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Mochtar Lubis was one of Indonesia’s best-known newspaper editors, authors and cultural figures, with a national, regional and international prominence that he retained from the early 1950s until his …

In this brief and powerful book, Diana Fuss takes on the debate of pure essence versus social construct, engaging with the work of Luce Irigaray and Monique Wittig, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Houston …

Interpreting human stories, whether those told by individuals, groups, organizations, nations, or even civilizations, opens a wide scope of research options for understanding how people construct, sh …

Paul de Man – literary critic, literary philosopher, ‘American deconstructionist’ – changed the landscape of criticism through his rigorous theories and writings. Upon its original publication in 198 …

The religious associations surrounding the Bible make it difficult for the general reader to appreciate, in its full purity, the value which the Scriptures bear as literature, and as an epic in no wa …

Escaped slave, Civil War spy, scout, and nurse, and champion of women”s suffrage, Harriet Tubman is an icon of heroism. Perhaps most famous for leading enslaved people to freedom through the Undergr …

How do great moments in literary traditions arise from times of intense social and political upheaval? South African Literature”s Russian Soul charts the interplay of narrative innovation and politi …

Shedding fresh light on Wordsworth”s contested relationship with an England that changed dramatically over the course of his career, James Garrett places the poet”s lifelong attempt to control his …

In a timely and radically new reappraisal of George Orwell”s fiction, Loraine Saunders reads Orwell”s novels as tales of successful emancipation rather than as chronicles of failure. Contending tha …

This is the first book-length study of Tennyson”s record of publication in Victorian periodicals. Despite Tennyson”s supposed hostility to periodicals, Ledbetter shows that he made a career-long ha …