Critical Studies – serie
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12 produkter
Evolution and Popular Narrative
Inbunden, 2019
2072 kr
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The contributors to this volume share the assumption that popular narrative, when viewed with an evolutionary lens, offers an incisive index into human nature. In theory, narrative art could take a near infinity of possible forms. In actual practice, however, particular motifs, plot patterns, …
Culture of Boredom
Inbunden, 2020
2352 kr
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The Culture of Boredom is a collection of essays by well-known specialists reflecting from philosophical, literary, and artistic perspectives, in which the reader will learn how different disciplines can throw light on such an appealing, challenging, yet still not fully understood, phenomenon. The …
Refresh the Book
On the Hybrid Nature of the Book in the Age of Electronic Publishing
Inbunden, 2021
2914 kr
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Refresh the Book contains reflections on the multimodal nature of the book, focusing on its changing perception, functions, forms, and potential in the digital age. Offering an overview of key concepts and approaches, such as liberature, technotexts, and bookishness, this volume of essays addresses …
Sexuality and Eroticism in a Post-pandemic World
Beyond the Biopolitics of the New Normal
Av Phil Shining
Inbunden, 2023
2458 kr
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The cultural change denominated as “the new normal” goes far beyond the adaptation to habits like physical distancing, limited person-to-person contact, teleworking, and self-isolation established with the COVID-19 pandemic. A series of significant transformations in human behavior spreads today in …
Gender across Media Landscapes
Inbunden, 2026
2336 kr
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The end of the first quarter of the 21st century invites us to revisit what gender means in society and how it has shaped our literal and cultural landscapes. This volume seeks to explore these spaces from interdisciplinary perspectives.The contributions span both “highbrow” art and popular …
Replacement
Loss and Substitution in Culture and Society
Av Naomi Segal
Inbunden, 2026
1813 kr
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Replacement is always dramatic. How does one thing or person appearing in the place of another – the second baby, the new lover, the maternity cover or ‘surrogate’ mother – constitute a threat to the earlier occupant of that place? Or is the superseding figure haunted by the one for whom they …
Montage Principle
Eisenstein in New Cultural and Critical Contexts
Inbunden, 2004
2078 kr
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This book of essays is quite unique in that it intervenes in a still contested area within many universities, that of the relevance of film to literature, critical theory, politics, sociology and anthropology. The essays were commissioned by Jean Antoine-Dunne whose research has explored the impact …
Music, Popular Culture, Identities
Inbunden, 2002
1989 kr
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Music, Popular Culture, Identities is a collection of sixteen essays that will appeal to a wide range of readers with interests in popular culture and music, cultural studies, and ethnomusicology. Organized around the central theme of music as an expression of local, ethnic, social and other …
Exile Cultures, Misplaced Identities
Inbunden, 2008
1787 kr
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Exile Cultures, Misplaced Identities takes a transnational and transcultural approach to exile and its capacities to alter the ways we think about place and identity in the contemporary world. The edited collection brings together researchers on exile in international perspective from three …
Chrono-topologies
Hybrid Spatialities and Multiple Temporalities
Häftad, 2010
1426 kr
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The twentieth century saw many revolutions. Various transformations in the political, economic, social, technological and artistic domains not only inaugurated new eras, or at least discourses about new eras; they also often entailed a radical reorientation in the very conceptions by which any …
Performative Body Spaces
Corporeal Topographies in Literature, Theatre, Dance, and the Visual Arts
Häftad, 2010
1501 kr
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The human body as cultural object always has and is a performing subject, which binds the political with the theatrical, shows the construction of ethnicity and technology, unveils private and public spaces, transgresses race and gender, and finally becomes a medium that overcomes the borders of …
Sexed Sentiments
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Gender and Emotion
Häftad, 2011
1371 kr
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Sexed Sentiments provides a gender perspective on the recent turn to affect in criticism. It presents new work by scholars from different disciplines working on gender and emotion, a field par excellence where an interdisciplinary focus is fruitful. This collection presents essays from disciplines …
