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World War I from Local Perspectives: History, Literature and Visual Arts
The volume explores the ways in which the Great War has been remembered and imaged in various local accounts. It provides careful readings of a wide range of sources: letters …
The Visual and the Verbal in Film, Drama, Literature and Biography
The volume explores selected relations between visual and verbal aspects of film, drama, literature and biography. The chapters deal with such areas as film adaptations, remakes, …
Henry James and the Art of Auto/biography
Henry James (1843–1916) has been widely acclaimed for the elegance of his prose, the incisiveness of his social comment, and the subtlety of his psychological analyses. Whereas …
The Beautiful and the Doomed: Essays on Literary Value
The book addresses the problem of literary value in North American literature, children’s literature, film and poetry. Chapter One: The Ennob(e)led focuses on institutions which …
The Literary Avatars of Christian Sacramentality, Theology and Practical Life in Recent Modernity
Twelve Anglicists (from France, America, Poland, and Romania) who met in Bucharest to debate Religion and Spirituality in Literature and the Arts at the ACED Conference in June …
The Evolution of Language: Towards Gestural Hypotheses
This book discusses the scope and development of the science of language evolution – a newly emergent field that investigates the origin of language. The book is addressed to …
Alice Munro: Reminiscence, Interpretation, Adaptation and Comparison
Canadian writer Alice Munro is the 2013 Nobel Laureate in Literature. This collection of essays by authors from Poland, Canada and France presents an intercultural perspective on …
Henry James' Travel
Henry James’ Travel: Fiction and Non-Fiction offers a multifaceted approach to Henry James’ idea and practice of travel from the perspective of the globalized world today. Each …
Ekphrastic Conceptualism in Postmodern British and American Novels
The relationship between the arts has fascinated people for centuries. Discussing the ancient notion of ekphrasis, this study examines the interpenetration of literary and …
Alice Munro
The book offers a new approach to the study of Alice Munro's fiction. Its innovative quality consists in juxtaposing a variety of literary analyses of selected stories with two …
Henry James Goes to War
Within the past decades, Henry James has been seen going to the movies and to Paris, both far more likely destinations for him than battlefields of the modern world. Sending him …