Cambridge Studies in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Culture – serie
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23 produkter
The Near Future in Twenty-First-Century Fiction
Climate, Retreat and Revolution
Inbunden, 2022
1351 kr
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A growing awareness of climate change and looming planetary crisis has put unprecedented pressure on the near future, leading to an increasing amount of fiction being set there. But what do these disparate works have in common, other than their temporal setting? And what can the imagination of the …
The Near Future in Twenty-First-Century Fiction
Climate, Retreat and Revolution
Häftad, 2026
438 kr
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A growing awareness of climate change and looming planetary crisis has put unprecedented pressure on the near future, leading to an increasing amount of fiction being set there. But what do these disparate works have in common, other than their temporal setting? And what can the imagination of the …
Contemporary American Fiction and Cultures of Self-Help
Inbunden, 2025
1704 kr
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This is a book about the encounters that contemporary North American fiction stages with distinct strands of self-help. Its central argument is that the varied practices of ever-expanding and diversifying self-help cultures are generatively elastic sites of inspiration as well as antagonism for …
Entangled Life in Twenty-First-Century Fiction
A Multi-scalar Poetics
Inbunden, 2026
1797 kr
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Liliane Campos argues that contemporary fiction is shaping a new, multi-scalar view of life. In the early twenty-first century, humans face complex relations of dependency with the invisibly small and the ungraspably huge, from the viral to the planetary. Entangled Life examines how Anglophone …
British Black and Asian Poetry
Race, Aesthetics and Politics 1970-2023
Av Omaar Hena
Häftad, 2026
606 kr
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This book examines a wide sweep of prominent Black and Asian British poets, from Linton Kwesi Johnson and Jean 'Binta' Breeze through David Dabydeen, Bernardine Evaristo, and Jason Allen-Paisant. Throughout, Omaar Hena demonstrates how these poets engage with urgent crises surrounding race and …
British Black and Asian Poetry
Race, Aesthetics and Politics 1970-2023
Av Omaar Hena
Inbunden, 2026
1797 kr
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This book examines a wide sweep of prominent Black and Asian British poets, from Linton Kwesi Johnson and Jean 'Binta' Breeze through David Dabydeen, Bernardine Evaristo, and Jason Allen-Paisant. Throughout, Omaar Hena demonstrates how these poets engage with urgent crises surrounding race and …
The New Believers
Religion and the Contemporary Novel
Av Jack Dudley
Häftad, 2026
645 kr
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The New Believers identifies a group of today's most important novelists, Margaret Atwood, J. M. Coetzee, Junot Díaz, and George Saunders, who have challenged the trend of depressing and defeatist novelistic endings by turning to spiritual beliefs, powers, and presences. Through spiritual belief, …
The New Believers
Religion and the Contemporary Novel
Av Jack Dudley
Inbunden, 2026
1759 kr
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The New Believers identifies a group of today's most important novelists, Margaret Atwood, J. M. Coetzee, Junot Díaz, and George Saunders, who have challenged the trend of depressing and defeatist novelistic endings by turning to spiritual beliefs, powers, and presences. Through spiritual belief, …
Climate Change and the Contemporary Novel
Inbunden, 2019
1585 kr
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Climate change is becoming a major theme in the contemporary novel, as authors reflect concerns in wider society. Given the urgency and enormity of the problem, can literature (and the emotional response it provokes) play a role in answering the complex ethical issues that arise because of climate …
Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing
The New Audacity
Inbunden, 2020
1832 kr
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Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing is the first volume to identify and analyse the 'new audacity' of recent feminist writings from life. Characterised by boldness in both style and content, willingness to explore difficult and disturbing experiences, the refusal of victimhood, and a lack of respect …
Conceptualising the Global in the Wake of the Postmodern
Literature, Culture, Theory
Av Joel Evans
Inbunden, 2019
1585 kr
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This book argues that, in the wake of the postmodern, contemporary culture becomes once again concerned with totality, the main focal point of expression for this being concepts of the global. It uncovers predominant ways of conceptualising the global in contemporary literature, film and theory. In …
Utopia and the Contemporary British Novel
Inbunden, 2019
1778 kr
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This book examines the experience of time functions in a specific set of British novels to reveal the persistence of the utopian imagination in the twenty-first century. Through close textual analysis, Edwards develops a new strategy of reading such anticipatory 'fictions of the not yet', including …
The Market Logics of Contemporary Fiction
Inbunden, 2019
1832 kr
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In the twenty-first century, leading publishers are under intense pressure from their conglomerate owners and shareholders to generate growth and profits. This book shows how these pressures have transformed the contemporary novel. Paul Crosthwaite argues that recent British and American authors …
Utopia and the Contemporary British Novel
Häftad, 2021
654 kr
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This book examines the experience of time functions in a specific set of British novels to reveal the persistence of the utopian imagination in the twenty-first century. Through close textual analysis, Edwards develops a new strategy of reading such anticipatory 'fictions of the not yet', including …
Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing
The New Audacity
Häftad, 2026
514 kr
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Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing is the first volume to identify and analyse the 'new audacity' of recent feminist writings from life. Characterised by boldness in both style and content, willingness to explore difficult and disturbing experiences, the refusal of victimhood, and a lack of respect …
Metamodernism and Contemporary British Poetry
Häftad, 2023
392 kr
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This book discusses contemporary British poetry in the context of metamodernism. The author argues that the concept of metamodernist poetry helps to recalibrate the opposition between mainstream and innovative poetry, and he investigates whether a new generation of British poets can be accurately …
Book, Text, Medium
Cross-Sectional Reading for a Digital Age
Häftad, 2021
569 kr
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Book, Text, Medium: Cross Sectional Reading for a Digital Age utilizes codex history, close reading, and language philosophy to assess the transformative arc between medieval books and today's e-books. It examines what happens to the reading experience in the twenty-first century when the original …
The Irish Expatriate Novel in Late Capitalist Globalization
Av Joe Cleary
Inbunden, 2021
1554 kr
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This study of contemporary Irish expatriate fiction offers a boldly original world-facing rather than nation-focused overview of the contemporary Irish novel. Chapters examine how Irish narrative deals with the United States in a time of declining global hegemony, a rising China and Asia, a …
Book, Text, Medium
Cross-Sectional Reading for a Digital Age
Inbunden, 2021
1432 kr
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Book, Text, Medium: Cross Sectional Reading for a Digital Age utilizes codex history, close reading, and language philosophy to assess the transformative arc between medieval books and today's e-books. It examines what happens to the reading experience in the twenty-first century when the original …
Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction
Av Sherryl Vint
Inbunden, 2021
676 kr
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Drawing on a rich array of twenty-first-century speculative fiction, this book demonstrates how the commodification of life through biotechnology has far-reaching implications for how we think of personhood, agency, and value. Sherryl Vint argues that neoliberalism is reinventing life under …
Metamodernism and Contemporary British Poetry
Inbunden, 2021
1449 kr
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This book discusses contemporary British poetry in the context of metamodernism. The author argues that the concept of metamodernist poetry helps to recalibrate the opposition between mainstream and innovative poetry, and he investigates whether a new generation of British poets can be accurately …
The Irish Expatriate Novel in Late Capitalist Globalization
Av Joe Cleary
Häftad, 2026
742 kr
Kommande
This study of contemporary Irish expatriate fiction offers a boldly original world-facing rather than nation-focused overview of the contemporary Irish novel. Chapters examine how Irish narrative deals with the United States in a time of declining global hegemony, a rising China and Asia, a …
Unseen City
The Psychic Lives of the Urban Poor
Inbunden, 2021
587 kr
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In Unseen City: The Psychic Lives of the Urban Poor, Ankhi Mukherjee offers a magisterial work of literary and cultural criticism which examines the relationship between global cities, poverty, and psychoanalysis. Spanning three continents, this hugely ambitious book reads fictional representations …
