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The Hebrew Bible--a socio-literary introduction. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1985.

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Gottwald, Norman K. The Hebrew Bible: A brief socio-literary introduction. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2009.

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Gupta, Santosh. Literary constructs of the self: Socio-cultural contexts. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2010.

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Vatsyayan, Promila. Rāmaćarita of Abhinanda: A literary and socio-cultural study. [Ranchi]: Vatsyayan, 1987.

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Vatsyayan, Promila. Rāmaćarita of Abhinanda: A literary and socio-cultural study. [Ranchi]: Vatsyayan, 1987.

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Awa, Magdalene Shiri Halle. The Cameroon national anthem: A historical, socio-political, literary and religious commentary. [Bamenda, Cameroon]: Magdalene Shiri Halle Awa, 2012.

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Hijiya-Kirschnereit, Irmela. Rituals of self-revelation: Shishōsetsu as literary genre and socio-cultural phenomenon. Cambridge, Mass: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1996.

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Pudełko, Brygida. Ivan Turgenev and Joseph Conrad: A study in philosophical, literary and socio-political relationships. Opole: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Opolskiego, 2012.

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Lakṣmīsuhāsini, Darbhā. Śrī Ke. Vi. Ramaṇāreḍḍi sāhitya racanalu, sāmājika rājakīya dr̥kpadhaṃ: Oka viślēṣaṇa = Literary works of Sri K.V. Ramana Reddy : a socio political analysis. Tirupati: Śrī Vēṅkaṭēśvara Viśvavidyālayaṃ, 2004.

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Herod Antipas in Galilee: The literary and archaeological sources on the reign of Herod Antipas and its socio-economic impact on Galilee. 2nd ed. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010.

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Bellande-Robertson, Florence. The Marassa concept in Lilas Desquiron's Reflections of Loko Miwa: A socio-literary analysis of the Haitian race/color and gender problematic. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co., 1999.

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Jensen, Morten Hørning. Herod Antipas in Galilee: The literary and archaeological sources on the reign of Herod Antipas and its socio-economic impact on Galilee. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2006.

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Verona, Luciano. L' analisi socio-critica del romanzo. Milano (Italy): Cisalpino-Goliardica, 1988.

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Sdegno, Emma, Martina Frank, Pierre-Henry Frangne, and Myriam Pilutti Namer. John Ruskin’s Europe. A Collection of Cross-Cultural Essays With an Introductory Lecture by Salvatore Settis. Venice: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-487-5.

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Ruskin’s work is strongly inscribed in the great European context, marking an important moment in the movement for the establishment of a community culture and spirit. The essays collected here intend to place the theme of Ruskin’s fruitful and essential relationship with Europe at the centre of a critical reflection, presenting themselves as opportunities for an in-depth study and a discussion on issues related to aesthetics, the protection of material and immaterial heritage, cultural and literary memory. By bringing to the attention of the scientific community the multiple aspects – geographic, historical-artistic, critical-aesthetic, literary, socio-political – of Ruskin’s work from inter- and transcultural perspectives, the volume aims to (re)discover a deliberately European Ruskin and to stimulate new research routes.
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Cucinelli, Diego, and Andrea Scibetta, eds. Tracing Pathways 雲路. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-5518-260-7.

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This volume collects contributions written by eight authors interested in different research areas in East Asian Studies. Divided into a Japanese and a Chinese section, it explores topics ranging from East Asian literatures to contact linguistics and sociology. The Japanese section contains four essays about contemporary Japanese cinema and different aspects of Japanese modern and contemporary literature (i.e. the literary motif of kame naku, ‘crying turtle’, yuri manga, and tenkō bungaku, the ‘literature of conversion’). The Chinese section concerns two main macro-topics: on the one hand, it focuses on issues related to cultural contacts between Italy and China; on the other hand, it deals with Chinese migration to Italy, highlighting socio-historical aspects and cultural production.
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Porter, Stanley E., and Andrew W. Pitts. Christian origins and Hellenistic Judaism: Social and literary contexts for the New Testament. Leiden: Brill, 2013.

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Pagliaro, Annamaria, and Brian Zuccala, eds. Luigi Capuana: Experimental Fiction and Cultural Mediation in Post-Risorgimento Italy. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6453-916-4.

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Luigi Capuana: Experimental Fiction and Cultural Mediation in Post-Risorgimento Italy. The studies in this collection revisit established critical positions which confine Luigi Capuana’s work within the orbits of Naturalism and Positivism. A variety of theoretical readings in the volume investigate how the author’s experimentalism and eclectic interests respond to positivist ideology, the limitations of scientific practices, and the conflicts and anxieties of the fin de siècle which arise from a change in intellectual attitudes towards new ways of interpreting reality. The volume’s three sections focus on cultural mediation and the construction of socio-literary identities, gender representation and metaliterature, and on the author’s experimentation with the natural, supernatural and fantastic. Each section illustrates how the search for the new and experimentalism constitute driving forces in the author’s artistic investigation and production, making his work an important source for a new reading of the fin de siècle’s epistemological revision.
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The women in the life of the Bridegroom: A feminist historical-literary analysis of the female characters in the Fourth Gospel. Collegeville, Minn: Liturgical Press, 1998.

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De Zordo, Ornella, and Fiorenzo Fantaccini, eds. Saggi di anglistica e americanistica. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6655-317-5.

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The third volume of Saggi di anglistica e americanistica is the last in the series published under the aegis of the University of Florence PhD course in English and American Studies which, after 25 years, will terminate its activities in 2013. This last collection once again attests to the worth of the PhD's educational programme and aims: it brings together the essays produced by ten young scholars over the last three years of research, in view of preparing their PhD dissertations. They are essays that range from literary phenomena and their historic, linguistic and socio-cultural contexts, to problems posed by texts from Anglo-American to South African, Australian and Caribbean cultures, confirming the variety of the Florence PhD students' research interests and approaches. Saggi di anglistica e americanistica. Percorsi di ricerca by Fiorenzo Fantaccini, Ornella De Zordo is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribuzione-Non commerciale-Non opere derivate 2.5 Italia License.Based on a work at www.fupress.com.
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Gottwald, Norman K. The Hebrew Bible: A Socio-Literary Introduction. Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2002.

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1945-, Gupta Santosh, Nanda Mini, and Institute for Research in Interdisciplinary Studies (Jaipur, India), eds. Literary constructs of the self: Socio-cultural contexts. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2010.

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Literary constructs of the self: Socio-cultural contexts. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2010.

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The Hebrew Bible: A Socio-Literary Introduction with CD-ROM. Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2002.

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Hijiya-Kirschnerei, Irmela. Rituals of Self-Revelation: Shishosetsu as Literary Genre and Socio-Cultural Phenomenon (Harvard East Asian Monographs). Harvard University Asia Center, 1996.

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Galatians and the Rhetoric of Crisis: Paul - Demosthenes - Cicero. Polebridge Press, 2016.

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Betsworth, Sharon. The Reign of God is Such as These: A Socio-Literary Analysis of Daughters in the Gospel of Mark. T&T Clark, 2019.

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Baydalova, Ekaterina V., Svetlana A. Kozhina, and Anastasia V. Usacheva, eds. Literary and critical periodicals in the countries of Central and South-Eastern Europe of the XX-XXI centuries: structure, typology, socio-cultural context. Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.31168/2618-8554.2020.

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The collective scientific work devoted to the problems of literary and critical periodicals as an important part of the literary process, appearing in different periods during the XX‒XXI centuries as a mouthpiece of progressive or conservative forces, a platform for theoretical justification and artistic embodiment of new literary trends. The book chapters cover the material of most Slavic, as well as Romanian and Hungarian literatures. They provide an overview and analysis of a wide range of literary and critical periodicals in the region, and in some cases — a detailed review of individual, most significant journals. The book is addressed to literary scholars, cultural scientists, students and postgraduates of philological specialties, as well as a wide range of readers interested in the culture of Central and South-Eastern Europe.
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Coulson, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen's Psychoanalytic Fiction. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474480499.001.0001.

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Despite the exceptional literary quality, remarkable conceptual sophistication and compelling socio-historical interest of Elizabeth Bowen’s writing, her fiction has received relatively little critical attention in comparison to the work of such acknowledged giants of the modern canon as, for example, Woolf and Joyce. The past decade has seen a lively burgeoning of interest in Bowen’s work, recent scholarship focusing with a new intensity on the question of the relationship between Bowen’s writing and the socio-political matrix from which it emerges. Situating itself within this new wave of scholarship and engaging closely with its socio-historical and literary-critical concerns, this book sets out to offer a provocative and substantial new account of Bowen’s fiction that highlights in particular the force and originality of Bowen’s virtually psychoanalytic thinking about development, sexuality and gender.
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Sun, Emily. On the Horizon of World Literature. Fordham University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823294787.001.0001.

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This book compares Romantic England and Republican China as asynchronous moments of incipient literary modernity in different lifeworlds. These moments were oriented alike by “world literature” as a discursive framework of classifications that connected and re-organized local articulations of literary histories and literary modernities. The book examines select literary forms—the literary manifesto, the tale collection, the familiar essay, and the domestic novel—as textual sites for the enactment of new socio-political forms-of-life. These forms function as testing grounds for questions of both literary-aesthetic and socio-political importance: What does it mean to attain a voice? What is a common reader? How does one dwell in the ordinary? What is a woman? In different languages, activating heterogeneous literary and philosophical traditions, the texts analyzed explore by literary means the far-from-settled problem of what it means to be modern in different lifeworlds and ongoing traditions. Authors studied include Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lu Xun, Charles and Mary Lamb, Lin Shu, Zhou Zuoren, Jane Austen, and Eileen Chang. This book contributes to the fields of comparative literature, British Romanticism, and modern Chinese literature.
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Colby, Georgina, ed. Reading Experimental Writing. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474440387.001.0001.

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Bringing together internationally leading scholars whose work engages with the continued importance of literary experiment, this book takes up the question of 'reading' in the contemporary climate from culturally and linguistically diverse perspectives. New reading practices are both offered and traced in avant-garde writers across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including John Cage, Kathy Acker, Charles Bernstein, Erica Hunt, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Etel Adnan, Rosmarie Waldrop, Joan Retallack, M. NourbeSe Philip, Caroline Bergvall, Uljana Wolf, Samantha Gorman and Dave Jhave Johnston, among others. Exploring the socio-political significance of literary experiment, the book yields new critical approaches to reading avant-garde writing.
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Stavrakopoulou, Francesca. The Ancient Goddess, the Biblical Scholar, and the Religious Past. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198722618.003.0028.

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This discussion interrogates the ways in which the confessional, cultural, and ideological heritages of biblical studies have shaped and disfigured the scholarly analysis of ancient West Asian goddesses. Once dismissed as ‘deviant’ or ‘demoralizing’ elements of ‘nature religions’, goddesses have been (relatively) rehabilitated within biblical scholarship. But this article argues that problematic ideologies continue to underlie and frame scholarly discourse. In particular, the essay critiques the freighted interpretations of literary and iconographic portrayals of deities including Asherah and Anat, and challenges the essentializing, reductive tendencies of scholarship dealing with issues of gender, corporeality, and personhood. It is argued that the socio-cultural contexts of biblical scholarship directly index contemporary forms of Western androcentrism, heteronormativity, and constructs of gender, so that scholarly debates about goddesses and the ‘female’ body continue to limit, distort, and cheapen the assumed socio-religious and cultural value of divine women in their ancient contexts.
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Mills, Mary E. Reading Ecclesiastes: A Literary and Cultural Exegesis. Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

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Mills, Mary E. Reading Ecclesiastes: A Literary and Cultural Exegesis. Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

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Mills, Mary E. Reading Ecclesiastes: A Literary and Cultural Exegesis. Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

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Mills, Mary E. Reading Ecclesiastes: A Literary and Cultural Exegesis. Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

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Mills, Mary E. Reading Ecclesiastes: A Literary and Cultural Exegesis. Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

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Plock, Vike Martina. Ties: Elizabeth Bowen. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474427418.003.0005.

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This chapter shows that Elizabeth Bowen’s most cosmopolitan novel, To the North (1932), strategically uses references to clothes and other sartorial items in the construction of literary character. Far from being simply the markers of characters’ socio-economic constellations, clothes, it argues, function as agents of intersubjectivity in the text. Because they are associated with the velocity and the verve of modern capitalism, clothes in To the North connect people and are responsible for the development of interpersonal energies. Although she acknowledges fashion’s tendency to promote standardized images of modern femininity, Bowen’s assessment of fashion and commodity culture therefore moves beyond outright rejection and criticism. By the same token, she developed idiosyncratic literary aesthetics that, paradoxically, represent the materiality of the world without returning to the use of realist literary conventions criticized by Woolf and other modernist writers.
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Nijhawan, Shobna. Hindi Publishing in Colonial Lucknow. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199488391.001.0001.

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Investigating the emergence of Hindi publishing in colonial Lucknow, long a stronghold of Urdu and Persian literary culture, Shobna Nijhawan offers a detailed study of literary activities emerging out of the publishing house Gaṅgā Pustak Mālā in the first half of the twentieth century. Closely associated with it was the Hindi monthly Sudhā, a literary, socio-political, and illustrated periodical, in which Hindi writings were promoted and developed for the education and entertainment of the reader. In charting the literary networks established by Dularelal Bhargava, the proprietor of Gaṅgā Pustak Mālā and chief editor of Sudhā, this volume sheds light on his role in the development of Hindi language and literature, creation of canonical literature, and commercialization and nationalization of books and periodicals in the north Indian Hindi public sphere. Using vernacular primary sources and drawing on scholarship on periodicals and publishing houses as well as editor-publishers that has emerged over the past two decades, Nijhawan shows how one publishing house singlehandedly impacted the role of Hindi in the public sphere.
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Bloomer, W. Martin. Latinitas. Edited by Daniel S. Richter and William A. Johnson. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199837472.013.5.

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This chapter examines the idea of Latinitas, Latinity, the quality of writing and speaking a pure Latin, which in its history from the beginnings of Latin literature in the third century bce has been both a socio-linguistic and a literary critical, stylistic category. Constitutive influences have been the standardization of the language of the capital as the language of an empire, the development of Latin literary styles, and the teaching of Latin in the various Roman schools. Latin was the dialect of Latium, the sociolect of the ruling elite, the language of imperial and military administration, and as a consequence of the last a far-flung language. Latinity as a norm thus faced considerable challenges. In the context of the later schools, ancient and medieval, Latinity came to be a norm to preserve the written language and a science (grammar) to discover and check rules of orthography and expression.
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Williams, Gareth D. From Memory to Modernity. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190272296.003.0003.

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Chapter 2 builds on the mnemonic significance of the Etna Idea as traced in Chapter 1, partly by relating Pietro Bembo’s activation of literary memory on Etna to the Classical phenomenon of mnemonic topography, or the embedding of the socio-historical, cultural, and literary past into descriptions of material landscape. De Aetna is also viewed in Chapter 2 in relation to the Renaissance tradition of travel writings that combined topographical surveillance with the visitation of antiquity in merging past and present, or in connecting place description with antiquarian recovery. A further memory function of De Aetna lies in its possible dialogue with, and even its direct response to, Petrarch’s celebrated account of his ascent of Mont Ventoux in 1336. The chapter duly visits that account, but as part of a larger attempt to locate Pietro’s Etna adventure within the broader history of mountaineering and the mixed attitudes to mountains from antiquity to the sixteenth century.
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Rooney, Brigid. The Novel in Australia from the 1950s. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199679775.003.0008.

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This chapter examines the history of the Australian novel from the 1950s, focusing on the socio-cultural context in which the Australian novel has become heterogeneous in size, outlook, and ethnic composition. It first considers developments in the 1950s–1970s, when Patrick White emerged as a powerful canonical agent in the modernization of Australian literary culture by challenging white Australian conservatism. It then turns to the period 1972–1988, which saw the emergence of novels that reflected progressive nationalism, multicultural diversity reflecting Australia’s changing demographic, the appearance of Indigenous writing, and the new perspectives brought by feminist and revisionist history. It also discusses publishing in the 1990s and beyond, when Australian fiction contested the deep silences brought by colonization and made a shift to transnationalism. The chapter concludes with an assessment of recipients of the Miles Franklin Literary Award and an analysis of the ways in which the novel in Australia has affirmed the interconnectedness of Australian literature with its region and the world.
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Breitenwischer, Dustin, Hanna-Myriam Häger, and Julian Menninger, eds. Faktuales und fiktionales Erzählen II. Ergon Verlag, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783956505126.

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This volume deals with historically specific forms of factual and fictional narration within literature and various non-literary media. The contributions address the question of how and why the respective medium, the historical context, socio-cultural norms, and aesthetic conventions can (or cannot) formulate certain claims to factuality or fictionality within a given narrative. More specifically, the collected essays clarify that the validity claims of a text are equally tied to its historical framework, its particular medium, and its respective narrative practice. The discussion, analysis, and comparison of historical peculiarities on the one hand and an extended media arsenal on the other thus enables the contributors to uncover and describe narrative-specific characteristics of factual and fictional narration in their diverse forms of expression. In line with the disciplinary diversity of its contributors, the volume is aimed both at media-scientifically oriented narratologists and literary scholars as well as social scientist and scholars in the humanities who are invested in the interdisciplinarity of narrative theory.
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Balachandran, Jyoti Gulati. Narrative Pasts. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190123994.001.0001.

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Narrative Pasts explores the narrative power of texts—genealogical, historical, and biographical—in creating communities. It retrieves the social history of a Muslim community in Gujarat, a region that has one of the earliest records of Muslim presence in the Indian subcontinent. By reconstructing the literary, social, and historical world of Sufi preceptors, disciples, and descendants from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, the book reveals the importance of learned Muslim men in imparting a distinct regional and historical identity to Gujarat. The prominence of Gujarat’s maritime location has often oriented the study of Gujarat towards the commercial world of the western Indian Ocean world. Narrative Pasts demonstrates that Gujarat was also an integral part of the historical and narrative processes that shaped medieval and early modern South Asia. Employing new and rarely used literary materials in Persian and Arabic, this book departs from the narrow state-centred visions of the Muslim past and integrates Gujarat’s sultanate and Mughal past with the larger socio-cultural histories of Islamic South Asia.
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Howells, Coral Ann, Paul Sharrad, and Gerry Turcotte, eds. The Oxford History of the Novel in English. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199679775.001.0001.

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This book explores the history of English-language prose fiction in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South Pacific since 1950, focusing not only on the ‘literary’ novel, but also on the processes of production, distribution and reception, and on popular fiction and the fictional sub-genres, as well as the work of major novelists, movements, and tendencies. After World War II, the rise of cultural nationalism in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand and movements towards independence in the Pacific islands, together with the turn toward multiculturalism and transnationalism in the postcolonial world, called into question the standard national frames for literary history. This resulted in an increasing recognition of formerly marginalised peoples and a repositioning of these national literatures in a world literary context. The book explores the implications of such radical change through its focus on the English-language novel and the short story, which model the crises in evolving narratives of nationhood and the reinvention of postcolonial identities. Shifting socio-political and cultural contexts and their effects on novels and novelists, together with shifts in fictional modes (realism, modernism, the Gothic, postmodernism) are traced across these different regions. Attention is given not only to major authors but also to Indigenous and multicultural fiction, children's and young adult novels, and popular fiction. Chapters on book publishing, critical reception, and literary histories for all four areas are included in this innovative presentation of a Trans-Pacific postcolonial history of the novel.
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Callow, Chris. Comparing Medieval Iceland with other Regions. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198777601.003.0031.

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One of the hallmarks of the honorand’s research has been its breadth, its active attempts to compare how different medieval societies worked, and its awareness of how different academic communities think about their subjects. In different places Iceland has figured as a frame of reference. This chapter aims to consider briefly how Iceland serves as a comparator now, some thirty years after a growth in anglophone scholarship helped develop interest in the country. In that period Icelandic archaeology has developed significantly and international scholarly trends have influenced the literary and historical scholarship related to Iceland. It briefly considers ways in which Iceland’s socio-political structures might be considered differently to how they were thirty years ago, and how recent views of other medieval Western societies suggest some new similarities and differences between Iceland and elsewhere.
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Choi, Mihwa. Burial. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190459765.003.0006.

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Burials had become a focal point of some Confucian efforts to build a socio-moral order based on Confucian norms. “Simple burial,” idealized by scholar-officials, used a simple pit tomb with minimal burial items, based on the mainstream Confucian tradition of rejecting literary and material expression of the concrete social imaginaries of the world-beyond. Its focus rested with a tomb inscription tablet highlighting the public accomplishments and virtue of the deceased. On the other hand, many rich merchants were able to conduct a “lavish burial,” believing that the material furnishing of the tomb would actually influence the soul’s transitional process and its well-being in the world-beyond. Nevertheless, there were some exceptional cases that did not fit into the general pattern of correlations between social groups and burial practices, which suggests that tombs tended to remain as private spaces.
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Schwarb, Gregor. Excursus III. Edited by Sabine Schmidtke. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199696703.013.016.

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This article examines the reception of Neo-Ashʿarite theology during the Renaissance of Syriac and Copto-Arabic literature. It first looks at the so-called ‘Syriac Renaissance’ of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and the ‘Renaissance of Copto-Arabic literature’ of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. It discusses some of the factors that contributed to the ‘Golden Age’ of Syriac and Copto-Arabic literature, including the political stability of Ayyūbid rule that provided favourable conditions to the flowering of the socio-cultural life among Muslims and non-Muslims. It then assesses the impact of the Coptic and Syriac Renaissances on scientific-literary production and the influence of earlier authors of Christian-Arabic literature on the exponents of the Syriac and Copto-Arabic Renaissances. It also analyses the Christian reception of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī in Ayyūbid Syria and Egypt during the Renaissance of Syriac and Copto-Arabic literature.
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de Gay, Jane. Virginia Woolf and Christian Culture. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474415637.001.0001.

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This wide-ranging study demonstrates that Woolf, despite her agnostic upbringing, was profoundly interested in, and knowledgeable about, Christianity as a faith and a socio-political movement. Jane de Gay provides a strongly contextual approach, first revealing the extent of the Christian influences on Woolf’s upbringing, including an analysis of the far-reaching influence of the Clapham Sect, and then drawing attention to the importance of Christianity among Woolf’s friends and associates. It shows that Woolf’s awareness of the ongoing influence of Christian ideas and institutions informed her feminist critique of society in Three Guineas. The book sheds new light on works including Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and The Waves by revealing her fascination with the clergy, the Madonna, churches and cathedrals; her interest in the Bible as artefact and literary text; and her wrestling with questions about salvation and the nature of God.
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Davidson, Hilary. Holding the Sole. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198802648.003.0006.

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For centuries, people have invested shoes with supernatural powers beyond their daily functionality. Their moulding quality makes them vessels for holding emotions, containing agency, and transmitting talismanic potencies of the self, body, and socio-cultural environments and authorities. This chapter explores magical and emotional uses of shoes in three historical contexts: folk and fairy tales, saints’ relics, and deliberately concealed shoes. Supernatural shoes in tales inscribe punishments or give aid. This magical agency finds parallels in shoes associated with saints. Relic shoes transmit saints’ posthumous holiness or are material embodiments of their souls. Finally, the supernatural is explored around shoes deliberately concealed in buildings throughout the pre-modern period. The beliefs involved mirror each other in polarities between oral/literary, recording/concealing, doctrine/practice, sacred/profane, public/private, held in shoes as material cultural vessels. The physical shoe is linked to the power of the sacralized supernatural shoe as elevated, evoking wonder and awe.
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Morris, Pam. Conclusion. Edinburgh University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474419130.003.0008.

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The foregoing chapters trace a profound literary response to a redistribution of the perceptible, a socio-cultural turning away from the tangible experience of existence to forms of abstraction. Drawing upon eighteenth-century empiricism, both Austen and Woolf oppose individualism and regimes that assert mind over matter. Disembodiment of experience, they show, veils our shared creaturely existence, awareness of which underpins the common life and fellowship. For both writers, embodied self, things, others, culture, and physical universe are inseparable from the compound existence that is life. Things constitute self, a shared world and the infrastructure of national and global reality. Neither Austen nor Woolf is revolutionary; they do not seek a redistribution of wealth or the social order. They articulate a redistribution of the perceptible. The experimental worldly realism, they practice, especially the innovative use of focalisation, evokes horizontal, mutually determining relationships between embodied people, things social and physical universes, an egalitarian writerly space in which potentially nothing is mute or invisible.
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