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Devil & Uncle Will
Av Harold Miles
Häftad, 2012
634 kr
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Maybe you'll be glad Uncle Will wasn't your best friend, but you will be glad you've read about Uncle Will and his exploits. We're talking about someone whose funeral was attended by people who mostly just wanted to make sure he was dead: Even the preacher couldn't cook up a decent eulogy! Oh, …
Fear of Aging
Old Age in Horror Fiction and Film
Häftad, 2025
517 kr
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In the genre of horror, elderly people are often used as a trope to evoke both a fear of death and a fear of aging. Old age is therefore equated with bodily, mental, or social decline. The contributors of this book investigate what exactly we are afraid of when we posit old age as a source of …
Reading »Atmosfears«
The Uncanny Climate of Contemporary Ecofiction
Häftad, 2023
1011 kr
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We live in a critical moment in history, often called the »Anthropocene«, that is defined by unprecedented scales of uncertainty. Natalie Dederichs draws on insights from the new materialisms about the entangled nature of planetary existence and combines them with approaches to aesthetics from …
Mediating the Real
Self-Reflection in Recent American Reportage
Av Pascal Sigg
Häftad, 2024
1012 kr
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As a literary genre, the nonfictional reportage has particular implications for the role of the writer. Pascal Sigg shows how six U.S. American writers, including David Foster Wallace, George Saunders, and Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, reflect on themselves as human media in their reportage. The writers …
Disclosing Narrative Gaps in Literature
Aesthetic Strategies in Memory and Storytelling
Häftad, 2027
820 kr
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What can we learn from stories shaped by omissions, silences and narrative absences? Bringing together innovative perspectives from narratology and literary studies, this volume explores narrative gaps not as mere absences but as powerful aesthetic strategies that shape acts of remembering and …
American Survival Memoir
Reading and Writing in Survivor Culture
Av Maren Emde
Häftad, 2026
1112 kr
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How did »survival« become a defining framework for understanding personal hardship in contemporary USA? Maren Emde traces the evolution of the survival memoir – a genre born during the 1990s memoir boom. Through an analysis of bestselling memoirs about dysfunctional childhoods, addiction, and …
