Byron and the Baroque
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A result of this book is: If we accept the Baroque, and seventeenth-century literature and culture, as sources of Byron’s literary dialogue with cultural tradition, we may cease to perceive the writer as an author suspended between two mutually exclusive interpretational systems, either as the liberal satirist or as the grandiose gothic seducer.
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«We Search the Past … for Our Own Lost Selves.»
Representations of Historical Experience in Recent American Fiction
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The book is a study of the most recent American fiction, published at the turn of the 21th century, which demonstrates a renewed interest in the matters of history. The author points at the ways in which subjective history has been created in the new «novel about history», written by such authors as William Gass, Richard Powers and Nicholson Baker.
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American Experience – The Experience of America
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This collection of essays is focused on the topic of experience as a concept related to the US. The essays deal with a wide range of problems and types of representation, from experience as a component of various theoretical discourses through the experience of foreign visitors and immigrants for whom America has often been a place of the Other.
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Exposures
American Gay Men’s Life Writing since Stonewall
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emphasizes the critical self-reflexivity and the personal and artistic risks characterizing gay male life writing. Focusing on more than a dozen authors, it calls on critical work by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and by Jacques Rancière, and addresses the debates within queer theory about the antisocial turn and Tomkins’s affect theory.
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Image in Modern(ist) Verse
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The book is a collection of essays on the historical development of the poetics of Imagism. It discusses various facets, strands and sub-strands of Imagism, as well as its ongoing legacy. Special attention is paid to the concepts of the image, the objective correlative, texture, and generally structure of modernist poetry.
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Crime Scenes
Modern Crime Fiction in an International Context
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examines the ways in which crime fiction has developed over several decades and in several national literary traditions. Issues discussed include genre syncretism, intertextuality, sexuality and gender, nationhood and globalization, postcolonial literature and ethical aspects of crime fiction.
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Eating America: Crisis, Sustenance, Sustainability
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This volume of essays examines the relationship between eating and crisis, both literal and metaphorical, in American literature, film, television series, the visual arts, various manifestations of popular culture, lifestyles, history and ecology. Among the issues discussed are the ethics and aesthetics of food, and sustenance in times of crisis.
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Affinities
Essays in Honour of Professor Tadeusz Rachwał
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, a collection of essays dedicated to Professor Tadeusz Rachwał includes texts written by his friends, colleagues, and disciples from Poland, the UK, and the USA. Even though the topics discussed by the particular authors differ, the volume has a definite focus on literature and culture from the early modern times to the present.
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