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Anime Fan Communities
By Sandra Annett. 2014
How have animation fans in Japan, South Korea, the United States, and Canada formed communities and dealt with conflicts across…
cultural and geographic distance? This book traces animation fandom from its roots in early cinema audiences, through mid-century children's cartoon fan clubs, to today's digitally-networked transcultural fan cultures.Shakespeare and the Embodied Heroine
By Lori Leigh. 2014
Shakespeare and the Embodied Heroine is a dynamic cross-period investigation of Shakespeare's notable female characters from the late plays. Using…
the Restoration and eighteenth century adaptations of Shakespeare's plays, this book explores female characters from a theatrical point-of-view that includes a close-reading and imagining of the text with a 'directorial eye', performance history, and practical staging experiments. Leigh reveals evidence to question certain conventional interpretations of Shakespeare's heroines and also documents a paradoxical reduction of sexuality and independent agency for Shakespeare's female roles as they started to be played by actresses rather than boy players. Highlighting the manner in which Shakespeare's female characters have the power to question, subvert, and reposition gender boundaries, and illuminating the complexity and multiplicity of the ways the women in Shakespeare's plays express their agency and desire, this book provides fascinating new readings on the staging and reception of Shakespeare's heroines.Modernism and The Occult
By John Bramble. 2015
This study of modernism's high imperial, occult-exotic affiliations presents many well-known figures from the period 1880-1960 in a new light.…
Modernism and the Occult traces the history of modernist engagement with 'irregular', heterodox and imported knowledge.English Studies: The State of the Discipline, Past, Present, and Future
By Niall Gildea, Helena Goodwyn, Megan Kitching, Helen Tyson. 2015
An accessible and wide-ranging consideration of concerns facing English Studies in its surrounding context of the university and society. The…
contributors to this volume seek to trace, in the face of current challenges, historical and contemporary debates surrounding English Studies.Contemporary Scottish Gothic
By Timothy C. Baker. 2014
Scotland has long been associated with Gothic literature. Looking at both familiar and neglected contemporary novels by writers including Alasdair…
Gray, James Robertson, Alice Thompson, John Burnside, Louise Welsh, and many others, Contemporary Scottish Gothic shows how Scottish authors use Gothic elements in their work to highlight ideas of mortality, community, storytelling and authenticity. These novels challenge conventional divisions between the real and imaginary, the living and the dead, and the human and the animal. Reading these texts in relation to contemporary philosophy and a Scottish Gothic tradition including Walter Scott, James Hogg and Robert Louis Stevenson reveals the relation between tradition and innovation in recent fiction, and provides a new foundation for the study of Gothic literature and contemporary Scottish fiction.Indian Writing in English and Issues of Visual Representation: Judging More Th an a Book by Its Cover
By E. Dawson Varughese, Lisa Lau. 2015
This book examines the use of book covers as marketing devices, asking what exactly they communicate to their readers and…
buyers, and what images they associate with a genre and create about a culture. Focusing on Indian women's writing in English, it combines the study of text with the study of materiality of the book.From Uncle Tom’s Cabin to The Help: Critical Perspectives on White-Authored Narratives of Black Life
By Vershawn Ashanti Young, Claire Oberon Garcia, Charise Pimentel. 2014
This book surveys the cultural, literary, and cinematic impact of white-authored films and imaginative literature on American society from Harriet…
Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin to Kathryn Stockett's Th e Hel p .Borges the Unacknowledged Medievalist: Old English and Old Norse in his Life and Work
By M. J. Toswell. 2014
The Argentinian writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was many things during his life, but what has gone largely…
unnoticed is that he was a medievalist, and his interest in Germanic medievalism was pervasive throughout his work. This study will consider the medieval elements in Borges creative work and shed new light on his poetry.Modernist Melancholia
By Anne Enderwitz. 2015
Modernist melancholia explores modernism's melancholic roots through the detailed discussion of writings by Freud, Conrad and Ford. The three authors…
bridge the gap between the Victorian age and modernity: they are influenced by the evolutionary-archaeological model of thought, which shaped nineteenth-century culture, and they anticipate modern conceptions of self and language. In consequence, modernist melancholia is intimately linked to the nineteenth-century obsession with loss and continuity and, at the same time, constitutes a formative moment of twentieth-century modernism, subjectivity and theory. The monograph discusses historical melancholia and linguistic crisis in Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1899), Ford's The Good Soldier (1915) and their jointly published works The Inheritors (1901) and Romance (1903). Freud's ideas on melancholia provide the framework for the discussion, but instead of applying theory to literature, the book identifies in Freud's essays and works by Conrad and Ford similar ways of relating desire, history and a lack of meaning.Gender and Modernity in Spanish Literature
By Elizabeth Smith Rousselle. 2014
Using each chapter to juxtapose works by one female and one male Spanish writer, Gender and Modernity in Spanish Literature:…
1789-1920 explores the concept of Spanish modernity. Issues explored include the changing roles of women, the male hysteric, and the mother and Don Juan figure.Space, Place, and Gendered Violence in South African Writing
By Sorcha Gunne. 2014
Gendered violence constitutes a unique form of violence because it is at once both intensely political and intensely personal. Exploring…
the relationship between space, place, and gendered violence as depicted in a range of South African writing, Gunne examines the social and political conditions of exceptionality during and after apartheid. As a case study, South Africa offers considerable potential for analysis because the governmental technology of apartheid affected not only race relations, but also gendered and spatial ones. This resulted in conditions of exceptionality that operate on the levels of institutional power and political allegory, but yet had, and still have, an immense impact on the everyday. This book focuses on how narrative representations of gendered violence document, negotiate, challenge and resist structures of domination and power.D. H. Lawrence
By John Beer. 2014
A full account of Lawrence, ranging from his talent as a young writer to the continuing genius of his later…
work, and concentrating on his exceptionally acute powers of observation, both human and natural.Indian Writing in English and the Global Literary Market
By Om Prakash Dwivedi. 2014
Indian Writing in English and the Global Literary Market delves into the influences and pressures of the marketplace on this…
genre, contending that it has been both a gatekeeper and a significant force in shaping the production and consumption of this literature. As well as providing case studies of selected contemporary Indian novels in English and comparing how diasporic authors fare compared to authors within India, this volume also provides theoretical insights into the postcolonial framework in which the global literary marketplace is embedded, and comments on the exoticization and marketing strategies adopted as a result.New Media in Black Women's Autobiography
By Tracy Curtis. 2015
Examining novelists, bloggers, and other creators of new media, this study focuses on autobiography by American black women since 1980,…
including Audre Lorde, Jill Nelson, and Janet Jackson. As Curtis argues, these women used embodiment as a strategy of drawing the audience into visceral identification with them and thus forestalling stereotypes.Prison Narratives from Boethius to Zana
By Philip Edward Phillips. 2014
Prison Narratives from Boethius to Zana critically examines selected works of writers, from the sixth century to the twenty-first century,…
who were imprisoned for their beliefs. Chapters explore figures' lives, provide close analyses of their works, and offer contextualization of their prison writings.Animals in Irish Literature and Culture
By Kathryn Kirkpatrick, Borbála Faragó. 2015
Animals in Irish Literature and Culture spans the early modern period to the present, and includes essays exploring some of…
Ireland's better known animals—birds, horses, pigs, cows, and dogs—as well as its less considered animals—hares, foxes, eels, and insects. The collection also unsettles the boundaries and definitions of 'nation' by exploring colonial, post-colonial, and globalized manifestations of Ireland as country and state as well as the human animal and non-humananimal migrations that challenge a variety of literal and cultural borders. In essays addressing a range of Irish cultural production, contributors consider the impacts of conceptual categories of nature, animality, and humanness on actual human and animal lives. Emerging in the era of the sixth mass extinction, brought on by human-induced climate change and habitat destruction, this volume aims to make a contribution to eco-critical thought and practice in Irish Studies and beyond.Female Bodies on the American
By Jennifer-Scott Mobley. 2014
The fat female body is a unique construction in American culture that has been understood in various ways during the…
twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Analyzing post-WWII stage and screen performances, Mobley argues that the fat actress's body signals myriad cultural assumptions and suggests new ways of reading the body in performance.Re-Orientalism and Indian Writing in English
By Lisa Lau, Om Prakash Dwivedi. 2014
At its most basic, re-Orientalism is defined as forms of Orientalism practiced and manifested by Orientals in representing the Orient.…
This book looks at the application and discourse of re-Orientalism in contemporary Indian and South Asian writing in English, particularly social realism fiction.Sex and the Posthuman Condition
By Michael Hauskeller. 2014
This book looks at how sexuality is framed in enhancement scenarios and how descriptions of the resulting posthuman future are…
informed by mythological, historical and literary paradigms. It examines the glorious sex life we will allegedly enjoy due to greater control of our emotions, improved capacity for pleasure, and availability of sex robots.Emerson and Neo-Confucianism
By Yoshio Takanashi. 2014
A comparative investigation of Emerson's Transcendental thought and Zhu Xi's Neo-Confucianism, this book shows how both thinkers traced the human…
morality to the same source in the ultimately moral nature of the universe and developed theories of the interrelation of universal law and the human mind.