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Shape of Fantasy
Investigating the Structure of American Heroic Epic Fantasy
Inbunden, 2019
2879 kr
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The Shape of Fantasy is an in-depth look at Heroic Epic Fantasy. It depicts structural and narrative patterns with models stemming from science and philosophy. Although Fantasy Fiction is generally defined by its impossibility, Fantasy Fiction not an illogical form. It is, in fact, governed by a …
Transnational Politics in the Post-9/11 Novel
Av Joseph Conte
Inbunden, 2019
2879 kr
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Transnational Politics in the Post-9/11 Novel suggests that literature after September 11, 2001 reflects the shift from bilateral nation-state politics to the multilateralism of transnational politics. While much of the criticism regarding novels of 9/11 tends to approach these works through …
Trauma, Gender and Ethics in the Works of E.L. Doctorow
Inbunden, 2020
2445 kr
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This project approaches four of E. L. Doctorow’s novels—Welcome to Hard Times (1960), The Book of Daniel (1971), Ragtime (1975), and City of God (2000)—from the perspectives of feminist criticism and trauma theory. The study springs from the assumption that Doctorow’s literary project is eminently …
Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era
Av Tiffany Austin, Sequoia Maner m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2879 kr
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Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era is an edited collection of critical essays and poetry that investigates contemporary elegy within the black diaspora. Scores of contemporary writers have turned to elegiac poetry and prose in order to militate against the white supremacist logic …
Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era
Av Tiffany Austin, Sequoia Maner m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
726 kr
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Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era is an edited collection of critical essays and poetry that investigates contemporary elegy within the black diaspora. Scores of contemporary writers have turned to elegiac poetry and prose in order to militate against the white supremacist logic …
Articulations of Resistance
Transformative Practices in Contemporary Arab-American Poetry
Inbunden, 2019
2879 kr
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Using a theoretical framework located at the intersection of US ethnic studies, transnational studies, and postcolonial studies, Articulations of Resistance: Transformative Practices in Contemporary Arab-American Poetry maps an interdisciplinary model of critical inquiry to demonstrate the intimate …
Poetic Encounters in the Americas
Remarkable Bridge
Av Peter Ramos
Inbunden, 2019
2879 kr
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Poetic Encounters in the Americas: Remarkable Bridge examines the ways in which U.S. and Latin American modernist canons have been in cross-cultural, mutually enabling conversation, especially through the act of literary translation. Examining eighteen U.S. and Latin American poets, my book is one …
Objects and Intertexts in Toni Morrison’s "Beloved"
The Case for Reparations
Inbunden, 2020
2445 kr
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Objects and Intertexts in Toni Morrison’s “Beloved”: The Case for Reparations is an inspired contribution to the scholarship on one of the most influential American novels and novelists. The author positions this contemporary classic as a meditation on historical justice and re-comprehends it as …
In Defense of Dialogue
Reading Habermas and Postwar American Literature
Inbunden, 2020
2879 kr
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In Defense of Dialogue: Reading Habermas and Postwar American Literature offers a timely investigation of the value of dialogue in contemporary American culture. Using Jürgen Habermas’s theory of communicative action to read the work of Frank O’Hara, James Baldwin, Grace Paley, and Andy Warhol, In …
Trauma and Fictions of the "War on Terror"
Disrupting Memory
Inbunden, 2021
2879 kr
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This book explores the ways in which transnational fiction in the post-9/11 era can intervene in discourse surrounding the "war on terror" to advocate for marginalised perspectives. Trauma and Fictions of the "War on Terror" conceptualises global political discourse about the "war on terror" as …
Racism and Xenophobia in Early Twentieth-Century American Fiction
When a House is Not a Home
Inbunden, 2020
3146 kr
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"The Melting Pot," "The Land of The Free," "The Land of Opportunity." These tropes or nicknames apparently reflect the freedom and open-armed welcome that the United States of America offers. However, the chronicles of history do not complement that image. These historical happenings have not often …
Posthumanism in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut
Matter That Complains So
Av Andrew Hicks
Häftad, 2023
742 kr
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Posthumanism in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut: Matter That Complains So re-examines the prevailing critical consensus that Kurt Vonnegut was a humanist writer. While more difficult elements of his work have often been the subject of scholarly attention, the tendency amongst critics writing on …
Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and Theologies of the Afterlife
A Step Closer to Heaven
Av Jennifer McFarlane-Harris, Emily Hamilton-Honey
Inbunden, 2021
2879 kr
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This collection analyzes the theme of the "afterlife" as it animated nineteenth-century American women’s theology-making and appeals for social justice. Authors like Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Martha Finley, Jarena Lee, Maria Stewart, Zilpha Elaw, Rebecca Cox Jackson, Catharine …
Global Ambiguity in Nineteenth-Century American Gothic
A Study in Form, History, and Culture
Av Wanlin Li
Inbunden, 2021
2879 kr
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As part of a larger attempt to understand the dynamic interactions between gothic form and ideology, this volume focuses on a strong formal feature of the American gothic, "global ambiguity," and examines the important cultural work it performs in the nineteenth-century history of the genre. The …
Global Ambiguity in Nineteenth-Century American Gothic
A Study in Form, History, and Culture
Av Wanlin Li
Häftad, 2023
742 kr
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As part of a larger attempt to understand the dynamic interactions between gothic form and ideology, this volume focuses on a strong formal feature of the American gothic, "global ambiguity," and examines the important cultural work it performs in the nineteenth-century history of the genre. The …
Mixed Media in Contemporary American Literature
Voices Gone Viral
Av Joelle Mann
Inbunden, 2021
2879 kr
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Mixed Media in Contemporary American Literature: Voices Gone Viral investigates the formation and formulation of the contemporary novel through a historical analysis of voice studies and media studies. After situating research through voices of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature, …
Objects and Intertexts in Toni Morrison’s "Beloved"
The Case for Reparations
Häftad, 2023
742 kr
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Objects and Intertexts in Toni Morrison’s “Beloved”: The Case for Reparations is an inspired contribution to the scholarship on one of the most influential American novels and novelists. The author positions this contemporary classic as a meditation on historical justice and re-comprehends it as …
Racism and Xenophobia in Early Twentieth-Century American Fiction
When a House is Not a Home
Häftad, 2023
742 kr
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"The Melting Pot," "The Land of The Free," "The Land of Opportunity." These tropes or nicknames apparently reflect the freedom and open-armed welcome that the United States of America offers. However, the chronicles of history do not complement that image. These historical happenings have not often …
Rethinking Fiction after the 2007/8 Financial Crisis
Consumption, Economics, and the American Dream
Av Mirosław Aleksander Miernik
Inbunden, 2021
2879 kr
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This book provides insight into the impact the 2007/8 financial crisis and subsequent Great Recession had on American fiction. Employing an interdisciplinary approach which combines literary studies with anthropology, economics, sociology, and psychology, the author attempts to gauge the changes …
Rethinking Fiction after the 2007/8 Financial Crisis
Consumption, Economics, and the American Dream
Av Mirosław Aleksander Miernik
Häftad, 2023
793 kr
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This book provides insight into the impact the 2007/8 financial crisis and subsequent Great Recession had on American fiction. Employing an interdisciplinary approach which combines literary studies with anthropology, economics, sociology, and psychology, the author attempts to gauge the changes …
Interpreting Susan Sontag’s Essays
Radical Contemplative
Av Mark Fulk
Inbunden, 2021
2879 kr
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Interpreting Susan Sontag’s Essays: Radical Contemplative offers its readers a scholarly examination of her essays within the context of philosophy and aesthetic theory. This study sets up a dialogue between her works and their philosophical counterparts in France and Germany, including the works …
Interpreting Susan Sontag’s Essays
Radical Contemplative
Av Mark Fulk
Häftad, 2023
793 kr
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Interpreting Susan Sontag’s Essays: Radical Contemplative offers its readers a scholarly examination of her essays within the context of philosophy and aesthetic theory. This study sets up a dialogue between her works and their philosophical counterparts in France and Germany, including the works …
Trauma and Fictions of the "War on Terror"
Disrupting Memory
Häftad, 2023
793 kr
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This book explores the ways in which transnational fiction in the post-9/11 era can intervene in discourse surrounding the "war on terror" to advocate for marginalised perspectives. Trauma and Fictions of the "War on Terror" conceptualises global political discourse about the "war on terror" as …
Spectres from the Past
Slavery and the Politics of "History" in West African and African-American Literature
Av Portia Owusu
Inbunden, 2019
2445 kr
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Spectres from the Past: The "History" of Slavery in West African and African-American Narratives examines the merit of the claim that West African writers, in comparison to African-Americans authors, deliberately expunge the history of slavery from literary narratives. The book explores slavery in …
From Subjection to Survival
The Artistry of American Women Writers
Inbunden, 2022
2190 kr
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From Subjection to Survival is a work of feminist scholarship that works at the intersection of literature and art history, the written and the visual. By examining six important and diverse multiethnic American women writers of the twentieth century (Kate Chopin, Anzia Yezierska, Edith Wharton, …
Posthumanism in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut
Matter That Complains So
Av Andrew Hicks
Inbunden, 2020
2879 kr
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Posthumanism in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut: Matter That Complains So re-examines the prevailing critical consensus that Kurt Vonnegut was a humanist writer. While more difficult elements of his work have often been the subject of scholarly attention, the tendency amongst critics writing on …
Mixed Media in Contemporary American Literature
Voices Gone Viral
Av Joelle Mann
Häftad, 2023
793 kr
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Mixed Media in Contemporary American Literature: Voices Gone Viral investigates the formation and formulation of the contemporary novel through a historical analysis of voice studies and media studies. After situating research through voices of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature, …
Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and Theologies of the Afterlife
A Step Closer to Heaven
Av Jennifer McFarlane-Harris, Emily Hamilton-Honey
Häftad, 2023
809 kr
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This collection analyzes the theme of the "afterlife" as it animated nineteenth-century American women’s theology-making and appeals for social justice. Authors like Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Martha Finley, Jarena Lee, Maria Stewart, Zilpha Elaw, Rebecca Cox Jackson, Catharine …
Alzheimer’s Disease in Contemporary U.S. Fiction
Memory Lost
Inbunden, 2021
2879 kr
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This volume seeks to bring readers to a deeper understanding of contemporary cultural and social configurations of Alzheimer’s disease by analyzing 21st-century U.S. novels in which the disease plays a key narrative role. Via analysis of selected works, Garrigós considers how the erasure of memory …
Alzheimer’s Disease in Contemporary U.S. Fiction
Memory Lost
Häftad, 2023
742 kr
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This volume seeks to bring readers to a deeper understanding of contemporary cultural and social configurations of Alzheimer’s disease by analyzing 21st-century U.S. novels in which the disease plays a key narrative role. Via analysis of selected works, Garrigós considers how the erasure of memory …
