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The Dynamics of Cultural Borders
This volume encompasses a broad span of issues related to borders as areas of intense activity substantially contributing to the dynamics of culture. The chapters address questions relating to the construction and reconstruction of borders, as well as the experience and representation of physical, spiritual, imagined and symbolic borders. The authors provide perspectives on emerging and dissolv…
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- 9789949770823
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- 260 halaman
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- Approaches to Culture Theory, 6
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- 800 KAN d
DiverCity – Global Cities as a Literary Phenomenon : Toronto, New York, and…
Based on the structured analysis of selected North American novels, this work examines global cities as a literary phenomenon (»DiverCity«). By analyzing Dionne Brand's Toronto, »What We All Long For« (2005), Chang-rae Lee's New York, »Native Speaker« (1995), and Karen Tei Yamashita's Los Angeles, »Tropic of Orange« (1997), Melanie U. Pooch provides the connecting link f…
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- 9783837635416
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- 800 POO d
Dickens's Working Notes for 'Dombey and Son'
"This critical edition of the working notes for Dombey and Son (1848) is ideal for readers who wish to know more about Dickensâs craft and creativity. Drawing on the authorâs manuscript in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Londonâand containing hyperlinked facsimilesâDickensâs Working Notes for Dombey and Son offers a new digital transcription with a fresh commentary by T…
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- 9781783742257
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- 224 halaman
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- 800 LAI d
Routledge Handbook of the Study of the Commons
This comprehensive Handbook serves as a unique synthesis and resource for understanding how analytical frameworks developed within the literature assist in understanding the nature and management of commons resources. Such frameworks include those related to Institutional Analysis and Development, Social-Ecological Systems, and Polycentricity, among others. The book aggregates and analyses thes…
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- 9781351669245
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- 464 halaman
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- 800 ROU
Only When They're Little : The Story of an Appalachian Family
A fictional account of an actual family whose Scotch-Irish ancestors immigrated to western North Carolina in the early nineteenth century, Only When They're Little is an authentic tale of Kate Pickens Day’s family life near Asheville, North Carolina. Published in 1985, this book combats the stereotype of the impoverished mountain people by presenting a new narrative. A middle class family liv…
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- 9781469638188
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- 800 DAY o
Configuring Masculinity in Theory and Literary Practice
Configuring Masculinity in Theory and Literary Practice combines a critical survey of the most current developments in the emergent field of Masculinity Studies with both a historical overview of how masculinity has been constructed within British Literature from the Middle Ages to the present and a special focus on developments in the 20th and 21st centuries. The volume combines seminal articl…
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- 9789004299009
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- 328 halaman
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- DQR Studies in Literature, Volume: 58
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- 800 CON
Stephen Leacock : A Reappraisal
“Personally,” Stephen Leacock declared in his preface toSunshine Sketches of a Little Town(1912), “I would sooner have writtenAlice in Wonderlandthan the wholeEncyclopedia Britannica.” Yet the worlds represented byAliceand theEncyclopedia, seemingly light years apart, are central to an understanding, appreciation, and assessment of the many worlds that commanded the attention of Stephen…
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- 9780776601809
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- 184 halaman
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- Reappraisals: Canadian Writers
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- 800 STA s
The Citizen's Voice : Twentieth-Century Politics and Literature
Michael Keren traces the political lives and messages of some of the twentieth century’s greatest literary characters in this insightful and jargon-free book of literary criticism. He observes the infamous characters ranging from Joseph K from Franz Kafka’s The Trial to Ralph from William Golding’s Lord of the Flies to Chauncey Gardiner from Jerzy Kosinski’s Being There and beyond while…
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- 9781552386699
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- 800 KER c
Eating Identities : Reading Food in Asian American Literature
Eating Identities' is the first book to link food to a wide range of Asian American concerns such as race and sexuality. Xu provides lucid and informed interpretations of seven Asian American writers (John Okada, Joy Kogawa, Frank Chin, Li-Young Lee, David Wong Louie, Mei Ng, and Monique Truong), revealing how cooking, eating, and food fashion Asian American identities in terms of race/ethnicit…
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- 9780824831950
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- 800 XUW e
Early Modern Russian Letters : Texts and Contexts
Early Modern Russian Letters: Texts and Contexts brings together twenty essays by Marcus C. Levitt, a leading scholar of eighteenth-century Russian literature. The essays address a spectrum of works and issues that shaped the development of modern Russian literature, from authorship and philosophy to gender and religion in Russian Enlightenment culture. The first part of the collection explores…
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- 9781934843680
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- 800 LEV e
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