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Explores the divide between practical criticism and theory in 20th century criticism to propose a new way of reading poetry. This book considers such topics as rhyme, poetic voice and language.

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Explores the divide between practical criticism and theory in 20th century criticism to propose a new way of reading poetry. This book considers such topics as rhyme, poetic voice and language.

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This work proposes a radical view of the influence that colonized societies have had on their former colonizers. It investigates the transformative effects of post-colonial resistance and the continuing relevance of colonial struggle.

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This work proposes a radical view of the influence that colonized societies have had on their former colonizers. It investigates the transformative effects of post-colonial resistance and the continuing relevance of colonial struggle.

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Investigates otherness through ten nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors: Friedrich Schlegel, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, Joseph Conrad, W B Yeats, E M Forster, Marcel Proust, Paul de Man, and Jacques Derrida.

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The simple yet grand language of the King James Bible has pervaded American culture from the beginning. This book traces the ways that American novelists ranging from Melville, and Faulkner to Marilynne Robinson, and Cormac McCarthy - have drawn on the resources of the canonical English Bible to fashion their own styles and visions of reality.

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'Philosophical Meta-Reflections on Literary Studies' takes up key meta-questions in the humanities, with focus on contemporary literary studies, philosophically examines the nature of knowledge therein as well as the implications of certain popular critical approaches, and addresses the effervescent question of 'relevance'.

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This book gives key meta-questions in the humanities, with focus on contemporary literary studies and addresses the effervescent question of 'relevance'.

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"Explores the intersections between philosophy and literature through a transnational, comparative lens"--

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Combining literary and philosophical analysis, this study defends an innovative reading of the early history of poetics. It argues that there is a distinctively Socratic view of poetry and connects the Socratic view of poetry with earlier literary tradition.

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What happens when we read novels and how do we make sense of them Inge Wimmers explores these questions by developing a flexible poetics of reading that generously opens up the interpretive space between reader and text, while drawing on current theories of reading and combining rhetorical, pragmatic, and phenomenological approaches. "Poetics," he

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'Popular Victorian women writers' is a collection of essays on a variety of women writers working within the Victorian literary marketplace. Diverse and inclusive, the great strength of this book is that its emphasis on neglected writers and refreshing new angles on more widely known authors sends its readers back eagerly to the primary texts.

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Investigates the long and controversial tradition of representing the sex act in Western art.

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Since the 1960s American and Western European gays have set the agenda for sexual liberation and defined its emergence. At the same time, gay and lesbian lifestyles in emerging countries do not always neatly fit Western paradigms, and data from those countries often clash with dominant Western models.

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This collection assembles many of the major theorists of postmodernism, across the humanities and the social sciences, to reconsider the nature and significance of the postmodern moment, as historical phase and as theoretical field. -- .

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This collection assembles many of the major theorists of postmodernism, across the humanities and the social sciences, to reconsider the nature and significance of the postmodern moment, as historical phase and as theoretical field. -- .