Contributions to English and American Literary Studies (CEALS) – serie
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Lethal Performances
Women Who Kill in Modern American Drama
Av Ottilie P. Klein, Andrew S. Gross
Inbunden, 2017
1208 kr
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This book provides an in-depth analysis of representations of female murderers in modern American drama. Paying close attention to the plays’ plot, form, and style, the study seeks to come to terms with the dramatic and cultural function of this phenomenon. Given the rarity of female murder in real …
What Literature Knows
Forays into Literary Knowledge Production
Av Antje Kley, Kai Merten
Inbunden, 2018
1053 kr
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This volume sheds light on the nexus between knowledge and literature. Arranged historically, contributions address both popular and canonical English and US-American writing from the early modern period to the present. They focus on how historically specific texts engage with epistemological …
Skyscraping Frontiers
The Skyscraper as Heterotopia in the 20th-Century American Novel and Film
Av Sascha Klein, Andrew S. Gross
Inbunden, 2020
861 kr
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As a space of extremes, the skyscraper has been continually constructed as an urban frontier in American cultural productions. Like its counterpart of the American wilderness, this vertical frontier serves as a privileged site for both subversion and excessive control. Beyond common metaphoric …
Surveillance | Society | Culture
Av Florian Zappe, Andrew S. Gross
Inbunden, 2019
811 kr
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What only a few decades ago would have been considered a totalitarian nightmare seems to have become reality: Surveillance practices and technologies have infiltrated all aspects of our lives, forcing us to reconsider established notions of privacy, subjectivity, and the status of the individual in …
Modernist Women Dandies
Poetry, Photography, Authorship
Av Teona Micevska, Christoph Ehland
Inbunden, 2021
816 kr
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Assessing the cultural history of the dandy as a figure traditionally gendered masculine, this wide-ranging study advances a critical space for the discussion of the woman dandy. Modernist Women Dandies revisits dandyism to provide an interpretative framework for re-evaluating the literary careers …
Cultural Realism: Reconsidering Magical Realism in the Works of Contemporary American Women Writers
Av Nasrin Babakhani, Antje Kley
Inbunden, 2022
768 kr
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This book is committed to women as writers and storytellers; all the selected novels are female-centric in that the main characters are women. The authors, also women, are from three diverse American ethnic groups from both the North and South. Through a close reading of several novels, Babakhani …
Democracy, Secrecy and Dissidence in Contemporary Fiction in English
Av Juan L. Pérez-de-Luque, Paula Martín-Salván
Inbunden, 2026
860 kr
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This volume explores the relationship between democracy, secrecy, and transparency in contemporary English literature. It focuses on how fiction engages with the tension between secrecy and disclosure, central to debates about freedom in information societies. Drawing on theorists like Derrida, …
Literary Representation of Spanish Immigration in the United States of America (1900-1950)
Transculturation, Hybridization, and the Third Space
Av Francisco Javier Plañxart Pérez-Santalla, Andrew S. Gross
Inbunden, 2025
841 kr
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This work explores portrayals of Spanish immigration to the United States (1900–1950) through six novels. It examines how Spanish immigrants navigate cultural shifts, balancing their heritage with American culture, and traces the evolution of their identities through history, language, and …
Women Writers and Painters in British Women’s Novels of the 1940s and 1950s
Creativity, Gender and the Middlebrow
Inbunden, 2026
860 kr
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Few novels from the period examined in this study portray female artists as one of the main characters. Yet, the ones that do exist prove to be impressive representations of female creativity. All of these novels subtly criticize the contrast between the idea of femininity and the notion of …
