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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Australian Poetry
Book SynopsisThe first major critical survey on Australian poetry, this volume investigates poetry's key role in debates around colonialism, nationalism, cultural diversity, and the environment. Individual chapters examine Aboriginal writing and the archive, print culture, poetry and activism, the verse novel, performance poetries, and digital poetries.
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Cambridge University Press Zolas Dream
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to British Postmodernism
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Cambridge University Press Descartes and the NonHuman
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Tragedy
Book SynopsisTragedy is one of the oldest and most resilient forms of narrative. Considering texts from ancient Greece to the present day, this comprehensive introduction shows how tragedy has been re-imagined and redefined throughout Western cultural history.Tragedy offers a concise history of tragedy tracing its evolution through key plays, prose, poetry and philosophical dimensions. John Drakakis examines a wealth of popular plays, including works from the ancient Greeks, Shakespeare, Bertolt Brecht, Sarah Kane and Tom Stoppard. He also considers the rewriting and appropriating of ancient drama though a wide range of authors, such as Chaucer, George Eliot, Ted Hughes and Colm Tóibín. Drakakis also demystifies complex philosophical interpretations of tragedy, including those of Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Benjamin.This accessible resource is an invaluable guide for anyone studying tragedy in literature or theatre studies.Table of ContentsDedicationAcknowledgementsChapter 1. IntroductionMyth and tragedyTragedy, myth and ritualTragedy and pleasureChapter 2. Histories, archaeologies and genealogiesAristotle’s PoeticsFate, fortune and providenceChapter 3. Ontology and dramaturgyRadical tragedyTragedy after the RenaissanceChapter 4. The philosophy of tragedyThe sublimeSchiller on tragedyHegel on tragedyBradley on HegelNietzsche on tragedyBeyond NietzscheChapter 5. From action to characterFreud, Oedipus and HamletTragedy and the linguistic turnChapter 6. Tragedy: gender, politics and aestheticsTragedy and violenceAestheticsChapter 7. Rethinking the traditionDismantling tragedyBrecht against AristotleSaint Joan of the Stockyards. Mother Courage and GallileoChapter 8. Tragedy, the post-modern and the post-humanAnti-humanism and post-humanismSamuel Beckett: Waiting for GodotSarah Kane: Phaedra’s Love (1996) Twenty-first century tragedy: Tom Stoppard’s LeopoldstadtChapter 9. ConclusionGlossaryBibliographyIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Tragedy
Book SynopsisTragedy is one of the oldest and most resilient forms of narrative. Considering texts from ancient Greece to the present day, this comprehensive introduction shows how tragedy has been re-imagined and redefined throughout Western cultural history.Tragedy offers a concise history of tragedy tracing its evolution through key plays, prose, poetry and philosophical dimensions. John Drakakis examines a wealth of popular plays, including works from the ancient Greeks, Shakespeare, Bertolt Brecht, Sarah Kane and Tom Stoppard. He also considers the rewriting and appropriating of ancient drama though a wide range of authors, such as Chaucer, George Eliot, Ted Hughes and Colm Tóibín. Drakakis also demystifies complex philosophical interpretations of tragedy, including those of Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Benjamin.This accessible resource is an invaluable guide for anyone studying tragedy in literature or theatre studies.Table of ContentsDedicationAcknowledgementsChapter 1. IntroductionMyth and tragedyTragedy, myth and ritualTragedy and pleasureChapter 2. Histories, archaeologies and genealogiesAristotle’s PoeticsFate, fortune and providenceChapter 3. Ontology and dramaturgyRadical tragedyTragedy after the RenaissanceChapter 4. The philosophy of tragedyThe sublimeSchiller on tragedyHegel on tragedyBradley on HegelNietzsche on tragedyBeyond NietzscheChapter 5. From action to characterFreud, Oedipus and HamletTragedy and the linguistic turnChapter 6. Tragedy: gender, politics and aestheticsTragedy and violenceAestheticsChapter 7. Rethinking the traditionDismantling tragedyBrecht against AristotleSaint Joan of the Stockyards. Mother Courage and GallileoChapter 8. Tragedy, the post-modern and the post-humanAnti-humanism and post-humanismSamuel Beckett: Waiting for GodotSarah Kane: Phaedra’s Love (1996) Twenty-first century tragedy: Tom Stoppard’s LeopoldstadtChapter 9. ConclusionGlossaryBibliographyIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Asexualities
Book SynopsisAs one of the first book-length collections of critical essays on the topic of asexuality, Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives became a foundational text in the burgeoning field of asexuality studies. This revised and expanded ten-year anniversary edition both celebrates the book's impact and features new scholarship at the vanguard of the field.While this edition includes some of the most-cited original chapters, it also features critical updates as well as new, innovative work by both up-and-coming and established scholars and activists from around the world. It brings in more global perspectives on asexualities, engages intersectionally with international formations of race and racialization, critiques global capital's effects on identity and kinship, examines how digital worlds shape lived realities, considers posthuman becomings, experiments with the form of the manifesto, and imagines love and relation in ecologies that exceed and even supersede the hum
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Handbook of Classics and Queer
Book SynopsisNew directions in queer theory continue to trouble the boundaries of both queerness and the classical, leading to an explosion of new work in the vastâand increasingly unchartedâintersection between these disciplines, which this interdisciplinary volume seeks to explore.This handbook convenes an international group of experts who work on the classical world and queer theory. The discipline of Classics has been involved with, and implicated in, queer theory from the start. By placing front and center the rejection of heteronormativity, queer theory has provided Classics with a powerful tool for analyzing non-normative sexual and gender relations in the ancient West, while Classics offers queer theory ancient material (such as literature, visual arts, and social practices) that challenges a wide range of modern normative categories. The collection demonstrates the vitality of this particular moment in queer classical studies, featuring an expansive array of methodologies applieTable of ContentsGeneral Introduction - Ella Haselswerdt, Sara H. Lindheim, and Kirk Ormand; Classics and Queer Theory: Beginnings; 1. How Did We Get Here? - Kirk Ormand; Queer Subjectivities; 2. 'Wild' Achilles and the Epistemology of the Ferox in Homer’s Iliad - Melissa Mueller; 3. Black[ened] Queer Classical: Cicero’s pro Archia poeta and Seneca’s Natural Questions (and Epistulae Morales 114) in Posthuman Perspective - Patrice Rankine; 4. Priapus Unlimited: Queer(ing) Identity, Agency, and Bodies without Boundaries in Roman Art - Linnea Åshede; 5. Tribad Philaenis and Lesbian Bassa: Queer Subjectivities in Martial - Kristin Mann; 6. Queering Divine Authority and Logical Consistency in Aeschylus’ Oresteia - Giulia Maria Chesi; 7. Catullus Beyond the Pleasure Principle: Between Freud and Foucault - Paul Allen Miller; 8. A Murky Unlearning: Sophocles and the Greek Art of Failure - Francesca Spiegel; Queer Times and Places; 9. Queer Musicality in Classical Texts - Tom Sapsford; 10. Encountering Absence: Queer Traces, Ghosts, and Performance Otherwise - Marcus Bell; 11. Queerly Beloved: Nemesis, Credula Spes, and Queer Temporalities in Tibullus Book 2 - Sara H. Lindheim; 12. Time and Punishment, or Terence’s Queer Pedagogy - David Youd; 13. Narcissus and the Happy Inch: Queering Social Reproduction in the Roman House - David Fredrick; 14. 'How Could a City Become Straight?:' Aristophanes and the Trans Foundations of the Comic State - Isabel Ruffell; Queer Kinships; 15. Hippocrates the 'Father'? Disturbing Attachment Genealogies in the History of Ancient Medicine - Nicolette D’Angelo; 16. Tamquam Favus: Queer Kinship and Monetary Value in Petronius’ Cena Trimalchionis - Elliott Piros; 17. Nonbinary Mercury and the Queer Arts of Astrology - Hannah Silverblank; 18. Queering Kinship against Genealogy: Crip Ancestorship, Chosen Families, Alternative Intimacies and Other Ways of Refusing the Classical Tradition - Marchella Ward; 19. Queer Kinship in Ancient Literature - Jay Oliver; 20. The Greatest Generation: Golden Age, Spontaneous Generation, and Queer Kinship in Vergil’s Georgics - Martin Devecka; Queer Receptions; 21. Queering Feminine Movement: Sappho, Hồ Xuân Hýõng and Vi Khi Nao - Kelly Nguyen; 22. Les Guérillères: Sappho and the Lesbian Body - Irene Han; 23. The Rise and Fall of the Queer Male Body in Mid-Century Muscle Photography - Alastair J.L. Blanshard; 24; Destiny’s Queer Scribblings: Greek Myth and Etiologies of HIV/AIDS - Emilio Capettini; 25. Socrates and Sedgwick: Ancient Greece in Epistemology of the Closet - Daniel Orrells; 26. Shedding Light, Casting Shadows: Queerness, Club Performances, and the Faux-Natural Narratives of Classical Reception - Eleonora Colli; Ancient Pasts/Queer Futures 27. Queer Philology - Shane Butler; 28. How to Do the History of Elagabalus - Zach Herz; 29. Queer Interspeciesism, or Oppian’s Wild Love - Mario Telò; 30. Sappho’s Body, Queer Abstraction, and Lesbian Futurity - Ella Haselswerdt; 31. Medea’s Ghosts: Cherríe Moraga and Queer Ecologies - Nancy Worman; 32. Speculation on classical reception: Queer Desire and N.K. Jemisin’s 'The Effluence Engine' - Mathura Umachandran.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Narratives of Scale in the Anthropocene
Book SynopsisThe Anthropocene concept draws attention to the various forms of entanglement of social, political, ecological, biological and geological processes at multiple spatial and temporal scales. The ensuing complexity and ambiguity create manifold challenges to widely established theories, methodologies, epistemologies and ontologies. The contributions to this volume engage with conceptual issues of scale in the Anthropocene with a focus on mediated representation and narrative. They are centered around the themes of scale and time, scale and the nonhuman and scale and space. The volume presents an interdisciplinary dialogue between sociology, geography, political sciences, history and literary, cultural and media studies. Together, they contribute to current debates on the (re-)imagining of forms of human responsibility that meet the challenges created by humanity entering an age of scalar complexity. Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open AcTable of Contents0 The Anthropocene as an Age of Scalar Complexity: IntroductionGabriele Dürbeck (University of Vechta) / Philip Hüpkes (Heinrich-Heine University)Section I: Scale and Time 1 Geomedia and Michael Madsen’s Into EternityDerek Woods (University of British Columbia) 2 Time Travel as a Tool for Promoting Trans-Scalar Thinking Axel Goodbody (University of Bath)3 Time Depth: Jean Epstein, Michel Serres, and Operational Model TimeChristoph Rosol (Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, Berlin) Section II: Scale and the Nonhuman 4 Planetary Multiplicity, Earthly Multitudes: Interscalar Practices for a Volatile PlanetNigel Clark (Lancaster University) / Bronislaw Szerszynski (Lancaster University) 5 Plant Scale and the AnthropoceneHeather Sullivan (Trinity University, San Antonio, TX)6 Anthropomorphism and AlterityBernhard Malkmus (University of Newcastle)7 "We Have Lost Yardsticks by Which to Measure": Arendtian Ethics and the Narration of Scale in the AnthropoceneAdeline Johns-Putra (University of Surrey)8 Sound and Silence: Punk and the AnthropoceneJohn Parham (University of Worcester)Section III: Scale and Space9 On Being the Right Size: Scale, Democracy and the AnthropoceneAysem Mert (Stockholm University) and Dougald Hine (Plurality University Network)10 Cosmos vs. Anthropocene: Multi-Scalar Praxis for Socio-Environmental Justice with Adrienne Maree Brown’s Emergent Strategy (2017)Kathrin Bartha (Goethe University, Frankfurt/Monash University, Melbourne) 11 Google-Gaia. Feedback Loops for Action with Global Forest WatchLynda Olman and Birgit Schneider (Potsdam University)12 J Henry Fair: Art, Irony, and Scaling the Anthropocene (photo-artist/environmental activist J Henry Fair, New York City/Berlin, in Conversation with Gabriele Dürbeck and Philip Hüpkes)13 Afterword: On Scale and Deep History in the AnthropoceneDipesh Chakrabarty (University of Chicago)
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Companion to Literature and Social
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Companion to Literature and Social Justice is a comprehensive and multi- purpose collection on this important topic. With contributors working in various fields, the Companion provides in- depth analyses of both the cumulative and emergent issues, obstacles, praxes, propositions, and theories of social justice. The first section offers a historical overview of major developments and debates in the field, while the following sections look in more detail at the key traditions and show how literature and theory can be applied as analytical tools to real- world inequalities and the impact of doing so. The contributors provide reviews of major theoretical traditions, including Marxism, feminism, Critical Race Theory, disability studies, and queer studies. They also share literary analyses of influential authors including W. E. B. Du Bois, Yang Kui, Edwidge Danticat, Octavia Butler, and Rivers Solomon amongst others. The final section considers future possibilities for theory and action of justice, drawing specifically from theories and knowledges in decolonial, Indigenous, environmental, and posthumanist studies. This authoritative volume draws on the intersections between literary studies and social movements in order to provide scholars, students, and activists alike with a complete collection of the most up- to- date information on both canonical and emerging texts and case studies globally.
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Taylor & Francis Seamus Heaneyâs American Odyssey
Book SynopsisSeamus Heaneyâs American Odyssey describes, with a new archive of correspondence, interviews, and working drafts, the some 40 years that Seamus Heaney spent in the United States as a teacher, lecturer, friend, and colleague, and as an active poet on the reading circuit. It is anchored by Heaneyâs appointments at Berkeley and Harvard, but it also follows Heaneyâs readings âœon the roadâ at three important points in his career. It argues that Heaney was initially receptive to American poetry and culture while his career was still plastic, but as he developed more assurance and fame, he became much more critical of America as a superpower, especially in the military reaction to 9/11. This study emphasizes âœthe heard Heaneyâ as much as the âœwriterly Heaneyâ by listening in on key poetry readings at different times and to recorded but unpublished lectures on American and British poets at Harvard. It includes accounts by his creative writing students, aspiring poets, who testif
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Inner Visions
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1979, Inner Visions discussion the nature of contemporary magical thought encompassing the Tarot and the Qabalah and considers its impact on the creative imagination. The author presents a fusion of the creative, magical and mythological undercurrents which are part of the new consciousness', and traces the influence of surrealist art and the expansive psychedelic period on the art and music of the 1970s. He looks, for example, at the relationship of the fantasy art on record sleeves to the electronic inner-space music which it often accompanies, and shows that this form of modern music represents one facet of the contemporary reaction against scientism and of the search for what Roszak has termed the visionary sources of our culture. The author concludes that a major mythological impulse is emerging in our culture and that magical and surreal approaches represent a profoundly invigorating and inspiring attitude linking the individual to the cosmos. This Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Counter-culture, magic and the new consciousness Part One: Magic and Cosmos 1. The magical universe 2. Archetypes and belief systems – the relevance of C. G. Jung and John Lilly 3. The Tarot and transformation Part Two: Sound and symbol 4. Surrealism and the Qabalah 5. Magic and fantasy – the new visionary art 6. The rise of cosmic music Conclusion: Where is it all going? Notes Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Affect Power and Institutions
Book SynopsisThis volume advances a comprehensive transdisciplinary approach to the affective lives of institutions theoretical, conceptual, empirical, and critical. With this approach, the volume foregrounds the role of affect in sustaining as well as transforming institutional arrangements that are deeply problematic.As part of its analysis, this book develops a novel understanding of institutional affect. It explores how institutions produce, frame, and condition affective dynamics and emotional repertoires, in ways that engender conformance or resistance to institutional requirements. This collection of works will be important for scholars and students of interdisciplinary affect and emotion studies from a wide range of disciplines, including social sciences, cultural studies, social and cultural anthropology, organizational and institution studies, media studies, social philosophy, aesthetics, and critical theory.Table of Contents1. General Introduction: The Many Lives of InstitutionsPART 1: Politics, Publics, Corporate Power2. Fabricated Feelings: Institutions, Organizations, and Emotion Repertoires3. Affective Citizenship: Differential Regimes of Belonging in Plural Societies4. Nationalism, affective recruitment and authoritarianism in post-coup Turkey5. Under Pressure: Journalism as an Affective InstitutionPART 2: Bodies, Materiality, Infrastructure6. Digital Infrastructuring as Institutional Affect(ing) in German Migration Management7. Botanical discipline: The senses and more-than-human affect8. Conflicting Imaginaries in the International AcademyPART 3: Forms, Genres, Aesthetics9. Genres as Imaginary Institutions10. Rewriting Education: Genre and Affects of Social Mobility in Contemporary German Literature11. Right Reading – Affective Institutionalisations and the Politics of Literature in the German New Right12. Glitching as Institutional CritiquePART 4: Diversity, Care, Critique13. Affective Diversity, or: Conceptualizing Institutional Change in Postmigrant Societies14. Working through Affects: Transforming and Challenging Psychosocial Care for Vietnamese Migrants15. Targeted Alienation: Reimagining the Labour of AbolitionAfterword
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Form and Modernity in Womens Poetry 18951922
Book SynopsisWhile W. B. Yeats's influential account of the Tragic Generation' claims that most fin-de-siècle poets died, or at least stopped writing, shortly after 1900, this book explodes this narrative by attending to the twentieth-century poetry produced by women poets Alice Meynell, Michael Field (Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper), Dollie Radford, and Katharine Tynan. While primarily associated with the late nineteenth century, these poets were active in the twentieth century, but their later writing is overlooked in modernist-dominated studies, partly due to this poetry's adherence to traditional form. This book reveals that these poets, far from being irrelevant to modernity, used these established forms to address contemporary concerns, including suffrage, sexuality, motherhood, and the First World War. The chapters focus on Meynell's manipulations of metre to contemplate temporality and literary tradition; Michael Field's use of blank verse to portray the conflicted modern woman; Radf
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Allegories of Neoliberalism
Book SynopsisSimultaneously a critique of Foucauldian governmentalist interpretations of neoliberalism and a historical materialist reading of contemporary South Asian fictions, Allegories of Neoliberalism is a probing analysis of literary representations of capitalism's forms of appearance.This book offers critical discussions on the important works of Akhtaruzzaman Elias, Amitav Ghosh, Aravind Adiga, Arundhati Roy, H. M. Naqvi, Mohsin Hamid, Nasreen Jahan, Samrat Upadhyay, and other writers from South Asia and South Asian diaspora.It also advances a re-reading of Karl Marx's Capital through the themes and tropes of literatureone that looks into literary representations of commoditization, monetization, class exploitation, uneven spatial relationship, financialization, and ecological devastation through the lens of the German revolutionary's critique of capitalism.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Allegorizing Neoliberalism2. "Kanna" and the Monetization of Affect 3. The White Tiger and the Subsumption of the Rural4. Home Boy, The Reluctant Fundamentalist and the "Empire of Finance" 5. Conclusion: In the Ruins of Neoliberalism
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Taylor & Francis Ltd From Fiction to Psychoanalysis
Book SynopsisHow can reading literary fiction shed light on the way we speak ourselves within psychoanalysis? Rather than offering psychoanalytic insights into literature, Rosemary Rizq, a practicing psychologist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist, explores what literary fiction can bring to psychoanalysis.In this fascinating collection of essays, she draws on stories written by authors ranging from Henry James to Kazuo Ishiguro and Colm Tóibín. By investigating the possibilities for fruitful encounter and dynamic exchange' between psychoanalysis and literature, Rizq sets out to offer a fresh perspective on theoretical ideas that are often presented within the psychoanalytic literature in abstract, overly technical ways. In a remarkably fresh approach, this book explores how fiction can inform, illuminate and even transform our understanding of psychoanalysis.Written for practicing clinicians, academics and students as well as for the wider public, this book offers an original and Trade Review'From Fiction to Psychoanalysis is a brilliant exploration of the interrelations between the experience of literature and the concepts and practices of psychoanalysis. Since the 1970s, both literary critics and psychoanalysts have increasingly recognized the inadequacy of "applied psychoanalysis" to capture and illuminate the fruitful possibilities of dialogue between these ways of knowing human subjectivity. Rosemary Rizq avoids the pull of master-narratives and hierarchic insistence on fixed truths and instead provides eloquent testimony to the value of reading in the potential spaces of both fields. A winner of the American Psychoanalytic Association's Peter Loewenberg Essay Prize in Psychoanalysis and Culture, Rizq shows how works by Kazuo Ishiguro, Colm Tóibín, Henry James, Tessa Hadley, Isak Dinesen and Alice Munro open new meanings of literature while also unfolding original uses of psychoanalytic writings by theorists such as Freud, Winnicott, Laplanche and Kristeva. Her book joins other recent works by Alicia Kristoff, Adam Phillips and others to demonstrate the great value of interdisciplinary writing. From Fiction to Psychoanalysis is deeply informed, beautifully articulate and a pleasure to read, a book that will inspire further creative thinking.'Murray Schwartz, professor emeritus at Emerson College, Boston Massachusetts, USA'Rosemary Rizq's book is an amazingly lucid exposition of the common ground occupied by two eminently creative discourses: psychoanalysis and literature. It is rare to find an author who is as much at home with literature as with psychoanalysis. Rizq accomplishes the almost impossible task of holding the tension between the enigmatic messages conveyed by literary giants such as Ishiguro, James, Munro, Dinesen, Tóibín, and Hadley and identifying their traces and possible translations in the field of psychoanalytic theory and practice. Rizq provides us with a feast of riveting offerings - not least, the fascinating claim that 'the self-as-other is structured like a short story' - that achieves a veritable 'transubstantiation' of psychoanalysis by introducing and exploring its eucharistic relation to literature.' Anastasios Gaitanidis, director, Relational Psychotherapy Ltd. and co-editor of The Sublime in Everyday Life: Psychoanalytic and Aesthetic Perspectives, Routledge (2020)'Does one get a better understanding of people through studying psychology or literature? Fortunately, as psychological therapists we can avoid the answer to this question. For here, Rosemary Rizq shows us how we can be more thoughtful practitioners by reconsidering literature, both through the magnificent examples she provides and the process she illuminates, with the help of psychoanalysis and 'ways of reading and telling'. By drawing on literary fiction, this book provides a too rare antidote to the deathly crisis in the Psychological Therapies caused by them becoming increasingly dependent on so called 'evidence-based practice' as the basis of psychotherapeutic knowledge.'Del Loewenthal, emeritus professor of Psychotherapy and Counselling, University of Roehampton, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction: What do we know? 1. Copying, Cloning, and Creativity: Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go 2. The Wager of Faith in Fiction and Psychoanalysis: Colm Tóibín’s The Testament of Mary 3. Psychoanalysis and Ways of Reading: Henry James's The Figure in the Carpet 4. Epistemologues of the Particular: Tessa Hadley's An Abduction 5. On Food, Faith, and Psychoanalysis: Isak Dinesen's Babette's Feast 6. 'Familiar Artifiice': Alice Munro's The Moons of Jupiter
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Modern American Literature and Contemporary
Book SynopsisAs an endeavor to contribute to the burgeoning field of comparative literature, this monograph addresses the dynamic yet understudied intertextual dialogism between modern American literature and contemporary Iranian Cinema, pinpointing how the latter appropriates and recontextualizes instances of the former to construct and inculcate vestiges of national/gender identity on the silver screen. Drawing on Louis Montrose's catchphrase that Cultural Materialism foregrounds the textuality of history, [and] the historicity of texts, this book contends that literary texts are synchronic artifacts prone to myriad intertextual and extra-textual readings and understandings, each historically conditioned. The recontextualization of Herzog, Franny and Zooey, The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Death of a Salesman into contemporary Iran provides an intertextual avenue to delineate the textuality of history and the historicity of textsTrade Review"Iranian film has become a major force in world cinema, and its sophisticated interactions with American literature have received far too little scholarly attention until now. Morteza Yazdanjoo opens up important new territory in his wide-ranging interdisciplinary study, providing fresh insights into discourses of gender, religion, identity, appropriation, narrativity, and politics as they pertain to cinema, literature, and other key areas of contemporary global culture. Scholars in many fields will welcome his work.– David Sterritt, editor in chief, Quarterly Review of Film and Video" Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgements1. Introduction2. Adaptation Studies, Cultural Materialism, and Cultural Studies: An Intertextual Dialogue3.Narrative Trajectories of National Identity in Iranian Cinema: A Historical Long Shot 4.Performing the Poetics of the Iranian Dream on the Silver Screen: Dariush Mehrjui’s Appropriation of Saul Bellow’s Herzog and J. D. Salinger’s Franny and Zooey5. Watching Tennessee Williams in Iran: The Sanctity of Family Reconstituted6. Birth of a Salesman: Revisiting Willy Loman in Tehran7. ConclusionIndex
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Routledge James Malcolm Rymer Penny Fiction and the Family
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Taylor & Francis The Ambivalent Detective in Victorian Sensation Novels
Book SynopsisThe Ambivalent Detective in Victorian Sensation Novels studies how the detective as a literary character evolved through the mid-nineteenth century in England, as seen in sensation novels. In contrast to most assumptions about the English detective, Yoon argues that the detective was more often tolerated than admired following the establishment of professional detectives in the London Metropolitan Police Force in 1842. Through studying the historical and literary contexts between the 1840s to the 1860s, Yoon argues that the detective was seen as a suspicious, even mistrusted and disdained, figure who was nonetheless viewed as necessary to combat rising levels of crime. The detective as a literary character responded to the often contradictory values and aspirations of the middle class, representing an independent masculinity and laying claim to scientific authority. This study surveys novels by Charles Dickens, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and Wilkie Collins, alongside lesser-known writers like William Russell, James Redding Ware (pseudonym Andrew Forrester), and William Stephens Hayward. This book contributes to the study of mid-nineteenth-century Victorian culture and connects with broader studies of the detective fiction genre.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd TheoryTheatre
Book SynopsisThis fully updated and revised fourth edition of Theory/Theatre is a unique and highly engaging introduction to cultural theory as it relates to theatre and performance. It is a comprehensive and accessible examination of current theoretical approaches, from semiotics and poststructuralism, through to cultural materialism, postcolonial studies, queer and feminist theories.Key updates to the new edition include further perspectives and expanded content on:- Technology, audience reception and liveness- Further examinations of feminism, transgender and gender theory, as well as queer theory- Disability studies- Critical Race Theory- Decolonization-
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Taylor & Francis Ltd World Literature as Discovery
Book SynopsisThe rise of world literature is the most noticeable phenomenon in literary studies in the twenty-first century. However, truly well-known and globally circulating works are all canonical works of European or Western literature, while non-European and even minor European literatures remain largely unknown beyond their culture of origin. World Literature as Discovery: Expanding the World Literary Canon argues that world literature for our time must go beyond Eurocentrism and expand the canon to include great works from non-European and minor European literatures. As much of the world's literature remains untranslated and unknown, the expansion will be an exciting process of discovery. By discussing fundamental questions around canon, circulation, aesthetic values, translation, cosmopolitanism, and the literary universal, Zhang Longxi proposes a new and liberating concept of world literature that will shape world literature worthy of its name. This book speaks foTrade Review"Drawing on his deep knowledge of both Chinese and European literary traditions, Zhang Longxi advances a bracing vision of a non-Eurocentric canon of world literature, one that would build on the self-understandings of the world’s literary cultures rather than imposing Western values and concerns on them. World Literature as Discovery proposes both an expansive discovery of the world’s distinctive traditions and a rediscovery of the aesthetic pleasures that great works offer their readers." David Damrosch, Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature and Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature at Harvard University, USA, author of What Is World Literature? and Comparing the Literatures "A brilliant reconceptualization of world literature by a scholar that over the past 40 years has been one of the most active, erudite, and at the same time common sensical contributors to the field. Arguing the need for a wider inclusion of non-Western works in world literature while at the same time refusing to side-step the issues of translation and value judgments, Zhang’s volume is a must-read for all scholars and students of literature wanting to keep abreast of what really is at stake in our fast-changing world." Theo D’haen, Professor Emeritus of English, KU Leuven, Belgium, author of World Literature in an Age of Geopolitics"Zhang’s World Literature as Discovery is bound to invigorate the current debate on the importance of value judgements in the discourse of world literature. His is an impassioned and erudite intervention that urges us to reopen the question of the canon and argues for a truly plural world literature that draws its own sustainability from a body of texts far beyond the Western tradition." Galin Tihanov, George Steiner Professor of Comparative Literature, Queen Mary University of London, UK, author of The Birth and Death of Literary Theory: Regimes of Relevance in Russia and Beyond"Is it possible to have a worldly conversation about literary value – to free discussions of literary merit from their Eurocentric confines and to open our minds to multiple standards of literary judgement? The question is an important one for readers in our time, and Zhang Longxi, equally at home in the European and Chinese traditions (and beyond) is just the scholar to lead us towards an answer." Alexander Beecroft, Jessie Chapman Alcorn Memorial Professor of Foreign Languages, University of South Carolina, USA, author of An Ecology of World Literature: From Antiquity to the Present DayTable of ContentsPreface Goethe and Weltliteratur The Return to (World) Literature Circulation and Value Judgment Canon and the Classic World Literature as Discoveries Language, (Un)translatability and World Literature The Challenge of Writing a World Literary History Literary Universals The Mirror of Enigma and the Mirror of Magic Potion and Poison: Chinese and Shakespearean Dialectics Conclusion: World Literature and Cosmopolitanism BibliographyIndex
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Taylor & Francis Queer Theory Lacanian Psychoanalysis Sexual
Book SynopsisQueer Theory, Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Sexual Politics is a consideration of the relationship between LGBTQIA+ politics, Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, and queer theory.The book argues, through readings of Judith Butlerâs Gender Trouble and Lee Edelmanâs No Future, that core queer categories â such as normativity and anti-normativity â sidestep questions that are crucial not only to contemporary sexual politics but also to psychoanalytic thinking and clinical work. Luiz Valle Junior attends to the queer account of the political shortcomings of the contemporary LGBTQIA+ movement, as well as to the inadequacies of the queer reception of Lacanian psychoanalysis and makes a case for the ongoing relevance of Lacanian psychoanalysis to thinking through a renewed sexual politics. The book reflects on the potentiality of a Lacanian theory of sexual politics to challenge the dominance of identity in contemporary LGBTQIA+ activism and in the queer theoretical arch
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Taylor & Francis Virginia Woolfâs Microgenesis
Book SynopsisVirginia Woolfâs Microgenesis analyses Virginia Woolfâs novels through her own methodological approach to mind, to meaning, and to making whole. This volume argues that Woolfâs preoccupation with the metaphysics of âœwholeness,â a dread, indeed, of both fragmentation, and of what endures, places her writings alongside Jason Brownâs microgenesis, formulated as an unfolding, emergent, and evolutionary process of cognitive activity. However, and crucially, it is not by assembling multiple flows of sense data into more complex constructions that we might perceive the objective world, but by sculpting away the unfit to reveal the structure of the world as a surfacing reality. In so many ways, Woolfâs novels represent an enactment of microgenetic theory as they emphasise the mind/brain state as a process of continual unfolding through progressive differentiation and discrimination to a distinct configuration. That is not to say that Woolfâs writings should be understood as anticipa
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Taylor & Francis Theorising Oliver Jeffersâ Picturebooks
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Taylor & Francis Comedy in Literature and Popular Culture
Book SynopsisComedy in Literature and Popular Culture: From Aristophanes to Saturday Night Live explores works of comedy from the past 2,500 years.James V. Morrison discusses works including those of Aristophanes and Plautus, Shakespeare and Moliere, and modern comic writers, performers, and cartoonists, such as Thomas Nast, P. G. Wodehouse, Charlie Chaplin, and Jerry Seinfeld, asking the following questions: Is comedy a mirror of our lives? Is it âœfunny âcuz itâs true?â Or is it funny because it ignores reality? Should we distinguish between the plot of a comic play and the jokes found in it? Are the jokes just there to make us laugh or are the jokes as essential as the plot? Do memories of satirical portrayals on the comic stage displace recollections of the historical person? By juxtaposing works from different cultures and time periods, the book demonstrates a universal recourse to certain familiar techniques, situations, and char
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Order of Destruction
Book SynopsisThis book studies sugarcane monoculture, the dominant form of cultivation in the colonial Caribbean, in the later 1600s and 1700s up to the Haitian Revolution. Researching travel literature, plantation manuals, Georgic poetry, letters, and political proclamations, this book interprets texts by Richard Ligon, Henry Drax, James Grainger, Janet Schaw, and Toussaint Louverture.As the first extended investigation into its topic, this book reads colonial Caribbean monoculture as the conjunction of racial capitalism and agrarian capitalism in the tropics. Its eco-Marxist perspective highlights the dual exploitation of the soil and of enslaved agricultural producers under the plantation regime, thereby extending Marxist analysis to the early colonial Caribbean. By focusing on textual form (in literary and non-literary texts alike), this study discloses the bearing of monoculture on contemporary writers' thoughts. In the process, it emphasizes the significance of a literary tradition
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Essays on The Glass Menagerie
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Taylor & Francis Mapping World Anglophone Studies
Book SynopsisThis book explores core issues in the emerging field of World Anglophone Studies. It shows that traditional frameworks based on the colonial and imperial legacies of English need to be revised and extended to understand the complex adaptations, iterations, and incarnations of English in the contemporary world.The chapters in this volume make three significant interventions in the field: First, they showcase the emergence of Anglophone literatures and cultures in parts of the world not traditionally considered Anglophone â Cuba, the Arab world, the Balkan region, Vietnam, Algeria, and Belize, among others Second, they feature new zones of contact and creolization between Anglophone literatures, cultures, and languages such as Swahili, Santhali, Ojibway, and Hindi, as well as Anglophone representations of colonial encounters and contemporary experiences in non-Anglophone settings such as Cuba, Angola, and Algeria And finally, the volume turns to An
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Taylor & Francis David Copperfield Unbound
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Taylor & Francis How the Irish Became White Supremacists
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Taylor & Francis Translation Pornography Performativity
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Reading the Racial Encounter in MultiMedia Texts
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Cambridge University Press Must We Mean What We Say
Book SynopsisIn this classic collection of wide-ranging and interdisciplinary essays, Stanley Cavell explores a remarkably broad range of philosophical issues from politics and ethics to the arts and philosophy. The essays explore issues as diverse as the opposing approaches of ''analytic'' and ''Continental'' philosophy, modernism, Wittgenstein, abstract expressionism and Schoenberg, Shakespeare on human needs, the difficulties of authorship, Kierkegaard and post-Enlightenment religion. Presented in a fresh twenty-first century series livery, and including a specially commissioned preface, written by Stephen Mulhall, illuminating its continuing importance and relevance to philosophical enquiry, this influential work is now available for a new generation of readers.Table of ContentsPreface to this edition Stephen Mulhall; Preface to updated edition of Must We Mean What We Say?; Foreword. An audience for philosophy; 1. Must we mean what we say?; 2. The availability of Wittgenstein's later philosophy; 3. Aesthetic problems of modern philosophy; 4. Austin at criticism; 5. Ending the waiting game: a reading of Beckett's Endgame; 6. Kierkegaard's On Authority and Revelation; 7. Music discomposed; 8. A matter of meaning it; 9. Knowing and acknowledging; 10. The avoidance of love: a reading of King Lear; Thematic index; Index of names.
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Cambridge University Press The Late Sigmund Freud
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Cambridge University Press Popular Fiction and Brain Science in the Late Nineteenth Century 78 Cambridge Studies in NineteenthCentury Literature and Culture Series Number 78
Book SynopsisIn the 1860s and 1870s, leading neurologists used animal experimentation to establish that discrete sections of the brain regulate specific mental and physical functions. These discoveries had immediate medical benefits: David Ferrier's detailed cortical maps, for example, saved lives by helping surgeons locate brain tumors and haemorrhages without first opening up the skull. These experiments both incited controversy and stimulated creative thought, because they challenged the possibility of an extra-corporeal soul. This book examines the cultural impact of neurological experiments on late-Victorian Gothic romances by Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, H. G. Wells and others. Novels like Dracula and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde expressed the deep-seated fears and visionary possibilities suggested by cerebral localization research, and offered a corrective to the linearity and objectivity of late Victorian neurology.Trade Review"Popular Fiction and Brain Science in the Late Nineteenth Century establishes the genre of the gothic romance as a vital component of Victorian scienti*c culture, indisputably demonstrates the importance of literary products as primary sources for interpreting the history of neurology, and sets an impeccably high standard for scholarship in both literary studies and the history of science, medicine, and technology." -Stephen Casper, Project MuseTable of ContentsIntroduction: cerebral localization and the late Victorian Gothic romance; Part I. Reactionaries: 1. Robert Louis Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde and the double brain; 2. Bram Stoker's Dracula and cerebral automatism; Part II. Materialists: 3. Photographic memory in the works of Grant Allen; Part III. Visionaries: 4. H. G. Wells and the evolution of the mad scientist; 5. Marie Corelli and the neuron; Epilogue; Looking forward.
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Cambridge University Press The Annals of Tacitus Book 4
Book SynopsisA full edition of Book 4 of Tacitus' Annals, which covers the years AD 2328 when, under the influence of his henchman Sejanus, the emperor Tiberius famously changed for the worse and withdrew to the island of Capri.Trade Review"A.J. Woodman's magnificent commentary on Book 4 is the capstone to his outstanding career as a scholar of Roman historiography, and especially of Tacitus, and it brings the scholarly coverage of these books on the reign of Tiberius to a triumphant conclusion." --Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsPreface; References and abbreviations; Introduction; Text; Commentary; Indexes.
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Cambridge University Press Novel Theory and Technology in Modernist Britain
Book SynopsisModernism reshaped novel theory, shifting criticism away from readers'' experiences and toward the work as an object autonomous from any reader. Novel Theory and Technology in Modernist Britain excavates technology''s crucial role in this evolution and offers a new history of modernism''s vision of the novel. To many modernists, both novel and machine increasingly seemed to merge into the experiences of readers or users. But modernists also saw potential for a different understanding of technology - in pre-modern machines, or the technical functioning of technologies stripped of their current social roles. With chapters on Henry James, Ford Madox Ford, Wyndham Lewis, and Rebecca West, Novel Theory argues that in these alternative visions of technology, modernists found models for how the novel might become an autonomous, intellectual object rather than a familiar experience, and articulated a future for the novel by imagining it as a new kind of machine.Trade Review'… Fielding offers a valuable discussion of modernist theories of the novel that renews ongoing debates over aesthetic divisions between high culture and mass culture, while also showing how these theories are often modulated through discourses of technology. Her knowledge of narrative theory and modernist aesthetics is impressive, and her readings make important contributions to the scholarship on James, Ford, Lewis, and West. Her extensive research also draws attention to figures such as Percy Lubbock and Q. D. Leavis who helped to shape the ways in which modernist novelists thought about form. Fielding's book brings into focus a fascinating debate over the aesthetics and epistemology of the modern novel as a technology for knowing.' Andrew Gaedtke, Modernism/modernity'Novel Theory and Technology in Modernist Britain is an exacting study … Fielding admirably succeeds in carrying her own readers through this patient analysis of the formal strategies and critical theories the four writers (Henry James, Ford Madox Ford, Wyndham Lewis, and Rebecca West) she analyzes developed to mount a 'resistance to reading'.' Damien Keane, Twentieth-Century Literature'This is the value of Fielding's intervention: it is almost tailor-made for answering [Michaela] Bronstein's call for clear alternatives to the context-based historicist approaches to modernism, even as Fielding is interested in making arguments about changes in literature over time.' Shawna Ross, The Year's Work in English StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction. Readers and machines in modernist novel theory; 1. Point of view as projector: Henry James, Percy Lubbock, and the modernist management of reading; 2. What carries the novel: Ford Madox Ford, Impressionist connectivity, and the telephone; 3. 'Every age has been 'a machine age'': Wyndham Lewis and the novel's technological temporality; 4. From empathy to the super-cortex: Rebecca West's technics of the novel; Conclusion. Novel theory and technology in late Modernism.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Handbook of Intercultural
Book SynopsisA highly interdisciplinary overview of the wide spectrum of current international research and professional practice in intercultural communication, this is a key reference book for students, lecturers and professionals alike. Key examples of contrastive, interactive, imagological and interlingual approaches are discussed, as well as the impact of cultural, economic and socio-political power hierarchies in cultural encounters, essential for contemporary research in critical intercultural communication and postcolonial studies. The Handbook also explores the spectrum of professional applications of that research, from intercultural teaching and training to the management of culturally mixed groups, facilitating use by professionals in related fields. Theories are introduced systematically using ordinary language explanations and examples, providing an engaging approach to readers new to the field. Students and researchers in a wide variety of disciplines, from cultural studies to linguistics, will appreciate this clear yet in-depth approach to an ever-evolving contemporary field.Trade Review'Distinguishing itself from an already crowded field of reference resources, The Cambridge Handbook of Intercultural Communication is comprehensive, well organized, and bridges disciplines. With its in-depth examination of theoretical frames germane to this broad field, the handbook will be valuable for scholars in the fields of linguistics, psychology, education, business, and the many other fields in which global connectedness and culture are core concepts … This handbook will be valuable across the scholarly spectrum.' D. M. Moss, Choice'Overall, this is a well-edited book, which deserves appreciation for its breadth and focus, and the way how it managed to transfer the debates of power relations to contemporary monocultural settings. Based on original contributions to the field, The Handbook takes a genuinely interdisciplinary approach and will certainly inspire future research in the field of intercultural communication.' Zsuzsanna Zsubrinszky, LINGUIST ListTable of ContentsIntroduction Guido Rings and Sebastian M. Rasinger; Part I. Introducing Intercultural Communication: 1. What is culture? Werner Delanoy; 2. What is intercultural communication? Jan D. ten Thije; 3. Rethinking intercultural competence Jürgen Bolten; 4. Interculturality or transculturality? Heinz Antor; Part II. Theoretical Approaches: 5. Critical intercultural communication and the digital environment Thomas K. Nakayama; 6. From shared values to cultural dimensions: a comparative review Elizabeth A. Tuleja and Michael Schachner; 7. Towards integrative intercultural communication Liisa Salo-Lee; 8. The power of literature Birgit Neumann; 9. Psychoanalytic approaches to memory and intercultural communication Jolanta A. Drzewiecka; 10. Sociological approaches Uttaran Dutta and Judith N. Martin; 11. Introducing intercultural ethics Richard Evanoff; Part III. Methods: 12. Decolonizing gender and intercultural communication in transnational contexts Lara Martin Lengel, Yannick Kluch and Ahmet Atay; 13. Migration in the digital social mediasphere Peter Stockinger; 14. Linguistic politeness Claus Ehrhardt; 15. Contemporary literature and intercultural understanding Gesine Lenore Schiewer; 16. Enhancing intercultural skills through storytelling Stephan Wolting; 17. Cinema as intercultural communication Joanne Leal; 18. Intercultural memory and violence in Jewish literature Verena Dolle; 19. Intercultural communication in social work practice Antonio López Peláez and Emilio José Gómez Ciriano; 20. Intercultural education in study abroad contexts Jane Jackson; 21. Intercultural communication in the courtroom: the doctrine of public policy Bertil Cottier; Part IV. Application: 22. Intercultural communication in the context of the hyper-mobility of the school population within and outside Europe Emmanuelle le Pichon; 23. Culture and management Marie-Thérèse Claes; 24. Language and othering in contemporary Europe Anne Ife; 25. Black British writing: Benjamin Zephaniah's didactic poetics Deirdre Osborne; 26. Cultural encounters in contemporary Latin American cinema: intersections of transnationality Sarah Barrow; 27. Religion and intercultural communication Margaret Littler; 28 Irish-English cultural encounters in the diaspora Bronwen Walter; 29. Intercultural dimensions in academic mobility: South Korea and Spain F. Manuel Montalbán, Francisco M. Llorente and Evelina Zurita; Part V. Assessment: 30. Defining, developing and assessing intercultural competence Darla K. Deardorff; 31. Effects of social media use on cultural adaptation Stephen M. Croucher and Ming Li; 32. A constructivist approach to assessing intercultural communication competence Milton J. Bennett.
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Cambridge University Press Climate and American Literature
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Cambridge University Press A History of Chilean Literature
Book SynopsisThis book covers the full range and diversity of Chilean literature from the times of the Spanish conquest to the present. By emphasizing transnational, hemispheric, and global approaches to Chilean literature, it reflects the relevance of themes such as neoliberalism, migration and exile, as well as subfields like ethnic studies, and gender and sexuality studies. It showcases the diversity of Chilean literature throughout all periods, regions, ethnocultural groups and social classes, all the while foregrounding its regional variations. Unlike previous literary histories, it maps a rich heterogeneity by including works by Chileans of indigenous, African, Jewish, Arab, Asian, and Croatian ancestries, as well as studies of literature by LGTBQ authors and Chilean Americans. Ambitious and authoritative, this book is essential reading for scholars of Chilean Literature, Latin American Literature, the Global South, and World Literature.Trade Review'This is an excellent, readable, teachable addition to Latin American literary studies … Highly recommended.' A. A. Edwards, Choice Connect'Highly recommended.' A. A. Edwards, CHOICETable of ContentsIntroduction Ignacio López-Calvo; Part I: Proto-Chilean, Colonial Chronicles and Letters: 1. The Evolving Image of the Araucania and Its Conquistadors in Valdivia's Cartas de Relación and Vivar's Crónica y relación copiosa y verdadera de los reinos de Chile María de Jesús Cordero; 2. Alonso de Ercilla's La Araucana and Pedro de Oña's Arauco domado in the National Imaginary Stefanie Massmann; 3. Writing while Walking: Alonso Ovalle and Construction of the World's End Narrative in An Historical Relation of the Kingdom of Chile (1646) Rafael Gaune Corradi; 4. Empathy with the Mapuche: Rosales's Manifiesto apologético and Pineda y Bascuñán's Cautiverio feliz Andrés Ignacio Prieto Pastén; 5. Subalterns Find their Voice: Testimonies by Black and Indigenous Women and Writings by Nuns during the Colonial Period Ximena Azúa Ríos; Part II: Nineteenth-Century Articulations of an Embryonic National Consciousness: 6. Rosario Orrego Castañeda (1831/34–1879) and Women Writers in the Nineteenth Century Carol Arcos; 7. The Feuilleton Tradition: Popular Literature Aimed at the Urban Reader Marina Alvarado Cornejo; 8. The Historical Novel: Independence, the War of the Pacific and 1891 Chilean Civil War Readings Eduardo Barraza; 9. From the Public to the Private: Autobiographies, Collections of Letters, Memoirs, and Diaries as Intimate Descriptions of the Formation of the Republic Lorena Amaro Castro; 10. Literature and Literary Markets Marina Alvarado Cornejo; 11. Modernization and Culture María Rosa Olivera-Williams; Part III: Beyond Chileanness: Heterogeneity and Transculturation in Canonical and Peripheral Twentieth and Twenty-First-Century Literature: 12. Gabriela Mistral, Chilean Women Writers, and Intersectionality Claudia Cabello Hutt;13. The Verse as Being in the World: Chilean Poetry Before, During and After Pablo Neruda, History, and Politics Luis Correa-Díaz with Greg Dawes; 14. Mapuche Poetry: Self-Definitions and Representation of the Chilean Cultures Magda Sepúlveda Eriz; 15. The Translation Origins of Literary Mapuche Aesthetics Roberto Viereck Salinas; 16. Theatrical Trends and Social Changes in Chile: 1910–2018 Juan Villegas; 17. Jewish Voices, Chilean Literature Cristián Opazo and Marjorie Agosín; 18. Chilean Arabic Writing: A Desire for Integration into Mainstream Society María Olga Samamé Barrera; 19. Asian Chilean Writing and Film, and Chilean Orientalism María Montt Strabucchi; 20. Croatian Chilean literature: Óscar Barrientos Bradasić's and Christian Formoso Bavich's Writing Eugenio Mimica Barassi; 21. Chilean American Writing since September 11, 1973 Guillermo García-Corales; 22. LGBTQ Writing and Cultural Consciousness in Chile Ignacio López-Vicuña; 23. Permutations of Selfhood in the Work of José Donoso Mary Friedman; 24. Isabel Allende, the Post-Boom, and Chilean Exile Literature Lila McDowell Carlsen; 25. Roberto Bolaño, His Fiction of History, History of His Fiction Raúl Rodríguez Freire; 26. Alejandro Zambra and Recent Chilean Narrative: From the Political to Autobiografiction Will Corral 27. Film and Literature in Chile: The Emergence of a Cultural Field Verónica Cortínez; 28. Violence and Memory: Human Rights, Redemocratization, and Literary Culture in Chile Moisés Park; 29. Chilean Digital Literature Melissa A. Fitch; 30. Detectives at the End of the World: Approaches in Twentieth-century Chilean Literary Critique Alexis Candia.
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Cambridge University Press Modernism Empire World Literature
Book SynopsisAfter World War I, American, Irish and then Caribbean writers boldly remade the world literary system long dominated by Paris and London. Responding to literary renaissances and social upheavals in their own countries and to the decline of war-devastated Europe, émigré and domestic-based writers produced dazzling new works that challenged London''s or Paris''s authority to ?x and determine literary value. In so doing, they propounded new conceptions of aesthetic accomplishment that were later codi?ed as ''modernism''. However, after World War II, an assertive American literary establishment repurposed literary modernism to boost the cultural prestige of the United States in the Cold War and to contest Soviet conceptions of ''world literature''. Here, in accomplished readings of major works and essays by Henry James, Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eugene O''Neill and Derek Walcott, Joe Cleary situates Anglophone modernism in terms of the rise andTrade Review'Joe Cleary's Modernism, Empire, World Literature is that rare of gems; a book that synthesizes a wide range of materials into a succinct and clear argument that also manages to illuminate original pathways through the main debates in the field. The book reminds us of the best in literary criticism that we have been used to in the likes of Edward Said, Frederic James, J. Hillis Miller, and a handful of others.' Ato Quayson, Stanford University'In this compelling book, Joe Cleary traces the Anglophone genealogy of contemporary world literature. His masterful and rich readings of key modernist works carefully locate them within their literary fields while showing them at the same time to be part of a mighty struggle of erstwhile provincials to take on the metropole and establish their literary, political, and economic preminence in the world. Truly world literature for the Anglophone age.' Francesca Orsini, SOAS University of London'This book has a dazzling trajectory. It crosses the territories of the republic of letters and of modernism. It surveys the strategic power shifts of the last two centuries in the Anglophone world between English, Irish and American literatures. It analyses and compares many of the great literary works in which these transfers and transitions were made. Literary criticism and intellectual history are interwoven here with such subtlety that the boundaries that once separated them vanish in a fusion that, long-needed by both, has at last been achieved.' Seamus Deane, University of Notre Dame'This incisive work from Cleary (English, Yale) offers a new and innovative way of framing the discussion of modernism … This volume will interest scholars of both modernism and postcolonialism … Highly recommended.' A. P. Pennino, Choice MagazineTable of Contents1. 'A Language That Was English': Peripheral Modernisms and the Remaking of the Republic of Letters in the Age of Empire; 2. 'It Uccedes Lundun': Logics of Literary Decline and 'Renaissance' from Tocqueville and Arnold to Yeats and Pound; 3. 'The Insolence of Empire': The Fall of the House of Europe and Emerging American Ascendancy in The Golden Bowl and The Waste Land; 4. Contesting Wills: Joyce, Yeats, Goethe, Shakespeare and Mimetic Rivalries in Ulysses; 5. 'That Huge Incoherent Failure of a House': Antinomies of American Ascendancy in The Great Gatsby and Long Day's Journey into Night; 6. 'Cities that open like The World's Classics': Omeros and Epic Impasse in the Neoliberal World Literary System.
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Cambridge University Press Reading Peer Review
Book SynopsisThis Element describes for the first time the database of peer review reports at PLOS ONE, the largest scientific journal in the world, to which the authors had unique access. Specifically, this Element presents the background contexts and histories of peer review, the data-handling sensitivities of this type of research, the typical properties of reports in the journal to which the authors had access, a taxonomy of the reports, and their sentiment arcs. This unique work thereby yields a compelling and unprecedented set of insights into the evolving state of peer review in the twenty-first century, at a crucial political moment for the transformation of science. It also, though, presents a study in radicalism and the ways in which PLOS''s vision for science can be said to have effected change in the ultra-conservative contemporary university. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.Table of Contents1. Peer Review and its discontents; 2. The radicalism of PLOS; 3. New technologies, old traditions?; 4. PLOS, institutional change, and the future of peer review.
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Cambridge University Press The Spaces of Bookselling
Book SynopsisThe spaces of bookselling have as many stories to tell as do the books for sale. This Element focuses primarily on bookselling in the United States from the 19th through the 21st centuries and examines three key bookselling spaces-the store, the street, and the catalogue.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Stores: Constructing Meaning in the Bookstore; 3. Streets: Books, Boundaries, and Belonging; 4. Pages: Navigating Bookseller Catalogues; 5. Epilogue: Making Space.
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Cambridge University Press Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature
Book SynopsisThis book examines tragedy and tragic philosophy from the Greeks through Shakespeare to the present day. It explores key themes in the links between suffering and ethics through postcolonial literature. Ato Quayson reconceives how we think of World literature under the singular and fertile rubric of tragedy. He draws from many key works Oedipus Rex, Philoctetes, Medea, Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear to establish the main contours of tragedy. Quayson uses Shakespeare''s Othello, Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Tayeb Salih, Arundhati Roy, Toni Morrison, Samuel Beckett and J.M. Coetzee to qualify and expand the purview and terms by which Western tragedy has long been understood. Drawing on key texts such as The Poetics and The Nicomachean Ethics, and augmenting them with Frantz Fanon and the Akan concept of musuo (taboo), Quayson formulates a supple, insightful new theory of ethical choice and the impediments against it. This is a major book from a leading critic in literary studies.Trade Review'… [This book] is a powerful insight, suggestive enough, one would have thought, to fuel a book-length inquiry into the distinctiveness of postcolonial tragedy.' Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, Modern Philology'The book's connections to the fields of literature, philosophy, and history are apparent, as is its layered, meticulously crafted thesis. Relevant and applicable to a variety of critical reassessments in various fields within the humanities. Recommended.' J. Neal, Choice'The contribution of Ato Quayson's book is undoubtedly found in the dialogue and the pooling of plural knowledge, reporting on the suffering and ethnic discriminations of which colonized populations have been victims.' Jean Zaganiaris, Anabases (translated from French)JeanTable of Contents1. Introduction. Tragedy and the maze of moments; 2. Shakespeare: Ethical cosmopolitanism and Shakespeare's Othello; 3. Chinua Achebe: History and the conscription to colonial modernity in Chinua Achebe's rural novels; 4. Wole Soyinka: Ritual dramaturgy and the social imaginary in Wole Soyinka's tragic theatre; 5. Tayeb Salih: Archetypes, self-authorship, and melancholia: Tayeb Salih's Seasons of Migration to the North; 6. Toni Morrison: Form, freedom and ethical choice in Toni Morrison's Beloved; 7. J. M. Coetzee: On moral residue and the affliction of second thoughts: J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians; 8. Arundhati Roy: Enigmatic variations, language games and the arrested bildungsroman: Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things; 9. Samuel Beckett: Distressed embodiment and the burdens of boredom: Samuel Beckett's Postcolonialism; 10. Conclusion: Postcolonial tragedy and the question of method.
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Cambridge University Press Nature and Literary Studies
Book SynopsisNature and Literary Studiessupplies a broad and accessible overview of one of the most important and contested keywords in modern literary studies. Drawing together the work of leading scholars of a variety of critical approaches, historical periods, and cultural traditions, the book examines nature''s philosophical, theological, and scientific origins in literature, as well as how literary representations of this concept evolved in response to colonialism, industrialization, and new forms of scientific knowledge. Surveying nature''s diverse applications in twenty-first-century literary studies and critical theory, the volume seeks to reconcile nature''s ideological baggage with its fundamental role in fostering appreciation of nonhuman being and agency. Including chapters on wilderness, pastoral, gender studies, critical race theory, and digital literature, the book is a key resource for students and professors seeking to understand nature''s role in the environmental humanities.Table of ContentsIntroduction: the Nature of Literature Peter Remien and Scott Slovic; Part I. Origins: 1. The book of nature Rebecca Davis; 2. Pastoral Terry Gifford; 3. Wilderness Debbie Lee; 4. Lucretian materialism Brent Dawson; 5. Natural philosophy Mary Thomas Crane; 6. Natural history Ashton Nichols; Part II. Development: 7. Romantic nature Marc Cladis; 8. The sublime Michele Speitz; 9. Toward a transatlantic philosophy of nature Samantha Harvey; 10. Indigenous naturecultures Rayson K. Alex; 11. Postcolonial nature Philip Aghoghovwia; 12. Extinction Timothy Sweet; 13. Nature in the Anthropocene Ken Hiltner; Part III. Applications: 14. Nature, gender, sexuality Greta Gaard; 15. Nature and race John Gamber; 16. The nature of animality Michael Lundblad; 17. Cultivating nature Shiuhhuah Serena Chou; 18. Narrating nature Erin James; 19. Digital nature Lai-Tze Fan; 20. Toxic nature Pramod K. Nayar; 21. Messages from within Serenella Iovino.
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Palgrave Macmillan Sexuality and the Gothic Magic Lantern Desire
Book SynopsisThis fascinating study explores the multifarious erotic themes associated with the magic lantern shows, which proved the dominant visual medium of the West for 350 years, and analyses how the shows influenced the portrayals of sexuality in major works of Gothic fiction. Trade Review"A compelling (and - why not?) sexy addition to the burgeoning scholarship on the true underpinnings of Gothic fiction, theater, and film. This book also helps elucidate the history of cinematic forms, the filiations of Romanticism across the nineteenth century, and the history of sexuality and its deployment in changing symbols. In addition, as a contribution to the ongoing development of New Historicist/Cultural Studies, it juxtaposes different media from the same era to show how each affects and is affected by the other in "associations" that enable the modern reader "to discover a forgotten intermedial world of allusion"." - Jerrold E. Hogle, Review 19 (2015) "Focusing on the Gothic magic lantern and its associations with the erotic, there is much more here which serves to provide an improved understanding of the responses of contemporary writers, artists and other commentators to the magic lantern show. Similarly the author interconnects with the erotic content to be found in a great deal of early lantern imagery [ ] It provides a refreshingly different view of lantern history, and is therefore highly recommended." - Mervyn Heard, The Magic Lantern Society Journal (2015)Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Preface Introduction 1. Sex and the Ghost-Show: the Early Ghost Lanternists, Friedrich Schiller's Die Geisterseher /Ghost-seer , Matthew Lewis's The Monk and E-G Robertson's Convent Fantasmagori e 2. Byron: Incest, Voyeurism and the Phantasmagoria 3. Charlotte Brönte's Villette , Forbidden Desire and Lanternicity in the Domestic Gothic 4. Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla (1872), 'Ambiguous Alternations': Lesbian Desire in the Lanternist Novella 5. Lanternist codes and Sexuality in Dracula and The Lady of the Shroud Conclusion
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Palgrave Macmillan Sensational Pleasures in Cinema Literature and
Book SynopsisThis international collection focuses on the phallic character of classic and contemporary literary and visual cultures and their invasive nature. It focuses on thrillers, horror cinema, sexual art and photography, erotic literature, female and male body politics, queer pleasures, gender/cross-gender/transgenderism, CCTV and phallic ethnicities.Table of ContentsContents Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Phallic: "An Object of Terror and Delight"; Gilad Padva and Nurit Buchweitz PART I: FORBIDDEN SPECTATORSHIP AND VISCERAL IMAGERIES 1. The Unpardoned Gaze: Forbidden Erotic Vision in Greek Mythology; Rachel Gottesman 2. The Haptic Eye: On Nan Goldin's Scopophilia; Lorrain Dumenil 3. The Peepshow and the Voyeuse: Colette's Challenge to Patriarchy and the Male Gaze; Marion Krautkaher-Ringa 4. The Monstrous Nonheteronormative: A Queer Positioning within American Horror Films By the Male Gaze; Matthew Martin 5. Bearing Witness to the Unbearable: The Ethics of the Gaze in Irréversible; Kathleen Scott PART II: PHALLIC AND ANTI-PHALLIC FANTASIES 6. Pornographic Images of Transmasculinity; Finn Ballard 7. 'Look Closer': Sam Mendes' Visions of White Men; Ruth Heholt 8. Between the Joy of the Woman Castrator and the Silence of the Woman Victim: Following the Exhibition The Uncanny XX; Sigal Barkai 9. Zack Snyder's Impossible Gaze: The Fantasy of 'Looked-at-ness' Manifested in Sucker Punch (2011); Alexander Sergeant 10 In-Between Complicity and Subversion: D. M. Thomas's Charlotte, Or, A Reflection of/on 'Pornographic' Literature and Society; Fanny Delnieppe PART III: BLEEDING MASCULINITIES 11. "There's No Losing It:' Disability and Voyeurism in Rear Window and Vertigo; Laura Christiansen 12. The Vaginal Apocalypse: Phallic Trauma and the End of the World in Romeo is Bleeding; James D. Stone 13. Ambiguous Exposures: Gender Bending Muscles in the 1930s Physique Photographs of Tony Sansone and Sports Photographs of Babe Didrikson; Jacqueline Brady 14. Reframing Gender and Visual Pleasure: New Signifying Practices in Contemporary Cinema; Francis Pheasant-Kelly PART IV: SURVEILLANCE AND BIG BROTHERS 15. Voyeurism and Surveillance: A Cinematic and Visual Affair; Mira Perampalam 16. Thrust and Probe: The Phallic Blade, The Physician, and the Voyeuristic Pleasures of Violent Penetration; Brenda S. Gardenour PART V: GAPS AND CRACKS 17. Seeing Red: The Female Body and the Body of the Text in Hitchcock's Marnie; Inbar Shaham 18. Pictura in Arcana: the Traumatic Real as In/visible Crack Lysane Fauvel 19. The Female Body in Frederick Sandys's Paintings, or, The Sublimation of Desire; Virginie Thomas
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Palgrave MacMillan Us Womens Poetry and Popular Culture Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
Book SynopsisBridging feminist and cultural studies, the book shows how British and American women poets often operate as cultural insiders. Individual chapters reassess major figures (H.D., Gwendolyn Brooks, Sylvia Plath), alternative modernist poets (Edith Sitwell, Stevie Smith), and contemporary poets (Ai, Carol Ann Duffy).Trade Review"Bryant (Univ. of Florida) offers a lively interrogation of 'women's poetry' situated within and outside of constructions of popular, contemporary Western culture. Coalescing the poetry of H.D., Stevie Smith, Sylvia Plath, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Carol Ann Duffy with the complexities of a mainstream market comprising domestic advertising, juvenile literature, film, and tabloid journalism, Bryant's provocative work refutes historical conceptions of women's poetry as oppositional to popular culture. Rather, this refreshing fusion of feminist and cultural studies probes the dynamics of women infusing popular culture with poetry written by 'cultural insiders' to chronicle this delicate and complex interplay of popular culture and women's poetry. Summing Up: Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." - CHOICE 'Fact: These days, the most exciting academic work on nineteenth- and twentieth-century poetry is being done by women critics and scholars .The most recent example of such scholarship comes from P&PC hero and University of Florida English professor Marsha Bryant. They are studying poetries in the plural (not Poetry) as cultural forces and as ways of thinking linked both to the everyday and the ideal, with sources in mass, popular, and counter cultures, computers and archives, transnational circuits of exchange, and public and political spheres.' - Poetry and Popular Culture 'In her coda, Bryant envisions a new relationship between poetics and cultural studies. She argues that critics should not only analyze the popular contexts that inform women's poetry, but also the early cultural studies texts that 'often articulate a poetics of popular culture.' In each of her chapters, Bryant models the ways that this type of inquiry necessitates the interpretation of a wide range of cultural texts. In its scope and method, Women's Poetry and Popular Culture is a vital contribution to women's poetry studies and postwar poetry studies.' - Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 'Byrant's book ultimately calls for a significant widening of the women's poetry canon broader acceptance of a range of themes by women poets and a more sophisticated set of reading pratices that take into account this writing as not simply oppositional, parodic, or critical . . . At once a monograph and a manifesto, Women's Poetry is irreverent, immensely readable, and, frankly, a lot of fun.' - Twentieth-Century Literature "She [Bryant] effectively illustrates that poetry and popular culture are interconnected and should be studied in relation to one another . . . Bryant's close readings of the poems and strong supporting evidence make it difficult to find a weakness in Women's Poetry and Popular Culture. The book strikes a good balance between formal literary criticism and cultural studies while mostly remaining accessible to readers who may not be familiar with each of the many literary, feminist, and cultural studies theorists with whom Bryant is in conversation." - Women's StudiesTable of ContentsCinemaScope Poetics: H.D., Helen, and Historical Epic Film The Poetry Picture Book: Stevie Smith and Children's Culture Uneasy Alliances: Gwendolyn Brooks, Ebony, and Whiteness Everyday Ariel: Sylvia Plath and the Dream Kitchen Killer Lyrics: Ai, Carol Ann Duffy, and the Media Monologue Key Notes: Manifesto for Women's Poetry Studies
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