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Belonging beyond borders : cosmopolitan affiliations in Contemporary Spanish …
Belonging Beyond Borders maps the evolution of cosmopolitanism in Spanish American narrative literature through a generational lens. Drawing on a new theoretical framework that blends intellectual studies and literary history with integrated approaches to Spanish American narrative, this book traces the evolution from aesthetic cosmopolitanism through anti-colonial nationalism to modern politic…
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- 9781773851600
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- ix; 256 pg.
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- 863.709355 BIL b
Creating the ancient rhetorical tradition
This book explores the history of rhetorical thought and examines the gradual association of different aspects of rhetorical theory with two outstanding fourth-century BCE writers: Lysias and Isocrates. It highlights the parallel development of the rhetorical tradition that became understood, on the one hand, as a domain of style and persuasive speech, associated with the figure of Lysias, and,…
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- 10
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- 9781108873956
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- xii; 278p; ill.
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- 808.00938 CRE L
Cultural representations of gender vulnerability and resistance : a Mediterra…
This Open Access book considers the cultural representation of gender violence, vulnerability and resistance with a focus on the transnational dimension of our contemporary visual and literary cultures in English. Contributors address concepts such as vulnerability, resilience, precarity and resistance in the Anglophone world through an analysis of memoirs, films, TV series, and crime and liter…
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- 1
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- 9783030955083
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- xvi; 233p;
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- 305.3 CUL P
The autofictional : approaches, affordances, forms
This open access book offers innovative and wide-ranging responses to the continuously flourishing literary phenomenon of autofiction. The book shows the insights that are gained in the shift from the genre descriptor to the adjective, and from a broad application of “the autofictional” as a theoretical lens and aesthetic strategy. In three sections on “Approaches,” “Affordances,” a…
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- 9783030784393
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- xvii, 342 p. : ill.
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- 809.382 EFF t
Incomparable Poetry : An Essay on the Financial Crisis of 2007–2008 and Iri…
Incomparable Poetry: An Essay on the Financial Crisis of 2007-2008 and Irish Literature is an attempt to describe the ways in which the financial crisis of 2007-8 impacted literature in Ireland, and thereby describe the ways in which poetry engages with, is structured by, and wrestles with economic issues.Ireland and its contemporary poetry is a particularly suitable case study for studying the…
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- 9781950192847
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- 163p. ; ill.
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- 822.052309 KIE i
Digital media and textuality: from creation to archiving
Due to computers' ability to combine different semiotic modes, texts are no longer exclusively comprised of static images and mute words. How have digital media changed the way we write and read? What methods of textual and data analysis have emerged? How do we rescue digital artifacts from obsolescence? And how can digital media be used or taught inside classrooms? These and other questions ar…
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- 9783839440919
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- 284 p. : ill.
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- 006.7 MAD d
Reading by numbers : recalibrating the literary field
Reading by Numbers: Recalibrating the Literary Field’ is the first book to use digital humanities strategies to integrate the scope and methods of book and publishing history with issues and debates in literary studies. By mining, visualising and modelling data from ‘AustLit’ – an online bibliography of Australian literature that leads the world in its comprehensiveness and scope – th…
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- 9780857284549
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- ix, 237 p.; 22 cm.
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- 820.9’994 BOD r
Writing self, writing empire : Chandar Bhan Brahman and the cultural world of…
"Writing Self, Writing Empire examines the life, career, and writings of the Mughal state secretary, or munshi, Chandar Bhan Brahman (d. ca. 1670), one of the great Indo-Persian poets and prose stylists of early modern South Asia. Chandar Bhan’s life spanned the reigns of four emperors: Akbar (1556–1605), Jahangir (1605–1627), Shah Jahan (1628–1658), and Aurangzeb ‘Alamgir (1658–170…
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- 9780520961685
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- XIX, 371 p.
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- South Asia Across the Disciplines,
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- 891.5512 KIN w
World literature, cosmopolitanism, globality : beyond, against, post, otherwise
In view of the current crisis of globalization, this book aims to interrogate one of its key concepts in the past decades: World Literature. In a historical moment where the established focus on transnational identities, linguistic intersections, and other cosmopolitan cultural configurations is being challenged, the contributions of this volume explore possible adjustments, critiques, reconcep…
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- 9783110641134
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- VI, 240 p.
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- 809 WOR w
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