Pubbl/distr/stampa	Albany, : SUNY Press, c2012
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (274 p.)
Disciplina	823/.914
Altri autori (Persone)	Chitra Sankaran <1959->
Soggetto topico	Literature and history Indic literature (English) - 20th century - History and criticism
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-4384-4182-7 1-4619-0537-0
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910461674003321

Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Albany, : SUNY Press, c2012
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (274 p.)
Disciplina	823/.914
Altri autori (Persone)	Chitra Sankaran <1959->
Soggetto topico	Literature and history Indic literature (English) - 20th century - History and criticism
ISBN	1-4384-4182-7 1-4619-0537-0
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	History, Narrative, and Testimony in Amitav Ghosh's Fiction -- History, Narrative, and Testimony in Amitav Ghosh's Fiction -- Contents -- Chronological Bioprofile -- Introduction: Beyond Borders and Boundaries -- 1. Diasporic Predicaments: An Interview with Amitav Ghosh -- 2. Unlikely Encounters: Fiction and Scientific Discourse in the Novels of Amitav Ghosh -- 3. The Glass Palace: Reconnecting Two Diasporas -- 4. Resignifying "Coolie": Amitav Ghosh's The Glass Palace -- 5. The Girmitiyas' Journey in Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies -- 6. Shadows and Mysteries: Illusions of Imagined Communities in Amitav Ghosh's The Shadow Lines -- 7. Amitav Ghosh's "Imagined Communities": The Hungry Tide as a Possible "Other" World -- 8. Sharing Landscapes and Mindscapes: Ethics and Aesthetics in Amitav Ghosh's The Calcutta Chromosome -- 9. Language and Ethics in The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh -- 10. Ghosh, Language, and The Hungry Tide -- 11. Intertexuality in Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide -- 12. "Dwelling in Travel": In An Antique Land and the Making of a Resisting Post-Colonial History -- 13. The Calcutta Chromosome: A Novel of Fevers, Delirium and Discovery: A Tour de Force Transcending Genres -- 14. Inner Circles and the Voice of the Shuttle: Native Forms and Narrative Structure in Amitav Ghosh's The Circle of Reason -- Contributors -- Index.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910806143203321

Autore	Dean John Emory
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Tucson : , : University of Arizona Press, , 2016
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (246 p.)
Disciplina	810.9/9721
Soggetto topico	American literature - History and criticism Mexican literature - History and criticism Nationalism and literature Literature and history
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-8165-3370-9
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Timeline of the Texas-Mexico border, 1835-1920 -- Introduction. The Texas-Mexico border : a mythical history -- chapter 1. The collision of cultural memories on the Texas-Mexico border : Walter Prescott Webb's The Texas Rangers : a Century of Frontier Defense, Américo Paredes' George Washington Gómez : a Mexicotexan Novel, and Rolando Hinojosa's The Valley / Estampas del Valle -- chapter 2. Mexico, genesis, apocalypse : Ignacio Solares' Yankee Invasion : a Novel of Mexico City -- chapter 3. The history of all is the history of each : Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, or, Evening Redness in the West -- chapter 4. History's alternative to the past : Carlos Fuentes' The Old Gringo -- chapter 5. The archival cave of meditation in Katherine Anne Porter's Flowering Judas -- chapter 6. Remediating a refusal of history : Arturo Islas' The Rain God : a Desert Tale.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910465968503321

Autore	Lake Peter
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2017]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (683 pages)
Disciplina	822.33
Soggetto topico	Historical drama, English - History and criticism Literature and history Politics in literature
Classificazione	HIS015000LIT015000HIS037090POL010000
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction and acknowledgements -- PART II: Past into present and future: 2 and 3 Henry VI and the politics of lost legitimacy -- CHAPTER 1: Losing legitimacy: monarchical weakness and the descent into disorder -- CHAPTER 2: Disorder dissected (i): the inversion of the gender order -- CHAPTER 3: Disorder dissected (ii): the inversion of the social order -- CHAPTER 4: Hereditary 'right' and political legitimacy anatomised -- PART III: Happy endings and alternative outcomes: 1 Henry VI and Richard III -- CHAPTER 5: How not to go there: 1 Henry VI as prequel and alternative ending -- CHAPTER 6: Richard III: political ends, providential means -- CHAPTER 7: Going Roman: Richard III and Titus Andronicus compared -- PART IV: How (not) to depose a tyrant: King John and Richard II -- CHAPTER 8: The Elizabethan resonances of the reign of King John -- CHAPTER 9: The first time as polemic, the second time as play: Shakespeare's King John and The troublesome reign -- CHAPTER 10: Richard II, or the rights and wrongs of resistance -- CHAPTER 11: Shakespeare and Parsons - again -- Part V: The Essexian circle squared, or a user's guide to the politics of popularity, honour and legitimacy -- CHAPTER 12: The loss of legitimacy and the politics of commodity dissected -- CHAPTER 13: Learning to be a bastard: Hal's second (plebeian) nature -- CHAPTER 14: Festive Falstaff: of popularity, puritans and princes -- CHAPTER 15: Henry V and the fruits of legitimacy -- PART VI :Using plays to read plays: the court politics of the dramatic riposte -- CHAPTER 16: Contemporary readings: Oldcastle/Falstaff, Cobham/Essex -- CHAPTER 17: Oldcastle redivivus -- PART VII: Julius Caesar: the dangers of playing pagan and republican politics in a Christian monarchy -- CHAPTER 18: The state we're in -- CHAPTER 19: The politics of honour (in a popular state) -- CHAPTER 20: Performing honour and the politics of popularity (in a popular state) -- CHAPTER 21: The politics of popularity and faction (in a popular state) -- CHAPTER 22: The politics of prodigy, prophecy and providence (in a pagan state) -- CHAPTER 23: Between Henry V and Hamlet -- PART VIII: Disillusion: Christian and pagan style -- CHAPTER 24: Hamlet -- CHAPTER 25: The morning after the night before: Troilus and Cressida as retrospect -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910798978503321

Autore	San Miguel Pedro Luis
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2005
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (207 p.)
Disciplina	972.93/072/2
Collana	Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução
Soggetto topico	Intellectuals - Dominican Republic - Attitudes Public opinion - Dominican Republic Politics and literature Literature and history
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-8078-7699-2
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	The imagined colony : historical visions of colonial Santo Domingo -- Racial discourse and national identity : Haiti in the Dominican imaginary -- The island of forking paths : Jean Price-Mars and the history of Hispaniola -- Storytelling the nation : memory, history, and narration in Juan Bosch.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910451524703321