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Dreams In Chinese Fiction - Spiritism, Aestheticism, And Nationalism

by Johannes D. Kaminski

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 Â· Throughout Chinese literary history, dreams act as harbingers of important messages and as narrative devices that thoroughly confuse the order between reality and imagination. They centre around promises of healing, including sensual bliss, spiritual enlightenment, and the rejuvenation of China.
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Pandemics And Apocalypse In World Literature - The Hope For Planetary Salvation

by William Franke

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 While Covid-19 focused attention on the hope of finding a techn(olog)ical solution, this book asks: Is there a different kind of hope in what is not within our own means and methods, a hope that breaks us open beyond ourselves into relation with something other and absolute perhaps divine or real beyond our control and comprehension
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The Life Of The Soul In Early Modern Spanish Literature And Culture

by Esther Fernandez

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 This book traces the interplay of spirit, body, and matterâ€"forces that engage with the soul in early modern Spainâ€"while exploring its philosophical, cultural, historical, and religious dimensions.
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Imagination Besieged - Coloniality, Violence, And Feminism In Â€Œmediterraneanâ€ Art And Literature

by Federica Bueti

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 Imagination Besieged grapples with the legacies of colonialism and the histories of violence that define the past and present of the Mediterranean in the regional artistic and cultural production.
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Pro-Animal Poetics - Poetry Of D. H. Lawrence And Ted Hughes

by Krishanu Maiti

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 This book offers a comprehensive study of animal representations through the lens of Animal Studies. Inspired from posthumanist thinkers, the book challenges anthropocentric biases to rethink and reconsider human-animal relationships.
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Romancing Literature - When Literary Fiction Meets Genre

by Francesca Pierini

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 Romancing Literature places literary fiction in dialogue with what it rejectsâ€"the feminine, the popular and the romantic, disclosing deep-seated assumptions concerning artistic production and literary creation in relation to genre and gender.
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Theorizing Flash Fiction - Postmodern Perspectives

by Ruchi Nagpal

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 Theorizing Flash Fiction: Postmodern Perspectives aims to theorize the genre of flash fiction. A close theoretical analysis of the genre brings forth the supposition that for any genre to thrive and dominate, the literary fabric of times must become conducive to the form it harbingers.
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Reading Kazuo Ishiguroâ€™S Never Let Me Go - The Alternative Dystopian Imagination

by Eva Pelayo Sanudo

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 It deals with innovative methods of reading Ishiguroâ€™s novel Never Let Me Go by using an intersectional perspective of the identity categories of class, gender and race. It also concentrates on new forms of representing dystopic settings by de-centering the role of the urban space in environmental criticism
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The Sagas Of Icelanders - An Introduction To All Forty Sagas With Summaries

by Annette Lassen

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 This book provides an accessible introduction to the Sagas of Icelanders, exploring cultural and historical contexts. Authored by an expert, it examines themes like belief systems, family dynamics, and gender roles. It covers diverse medieval tales, foreign influences, literary styles, and offers summaries of the 40 preserved sagas.
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Irish Writers And The New Yorker In The Mid-Twentieth Century

by Yen-Chi Wu

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 Irish Writers and The New Yorker in the Mid-Twentieth Century draws on archival research in the New Yorker Records to uncover the contractual details of the first-reading agreement, The New Yorkerâ€™s â€œfatâ€ payments, and Irish writersâ€™ relationships with their editors and peers.
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Colonial Philippines In Italian Travel Writing - A Italiansa Interpreting Difference

by Jillian Loise Melchor

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 The first comprehensive review of all extant â€˜Italianâ€™ chronicles set in the Philippine Islands, this book juxtaposes â€˜Filipinoâ€™ Otherness with the unique condition of â€˜Italianâ€™ ambivalence and alterity within Europe.
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Colonial Philippines In Italian Travel Writing - &Quote;Italians&Quote; Interpreting Difference

by Jillian Loise Melchor

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 The first comprehensive review of all extant â€˜Italianâ€™ chronicles set in the Philippine Islands, this book juxtaposes â€˜Filipinoâ€™ Otherness with the unique condition of â€˜Italianâ€™ ambivalence and alterity within Europe.
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Fragmented Forms In African American Womenâ€™S Memoir - Poetics, Praxis, And Politics

by Yolanda M. Manora

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 Fragmented Forms in African American Womenâ€™s Memoir examines fragment as formal praxis in autobiographical works by Black women makers, critics and creatives, including Claudia Rankine, Saidiya Hartman, and Beyonce Knowles.
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Pale Fire, Nabokovâ€™S Art And Shakespeareâ€™S Magic

by Gerard De Vries

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 By tracing Shakespearean threads throughout Nabokov's intricate narrative structure, this study offers new insights into the novel's complex thematic architecture and demonstrates how literary allusion operates as both aesthetic strategy and meaning-making device.
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Memes And Meaning - Presence And Transcendence In Literature

by Patrycja Austin e Simon Perry

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 Drawing from literature, philosophy, theology, and cultural critique, this short and accessible book challenges modern conceptions of meaning as something to be consumed rather than created. The book reframes meaning as an act of mediation, not transmission.
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Tolkien And The Kalevala

by Jyrki Korpua

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 This book explores J. R. R. Tolkienâ€™s unique and warm relationship to the Kalevala, a poem usually hailed as the Finnish and Karelian national epic, combiled, edited and partly revisioned from older folk poetry by Finnish scholar Elias LÃ¶nnrot in the 19th century.
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Essays On The Glass Menagerie - Truth In The Pleasant Disguise Of Illusion

by Tania Chakravertty

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 This volume traces the growth of Tennessee Williams from being a fragile child to becoming one of Americaâ€™s greatest playwrights, also highlighting the playwrightâ€™s deep indebtedness to the Southern literary conventions.
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Digital Culture And The Hermeneutic Tradition - Suspicion, Trust, And Dialogue

by Inge Van De Ven e Lucie Chateau

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 In our information age, deciding what and whom to trust is a pressing matter. This book revaluates the hermeneutic tradition for digital culture, covering three dimensions: suspicion, trust, dialogue. Can we move beyond a surplus of both trust and distrust in and on platforms, towards new forms of intersubjective dialogue?
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Irish Writers And The New Yorker In The Mid-Twentieth Century

by Yen-Chi Wu

~~75,69€~~ 68,12€ 10% OFF

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 Irish Writers and The New Yorker in the Mid-Twentieth Century draws on archival research in the New Yorker Records to uncover the contractual details of the first-reading agreement, The New Yorkerâ€™s â€œfatâ€ payments, and Irish writersâ€™ relationships with their editors and peers.
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Dreams In Chinese Fiction - Spiritism, Aestheticism, And Nationalism

by Johannes D. Kaminski

~~33,79€~~ 30,41€ 10% OFF

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 Â· Throughout Chinese literary history, dreams act as harbingers of important messages and as narrative devices that thoroughly confuse the order between reality and imagination. They centre around promises of healing, including sensual bliss, spiritual enlightenment, and the rejuvenation of China.
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Colonial Philippines In Italian Travel Writing - Â€Œitaliansâ€ Interpreting Difference

by Jillian Loise Melchor

~~33,79€~~ 30,41€ 10% OFF

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 The first comprehensive review of all extant â€˜Italianâ€™ chronicles set in the Philippine Islands, this book juxtaposes â€˜Filipinoâ€™ Otherness with the unique condition of â€˜Italianâ€™ ambivalence and alterity within Europe.
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Remapping Energopolitics - Blue Humanities, Geophilosophy And Sri Lankan Minor Writings

by Abhisek Ghosal

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 Written in negotiation with the notion of energopolitics articulated by Dominic Boyer, Remapping Energopolitics calls for ruling out any epistemic attempt to structure the becomings of energy through the transformations of oceans.
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Literature And Censorship In Modern China

by Michel Hockx

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 This innovative study examines literary censorship in China from 1900 to present. Literature and Censorship in Modern China offers invaluable insights into the study of censorship, and the study of China. This is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of literature and censorship theory.
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Emotionality - Heterosexual Love And Emotional Development In Popular Romance

by Eirini Arvanitaki

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 This book follows a close textual analysis approach and offers a discussion of love as portrayed in â€˜Modernâ€™ popular romances. Based on the construction of a novel continuum, this book illustrates a variety of love forms and signals the complexity of love and intimate relationships in popular romance narratives.
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