On the Cultures of Exile, Translation and Writing

Paolo Bartoloni

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• The hypothesis of Paolo Bartoloni's book is based on the belief that a substantial and innovative discussion of the philosophical notions of immanence... Lees meer

Imagining Afghanistan

Alla Ivanchikova

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• Imagining Afghanistan examines how Afghanistan has been imagined in literary and visual texts that were published after the 9/11 attacks and the subse... Lees meer

Comparative Cultural Studies and Michael Ondaatje's Writing

Steven Totosy de Zepetnek

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• The papers in this volume represent recent scholarship about Booker Prize Winner Michael Ondaatje's oeuvre by scholars working in English-Canadian lit... Lees meer

Urban Cultures in (Post)Colonial Central Europe

Agata Anna Lisiak

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• Berlin, Budapest, Prague, and Warsaw are cities indelibly marked by more than forty years of Soviet influence. Urban Cultures in Post Colonial Central... Lees meer

Postmodern Texts and Emotional Audiences

Kimberly Chabot Davis

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• Chabot Davis analyzes contemporary texts that bond together two seemingly antithetical sensibilities: the sentimental and the postmodern. Ranging acro... Lees meer

Women's Tanci Fiction in Late Imperial and Early Twentieth-Century China

Li Guo

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• In Women's Tanci Fiction in Late Imperial and Early Modern China , Li Guo presents the first book-length study in English of women's tanci fiction, th... Lees meer

Perspectives on Science and Culture

Rutten Blancke Stoetart

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• Edited by Kris Rutten, Stefaan Blancke, and Ronald Soetaert, Perspectives on Science and Culture explores the intersection between scientific understa... Lees meer

Cultural Exchanges Between Brazil and France

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• Brazil and France have explored each other's geographical and cultural landscapes for more than five hundred years. The Brazilian je ne sais quoi has ... Lees meer

Kundera and Modernity

Liisa Steinby

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• While a large amount of scholarship about Milan Kundera's work exists, in Liisa Steinby's opinion his work has not been studied within the context of ... Lees meer

Writing Gender in Early Modern Chinese Women's Tanci Fiction

Li Guo

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• Women's tanci , or "plucking rhymes," are chantefable narratives written by upper-class educated women from seventeenth-century to early twentieth-cen... Lees meer

Transnational Discourses on Class, Gender, and Cultural Identity

Irene Marques

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• This exploration of class, feminism, and cultural identity (including issues of race, nation, colonialism, and economic imperialism) focuses on the wo... Lees meer

Cosmopolitanism in the Americas

Camilla Fojas

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• Fojas's book is a study about the aporia between cosmopolitanism as a sign of justice and cosmopolitanism as the consumption and display of internatio... Lees meer

Text and Image in Modern European Culture

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• Text and Image in Modern European Culture is a collection of essays that are transnational and interdisciplinary in scope. Employing a range of innova... Lees meer

Nation and Region in Modern American and European Fiction

Thomas O Beebee

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• In his book Nation and Region in Modern American and European Fiction , Thomas O. Beebee analyzes fictional texts as a "discursive territoriality" tha... Lees meer

Subjectivity in ʿAttār, Persian Sufism, and European Mysticism

Claudia Yaghoobi

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• Adopting an empirical and systematic approach, this interdisciplinary study of medieval Persian Sufi tradition and ʿAttār (1145-1221) opens up a new s... Lees meer

Reconsidering the Emergence of the Gay Novel in English and German

James P Wilper

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• In Reconsidering the Emergence of the Gay Novel in English and German , James P. Wilper examines a key moment in the development of the modern gay nov... Lees meer

Fantasies of Gender and the Witch in Feminist Theory and Literature

Justyna Sempruch

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• In Fantasies of Gender and the Witch in Feminist Theory and Literature , Justyna Sempruch analyzes contemporary representations of the "witch" as a lo... Lees meer

Representing Humanity in an Age of Terror

Sophia A McClennen

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• Written in the context of critical dialogues about the war on terror and the global crisis in human rights violations, authors of this collected volum... Lees meer

Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies

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• The studies presented in the collected volume Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies -- edited by Steven Totosy de Zepetnek and Louise O. Vasvari--are... Lees meer

Shakespeare in Hollywood, Asia, and Cyberspace

Charles Ross

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• Recent decades have witnessed diverse incarnations and bold sequences of Shakespeare on screen and stage. Hollywood films and a century of Asian readi... Lees meer

Crime and Media in Contemporary France

Deborah Streifford Reisinger

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• Reisinger examines contemporary French society's relationship with violence in an era of increased media dominance. The study's innovative and interdi... Lees meer

Asian Diaspora and East-West Modernity

Sheng-Mei Ma

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• Drawing from Anglo-American, Asian American, and Asian literature as well as J-horror and manga, Chinese cinema and Internet, and the Korean Wave, She... Lees meer

Transcultural Writers and Novels in the Age of Global Mobility

Arianna Dagnino

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• In Transcultural Writers and Novels in the Age of Global Mobility , Arianna Dagnino analyzes a new type of literature emerging from artists increased ... Lees meer

Imre Kertesz and Holocaust Literature

Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek

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• The volume fills a gap in scholarship about Imre Kertesz, whose work to date is largely unknown in the English-speaking world. The papers' authors are... Lees meer