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Ariel Stilerman
Court Poetry and the Culture of Learning in Japan

In Court Poetry and the Culture of Learning in Japan, Ariel Stilerman examines the transformation of classical Japanese poetry (waka) from the exclusive domain of the aristocracy to a dynamic tool embrace…

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Brian May
1948

1948 offers an answer to the question, what would George Orwell have written after 1984, had he lived? It quotes, parodies, and pastiches Orwell's Diaries of the period just before his death, and offers t…

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John Gordon
Sensational Joyce

This book demonstrates that James Joyce's Ulysses is a book that imitates the workings of the human mind, connecting close readings of the novel's text to psychological theories of Joyce's time.

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The 1930s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction

With austerity biting hard and fascism on the march at home and abroad, the Britain of the 1930s grappled with many problems familiar to us today. Moving beyond the traditional focus on 'the Auden generat…

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The 1950s

How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1950s shape modern British fiction?As Britain emerged from the shadow of war into the new decade of the 1950s, the seeds of profound soc…

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The 1960s

How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during and leading up to the 1960s shape modern British fiction?The 1960s were the "swinging decade": a newly energised youth culture wen…

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Joseph Conrad's Cultural Legacy

"In 2024 the literary community commemorates the 100th anniversary of the death of Joseph Conrad. This volume of collected essays by leading critics and scholars in the field of Conrad studies as wel…

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William Stroebel
Literature's Refuge

"For the Translation/Transnation comparative literature series, a monograph that explores the refugee and diasporic literatures that resulted from the 1923 population exchange between Greece and Turk…

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Colm Tóibín
On Elizabeth Bishop

"This book offers the reader a luminous meditation on Elizabeth Bishop's poetry. It focuses, among other things, on the restraint of her style and the power of the unsaid in her work. But more than t…

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Martin Amis
The Rub of Time

An expansive and incisive collection of essays and reportage from one of England's celebrated writers. Martin Amis has spent decades turning his forensic intellect and inimitable prose toward the absurdit…

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The Bloomsbury Handbook to D. H. Lawrence

"Serving as an overview of Lawrence Studies at present as well as an examination of new approaches and directions, this handbook features essays on interdisciplinary topics like animal studies and me…

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Dewey W Hall
Materialist Romanticism

A matter-based approach to the study of nineteenth-century Romantic artifacts centering on the removal of the Parthenon sculptures from Athens, Greece by Thomas Bruce, the 7th Earl of Elgin, and sale of t…

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Talia Abu
Guilt and Finnegans Wake

Approaching James Joyce's Finnegans Wake with attention to the theme of guilt, Talia Abu presents a clear and thorough interpretation of the work that shows the importance of the theme to Joyce's craft.

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Stephen Frosh,
Freud Explained

An engaging biographical introduction to Sigmund Freud, contextualizing the evolution of his theories within the vibrant and tumultuous climate of early-20th-century Vienna.Freud Explained presents Freud'…

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Christopher Vaccaro
Sadomasochistic "Beowulf"

This anthology brings together articles by several scholars all engaged in the study of the many manifestations of the paranormal in the Middle Ages. The guiding principles of the collection are a clear f…

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Umberto Eco
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods

"Erudite, wide-ranging, and slyly humorous." -The AtlanticOne of the great novelists and public intellectuals of our time gives a master class on the philosophy of fiction.Umberto Eco was fond o…

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Penny Cartwright,
Irony, Agency and the Global Imaginary in Post-2000 Nigerian and Kenyan Literature

An examination of alternate imaginaries of 'the global' in post-millennium anglophone African literature and the differing forms of agency that these imaginaries produce.Irony, Agency and the Global Imagi…

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Howard Rambsy Ii,
Writing Black Panther

A timely look at contemporary African American creative works through the lens of Ta-Nehisi Coates's ground-breaking entry into the comic book industry.Writing Black Panther traces Ta-Nehisi Coates's pres…

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Frank Callanan
James Joyce

A major new biography that reveals how politics profoundly shaped Joyce's life, thought and writingsThe young James Joyce (1882--1941) was forged in the smithy of Irish political controversies, and he too…

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Howard Rambsy Ii,
Writing Black Panther

A timely look at contemporary African American creative works through the lens of Ta-Nehisi Coates's ground-breaking entry into the comic book industry.Writing Black Panther traces Ta-Nehisi Coates's pres…

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