thought in contemporary art and culture. All the principal persons and preoccupations are considered and the essays are clear-eyed and invigorating.”—Steven Connor, University of CambridgeTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Preface x Note on contributors xiii Description xiv Introduction 1 Dictionary Barthes, Roland (Tony Thwaites) 3 Baudrillard, Jean (Niall Lucy) 7 Cultural studies (John Hartley) 12 Culture (Niall Lucy) 19 Deconstruction (Claire Colebrook) 27 Deleuze, Gilles and Guattari, Felix (Claire Colebrook) 30 Derrida, Jacques (Tony Thwaites) 34 Dialogue (John Hartley) 39 Differend (Niall Lucy) 44 Discourse (Robert Briggs) 52 Eco, Umberto (John Hartley) 56 Essence (Robert Briggs) 62 Foucault, Michel (Robert Briggs) 69 Globalization (John Hartley) 76 Habermas, Jürgen (Claire Colebrook) 81 Hassan, Ihab (Darren Tofts) 84 Hyperreality (Robert Briggs) 89 Jameson, Fredric (Niall Lucy) 96 Jencks, Charles (John Hartley) 105 Lacan, Jacques (Tony Thwaites) 110 Lyotard, Jean-François (Niall Lucy) 113 Metanarrative (Niall Lucy) 118 Minor(itarian) (Niall Lucy) 128 Modernism (Niall Lucy) 130 Modernity (Niall Lucy) 137 New media (McKenzie Wark) 139 Paraliterature (Darren Tofts) 144 Phrase (Claire Colebrook) 148 Poststructuralism (Tony Thwaites) 149 Punk (McKenzie Wark) 151 Remix (Darren Tofts) 156 Representation (Darren Tofts) 160 Ronell, Avital (Claire Colebrook) 164 Semiotics (Niall Lucy and John Hartley) 167 Simulation (Niall Lucy) 172 Situationism (McKenzie Wark) 178 Sokal affair (McKenzie Wark) 182 Transcendental signified (Robert Briggs) 188 Truth (Tony Thwaites) 190 Žižek, Slavoj (Tony Thwaites) 194 References 196 Index 213

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Book SynopsisIn a clear and readable style, Living with Theory maps out contemporary theory, tracing its complex configurations, its political preoccupations, and its relations with literature.Trade Review“The depth of knowledge, range and intellectual authority contained in Living with Theory, combined with the leading reputation of Professor Leitch, makes this book a key contribution to the study, teaching, and evaluation of literature, theory, and criticism. Rigorous and fair-minded, but ultimately affirmative, Leitch’s book should be recommended reading on both undergraduate and graduate courses.” William Cain, Wellesley College “Vincent Leitch is one of the leading cultural theorists in the US. Engaging and readable, Living with Theory is firmly grounded in cutting-edge debates about teaching theory, the economics of academe, and the role of literary criticism in a postmodern age. The book will appeal to a wide readership within the academy and among general readers concerned with the nexus between theory and politics.” Helen Fulton, Swansea UniversityTable of ContentsPreface. Part I: Theory. 1. Theory Ends. 2. Teaching Theory Now. 3. Applied Theory. 4. Theory Fusions. Part II: Politics. 5. Late Derrida. 6. The Politics of Academic Labor. Part III: Literature. 7. Late Contemporary U.S. Poetry. 8. Globalization of Literatures. Notes. Index

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Book SynopsisJyotsna G. Singh is Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture and Postcolonial Studies at Michigan State University, USA.Trade ReviewAn excellent, thoroughly researched book that breaks new ground pushing the field of postcolonial Shakespeare studies in a promising direction … This text provides richly detailed, in-depth analysis of specific productions and the key critical influences of seminal scholarly works … Highly engaging. * Renaissance Quarterly *Reminds readers of the stakes of a postcolonial lens in contemporary engagements with Shakespeare in scholarship, performance and pedagogy. * Shakespeare in Southern Africa *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Series Editor’s Preface Introduction: ‘An Inventory of Traces’ PART I – SHAKESPEARE AND EARLY COLONIAL HISTORY Chapter One: Historical Contexts 1: Shakespeare and the Colonial Imaginary Chapter Two: Historical Contexts 2: Shakespeare’s World and Productions of Difference PART II – SHAKESPEARE, DECOLONIZATION, POSTCOLONIAL THEORY Chapter Three: Past and Present: Shakespeare–Postcoloniality Chapter Four: Intersectionalities: Postcoloniality and Difference PART III – SHAKESPEARE, POSTCOLONIALITY, AND RECEPTION HISTORIES: PERFORMANCE AND FILM Chapter Five: Global, Intercultural Shakespeares Chapter Six: Boundary-Crossings on the British Shakespearean Stage Chapter Seven: Shakespeare in Postcolonial Cinema: A Meditation on Haider/Hamlet: Reconstituting the Cultural Ruins of Kashmir Notes References Index

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