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Religious dissimulation and early modern drama: the limits of toleration
Kilian Schindler examines how playwrights such as William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Christopher Marlowe represented religious dissimulation on stage and argues that debates about the legitimacy of dissembling one's faith were closely bound up with early modern conceptions of theatricality. Considering both Catholic and Protestant perspectives on religious dissimulation in the absence of full…
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- 9781009226295
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- xi, 274 pages
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- -
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- 822.309382 SCH r
Decolonizing the English literary curriculum
An international team of leading scholars illustrate the necessity and advantages of reforming the English Literary Curriculum from specific decolonial perspectives in this book, using evidence-based arguments from classroom contexts, as well as establishing new critical agendas
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- -
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- 9781009299985
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- x, 522 pages; illustration
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- -
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- 820.71 MUK d
Classics and celtic literary modernism: yeats, joyce, macdiarmid and jones
Celtic modernism had a complex history with classical reception. In this book, Gregory Baker examines the work of W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, David Jones and Hugh MacDiarmid to show how new forms of modernist literary expression emerged as the evolution of classical education, the insurgent power of cultural nationalisms and the desire for transformative modes of artistic invention converged acro…
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- 9781108953825
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- xxvi, 300 pages
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- -
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- 820.9 BAK c
Literature, science and public policy from Darwin to genomics
Literature, Science, and Public Policy shows how literature and literary study can help shape public policy concerning controversial scientific issues such as genetic engineering, cloning, GMOs, gene editing, and more. Literature brings unique insights to these issues, dramatizing their full complexity. Its value for public policy is demonstrated by striking examples in chapters that take …
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- 9781009263504
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- xviii, 244 pages; illustration
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- -
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- 823.009 CLA l
Read till it shatters : nationalism and identity in modern Thai literature
This book introduces readers to modern Thai literature through the themes of modernity, nationalism, identity and gender. In the cultural, political and social transformations that occurred in Thailand during the first half of the twentieth century, Thai literature was one of the vehicles that moved the changes. Taking seriously ‘read till it shatters’, a Thai phrase that instructs readers …
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- 18
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- 9781760462260
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- -
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- Asian Studies Series
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- 895.91 CHA r
Australian travellers in the South Seas
This book offers a wide-ranging survey of Australian engagement with the Pacific Islands in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Through over 100 hitherto largely unexplored accounts of travel, the author explores how representations of the Pacific Islands in letters, diaries, reminiscences, books, newspapers and magazines contributed to popular ideas of the Pacific Islands in Australia. It …
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- 9781760464158
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- 396 p
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- -
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- 820.935894 HAL a
The most dreadful visitation : male madness in Victorian fiction
Victorian literature is rife with scenes of madness, with mental disorder functioning as everything from a simple plot device to a commentary on the foundations of Victorian society. But while madness in Victorian fiction has been much studied, most scholarship has focused on the portrayal of madness in women; male mental disorder in the period has suffered comparative neglect. In ‘The Most D…
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- 9781846314186
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- 192 p
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- -
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- 823.8093561 VAL m
The Distance to China: Twentieth-Century Italian Travel Narratives of Patriot…
«As Italy tends to be studied increasingly in transnational and transcultural perspective, there is an ever-greater need for studies that explore the country's relationship with other geographical areas and cultural configurations. Linetto Basilone's work is an important contribution to research of this kind. The work provides a panoramic view of how journalists and travel writers from the lat…
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- 42
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- 9781789975116
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- 336p
- Series Title
- Italian Modernities
- Call Number
- 850.9 LIN
Black eggs : poems
Kurihara Sadako was born in Hiroshima in 1913, and she was there on August 6, 1945. Already a poet before she experienced the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, she used her poetic talents to describe the blast and its aftermath. In 1946, despite the censorship of the American Occupation, she published Kuroi tamago (Black Eggs), poems from before, during, and immediately after the war. This volume in…
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- 9780472127634
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- xx + 330 p
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- -
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- 895.615 SAD b
Pynchon and Philosophy: Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno
The writings of Thomas Pynchon have spawned more critical commentary than almost any other American author of the last fifty years. Pynchon’s texts are perhaps most famed for their ‘difficulty and apparent unfriendliness’, as works that require, as Inger H. Dalsgaard, Luc Herman and Brian McHale put it, ‘a collective enterprise of reading wherein none of us could succeed without the hel…
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- 1
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- 9781137405500
- Collation
- XIII, 229p
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- -
- Call Number
- 813.5409 MAR
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