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Intimate Class Acts: Friendship and Desire in Indian and Pakistani Women's Fiction. (2016)
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Mirza, M. (2016). Intimate Class Acts: Friendship and Desire in Indian and Pakistani Women's Fiction. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199466740.001.0001

Intimate Class Acts is an interdisciplinary study of ten anglophone novels by women writers from India and Pakistan that grapple with the fascinating theme of emotional and physical intimacy between the haves and the have-nots in the Indian subcontin... Read More about Intimate Class Acts: Friendship and Desire in Indian and Pakistani Women's Fiction..

Contaminations: Beyond Dialectics in Modern Literature, Science, and Film (2016)
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Mack, M. (2016). Contaminations: Beyond Dialectics in Modern Literature, Science, and Film. Edinburgh University Press

This book enquires into the problem of various oppositions between pure entities such as nature and society, body and mind, science and the arts, subjectivity and objectivity. It examines how works of literature and cinema have contaminated construct... Read More about Contaminations: Beyond Dialectics in Modern Literature, Science, and Film.

Decadent Romanticism: 1780-1914 (2015)
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Boyiopoulos, K., & Sandy, M. (Eds.). (2015). Decadent Romanticism: 1780-1914. Ashgate Publishing

For Decadent authors, Romanticism was a source of powerful imaginative revisionism, perversion, transition, and partial negation. But for all these strong Decadent reactions against the period, the cultural phenomenon of Decadence shared with Romanti... Read More about Decadent Romanticism: 1780-1914.

Emotions in Medieval Arthurian Literature: Body, Mind, Voice (2015)
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Brandsma, F., Larrington, C., & Saunders, C. (Eds.). (2015). Emotions in Medieval Arthurian Literature: Body, Mind, Voice. D.S.Brewer

Literary texts complicate our understanding of medieval emotions; they not only represent characters experiencing emotion and reaction emotionally to the behaviour of others within the text, but also evoke and play upon emotion in the audiences which... Read More about Emotions in Medieval Arthurian Literature: Body, Mind, Voice.

Ecocriticism on the Edge: The Anthropocene as a Threshold Concept. (2015)
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Clark, T. (2015). Ecocriticism on the Edge: The Anthropocene as a Threshold Concept. Bloomsbury

The twenty-first century has seen an increased awareness of the forms of environmental destruction that cannot immediately be seen, localised or, by some, even acknowledged. Ecocriticism on the Edge explores the possibility of a new mode of critical... Read More about Ecocriticism on the Edge: The Anthropocene as a Threshold Concept..

W.B. Yeats and World Literature: the subject of poetry (2015)
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Sheils, B. (2015). W.B. Yeats and World Literature: the subject of poetry. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315547824

Arguing for a reconsideration of William Butler Yeats’s work in the light of contemporary studies of world literature, Barry Sheils shows how reading Yeats enables a fuller understanding of the relationship between the extensive map of world literary... Read More about W.B. Yeats and World Literature: the subject of poetry.