Literary theory

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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.

"e;A comprehensive examination of the ways in which [the series] uses American cultural memory .

Black on Black provides the first comprehensive analysis of the modern African American literary response to Africa, from W.

Dissolving Master Narratives comprises one volume in an unprecedented three-volume set, collectively subtitled Decolonial Reconstellations.

This book offers a theory of ekphrasis-the literary description of an artwork-from the perspective of Visual Culture studies.

Benjamin Markovits is a leading Anglo-American novelist with a varied and ambitious body of work, ranging from a trilogy of historical fictions on the life of Lord Byron (Imposture, 2007; A Quiet Adjustment, 2008; Childish Loves, 2011) to an award-winning portrayal of a gentrification project in Obama-era Detroit (You Don't Have to Live Like This, 2015) to intimate studies of contemporary family life (A Weekend in New York, 2018; Christmas in Austin, 2019).

This book explores formations of oceanic kinship in transnational American literature and culture from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries.

This book examines the opportunities, orientations and outcomes that shape education for Black people across time, place and space throughout the African diaspora.

The first modern English edition of diverse Enlightenment-era writings by Prussian monarch Frederick the GreatFrederick II of Prussia (1712-1786), best known as Frederick the Great, was a prolific writer of philosophical discourses, poems, epics, satires, and more, while maintaining extensive correspondence with prominent intellectuals, Voltaire among them.

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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY RACHEL COOKEReading Shaking a Leg is like spending time with the funniest, wisest friend you ve ever had; a person whose breadth of interest ranges from food to feminism to science fiction, and everything in between; a person with an entirely unpredictable train of thought but whose exuberance, knowledge and insight sweeps you along.

This book is a personal narrative chronicling the life and experiences of Shireen Hunter, an Iranian woman who came of age during a transformative era in Iran's history.

Since its premiere in November 1963, the classic British television programme Doctor Who has been a cornerstone of popular culture for half a century.

Now available in paperback, Shakespeare and Postcolonial Theory is an up-to-date guide to contemporary debates in postcolonial studies and how these shape our understanding of Shakespeare's politics and poetics.

Now available in paperback, Shakespeare and Postcolonial Theory is an up-to-date guide to contemporary debates in postcolonial studies and how these shape our understanding of Shakespeare's politics and poetics.

Comparative Literature is both the past and the future of literary studies.

Sartor Resartus is Thomas Carlyle's most enduring and influential work.

In this lively and provocative book, cultural critic Marjorie Garber, who has written on topics as different as Shakespeare, dogs, cross-dressing, and real estate, explores the pleasures and pitfalls of the academic life.

This student-friendly text introduces students to the history and scope of literary theory, as well as showing them how to perform literary analysis.

Written by one of the world s leading theorists in ecocriticism, this manifesto provides a critical summary of the ecocritical movement.