réf. B9781501398506Paperback / softback. New. How does a reader learn to read an unfamiliar genre The Novel in Nineteenth-Century Bengal answers this question by looking at the readers of some of the first Bengali novelists including Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay and Mir Mosharraf Hossain. Moving from the world of novels periodicals letters and reviews to that of colonial educational policies this book provides a rich literary history of the reading lives of some of the earliest novel readers in colonial India. Sunayani Bhattacharya studies the ways in which Bengalis thought about reading; how they approached the thorny question of influence; and uncovers that they relied on classical Sanskrit and Perso-Arabic literary and aesthetic models whose attendant traditions formed not a distant past but coexisted albeit contentiously with the everyday present. Challenging dominant postcolonial scholarship The Novel in Nineteenth-Century Bengal engages with the lived experience of colonial modernity as it traces the import of the Bengali reader’s choices on her quotidian life and grants access to 19th-century Bengal as a space in which the past is to be found enmeshed with the present. paperback

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The Political Uses of Literature: Global Perspectives and Theoretical Approaches 1920-2020

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Central American Literatures as World Literature

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Professor or Dr Lynn Ellen PatykBiblio.com

Funny Dostoevsky: New Perspectives on the Dostoevskian Light Side

réf. B9798765109793Paperback / softback. New. Tapping into the emergence of scholarly comedy studies since the 2000s this collection brings new perspectives to bear on the Dostoevskian light side. Funny Dostoevksy demonstrates how and why Dostoevsky is one of the most humorous 19th-century authors even as he plumbs the depths of the human psyche and the darkest facets of European modernity. The authors go beyond the more traditional categories of humor such as satire parody and the carnivalesque to apply unique lenses to their readings of Dostoevsky. These include cinematic slapstick and the body in Crime and Punishment the affective turn and hilarious and deadly impatience in Demons and ontological jokes in Notes from Underground and The Idiot. The authors – coincidentally all women including some of the most established scholars in the field alongside up-and-comers – address gender and the marginalization of comedy culminating in a chapter on Dostoevsky's "funny and furious" women and explore the intersections of gender and humor in literary and culture studies. Funny Dostoevksy applies some of the latest findings on humor and laughter to his writing while comparative chapters bring Dostoevsky's humor into conjunction with other popular works such as Chaplin’s Modern Times and Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton. Written with a verve and wit that Dostoevsky would appreciate this boldly original volume illuminates how humor and comedy in his works operate as vehicles of deconstruction pleasure play and transcendence. paperback

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Professor or Dr Hsinya HuangBiblio.com

Pacific Literatures as World Literature

réf. B9781501389368Paperback / softback. New. Pacific Literatures as World Literature is a conjuration of trans-Pacific poets and writers whose work enacts forces of “becoming oceanic” and suggests a different mode of understanding viewing and belonging to the world. The Pacific past and present remains uneasily amenable to territorial demarcations of national or marine sovereignty. At the same time as a planetary element necessary to sustaining life and well-being the Pacific could become the means to envisioning ecological solidarity if compellingly framed in terms that elicit consent and inspire an imagination of co-belonging and care. The Pacific can signify a bioregional site of coalitional promise as much as a danger zone of antagonistic peril. With ground-breaking writings from authors based in North America Japan Taiwan Korea Hawaii and Guam and new modes of research – including multispecies ethnography and practice ecopoetics and indigenous cosmopolitics – authors explore the socio-political significance of the Pacific and contribute to the development of a collective effort of comparative Pacific studies covering a refreshingly broad ethnographically grounded range of research themes. This volume aims to decenter continental/land poetics as such via long-standing transnational Pacific ties re-worlding Pacific literature as world literature. paperback

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Gold, Alan DBiblio.com

THE PRACTITIONER"S CRIMINAL CODE

2011réf. 218557Markham ON: LexisNexis 2011. Soft cover. Very Good. 1752 pages appendices in very good condition. Pages are light and clean. A small pen marking on the half-title. A sticker is attached to the inside front cover. Page edges are lightly scuffed and smudged. Corners are lightly bumped. Red and black softcovers with gold titles. Bumped around the edges and lightly stained. VG/- - LexisNexis paperback

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