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  1. Contemporary African Literature in English
    global locations, postcolonial identifications
    Author: Krishnan, Madhu
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke

    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, Nguga?- wa... more

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    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, Nguga?- wa Thiong'o, Nuruddin Farah and Chris Abani. "Scholars of contemporary anglophone African fiction will be grateful to Madhu Krishnan for balancing close readings of a number of significant texts with careful attention to their conditions of publication and reception. Krishnan illuminates both the ethical and aesthetic concerns of important world writers and the conditions under which works marked as 'African' enter the world." - Andrew van der Vlies, Queen Mary University of London, UK.

     
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  2. Poverty in contemporary literature
    themes and figurations on the British book market
    Author: Korte, Barbara
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke

    Poverty and inequality have gained a new public presence in the United Kingdom. Literature, and particularly narrative literature, (re-)configures how people think, feel and behave in relation to poverty. This makes the analysis of poverty-themed... more

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    Poverty and inequality have gained a new public presence in the United Kingdom. Literature, and particularly narrative literature, (re-)configures how people think, feel and behave in relation to poverty. This makes the analysis of poverty-themed fiction an important aspect in the new transdisciplinary field of poverty studies.

     
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  3. The digital afterlives of Jane Austen
    Janeites at the keyboard
    Author: Mirmohamadi, Kylie
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke

    This is the first scholarly study to explore the ever-expanding world of online Austen fandom and fan fiction writing. Using case studies from the Internet writing community and publisher, Wattpad, as well as dedicated fan websites, it illuminates... more

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    This is the first scholarly study to explore the ever-expanding world of online Austen fandom and fan fiction writing. Using case studies from the Internet writing community and publisher, Wattpad, as well as dedicated fan websites, it illuminates the literary processes and products that have given Austen multiple afterlives in the digital arena.

     
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  4. Silence and subject in modern literature
    Spoken violence
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke

    Why does interrogation silence its object and not make it speak? Silence vs speech is a central issue in classical and modern literary works. This book studies literary representations of the power relations in which we are forced to speak using a... more

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    Why does interrogation silence its object and not make it speak? Silence vs speech is a central issue in classical and modern literary works. This book studies literary representations of the power relations in which we are forced to speak using a range of texts ranging from the modern crime novel, via classics, to avant-garde plays.

     
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  5. Confronting visuality in multi-ethnic women's writing
    Author: Laflen, Angela
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke

    Considering new perspectives on writers such as Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood, and Louise Erdrich, Confronting Visuality in Multi-ethnic Women's Writing traces a cross-cultural tradition in which contemporary female writers situate images of women... more

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    Considering new perspectives on writers such as Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood, and Louise Erdrich, Confronting Visuality in Multi-ethnic Women's Writing traces a cross-cultural tradition in which contemporary female writers situate images of women within larger contexts of visuality. "Through a thoughtful and sophisticated yet accessible argument, Angela Laflen uses feminism, cultural studies, and critical race theories to examine a wide range of visual representations and their effects in literature by well-known authors, such as Toni Morrison and Margaret Atwood, as well as some up and coming ethnic writers." - Eleanor Ty, Professor of English, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada, and author of Unfastened:Globality and Asian North American Narratives and The Politics of the Visible.

     
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  6. Revaluing British boys' story papers, 1918-1939
    Author: Fairlie, Helen.
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke

    This book explores the phenomenon of the story paper, the meanings and values children took from their reading, and the responses of adults to their reading choices. It argues for the revaluing of the story paper in the inter-war years, giving the... more

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    This book explores the phenomenon of the story paper, the meanings and values children took from their reading, and the responses of adults to their reading choices. It argues for the revaluing of the story paper in the inter-war years, giving the genre a pivotal role in the development of children's literature.

     
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  7. The beginnings of university English
    extramural study, 1885-1910
    Author: Lawrie, Alexandra
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke

    Drawing on previously unseen archival material, The Beginnings of University English explores the innovative and scholarly ways in which English literature was taught to extramural students in England during the fin de siecle, and sheds new light on... more

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    Drawing on previously unseen archival material, The Beginnings of University English explores the innovative and scholarly ways in which English literature was taught to extramural students in England during the fin de siecle, and sheds new light on the modern roots of tertiary-level English teaching.

     
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  8. T.S. Eliot
    the poet as Christian
    Author: Atkins, George Douglas
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke

    By comparing and contrasting the pre-conversion and the post-conversion poetics and poetic practices of T.S. Eliot, this book elucidates the responsibilities and opportunities for a poet who is also Christian. This book is the second in a trilogy... more

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    By comparing and contrasting the pre-conversion and the post-conversion poetics and poetic practices of T.S. Eliot, this book elucidates the responsibilities and opportunities for a poet who is also Christian. This book is the second in a trilogy which includes T.S. Eliot, Lancelot Andrewes, and the Word. "T.S. Eliot: The Poet as Christian has extraordinary moments. In richly adventurous and poetic prose, G. Douglas Atkins addresses a topic that deserves more scholarly attention: the incarnational impulse of Eliot's major poems." -Mark Jones, Professor of English, Trinity Christian College, USA.

     
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  9. J.M. Coetzee and the limits of cosmopolitanism
    Author: Hallemeier, Katherine
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke

    Drawing on postcolonial and gender studies, as well as affect theory, the book interrogates cosmopolitan philosophies. Through analysis of J.M. Coetzee's later fiction, Hallemeier invites the re-imagining of cosmopolitanism, particularly as it is... more

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    Drawing on postcolonial and gender studies, as well as affect theory, the book interrogates cosmopolitan philosophies. Through analysis of J.M. Coetzee's later fiction, Hallemeier invites the re-imagining of cosmopolitanism, particularly as it is performed through the reading of literature. "J. M. Coetzee and the Limits of Cosmopolitanism is remarkably accomplished, both as cultural philosophy and as literary criticism. With understated precision, Katherine Hallemeier gathers and critiques contemporary theories of cosmopolitanism, then puts them to the test in a series of discerning readings of J. M. Coetzee. In unpicking a few recent orthodoxies, she makes a refreshing contribution to Coetzee studies." - David Atwell, Professor of English, University of York, UK "Fluid, salient and an original discussion of the affective politics of cosmopolitanism and the novels of J.M. Coetzee. Bringing together a rich range of historical and contemporary literatures on cosmopolitanism, emotion, and postcolonial fiction, Hallemeier's book moves beyond existing readings of Coetzee to argue incisively that his work provides the seeds of an alternative framework for cosmopolitanism that neither equates feeling with morality nor normalizes feelings as 'human.'" - Carolyn Pedwell, Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies, Newcastle University, UK, and author of Feminism, Culture and Embodied Practice: The Rhetorics of Comparison and Affective Relations: The Transnational Politics of Empathy.

     
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  10. The novel-essay, 1884-1947
    Author: Ercolino, Stefano
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke

    The novel-essay emerged in France, in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, and reached its highest formal complexity in Austria and Germany, during the interwar period. Here, Ercolino argues that it is crucial for a renovated understating of... more

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    The novel-essay emerged in France, in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, and reached its highest formal complexity in Austria and Germany, during the interwar period. Here, Ercolino argues that it is crucial for a renovated understating of the history of the novel in modernity. "Stefano Ercolino's book is a splendid rediscovery of one of the most important modern narrative genres, the novel-essay. By showing how the various authors of novel-essays - J.-K. Huysmans, Marcel Proust, Thomas Mann, Robert Musil and Hermann Broch - propose a wide range of syntheses between thought and action, Ercolino's book offers a nuanced, innovative, and memorable view of modernity itself." - Thomas Pavel, Gordon J. Laing Distinguished Service Professor in French and Comparative Literature, University of Chicago, USA and author of The Lives of the Novel 'The daring hypothesis of Ercolino's study - which ranges over a half century of literary history, over a half-dozen writers of the likes of Musil, Dostoevsky, Mann, and Huysmans, and over the insights of even more numerous literary theorists - is that the hybrid aesthetics of the novel-essay does not merely enact the symbolic crisis of modernist thinking; it also furnishes the most resounding intellectual reply.' - Thomas Harrison, Professor of Italian, University of California, Los Angeles, USA.

     
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  11. The poetics of waste
    queer excess in Stein, Ashbery, Schuyler, and Goldsmith
    Author: Schmidt, Christopher
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke

    Modernist debates about waste - both aesthetic and economic - often express biases against gender and sexual errancy. The Poetics of Waste looks at writers and artists who resist this ideology and respond by developing an excessive poetics. "In this... more

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    Modernist debates about waste - both aesthetic and economic - often express biases against gender and sexual errancy. The Poetics of Waste looks at writers and artists who resist this ideology and respond by developing an excessive poetics. "In this remarkable, illuminating study, Schmidt explores the 'mysterious charisma of waste,' the magnetic pull it exerts on a vital strain of modernist and contemporary poetry ... Schmidt's brilliant, incisive argument gives us valuable tools for understanding key features of avant-garde poetics - such as fragmentation, collage, excess - in a fascinating new light: as complex, subversive methods of 'waste management.' A timely, provocative, and important book." - Andrew Epstein, Associate Professor of English, Florida State University, USA, and author of Beautiful Enemies: Friendship and Postwar American Poetry "Waste matters.' Say what? In this revelatory and often funny study, Schmidt identifies, analyses and celebrates the dreck polluting modernist and postmodernist poetry ... We'll never think about poetry - or garbage - in quite the same way again.' - Daniel Kane, Reader in English and American Literature, University of Sussex, UK "Through brilliant uses of Queer Theory, Taylorism and its dietary subset Fletcherism, and much else of theoretical/historical interest, Christopher Schmidt's The Poetics of Waste forges powerful new connections and traces salient divergences among Stein's erotic poetry, Ashbery's undervalued 'scrapbook,' Schuyler's 'camp waste management' and writing by two tantalizingly different Conceptualists. Figuring waste as oppositional resource, queer fertility, Schmidt demonstrates the remarkable volatility of categories like efficiency and excess, reduction and proliferation." - Thomas Fink, LaGuardia Community College, USA and author of 'A Different Sense of Power': Problems of Community in Late Twentieth-Century U.S. Poetry.

     
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  12. T.S. Eliot's Christmas poems
    an essay in writing-as-reading and other 'impossible unions'
    Author: Atkins, George Douglas
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Palgrave Pivot, Basingstoke

    This is the first full-scale analysis of T.S. Eliot's six "Ariel Poems" as Christmas poems. Through close readings, Atkins argues that these poems considered together emerge as clearly related representations of the "impossible union" that occurred... more

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    This is the first full-scale analysis of T.S. Eliot's six "Ariel Poems" as Christmas poems. Through close readings, Atkins argues that these poems considered together emerge as clearly related representations of the "impossible union" that occurred in the Incarnation. "Written gracefully and engagingly, T.S. Eliot's Christmas Poems creates something akin to narrative drive (clearly absent from most scholarly studies), a progression, journey, to that which is hidden - a mystery (in the most literal sense!) - wherein the reader accompanies Atkins who reveals that which Eliot scholarship has largely missed: the complexity and interdependence of the poems and their distinctive expression of the theological and experiential bases and possibilities of Christmas." - Mark Walters, Oxbridge Chair of English Language and Literature, William Jewell College, USA.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781137479129; 1137479124
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    Subjects: Literary studies: poetry & poets, bicssc; Literary studies: from c 1900 -, bicssc; Literature, ukslc; Literary studies: poetry & poets; Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
    Scope: Online-Ressource(102 p.)
  13. Literary geographies
    narrative space in let the great world spin
    Author: Hones, Sheila
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke

    Combining literary analysis with a practical introduction to interdisciplinary literary geography, Literary Geographies examines key elements of Colum McCann's 2009 novel, Let the Great World Spin. Hones examines concepts such as narrative space,... more

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    Combining literary analysis with a practical introduction to interdisciplinary literary geography, Literary Geographies examines key elements of Colum McCann's 2009 novel, Let the Great World Spin. Hones examines concepts such as narrative space, literary and academic collaboration, and the geographies of creation, production, and reception.

     
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  14. Exoticizing the past in contemporary neo-historical fiction
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke

    This collection of essays is dedicated to examining the recent literary phenomenon of the 'neo-historical' novel, a sub-genre of contemporary historical fiction which critically re-imagines specific periods of history. more

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    This collection of essays is dedicated to examining the recent literary phenomenon of the 'neo-historical' novel, a sub-genre of contemporary historical fiction which critically re-imagines specific periods of history.

     
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  15. Notions of the feminine
    literary essays from Dostoyevsky to Lacan
    Author: Axelrod, Mark.
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Palgrave Pivot, Basingstoke

    Approaching the question of how male novelists perceive their female characters, this collection of creative yet analytic literary essays unwinds the complexities of male authorship versus narration. Mark Axelrod looks at a wide range of male authors... more

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    Approaching the question of how male novelists perceive their female characters, this collection of creative yet analytic literary essays unwinds the complexities of male authorship versus narration. Mark Axelrod looks at a wide range of male authors including Fydor Dostoevsky, D.H. Lawrence, Carlos Fuentes, and the theories of Jacques Lacan.

     
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  16. Modernist mythopoeia
    the twilight of the gods
    Author: Freer, Scott
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke

    Modernist Mythopoeia argues that the experimental modernist form of mythopoeia was directed towards expressing a range of metaphysical perspectives that fall between material secularism and dogmatic religion. The book is a timely addition to the... more

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    Modernist Mythopoeia argues that the experimental modernist form of mythopoeia was directed towards expressing a range of metaphysical perspectives that fall between material secularism and dogmatic religion. The book is a timely addition to the 'post-secular' debate as well as to the 'return of religion' in modernist studies. "Stylish, sophisticated and scholarly." - Professor Phil Shaw, University of Leicester, UK "Modernist use of myth went from the enigmatic to the banal without the intervening stage of being understood. Recent resurgence of interest in myth, however, allows for more searching and discriminating treatment as Scott Freer's book shows. His close discussion of a variety of modernist writers (Nietzsche, T. S. Eliot, Kafka, Lawrence, Hilda Doolittle and Wallace Stevens) brings out the differing conceptions of myth in literary writers of the period and places the topic within a larger context of modern philosophical aesthetics." - Emeritus Professor Michael Bell, University of Warwick, UK.

     
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  17. Decadence in literature and intellectual debate since 1945
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke

    Bridging the gap between decadence as it is traditionally understood in literary and cultural studies and its relevance to current phenomena, this interdisciplinary collection examines literary texts and movies from Europe and the United States since... more

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    Bridging the gap between decadence as it is traditionally understood in literary and cultural studies and its relevance to current phenomena, this interdisciplinary collection examines literary texts and movies from Europe and the United States since 1945. "Decadence, as an aesthetic, philosophical, sociological or political concept, has been and remains one of the most controversial terms in any one culture's vocabulary. This collection offers a thought-provoking view of the development and the uses of the notion of a final sickness of the collective soul that will give much fodder for future studies, and contributes most usefully to the history of ideas, from the nineteenth century to the present day." - Vittorio Frigerio, Professor of French, Dalhousie University, Canada.

     
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  18. Cosmopolitanism and the literary imagination
    Author: Patell, Cyrus R. K.
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke

    Through contemporary theories of cosmopolitanism and analyses of literary texts such as Heart of Darkness, Lilith's Brood, and Moby-Dick, this book explores the cosmopolitan impulses behind the literary imagination. Patell argues that cosmopolitanism... more

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    Through contemporary theories of cosmopolitanism and analyses of literary texts such as Heart of Darkness, Lilith's Brood, and Moby-Dick, this book explores the cosmopolitan impulses behind the literary imagination. Patell argues that cosmopolitanism regards human difference as an opportunity to be embraced rather than a problem to be solved. "Patell's cosmopolitan readings of a wide range of works from Shakespeare's Othello to Claude Lanzmann's Shoah cover topics from historical fiction to animal studies. Addressing the role of world literature and multiculturalism, this pedagogically helpful book offers a fuller understanding of how to approach 'global texts' and their contexts in the challenging yet creative tension between cultural familiarity and difference." - Werner Sollors, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University, USA.

     
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  19. Borges the unacknowledged medievalist
    old English and old Norse in his life and work
    Author: Toswell, M.J..J.
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Palgrave Pivot, Basingstoke

    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... more

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    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.

     
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  20. Navigating loss in women's contemporary memoir
    Author: Prodromou, Amy-Katerini
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke

    Navigating Loss in Women's Contemporary Memoir traces the grief process through the lives of contemporary women writers to show how its complex, multi-layered nature can encourage us towards new understandings of loss. "Navigating Loss in Women's... more

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    Navigating Loss in Women's Contemporary Memoir traces the grief process through the lives of contemporary women writers to show how its complex, multi-layered nature can encourage us towards new understandings of loss. "Navigating Loss in Women's Contemporary Memoir is a fascinating study of a distinctive new sub-genre of the grief memoir. Offering subtle and persuasive readings of canonical and non-canonical books, Amy Katerini-Prodromou affirms the ambiguities of recovery following loss. Her scholarly study makes an important contribution to our understanding of the culture of mourning." - Jeffrey Berman, University at Albany, CUNY, USA.

     
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  21. The contemporary novel and the city
    Re-conceiving national and narrative form
    Author: Khanna, Stuti
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke

    This book examines the deeply divided terrain of the twentieth century city and its formative impact on narrative fiction. It focuses on two major 'world authors' at the two ends of the twentieth century who write, systematically, about the colonial... more

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    This book examines the deeply divided terrain of the twentieth century city and its formative impact on narrative fiction. It focuses on two major 'world authors' at the two ends of the twentieth century who write, systematically, about the colonial and postcolonial cities they were born in: James Joyce and Dublin, and Salman Rushdie and Bombay.

     
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  22. Shakespeare's surrogates
    rewriting Renaissance drama
    Author: Loftis, Sonya Freeman
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke

    Shakespeare's Surrogates contends that adapting Renaissance drama played a key role in the development of modern drama's major aesthetic movements. Loftis posits that playwrights' reactions to Shakespeare and his contemporaries worked to create their... more

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    Shakespeare's Surrogates contends that adapting Renaissance drama played a key role in the development of modern drama's major aesthetic movements. Loftis posits that playwrights' reactions to Shakespeare and his contemporaries worked to create their public personas, inform their theoretical writings, and influence the development of new genres. "Sonya Freeman Loftis's Shakespeare's Surrogates: Rewriting Renaissance Drama is a strong collection of essays describing the various ways that Shakespeare is embodied and engaged on the modern drama stage." - Francesca Coppa, Professor of English, Muhlenberg College, USA.

     
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  23. Viral voyages
    tracing AIDS in Latin America
    Author: Meruane, Lina
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke

    This is the first book to comprehensively examine Latin America's literary response to the deadly HIV virus. Proposing a bio-political reading of AIDs in the neoliberal era, Lina Meruane examines how literary representations of AIDS enter into... more

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    This is the first book to comprehensively examine Latin America's literary response to the deadly HIV virus. Proposing a bio-political reading of AIDs in the neoliberal era, Lina Meruane examines how literary representations of AIDS enter into larger discussions of community, sexuality, nation, displacement and globalization.

     
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  24. Science fiction, alien encounters, and the ethics of posthumanism
    beyond the golden rule
    Author: Gomel, Elana
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke

    Science Fiction, Alien Encounters, and the Ethics of Posthumanism offers a typology of alien encounters and addresses a range of texts including classic novels of alien encounter by H.G. Wells and Robert Heinlein; recent blockbusters by Greg Bear,... more

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    Science Fiction, Alien Encounters, and the Ethics of Posthumanism offers a typology of alien encounters and addresses a range of texts including classic novels of alien encounter by H.G. Wells and Robert Heinlein; recent blockbusters by Greg Bear, Octavia Butler and Sheri Tepper; and experimental science fiction by Peter Watts and Housuke Nojiri. 'Provocative, forcefully written, and methodical in approach, Gomel's study of alien encounters is both an important work of science fiction criticism and a timely intervention in cultural theory.' - Patrick Parrinder, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Reading, UK.

     
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  25. Literary half-lives
    Doris Lessing, Clancy Sigal, and Roman a Clef
    Author: Rubenstein, Roberta
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke

    While Doris Lessing was composing The Golden Notebook, she was intimately involved with Clancy Sigal and their relationship influenced the literary methods of both writers. Focusing on literary transformations, Rubenstein offers compelling insights... more

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    While Doris Lessing was composing The Golden Notebook, she was intimately involved with Clancy Sigal and their relationship influenced the literary methods of both writers. Focusing on literary transformations, Rubenstein offers compelling insights into the ethical implications of disguised autobiography and roman a clef. "A pleasure to read. A rich accounting of the ways in which the ingredients of life - especially and complexly recounted in journals - are then transformed into fiction or drama. Readers of The Golden Notebook who remember Anna Wulf's reading of her American lover's journal will be intrigued by Rubenstein's review of Clancy Sigal's long-lived obsession - in his work and in his journals - with this particular incident." - Florence Howe, Professor Emerita of English, CUNY Graduate Center, USA and author of A Life in Motion (CUNY at Feminist Press) "Roberta Rubenstein deftly explores the double helix of intertwined literary lives, teasing open the delicate braid of love, influence and competition. Her insight let's the reader peer through the kaleidoscope of culture, in a particular time and place and record the impact of social history as lived and written about by Lessing and Sigal, and as the kaleidoscope slowly turns the reader sees things in a new and luminous light." - A.M. Homes, Princeton University, USA "Literary Half-Lives makes a significant contribution to Lessing scholarship and will be of intense interest to the global community of Lessing scholars. Rubenstein provides a helpful theoretical and ethical framework for approaching the issues raised by Lessing and Sigal's 'mining' of their personal relationship for material for their writing and reaches a persuasive conclusion about them while still leaving the final ethical judgment up to the reader. Given its interesting autobiographical content and accessible, jargon-free writing style, this book will appeal not only to scholars but also to the general readers of Lessing." - Alice Ridout, Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Algoma University, Canada.

     
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