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57 produkter
Free Indirect
The Novel in a Postfictional Age
Häftad, 2022
352 kr
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Winner, 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award for CriticismEverywhere today, we are urged to “connect.” Literary critics celebrate a new “honesty” in contemporary fiction or call for a return to “realism.” Yet such rhetoric is strikingly reminiscent of earlier theorizations. Two of the most …
Lasting Impressions
The Legacies of Impressionism in Contemporary Culture
Av Jesse Matz
Inbunden, 2017
646 kr
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Impressionism captured the world's imagination in the late nineteenth century and remains with us today. Portraying the dynamic effects of modernity, impressionist artists revolutionized the arts and the wider culture. Impressionism transformed the very pattern of reality, introducing new ways to …
Toward the Geopolitical Novel
U.S. Fiction in the Twenty-First Century
Av Caren Irr
Inbunden, 2013
2561 kr
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Caren Irr's survey of more than 125 novels outlines the dramatic resurgence of the American political novel in the twenty-first century. She explores the writings of Chris Abani, Susan Choi, Edwidge Danticat, Junot Diaz, Dave Eggers, Jeffrey Eugenides, Aleksandar Hemon, Hari Kunzru, Dinaw Mengestu, …
Toward the Geopolitical Novel
U.S. Fiction in the Twenty-First Century
Av Caren Irr
Häftad, 2013
342 kr
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Caren Irr's survey of more than 125 novels outlines the dramatic resurgence of the American political novel in the twenty-first century. She explores the writings of Chris Abani, Susan Choi, Edwidge Danticat, Junot Diaz, Dave Eggers, Jeffrey Eugenides, Aleksandar Hemon, Hari Kunzru, Dinaw Mengestu, …
Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction
Environment and Affect
Inbunden, 2014
1382 kr
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The 1970s brought a new understanding of the biological and intellectual impact of environmental crises on human beings. As efforts to prevent ecological and bodily injury aligned, a new literature of sickness emerged. "Ecosickness fiction" imaginatively rethinks the link between these forms of …
Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction
Environment and Affect
Häftad, 2016
349 kr
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The 1970s brought a new understanding of the biological and intellectual impact of environmental crises on human beings. As efforts to prevent ecological and bodily injury aligned, a new literature of sickness emerged. "Ecosickness fiction" imaginatively rethinks the link between these forms of …
Born Translated
The Contemporary Novel in an Age of World Literature
Inbunden, 2015
2208 kr
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As a growing number of contemporary novelists write for publication in multiple languages, the genre's form and aims are shifting. Born-translated novels include passages that appear to be written in different tongues, narrators who speak to foreign audiences, and other visual and formal techniques …
Born Translated
The Contemporary Novel in an Age of World Literature
Häftad, 2017
300 kr
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As a growing number of contemporary novelists write for publication in multiple languages, the genre's form and aims are shifting. Born-translated novels include passages that appear to be written in different tongues, narrators who speak to foreign audiences, and other visual and formal techniques …
In Stereotype
South Asia in the Global Literary Imaginary
Inbunden, 2014
1382 kr
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In Stereotype confronts the importance of cultural stereotypes in shaping the ethics and reach of global literature. Mrinalini Chakravorty focuses on the seductive force and explanatory power of stereotypes in multiple South Asian contexts, whether depicting hunger, crowdedness, filth, slums, …
In Stereotype
South Asia in the Global Literary Imaginary
Häftad, 2017
349 kr
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In Stereotype confronts the importance of cultural stereotypes in shaping the ethics and reach of global literature. Mrinalini Chakravorty focuses on the seductive force and explanatory power of stereotypes in multiple South Asian contexts, whether depicting hunger, crowdedness, filth, slums, …
Beyond Bolaño
The Global Latin American Novel
Av Héctor Hoyos
Inbunden, 2015
1284 kr
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Through a comparative analysis of the novels of Roberto Bolano and the fictional work of Cesar Aira, Mario Bellatin, Diamela Eltit, Chico Buarque, Alberto Fuguet, and Fernando Vallejo, among other leading authors, Hector Hoyos defines and explores new trends in how we read and write in a globalized …
Beyond Bolaño
The Global Latin American Novel
Av Héctor Hoyos
Häftad, 2016
322 kr
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Through a comparative analysis of the novels of Roberto Bolano and the fictional work of Cesar Aira, Mario Bellatin, Diamela Eltit, Chico Buarque, Alberto Fuguet, and Fernando Vallejo, among other leading authors, Hector Hoyos defines and explores new trends in how we read and write in a globalized …
Sebald's Vision
Av Carol Jacobs
Inbunden, 2015
420 kr
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W. G. Sebald's writing has been widely recognized for its intense, nuanced engagement with the Holocaust, the Allied bombing of Germany in WWII, and other episodes of violence throughout history. Through his inventive use of narrative form and juxtaposition of image and text, Sebald's work has …
Calypso Jews
Jewishness in the Caribbean Literary Imagination
Inbunden, 2016
1238 kr
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In original and insightful ways, Caribbean writers have turned to Jewish experiences of exodus and reinvention, from the Sephardim expelled from Iberia in the 1490s to the "Calypso Jews" who fled Europe for Trinidad in the 1930s. Examining these historical migrations through the lens of postwar …
Minor Characters Have Their Day
Genre and the Contemporary Literary Marketplace
Av Jeremy Rosen
Inbunden, 2016
1238 kr
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How do genres develop? In what ways do they reflect changing political and cultural trends? What do they tell us about the motivations of publishers and readers? Combining close readings and formal analysis with a sociology of literary institutions and markets, Minor Characters Have Their Day …
Islamophobia and the Novel
Av Peter Morey
Inbunden, 2018
646 kr
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In an era of rampant Islamophobia, what do literary representations of Muslims and anti-Muslim bigotry tell us about changing concepts of cultural difference? In Islamophobia and the Novel, Peter Morey analyzes how recent works of fiction have framed and responded to the rise of anti-Muslim …
Unmaking Love
The Contemporary Novel and the Impossibility of Union
Inbunden, 2017
646 kr
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The contemporary novel does more than revise our conception of love-it explodes it, queers it, and makes it unrecognizable. Rather than providing union, connection, and completion, love in contemporary fiction destroys the possibility of unity, harbors negativity, and foregrounds difference. …
Contemporary Drift
Genre, Historicism, and the Problem of the Present
Häftad, 2019
283 kr
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What does it mean to call something “contemporary”? More than simply denoting what’s new, it speaks to how we come to know the present we’re living in and how we develop a shared story about it. The story of trying to understand the present is an integral, yet often unnoticed, part of the …
Orhan Pamuk and the Good of World Literature
Av Gloria Fisk
Inbunden, 2018
647 kr
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When Orhan Pamuk won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006, he was honored for using his craft as a novelist to bridge a troubling gap between the Judeo-Christian West and the Islamic East. Gloria Fisk contests this pervasive way of reading Pamuk to look skeptically at the ways Western literary …
The Digital Banal
New Media and American Literature and Culture
Av Zara Dinnen
Inbunden, 2018
2208 kr
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Contemporary culture is haunted by its media. Yet in their ubiquity, digital media have become increasingly banal, making it harder for us to register their novelty or the scope of the social changes they have wrought. What do we learn about our media environment when we look closely at the ways …
The Digital Banal
New Media and American Literature and Culture
Av Zara Dinnen
Häftad, 2021
303 kr
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Contemporary culture is haunted by its media. Yet in their ubiquity, digital media have become increasingly banal, making it harder for us to register their novelty or the scope of the social changes they have wrought. What do we learn about our media environment when we look closely at the ways …
Degenerative Realism
Novel and Nation in Twenty-First-Century France
Inbunden, 2020
1383 kr
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A new strain of realism has emerged in France. The novels that embody it represent diverse fears—immigration and demographic change, radical Islam, feminism, new technologies, globalization, American capitalism, and the European Union—but these books, often best-sellers, share crucial affinities. …
Degenerative Realism
Novel and Nation in Twenty-First-Century France
Häftad, 2020
352 kr
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A new strain of realism has emerged in France. The novels that embody it represent diverse fears—immigration and demographic change, radical Islam, feminism, new technologies, globalization, American capitalism, and the European Union—but these books, often best-sellers, share crucial affinities. …
Infowhelm
Environmental Art and Literature in an Age of Data
Inbunden, 2020
1383 kr
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How do artists and writers engage with environmental knowledge in the face of overwhelming information about catastrophe? What kinds of knowledge do the arts produce when addressing climate change, extinction, and other environmental emergencies? What happens to scientific data when it becomes art? …
Infowhelm
Environmental Art and Literature in an Age of Data
Häftad, 2020
352 kr
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How do artists and writers engage with environmental knowledge in the face of overwhelming information about catastrophe? What kinds of knowledge do the arts produce when addressing climate change, extinction, and other environmental emergencies? What happens to scientific data when it becomes art? …
Make It the Same
Poetry in the Age of Global Media
Av Jacob Edmond
Inbunden, 2019
1383 kr
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The world is full of copies. This proliferation includes not just the copying that occurs online and the replication enabled by globalization but the works of avant-garde writers challenging cultural and political authority. In Make It the Same, Jacob Edmond examines the turn toward repetition in …
Make It the Same
Poetry in the Age of Global Media
Av Jacob Edmond
Häftad, 2022
352 kr
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The world is full of copies. This proliferation includes not just the copying that occurs online and the replication enabled by globalization but the works of avant-garde writers challenging cultural and political authority. In Make It the Same, Jacob Edmond examines the turn toward repetition in …
Free Indirect
The Novel in a Postfictional Age
Inbunden, 2022
1383 kr
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Winner, 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award for CriticismEverywhere today, we are urged to “connect.” Literary critics celebrate a new “honesty” in contemporary fiction or call for a return to “realism.” Yet such rhetoric is strikingly reminiscent of earlier theorizations. Two of the most …
Big Fiction
How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature
Av Dan Sinykin
Inbunden, 2023
1187 kr
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Shortlisted, 2024 SHARP Book History Book Prize, Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and PublishingIn the late 1950s, Random House editor Jason Epstein would talk jazz with Ralph Ellison or chat with Andy Warhol while pouring drinks in his office. By the 1970s, editors were poring over …
Big Fiction
How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature
Av Dan Sinykin
Häftad, 2023
303 kr
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Shortlisted, 2024 SHARP Book History Book Prize, Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and PublishingIn the late 1950s, Random House editor Jason Epstein would talk jazz with Ralph Ellison or chat with Andy Warhol while pouring drinks in his office. By the 1970s, editors were poring over …
