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  • Necessary Travel

    New Area Studies and Canada in Comparative Perspective

    de Susan Hodgett, Abdelkarim Amengay, Colin Coates, Claude Denis, Peter Gatrell, Caroline Rosenthal, Christopher Sabatini, Mandy Sadan, Ibrahim A. I. Alfraih, Charles R. Batson0, Nicolas Albertoni Gomez1, Claus Bech Hansen2, Zahia Smail Salhi3, Stephen Hutchings4, Patrick James5 ...
    Recent, unpredictable incidents in diverse locations – Paris, Nice, Ankara, Sinai, California, Manchester and London – reinforce how governments and scholars must look beneath the surface for understanding of the turbulent post-9/11world. In particular, what does ‘expertise’ mean in this new era? This book answers that question? The volume is about a particular kind of expert – a type suffering ... Leer más

    $93.99 USD

  • Dance, Desire, and Anxiety in Early Twentieth-Century French Theater

    Playing Identities

    de Charles R. Batson ...
    The 1909 arrival of Serge de Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in Paris marked the beginning of some two decades of collaboration among littérateurs, painters, musicians, and choreographers, many not native to France. Charles Batson's original and nuanced exploration of several of these collaborations integral to the formation of modernism and avant-gardist aesthetics reinscribes performances of the ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

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  • The Gospel According to David Foster Wallace

    Boredom and Addiction in an Age of Distraction

    de Professor Adam S. Miller ...
    Series series New Directions in Religion and Literature
    The Gospel According to David Foster Wallace is the first book to explore key religious themes - from boredom to addiction, and distraction – in the work of one of America's most celebrated contemporary novelists.In a series of short, topic-focussed chapters, the bookjoins a selection of key scenes from Wallace's novels Infinite Jest and The Pale King with clear explanations of how they contribute ... Leer más

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  • Personal Disclosures

    An Anthology of Self-Writings from the Seventeenth Century

    de David Booy ...
    Series series The Early Modern Englishwoman, 1500-1750: Contemporary Editions
    The seventeenth century saw a dramatic increase in self-writing-from the private jotting down of personal thoughts in an irregular and spontaneous way, to the carefully considered composition of extended autobiographical narrative and deliberate self-fashioning for public consumption. Recent anthologies of women's writing, drawing to some extent on this rich but relatively little-known archive, ... Leer más

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  • Detaining Time

    Temporal Resistance in Literature from Shakespeare to McEwan

    de Eric P. Levy ...
    Detaining Time is the first book to investigate the representation of time in literature in terms of the project to reconceptualize time, so that its movement no longer threatens security. Focusing on the nature, consequences, and resolution of resistance to temporal passage, Eric P. Levy offers detailed and probing close readings, enriched by thorough yet engaging explication and application of ... Leer más

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  • Mary Wroth

    Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series 1, Part One, Volume 10

    de Josephine A. Roberts ...
    Series Libro 1 - The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works & Printed Writings, 1500-1640: Series I
    Mary Wroth (1587-1653?) was niece and god-daughter of Mary Sidney Herbert. She was married in 1604 to Sir Robert Wroth with whom she joined the Court circle of James I. In 1618 she began work on her enormous prose romance The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania. The first known work of original fiction by an Englishwoman it reflects her experience as an eyewitness to the turbulent Jacobean Court. ... Leer más

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  • Modernism on Fleet Street

    de Patrick Collier ...
    British modernism came of age at a time of great cultural anxiety about the state of journalism. The new newspapers, with their brief, flashy articles, striking visuals, hyperbolic headlines, and sensational news, stood at the center of debates about reading in the period, seeming to threaten the viability of representative democracy, the health and vitality of the language, and the very future of ... Leer más

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  • George Eliot, Poetess

    de Wendy S. Williams ...
    The position of George Eliot’s poetry within Victorian poetry and within her own canon is crucial for an accurate picture of the writer, as Wendy S. Williams shows in her in-depth examination of Eliot’s poetry and her role as poetess. Williams argues that even more clearly than her fiction, Eliot’s poetry reveals the development of her belief in sympathy as a replacement for orthodox religious ... Leer más

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  • Poetry Off the Page

    Twentieth-Century British Women Poets in Performance

    de Laura Severin ...
    This study examines the performed poetry of Charlotte Mew, Anna Wickham, Edith Sitwell, Stevie Smith, Liz Lochhead, and Jackie Kay as an alternative radical tradition of British poetry, developed to convey women's experience. Through a historical treatment in which the poets are discussed in pairs, the chapters trace how these six women used a performative poetry to deal with difficulties ... Leer más

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  • Slavery, Colonialism and Connoisseurship

    Gender and Eighteenth-Century Literary Transnationalism

    de Nandini Bhattacharya ...
    Colonization, slavery, traffic in women, and connoisseurship seem to have particularly captured the imaginations of circumatlantic writers of the later eighteenth century. In this book, Nandini Bhattacharya examines the works of such writers as Richard Brinsley Sheridan, George Colman Jr., James Cobb and Phillis Wheatley, who redefined ideas about Value and Taste. Writers re-presented the ethical ... Leer más

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  • The Name and Nature of Tragicomedy

    de Verna A. Foster ...
    Series series Studies in European Cultural Transition
    Focusing on European tragicomedy from the early modern period to the theatre of the absurd, Verna Foster here argues for the independence of tragicomedy as a genre that perceives and communicates human experience differently from the various forms of tragedy, comedy, and the drame (serious drama that is neither comic nor tragic). Foster posits that, in the sense of the dramaturgical and emotional ... Leer más

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  • Disguise on the Early Modern English Stage

    de Peter Hyland ...
    Series series Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
    Disguise devices figure in many early modern English plays, and an examination of them clearly affords an important reflection on the growth of early theatre as well as on important aspects of the developing nation. In this study Peter Hyland considers a range of practical issues related to the performance of disguise. He goes on to examine various conceptual issues that provide a background to ... Leer más

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