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Stefanie Heine
Tangential Terrains

Tangential Terrains is an ecocritical study of the work of Cormac McCarthy, focusing primarily on his depictions of the desert and inorganic nature in Blood Meridian . Close readings of previously unexami…

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David Mence
Melville's Maritime Politics

Melville's Maritime Politics: Enlightenment at Sea offers a new account of the political thought of Herman Melville (1819-1891). Reading Melville in dialogue with Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and …

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Kir Kuiken
Adrift on the Earth

Kir Kuiken argues for the existence of a geopoetic literary genre extending from the late eighteenth century to the present and addresses its legacies through works of European Romantic authors and contem…

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Beyond Modernism

Underlining (and undermining) the notion of literary merit, this book focuses on noncanonical works and asks: what happens when we look away from modernism?Seeking an alternative history of British litera…

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Stephanie Bird
Responses to Nazi Perpetration in Fiction

Looking at novels by authors from countries directly involved in and affected by genocidal violence and its legacies this book analyses representations of Nazi perpetration and complicity.

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Kiron Ward,
Encyclopaedism and Totality in Contemporary Fiction

Taking as key examples work by Don DeLillo, Leslie Marmon Silko, Roberto Bolaño, and Karen Tei Yamashita, this book looks at engagements with encyclopaedic thought and practice in contemporary fiction. Ch…

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Stacey Margolis
Future Is Fiction

The Future is Fiction is the first cultural history of the idea that people have an obligation to protect the world for future generations. While political philosophers have regarded intergenerational jus…

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Susan Farrell
Vonnegut's War

Banned, burned, and censored, Kurt Vonnegut's 1969 novel Slaughterhouse-Fiveis widely regarded as one of the greatest (and most controversial) novels of the twentieth century. Fusing vivid biography with …

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Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare's Macbeth

New avenues for teaching MacbethShakespeare's Macbeth combines the themes of ambition, assassination, guilt, and the supernatural in ways that continue to provoke questions about political legitimacy, the…

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Teaching Modern Irish Poetry

Modern Irish poetry beyond Yeats and HeaneyInterpreting modern Irish poetry within a network of national and cultural identities and in the context of economic and demographic changes of the past fifty ye…

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Abdessalam Benabdelali,
Writings on Translation

An exploration of the philosophical dimensions of translation, celebrating it as a practice that preserves and proliferates cultural differences. Abdessalam Benabdelali is a revered Moroccan philosopher a…

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Dick Davis
Plant Friendship's Tree

In this remarkable collection of essays and talks spanning four decades, acclaimed translator and poet Dick Davis explores the literary richness of Persian poetry and prose with a clarity, empathy, and ae…

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Hemingway and Italy

From his World War I service in Italy through his transformational return visits during the decades that followed, Ernest Hemingway's Italian experiences were fundamental to his artistic development. Hemi…

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H. D,
The Usual Star and The Moment

This scholarly edition makes available two little-known story collections by the modernist writer H.D., encouraging new ways of thinking about the role of the short story genre in H.D.'s life and career.

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Thomas Allen
Vital Moments

The environmental and political crises humanity faces today have given rise to influential new theories of life, matter, and time. Vitalism, a controversial term describing the ideas of philosophers from …

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Rhodri Lewis
Shakespeare's Tragic Art

A new account of Shakespearean tragedy as a response to life in an uncertain worldIn Shakespeare's Tragic Art , Rhodri Lewis offers a powerfully original reassessment of tragedy as Shakespeare wrote it---…

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Mantra Mukim,
Samuel Beckett's Lyric Failure

Providing one of the first book-length accounts of Samuel Beckett's poetry, this work illustrates how Beckett's poetry, and its failures, reconfigure the lyric form. Reading Beckett alongside nineteenth a…

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Valérie Bénéjam
Joyce's Theatrical Poetics

Looking beyond the view of James Joyce as a failed playwright to uncover how Joyce's modernist breakthroughs are grounded in theatrical techniquesIn this book, Valérie Bénéjam argues that the success of J…

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Will Kaufman
American Song and Struggle from Columbus to World War 2

Long before anyone ever heard of 'protest music', people in America were singing about their struggles. They sang for justice and fairness, food and shelter, and equality and freedom; they sang to be ackn…

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Teaching Modern Irish Poetry

Modern Irish poetry beyond Yeats and HeaneyInterpreting modern Irish poetry within a network of national and cultural identities and in the context of economic and demographic changes of the past fifty ye…

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