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Dangerous bodies
Through an investigation of the body and its oppression by the church, the medical profession and the state, this book reveals the actual horrors lying beneath fictional horror in settings as diverse as the monastic community, slave plantation, operating theatre, Jewish ghetto and battlefield trench. The book provides original readings of canonical Gothic literary and film texts including The Castle of Otranto, The Monk, Frankenstein, Dracula and Nosferatu. This collection of fictionalised dangerous bodies is traced back to the effects of the English Reformation, Spanish Inquisition, French Revolution, Caribbean slavery, Victorian medical malpractice, European anti-Semitism and finally warfare, ranging from the Crimean up to the Vietnam War. The endangered or dangerous body lies at the centre of the clash between victim and persecutor and has generated tales of terror and narratives of horror, which function to either salve, purge or dangerously perpetuate such oppositions. This ground-breaking book will be of interest to academics and students of Gothic studies, gender and film studies and especially to readers interested in the relationship between history and literature.
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Vitality And Dynamism
Post-colonial theory recognizes that European and American scholars have traditionally defined the themes that are of interest in literary criticism; in Moroccan studies, these themes have tended toward questions of migration, identity, secularism, and religious fanaticism typically questions regarding Morocco in its relationships with colonizing nations. This book intends to re-define the themes of interest in Moroccan studies, looking toward more local themes and movements and relationships of sub-cultures and languages within Morocco. Questions in this volume regard concepts of the self, conflicting discourses, intersections of self-identity and community, and Moroccan reclamation of identity in the post-colonial sphere.
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Contents tourism and pop culture fandom : transnational tourist experiences
\"The term 'contents tourism' has been defined as 'travel behaviour motivated fully or partially by narratives, characters, locations, and other creative elements of popular culture...'. This is the first book to apply the concept of contents tourism in a global context and to establish an interdisciplinary framework for contents tourism research\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Sunshine state : essays
Sunshine State offers a unique look at Florida, a state whose economically and environmentally imperiled culture serves as a lens through which we can examine some of the most pressing issues haunting our nation.
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Blotted Lines
Blotted Lines rebuffs
centuries of mythologization about the creative process-the idea
that William Shakespeare \"never blotted out line\"-to argue that by
studying how early modern writers faced the challenges of writing
poetry, instructors today can empower their students' approaches to
critical writing. Adhaar Noor Desai offers deeply
researched accounts of how poetic labor intersected with early
modern rhetorical theory, material culture, and social
networks.
Tracing the productive struggles of such writers as George
Gascoigne, Philip Sidney, John Davies of Hereford, Lady Anne
Southwell, and Shakespeare across their manuscripts, Desai
identifies in their work instances of discomposition: frustration,
hesitation, self-doubt, and insecurity. Inspired to unmake their
poems so that they might remake them, these poets welcomed
discomposition because it catalyzed ongoing thinking and learning.
Blotted Lines brings literary scholarship into
conversation with modern composition studies, challenging early
modern literary studies to treat writing as both noun and verb and
foregrounding the ways poetry and criticism alike can model for
students the cultivation of patience, collaboration, and risk in
their writing.
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Postcolonial Witnessing
Postcolonial Witnessing argues that the suffering engendered by colonialism needs to be acknowledged more fully, on its own terms, in its own terms, and in relation to traumatic First World histories if trauma theory is to have any hope of redeeming its promise of cross-cultural ethical engagement.
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