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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.

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Covers major wars that have generated a suitable variety of materials for student use - the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Vietnam War and the Gulf War. The book maintains that studying historical wars through literature offers insight into the effect of war.

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This book explores how Tolkiens utopian and dystopian themes inspire and remain relevant to modern readers. It examines how Tolkiens malevolent societies in his legendarium have the unique ability to capture the fears and doubts that many people sense about the trajectory of modern society.

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African literature has commonly been seen as representationally naive vis-a-vis modernism, and canonical modernism as reactionary vis-a-vis postcolonial literature. What brings these two bodies of work together, argues the author, is their disposition toward Utopia or the horizon of a radical reconfiguration of social relations.

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Utopian Moments is a collection of short essays designed to guide readers to informed engagement with the key works of the modern western utopian tradition. It offers a fresh and original perspective on utopian writings and their interpretation.

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Utopian Moments is a collection of short essays designed to guide readers to informed engagement with the key works of the modern western utopian tradition. It offers a fresh and original perspective on utopian writings and their interpretation.