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  • India in the American Imaginary, 1780s–1880s

    Edición de Rajender Kaur, Anupama Arora ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book seeks to frame the “the idea of India” in the American imaginary within a transnational lens that is attentive to global flows of goods, people, and ideas within the circuits of imperial and maritime economies in nineteenth century America (roughly 1780s-1880s). This diverse and interdisciplinary volume – with essays by upcoming as well as established scholars – aims to add to an ... Leer más

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  • On Poets and Others

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    de Octavio Paz ...
    The Nobel Prizewinning poet and man of letters Octavio Paz was also a brilliant reader of other writers, and this book selects his best critical essays from over three decades. In the sixteen pieces collected here, Paz discusses a wide range of poets and writers, both American and international, from Robert Frost and Walt Whitman to William Carlos Williams; from Fyodor Dostoevsky to Luis Buñuel to ... Leer más

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  • The End of Airports

    If air travel was once the bold future, it has now settled into a mundane, on-going present. We no longer expect romantic experiences or sublime views, but just hope that we get from here to there with minimal hassle. In The End of Airports, Christopher Schaberg suggests that even as the epoch of flight approaches a threshold of banality, there are still mysteries to be unraveled around our ... Leer más

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  • When the Future Disappears

    The Modernist Imagination in Late Colonial Korea

    de Janet Poole ...
    Series series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
    Taking a panoramic view of Korea's dynamic literary production in the final decade of Japanese rule, When the Future Disappears locates the imprint of a new temporal sense in Korean modernism: the impression of time interrupted, with no promise of a future. As colonial subjects of an empire headed toward total war, Korean writers in this global fascist moment produced some of the most ... Leer más

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  • South-Asian Fiction in English

    Contemporary Transformations

    Edición de Alex Tickell ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This collection offers an essential, structured survey of contemporary fictions of South Asia in English, and includes specially commissioned chapters on each of the national traditions of the region. It covers less well known writings from Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh as well as the more firmly established canon of contemporary Indian literature, and features chapters on important new and ... Leer más

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  • Hinduism and Hindi Theater

    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book explores the representation of Hinduism through myth and discourse in urban Hindi theatre in the period 1880-1960. It discusses representative works of seven influential playwrights and looks into the ways they have imagined and re-imagined Hindu traditions. Diana Dimitrova examines the intersections of Hinduism and Hindi theatre, emphasizing the important role that both myth and ... Leer más

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  • The Fetish

    Literature, Cinema, Visual Art

    Object fetishism is becoming a more and more pervasive phenomenon. Focusing on literature and the visual arts, including cinema, this book suggests a parallelism between fetishism and artistic creativity, based on a poetics of detail, which has been brilliantly exemplified by Flaubert's style. After exploring canonical accounts of fetishism (Marx, Freud, Benjamin), by combining a historicist ... Leer más

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  • Singapore Literature and Culture

    Current Directions in Local and Global Contexts

    Edición de Angus Whitehead, Angelia Poon ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
    Since the nation-state sprang into being in 1965, Singapore literature in English has blossomed energetically, and yet there have been few books focusing on contextualizing and analyzing Singapore literature despite the increasing international attention garnered by Singaporean writers. This volume brings Anglophone Singapore literature to a wider global audience for the first time, embedding it ... Leer más

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  • Memoirs of Victorian Working-Class Women

    The Hard Way Up

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This volume is the first to identify a significant body of life narratives by working-class women and to demonstrate their inherent literary significance. Placing each memoir within its generic, historical, and biographical context, this book traces the shifts in such writings over time, examines the circumstances which enabled working-class women authors to publish their life stories, and places ... Leer más

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  • Globalization, Utopia and Postcolonial Science Fiction

    New Maps of Hope

    de E. Smith ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
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  • Romantic Adaptations

    Essays in Mediation and Remediation

    How did romanticism define its relationship with its sources? How has romanticism since been understood and misunderstood across a range of cultural activities? These are among the questions taken up in this reexamination of the place of adaptation within romanticism. Renegotiating the cultural topography of the period and the place of romanticism in subsequent cultural history, the volume focuses ... Leer más

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  • Dickens and the City

    Edición de Jeremy Tambling ...
    Series series A Library of Essays on Charles Dickens
    Dickens's relationship to cities is part of his modernity and his enduring fascination. How he thought about, grasped and conceptualised the rapidly expanding and anonymous urban scene are all fascinating aspects of a critical debate which, starting virtually from Dickens's own time, has become more and more active and questioning of the significance of that new thing, the unknown and unknowable, ... Leer más

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