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Middlebrow Mission
Pearl S. Buck's American China
Häftad, 2015
573 kr
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Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. Buck's engagement with (neo-)missionary cultures in the United States and China was unique. Against the backdrop of her missionary upbringing, Buck developed a fictional project which both revised and reaffirmed American foreign missionary activity in the Pacific Rim …
Beyond the Civil War Hospital
The Rhetoric of Healing and Democratization in Northern Reconstruction Writing, 1861-1882
Häftad, 2018
555 kr
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Beyond the Civil War Hospital understands Reconstruction as a period of emotional turmoil that precipitated a struggle for form in cultural production. By treating selected texts from that era as multifaceted contributions to Reconstruction's »mental adaptation process« (Leslie Butler), Kirsten …
Houses, Secrets, and the Closet
Locating Masculinities from the Gothic Novel to Henry James
Av Gero Bauer
Häftad, 2016
573 kr
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»Houses, Secrets, and the Closet« investigates the literary production of masculinities and their relation to secrets and sexualities in 18th and 19th century fiction. It focusses on close readings of Gothic fiction, Sensation Novels, and tales by Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, William Godwin, Mary …
Toward Diversity and Emancipation
(Re-)Narrating Space in the Contemporary American Novel
Häftad, 2016
717 kr
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This book focuses on the pivotal role which space and spatiality assume in plot and narrative discourse of contemporary U.S.-American literary narratives. Embarking from a new, spatialized approach to cultural history and particularly narrative theory that might also prove useful for neighboring …
DiverCity - Global Cities as a Literary Phenomenon
Toronto, New York, and Los Angeles in a Globalizing Age
Häftad, 2016
573 kr
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Based on the structured analysis of selected North American novels, this work examines global cities as a literary phenomenon (»DiverCity«). By analyzing Dionne Brand's Toronto, »What We All Long For« (2005), Chang-rae Lee's New York, »Native Speaker« (1995), and Karen Tei Yamashita's Los Angeles, …
Postirony
The Nonfictional Literature of David Foster Wallace and Dave Eggers
Häftad, 2016
561 kr
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What is 'postirony'? Foremost, it is a response to the ironic zeitgeist. Moreover, it is the key to understanding a specific form of literature. The contemporary reader is familiar with and – unfortunately – used to postmodernism's ironic, self-reflexive metafiction. Authors like David Foster …
Fictocritical Strategies
Subverting Textual Practices of Meaning, Other, and Self-Formation
Av Gerrit Haas
Häftad, 2017
396 kr
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Gerrit Haas re-theorises the peculiar textual conduct of ficto/critical writing, which inextricably intersects fictional with critical discourses as well as aesthetics with poetics and ethics. The slash here signals the conjunction between a self-reflexive ficto-critical insight and a wider …
Transformations of the Supernatural – Problems of Representation in the Work of Daniel Defoe
Häftad, 2021
544 kr
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Daniel Defoe's work displays a keen interest in stories of supernatural encounters. Once considering how one might prove supernatural occurrences and whether one can trust eyewitness accounts, Defoe demonstrates that more is at stake. Like his contemporaries, Defoe wonders about the range of …
Sounds of a New Generation – On Contemporary Jewish–American Literature
Häftad, 2021
573 kr
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This book offers insight into the approaches of a new generation of Jewish-American writers. Whether they reimagine their ancestors' "shtetl life" or invent their own kind of Jewishness, they have a common curiosity in what makes them Jewish. Is it because most of them are third-generation …
Exploring the Fantastic – Genre, Ideology, and Popular Culture
Av Ina Batzke, Eric C. Erbacher m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
467 kr
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The fantastic represents a wide and heterogeneous field in literary, cultural, and media studies. Encompassing some of the field's foremost voices such as Fred Botting and Larissa Lai, as well as exciting new perspectives by junior scholars, this volume offers a mosaic of the fantastic now. The …
Schreiben im Zwiegespräch / Writing as Dialogue
Praktiken des Mentorats und Lektorats in der zeitgenössischen Literatur / Practices of editors and mentors in contemporary literature
Av Johanne Mohs, Katrin Zimmermann m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
561 kr
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Obwohl Praktiken des Lektorats und des Mentorats zum alltäglichen Bestandteil schriftstellerischer Tätigkeiten gehören, wurden sie von den Literaturwissenschaften bislang kaum untersucht.Der bilinguale Band versammelt Akteure aus dem literarischen Feld sowie der Autorschafts- und …
Epilepsy Metaphors – Liminal Spaces of Individuation in American Literature, 1990–2015
Av Eleana Vaja
Häftad, 2021
410 kr
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Between 1990 and 2015, American literature saw the emergence of a new corpus of epilepsy metaphors which tackle the stigma of epilepsy within three areas: society, body, and language. Eleana Vaja introduces concepts such as protometaphors, relational metaphors, epileptic texts, and metastability to …
Born to Be Criminal – The Discourse on Criminality and the Practice of Punishment in Late Imperial Russia and Early Soviet Union. Interdisciplinary A
Av Riccardo Nicolosi, Anne Hartmann m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
467 kr
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This collection of essays explores the continuities and disruptions in the perceptions of criminality, its causes and ways of fighting it in late imperial Russia and the early Soviet Union. It focuses on both the discourse on criminality and thus the conceptualisation of criminality in various …
Creating Communities – Towards a Description of the Mask–function in Literature
Häftad, 2021
651 kr
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How does historical reality interrelate with fiction? And how much are readers themselves involved in the workings of fictional literature? With innovative interpretations of various well-known texts, Nourit Melcer-Padon introduces the use of literary masks and illustrates literature's engagement …
Last Pilgrimage to Eternity – Protestant Paths to the Afterlife in Early Modern English Poetry
Häftad, 2021
660 kr
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With the advent of the reformation, concepts of living and dying were profoundly reconfigured. As purgatory disappeared from the spiritual landscape, other paths to the afterlife were rediscovered. Thus, when life draws to a close, the passage to the afterlife becomes a last pilgrimage, a popular …
Ghosts Within – Literary Imaginations of Asian America
Av Janna Odabas
Häftad, 2021
631 kr
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The ghost as a literary figure has been interpreted multiple times: spiritually, psychoanalytically, sociologically, or allegorically. Following these approaches, Janna Odabas understands ghosts in Asian American literature as self-reflexive figures. With identity politics at the core of the ghost …
Because of You – Understanding Second–Person Storytelling
Häftad, 2021
555 kr
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Second-person storytelling is a continually present and diverse technique in the history of literature that appears only once in the oeuvre of an author. Based on key narratives of the post-war period, Evgenia Iliopoulou approaches the phenomenon in an inductive way, starting out from the …
Belonging and Narrative – A Theory of the American Novel
Av Laura Bieger
Häftad, 2021
410 kr
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Why did the novel become so popular in the past three centuries, and how did the American novel contribute to this trend? As a key provider of the narrative frames and formulas needed by modern individuals to give meaning and mooring to their lives. Drawing on phenomenological hermeneutics, human …
Stanislaw Brzozowski and the Migration of Ideas – Transnational Perspectives on the Intellectual Field in Twentieth–Century Poland and Beyond
Av Jens Herlth, Edward Swiderski m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
802 kr
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As a writer, critic, and philosopher, Stanisław Brzozowski (1878–1911) left a lasting imprint on Polish culture. He absorbed virtually all topical intellectual trends of his time, adapting them for the needs of what he saw as his primary mission: the modernization of Polish culture. The essays of …
Fictions of Legibility – The Human Face and Body in Modern German Novels from Sophie von La Roche to Alfred Döblin
Häftad, 2021
590 kr
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Gabriela Stoicea examines how the incidence and role of physical descriptions in German novels changed between 1771 and 1929 in response to developments in the study of the human face and body. As well as engaging the tools and methods of literary analysis, the study uses a cultural studies …
Transformative Potential of Black British an – Heterotopic Spaces and the Politics of Destabilisation
Av Lisa Ahrens
Häftad, 2021
660 kr
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This study investigates power, belonging and exclusion in British society by analysing representations of the mosque, the University of Oxford, and the plantation in novels by Leila Aboulela, Robin Yassin-Kassab, Diran Adebayo, David Dabydeen, Andrea Levy, and Bernardine Evaristo.Lisa Ahrens …
Post–Apartheid Criticism – Perceptions of Whiteness, Homosexuality, and Democracy in South Africa
Häftad, 2021
590 kr
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South Africa's post-apartheid narrative is one of democracy and equality – but its flaws run deep, argues Ives S. Loukson. Disclosing prejudices about whiteness, homosexuality and democracy in the »staged society«, he claims the concept of relation as an adequate framework for the embodiment of …
Narcissistic Mothers in Modernist Literature – New Perspectives on Motherhood in the Works of D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Jean Rh
Häftad, 2021
361 kr
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Narcissistic mothers are an important motif in modernist literature. Tracing its appearance in the works of writers such as D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf, this book questions the dichotomous image of either benevolent or suffocating mother, which has pervaded religion, art and literature for …
From Post–Yugoslavia to Female Continent – Feminist Reading of Post–Yugoslav Literature
Häftad, 2021
1515 kr
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This study of contemporary literature from the former Yugoslavia (Post-Yugoslavia) follows the ways in which the feminist writing of gender, body, sexuality, and social and cultural hierarchies brings to light the past of socialist Yugoslavia, its cultural and literary itineraries and its …
Dramatic Disgust – Aesthetic Theory and Practice from Sophocles to Sarah Kane
Häftad, 2021
894 kr
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Aesthetic disgust is a key component of most classic works of drama because it has much more potential than to simply shock the audience. This first extensive study on dramatic disgust places this sensation among pity and fear as one of the core emotions that can achieve katharsis in drama. The …
Powerful Prose
How Textual Features Impact Readers
Av Mariane Utudji, R. L. Victoria Pohls
Häftad, 2021
533 kr
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What makes a reading experience »powerful«? This volume brings together literary scholars, linguists, and empirical researchers who tackle the question by investigating the effects and reader responses generated by selected extracts of literary prose. The twelve contributions theorize this …
Writing Facts
Interdisciplinary Discussions of a Key Concept in Modernity
Häftad, 2023
894 kr
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»Fact« is one of the most crucial inventions of modern times. Susanne Knaller discusses the functions of this powerful notion in the arts and the sciences, its impact on aesthetic models and systems of knowledge. The practice of writing provides an effective procedure to realize and to understand …
Reading Race Relationally
Embodied Dispositions and Social Structures in Colson Whitehead's Novels
Häftad, 2023
1012 kr
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What does it mean to write African American literature after the end of legalized segregation? In this study of Colson Whitehead's first six novels, Marlon Lieber argues that this question has permeated the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's writing since his 1999 debut The Intuitionist. Drawing on …
Siegfried the Wrestler
The Wilhelmine World of a Colportage Novel
Häftad, 2023
844 kr
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Continually attacked by government officials and educators, installment or colportage novels fascinated their underprivileged readers. Melodrama and sensation were essential ingredients. The hurriedly written, rambling plots sought to electrify fantasies of women with new turn-of-the-century …
World Construction via Networking
The Storytelling Mechanics of the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Häftad, 2024
1347 kr
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With the mainstream's growing acceptance of worlds and storytelling spread among several different texts – e.g., films, television series, novels, and comics – this pioneering study employs a multidisciplinary approach combining transmediality, network theory, and narratology to analyze the …
