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Romantic Legacies
Transnational and Transdisciplinary Contexts
Av Shun-Liang Chao, John Michael Corrigan
Inbunden, 2019
2904 kr
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Romantic Legacies: Transnational and Transdisciplinary Contexts presents the most wide-ranging treatment of Romantic regenerations, covering the cross-pollination between the arts or between art and thought within or across the borders of Germany, Britain, France, the US, Russia, India, China, and …
Life in Citations
Biblical Narratives and Contemporary Hebrew Culture
Av Ruth Tsoffar
Inbunden, 2019
2904 kr
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In her latest book, Life in Citiations: Biblical Narratives and Contemporary Hebrew Culture, Ruth Tsoffar studies several key biblical narratives that figure prominently in Israeli culture. Life in Citations provides a close reading of these narratives, along with works by contemporary Hebrew …
Family Fictions and World Making
Irish and Indian Women’s Writing in the Contemporary Era
Inbunden, 2021
2904 kr
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Family Fictions and World Making: Irish and Indian Women’s Writing in the Contemporary Era is the first book-length comparative study of family novels from Ireland and India. On the one hand, despite an early as well as late colonial experience, Ireland is often viewed exclusively within a …
Holocaust Narratives
Trauma, Memory and Identity Across Generations
Inbunden, 2020
2904 kr
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Holocaust Narratives: Trauma, Memory and Identity Across Generations analyzes individual multi-generational frameworks of Holocaust trauma to answer one essential question: How do these narratives change to not only transmit the trauma of the Holocaust – and in the process add meaning to what is …
Beyond Collective Memory
Structural Complicity and Future Freedoms in Senegalese and South African Narratives
Inbunden, 2020
2904 kr
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Beyond Collective Memory analyzes how two African places became icons of collective memory for certain publics, yet remain marginal to national and continental memory discourses. Thiaroye, a Senegalese location of colonial-era massacre, and District Six, a South African neighborhood destroyed under …
Women in Transition
Crossing Boundaries, Crossing Borders
Av Maria-José Blanco, Claire Williams
Inbunden, 2021
2904 kr
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This volume brings together scholars, students and writers as well as artists from around the world. By choosing a thematic focus on "transition" in women’s lives, we present research on women who have crossed biological, geopolitical and political borders as well as emotional, sexual, cultural and …
Reclaiming Karbala
Nation, Islam and Literature of the Bengali Muslims
Inbunden, 2023
2904 kr
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Analysing an extensive range of texts and publications across multiple genres, formats and literary lineages, Reclaiming Karbala studies the emergence and formation of a viable Muslim identity in Bengal over the late-19th century through the 1940s. Beginning with an explanation of the tenets of the …
Post-Romantic Aesthetics in Contemporary British and Irish Poetry
Inbunden, 2021
2904 kr
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This book demonstrates the legacies of Romanticism which animate the poetry and poetics of Eavan Boland, Gillian Clarke, John Burnside, and Kathleen Jamie. It argues that the English Romantic tradition serves as a source of inspiration and critical contention for these Irish, Welsh, and Scottish …
World War II in Contemporary German and Dutch Fiction
The Generation of Meta-Memory
Av Jan Lensen
Inbunden, 2021
2904 kr
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World War II in Contemporary German and Dutch Fiction: The Generation of Meta-Memory offers a comparative study of the construction of World War II memory in contemporary German, Flemish, and Dutch literature. More specifically, it investigates in what ways the large temporal distance to the …
Children of Globalization
Diasporic Coming-of-Age Novels in Germany, England, and the United States
Inbunden, 2020
2466 kr
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Children of Globalization is the first book-length exploration of contemporary Diasporic Coming-of-age Novels in the context of globalized and de facto multicultural societies. Diasporic Coming-of-age Novels subvert the horizon of expectations of the originating and archetypal form of the genre, …
Holocaust Narratives
Trauma, Memory and Identity Across Generations
Häftad, 2023
799 kr
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Holocaust Narratives: Trauma, Memory and Identity Across Generations analyzes individual multi-generational frameworks of Holocaust trauma to answer one essential question: How do these narratives change to not only transmit the trauma of the Holocaust – and in the process add meaning to what is …
Translingual Francophonie and the Limits of Translation
Inbunden, 2020
2904 kr
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Translingual Francophonie and the Limits of Translation proposes a novel theoretical lens for the study of translation as theme and practice in works by four translingual, francophone authors: Vassilis Alexakis, Chahdortt Djavann, Nancy Huston, and Andreï Makine. In particular, it argues that …
Translingual Francophonie and the Limits of Translation
Häftad, 2023
749 kr
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Translingual Francophonie and the Limits of Translation proposes a novel theoretical lens for the study of translation as theme and practice in works by four translingual, francophone authors: Vassilis Alexakis, Chahdortt Djavann, Nancy Huston, and Andreï Makine. In particular, it argues that …
Beyond Collective Memory
Structural Complicity and Future Freedoms in Senegalese and South African Narratives
Häftad, 2022
816 kr
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Beyond Collective Memory analyzes how two African places became icons of collective memory for certain publics, yet remain marginal to national and continental memory discourses. Thiaroye, a Senegalese location of colonial-era massacre, and District Six, a South African neighborhood destroyed under …
Teaching in Times of Crisis
Applying Comparative Literature in the Classroom
Inbunden, 2021
1153 kr
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Teaching in Times of Crisis explores how comparative methods, which are instrumental in reading and teaching works of literature from around the world, also provide us with tools to dissect and engage the moments of crises that permeate our contemporary political realities.The book is written in …
World Literature After Empire
Rethinking Universality in the Long Cold War
Inbunden, 2021
2904 kr
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This book makes the case that the idea of a "world" in the cultural and philosophical sense is not an exclusively Western phenomenon. During the Cold War and in the wake of decolonization a plethora of historical attempts were made to reinvent the notions of world literature, world art, and …
Narrating Death
The Limit of Literature
Av Daniel Jernigan, Walter Wadiak m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
850 kr
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Drawing on literary and visual texts spanning from the twelfth century to the present, this volume of essays explores what happens when narratives try to push the boundaries of what can be said about death.
Cryptic Subtexts in Literature and Film
Secret Messages and Buried Treasure
Häftad, 2020
850 kr
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One of the primary objectives of comparative literature is the study of the relationship of texts, also known as intertextuality, which is a means of contextualizing and analyzing the way literature grows and flourishes through inspiration and imitation, direct or indirect. When the inspiration and …
Historical Novel, Transnationalism, and the Postmodern Era
Presenting the Past
Häftad, 2020
850 kr
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This volume explores the genre of the historical novel and the variety of ways in which writers choose to represent the past. How does an author’s nationality or gender impact their artistic choices? To what extent can historical novels appeal to a transnational audience? This study demonstrates …
Literature and Ethics in Contemporary Brazil
Av Vinicius Mariano De Carvalho, Nicola Gavioli
Häftad, 2020
816 kr
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When Brazil was honored at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2013, the Brazilian author Luiz Ruffato opened the event with a provocative speech claiming that literature, through its pervasive depiction and discussion of ‘otherness,’ has the potential to provoke ethical transformation. This book uses …
Children of Globalization
Diasporic Coming-of-Age Novels in Germany, England, and the United States
Häftad, 2023
749 kr
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Children of Globalization is the first book-length exploration of contemporary Diasporic Coming-of-age Novels in the context of globalized and de facto multicultural societies. Diasporic Coming-of-age Novels subvert the horizon of expectations of the originating and archetypal form of the genre, …
World Literature Decentered
Beyond the “West” through Turkey, Mexico and Bengal
Av Ian Almond
Inbunden, 2021
3173 kr
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What would world literature look like, if we stopped referring to the “West”? Starting with the provocative premise that the “‘West’ is ten percent of the planet”, World Literature Decentered is the first book to decenter Eurocentric discourses of global literature and global history – not just by …
World War II in Contemporary German and Dutch Fiction
The Generation of Meta-Memory
Av Jan Lensen
Häftad, 2023
799 kr
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World War II in Contemporary German and Dutch Fiction: The Generation of Meta-Memory offers a comparative study of the construction of World War II memory in contemporary German, Flemish, and Dutch literature. More specifically, it investigates in what ways the large temporal distance to the …
Family Fictions and World Making
Irish and Indian Women’s Writing in the Contemporary Era
Häftad, 2023
749 kr
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Family Fictions and World Making: Irish and Indian Women’s Writing in the Contemporary Era is the first book-length comparative study of family novels from Ireland and India. On the one hand, despite an early as well as late colonial experience, Ireland is often viewed exclusively within a …
Teaching in Times of Crisis
Applying Comparative Literature in the Classroom
Häftad, 2023
377 kr
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Teaching in Times of Crisis explores how comparative methods, which are instrumental in reading and teaching works of literature from around the world, also provide us with tools to dissect and engage the moments of crises that permeate our contemporary political realities.The book is written in …
Myth and Identity of the Romantic Artist in European Literature
A Self-Constructed Fantasy
Inbunden, 2022
3173 kr
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This study addresses the question of artistic identity and the myth of the artist as it has been shaped by the artists themselves. While the term artist is to be understood in a broad sense, the focus of this study is the literature of the Romantic tradition. Identity is largely perceived as a …
New Directions in Flânerie
Global Perspectives for the Twenty-First Century
Av Kelly Comfort, Marylaura Papalas
Inbunden, 2021
3173 kr
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This book distinguishes itself from previous scholarship by offering an inclusive and comprehensive treatment of urban walking from 1800 to the present. Divided into three sections—geography, genius, and gender—the introduction establishes the origins of the flâneur and flâneuse in early …
Women in Transition
Crossing Boundaries, Crossing Borders
Av Maria-José Blanco, Claire Williams
Häftad, 2023
833 kr
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This volume brings together scholars, students and writers as well as artists from around the world. By choosing a thematic focus on "transition" in women’s lives, we present research on women who have crossed biological, geopolitical and political borders as well as emotional, sexual, cultural and …
Bicultural Literature and Film in French and English
Av Peter I. Barta, Phil Powrie
Häftad, 2019
816 kr
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This book focuses on literature and cinema in English or French by authors and directors not working in their native language. Artists with hybrid identities have become a defining phenomenon of contemporary reality following the increased mobility between civilisations during the postcolonial …
Modernism and the Avant-garde Body in Spain and Italy
Av Nicolas Fernandez-Medina, Maria Truglio
Häftad, 2019
934 kr
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This interdisciplinary volume interrogates bodily thinking in avant-garde texts from Spain and Italy during the early twentieth century and their relevance to larger modernist preoccupations with corporeality. It examines the innovative ways Spanish and Italian avant-gardists explored the body as a …
