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- Cricles and Lines
- Continuities and Discontinuities in Intercultural Dialogues
- Topics in American Studies: History, Literature, and Culture 1
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Cricles and Lines
KiemeltTovábbThis 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...
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Continuities and Discontinuities in Intercultural Dialogues
KiemeltTovábbContinuities and Discontinuities in Intercultural Dialogues: Essays Mapping the Manitoba-Szeged Partnership is the third volume of the partnership between the University of Manitoba and the University of Szeged. In 2026, we celebrate twenty-two years from the initiation of the Manitoba–Szeged cooperation and we are thrilled to see our partnership not only surviving but indeed thriving throughout the years. This long period of time reflects, among many other things, a significant commitment on both sides that prospers on trust, effort and conscious joint nurturing of a...
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Topics in American Studies: History, Literature, and Culture 1
KiemeltTovábbThis volume of Americana eBooks has been designed to explore the theme of crisis in US culture and history, showing specific concern with changes generated by critical periods in the country’s history. As well as spanning various periods, the chapters encompass a diversity of topics and approaches ranging from historical linguistics through contemporary popular culture and film studies. With few exceptions, they all revolve around the problem of change and transformation – a concomitant effect of crisis – probing into its wider significance in American culture.
