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Part Four draws connections between two issues raised by the novel - the unwed mother and the lapsed minister - that remain controversial today and features recent news articles on these issues.

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The Tempest has always been one of Shakespeare's most entertaining and enchanting plays, but it continues to stir up passionate debate throughout the world because of its ideas and attitudes toward race, class, political power and colonialism.

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A wealth of documents and commentary on the historical, social, and cultural contexts of Things Fall Apart.

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A rich sourcebook of materials on African-American folk culture, history, and society that illuminates the novel.

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The 2024 PEN/Ralph Manheim Award for Translation winner, Suzanne Jill Levine's witty and incisive memoir of her life as a translator of writers such as Manuel Puig and Guillermo Cabrera Infante.

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Unfinished Austen is the first detailed study of four texts that Jane Austen left incomplete and unpublished: Catharine, or the Bower (17923), Lady Susan (1795), The Watsons (18034) and Sanditon (1817).

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"Unfolding the South" presents a new vision of Anglo-Italian cultural relations in the late Romantic and Victorian periods.

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This work examines the evolution of the Peruvian indigenistaliterary tradition in the twentieth century in its relation to the evolution of socialist thought and dialectical materialist philosophy.

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The unlikely heroines analyzed in this book are fictional women, who, like their male counterparts of the era, demonstrated an urge to break with tradition, a rejection of conventional values, and a desire for adventure.

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Provides a critical retrospective on the 19th century origins of modern biological science and their close connections with the cultural sphere. It explores the emerging cultural authority of the biological sciences during the 19th century, when fundamental discoveries in geology and physics destabilised the world view.

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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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The focus of this study is on the working of Milton's sensibilities and the reader's response to the materials of the poem. Professor Shumaker demonstrates the special resonance Milton gave to Paradise Lost through his development of its mythic quality and through the emotive patterns in the poem. Shumaker describes the effect on the reader's subco

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The author examines how Gissing's work reveals and unhappy accommodation with money's underwriting of human existance and culture and how daily life in all its forms is transcended or made irrelevant by the commodification of everyday life. This is a valuable introduction to Gissing's work.

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Bringing together a discussion of both the books and the movies, Porter redirects the spotlight on these characters to show us how the roles they play, the actions they take, and the behaviours they display are worthy of our praise and admiration.

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Over the course of the last century, American fiction writers and poets have used sports figures and sporting events in order to make significant points on themes of identity as they are connected to gender, race, class, and nationality.

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Reinterpreting novels by figures such as Balzac, Stendhal, Charlotte Bronte, Dickens, Dreiser, Wells, Doctorow, and Ishiguro, along with a number of films, this book shows how deeply the material and erotic desires of upwardly mobile characters are intertwined with the aid they receive from some sort of benefactor or mentor.

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We think we know what upward mobility stories are about - virtuous striving justly rewarded, or unprincipled social climbing regrettably unpunished. This book overturns these assumptions and exposes a hidden tradition of erotic social interdependence at the heart of the literary canon.

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In Ursula K. Le Guin, Consent, and Metaphor, Kate Sheckler presents an alternative approach to understanding metaphor, altering our conception of the form and its effects. She identifies the delineation and effect created in the moment consent is offered.

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This comprehensive analysis of Le Guin's work will leave readers anxious for her future endeavors.

After a biography that focuses on Le Guin's interest in science fiction, this study delves into analyses of Le Guin's most well-known works, with emphasis on plot, as well as thematic and character development.

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Young adult literature and psychological and social experts are paired in this approach to helping adolescents understand and cope with social problems.