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  • '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

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  • Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974

    The United States, 1945-1974

    de James T. Patterson ...
    Series series Oxford History of the United States
    Beginning in 1945, America rocketed through a quarter-century of extraordinary economic growth, experiencing an amazing boom that soared to unimaginable heights in the 1960s. At one point, in the late 1940s, American workers produced 57 percent of the planet's steel, 62 percent of the oil, 80 percent of the automobiles. The U.S. then had three-fourths of the world's gold supplies. English Prime ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Modern Chinese Culture

    Edición de Kam Louie ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    At the start of the twenty-first century, China is poised to become a major global power. Understanding its culture is more important than ever before for western audiences, but for many, China remains a mysterious and exotic country. This Companion explains key aspects of modern Chinese culture without assuming prior knowledge of China or the Chinese language. The volume acknowledges the ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • Darwin Loves You

    Natural Selection and the Re-enchantment of the World

    de George Levine ...
    Jesus and Darwin do battle on car bumpers across America. Medallions of fish symbolizing Jesus are answered by ones of amphibians stamped "Darwin," and stickers proclaiming "Jesus Loves You" are countered by "Darwin Loves You." The bumper sticker debate might be trivial and the pronouncement that "Darwin Loves You" may seem merely ironic, but George Levine insists that the message contains an ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Utopia and the Village in South Asian Literatures

    de A. Mohan ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Shifting the postcolonial focus away from the city and towards the village, this book examines the rural as a trope in twentieth-century South Asian literatures to propose a new literary history based on notions of utopia, dystopia, and heterotopia and how these ideas have circulated in the literary and the cultural imaginaries of the subcontinent. ... Leer más

    $49.99 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • The Cambridge Companion to French Literature

    Edición de John D. Lyons ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    In this authoritative and accessible account of French literature, sixteen essays by leading specialists offer provocative insights into French literary culture, its genres, movements, themes, and historic turning points, including the cultural and linguistic challenges of today's multi-ethnic France. The French have, over the centuries, invented and reinvented writing, from the Arthurian romances ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

  • The Edinburgh Review in the Literary Culture of Romantic Britain

    Mammoth and Megalonyx

    de William Christie ...
    Series series The Enlightenment World
    From its first issue, published on the 10th October 1802, Francis Jeffrey's "Edinburgh Review" established a strong reputation and exerted a powerful influence. This is a literary study of the "Edinburgh Review" for over fifty years. It contextualizes the periodical within the culture wars of the Romantic era. ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD