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This volume brings together papers that examine American literary texts and cultural phenomena as manifestations and/or expressions of nostalgia. Inspired by Svetlana Boym's seminal study The Future of Nostalgia (2001), the authors of the sixteen chapters demonstrate that this sentiment proves to be a useful key in the process, opening up new interpretive vistas and enabling new critical insights. The experience that comes under scrutiny in these texts is informed by the fundamental division into a certain "present," which is the domain of insatiability, and a certain "past" - the locus of at-

American literature --- Nostalgia in literature. --- History and criticism.

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This book examines the feeling that we often refer to as ‘nostalgia’ from the perspective of writers and artists located on the (imperial, Soviet, and Post-Soviet) periphery of Russian culture who regard the centre of the culture from which they have been excluded with varying degrees of longing and ambivalence. The literary and artistic texts analysed here have been shaped by these author’s ruminations on social and psychological marginalization, a process that S. Boym has called ‘reflective nostalgia’ and that the authors of this volume also refer to as ‘toska’.

Russian literature --- Melancholy in literature. --- Nostalgia in literature. --- History and criticism.

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Looking Back at al-Andalus focuses on Arabic and Hebrew Literature that expresses the loss of al-Andalus from multiple vantage points. In doing so, this book examines the definition of al-Andalus’ literary borders, the reconstruction of which navigates between traditional generic formulations and actual political, military and cultural challenges. By looking at a variety of genres, the book shows that literature aiming to recall and define al-Andalus expresses a series of symbolic literary objects more than a geographic and political entity fixed in a single time and place. Looking Back at al-Andalus offers a unique examination into the role of memory, language, and subjectivity in presenting a series of interpretations of what al-Andalus represented to different writers at different historical-cultural moments.

Arabic literature --- Hebrew literature --- Nostalgia in literature. --- Littérature arabe --- Littérature hébraïque --- Nostalgie dans la littérature --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Andalusia (Spain) --- Andalousie (Espagne) dans la littérature --- In literature. --- Nostalgia in literature --- History and criticism

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Aesthetics of Nostalgia reads Anglo-Saxon historical verse in terms of how its aesthetic form interacted with the culture and politics of the period.

English poetry --- Literature and history --- Nostalgia in literature. --- History in literature. --- History and literature --- History and poetry --- Poetry and history --- History --- History and criticism. --- England. --- Angleterre --- Anglii͡ --- Anglija --- Engeland --- Inghilterra --- Inglaterra

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Drama --- Gender identity in literature. --- Gender identity --- Greek drama --- Literature and society --- Masculinity in literature. --- Masculinity --- Men in literature. --- Men --- Nostalgia in literature. --- Nostalgia --- Psychological aspects. --- History and criticism. --- Gender identity in literature --- Masculinity in literature --- Men in literature --- Nostalgia in literature --- Human males --- Human beings --- Males --- Effeminacy --- Masculinity (Psychology) --- Sex (Psychology) --- Masculinity (Psychology) in literature --- Sex identity (Gender identity) --- Sexual identity (Gender identity) --- Identity (Psychology) --- Queer theory --- Psychological aspects --- History and criticism --- Gender dysphoria