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Reshaping Classical Traditions

In Blindness and Insight , de Man examines several critics and finds in their writings a gap between their statements about the nature of literature and the results of their practical criticism. Not …

The ‘Eumenides’, the concluding drama in Aeschylus” sole surviving trilogy, the ‘Oresteia’, is not only one of the most admired Greek tragedies, but also one of the most controversial and contested, …

Subjectivity and Identity is a philosophical and interdisciplinary study that critically evaluates critically the most important philosophical, sociological, psychological and literary debates on sub …

Writing and America surveys the writing genres that have contributed to the American notions of America . Essays from scholars from both side of the Atlantic chart the range of responses to American …

Given the welcomed shift throughout the academy away from essentialist and biologically fixed understandings of ‘race’ and the body, it is a curiosity worth exploring that so many sophisticated-and e …

How fictional representations of dead bodies develop over the twentieth century is the central concern of Lisa K. Perdigao”s study of American writers. Arguing that the crisis of bodily representati …

British modernism came of age at a time of great cultural anxiety about the state of journalism. The new newspapers, with their brief, flashy articles, striking visuals, hyperbolic headlines, and sen …

Deanna Fernie analyzes the significance of sculpture in Hawthorne”s fiction through the recurring motif of the fragment in its double guise as ruin and project. Her book casts new light on Hawthorne …

Though his writings have long been integral to the canon of early modern English literature, it is only in very recent scholarship that Edmund Spenser has been understood as a preeminent anthropologi …

Arguing for renewed attention to covert same-sex-oriented writing (and to authorial intention more generally), this study explores the representation of female and male homosexuality in late sixteent …