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Fool and the Clown in Western Culture and Literature
Homo Insipiens
Inbunden, 2025
2890 kr
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The Fool and the Clown in Western Culture and Literature: Homo Insipiens is a fascinating description of these two perennial figures in European and North American history, folklore, theater, literature, arts, and popular culture. The first part of the book separates them into ten different …
Cultural Evolution and its Discontents
Cognitive Overload, Parasitic Cultures, and the Humanistic Cure
Inbunden, 2018
2890 kr
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People worry that computers, robots, interstellar aliens, or Satan himself – brilliant, stealthy, ruthless creatures – may seize control of our world and destroy what’s uniquely valuable about the human race. Cultural Evolution and its Discontents shows that our cultural systems – especially those …
Narrative Reliability, Racial Conflicts and Ideology in the Modern Novel
Inbunden, 2019
2890 kr
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How does racial ideology contribute to the exploration of narrative voice? How does narrative (un)reliability help in the production and critique of racial ideologies? Through a refreshing comparative analysis of well-established novels by Joseph Conrad, William Faulkner, James Weldon Johnson, …
Conceptualisation and Exposition
A Theory of Character Construction
Av Lina Varotsi
Inbunden, 2019
2890 kr
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While the concept of the fictional character has been widely discussed at interdisciplinary level, a foundational theory of character creation is yet to follow. As a result, creative writing students and beginner writers refer to post-construction analysis, as well as the step-by-step advice often …
Agamben’s Political Ontology of Nudity in Literature and Art
Inbunden, 2019
2890 kr
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This volume develops the central (though neglected) Agambenian concept of nudity along with its crucial political implications. The book discovers within The Use of Bodies a philosophical path to Agamben’s "ontology of nudity," as it is subtended by his notion of the messianic—a dual temporality of …
Promiscuity in Western Literature
Inbunden, 2020
2890 kr
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Poet and novelist Charles Bukowski described promiscuity as "feast and feast and feast." The promiscuous person is having fun, getting away with it, and showing no signs of stopping. More often, though, promiscuity has been seen as demonic, as the sign of an uncivilised race, or as a symptom of …
Knots
Post-Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Literature and Film
Inbunden, 2019
2890 kr
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This collection of specially commissioned essays offers a wide array of new psychoanalytic approaches impacted by Lacanian theory, queer studies, post-colonial studies, feminism, and deconstruction in the domains of film and literature. We have witnessed a remarkable return to psychoanalysis in …
Literary Twinship from Shakespeare to the Age of Cloning
Inbunden, 2020
2454 kr
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Unlike previous efforts that have only addressed literary twinship as a footnote to the doppelganger motif, this book makes a case for the complexity of literary twinship across the literary spectrum. Shortlisted for the ESSE Book Award 2022 (Literatures in the English Language), it shows how twins …
Double Trouble
The Doppelgänger from Romanticism to Postmodernism
Av Eran Dorfman
Inbunden, 2020
2890 kr
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The double, doppelgänger, is mostly understood as a peculiar figure that emerged in nineteenth-century Romantic and gothic literature. Far from being a merely esoteric entity, however, this book argues that the double, although it mostly goes unnoticed, is a widespread phenomenon that has …
(In)digestion in Literature and Film
A Transcultural Approach
Av Serena J. Rivera, Niki Kiviat
Inbunden, 2020
2890 kr
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(In)digestion in Literature and Film: A Transcultural Approach is a collection of essays spanning diverse geographic areas such as Brazil, Eastern Europe, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, South Korea, Taiwan and the United States. Despite this geographic variance, they all question disordered …
Cultural Evolution and its Discontents
Cognitive Overload, Parasitic Cultures, and the Humanistic Cure
Häftad, 2020
812 kr
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People worry that computers, robots, interstellar aliens, or Satan himself – brilliant, stealthy, ruthless creatures – may seize control of our world and destroy what’s uniquely valuable about the human race. Cultural Evolution and its Discontents shows that our cultural systems – especially those …
(In)digestion in Literature and Film
A Transcultural Approach
Av Serena J. Rivera, Niki Kiviat
Häftad, 2023
795 kr
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(In)digestion in Literature and Film: A Transcultural Approach is a collection of essays spanning diverse geographic areas such as Brazil, Eastern Europe, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, South Korea, Taiwan and the United States. Despite this geographic variance, they all question disordered …
Erich Auerbach and the Secular World
Literary Criticism, Historiography, Post-Colonial Theory and Beyond
Av Jon Nixon
Inbunden, 2022
2890 kr
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Auerbach was one of the foremost literary critics of the 20th century whose work has relevance within the fields of literary criticism, historiography and postcolonial theory. The opening chapter of this book explains how he understood the task of interpretation and his role as an interpreter. The …
Queer Women in Modern Spanish Literature
Activism, Sexuality, and the Otherness of the 'Chicas Raras'
Av Ana I. Simón-Alegre, Lou Charnon-Deutsch
Inbunden, 2021
2890 kr
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This original collection of essays explores the work and life choices of Spanish women who, through their writings and social activism, addressed social justice, religious dogmatism, the educational system, gender inequality, and tensions in female subjectivity. It brings together writers who are …
Trans(in)fusion
Reflections for Critical Thinking
Av Ranjan Ghosh
Inbunden, 2020
2890 kr
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Trans(in)fusion is a highly original book that tries to radicalize our ways of ‘critical thinking’ across disciplines. The book, refreshingly, brings into play critical philosophy, literary criticism, studies in mathematics, physics, chemistry and developmental biology, and various other …
Trans(in)fusion
Reflections for Critical Thinking
Av Ranjan Ghosh
Häftad, 2023
745 kr
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Trans(in)fusion is a highly original book that tries to radicalize our ways of ‘critical thinking’ across disciplines. The book, refreshingly, brings into play critical philosophy, literary criticism, studies in mathematics, physics, chemistry and developmental biology, and various other …
Telling Details
Chinese Fiction, World Literature
Av Jiwei Xiao
Inbunden, 2022
3158 kr
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What is a detail? How is it different from xijie, its Chinese counterpart? Is "reading for the details" fundamentally different from "reading for the plot"? Did xijie xiaoshuo, the Chinese novel of details, give the world its earliest form of modern fiction? Inspired by studies of vision and …
Gender and Memory in the Postmillennial Novels of Almudena Grandes
Inbunden, 2021
2890 kr
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Almudena Grandes is one of Spain´s foremost women´s writers, having sold over 1.1 million copies of her episodios de una guerra interminable, her six-volume series that ranges from the Spanish Civil War to the democratic period; the myriad prizes awarded to her, 18 in total, confirm her …
California and the Melancholic American Identity in Joan Didion’s Novels
Exiled from Eden
Häftad, 2020
781 kr
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California and the Melancholic American Identity in Joan Didion’s Novels: Exiled from Eden focuses on the concept of Californian identity in the fiction of Joan Didion. This identity is understood as melancholic, in the sense that the critics following the tradition of both Sigmund Freud and Walter …
Making and Seeing Modern Texts
Häftad, 2020
812 kr
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Making and Seeing Modern Texts explores the poetics of texts through a close reading and analysis across the genres of poetry, drama, fiction, non-fiction travel literature and theory. This volume demonstrates that prose, as much as poetry, share the making and seeing of language, literary …
Pictorial Third
An Essay Into Intermedial Criticism
Häftad, 2020
846 kr
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The Pictorial Third: An Essay into Intermedial Criticism examines the extent to which poetry intertwines with painting and the visual at large, and studies the singular relationship established between language and image, observesing the modalities and workings of what is termed ‘intermedial …
Ghostly Encounters
Cultural and Imaginary Representations of the Spectral from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
Av Stefano Cracolici, Mark Sandy
Inbunden, 2020
2890 kr
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This volume reflects on the ghostly and its varied manifestations including the uncanny, the revenant, the echo, and other forms of artistic allusion. These unsettling presences of the spectral other occur in literature, history, film, and art. The ghostly (and its artistic, literary, filmic, and …
Ghostly Encounters
Cultural and Imaginary Representations of the Spectral from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
Av Mark Sandy, Stefano Cracolici
Häftad, 2023
745 kr
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This volume reflects on the ghostly and its varied manifestations including the uncanny, the revenant, the echo, and other forms of artistic allusion. These unsettling presences of the spectral other occur in literature, history, film, and art. The ghostly (and its artistic, literary, filmic, and …
Recycling Virginia Woolf in Contemporary Art and Literature
Av Monica Latham, Caroline Marie m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
3158 kr
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Recycling Virginia Woolf in Contemporary Art and Literature exam>ines Woolf’s life and oeuvre from the perspective of recycling and pro>vides answers to essential questions such as: Why do artists and writers recycle Woolf’s texts and introduce them into new circuits of meaning? Why do they …
Gender and Memory in the Postmillennial Novels of Almudena Grandes
Häftad, 2023
745 kr
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Almudena Grandes is one of Spain´s foremost women´s writers, having sold over 1.1 million copies of her episodios de una guerra interminable, her six-volume series that ranges from the Spanish Civil War to the democratic period; the myriad prizes awarded to her, 18 in total, confirm her …
Revised Lives
Whitman, Religion, and Constructions of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Culture
Häftad, 2019
812 kr
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Revised Lives examines self-representation in U.S. culture from the American Revolution through the nineteenth century. Drawing on studies of the history of the book, Pierre Bourdieu's sociology, and ethnic and gender revisionism, this book focuses on the processes of national development, the …
Writing the City
Urban Visions and Literary Modernism
Häftad, 2011
1047 kr
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Writing the City examines and challenges the traditional transatlantic axis of urban modernism, London-Paris-New York, an axis that has often elided the historical importance of other centers that have shaped metropolitan identities and discourses. According to Desmond Harding, James Joyce's …
Asian Diaspora Poetry in North America
Av Benzi Zhang
Häftad, 2011
913 kr
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Presenting a new way of reading that helps us discern some previously unnoticed or unnoticeable features of Asian diaspora poetry, this volume highlights how poetry plays a significant role in mediating and defining cross-cultural and transnational positions.Asian diaspora poetry in North America …
Aesthetic Hysteria
The Great Neurosis in Victorian Melodrama and Contemporary Fiction
Häftad, 2011
1047 kr
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Aesthetic Hysteria is a deconstructive psychoanalytic study of hysteria, using literary texts to foreground a telling encounter between two growing discourses within English studies: that of emotion/affect and trauma studies. It brings together several academic foci - the history of medicine, …
Between Profits and Primitivism
Shaping White Middle-Class Masculinity in the U.S., 1880-1917
Häftad, 2012
477 kr
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Between 1800 and the First World War, white middle-class men were depicted various forms of literature as weak and nervous. This book explores cultural writings dedicated to the physical and mental health of the male subject, showing that men have mobilized gender constructions repeatedly and …
