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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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Throughout the twentieth century, authors from Latin American countries have contributed some of the freshest and most original works to world literature.

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This work demonstrates the ways in which a complex of ideas with a misogynistic basis relates to the image of the venomous woman--the woman who uses poisons or potions, who has a relationship with a venomous animal, or who is herself poisonous. Hallissy suggests that the venomous woman is an image of feminine power reflected in masculine fear.

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This work is a rare cross-cultural study of one of the most universal dialogic genres: heroic flyting, or the verbal duel in which the heroes, prior to physical combat, make boastful claims that must be backed up through action in the arena of public contesting. Long recognized as an elemental behavioral paradigm in human consciousness, the contest

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This is the first academic study to address ancient Egypt as it was appropriated across disparate literary modes during the Victorian era. Drawing on texts by canonical authors while illuminating new sources and understudied works, it brings the highbrow and the popular into conversation, addressing contemporary ideas of race, gender and religion.

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Part of "Introductions to British Literature and Culture" series, this volume features an introduction to Victorian literature and its contexts from 1837-1901. It also offers an overview of the historical, cultural and intellectual background including politics and economics, popular culture, philosophy and religion.

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Part of "Introductions to British Literature and Culture" series, this volume features an introduction to Victorian literature and its contexts from 1837-1901. It also offers an overview of the historical, cultural and intellectual background including politics and economics, popular culture, philosophy and religion.

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Presents a critical study of the reinscription of biblical parables in Victorian realist fiction. The author shows that authors such as Charles Dickens, Margaret Oliphant, and Charlotte Yonge appreciated the power of parables to deliver an ethical charge that was as unexpected as it was disruptive to conventional moral complacency.

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Offers a critical study of the reinscription of biblical parables in Victorian realist fiction. The author shows that authors such as Charles Dickens, Margaret Oliphant, and Charlotte Yonge appreciated the power of parables to deliver an ethical charge that was as unexpected as it was disruptive to conventional moral complacency.

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Introduces the poetry of the Victorian era and its social, cultural and political contexts. This book offers an overview of critical approaches to several key texts and discussion of how Victorian poetry has remained influential in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

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Introduces the poetry of the Victorian era and its social, cultural and political contexts. This book offers an overview of critical approaches to several key texts and discussion of how Victorian poetry has remained influential in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.