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Del 14 - Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture
Women in Nabokov’s Life and Art
AvNailya Garipova,Juan José Torres Núñez
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
1 102 kr
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Despite the considerable amount of criticism that Vladimir Nabokov’s literary legacy has produced since the sixties, the studies on his female characters are scarce, except the ones on Lolita. This volume delves into Nabokov’s women from different perspectives and points of view. The contributions are from different parts of the world, some from prominent scholars. These Nabokovians study the gender issue in Nabokov’s life and art, paying tribute to his women. The volume has two closely connected parts. In the first one, the reader can find biographical essays that discuss the role of the real women in Nabokov’s life and how their love, support and suffering are reflected in his prose. The second part deals with Nabokov’s women in his fiction. There is a discussion of the representation of female voices.
Del 17 - Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture
From Individual to Collective
Virginia Woolf’s Developing Concept of Consciousness
AvMasako Nasu
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
983 kr
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This book argues that a profound shift can be found in the works of Virginia Woolf, from an early «pursuit of the individual» to a late «pursuit of the collective». Evidence for this shift is found both in the narrative modes she employed and the methods by which thought is represented in the works themselves, and in ideas and ruminations found in Woolf’s diaries and essays. The stylistic analysis covers works from The Voyage Out (1915) to the posthumously published Between the Acts (1941), and shows how several of the shorter pieces can be considered to be experiments with techniques that were fully employed in Woolf’s longer, major fictions. This shift arises from changes in Woolf’s concept of the conscious and unconscious over time, and the argument shows how she took deliberate steps to reflect these changes in her fiction. This framework provides key insights for new interpretations of her works.
Del 16 - Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture
Cultural Hybrids of (Post)Modernism
Japanese and Western Literature, Art and Philosophy
AvBeatriz Penas-Ibáñez,Akiko Manabe
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
1 200 kr
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Cultural Hybrids of (Post)Modernism starts from the premise that the literary-cultural milieu we live in is characteristically hybrid. To develop that premise, the present volume focuses on explaining the strong impact that Japanese culture, especially Japanese aesthetics, bore on Western intellectuals, Modernist literary writers and artists from the second half of the nineteenth century onwards, and, conversely, the impact of Western modernity on Japanese cultural modernization from the Meiji Era onwards. Such intercultural contact has brought on a renewal of cultural formats that can be explained in terms of hybridity as regards both the aesthetic and the intellectual production of the artists and thinkers from Japan and the West throughout the twentieth century and to the present. The outcome of modernization was the creation of new cultural standards in Japan and the West and, with it, new ways of understanding pedagogy and education, a reconceptualization of the Nation versus the individual, a redefinition of the role of women in modernizing society, also a revision of philosophical thought and a new approach to the role of linguistic signs in the production of meaning.
Del 15 - Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture
Literary Creativity and the Older Woman Writer
A Collection of Critical Essays
AvNúria Casado-Gual,Emma Domínguez-Ruém. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
1 200 kr
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Literary studies and their associated critical theories offer a refreshing viewpoint from which humanist-oriented studies of ageing may be re-conceptualized, and an integrated view of ageing and gender can be developed. The present volume builds on the work of seminal authors in the field of literary gerontology, while it also elaborates on important theories that age-critics have developed in the broader field of cultural gerontology, to present the experience of ageing, and old age in particular, as a creative phase of the life course that completes the older person’s identity and, specifically, that of the older woman. As a contrast to stereotypical views of ageing women that are still sustained in both gerontological and social domains, the essays in this collection focus on the works of eleven women writers whose careers were or have been prolonged into their old age, and whose later literary creativity reveals fascinating aspects about both the complex, contradictory, and enriching experience of growing older, and especially of doing so as an artist and as a woman.
Del 18 - Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture
Only Connect
E. M. Forster’s Legacies in British Fiction
AvElsa Cavalié,Laurent Mellet
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
1 208 kr
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Since Forster’s death in 1970, many British novelists and film directors have acknowledged and even claimed the influence of the novelist of the English soul (in Woolf’s terms) and of a renewed faith in both human relationships and a quintessentially British liberal-humanism. After the ethical turn at the end of the twentieth century, British literature today seems to go back even more drastically to the figure of the individual human being, and to turn the narrative space into some laboratory of a new form of empowerment of the other’s political autonomy. It is in this context that the references to Forster are more and more frequent, both in British fiction and in academia. This book does not only aim at spotting and theorising this return to Forster today. Rather we endeavour to trace its genealogy and shed light on the successive modes of the legacy, from Forster’s first novel, Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) onwards, to the novelisation of Forster himself by Damon Galgut. How can the principle of connection, of correspondences and echoes, which informed Forster’s private life and approach to writing so much, equally characterise the aesthetic and political influence of his œuvre?
Del 20 - Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture
More Writers of the Spanish Civil War
Experience Put to Use
AvCelia M. Wallhead
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
1 316 kr
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Further to the first book, Writers of the Spanish Civil War: The Testimony of Their Auto/Biographies (2011), which featured the writings on the war (1936–39) of six key British and American authors: Gerald Brenan, Robert Graves, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, Stephen Spender and Laurie Lee, this new work studies the actions in the war of those physically involved and writings focused on the war, either at the time or later, by eight more foreign authors: Virginia Woolf, John Dos Passos, Franz Borkenau, V. S. Pritchett, André Malraux, Arthur Koestler, Martha Gellhorn and Peter Kemp. In addition to comparing their autobiographies with what their biographers said, in order to show up any discrepancies, as had been done in the first book, here, the texts are scrutinized to detect use of stereotypes or adaptation of the material to other purposes in the writing. New perspectives are introduced now in that two of the authors are women, one writing from a distance but deeply affected by the war (Virginia Woolf) and one active in journalism on the spot (Martha Gellhorn), and our final author, Peter Kemp, went to Spain to fight on the side of the Nationalists under Franco as opposed to the Republicans.
Del 23 - Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture
Gothic Metamorphoses across the Centuries
Contexts, Legacies, Media
AvMaurizio Ascari,Serena Baiesim. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
1 162 kr
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This collection of essays brings together an international team of scholars with the aim to shed new light on various interconnected aspects of the Gothic through the lens of converging critical and methodological approaches. With its wide-ranging interdisciplinary perspective, the book explores the domains of literary, pictorial, filmic, televisual and popular cultural texts in English from the eighteenth century to the present day. Within these pages, the Gothic is discussed as a dynamic form that exceeds the concept of literary genre, proving able to renovate and adapt through constant processes of hybridisation. Investigating the hypothesis that the Gothic returns in times of cultural crisis, this study maps out transgressive and experimental modes conducive to alternative experiences of the intricacies of the human (and post-human) condition.
Del 21 - Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture
Voss: An Australian Geographical and Literary Exploration
History and Travelling in the Fiction of Patrick White
AvElena Ungari,Beatriz Penas-Ibáñezm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
1 168 kr
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This study of Voss by the Anglo-Australian Patrick White analyses the historical novel, set in the 1850s and concerning Voss’s exploration of the interior of Australia, as a parable of the writer’s exploration of the Australian historical, social and cultural context of the 1950s. The study employs a variety of critical apparatus including a post-structuralist and postcolonial approach, which also encompasses linguistics, sociolinguistics and comparative studies. This multi-level critical aid allows the examination of four levels of exploration utilised by the author. Following an analysis of the protagonist’s geographical movement into the desert and his personal transformation, the study moves on to an exploration of the narrative itself. It explores how the novel becomes subject to change, absorbing and contesting a variety of literary genres ranging from the ‘chronicle’ to the parable. Through this multi-level approach, the study demonstrates the variety of readings the novel stimulates and displays its rich intertextual and subtextual elements and links.
Del 24 - Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture
Romantic Escapes
Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction
AvIrene Pérez Fernández,Carmen Pérez Ríu
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
832 kr
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Romance continues to stand as the most profitable literary genre and the second most read book category. The developments reshaping the conventions and marketing practices of popular fiction, both inside and beyond the books themselves, have affected the romance genre in specific ways that demand critical attention. This book brings together a collection of twelve chapters on postmillennial developments in contemporary popular romance fiction produced in different countries in order to prove how the genre, which has always been sensitive to customer demands and market trends, has continued to evolve accordingly. The chapters focus on how traditional formulae are being reshaped and adapted to meet readers’ expectations and market demands within this thriving transnational industry.
Del 27 - Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture
From East to West
The Portrayal of Nature in British Fantasy and its Projection in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Western American "Earthsea"
AvMartin Simonson,Jon Alkorta Martiartum. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
625 kr
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The portrayal of nature in the genre of fantasy fiction, from the Middle Ages to more modern times, has been conditioned by the diverging social, political and historical contexts. This book seeks to disclose how the natural world has been depicted within this genre during different periods, drawing a comparison between the British tradition of fantasy literature and Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea cycle. Le Guin adheres to the general traits of the genre up to a point, but as a woman of the 20th century living in the American West, her works also deviate from the received tradition in many significant ways.
Del 25 - Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture
(Re)defining gender in early modern English drama
Power, sexualities and ideologies in text and performance
AvLaura Martínez-García,María José Álvarez-Faedo
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
832 kr
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Taking as its common thread the overtly theatrical nature of early modern society and its cultural and political manifestations this book studies dramatic texts, dedications, autobiographies, adaptations and performative practices, to prove that the boundaries between on and off stage performances of gender are blurred. Thus, the limits that separate theatre and life are highly permeable and the relations between both are bidirectional: the performativity of gender and identity is an idea that the theatre takes from and transfers to society. This concept is applied to a wide timeframe creating a dialogue between different historical times and cultural backgrounds. Furthermore, the authors explore sexualities as written and performed by both men and women, offering a wider scope to determine whether and to what extent normative gender roles are being questioned, contested or reinforced.
Del 31 - Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture
Riddles and Wonders: Defining Humanity in Anglo-Saxon England
AvJasmine Bria,María José Álvarez-Faedom. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
444 kr
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Throughout the history of human civilization, the definition of the animal and its relationship to humans have been contentious issues. This book investigates the notion of what constituted an animal in Early Medieval English culture as well as how the animal-human interaction is portrayed in the Anglo-Saxon literary corpus. In this regard, the animal’s portrayals in the Exeter Book Riddles and of monstrous creatures in the Wonders of the East provided a fertile field for research because these texts, rarely connected to allegorical readings and offering viewpoints that might be seen as complementary, deal with fundamental issues regarding what it meant to be human for Early Medieval English society.This study offers fresh insights into the characters and themes explored in the Exeter Book collection and in the Wonders of the East, looking for the spaces of Anglo-Saxon thought in which animality and humanity appear to meet. The author not only discovers the peculiar features in the definition of humanity with regard to animal and non-human figures, but is able to demonstrate that a strong anthropocentric vocation can coexist with an outlook that recognizes a close affinity among different species.
Del 28 - Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture
Fugitive Papers
Orinda’s Literary Career
AvJuan de Dios Torralbo Caballero,María José Álvarez-Faedom. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
490 kr
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When the book titled Poems. By the Incomparable Mrs K.P. was published in 1664 Katherine Philips herself defined it as "those fugitive papers that have escap'd my hands", expressing her reluctance to publish them and her aversion to her works appearing in print. Despite her (apparent) modesty, Orinda and her work definitely occupied an important position in the literary field of that time. This book studies the life and work of Katherine Philips (1632-1664) from a historicist and socio-critical perspective. It posits that 'the Matchless Orinda' embodies the literary shift from manuscript to printed literature, and shows how a woman poet, following in the footsteps of successful male counterparts, such as Abraham Cowley and John Dryden, was able to achieve fame in the male-dominated literary world.
Del 32 - Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture
Spanish Perspectives on The American West in 21st-Century Literature, Cinema and Culture
AvAmaia Ibarraran Bigalondo,María José Álvarez-Faedom. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
685 kr
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This volume delves into the study of the American West from a Spanish perspective. Starting from the premise that the West as a geographical space and as a concept is undergoing a profound revision and that its impact, both in the USA and internationally, is unquestionable, it aims to contribute to this re-description through a contemporary Spanish standpoint. It looks into the hypothesis that, just as the "Old West" as myth and reality served as a cohesive element of "the American identity" and its values, and that its international impact was spectacular, the "New West" is currently being exported and assimilated internationally, extending the revision of the myth, and thus, its relationship with said identity.
Del 4 - Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture
Means Matter
Market Fructification of Innovative American Poetry in the Late 20th Century
AvManuel Brito,Manuel Britom. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
617 kr
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This book is a major source for scholars of the latest American poetry. These exciting essays comprise energy and documented discussions on experimentalism, multiculturalism, hyperspace, and gender. Anthologies and little magazines form the matrix for this exploration on conceptual issues surrounding language. The author widens the perspective in which a great deal of writing forced the limits of poetry in this kind of publications. At the same time, he analyzes new contexts and enters into conversation with other sources for inspiration found through other disciplines such as social theory, philosophy, linguistics, and art generated at both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Reflective, taut with alertness, and exploding the postmodern concept of word/object as a liberating experience, this book becomes a driving force to address poetry and challenging political issues with admirable depth.
Del 5 - Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture
Guardias civiles, bandoleros, gitanos, guerrilleros, contrabandistas, carabineros y turistas en la literatura inglesa contemporánea (1844-1994)
AvJosé Ruiz Mas,Manuel Britom. fl.
Häftad, Spanska, 2010
1 075 kr
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Varios personajes de la España de los siglos XIX y XX aparecen en la literatura inglesa, sobre todo en los libros de viajeros británicos, irlandeses y norteamericanos, con determinados perfiles literarios que los convierten en característicos, sin por ello llegar a resultar estereotipados o monolíticos. El presente libro analiza en especial la imagen literaria del guardia civil, y la de otros personajes que aparecen en los relatos de viajeros por España escritos en lengua inglesa entre 1844 y 1994. A través del estudio de un corpus compuesto por más de quinientas obras, se intenta reflejar una imagen del guardia civil compartida en el ámbito anglosajón. Además, se presenta dicha visión de la Benemérita contrastada con otras figuras que han ido poblando el paisaje español a lo largo de distintas épocas, como el bandolero, el gitano, el contrabandista, el turista o el carabinero. La imagen de éstos está mediatizada por los prejuicios personales, nacionales o ideológicos del viajero que narra, por su clase social, por su economía particular o por su conocimiento de la lengua y la cultura española.
Del 9 - Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture
Ginealogías sáficas
De Katherine Philips a Jeanette Winterson
AvMarta Sofia López,Manuel Britom. fl.
Häftad, Spanska, 2012
572 kr
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Cada año se publican numerosos artículos y algún que otro libro sobre Safo. Ginealogías sáficas no es uno más. Ni siquiera es, quizá, un libro sobre Safo. Es el trabajo de una filóloga que sigue el rastro a una Safo angloparlante que nunca ha existido, pero tan real, tan irreal, como cualquiera de las muchas que viven en las historias de la literatura. No se trata de un estudio sobre influencias ni sobre traducciones: son más bien renacimientos en la literatura de diferentes autoras, desde Katherine Philips y Margaret Cavendish, en el siglo XVII, hasta Jeanette Winterson, hoy mismo. Y por el medio, nombres muy conocidos, como los de Christina Rossetti, Amy Lowell, Virginia Woolf; o menos, como Natalie Barney, Hilda Doolittle; o apenas: Laetitia Elizabeth Landon, las Michael Field, y otras muchas que, en algunos casos, se traducen ahora por primera vez al castellano. Ginealogías sáficas es un libro de fronteras difusas, que interesará a quienes se dedican a la literatura clásica; a las estudiosas de la tradición sáfica, no ya desde la perspectiva del helenismo, sino de la construcción sexual o del género; a los y las teóricos queer, y a todas quienes, desde los estudios feministas, busquen rastrear la (pre-)historia de la escritura de las mujeres de lengua inglesa.
Del 10 - Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture
La década del miedo
Dramaturgias audiovisuales post-11 de septiembre
AvMarta Fernández Morales
Häftad, Spanska, 2013
953 kr
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Los atentados del once de septiembre de 2001 han dejado una huella imborrable en la cultura estadounidense en general y en las producciones audiovisuales en particular. En ellas, tanto los contenidos como los lenguajes reflejan el antes y el después de aquel día, las consecuencias del trauma colectivo y la dialéctica y efectos de la interminable Guerra contra el Terror. Con un enfoque interdisciplinar, en este volumen once personas expertas de distintas áreas de conocimiento estudian películas, series de ficción y videojuegos americanos del contexto post-11-S, analizando cuestiones de creación, representación, ideología, resonancia y recepción. Se aborda el debate de la premediación y se exploran las culturas de la conmemoración, la memoria, el miedo y la celebración, argumentando que el once de septiembre más nombrado de nuestro pasado reciente ha condicionado de manera radical las formas de crear y de consumir productos audiovisuales; incluso aquellos que no tratan directamente sobre los ataques contra las Torres Gemelas y el Pentágono.
Del 13 - Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture
El Héroe del Oeste en "Las Crónicas de Narnia"
AvMartin Simonson,Raul Montero Giletem. fl.
Häftad, Spanska, 2014
611 kr
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Este estudio sobre el mito del héroe en Las Crónicas de Narnia se fundamenta tanto en la crítica literaria y la bibliografía general y específica sobre el autor y su obra, como en las teorías de la literatura infantil y del héroe en las tradiciones literarias occidentales, incluido el Oeste norteamericano. Aun compartiendo rasgos con el mito irónico modernista, la lectura de la obra de Lewis demuestra que los héroes en las Crónicas sintetizan y actualizan estas tradiciones, a la vez que desafían las categorizaciones simples debido al particular tratamiento del héroe como niño y la vocación universal de su trayectoria, cuya raíz reside en el trasfondo cristiano – a la vez occidental y universal – de los planteamientos literarios de Lewis.
Del 11 - Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture
No! In Whispers
The Rhetoric of Dissent in American Writing
AvMichele Bottalico
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
797 kr
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No! In Whispers is based on the assumption that dissent, particularly in literary writing, is not necessarily shouted. Rather, it is conveyed by means of persuasion strategies, through subtle transversal allusions and an undercurrent of moral analysis and protest, through what can metaphorically be defined as ‘whispers’ that penetrate the readers’ conscience and are meant to promote change. The essays in this book explore the rhetoric of dissent in a range of texts that include letters, novels, poems and nonfiction, mostly focusing on selected works by such authors as Abigail Adams, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mary Ovington, Toni Morrison, Adrienne Rich, Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo. The last two chapters, devoted to nonfiction, consider Edward Said’s memoir and the debate about the New Musicology. The authors come from four different countries and have largely distinct cultural backgrounds and scientific interests; thus they analyze the statements of dissent from various angles utilizing different methodological approaches. They concur in outlining the image of a country that has been historically torn by the tension between what it is and what it was meant to be.

Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture – serie

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Del 14 - Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture
Women in Nabokov’s Life and Art
AvNailya Garipova,Juan José Torres Núñez
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
1 102 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Despite the considerable amount of criticism that Vladimir Nabokov’s literary legacy has produced since the sixties, the studies on his female characters are scarce, except the ones on Lolita. This volume delves into Nabokov’s women from different perspectives and points of view. The contributions are from different parts of the world, some from prominent scholars. These Nabokovians study the gender issue in Nabokov’s life and art, paying tribute to his women. The volume has two closely connected parts. In the first one, the reader can find biographical essays that discuss the role of the real women in Nabokov’s life and how their love, support and suffering are reflected in his prose. The second part deals with Nabokov’s women in his fiction. There is a discussion of the representation of female voices.
Del 17 - Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture
From Individual to Collective
Virginia Woolf’s Developing Concept of Consciousness
AvMasako Nasu
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
983 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
This book argues that a profound shift can be found in the works of Virginia Woolf, from an early «pursuit of the individual» to a late «pursuit of the collective». Evidence for this shift is found both in the narrative modes she employed and the methods by which thought is represented in the works themselves, and in ideas and ruminations found in Woolf’s diaries and essays. The stylistic analysis covers works from The Voyage Out (1915) to the posthumously published Between the Acts (1941), and shows how several of the shorter pieces can be considered to be experiments with techniques that were fully employed in Woolf’s longer, major fictions. This shift arises from changes in Woolf’s concept of the conscious and unconscious over time, and the argument shows how she took deliberate steps to reflect these changes in her fiction. This framework provides key insights for new interpretations of her works.
Del 16 - Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture
Cultural Hybrids of (Post)Modernism
Japanese and Western Literature, Art and Philosophy
AvBeatriz Penas-Ibáñez,Akiko Manabe
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
1 200 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Cultural Hybrids of (Post)Modernism starts from the premise that the literary-cultural milieu we live in is characteristically hybrid. To develop that premise, the present volume focuses on explaining the strong impact that Japanese culture, especially Japanese aesthetics, bore on Western intellectuals, Modernist literary writers and artists from the second half of the nineteenth century onwards, and, conversely, the impact of Western modernity on Japanese cultural modernization from the Meiji Era onwards. Such intercultural contact has brought on a renewal of cultural formats that can be explained in terms of hybridity as regards both the aesthetic and the intellectual production of the artists and thinkers from Japan and the West throughout the twentieth century and to the present. The outcome of modernization was the creation of new cultural standards in Japan and the West and, with it, new ways of understanding pedagogy and education, a reconceptualization of the Nation versus the individual, a redefinition of the role of women in modernizing society, also a revision of philosophical thought and a new approach to the role of linguistic signs in the production of meaning.
Del 15 - Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture
Literary Creativity and the Older Woman Writer
A Collection of Critical Essays
AvNúria Casado-Gual,Emma Domínguez-Ruém. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
1 200 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Literary studies and their associated critical theories offer a refreshing viewpoint from which humanist-oriented studies of ageing may be re-conceptualized, and an integrated view of ageing and gender can be developed. The present volume builds on the work of seminal authors in the field of literary gerontology, while it also elaborates on important theories that age-critics have developed in the broader field of cultural gerontology, to present the experience of ageing, and old age in particular, as a creative phase of the life course that completes the older person’s identity and, specifically, that of the older woman. As a contrast to stereotypical views of ageing women that are still sustained in both gerontological and social domains, the essays in this collection focus on the works of eleven women writers whose careers were or have been prolonged into their old age, and whose later literary creativity reveals fascinating aspects about both the complex, contradictory, and enriching experience of growing older, and especially of doing so as an artist and as a woman.
Del 18 - Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture
Only Connect
E. M. Forster’s Legacies in British Fiction
AvElsa Cavalié,Laurent Mellet
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
1 208 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Since Forster’s death in 1970, many British novelists and film directors have acknowledged and even claimed the influence of the novelist of the English soul (in Woolf’s terms) and of a renewed faith in both human relationships and a quintessentially British liberal-humanism. After the ethical turn at the end of the twentieth century, British literature today seems to go back even more drastically to the figure of the individual human being, and to turn the narrative space into some laboratory of a new form of empowerment of the other’s political autonomy. It is in this context that the references to Forster are more and more frequent, both in British fiction and in academia. This book does not only aim at spotting and theorising this return to Forster today. Rather we endeavour to trace its genealogy and shed light on the successive modes of the legacy, from Forster’s first novel, Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) onwards, to the novelisation of Forster himself by Damon Galgut. How can the principle of connection, of correspondences and echoes, which informed Forster’s private life and approach to writing so much, equally characterise the aesthetic and political influence of his œuvre?
Del 20 - Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture
More Writers of the Spanish Civil War
Experience Put to Use
AvCelia M. Wallhead
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
1 316 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Further to the first book, Writers of the Spanish Civil War: The Testimony of Their Auto/Biographies (2011), which featured the writings on the war (1936–39) of six key British and American authors: Gerald Brenan, Robert Graves, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, Stephen Spender and Laurie Lee, this new work studies the actions in the war of those physically involved and writings focused on the war, either at the time or later, by eight more foreign authors: Virginia Woolf, John Dos Passos, Franz Borkenau, V. S. Pritchett, André Malraux, Arthur Koestler, Martha Gellhorn and Peter Kemp. In addition to comparing their autobiographies with what their biographers said, in order to show up any discrepancies, as had been done in the first book, here, the texts are scrutinized to detect use of stereotypes or adaptation of the material to other purposes in the writing. New perspectives are introduced now in that two of the authors are women, one writing from a distance but deeply affected by the war (Virginia Woolf) and one active in journalism on the spot (Martha Gellhorn), and our final author, Peter Kemp, went to Spain to fight on the side of the Nationalists under Franco as opposed to the Republicans.
Del 23 - Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture
Gothic Metamorphoses across the Centuries
Contexts, Legacies, Media
AvMaurizio Ascari,Serena Baiesim. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
1 162 kr
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This collection of essays brings together an international team of scholars with the aim to shed new light on various interconnected aspects of the Gothic through the lens of converging critical and methodological approaches. With its wide-ranging interdisciplinary perspective, the book explores the domains of literary, pictorial, filmic, televisual and popular cultural texts in English from the eighteenth century to the present day. Within these pages, the Gothic is discussed as a dynamic form that exceeds the concept of literary genre, proving able to renovate and adapt through constant processes of hybridisation. Investigating the hypothesis that the Gothic returns in times of cultural crisis, this study maps out transgressive and experimental modes conducive to alternative experiences of the intricacies of the human (and post-human) condition.
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Voss: An Australian Geographical and Literary Exploration
History and Travelling in the Fiction of Patrick White
AvElena Ungari,Beatriz Penas-Ibáñezm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
1 168 kr
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This study of Voss by the Anglo-Australian Patrick White analyses the historical novel, set in the 1850s and concerning Voss’s exploration of the interior of Australia, as a parable of the writer’s exploration of the Australian historical, social and cultural context of the 1950s. The study employs a variety of critical apparatus including a post-structuralist and postcolonial approach, which also encompasses linguistics, sociolinguistics and comparative studies. This multi-level critical aid allows the examination of four levels of exploration utilised by the author. Following an analysis of the protagonist’s geographical movement into the desert and his personal transformation, the study moves on to an exploration of the narrative itself. It explores how the novel becomes subject to change, absorbing and contesting a variety of literary genres ranging from the ‘chronicle’ to the parable. Through this multi-level approach, the study demonstrates the variety of readings the novel stimulates and displays its rich intertextual and subtextual elements and links.
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Romantic Escapes
Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction
AvIrene Pérez Fernández,Carmen Pérez Ríu
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
832 kr
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Romance continues to stand as the most profitable literary genre and the second most read book category. The developments reshaping the conventions and marketing practices of popular fiction, both inside and beyond the books themselves, have affected the romance genre in specific ways that demand critical attention. This book brings together a collection of twelve chapters on postmillennial developments in contemporary popular romance fiction produced in different countries in order to prove how the genre, which has always been sensitive to customer demands and market trends, has continued to evolve accordingly. The chapters focus on how traditional formulae are being reshaped and adapted to meet readers’ expectations and market demands within this thriving transnational industry.
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From East to West
The Portrayal of Nature in British Fantasy and its Projection in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Western American "Earthsea"
AvMartin Simonson,Jon Alkorta Martiartum. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
625 kr
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The portrayal of nature in the genre of fantasy fiction, from the Middle Ages to more modern times, has been conditioned by the diverging social, political and historical contexts. This book seeks to disclose how the natural world has been depicted within this genre during different periods, drawing a comparison between the British tradition of fantasy literature and Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea cycle. Le Guin adheres to the general traits of the genre up to a point, but as a woman of the 20th century living in the American West, her works also deviate from the received tradition in many significant ways.
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(Re)defining gender in early modern English drama
Power, sexualities and ideologies in text and performance
AvLaura Martínez-García,María José Álvarez-Faedo
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
832 kr
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Taking as its common thread the overtly theatrical nature of early modern society and its cultural and political manifestations this book studies dramatic texts, dedications, autobiographies, adaptations and performative practices, to prove that the boundaries between on and off stage performances of gender are blurred. Thus, the limits that separate theatre and life are highly permeable and the relations between both are bidirectional: the performativity of gender and identity is an idea that the theatre takes from and transfers to society. This concept is applied to a wide timeframe creating a dialogue between different historical times and cultural backgrounds. Furthermore, the authors explore sexualities as written and performed by both men and women, offering a wider scope to determine whether and to what extent normative gender roles are being questioned, contested or reinforced.
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Riddles and Wonders: Defining Humanity in Anglo-Saxon England
AvJasmine Bria,María José Álvarez-Faedom. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
444 kr
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Throughout the history of human civilization, the definition of the animal and its relationship to humans have been contentious issues. This book investigates the notion of what constituted an animal in Early Medieval English culture as well as how the animal-human interaction is portrayed in the Anglo-Saxon literary corpus. In this regard, the animal’s portrayals in the Exeter Book Riddles and of monstrous creatures in the Wonders of the East provided a fertile field for research because these texts, rarely connected to allegorical readings and offering viewpoints that might be seen as complementary, deal with fundamental issues regarding what it meant to be human for Early Medieval English society.This study offers fresh insights into the characters and themes explored in the Exeter Book collection and in the Wonders of the East, looking for the spaces of Anglo-Saxon thought in which animality and humanity appear to meet. The author not only discovers the peculiar features in the definition of humanity with regard to animal and non-human figures, but is able to demonstrate that a strong anthropocentric vocation can coexist with an outlook that recognizes a close affinity among different species.
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Fugitive Papers
Orinda’s Literary Career
AvJuan de Dios Torralbo Caballero,María José Álvarez-Faedom. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
490 kr
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When the book titled Poems. By the Incomparable Mrs K.P. was published in 1664 Katherine Philips herself defined it as "those fugitive papers that have escap'd my hands", expressing her reluctance to publish them and her aversion to her works appearing in print. Despite her (apparent) modesty, Orinda and her work definitely occupied an important position in the literary field of that time. This book studies the life and work of Katherine Philips (1632-1664) from a historicist and socio-critical perspective. It posits that 'the Matchless Orinda' embodies the literary shift from manuscript to printed literature, and shows how a woman poet, following in the footsteps of successful male counterparts, such as Abraham Cowley and John Dryden, was able to achieve fame in the male-dominated literary world.
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Spanish Perspectives on The American West in 21st-Century Literature, Cinema and Culture
AvAmaia Ibarraran Bigalondo,María José Álvarez-Faedom. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
685 kr
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This volume delves into the study of the American West from a Spanish perspective. Starting from the premise that the West as a geographical space and as a concept is undergoing a profound revision and that its impact, both in the USA and internationally, is unquestionable, it aims to contribute to this re-description through a contemporary Spanish standpoint. It looks into the hypothesis that, just as the "Old West" as myth and reality served as a cohesive element of "the American identity" and its values, and that its international impact was spectacular, the "New West" is currently being exported and assimilated internationally, extending the revision of the myth, and thus, its relationship with said identity.
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Means Matter
Market Fructification of Innovative American Poetry in the Late 20th Century
AvManuel Brito,Manuel Britom. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
617 kr
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This book is a major source for scholars of the latest American poetry. These exciting essays comprise energy and documented discussions on experimentalism, multiculturalism, hyperspace, and gender. Anthologies and little magazines form the matrix for this exploration on conceptual issues surrounding language. The author widens the perspective in which a great deal of writing forced the limits of poetry in this kind of publications. At the same time, he analyzes new contexts and enters into conversation with other sources for inspiration found through other disciplines such as social theory, philosophy, linguistics, and art generated at both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Reflective, taut with alertness, and exploding the postmodern concept of word/object as a liberating experience, this book becomes a driving force to address poetry and challenging political issues with admirable depth.
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Guardias civiles, bandoleros, gitanos, guerrilleros, contrabandistas, carabineros y turistas en la literatura inglesa contemporánea (1844-1994)
AvJosé Ruiz Mas,Manuel Britom. fl.
Häftad, Spanska, 2010
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Varios personajes de la España de los siglos XIX y XX aparecen en la literatura inglesa, sobre todo en los libros de viajeros británicos, irlandeses y norteamericanos, con determinados perfiles literarios que los convierten en característicos, sin por ello llegar a resultar estereotipados o monolíticos. El presente libro analiza en especial la imagen literaria del guardia civil, y la de otros personajes que aparecen en los relatos de viajeros por España escritos en lengua inglesa entre 1844 y 1994. A través del estudio de un corpus compuesto por más de quinientas obras, se intenta reflejar una imagen del guardia civil compartida en el ámbito anglosajón. Además, se presenta dicha visión de la Benemérita contrastada con otras figuras que han ido poblando el paisaje español a lo largo de distintas épocas, como el bandolero, el gitano, el contrabandista, el turista o el carabinero. La imagen de éstos está mediatizada por los prejuicios personales, nacionales o ideológicos del viajero que narra, por su clase social, por su economía particular o por su conocimiento de la lengua y la cultura española.
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Ginealogías sáficas
De Katherine Philips a Jeanette Winterson
AvMarta Sofia López,Manuel Britom. fl.
Häftad, Spanska, 2012
572 kr
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Cada año se publican numerosos artículos y algún que otro libro sobre Safo. Ginealogías sáficas no es uno más. Ni siquiera es, quizá, un libro sobre Safo. Es el trabajo de una filóloga que sigue el rastro a una Safo angloparlante que nunca ha existido, pero tan real, tan irreal, como cualquiera de las muchas que viven en las historias de la literatura. No se trata de un estudio sobre influencias ni sobre traducciones: son más bien renacimientos en la literatura de diferentes autoras, desde Katherine Philips y Margaret Cavendish, en el siglo XVII, hasta Jeanette Winterson, hoy mismo. Y por el medio, nombres muy conocidos, como los de Christina Rossetti, Amy Lowell, Virginia Woolf; o menos, como Natalie Barney, Hilda Doolittle; o apenas: Laetitia Elizabeth Landon, las Michael Field, y otras muchas que, en algunos casos, se traducen ahora por primera vez al castellano. Ginealogías sáficas es un libro de fronteras difusas, que interesará a quienes se dedican a la literatura clásica; a las estudiosas de la tradición sáfica, no ya desde la perspectiva del helenismo, sino de la construcción sexual o del género; a los y las teóricos queer, y a todas quienes, desde los estudios feministas, busquen rastrear la (pre-)historia de la escritura de las mujeres de lengua inglesa.
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La década del miedo
Dramaturgias audiovisuales post-11 de septiembre
AvMarta Fernández Morales
Häftad, Spanska, 2013
953 kr
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Los atentados del once de septiembre de 2001 han dejado una huella imborrable en la cultura estadounidense en general y en las producciones audiovisuales en particular. En ellas, tanto los contenidos como los lenguajes reflejan el antes y el después de aquel día, las consecuencias del trauma colectivo y la dialéctica y efectos de la interminable Guerra contra el Terror. Con un enfoque interdisciplinar, en este volumen once personas expertas de distintas áreas de conocimiento estudian películas, series de ficción y videojuegos americanos del contexto post-11-S, analizando cuestiones de creación, representación, ideología, resonancia y recepción. Se aborda el debate de la premediación y se exploran las culturas de la conmemoración, la memoria, el miedo y la celebración, argumentando que el once de septiembre más nombrado de nuestro pasado reciente ha condicionado de manera radical las formas de crear y de consumir productos audiovisuales; incluso aquellos que no tratan directamente sobre los ataques contra las Torres Gemelas y el Pentágono.
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El Héroe del Oeste en "Las Crónicas de Narnia"
AvMartin Simonson,Raul Montero Giletem. fl.
Häftad, Spanska, 2014
611 kr
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Este estudio sobre el mito del héroe en Las Crónicas de Narnia se fundamenta tanto en la crítica literaria y la bibliografía general y específica sobre el autor y su obra, como en las teorías de la literatura infantil y del héroe en las tradiciones literarias occidentales, incluido el Oeste norteamericano. Aun compartiendo rasgos con el mito irónico modernista, la lectura de la obra de Lewis demuestra que los héroes en las Crónicas sintetizan y actualizan estas tradiciones, a la vez que desafían las categorizaciones simples debido al particular tratamiento del héroe como niño y la vocación universal de su trayectoria, cuya raíz reside en el trasfondo cristiano – a la vez occidental y universal – de los planteamientos literarios de Lewis.
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No! In Whispers
The Rhetoric of Dissent in American Writing
AvMichele Bottalico
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
797 kr
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No! In Whispers is based on the assumption that dissent, particularly in literary writing, is not necessarily shouted. Rather, it is conveyed by means of persuasion strategies, through subtle transversal allusions and an undercurrent of moral analysis and protest, through what can metaphorically be defined as ‘whispers’ that penetrate the readers’ conscience and are meant to promote change. The essays in this book explore the rhetoric of dissent in a range of texts that include letters, novels, poems and nonfiction, mostly focusing on selected works by such authors as Abigail Adams, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mary Ovington, Toni Morrison, Adrienne Rich, Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo. The last two chapters, devoted to nonfiction, consider Edward Said’s memoir and the debate about the New Musicology. The authors come from four different countries and have largely distinct cultural backgrounds and scientific interests; thus they analyze the statements of dissent from various angles utilizing different methodological approaches. They concur in outlining the image of a country that has been historically torn by the tension between what it is and what it was meant to be.

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Women in Nabokov’s Life and Art

From Individual to Collective

Cultural Hybrids of (Post)Modernism

Literary Creativity and the Older Woman Writer

Only Connect

More Writers of the Spanish Civil War

Gothic Metamorphoses across the Centuries

Voss: An Australian Geographical and Literary Exploration

Romantic Escapes

From East to West

(Re)defining gender in early modern English drama

Riddles and Wonders: Defining Humanity in Anglo-Saxon England

Fugitive Papers

Spanish Perspectives on The American West in 21st-Century Literature, Cinema and Culture

Means Matter

Guardias civiles, bandoleros, gitanos, guerrilleros, contrabandistas, carabineros y turistas en la literatura inglesa contemporánea (1844-1994)

Ginealogías sáficas

La década del miedo

El Héroe del Oeste en "Las Crónicas de Narnia"

No! In Whispers

Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture – serie

Women in Nabokov’s Life and Art

From Individual to Collective

Cultural Hybrids of (Post)Modernism

Literary Creativity and the Older Woman Writer

Only Connect

More Writers of the Spanish Civil War

Gothic Metamorphoses across the Centuries

Voss: An Australian Geographical and Literary Exploration

Romantic Escapes

From East to West

(Re)defining gender in early modern English drama

Riddles and Wonders: Defining Humanity in Anglo-Saxon England

Fugitive Papers

Spanish Perspectives on The American West in 21st-Century Literature, Cinema and Culture

Means Matter

Guardias civiles, bandoleros, gitanos, guerrilleros, contrabandistas, carabineros y turistas en la literatura inglesa contemporánea (1844-1994)

Ginealogías sáficas

La década del miedo

El Héroe del Oeste en "Las Crónicas de Narnia"

No! In Whispers