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This volume studies how Salman Rushdie reworks and reimagines colonial metaphors in his postcolonial novels.

The book looks at five overarching metaphors in Rushdie's writings: migration, or the transfer of people and their ideologies;

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This valuable new addition to Melville studies offers a ground-breaking interpretation of Melville's last published novel, one of the most complex texts in American literature and a work that has long been noted for the divergent critical views it has elicited.

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In the last 50 years, Latin American literature has become one of the primary focuses of U.S. intellectual attention.

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This study analyzes the role of the sentenia (proverb, maxim, adage) in the rhetorical process of invention and, particularly, Shakespeare's use of the proverb as a master theme.

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This volume presents a new aspect in the study of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: a case study of the publishing history of his works.

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This is the first comprehensive study in English of the post-war literature of immigration in Quebec. Proulx and Susan Ireland is a cross-disciplinary work that will be of interest to scholars of French and francophone literature, cultural studies, the history of immigration, Canadian studies, and the literature of exile.

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What better introduction could there be to Finnegans Wake, perhaps the most difficult literary work ever written, than the Sherlock Holmes stories, perhaps the most readable and popular stories ever written

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Dr. Lounsberry then describes four characteristics of literary nonfiction and grounds these characteristics in contemporary works.

The five chapters which follow this introduction thoroughly examine the works of five prominent, contemporary nonfiction artists.

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As this collection bears witness, the Romantics sought to discard old ideas about language and literature and to mold new forms in their search to recover, in both literature and life, the sense of human possiblity.

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Arthur Conan Doyle is often perceived as the quintessential Englishman, patriotically devoted to the Crown and the empire's defender and apologist. The volume repositions Doyle and redresses current critical approaches that have seen him solely as the advocate of empire and have ignored his colonial background.

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The chapters in this volume explore the various strategies used by early modern writers to represent masculinity.

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Through close examination of the formal as well as thematic organization of Cormac McCarthy's eight novels, this volume offers a radically new assessment of the work of an author who has often been described as one of the greatest contemporary American novelists.

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Seeking to restore our appreciation for the classics of children's literature, the authors of this book offer fresh and lively interpretations of twenty-eight of the most beloved works in the Western tradition.

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Although postmodern theorists have paid little attention to the short story per se, much of what they say can be applied to the genre. And many short-story writers have created postmodern modes for their stories to provide structure and meaning. Through a variety of fictional forms and themes, postm

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Time is one of the most prominent themes in the relatively young genre of children's literature, for the young, like adults, want to know about the past.

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Since 1950, when his short stories first appeared, Kurt Vonnegut has published almost 50 short stories, 13 novels, two plays, and a teleplay.

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In her reading of Rhys's fiction and autobiographical writing, the author of this text analyzes the political and ethical locations of Rhys's authorial and narrative voices with respect to discourses of empire, gender, sex, class, ethnicity, and desire that shaped Rhys's sense of the world.

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Reassesses the work of James Joyce, especially Ulysses, in light of postcolonial and Marxist literary theory, and explores the influence of Cold War anticommunism on previous reading of Joyce in the West.

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This work scrutinizes the assumptions about mind, language, meaning, truth, and reality governing current debate and discussion not only in literary criticism but also in the broader academic culture. Beyond critique, it offers defenses of alternatives to the prevailing critical orthodoxes.

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Presenting a penetrating psychoanalytic reading of Virginia Woolf's novels, this work explains how Woolf's feminism and pacifism, based on her conscious insight into an authoritarian society, were given passionate conviction by her childhood and adult relationships with her family and men.

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Concentrating on the features and challenges of the short story, contributors from Amiri Baraka to Richard Ford and Jayne Anne Phillips to Janette Turner Hospital discuss their own writing, the writing of others, the short story form, gender, politics, and other issues concerning the writing of short fiction.

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Because the contributors are some of the most significant authors and critics in children's literature in English, it should also be part of any academic library's holdings in the criticism of children's literature in particular and literary criticism in general.