![Place and Identity in the Lives of Antony, Paul, and Mary of Egypt]( "Place and Identity in the Lives of Antony, Paul, and Mary of Egypt")
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Mena, P. A. (2019)
In this book, Peter Anthony Mena looks closely at descriptions of space in ancient Christian hagiographies and considers how the desert relates to constructions of subjectivity. …
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![Canadian Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror]( "Canadian Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror")
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Ransom, A. J. (Ed), Grace, D. (Ed) (2019)
Canadian Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror: Bridging the Solitudes exposes the limitations of the solitudes concept so often applied uncritically to the Canadian experience. …
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![Making Sense of Contemporary British Muslim Novels]( "Making Sense of Contemporary British Muslim Novels")
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Chambers, C. (2019)
This book is the sequel to Britain Through Muslim Eyes and examines contemporary novelistic representations of and by Muslims in Britain. It builds on studies of the five senses …
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![Multilingualism and the Twentieth-Century Novel]( "Multilingualism and the Twentieth-Century Novel")
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Williams, J. R. (2019)
This book argues that the Anglophone novel in the twentieth century is, in fact, always multilingual. Rooting its analysis in modern Europe and the Caribbean, it recognises that …
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![World Literature, Neoliberalism, and the Culture of Discontent]( "World Literature, Neoliberalism, and the Culture of Discontent")
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Deckard, S. (Ed), Shapiro, S. (Ed) (2019)
This book explains neoliberalism as a phenomenon of the capitalist world-system. Many writers focus on the cultural or ideological symptoms of neoliberalism only when they are …
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![Romanticism and Aesthetic Life in Postcolonial Writing]( "Romanticism and Aesthetic Life in Postcolonial Writing")
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Dickinson, P. (2018)
This book explores Romanticism as a force that exerts an insistent but critically neglected pressure on the postcolonial imagination. From the decolonizing poetics of the …
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![Literature, Music and Cosmopolitanism]( "Literature, Music and Cosmopolitanism")
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Fraser, R. (2018)
This book focuses on the twin arts of literature and music, supporting the notion that cosmopolitanism is the natural condition of all the arts, and that all culture - without …
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![Asia and the Historical Imagination]( "Asia and the Historical Imagination")
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Wong, J. Y. C. (Ed) (2018)
This collection explores the interpretation of historical fiction through fictional representations of the past in an Asian context. Emphasising the significance of region and …
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![Irishness on the Margins]( "Irishness on the Margins")
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Villar-Argáiz, P. (Ed) (2018)
This collection examines the presence of minority communities and dissident voices in Ireland both historically and in a contemporary framework. Accordingly, the contributions …
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![Frontier Fictions]( "Frontier Fictions")
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Weaver-Hightower, R. (2018)
This book compares the nineteenth-century settler literatures of Australia, Canada, South Africa, and the United States in order to examine how they enable readers to manage guilt …
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![Planned Violence]( "Planned Violence")
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Boehmer, E. (Ed), Davies, D. (Ed) (2018)
This book brings the insights of social geographers and cultural historians into a critical dialogue with literary narratives of urban culture and theories of literary cultural …
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![The Palgrave Handbook to Horror Literature]( "The Palgrave Handbook to Horror Literature")
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Corstorphine, K. (Ed), Kremmel, L. R. (Ed) (2018)
This handbook examines the use of horror in storytelling, from oral traditions through folklore and fairy tales to contemporary horror fiction. Divided into sections that explore …
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![Eating and Identity in Postcolonial Fiction]( "Eating and Identity in Postcolonial Fiction")
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Vlitos, P. (2018)
This book focuses on the fiction of four postcolonial authors: V.S. Naipaul, Anita Desai, Timothy Mo and Salman Rushdie. It argues that meals in their novels act as sites where …
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![Dislocation, Writing, and Identity in Australian and Persian Literature]( "Dislocation, Writing, and Identity in Australian and Persian Literature")
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Abbasi, H. (2018)
This study aims to foreground key literary works in Persian and Australian culture that deal with the representation of exile and dislocation. Through cultural and literary …
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![Cultural and Literary Representations of the Automobile in French Indochina]( "Cultural and Literary Representations of the Automobile in French Indochina")
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Ponsavady, S. (2018)
How are the pleasures and thrills of the automobile linked to France’s history of conquest, colonialism, and exploitation in Southeast Asia? Cultural and Literary Representations …
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![Multilingualism and Modernity]( "Multilingualism and Modernity")
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Lonsdale, L. (2018)
This book explores multilingualism as an imaginative articulation of the experience of modernity in twentieth-century Spanish and American literature. It argues that while …
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![Fashion, Dress and Identity in South Asian Diaspora Narratives]( "Fashion, Dress and Identity in South Asian Diaspora Narratives")
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Pereira-Ares, N. (2018)
This book is the first book-length study to explore the sartorial politics of identity in the literature of the South Asian diaspora in Britain. Using fashion and dress as the …
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![Witnessing Torture]( "Witnessing Torture")
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Moore, A. S. (Ed), Swanson, E. (Ed) (2018)
This book demonstrates a new, interdisciplinary approach to life writing about torture that situates torture firmly within its socio-political context, as opposed to extending the …
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![Literary Translation and Cultural Mediators in 'Peripheral' Cultures]( "Literary Translation and Cultural Mediators in 'Peripheral' Cultures")
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Roig-Sanz, D. (Ed), Meylaerts, R. (Ed) (2018)
This book sets the grounds for a new approach exploring cultural mediators as key figures in literary and cultural history. It proposes an innovative conceptual and methodological …
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![Postcolonial Poetics]( "Postcolonial Poetics")
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Boehmer, E. (2018)
Postcolonial Poetics is about how we read postcolonial and world literatures today, and about how the structures of that writing shape our reading. The book’s eight chapters …
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