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"Discovers innovative methods for coming to terms with urgent questions about the ethics and value of the novel in the work of some of Japan's most famous and influential modern writers, Mori Ogai and Akutagawa Ryunosuke"--

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This book explores and evaluates Henry David Thoreaus political thought through the lens of a theory of imagination and considers his legacy for later environmental thought. This book will interest anyone curious about Thoreaus relationship to environmentalism and the intersection of environmental humanities and politics.

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A study of land and landscape in the African romances of H. Rider Haggard. It argues that Haggard created a formulaic, ideological geography which provided a canvas onto which he projected his desires and fears, both personal and political, as well as those of his age.

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Stephen King has been hailed as a writer of the late 20th century Everyman, yet his representations of women remain debatable. These essays not only explore his portrayal of female characters, they illuminate Stephen King's own psychology and that of our culture's fears, anxieties, and feminine obsessions.

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From the turbulent years following the French Revolution to the fiction of Jane Austen, this book charts the rise of a self-regulating reader, who possesses both moral and cultural authority.

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Reveals the role masochistic forms of voluntary suffering played in late-nineteenth-century British thinking about imperial politics and class identity. This book shows how the ideological and psychological dynamics of empire, particularly its reorganization of class identities at the colonial periphery, depended on figurations of masochism.

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This book studies how Jewish and Catholic practices of giving structure to religious mystery are embodied in the works of Bernard Malamud, Walker Percy, Cynthia Ozick, and Flannery O'Connor.

The volume links Malamud with Percy and Ozick with O'Connor because these Jewish and Catholic authors depict religious mystery in similar ways.

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Top African-American Studies scholars examine the history and reception of The Bondwoman's Narrative, the slave narrative that has changed how we view antebellum literature.

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This is the first edited collection of essays which focuses on the incest taboo and its literary and cultural presentation from the 1950s to the present day; including Iain Banks, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Simone de Beauvoir, Ted Hughes, Doris Lessing, Ian McEwan Iris Murdoch, Vladimir Nabokov, Andrea Newman and Pier Pasolini and Sylvia Plath.

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This is the first edited collection of essays which focuses on the incest taboo and its literary and cultural presentation from the 1950s to the present day; including Iain Banks, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Simone de Beauvoir, Ted Hughes, Doris Lessing, Ian McEwan Iris Murdoch, Vladimir Nabokov, Andrea Newman and Pier Pasolini and Sylvia Plath.

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Classic 19th-century British novels that give full expression to complex ethical problems necessarily project the claims of conflicting or interfering values and thus complicate the strategies for resolving the dilemmas they dramatize.

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A reassessment of Murdoch's fictional work regarding her links with her own philosophy and the philosophy of Plato, Sartre, Nietzsche, Heidegger and Freud.

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A reassessment of Iris Murdoch's fictional work regarding the links with her own philosophy and the philosophy of Plato, Sartre, Nietzsche, Heidegger and Freud. By investigating her use of philosophical argument in her fictional writing, it makes clear that her narratives always depend upon a strong metaphysical underpinning.

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Includes a broad definition of the genre and its essential elements, a timeline, detailed readings of the most widely studied texts, major themes, and a summary of the most important critism and a reading list.

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An examination of work by Anne Enright, Colum McCann and Eilis Ni Dhuibhne raising questions about gender, bodies and history in Contemporary Irish fiction.

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An examination of work by Anne Enright, Colum McCann and Eilis Ni Dhuibhne raising questions about gender, bodies and history in Contemporary Irish fiction. It pinpoints common concerns for contemporary Irish writers: the relationship between the body, memory and history, and between generations.

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The presence of Irish writers is almost invisible in literary studies of London. This study considers how Irish writers have regarded, reported and represented London in their fiction, drama and poetry. It features experts on particular Irish writers who reflect on the diverse experiences and impact this immigrant group has had on the city.

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The presence of Irish writers is almost invisible in literary studies of London. This study considers how Irish writers have regarded, reported and represented London in their fiction, drama and poetry. It includes essays on key figures that challenge the deep-seated stereotype of what constitutes the proper domain of Irish writing.

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This is the first full-length study of Irvine Welsh's fiction and provides a sustained textual and contextual analysis and evaluation of his work -- .