Focusing on literary representations of gentrification, this book analyses twenty-first century anglophone novels by authors from the United States, Canada, India, the United Kingdom and Australia.
This title was first published in 2001: Against Autonomy reassesses Jean-Francois Lyotard's contribution to philosophy and theory, and explores how his work challenges the privileged position of the principle of autonomy in contemporary liberal democratic thinking, as seen in such diverse thinkers as Rawls, Rorty and Fukuyama.
Focusing on imagination and self-representation as a key sociocultural force, this book examines the diverse ways Muslim writers articulate complex and multifaceted conceptualizations of Muslimness at the critical conjuncture of culture, faith, gender, sexuality and diasporic experience.
In 1908, Joseph Conrad was criticised by a reviewer for being a man 'without either country or language': even his shipboard communities were the product of a 'cosmopolitan' vision.
Artistic, literary, and technological depictions of the climate crisis and how they influence humanity's response What does it mean to watch a disaster unfold?
Broad-ranging and pluralistically investigative, the essays in Thinking with the Poem document Rachel Blau DuPlessis's authorial interventions as a poet, scholar, and cultural critic steeped in the linguistic and political frames of her time.
Iran in Finnegans Wake is a scholarly work that meticulously catalogs and analyzes the Iranian, Zoroastrian, and Persian vocabulary found in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake.
Mit der Publikation von repräsentativen Texten des Kulturvermittlers Paul/Pavel Eisner werden weniger zugängliche Texte, zum Teil erstmals in deutscher Übersetzung, einem breiteren Fachpublikum präsentiert.
In addition to being one of the best-loved books of all time, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is sure to set box-office records when it releases in theatres Christmas 2005.
Most scholarly writing about Joyces Ulysses has concentrated on its parallels with Homer's Odyssey, Catholic theology, Dublins streets, Shakespearean references (especially Hamlet} , all of which, and much more, Joyce included in his novel but emphasizing the interpretation of these overlays to the story has led to the book appearing almost impenetrable to readers who might otherwise enjoy it.
