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Romantic Gothic
Romantic Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion offers a rigorous account of the Gothic impulses informing British, American and European literary culture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
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Coming of age
This title examines the role and theme of the coming of age archetype in A Separate Peace, The Catcher in the Rye, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Giver, and The Fault in Our Stars. It features four analysis papers that consider the coming of age theme, each using different critical lenses, writing techniques, or aspects of the theme.
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Negotiating Borderlines in Four Contemporary Migrant Writers from the Middle East
The book considers the persistent tendency to represent the \"Middle East\" as a region enclosed in less permeable boundaries. This perspective of enclosure haunts Middle Eastern Studies and is part of ongoing cultural debates on cross-border circulation, currently challenged by spectacular outbursts of violence along resurfacing lines of division. This critical study analyses selected works of four contemporary Anglophone migrant writers from the Middle East (namely, Rabih Alameddine, Diana Abu-Jaber, Laila Halaby and Elif Shafak) to demonstrate that, in spite of the forceful lines that remain after religious, ethnic and political disputes, this region does not exist as a rigidly delimited place in the writing of migrants who reclaim it back from beyond its boundaries. Rather than being a permanent location, it is constructed as a place that flows into other places and is constantly reshaped by a variety of personal stories, migrant trajectories, departures and returns.
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Love
This title examines the theme of love in Divergent, Of Mice and Men, Shakespeare's sonnets, and Disney fairy tales, primarily Frozen. It features four analysis papers that consider the love theme, each using different critical lenses, writing techniques, or aspects of the theme.
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The Political Activism of Anthropologist Franz Boas, Citizen Scientist
This book chronicles the life and political action of Franz Boas, a ground-breaking anthropologist whose work denied the notion of racial superiority and introduced the notion of cultural relativity. In addition, he was a fierce pacifist who opposed the entry of the United States into World War I, and organized a powerful organization protecting the free speech of those accused of left-wing sympathies. He was among the first to recognize the strength of a scientist speaking out on political issues. The book will appeal to those interested in issues of race relations and free speech, and those interested in the role of science and scientists in the larger society.
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Transiciones, memorias e identidades en Europa y América Latina
Recoge diferentes enfoques teóricos y metodológicos sobre las memorias, transiciones políticas e identidades en Alemania, Argentina y España, buscando establecer comparaciones y puntos de convergencia en sociedades signadas durante el siglo XX por regímenes políticos autoritarios y procesos de democratización paradigmáticos. [Texto de la editorial]
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Disjunctive Predicaments: Philip Roth as Novelist of Uneven Development
Capital will move to a less-developed site and the subsequent devalorization of the old site will, in time, produce new opportunities for capital investment and accumulation. [...]cycles of growth and decline should not be understood as a failure in economic development but rather as a structural necessity and persistent feature of capitalism. [...]the abstract democratic social space Jefferson charted in the early republic is constitutive of what Hay calls the \"hardware\" of modernity, but we must also account for the ideological and subjective \"software\" of modernity, which includes an intense awareness of social and psychic disjunction; an aspiration for autonomy in relation to the state, market, and the community, often qualified by the desire for acceptance and legitimation, an intensified social self-consciousness or reflexivity; a tolerance for doubt with regard to established social discourses; and the floating free of a psychological concept of subjecthood challenging the previously normative, hierarchical social networking of the human subject. Among these elements are those generic story patterns we recognize as providing the 'plots.' [...]one narrative account may represent a set of events as having the form and meaning of an epic or tragic story, and another may represent the same set of events-with equal plausibility and without doing any violence to the factual record-as describing a farce\" (White \"Historical Emplotment and the Problem of Truth\" 38). There is a noteworthy similarity between Hay's description of those diachronies which remain relevant without holding relative precedence and Raymond Williams' description of residual cultural forms: \"The residual, by definition, has been effectively formed in the past, but it is still active in the cultural process, not only and often not at all as an element of the past, but as an effective element of the present. [...]certain experiences, meanings, and values which cannot be expressed or substantially verified in terms of the dominant culture, are nevertheless lived and practiced on the basis of the residue-cultural as well as social-of some previous social and cultural institution or formation\" (Williams 122).
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Jewish Poetics in Saul Bellow's Henderson the Rain King (1959)
Of all the novels in Saul Bellow's oeuvre, Henderson the Rain King (1959) seems to be the only one that is unrelated to Jewish life. Its plot revolves around an Anglo-Saxon millionaire, Eugene Henderson, who travels to Africa in search of answers to his existential crisis. This article shows that the novel is actually replete with Jewish themes and it positions the book alongside other postwar texts that disguised Jewish modes of expression within seemingly universal narratives. Henderson is framed in Yiddish and biblical rhetoric and reflects the ideas that Bellow developed in response to the Holocaust. It is also full of contradictions and ambiguities characteristic of this postwar genre; for instance, Henderson is exaggeratedly goyish at the same time he features many quintessential Jewish traits. By bringing attention to these aspects of the novel, this reading engages with critical and theoretical debates around how to demarcate the parameters that define Jewish American literature. It encourages the reader to reconsider those postwar texts that have been misinterpreted as diverging from Jewishness. And it directs them beyond the obvious hallmarks of Jewishness toward subtler cues that account for the ambivalences of postwar Jewish American identification.
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Poetics of Race in Latin America
Poetics of Race constitutes a critically and theoretically innovative analysis of racial and ethnic dynamics in Latin America, and their symbolic - artistic, ideological - representation. The book illustrates the relevance of cultural and racial minorities in different national contexts (particularly in Mexico, Brazil, the Andean region and the Caribbean) through the study of literary, filmic and visual productions that depict otherness, marginalization and popular resistance. The book focuses on negritude, indigenous cultures, andinismo, performance and cinematic discourses in which racial issues are displayed, elaborated and symbolized. The various critical approaches utilized in this volume also contribute to expand methodological horizons in the field while contributing to widening the corpus of literary texts and cultural practices in this area of studies.
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