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Memory, Intermediality, and Literature
Something to Hold on to
Inbunden, 2019
3173 kr
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"If readers of Sara Tanderup Linkis’ "Something to hold on to …" open the book in the expectation of entering a niche of literature and literary studies, they will leave it after having encountered a new highway in literature. Here, the traditional theme of memory and the most recent use of digital …
Role of the Literary Canon in the Teaching of Literature
Av Robert Aston
Häftad, 2023
799 kr
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This book investigates the role of the idea of the literary canon in the teaching of literature, especially in colleges and secondary schools in the United States. Before the term "canon" was widely used in literary studies, which occurred in the second half of 20th century when the canon was first …
Pluralism, Poetry, and Literacy
A Test of Reading and Interpretive Techniques
Av Xavier Kalck
Inbunden, 2021
2904 kr
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Drawing from Medieval and Renaissance studies, analytic philosophy and pragmatism, Jewish studies, as well as ecocriticism and environmental humanities, this book demonstrates the consistent relationship between pluralism and literacy through the prism of poetry by confronting the history of …
Feminist Architecture of Postmodern Anti-Tales
Space, Time, and Bodies
Inbunden, 2019
2904 kr
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This monograph aims to counter the assumption that the anti-tale is a ‘subversive twin’ or dark side of the fairy tale coin, instead it argues that the anti-tale is a genre rich in complexity and radical potential that fundamentally challenges the damaging ideologies and socializing influence of …
Still Here
Memoirs of Trauma, Illness and Loss
Av Bunty Avieson, Fiona Giles m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2904 kr
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Still Here: Memoirs of Trauma, Illness and Loss explores the history, ethics, and cross-cultural range of memoirs focusing on illness, death, loss, displacement, and other experiences of trauma. From Walt Whitman’s Civil War diaries to kitchen table survivor-to-survivor storytelling following …
Painting Words
Aesthetics and the Relationship between Image and Text
Av Beatriz Gonzalez Moreno, Fernando González-Moreno
Inbunden, 2020
2904 kr
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Painting Words: Aesthetics and the Relationship between Image and Text addresses the importance of dialogue between art and literature, text and image in our image-saturated era. In a globalized world, isolation and compartmentalization hinder us back, whereas the Romantic idea of belonging urges …
Make it Work
20th Century American Fiction and Fashion
Inbunden, 2019
2904 kr
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Imagine a new critical theory that bases its literary value on fashion. In this theory exists a community that explores and interrogates conventionality, and in American literature of the 20th century, it includes fashion and home decoration, two paths to achieving white femininity, a prized …
Agatha Christie Goes to War
Av Rebecca Mills, J.C. Bernthal
Inbunden, 2019
2904 kr
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Agatha Christie has never been substantially considered as a war writer, even though war is a constant presence in her writing. This interdisciplinary collection of essays considers the effects of these conflicts on the social and psychological textures of Christie’s detective fiction and other …
Broken Mirrors
Representations of Apocalypses and Dystopias in Popular Culture
Av Joe Trotta, Zlatan Filipovic m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2904 kr
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Dystopian stories and visions of the Apocalypse are nothing new; however in recent years there has been a noticeable surge in the output of this type of theme in literature, art, comic books/graphic novels, video games, TV shows, etc. The reasons for this are not exactly clear; it may partly be as …
No Dialect Please, You're a Poet
English Dialect in Poetry in the 20th and 21st Centuries
Av Claire Hélie, Elise Brault-Dreux m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2904 kr
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No Dialect Please, You're a Poet is situated at the crossroads in research areas of literature and linguistics. This collection of essays brings to the forefront the many ways in which dialect is present in poetry and how it is realized in both written texts and oral performances. In examining …
Modern Fiction, Disability, and the Hearing Sciences
Av Edward Allen
Inbunden, 2024
2904 kr
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The relationship between critical disability studies and the hearing sciences is a dynamic one, and it’s changing still, both as clinicians come to terms with the evolving health of deaf and hearing communities and as the ‘social’ and ‘medical’ understandings of disability continue to gain traction …
Lorca in English
A History of Manipulation through Translation
Inbunden, 2020
2904 kr
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Lorca in English examines the evolution of translations of Federico García Lorca into English as a case of rewriting and manipulation through politically and ideologically motivated translation. As new translations of Federico García Lorca continue to appear in the English-speaking world and his …
Haunted Europe
Continental Connections in English-Language Gothic Writing, Film and New Media
Av Evert Jan Van Leeuwen, Michael Newton
Inbunden, 2019
3173 kr
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Haunted Europe offers the first comprehensive account of the British and Irish fascination with a Gothic vision of continental Europe, tracing its effect on British intellectual life from the birth of the Gothic novel, to the eve of Brexit, and the symbolic recalibration of the UK’s relationship to …
Murder in the Multinational State
Crime Fiction from Spain
Av Stewart King
Inbunden, 2019
2466 kr
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As Spaniards set out to transform the political, social and cultural landscape of the nation following the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975, its crime fiction traces, challenges and celebrates these radical changes. Crime Fiction from Spain: Murder in the Multinational State provides a …
Literature with A White Helmet
The Textual-Corporeality of Being, Becoming, and Representing Refugees
Av Lava Asaad
Inbunden, 2019
2904 kr
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Literature with A White Helmet explores issues of refugee writers, contemporary works of fiction and nonfiction on the refugee’s body and experience, the biopolitics of refugees, and disputes over the ethicality of representing refugees by writers and human rights activists. The book relies on a …
Challenging Memories and Rebuilding Identities
Literary and Artistic Voices that undo the Lusophone Atlantic
Av Margarida Rendeiro, Federica Lupati
Inbunden, 2019
2904 kr
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Taking an original approach, Challenging Memories and Rebuilding Identities: Literary and Artistic Voices that undo the Lusophone Atlantic explores a selected body of cultural works from Portugal, Brazil and Lusophone Africa. Contributors from various fields of expertise examine the ways …
Avant-Garde Pieties
Aesthetics, Race, and the Renewal of Innovative Poetics
Häftad, 2019
850 kr
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Avant-Garde Pieties tells a new story about innovative poetry; it argues that the avant-garde—now more than a century old—persists in its ability to nurture interesting, provocative, meaningful, and moving poems, despite its profound cultural failings and its self-devouring theoretical compulsions. …
Doubles and Hybrids in Latin American Gothic
Av Antonio Alcalá González, Ilse Marie Bussing López
Inbunden, 2019
2904 kr
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Doubles and Hybrids in Latin American Gothic focuses on a recurrent motif that is fundamental in the Gothic—the double. This volume explores how this ancient notion acquires tremendous force in a region, Latin America, which is itself defined by duplicity (indigenous/European, autochthonous …
Biotheory
Life and Death under Capitalism
Av Jeffrey R. Di Leo, Peter Hitchcock
Inbunden, 2020
2904 kr
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Forged at the intersection of intense interest in the pertinence and uses of biopolitics and biopower, this volume analyzes theoretical and practical paradigms for understanding and challenging the socioeconomic determinations of life and death in contemporary capitalism. Its contributors offer a …
Gerardo Diego’s Creation Myth of Music
Fábula de Equis y Zeda
Inbunden, 2020
2904 kr
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Since its publication nearly eight decades ago, the consensus among scholars about Fábula de Equis y Zeda, by the Spanish poet Gerardo Diego (1896-1987) remains unchanged: Fábula is an enigmatic avant-garde curiosity. It seems to rob the reader of the reason necessary to interpret it, even as it …
D. H. Lawrence and Psychoanalysis
Av John Turner
Inbunden, 2020
2904 kr
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This book opens out a wholly new field of enquiry within a familiar subject: it offers a detailed – yet eminently readable – historical investigation, of a kind never yet undertaken, of the impact of psychoanalysis (at a crucial moment of its history) on the thinking and writing of D.H. Lawrence. …
Resistant Reproductions
Pregnancy and Abortion in British Literature and Film
Av Fran Bigman
Inbunden, 2024
2904 kr
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Resistant Reproductions asks why narratives of pregnancy and abortion emerged in the early twentieth century and what kinds of stories these narratives conveyed. Is it only once pregnancy becomes plannable that it becomes a story worth telling? Abortion is often considered resistant and feminist, …
Kashmiri Life Narratives
Human Rights, Pleasure and the Local Cosmopolitan
Inbunden, 2020
3173 kr
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Kashmiri Life Narratives takes as its central focus writings -- memoirs, non-fictional and fictional Bildungsromane -- published circa 2008 by Kashmiris/Indians living in the Valley of Kashmir, India or in the diaspora. It offers a new perspective on these works by analyzing them within the …
Role of the Literary Canon in the Teaching of Literature
Av Robert Aston
Inbunden, 2020
2904 kr
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This book investigates the role of the idea of the literary canon in the teaching of literature, especially in colleges and secondary schools in the United States. Before the term "canon" was widely used in literary studies, which occurred in the second half of 20th century when the canon was first …
Mythopoeic Narrative in The Legend of Zelda
Av Anthony Cirilla, Vincent Rone
Inbunden, 2020
2680 kr
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The Legend of Zelda series is one of the most popular and recognizable examples in videogames of what Tolkien referred to as mythopoeia, or myth-making. In his essay On Fairy Stories and a short poem entitled Mythopoeia, Tolkien makes the case that the fairy tale aesthetic is simply a more intimate …
Masculinity and Patriarchal Villainy in the British Novel
From Hitler to Voldemort
Av Sara Martín
Inbunden, 2019
2904 kr
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Masculinity and Patriarchal Villainy in the British Novel: From Hitler to Voldemort sits at the intersection of literary studies and masculinity studies, arguing that the villain, in many works of contemporary British fiction, is a patriarchal figure that embodies an excess of patriarchal power …
Algerian War Retold
Of Camus’s Revolt and Postwar Reconciliation
Inbunden, 2019
2904 kr
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The Algerian War Retold: Of Camus’s Revolt and Postwar Reconciliation focuses on specific aspects of Albert Camus’s ethical thought through a study of his writings in conjunction with late 20th- and early 21st-century works written by Franco-Maghrebi authors on the topic of the Algerian War …
Commodifying Violence in Literature and on Screen
The Colombian Condition
Inbunden, 2021
2904 kr
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This book traverses the cultural landscape of Colombia through in-depth analyses of displacement, local and global cultures, human rights abuses, and literary and media production. Through an exploration of the cultural processes that perpetuate the "darker side" of Latin America for global …
Visual Representations of the Arctic
Imagining Shimmering Worlds in Culture, Literature and Politics
Av Markku Lehtimäki, Arja Rosenholm m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2904 kr
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Privileging the visual as the main method of communication and meaning-making, this book responds critically to the worldwide discussion about the Arctic and the North, addressing the interrelated issues of climate change, ethics and geopolitics. A multi-disciplinary, multi-modal exploration of the …
Reconstructing the Social Sciences and Humanities
Anténor Firmin, Western Intellectual Tradition, and Black Atlantic Tradition
Av Celucien L. Joseph, Paul C. Mocombe
Inbunden, 2021
2904 kr
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Joseph Anténor Firmin (1850–1911) was the reigning public intellectual and political critic in Haiti in the nineteenth century. He was the first “Black anthropologist” and “Black Egyptologist” to deconstruct the Western interpretation of global history and challenge the ideological construction of …
