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Sacred language, vernacular difference
How Arabic influenced the evolution of vernacular literatures and anticolonial thought in Egypt, Indonesia, and SenegalSacred Language, Vernacular Difference offers a new understanding of Arabic’s global position as the basis for comparing cultural and literary histories in countries separated by...
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Samuel beckett and the arts
The volume examines the relationship between Samuel Beckett and Italian culture from an intermedial perspective.
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Seekers of wonder
Women’s cultural and political engagement with oral tales and traditions in European peripheries With Seekers of Wonder, Elena Sottilotta offers the first comparative study of women’s manifold roles in the collection of Italian and Irish folklore and fairy tales between 1870 and 1920. Sottilotta ...
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Southern imagining
A new compass for global reading: looking at the world from the far southern latitudesA northern viewpoint is most often the default, while the south—the far southern latitudes occupied by Australia, New Zealand, Argentina and southern Africa, among others—seems far away and ignorable. In Souther...
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That savage gaze
Imperial Russia’s large wolf populations were demonized, persecuted, tormented, and sometimes admired. That Savage Gaze explores the significance of wolves in pre-revolutionary Russia utilizing the perspectives of cultural studies, ecocriticism, and human-animal studies.
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The (latin) american scene, present and future (im-)perfect
The author converses with five noted scholars who have done important academic work in the United States since the 1980s. The conversations address academic agendas and university life dilemmas in the vicinity of the signs “Latin” and “Hispanic” in the United States. The volume addresses Spanish ...
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The african novel of ideas
An ambitious look at the African novel and its connections to African philosophy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuriesThe African Novel of Ideas focuses on the role of the philosophical novel and the place of philosophy more broadly in the intellectual life of the African continent, from th...
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The ecstasy of reproduction
The Ecstasy of Reproduction is a piercing analysis of contemporaneity which the author still terms postmodernity. Aesthetics and critical theory are at stake to define concepts such as the end of art, kitsch, simulacra, reproduction, and the commodification of living forms..
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The european byron
This book considers how Byron’s cosmopolitanism, mobility, and chameleon style influenced Byron’s identity in West and Eastern Europe. Transformed by French translations, Byron’s work was read by Thomas Moore, Ugo Foscolo, Lady Mosergan, Madame de Staël, Adam Mickiewicz and Alexander Pushkin. His...
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The ghost of shakespeare
This first edition of the collected critical prose of Anna Frajlich, scholar of Polish literature and culture and award-winning Polish poet, presents comparative studies of major modern Polish writers, including Choromański, Grynberg, Herbert, Milosz, Schulz, Szymborska, and Wittlin.
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The making of barbarians
A groundbreaking account of translation and identity in the Chinese literary tradition before 1850—with important ramifications for todayDebates on the canon, multiculturalism, and world literature often take Eurocentrism as the target of their critique. But literature is a universe with many cen...
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The monstrous and the marvelous
With the great Renaissance voyages to the New World came the popularity of Wunderkammern, or cabinets of wonders, in which newly discovered monsters and marvels could be displayed. Like such a cabinet, this collection of essays surveys the monstrous and the marvelous—as transmuted in the alembic ...
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The portrayal of breastfeeding in literature
Analyses the depiction of breastfeeding in literature, what it tells us about how women are perceived in our society and how it matters.
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The post-chornobyl library
Having exploded on the margins of Europe, Chornobyl marked the end of the Soviet Union and tied the era of postmodernism in Western Europe with nuclear consciousness. The Post-Chornobyl Library becomes a metaphor of a new Ukrainian literature of the 1990s, which emerges out of the Chornobyl nucle...
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The return of proserpina
Sicily and the strategies of empire in the poetic imagination of classical and medieval EuropeIn the first century BC, Cicero praised Sicily as Rome’s first overseas province and confirmed it as the mythic location for the abduction of Proserpina, known to the Greeks as Persephone, by the god of ...
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The underwater eye
A rich history of underwater filmmaking and how it has profoundly influenced the aesthetics of movies and public perception of the oceansIn The Underwater Eye, Margaret Cohen tells the fascinating story of how the development of modern diving equipment and movie camera technology has allowed docu...
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Thinking through shakespeare
How Shakespeare’s exploration of central human questions—about identity, politics, religion and right and wrong—explains his lasting power, popularity and relevanceIn the eighteenth century, Samuel Johnson famously argued that Shakespeare is enduringly popular because he “is above all writers, at...
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Timaeus in paradise
Tracing the influence and impact of Plato’s Timaeus—and its major themes, creation and beauty—through the centuriesMore than two thousand years after it was written, Plato’s Timaeus continues to fascinate and intrigue its readers. In Timaeus in Paradise, Piero Boitani traces the abiding legacy of...
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Tolstoy and spirituality
This interdisciplinary collection of essays examines Leo Tolstoy’s unorthodox and provocative approach to spirituality. Six of the essays examine Tolstoy’s literary works, while the other six scrutinize more closely his philosophical views. The two central foci of examinations are The Kreutzer So...
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Tolstoy as philosopher. essential short writings
This anthology is the fullest edition to date of the rich variety of Tolstoy’s philosophical output collected in a single volume that covers more than seven decades of his life, from 1835 to 1910. The seventy-seven texts included exemplify Tolstoy as an artistically inventive, intellectually powe...
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Translation and violence
Rethinking the ethics and politics of translation in the age of AIThe rapid development of AI-powered translation tools is making translation more accessible than ever before, raising in a dramatic new way the old utopian promise of translation—to allow transparent dialogue across linguistic barr...
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Translation multiples
A new genre of writing demonstrating that translation is neither a transparent medium nor a secondary form of literatureIn Translation Multiples, Kasia Szymanska examines what happens when translators, poets, and artists expose the act of translation by placing parallel translation variants next ...
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Translation theory for literary translators
This book analyses how practicing literary translators can benefit from translation theory.
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Universality and utopia
This work examines the evolution of the Peruvian indigenista literary tradition in the twentieth century in its relation to the evolution of socialist thought and dialectical materialist philosophy.
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Up from the depths
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in BiographyA double portrait of two of America’s most influential writers that reveals the surprising connections between them—and their uncanny relevance to our age of crisisUp from the Depths tells the interconnected stories of two of the mos...
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Vernacular english
How English has become a language of the people in India—one that enables the state but also empowers protests against itAgainst a groundswell of critiques of global English, Vernacular English argues that literary studies are yet to confront the true political import of the English language in t...
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Writing the time of troubles
Writing the Time of Troubles traces recurring fictional representations of the man who briefly reigned as Tsar Dmitry, showing how eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Russian playwrights and novelists reshaped and appropriated his equivocal career as a means of drawing attention to and negotiating...
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Zenithism (1921–1927)
This is the first-ever English language anthology of zenithism, an eclectic avant-garde movement unique to the Yugoslav region that existed 1921–1927.
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