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“scott dimovitz”

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  • Angela Carter: Surrealist, Psychologist, Moral Pornographer

    by Scott Dimovitz ...
    Contributing to the conversation regarding Angela Carter's problematic relationship with what she viewed as the interrelated traditions of surrealism and psychoanalysis, Scott Dimovitz explores the intricate connections between Carter's private life and her public writing. He begins with Carter's assertion that it was through her "sexual and emotional life" that she was radicalized, drawing ... Read more

    $96.99 CAD

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  • Jack the Ripper in Film and Culture

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  • The Postcolonial Intellectual

    Ngugi wa Thiong’o in Context

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  • The Vampire in Contemporary Popular Literature

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  • Place and Progress in the Works of Elizabeth Gaskell

    by Lesa Scholl, Emily Morris ...
    Critical assessments of Elizabeth Gaskell have tended to emphasise the regional and provincial aspects of her writing, but the scope of her influence extended across the globe. Building on theories of space and place, the contributors to this collection bring a variety of geographical, industrial, psychological, and spatial perspectives to bear on the vast range of Gaskell’s literary output and on ... Read more

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  • Romance Fiction and American Culture

    Love as the Practice of Freedom?

    Edited by William A. Gleason, Eric Murphy Selinger ...
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  • Space and Narrative in the Nineteenth-Century British Historical Novel

    by Tom Bragg ...
    Demonstrating that nineteenth-century historical novelists played their rational, trustworthy narrators against shifting and untrustworthy depictions of space and place, Tom Bragg argues that the result was a flexible form of fiction that could be modified to reflect both the different historical visions of the authors and the changing aesthetic tastes of the reader. Bragg focuses on Scott, ... Read more

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  • Economic Investigations in Twentieth-Century Detective Fiction

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    In his study of Golden Age and hard-boiled detective fiction from 1890 to 1950, Yan Zi-Ling argues that these two subgenres can be distinguished not only by theme and style, but by the way they structure knowledge, value, and productive labour. Using the detective as a reference point and enactor of socially based interests, Yan shows that Golden Age texts are distinguished by their ... Read more

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