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  • Postcolonial Conrad

    Paradoxes of Empire

    by Terry Collits ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
    Winner of the 2006 NSW Prize for Literary Scholarship.The work of Joseph Conrad has been read so disparately that it is tempting to talk of many different Conrads. One lasting impression however, is that his colonial novels, which record encounters between Europe and Europe’s ‘Other’, are highly significant for the field of post-colonial studies.Drawing on many years of research and a rich body of ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Fairy Tales

    Edited by Maria Tatar ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Fairy tales have never known geographical, disciplinary or cultural borders. In many ways, they provide a model for thinking about storytelling on a transnational level long before comparative literature began transforming itself into world literature. As the simple expression of complex thought, fairy tales have increasingly become the focus of intense scholarly inquiry. In this Companion, ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Durrell and the City

    Collected Essays on Place

    by Donald P. Kaczvinsky ...
    Durrell and the City commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The Alexandria Quartet with a collection of fourteen new essays by a group of international scholars and critics. The collection provides a critical consideration of Durrell's urban landscapes, from the London of his early novels to Avignon during World War II in his last great series, while focusing on the place that ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Gender and Power in Medieval Exegesis

    by T. Tinkle ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    After establishing a feminist-historicist perspective on the tradition of biblical commentary, Tinkle develops in-depth case studies that situate scholars reading the bible in three distinct historical moments, and in so doing she exposes the cultural pressures that medieval scholars felt as they interpreted the bible. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Sexuality, Iconography, and Fiction in French

    Queering the Martyr

    by Jason James Hartford ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores the modern cultural history of the queer martyr in France and Belgium. By analyzing how popular writers in French responded to Catholic doctrine and the tradition of St. Sebastian in art, Queering the Martyr shows how religious and secular symbols overlapped to produce not one, but two martyr-types. These are the queer type, typified first by Gustave Flaubert, which is a ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Middlebrow Literary Cultures

    The Battle of the Brows, 1920-1960

    Edited by E. Brown, M. Grover ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The literary 'middle ground', once dismissed by academia as insignificant, is the site of powerful anxieties about cultural authority that continue to this day. In short, the middlebrow matters . These essays examine the prejudices and aspirations at work in the 'battle of the brows', and show that cultural value is always relative and situational. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Transforming Memories in Contemporary Women's Rewriting

    by L. Plate ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Including topics as diverse as feminism and its relationship to the marketplace, plagiarism and copyright, silence and forgetting, and myth in a digital age, this book explores the role of rewriting within feminist literature from the 1970s onwards in relation to the theme of cultural memory. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage

    From Plautus to Chaucer

    Edited by Warren S. Smith ...
    Advice on sex and marriage in the literature of antiquity and the middle ages typically stressed the negative: from stereotypes of nagging wives and cheating husbands to nightmarish visions of women empowered through marriage. Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage brings together the leading scholars of this fascinating body of literature. Their essays examine a variety of ancient and early ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Kangaroo Courts and the Rule of Law

    The Legacy of Modernism

    by Desmond Manderson ...
    Kangaroo Courts and the Rule of Law -The Legacy of Modernism addresses the legacy of contemporary critiques of language for the concept of the rule of law. Between those who care about the rule of law and those who are interested in contemporary legal theory, there has been a dialogue of the deaf, which cannot continue. Starting from the position that contemporary critiques of linguistic meaning ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Commemorating Writers in Nineteenth-Century Europe

    Nation-Building and Centenary Fever

    Edited by J. Leerssen, A. Rigney ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This volume offers detailed accounts of the cults of individual writers and a comparative perspective on the spread of centenary fever across Europe. It offers a fascinating insight into the interaction between literature and cultural memory, and the entanglement between local, national and European identities at the highpoint of nation-building. ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Empires of Love

    Europe, Asia, and the Making of Early Modern Identity

    by 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 ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Comparative Literature and the Historical Imaginary

    Reading Conrad, Weiss, Sebald

    by Kaisa Kaakinen ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book argues that increasingly transnational reading contexts of the twenty-first century place new pressures on fundamental questions about how we read literary fiction. Prompted by the stylistic strategies of three European émigré writers of the twentieth century — Conrad, Weiss and Sebald — it demonstrates the need to pose more differentiated questions about specific effects that occur when ... Read more

    $89.09 USD