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  • Placing the Modern Chinese Vernacular in Transnational Literature

    de G. Zhou ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This is the first book to concentrate not only on the triumph of the vernacular in modern China but also on the critical role of the rise of the vernacular in world literature, invoking parallel cases from countries throughout Europe and Asia. ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

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  • Literary Ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism

    The Haunting Interval

    de Luke Thurston ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
    This book resituates the ghost story as a matter of literary hospitality and as part of a vital prehistory of modernism, seeing it not as a quaint neo-gothic ornament, but as a powerful literary response to the technological and psychological disturbances that marked the end of the Victorian era. Linking little-studied authors like M. R. James and May Sinclair to such canonical figures as Dickens, ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • Early Encounters between East Asia and Europe

    Telling Failures

    Edición de Ralf Hertel, Michael Keevak ...
    Series series Transculturalisms, 1400-1700
    While inquiries into early encounters between East Asia and the West have traditionally focused on successful interactions, this collection inquires into the many forms of failure, experienced on all sides, in the period before 1850. Countering a tendency in scholarship to overlook unsuccessful encounters, it starts from the assumption that failures can prove highly illuminating and provide ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • The Postcolonial Epic

    From Melville to Walcott and Ghosh

    de Sneharika Roy ...
    Series series Literary Cultures of the Global South
    This book demonstrates the epic genre’s enduring relevance to the Global South. It identifies a contemporary avatar of classical epic, the ‘postcolonial epic’, ushered in by Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, a foundational text of North America, and exemplified by Derek Walcott’s Caribbean masterpiece Omeros and Amitav Ghosh’s South Asian saga, the Ibis trilogy.The work focuses on the epic genre’s rich ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • 'Anticipating' the 2011 Arab Uprisings

    Revolutionary Literatures and Political Geographies

    de R. Sakr ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This Palgrave Pivot volume explores an exciting range of powerful novels and memoirs from Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Syria that reveal political geographies of injustice and popular discontent thus 'anticipating' or imaginatively envisioning as well as participating in some of the major current upheavals in their particular national contexts. ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Empires of Love

    Europe, Asia, and the Making of Early Modern Identity

    de Carmen Nocentelli ...
    Through literary and historical documents from the early sixteenth to late seventeenth centuries—epic poetry, private correspondence, secular dramas, and colonial legislation—Carmen Nocentelli charts the Western fascination with the eros of "India," as the vast coastal stretch from the Gulf of Aden to the South China Sea was often called. If Asia was thought of as a place of sexual deviance and ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

  • The Chinese Language in European Texts

    The Early Period

    de Dinu Luca ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This detailed, chronological study investigates the rise of the European fascination with the Chinese language up to 1615. By meticulously investigating a wide range of primary sources, Dinu Luca identifies a rhetorical continuum uniting the land of the Seres, Cathay, and China in a tropology of silence, vision, and writing. Tracing the contours of this tropology, The Chinese Language in European ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Arbitrary Power

    Romanticism, Language, Politics

    de William Keach ...
    Series series Literature in History
    This book explores previously unexamined links between the arbitrary as articulated in linguistic theories on the one hand, and in political discourse about power on the other. In particular, Willam Keach shows how Enlightenment conceptions of the arbitrary were contested and extended in British Romantic writing. In doing so, he offers a new paradigm for understanding the recurrent problem of ... Leer más

    $70.59 USD

  • Across the Plains

    de Robert Louis Stevenson ...
    Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish author who is considered to be one of the greatest writers of the nineteenth century. With classics such as Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Stevenson is still one of the most widely read authors today. This edition of Across the Plains includes a table of contents. ... Leer más

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  • France and Indochina

    Cultural Representations

    de Lily Chiu, Nicola Cooper, David Del Testa, Tess Do, Penny Edwards, Marie-Paule Ha, Judith Henchy, Eric T. Jennings, Christopher L. Robinson, Carrie Tarr, Michael G. Vann, Julia Waters, Jane Bradley Winston, Jack Yeager ...
    Series series After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
    At the intersection of literary, cultural, and postcolonial studies, this volume looks at French perceptions of 'Indochina' as they are conveyed through a variety of media including cinema, literature, art, and historical or anthropological writings. The volume is long awaited, as France's memory of 'Indochina' is understudied compared to its relationship with its former colonies in West and North ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Wildness Pleases (Routledge Revivals)

    The Origins of Romanticism

    de Christopher Thacker ...
    First published in 1983. This book charts the growth of Romanticism from the initial reactions to the authoritarian classicism of Louis XIV, through the ‘codification’ of the Sublime by Burke in the 1750s, to the fascination with mystery, fear and violence which dominated the writing of the late eighteenth century. The origins of the movement are found in the writings of Rousseau and admiration ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Towards Turkish American Literature

    Narratives of Multiculturalism in Post-Imperial Turkey

    de Barbara Buchenau, Elena Furlanetto ...
    Series Libro 10 - Interamericana
    The author expands the definition of Turkish American literature beyond fiction written by Americans of Turkish descent to incorporate texts that literally ‘commute’ between two national spheres. This segment of Turkish American literature transcends established paradigms of immigrant life-writing, as it includes works by Turkish authors who do not qualify as American permanent residents and were ... Leer más

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