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Offers insight into the role that the religious imagination plays in the creation of sacred worlds. Covering foundational questions regarding the relation between words and worlds and the parameters of the sacred, this work explores different ways of using interdisciplinary resources to open up our understanding of religion and literature.

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This book examines the colonial legacies and transnational identities of four minorities, orphans of Algeria: European settlers, Jews, mixed-race individuals, and Harkis. It argues that works of literature build an archive allowing the articulation of hidden histories and pays homage to the missing Algerian father, outcast of hegemonic narratives.

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Provides students with an introduction to literature and its context from 1533-1642, including: the historical, cultural and intellectual background including religion, politics, exploration and visual culture; major writers and genres including Spenser, Sidney, Marlowe, Shakespeare and Jonson; explanations of key terms; and more.

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Provides students with an introduction to literature and its context from 1533-1642, including: the historical, cultural and intellectual background including religion, politics, exploration and visual culture; major writers and genres including Spenser, Sidney, Marlowe, Shakespeare and Jonson; explanations of key terms; and more.

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Roston demonstrates that what emerges is not a fixed or monolithic pattern for each generation but a dynamic series of responses to shared challenges. The book relates leading English writers and literary modes to contemporary developments in architecture, painting, and sculpture, exploring by a close reading of the texts and the artistic works the

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Repetition is constitutive of human life. Unlike simple recall, repetition is permeated by the past and the present and is oriented toward the future. This book investigates the significance of different forms of repetition in literature, culture, and society through studies of the function and importance of an array of repetitive phenomenon.

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This diverse collection of essays analyzes popular culture textsincluding novel, films, and television showsthat demonstrate a variety of attitudes in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks.

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Representing Kink raises awareness about nonnormative texts and erotic practices and desires through engagement with marginalized texts, practices, and ways of reading. It offers kinky readings of canonical texts, science fiction fanzines, fan fiction, self-published novels, and erotica (fan-made, self-published, and traditionally published).

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An examination of the narrative strategies used by such authors as Pushkin, Zhukova, Tolstoy, Herzen and Dostoevsky to represent young, dependent female characters. Drawing on the theories of Bakhtin, the work analyzes the degree to which women are presented as subjects who think and perceive.

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This book examines how Hawthornes notebooks provide a key for understanding the environmental elements of his fiction writing. Hawthornes four major romances are the main focus of study, but his short fiction and nonfiction also show a man convinced that human and nonhuman nature are inextricably intertwined.

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A collection of essays that discuss the assumptions, ideas, and practices that constituted the intimate lives of men and women in the ancient Mediterranean world. It also demonstrates the importance of the "History of Sexuality" for fields as diverse as Greco-Roman antiquity, women's history, cultural studies, philosophy, and modern sexuality.

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This text studies the role of marriage in the slave narratives of Henry Bibb and William and Ellen Craft. It establishes the influence of those narratives on the fiction of Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown and Martin Delany, and re-examines assumptions about slave narratives.

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