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Colonised by Wankers : Postcolonialism and Contemporary Scottish Fiction
"Has Scotland suffered from colonial oppression by England for the last 300 years? While historiography may give an answer in the negative, this study reveals that the contemporary Scottish novel is haunted by strong feelings, marked by perceptions of abjection and inferiorisation in response to constructing the English as dominating. Drawing from an unprecedented corpus of contemporary Scottis…
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- 9783946198284
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- 260 halaman
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- 800 HOM c
Chivalry, Reading, and Women’s Culture in Early Modern Spain: From Amadís …
The Iberian chivalric romance has long been thought of as an archaic, masculine genre and its popularity as an aberration in European literary history. Chivalry, Reading, and Women’s Culture in Early Modern Spain contests this view, arguing that the surprisingly egalitarian gender politics of Spain’s most famous romance of chivalry has guaranteed it a long afterlife. Amadís de Gaula had a …
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- 9789462985490
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- 800 TRI c
Authoring the Self : Self-Representation, Authorship, and the Print Market in…
Drawing upon historicist and cultural studies approaches to literature, this book argues that the Romantic construction of the self emerged out of the growth of commercial print culture and the expansion and fragmentation of the reading public beginning in eighteenth-century Britain. Arguing for continuity between eighteenth-century literature and the rise of Romanticism, this groundbreaking bo…
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- 9780203005002
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- 404
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- 800 HES a
Bakhtin’s Theory of the Literary Chronotope : Reflections, Applications, Pe…
This edited volume is the first scholarly tome exclusively dedicated to Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of the literary chronotope. This concept, initially developed in the 1930s and used as a frame of reference throughout Bakhtin’s own writings, has been highly influential in literary studies. After an extensive introduction that serves as a ‘state of the art’, the volume is divided into four…
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- 9789038215631
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- 213
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- 800 BEM b
Biofictions : Race, Genetics and the Contemporary Novel
In this important interdisciplinary study, Josie Gill explores the ways in which the contemporary novel has drawn on and helped shape debates about race and identity in 21st century genetic science. Reading works by leading contemporary writers such as Zadie Smith, Alex Haley, Octavia Butler and Salman Rushdie, Biofictions demonstrates how ideas of race are produced from intersecting genetic an…
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- 9781350099838
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- 224
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- Explorations in Science and Literature
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- 800 GIL b
By Fables Alone : Literature and State Ideology in Late Eighteenth- and Early…
Academic Studies Press is proud to present this translation of Professor Andrei Zorin's seminal Kormya Dvuglavogo Orla. This collection of essays includes several that have never before appeared in English, including The People's War: The Time of Troubles in Russian Literature, 1806-1807 and Holy Alliances: V. A. Zhukovskii's Epistle To Emperor Alexander and Christian Universalism.
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- 9781618116697
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- 800 ZOR b
Biohacking, Bodies and Do-It-Yourself : The Cultural Politics of Hacking Life…
From self-help books and nootropics, to self-tracking and home health tests, to the tinkering with technology and biological particles - biohacking brings biology, medicine, and the material foundation of life into the sphere of »do-it-yourself«. This trend has the potential to fundamentally change people's relationship with their bodies and biology but it also creates new cultural narratives…
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- 9783839460047
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- 314 halaman
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- American Culture Studies, 36
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- 302 GRE b
The Ballad of the Lone Medievalist
Are you a Lone Medievalist? Working medievalists are often the only scholar of the Middle Ages in a department, a university, or a hundred-mile radius. While working to build a body of focused scholarly work, the lone medievalist is expected to be a generalist in the classroom and a contributing member of a campus community that rarely offers disciplinary community in return. As a result, overt…
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- 9781947447547
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- 388 halaman
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- 370 BAL
Baroque Lorca : An Archaist Playwright for the New Stage
Baroque Lorca: An Archaist Playwright for the New Stage defines Federico García Lorca’s trajectory in the theater as a lifelong search for an audience. It studies a wide range of dramatic writings that Lorca created for the theater, in direct response to the conditions of his contemporary industry, and situates the theory and praxis of his theatrical reform in dialogue with other modernist r…
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- 9781000766257
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- 170 halaman
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- 700 PER b
Advances in the Analysis of Spanish Exclamatives
Advances in the Analysis of Spanish Exclamatives is the first book entirely devoted to Spanish exclamatives, a special sentence type often overlooked by contemporary linguists and neglected in standard grammatical descriptions. The seven essays in this volume, each by a leading specialist on the topic, scrutinize the syntax, as well as the semantic and pragmatic aspects, of exclamations on theo…
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- 400 ADV
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