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Joseph Conrad, Cosmopolitanism and Transnationalism
In 1908, Joseph Conrad was criticised by a reviewer for being a man ‘without either country or language’: even his shipboard communities were the...
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César Vallejo A Poet of the Event
This book argues that the poetry of César Vallejo announces the event, as a moment of irruption of a truth that destabilises the usual state of...
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The Palgrave Handbook of Neo-Victorianism
This handbook offers analysis of diverse genres and media of neo-Victorianism, including film and television adaptations of Victorian texts, authors’...
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The Ethics of Nonfiction Rhetoric, Ethos, and Identity
This book explores issues of identity, ethics and epistemology that arise around the writing and reception of creative nonfiction. It examines a...
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The Modern Feminine in the Medusa Satire of Fanny Fern
The Modern Feminine in the Medusa Satire of Fanny Fernargues that Sara Parton and her literary alter ego, Fanny Fern, occupy a star-power position...
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Music, Words, and Nationalism National Anthems and Songs in the Modern Era
Music, Words and Nationalism: National Anthems and Songs in the Modern Eraconsiders the concept of nationalism from 1780 to 2020 through anthems and...
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Animals and Science Fiction
Animals and Science Fiction is the first edited collection to be published focusing on the intersection of animal studies and science fiction studies....
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Truth Claims Across Media
This book offers an intermedial approach to truthful communication. Bringing together a wide range of media types and interactions from a transmedial...
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History and Speculative Fiction
This open access book demonstrates that despite different epistemological starting points, history and speculative fiction perform similar work in...
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Gottfried Keller – Spielräume der Phantasie
Die in diesem Band versammelten Beiträge zeigen Keller als einzigartigen Erzähler, richten den Blick auf Texte aus dem Nachlass, gehen seinen Träumen...
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The Palgrave Handbook of Intermediality
This handbook provides an extensive overview of traditional and emerging research areas within the field of intermediality studies, understood...
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Perception, Class and Environment in the Works of Thomas Hardy
This book examines Thomas Hardy’s writing in both prose and poetry, focusing on issues of perception, ‘being’, class and environment. It illustrates...
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Sacrifice as a Narrative Strategy in May Sinclair, Mary Butts, and H. D.
This book explores sacrifice as a narrative theme and a stylistic strategy in works by May Sinclair, Mary Butts and H. D. It argues that the...
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Disability Identity in Simulation Narratives
Disability Identity in Simulation Narrativesconsiders the relationship between disability identity and simulation activities (ranging from...
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Japanese Perspectives on Kazuo Ishiguro
This collection of essays offers new perspectives from Japan on Nobel Prize–winning author Kazuo Ishiguro. It analyses the Japanese-born British...
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Time Travel in World Literature and Cinema
Time Travel in World Literature and Cinemadiscusses various literary works, movies, and TV series with a special focus on time travel. Each chapter...
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Rewriting White Masculinities in Contemporary Fiction and Film
This book focuses on the construction of hegemonic masculinity as well as its representations in literature, culture, and film. Although white...
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Peter S. Beagle's “The Last Unicorn” A Critical Companion
This book assesses the work of one of the foundational figures of American fantasy, Peter S. Beagle. Through its focused analysis of The Last Unicorn, ...
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Words to the Wives The Yiddish Press, Immigrant Women, and Jewish-American Identity
This book looks at how the Yiddish press sought to create Jewish-American identities for immigrant women. Shelby Shapiro focuses on two women’s...
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William Blake's Visions Art, Hallucinations, Synaesthesia
This book is an inquiry into whether what Blake called his ‘visions’ can be attributed to recognizable perceptual phenomena. The conditions...
