Spotlights
- Topics in American Studies: History, Literature, and Culture 2
- Nomadisms: Essays Mapping the Manitoba-Szeged Partnership
- Cricles and Lines
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Topics in American Studies: History, Literature, and Culture 2
SpotlightRead MoreThis new volume of AMERICANA eBooks, part of the Szeged Series in American Studies (SZESAS), addresses the issue of US society and culture at the threshold of crisis and healing in a selection of American literary representations. American society and culture has mostly been fragmented along many fracture lines, and the volume offers a collection of essays that focus on literary representations of these. The papers explore a diverse range of texts from highly canonized to almost marginal by interrogating the possibilities of transformation, agency, and the limits to healing. The...
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Nomadisms: Essays Mapping the Manitoba-Szeged Partnership
SpotlightRead MoreThe topic of the 2023 conference was Nomadisms, a concept that provided a pro-active, large academic platform that helped rebuild lost ties, find new and strengthen the existing ones. The topic also alluded to the circumstances of the partnership communities of Canadian and Hungarian scholars, alternatively moving between Szeged and Winnipeg in the past decades but also the the exchange of ideas, projects, texts that happened between and among colleages throughout the years.
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Cricles and Lines
SpotlightRead MoreThis book traces the journeys at the heart of Ursula K. Le Guin’s (1929-2018) Hainish Cycle—across planets, across identities, across the very boundaries of time—and explores the diverse implications of her protagonists’ voyages, as acts of escape, confrontation, healing, and transformation. Through close readings of The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed, The Telling, and the late stories that reflect on and challenge the traditional quest formula, it argues that Le Guin’s characters are frequently denied the possibility of return, and must...
