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  • MPI Ethno. Forsch.  (8)
  • GRASSI Mus. Leipzig
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  • London : Palgrave Macmillan UK  (8)
  • America Literatures  (8)
  • English Studies  (8)
  • 1
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    The Legal Thriller from Gardner to Grisham : See you in Court! (2016)
    London : Palgrave Macmillan UK
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    ISBN: 9781137407306
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XV, 199 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Literature, Cultural and Media Studies
    Series Statement: Crime Files
    Parallel Title: Printed edition
    RVK:
    HN 1310
    Keywords: Literature ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; Literature, Modern 21st century ; America Literatures ; Film genres ; Fiction ; British literature ; Fiction. ; British literature. ; Film genres. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; America—Literatures.
    Abstract: This book offers a critically informed yet relaxed historical overview of the legal thriller, a unique contribution to crime fiction where most of the titles have been written by professionals such as lawyers and judges. The legal thriller typically uses court trials as the suspense-creating background for presenting legal issues reflecting a wide range of concerns, from corporate conflicts to private concerns, all in a dramatic but highly informed manner. With authors primarily from the USA and the UK, the genre is one which nonetheless enjoys a global reading audience. As well as providing a survey of the legal thriller, this book takes a gender-focused approach to analyzing recently published titles within the field. It also argues for the fascination of the legal thriller both in the way its narrative pattern parallels that of an actual court trial, and by the way it reflects, frequently quite critically, the concerns of contemporary society
    Abstract: Introduction -- Chapter 1. Law and literature -- Chapter 2. The Beginnings of a Success Story -- Chapter 3. American Post-World-War-Two Thrill-and-Ethics Trials -- Chapter 4. Genteel Jurisprudence -- Chapter 5. See You In Court (1) -- Chapter 6. See You In Court (2) -- See You In Court (3) -- Conclusion -- Bibliography
    DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-40730-6
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  • 2
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    Shakespearean Allusion in Crime Fiction : DCI Shakespeare (2016)
    London : Palgrave Macmillan UK
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    ISBN: 9781137538758
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VII, 204 p)
    Series Statement: Palgrave Shakespeare Studies
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    Series Statement: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    RVK:
    HG 670
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    HI 3370
    Keywords: Literature ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; Literature, Modern 21st century ; Literature, Modern ; Fiction ; British literature ; America Literatures ; Literature ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; Literature, Modern 21st century ; Literature, Modern ; Fiction ; British literature ; America Literatures ; Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 ; Rezeption ; Englisch ; Kriminalliteratur ; Englisch ; Kriminalliteratur ; Anspielung ; Shakespeare, William 1564-1616
    Abstract: This book explores why crime fiction so often alludes to Shakespeare. It ranges widely over a variety of authors including classic golden age crime writers such as the four ‘queens of crime’ (Allingham, Christie, Marsh, Sayers), Nicholas Blake and Edmund Crispin, as well as more recent authors such as Reginald Hill, Kate Atkinson and Val McDermid. It also looks at the fondness for Shakespearean allusion in a number of television crime series, most notably Midsomer Murders, Inspector Morse and Lewis, and considers the special sub-genre of detective stories in which a lost Shakespeare play is found. It shows how Shakespeare facilitates discussions about what constitutes justice, what authorises the detective to track down the villain, who owns the countryside, national and social identities, and the question of how we measure cultural value
    DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-53875-8
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  • 3
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    The History of Science Fiction (2016)
    London : Palgrave Macmillan UK
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    ISBN: 9781137569578
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXII, 524 p. 18 illus)
    Edition: 2nd ed. 2016
    Series Statement: Palgrave Histories of Literature
    Series Statement: Springer eBook Collection
    Series Statement: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    RVK:
    EC 6745
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    HG 672
    Keywords: Literature ; Literature History and criticism ; Literature, Modern 19th century ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; Fiction ; British literature ; America Literatures ; Literature ; Literature History and criticism ; Literature, Modern 19th century ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; Fiction ; British literature ; America Literatures
    Abstract: This book is the definitive critical history of science fiction. The 2006 first edition of this work traced the development of the genre from Ancient Greece and the European Reformation through to the end of the 20th century. This new 2nd edition has been revised thoroughly and very significantly expanded. An all-new final chapter discusses 21st-century science fiction, and there is new material in every chapter: a wealth of new readings and original research. The author’s groundbreaking thesis that science fiction is born out of the 17th-century Reformation is here bolstered with a wide range of new supporting material and many hundreds of 17th- and 18th-century science fiction texts, some of which have never been discussed before. The account of 19th-century science fiction has been expanded, and the various chapters tracing the twentieth-century bring in more writing by women, and science fiction in other media including cinema, TV, comics, fan-culture and other modes
    DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-56957-8
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  • 4
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    The Palgrave Handbook of the Southern Gothic (2016)
    London : Palgrave Macmillan UK
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    ISBN: 9781137477743
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XVI, 505 p)
    Series Statement: Springer eBook Collection
    Series Statement: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    RVK:
    HG 679
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    HR 1801
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    HR 1540
    Keywords: Literature ; Motion pictures United States ; Civilization History ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; Literature, Modern 21st century ; Fiction ; America Literatures ; Literature ; Motion pictures United States ; Civilization History ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; Literature, Modern 21st century ; Fiction ; America Literatures ; USA ; Gothic novel
    Abstract: This book examines ‘Southern Gothic’ - a term that describes some of the finest works of the American Imagination. But what do ‘Southern’ and ‘Gothic’ mean, and how are they related? Traditionally seen as drawing on the tragedy of slavery and loss, ‘Southern Gothic’ is now a richer, more complex subject. Thirty-five distinguished scholars explore the Southern Gothic, under the categories of Poe and his Legacy; Space and Place; Race; Gender and Sexuality; and Monsters and Voodoo. The essays examine slavery and the laws that supported it, and stories of slaves who rebelled and those who escaped. Also present are the often-neglected issues of the Native American presence in the South, socioeconomic class, the distinctions among the several regions of the South, same-sex relationships, and norms of gendered behaviour. This handbook covers not only iconic figures of Southern literature but also other less well-known writers, and examines gothic imagery in film and in contemporary television programmes such as True Blood and True Detective
    DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-47774-3
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  • 5
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    The Grotesque in Contemporary Anglophone Drama (2016)
    London : Palgrave Macmillan UK
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    ISBN: 9781137513182
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VII, 178 p)
    Series Statement: Springer eBook Collection
    Series Statement: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    RVK:
    HN 1261
    Keywords: Literature ; Literature Philosophy ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; Literature, Modern 21st century ; British literature ; America Literatures ; Literature ; Literature Philosophy ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; Literature, Modern 21st century ; British literature ; America Literatures
    Abstract: Following on from the work of art historians and literary and cultural theorists, this book examines the ways in which varieties of the grotesque function in the plays of Philip Ridley, Mark O’Rowe, Enda Walsh, Suzan-Lori Parks and Tim Crouch. The term ‘grotesque’ has been frequently applied in commentaries on some of the most exciting contemporary drama, without much further elucidation. By producing visions of an alienated world, engendering simultaneous attraction and repulsion, and often triggering laughter that comes with a chill in the spine, the grotesque attacks both aesthetic and social conventions and requires a creative use of the imagination on the part of the spectators. The book argues that as such, the grotesque in the works of the selected playwrights solicits profound audience engagement with urgent ethical, social and political issues. The inevitable openness caused by the grotesque demonstrates the authors’ faith in the deliberative powers of their audience, which stands in contrast to the ready-made choices offered by overtly committed political theatre
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
    DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-51318-2
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  • 6
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    Sex, Time, and Space in Contemporary Fiction : Exceptional Intercourse (2016)
    London : Palgrave Macmillan UK
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    ISBN: 9781137485892
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XVIII, 178 p)
    Series Statement: Springer eBook Collection
    Series Statement: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    RVK:
    HN 1101
    Keywords: Literature ; Literature Philosophy ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; Literature, Modern 21st century ; Fiction ; British literature ; America Literatures ; Literature ; Literature Philosophy ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; Literature, Modern 21st century ; Fiction ; British literature ; America Literatures
    Abstract: Combining close readings of literature and theory, Sex, Time, and Space in Contemporary Fiction opens up new ways to consider the sex-time-space nexus. In an exciting and compelling contribution to contemporary literary studies, this book takes the concept of ‘exceptionality’ as its point of departure as developed through an exploration of Giorgio Agamben’s theory of the state of exception and the work of theorists including Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault. Through an analysis of a range of widely read contemporary fiction, including On Chesil Beach, Gertrude and Claudius, The Act of Love and Room, Ben Davies provides a rigorous exploration of narrative form and offers original theories of the prequel, narrative relations in terms of set theory, and the practice of reading itself
    DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-48589-2
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    Contemporary World Narrative Fiction and the Spaces of Neoliberalism (2016)
    London : Palgrave Macmillan UK
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    ISBN: 9781137549556
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (Approx. 225 p)
    Series Statement: New Comparisons in World Literature
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    Series Statement: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies
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    RVK:
    HP 1145
    Keywords: Literature ; Comparative literature ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; Literature, Modern 21st century ; Fiction ; America Literatures ; Postmodernism (Literature) ; Literature ; Comparative literature ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; Literature, Modern 21st century ; Fiction ; America Literatures ; Postmodernism (Literature)
    Abstract: This book is a transnational study of how contemporary fiction writers from the United States and Canada to Nigeria to India to Dubai have conceptualized the emergent social spaces of the diverse corners of the neoliberal world system. Over the span of the past three to four decades, free market economic policies have been sold to or pushed upon every society on the globe in some way, shape, or form. The upshot of this has been a world system structured in terms of a vast shift of power and resources from government to private enterprise, dwindling civic life replaced by rising consumerism, an emerging oligarchic rentier class, large segments of population faced with meager material conditions of existence and few prospects of socio-economic mobility, and a looming sense of a near future dominated by further economic collapses and mounting social strife. This book analyses a wide cultural array of some of the most poignant narrative engagements with neoliberalism in its various localized manifestations throughout the world
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-137-54955-6
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    Celebrity Authorship and Afterlives in English and American Literature (2016)
    London : Palgrave Macmillan UK
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    ISBN: 9781137558688
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XII, 209 p. 15 illus., 4 illus. in color)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Literature, Cultural and Media Studies
    Parallel Title: Printed edition
    RVK:
    HG 121
    Keywords: Literature ; Literature, Modern 20th century ; Literature, Modern 21st century ; America Literatures ; Fiction ; British literature ; British literature. ; Fiction. ; America—Literatures. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; Großbritannien ; USA ; Schriftsteller ; Selbstdarstellung ; Personenkult
    Abstract: This book maps the history of literary celebrity from the early nineteenth century to the present, paying special attention to the authors’ crafting of their writerly self as well as the afterlife of their public image. Case studies are John Keats, Edgar Allan Poe, Eliza Cook, Herman Melville, Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein, J.D. Salinger and Zadie Smith. Literary celebrity is part and parcel of modern literary culture, yet it continues to raise intriguing questions about the nature of authorship, writerly fame and the tension between authorial self-fashioning and public appropriation. This volume provides unique insights into the phenomenon
    Abstract: Introduction; Gaston Franssen and Rick Honings -- 1. A Friendly Return of the Author: John Keats (1795-1821); Eric Eisner -- 2. Hero of Horror: Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849); Evert Jan van Leeuwen -- 3. Victorian Iconoclast: Eliza Cook (1818-1889); Alexis Easley -- 4. The Daguerreotype Devil: Herman Melville (1819-1891); Kevin J. Hayes -- 5. The Art of Creating a Great Sensation: Oscar Wilde (1854-1900); Sandra Mayer -- 6. Production and Reproduction: Gertrude Stein (1874-1946); Rod Rosenquist -- 7. The Silence of the Celebrity: J.D. Salinger (1919-2010); Gaston Franssen -- 8. Public and Private Posture: Zadie Smith (1975); Odile Heynders -- Bibliography -- Index.-
    DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-55868-8
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