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“bernhard klein”

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  • Fictions of the Sea

    Critical Perspectives on the Ocean in British Literature and Culture

    Edited by Bernhard Klein ...
    This timely collection brings together twelve original essays on the cultural meaning of the sea in British literature and history, from early modern times to the present. Interdisciplinary in conception, it charts metaphorical and material links between the idea of the sea in the cultural imagination and its significance for the social and political history of Britain, offering a fresh analysis ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

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    Thoroughly revised and expanded for a new generation of readers, this classic guide to enjoying literature to its fullest—a lively, enlightening, and entertaining introduction to a diverse range of writing and literary devices that enrich these works, including symbols, themes, and contexts—teaches you how to make your everyday reading experience richer and more rewarding.While books can be ... Read more

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  • Les Misérables and Its Afterlives

    Between Page, Stage, and Screen

    by Kathryn M. Grossman, Bradley Stephens ...
    Exploring the enduring popularity of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables, this collection offers analysis of both the novel itself and its adaptations. In spite of a mixed response from critics, Les Misérables instantly became a global bestseller. Since its successful publication over 150 years ago, it has traveled across different countries, cultures, and media, giving rise to more than 60 international ... Read more

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  • Persophilia

    Persian Culture on the Global Scene

    by Hamid Dabashi ...
    From the Biblical period and Classical Antiquity to the rise of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, aspects of Persian culture have been integral to European history. A diverse constellation of European artists, poets, and thinkers have looked to Persia for inspiration, finding there a rich cultural counterpoint and frame of reference. Interest in all things Persian was no passing fancy but an ... Read more

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  • Nerd Ecology: Defending the Earth with Unpopular Culture

    by Dr Anthony Lioi ...
    Series series Environmental Cultures
    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.Drawing on a wide range of examples from literature, comics, film, television and digital media, Nerd Ecology is the first substantial ecocritical study of nerd culture's engagement with environmental issues. Exploring such works as Star Trek, Tolkien's Lord of the ... Read more

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  • Multilingualism and Modernity

    Barbarisms in Spanish and American Literature

    by Laura Lonsdale ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores multilingualism as an imaginative articulation of the experience of modernity in twentieth-century Spanish and American literature. It argues that while individual multilingual practices are highly singular, literary multilingualism exceeds the conventional bounds of modernism to become emblematic of the modern age. The book explores the confluence of multilingualism and ... Read more

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  • Scale in Literature and Culture

    Edited by Michael Tavel Clarke, David Wittenberg ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This collection emphasizes a cross-disciplinary approach to the problem of scale, with essays ranging in subject matter from literature to film, architecture, the plastic arts, philosophy, and scientific and political writing. Its contributors consider a variety of issues provoked by the sudden and pressing shifts in scale brought on by globalization and the era of the Anthropocene, including: the ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Mediating Identities in Eighteenth-Century England

    Public Negotiations, Literary Discourses, Topography

    by Isabel Karremann, Anja Müller ...
    Through case studies from diverse fields of cultural studies, this collection examines how different constructions of identity were mediated in England during the long eighteenth century. While the concept of identity has received much critical attention, the question of how identities were mediated usually remains implicit. This volume engages in a critical discussion of the connection between ... Read more

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  • Memory and Complicity

    Migrations of Holocaust Remembrance

    by Debarati Sanyal ...
    "A sophisticated, nuanced, and beautifully written account of the intersecting legacies of genocide and colonialism in postwar France." —Michael Rothberg, author of Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of DecolonizationSince World War II, French and Francophone literature and film have repeatedly sought not to singularize the Holocaust as the paradigm of historical trauma ... Read more

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  • Female Mourning and Tragedy in Medieval and Renaissance English Drama

    From the Raising of Lazarus to King Lear

    by Katharine Goodland ...
    Series series Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
    Grieving women in early modern English drama, this study argues, recall not only those of Classical tragedy, but also, and more significantly, the lamenting women of medieval English drama, especially the Virgin Mary. Looking at the plays of Shakespeare, Kyd, and Webster, this book presents a new perspective on early modern drama grounded upon three original interrelated points. First, it explores ... Read more

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  • Masculinity, Anti-Semitism and Early Modern English Literature

    From the Satanic to the Effeminate Jew

    by Matthew Biberman ...
    Series series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    Offering a profound re-assessment of the conceptual, rhetorical, and cultural intersections among sexuality, race and religion in English Renaissance texts, this study argues that antisemitism is a by-product of tensions between received Classical conceptions of masculinity and Christianity's strident critique of that ideal. Utilizing works by Shakespeare, Milton, Marlowe and others, Biberman ... Read more

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  • Biopolitics and Memory in Postcolonial Literature and Culture

    by Michael R. Griffiths ...
    From the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa to the United Nations Permanent Memorial to the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, many worthwhile processes of public memory have been enacted on the national and international levels. But how do these extant practices of memory function to precipitate justice and recompense? Are there moments when such techniques, ... Read more

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