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59 produkter
Thomas Pynchon and the Digital Humanities
Computational Approaches to Style
Av Erik Ketzan, Bryan Cheyette
Inbunden, 2021
1554 kr
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Thomas Pynchon’s style has dazzled and bewildered readers and critics since the 1960s, and this open access book employs computational methods from the digital humanities to reveal heretofore unknown stylistic trends over the course of Pynchon’s career, as well as challenge critical assumptions …
Politics of Jewishness in Contemporary World Literature
The Holocaust, Zionism and Colonialism
Av Isabelle Hesse, Bryan Cheyette
Häftad, 2017
642 kr
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Reading a wide range of novels from post-war Germany to Israeli, Palestinian and postcolonial writers, The Politics of Jewishness in Contemporary World Literature is a comprehensive exploration of changing cultural perceptions of Jewishness in contemporary writing. Examining how representations of …
Encyclopaedism and Totality in Contemporary Fiction
Av Kiron Ward, Bryan Cheyette m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
480 kr
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Taking as key examples work by Don DeLillo, Leslie Marmon Silko, Roberto Bolaño, and Karen Tei Yamashita, this book looks at engagements with encyclopaedic thought and practice in contemporary fiction. Chapters provide important new insights into the new ways that authors approach, reclaim, and use …
Ghetto
A Very Short Introduction
E-bok, 2020
95 kr
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For three hundred years the ghetto defined Jewish culture in the late medieval and early modern period in Western Europe. In the nineteenth-century it was a free-floating concept which travelled to Eastern Europe and the United States. Eastern European “ghettosâ€, which enabled genocide, were …
Ghetto
A Very Short Introduction
E-bok, 2020
95 kr
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For three hundred years the ghetto defined Jewish culture in the late medieval and early modern period in Western Europe. In the nineteenth-century it was a free-floating concept which travelled to Eastern Europe and the United States. Eastern European “ghettosâ€, which enabled genocide, were …
The Oxford History of the Novel in English
Volume 7: British and Irish Fiction Since 1940
Av Cheyette Boxall, Peter Boxall m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
3265 kr
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The Oxford History of the Novel in English is a 12-volume series presenting a comprehensive, global, and up-to-date history of English-language prose fiction and written by a large, international team of scholars. The series is concerned with novels as a whole, not just the 'literary' novel, and …
The Ghetto
A Very Short Introduction
Häftad, 2020
116 kr
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For three hundred years the ghetto defined Jewish culture in the late medieval and early modern period in Western Europe. In the nineteenth-century it was a free-floating concept which travelled to Eastern Europe and the United States. Eastern European “ghettos”, which enabled genocide, were …
Constructions of 'the Jew' in English Literature and Society
Racial Representations, 1875-1945
Häftad, 1995
823 kr
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Bryan Cheyette combines cultural theory, discourse analysis, and new historicism with close readings of work by Arnold, Trollope and George Eliot, Buchan and Kipling, Shaw and Wells, Belloc and Chesterton, T. S. Eliot and James Joyce, to argue that 'the Jew' lies at the heart of modern English …
Modernity, Culture and 'The Jew'
Av Bryan Cheyette, Laura Marcus
Häftad, 1998
341 kr
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This book provides a rich and wide-ranging analysis of Jewish history and culture, relating them to theories of modernity and postmodernity and to recent debates on ethnicity and postcolonialism. Issues addressed include psychoanalysis and gender, literary anti-semitism, (post)modernity and 'the …
Muriel Spark
Häftad, 2000
385 kr
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Muriel Spark is widely considered to be one of the most gifted and innovative British novelists of her generation. Professor Cheyette's study is the first to explore her twenty novels as a whole and includes discussion of her short stories, poems and literary criticism.
Contemporary Jewish Writing in Britain and Ireland
Häftad, 1998
512 kr
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Contemporary Jewish Writing in Britain and Ireland presents a wide range of writers—some at the heart of British culture, others outside the mainstream—who address the issue of Jewish cultural difference in Great Britain and Ireland. Editor Bryan Cheyette has assembled a striking roster of writers …
Between 'Race' and Culture
Representations of 'the Jew' in English and American Literature
Inbunden, 1996
1440 kr
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This collection of essays examines various representations of "the Jew" in British and American literature in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It analyzes in detail the literary racism and antisemitism of some of the most important and influential writers of this period, including Dickens, …
Between 'Race' and Culture
Representations of 'the Jew' in English and American Literature
Häftad, 1996
346 kr
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This collection of essays examines various representations of "the Jew" in British and American literature in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It analyzes in detail the literary racism and antisemitism of some of the most important and influential writers of this period, including Dickens, …
Jonathan Lethem and the Galaxy of Writing
Av Joseph Brooker, Bryan Cheyette
Inbunden, 2019
1961 kr
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Author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude, Jonathan Lethem is one of the most celebrated and significant American writers working today. This new scholarly study draws on a deep knowledge of all Lethem’s work to explore the range of his writing, from his award-winning fiction to …
Writing After Postcolonialism
Francophone North African Literature in Transition
Av Jane Hiddleston, Bryan Cheyette
Inbunden, 2017
2123 kr
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‘Focusing on francophone writing from North Africa as it has developed since the 1980s, Writing After Postcolonialism explores the extent to which the notion of ‘postcolonialism’ is still resonant for literary writers a generation or more after independence, and examines the troubled status of …
South African Literature's Russian Soul
Narrative Forms of Global Isolation
Av Jeanne-Marie Jackson, Bryan Cheyette
Häftad, 2017
642 kr
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How do great moments in literary traditions arise from times of intense social and political upheaval? South African Literature’s Russian Soul charts the interplay of narrative innovation and political isolation in two of the world’s most renowned non-European literatures. In this book, …
Life Lines: Writing Transcultural Adoption
Av John McLeod, Bryan Cheyette
Häftad, 2017
642 kr
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Adoptions that cross the lines of culture, race and nation are a major consequence of conflicts around the globe, yet their histories and representations have rarely been considered. Life Lines: Writing Transcultural Adoption is the first critical study to explore narratives of transcultural …
Transatlantic Fictions of 9/11 and the War on Terror
Images of Insecurity, Narratives of Captivity
Av Susana Araújo, Bryan Cheyette
Häftad, 2017
642 kr
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Extending the study of post-9/11 literature to include transnational perspectives, this book explores the ways in which contemporary writers from Europe as well as the USA have responded to the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the ensuing 'war on terror.' Transatlantic Fictions of 9/11 and the …
Postcolonialism After World Literature
Relation, Equality, Dissent
Av Lorna Burns, Bryan Cheyette
Inbunden, 2019
1961 kr
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Postcolonial studies took shape in response to the nationalist and decolonization movements of the twentieth century. Today, a resurgent interest in world literature reflects an increased awareness of globalization. These twin projects are torn between a criticism that finds in the text the trace …
New Media and the Transformation of Postmodern American Literature
From Cage to Connection
Av Casey Michael Henry, Bryan Cheyette
Inbunden, 2019
1961 kr
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How has American literature after postmodernism responded to the digital age? Drawing on insights from contemporary media theory, this is the first book to explore the explosion of new media technologies as an animating context for contemporary American literature. Casey Michael Henry examines the …
Northern Irish Writing After the Troubles
Intimacies, Affects, Pleasures
Av Caroline Magennis, Bryan Cheyette
Inbunden, 2021
1635 kr
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Winner of the British Association for Comtemporary Literary Stuides (BACLS) monograph prizeThe period since the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 has seen a sustained decrease in violence and, at the same time, Northern Ireland has undergone a literary renaissance, with a fresh generation of writers …
David Mitchell's Post-Secular World
Buddhism, Belief and the Urgency of Compassion
Av Rose Harris-Birtill, Bryan Cheyette
Inbunden, 2019
1961 kr
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Since the publication of Ghostwritten (1999), David Mitchell has rapidly established himself as one of the most inventive and important British novelists of the 21st century. In this landmark study, Rose Harris-Birtill reveals the extent to which Mitchell has created an interconnected fictional …
Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic Novel
Critical Temporalities and the End Times
Av Diletta De Cristofaro, Bryan Cheyette
Inbunden, 2019
1961 kr
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Traditional apocalyptic texts concern the advent of a better world at the end of history that will make sense of everything that happened before. But what is at stake in the contemporary shift to apocalyptic narratives in which the utopian end of time is removed? The Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic …
Writing After Postcolonialism
Francophone North African Literature in Transition
Av Jane Hiddleston, Bryan Cheyette
Häftad, 2019
577 kr
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‘Focusing on francophone writing from North Africa as it has developed since the 1980s, Writing After Postcolonialism explores the extent to which the notion of ‘postcolonialism’ is still resonant for literary writers a generation or more after independence, and examines the troubled status of …
David Foster Wallace's Toxic Sexuality
Hideousness, Neoliberalism, Spermatics
Av Edward Jackson, Bryan Cheyette
Inbunden, 2020
1798 kr
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David Foster Wallace’s Toxic Sexuality: Hideousness, Neoliberalism, Spermatics is the first full-length study of perhaps the most controversial aspect of Wallace’s work – male sexuality. Departing from biographical accounts of Wallace’s troubled relationship to sex, the book offers new and engaging …
Jeanette Winterson’s Narratives of Desire
Rethinking Fetishism
Av Shareena Z. Hamzah-Osbourne, Bryan Cheyette
Inbunden, 2021
1635 kr
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Putting forward a new theory of fetishism - alternative fetishism - this book provides an up-to-date examination of the work of Jeanette Winterson, offering fresh perspectives and new insights on the topics of gender, sexuality, and identity in her writing. Combining contemporary theories in …
David Mitchell's Post-Secular World
Buddhism, Belief and the Urgency of Compassion
Av Rose Harris-Birtill, Bryan Cheyette
Häftad, 2020
561 kr
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Since the publication of Ghostwritten (1999), David Mitchell has rapidly established himself as one of the most inventive and important British novelists of the 21st century. In this landmark study, Rose Harris-Birtill reveals the extent to which Mitchell has created an interconnected fictional …
New Media and the Transformation of Postmodern American Literature
From Cage to Connection
Av Casey Michael Henry, Bryan Cheyette
Häftad, 2020
517 kr
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How has American literature after postmodernism responded to the digital age? Drawing on insights from contemporary media theory, this is the first book to explore the explosion of new media technologies as an animating context for contemporary American literature. Casey Michael Henry examines the …
Creaturely Forms in Contemporary Literature
Narrating the War Against Animals
Av Dominic O'Key, Bryan Cheyette
Inbunden, 2022
1554 kr
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We are living through a period of planetary crisis, a time in which the mass production and consumption of some animals is made possible by the mass extinction of many others. What is the role of literature in responding to this war against animals? How might literary criticism read for animals?In …
Creaturely Forms in Contemporary Literature
Narrating the War Against Animals
Av Dominic O'Key, Bryan Cheyette
Häftad, 2023
496 kr
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We are living through a period of planetary crisis, a time in which the mass production and consumption of some animals is made possible by the mass extinction of many others. What is the role of literature in responding to this war against animals? How might literary criticism read for animals?In …
