Escape Velocity: American Science Fiction Film, 1950-1982
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Today, movie theaters are packed with audiences of all ages marveling to exciting science fiction...
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Literature but Were Afraid to Ask Zizek
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Challenging the widely-held assumption that Slavoj Zizek's work is far more germane to film and...
Key Terms in Literary Theory
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This is a guide to key terms in literary theory - designed to make difficult terms, concepts and...
Masculinity and the Trials of Modern Fiction
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How do lawyers, judges and jurors read novels? And what is at stake when literature and law confront...
Men, Power and Liberation: Readings of Masculinities in Spanish American Literatures
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Each contribution to this book discusses key issues arising from the portrayal of men and the...
Mission to the Volga
Ahmad Ibn Fadlan, Tim Severin and James Montgomery
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"A compelling account which is, among other things, the earliest first-hand description of travel...
Queer Philologies: Sex, Language, and Affect in Shakespeare's Time
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For Jeffrey Masten, the history of sexuality and the history of language are intimately related. In...
Speaking of the Self: Gender, Performance, and Autobiography in South Asia
Anshu Malhotra and Siobhan Lambert-Hurley
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Many consider the autobiography to be a Western genre that represents the self as fully autonomous....
Staging Modernist Lives: H.D., Mina Loy, Nancy Cunard, Three Plays and Criticism
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Three modernist women, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle, 1886-1961), Mina Loy (1882-1966), and Nancy Cunard...
Sulpicius Severus' Vita Martini
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The Vita Martini or Life of Martin of Sulpicius Severus is one of the classic Latin hagiographies....