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The Literature of Northern Ireland
By Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem. 2015
Through close readings of texts by playwright Anne Devlin, poet Medbh McGuckian, and novelist Anna Burns, this book examines the…
ways Irish cultural production has been disturbed by partition. Ruprecht Fadem argues that literary texts address this tension through spectral, bordered metaphors and juxtapositions of the ancient and the contemporary.On Lightness in World Literature
By Bede Scott. 2013
Despite the apparent ubiquity of light literature, and despite the greater cultural prestige it has been afforded in recent decades,…
very little has been written on the adjective that actually defines this category. What, precisely, does it signify, and what are some of the key strategies by which the effect of lightness is achieved within literary discourse? In this original and engaging study, Bede Scott explores the aesthetic quality of lightness as demonstrated by a diverse range of narratives - spanning four different centuries and five different countries. In each case he focuses on a specific 'type' of lightness, whether it be the refined triviality of Sei Shonagon's Pillow Book, the ludic tendencies of Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis' Posthumous Memoirs of Br#65533;s Cubas, or the 'exhilarating and primitive vitality' of Voltaire's Candide. By bringing together such disparate sources, Scott makes a strong case for the universality of this particular aesthetic value, while also subjecting to close critical scrutiny its underlying structural features.Contemporary African Literature in English
By Madhu Krishnan. 2014
Contemporary African Literature in English explores the contours of representation in contemporary Anglophone African literature, drawing on a wide range…
of authors including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Aminatta Forna, Brian Chikwava, Ngug? wa Thiong'o, Nuruddin Farah and Chris Abani.The Literature of Waste
By Susan Signe Morrison. 2015
Tracing material and metaphoric waste through the Western canon, ranging from Beowulf to Samuel Beckett, Susan Morrison disrupts traditional perceptions…
of waste to better understand how we theorize, manage, and are implicated in what is discarded and seen as garbage. Engaging a wide range of disciplines, Morrison addresses how the materiality of waste has been sedimented into a variety of toxic metaphors. The vibrancy of matter itself disturbs these metaphors, especially those used to characterize people as disposable garbage. If scholars can read waste as possessing dynamic agency, how might that change the ethics of refuse-ing and ostracizing wasted humans? A major contribution to the growing field of Waste Studies, this comparative and theoretically innovative book confronts the reader with the ethical urgency present in waste literature itself.Literature The People Love
By Krista Van Fleit Hang. 2013
Examining the production of 'people's literature' in China, this study provides a new interpretive framework with which to understand socialist…
literature and presents a sympathetic understanding of culture from a period in China's history in which people's lives were greatly and obviously affected by political events.Rethinking Identities in Contemporary Pakistani Fiction
By Aroosa Kanwal. 2015
This book focuses on the way that notions of home and identity have changed for Muslims as a result of…
international 'war on terror' rhetoric. It uniquely links the post-9/11 stereotyping of Muslims and Islam in the West to the roots of current jihadism and the resurgence of ethnocentrism within the subcontinent and beyond.Meaning Making in Text
By Carys Jones, Sonja Starc, Arianna Maiorani. 2015
Meaning Making in Text extends the notion of text as a vehicle for ever-changing and complex forms of communication. Based…
on recent developments in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), it proposes a range of analytical tools for accessing a variety of discourses in different contexts. The book presents studies of linguistic and multimodal phenomena concerning English and minority European languages that, until now, have received very limited attention, and offers proposals for analysingtext in terms of their application to pedagogy. The contributors demonstrate the increasingly rich potential of SFL to provide a refreshingly powerful account of human nature and the ways it can be applied that go well beyond those to do with language itself.Doris Lessing�s The Golden Notebook After Fifty
By Roberta Rubenstein, Alice Ridout, Sandra Singer. 2015
Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook, ground-breaking in both narrative form and subject matter when it was first published in 1962,…
encompasses important political and social developments of the mid-twentieth century, from the politics of apartheid in southern Africa to the early stirrings of the women's liberation movement of the 1960s and 1970s to the Cold War and the dissolution of Communism. The twelve essays collected here, prompted by the novel's golden anniversary, encompass a rangeof approaches from critical analyses to appreciative essays by scholars who knew Lessing personally. More than a half-century of chronological distance has prompted new and stimulating geopolitical, autobiographical, theoretical, and aesthetic readings by established and emerging scholars across several generations and nationalities, who offer up-to-date insights for twenty-first century readers of this influential novel.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.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.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.