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Dynamic Psychology in Modernist British Fiction
Dynamic Psychology in Modernist British Fiction
G. Johnson
publisher: Springer
year: 2006
description:Dynamic Psychology in Modernist British Fiction argues that literary critics have tended to distort the impact of pre-Freudian psychological discourses, including psychical research, on Modern British Fiction. Psychoanalysis has received undue attent...
East Asian Ecocriticisms
East Asian Ecocriticisms
S. Estok; W. K...
publisher: Springer
year: 2013
description:East Asian Ecocriticisms presents original essays from Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and China that define and characterize trends in East Asian ecocriticism. Drawing on diverse theoretical perspectives in environmental thought and scholarship, this vo...
Ecocriticism and Women Writers
Ecocriticism and Women Writers
J. Kostkowska
publisher: Springer
year: 2013
description:Virginia Woolf, Jeanette Winterson, and Ali Smith share an ecological philosophy of the world as one highly interconnected entity comprised of multiple and equal, human and non-human participants. This study argues that these writers' texts have an e...
Edgar Allan Poe and the Dupin Mysteries
Edgar Allan Poe and the Dupin Mysteries
R. Kopley
publisher: Springer
year: 2008
description:Employing the methods of Poe's own detective, Edgar Allan Poe and the Dupin Mysteries offers new and surprising discoveries about Poe's stories 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue,' 'The Mystery of Marie Rogêt,' and 'The Purloined Letter.' Kopley sheds li...
Edith Wharton and the Conversations of Literary Modernism
Edith Wharton and the Conversations of Literary M...
J. Haytock
publisher: Springer
year: 2008
description:This study imagines modernism as a series of conversations and locates Edith Wharton s voice in those debates.
Elizabeth Spencer's Complicated Cartographies
Elizabeth Spencer's Complicated Cartographies
C. Seltzer
publisher: Springer
year: 2009
description:This book subjects the works of Elizabeth Spencer, critically acclaimed but canonically marginalized, to a study that reveals their interaction with the southern canon as they question its boundaries and remap the long-established landscapes of south...
Embodying Memory in Contemporary Spain
Embodying Memory in Contemporary Spain
University of ...
publisher: Springer
year: 2014
description:This innovative book examines the emergence of a memory discourse in Spain since the millennium, taking as its point of departure recent grave exhumations and the 'Law of Historical Memory.' Through an analysis of exhumation photography, novels, film...
Empire in British Girls' Literature and Culture
Empire in British Girls' Literature and Culture
M. Smith
publisher: Springer
year: 2011
description:While the gender and age of the girl may seem to remove her from any significant contribution to empire, this book provides both a new perspective on familiar girls' literature, and the first detailed examination of lesser-known fiction relating the ...
English Fiction Since 1984
English Fiction Since 1984
B. Finney
publisher: Springer
year: 2006
description:This book focuses on representative novels by eleven key English novelists who have broken from the realist novel of the post Second World War period. They have reacted to the Thatcherite revolution that thrust Britain into the modern world of multi-...
Ensina-me a Namorar
Ensina-me a Namorar
António Garcia...
publisher: BARRETO ANTONIO RODRIGO GARCIA
year: 2020
description:Julieta, uma mulher jovem, desconhecendo o paradeiro do namorado, enviado para a Guerra Colonial, depois de várias tentativas para saber notícias dele procura o apoio de um advogado que lhe é indicado por ser um "advogado de boas causas". É através d...
EntreMundos/AmongWorlds
EntreMundos/AmongWorlds
A. Keating
publisher: Springer
year: 2005
description:A multidisciplinary investigation of the concepts, impact, and writings of contemporary cultural theorist and creative writer, Gloria Anzaldua. Her work has challenged and expanded previous views in American Studies, composition studies, cultural stu...
Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture
Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture
Laurence Talairach...
publisher: Springer
year: 2014
description:Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture examines how literary fairy tales were informed by natural historical knowledge in the Victorian period, as well as how popular science books used fairies to explain natural history at a time when 'n...