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    ISBN: 9783031148286
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 255 p. 1 illus.)
    Ausgabe: 1st ed. 2023.
    Serie: The New Antiquity
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    Schlagwort(e): Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Poetry. ; Literature. ; Classical literature. ; Literature, Ancient. ; Literature, Modern
    Kurzfassung: Chapter 1. Introduction (Victoria Moul and John Talbot) -- Chapter 2. Sisson, Aeneid 6, and Roman Poems9 ( Charlie Louth) -- Chapter 3. ‘Young men would disconcertingly spring from perambulators’: Sisson’s English atoms (N. J. Lowe) -- Chapter 4. C. H. Sisson in Exile; Versions and Perversions of Ovid’s Tristia (Christopher Trinacty) .-Chapter 5. ‘Magnificent Anachronism’: Sisson in the Seventeenth-Century (Hannah Crawforth) -- Chapter 6. Thoughts on the Churchyard and the Fortunes of the Baroque from Balde and Gryphius to C. H. Sisson (Kenneth Haynes) -- Chapter 7. Marvell and Sisson at the Intersection of Times (John Talbot) .-Chapter 8. ‘Poet of church and state’: C. H. Sisson and the Church of England (Peter Webster) -- Chapter 9. One Eye on the Archive: C. H. Sisson’s Indian Writings (Henry King) -- Chapter 10. ‘Here lies a civil servant’: C. H. Sisson and the Possibility of Honesty (Alex Wylie) -- Chapter 11. Identity and incarnation in the poetry of C. H. Sisson (Victoria Moul) -- Afterword: Tutelary Spirit (Michael Schmidt).
    Kurzfassung: This book is the first collection of essays dedicated to the work of C. H. Sisson (1915-2003), a major English poet, critic and translator. The collection aims to offer an overall guide to his work for new readers, while also encouraging established readers of one aspect (such as his well-known classical translations) to explore others. It champions in particular the quality of his original poetry. The book brings together contributions from scholars and critics working in a wide range of fields, including classical reception, translation studies and early modern literature as well as modern English poetry, and concludes with a more personal essay on Sisson’s work by Michael Schmidt, his publisher. Victoria Moul is Reader in Early Modern Latin and English at University College London, UK. John Talbot is Associate Professor of English Literature at Brigham Young University, USA. .
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    ISBN: 9783031114809
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIV, 269 p.)
    Ausgabe: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Schlagwort(e): America—Literatures. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature—Philosophy. ; Creative nonfiction. ; Feminism and literature. ; Prose literature. ; Literature ; Literature, Modern ; America
    Kurzfassung: Foreword – Anne Giardini -- Carol Shields’s Essays and Fiction: Crossing Borders -- Prologue: (Es)saying It Her Way: Carol Shields as Essayist – Christl Verduyn -- Part I: Essays on Carol Shields’s Short Stories -- The Short of It: Carol Shields’s Stories – Neil Besner -- Space for Strangeness: Carol Shields’s Short Stories – Coral Ann Howells -- “Be a Little Crazy: Astonish Me”: Carol Shields’s Improvisational Flair in Dressing Up for the Carnival – Nora Foster Stovel -- “Controlled Chaos” and Carol Shields’s “A View from the Edge of the Edge” – Marta Dvořák -- Part II: Essays on Carol Shields’s Novels -- “The Alchemy of Re-Imagined Reality”: Biographical Gothicism in Carol Shields’s Swann: A Mystery – Cynthia Sugars -- Transforming Love: Critical and Religious Discourses in Carol Shields’s The Republic of Love – Brenda Beckman-Long -- Shields’s Theory of Fiction Writing: Grief and Memorial in The Stone Diaries – Christian Riegel -- Larry’s Party: Man in the Maze and “Where Curiosity Leads” – Warren Cariou -- Advice to Writers in Carol Shields’s Unless – Wendy Roy -- In/visibility, Race-Baiting, and the Author Function in Carol Shields’s Unless – Smaro Kamboureli -- Afterword: “Little Shocks of Recognition”: Carol Shields’s Book Reviews – Alex Ramon -- Epilogue: “Etching on Glass”: Carol Shields’s Re-Vision – Aritha van Herk.
    Kurzfassung: “This essay collection, written by a stellar group of Canadian literature specialists, is a love letter to the late Canadian writer Carol Shields, who died about twenty years ago. The essays revisit Shields’s prolific career—short story writer, novelist, book reviewer, teacher and biographer—through the lens of her posthumous collection, Startle and Illuminate: Carol Shields on Writing (2016), edited by her daughter Anne Giardini and grandson Nicholas Giardini. The chapters are eclectic, both intimate and academic in tone, as they reflect different relationships with this beloved writer within our Can Lit circle—and beyond.” —Laurie Kruk, Professor in English Studies, Nipissing University, Canada This collection of essays explores celebrated Canadian author Carol Shields's experimentation with the essay genre in relation to her novels and short stories. Shields’s essays clarify her iconoclastic approach to rules of narrative and illuminate her revisionist policies, elucidating the development of her fiction, both novels and short stories, as her writing gradually becomes more explicitly feminist, as well as more daringly postmodernist. The dozen essays by the eminent Canadianists included in this edition throw fresh light on Shields’s writing, inviting us to read it with new eyes, by revealing how her essays reflect and refract the brilliance of her fiction, both novels and stories, helping readers to comprehend her art. These essays read Shields’s fiction through the lens of her essays, including those contained in the recent Giardini edition, wherein the author explains the creative methodologies involved in her fiction and also offers specific advice to writers of fiction. Nora Foster Stovel is a Professor Emerita of the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada. She has published books and essays on Jane Austen, D.H. Lawrence, Margaret Drabble, Carol Shields, Margaret Atwood, and Margaret Laurence, including Divining Margaret Laurence: A Study of Her Complete Writings. She currently holds a SSHRC Insight Grant for her program of research on Carol Shields. .
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    ISBN: 9783031090271
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 165 p.)
    Ausgabe: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Schlagwort(e): Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; Literature—Philosophy. ; Digital humanities. ; Literature and technology. ; Mass media and literature. ; Literature, Modern ; Literature, Modern ; Literature ; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Library & Information Science ; LIT024000 ; LITERARY CRITICISM / General ; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory ; Literary studies: from c 1900 - ; Literary theory ; Literaturtheorie ; Literaturwissenschaft: 1900 bis 2000 ; Material culture ; Materielle Kultur ; Einführung ; Sachkultur ; Kulturanthropologie ; Sozialanthropologie
    Kurzfassung: Chapter 1: Personal Objects -- Chapter 2: Objects and Local History -- Chapter 3: A History of the World in Coffee Cups -- Chapter 4: Collecting Things: The Psychology of Accumulation, from Museums to Hoarders -- Chapter 5: The Things We Read -- Chapter 6: Consuming Objects -- Chapter 7: Thinking with Things.
    Kurzfassung: Object Studies: Introductions to Material Culture is a textbook that introduces students to an interdisciplinary approach to material cultural study. It reveals how everyday objects from pens and coffee cups to our most cherished keepsakes help define our collective histories and personal narratives. Object Studies is organized around accessible and engaging chapters on objects with “model essays” that present original projects designed to engage students with a series of concepts and research activities. Each chapter demonstrates a key methodology tied to specific learning outcomes, but all are intertwined in their attention to developing the core skills of “object studies”: careful viewing, writing detailed descriptions, setting out and testing research hypotheses, and telling stories through material artifacts. Aimed towards undergraduate students taking courses in material culture as well as postgraduate students embarking on independent research projects, these chapter “studies” are practically oriented and demonstrate research projects that can be undertaken either in a course or through personal study. Object Studies includes research questions, suggestions on methodology, and discursive bibliographies designed to help students pursue their own projects “This is a remarkable book, thoughtful, engaging, attentive, surprising, and fun. It is brilliantly designed as a textbook, for students and for teachers interested in a new field of study that this book will help bring into being—Object Studies. But it might usefully and enjoyably be read by anyone who wants to think about the objects we make, buy, live with, desire, ignore, discard, break, and lose; that is, it is a book at least as much about who we are as it is about what they are, linking objects to their histories and thus to our own." --David Scott Kastan, George M. Bodman Professor of English, Yale University.
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    ISBN: 9783031256394
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 180 p. 5 illus.)
    Ausgabe: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Schlagwort(e): Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; America—Literatures. ; Narration (Rhetoric). ; Ecocriticism. ; America ; Literature, Modern ; Literature, Modern
    Kurzfassung: Chapter 1. Introduction: Hyperobject Reading -- Chapter 2. A Dialectical Nexus of Objects: Disability as Hyperobject in Joshua Ferris’s The Unnamed -- Chapter 3. Living in an Object-Oriented Universe: The Digital as Hyperobject in Tao Lin’s Taipei -- Chapter 4. Fighting One Hyperobject with Another: Narrative as Hyperobject in Ben Lerner’s 10:04 -- Chapter 5. Conclusion: Anthropocene Lessons from a Distant Fictional Hyperobject .
    Kurzfassung: This book proposes a model of reading called hyperobject reading that bridges the Anthropocene scale variance between humans and humanity by focusing on the large-scale problems and phenomena themselves. Hyperobject reading draws on narratology and reader-response theory, as well as newer developments such as the postcritical turn and object-oriented ontology. The theoretical introduction sets out the building blocks of hyperobject reading. Chapter 2 intervenes in critical disability studies and debates about the ecosomatic paradigm; Chapter 3 intervenes in debates about technological evolution, analogue vs. digital subjectivity, and affect theory; and Chapter 4 intervenes in debates about autofiction, contemporary metafiction, and the position and role of the narrator in first-person narratives where the narrator and protagonist can be distinguished. The analytical conclusion sketches the conceptual anatomy of the hyperobject and three possible responses. No part of the Earth today is free from human influence, but literary success suggests effective real-world strategies. Chingshun J. Sheu is Assistant Professor of Applied English at Ming Chuan University. His research focuses on contemporary American fiction, literary theory, narratology, and Alain Badiou. Having published essays on William Gaddis, Orson Scott Card, and Taiwanese author Chang Hsiu-ya, he is also the premier English-language film critic in Taiwan.
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    ISBN: 9783030721350
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    Seiten: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 329 p. 18 illus., 10 illus. in color.)
    Ausgabe: 1st ed. 2023.
    Serie: New Caribbean Studies
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    Schlagwort(e): Literature—History and criticism. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; Ethnology—Latin America. ; Latin American literature. ; Culture. ; Literature, Modern ; Literature, Modern ; Ethnology ; Literature
    Kurzfassung: 1.Introduction: Counter-narratives of History -- 2. A Caribbean Poetics: Fragmentation and Call-and-Response -- 3. Polyphonic Counter-archives Christopher Cozier’s Tropical Night and M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong! -- 4. A fragmented poetics of location in The Farming of Bones and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao -- 5. Counter-narratives in Black British and Caribbean art in Britain -- 6. A Genealogy of Resistance´ Writings by Inés María Martiatu-Terry, Mayra Santos-Febres and Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro -- 7. CODA.
    Kurzfassung: This book discusses an archival turn in the work of contemporary Caribbean writers and visual artists across linguistic locations and whose work engages critically with various historical narratives and colonial and postcolonial records. This refiguration opens a critical space and retells stories and histories previously occluded in/by those records, and in spaces of the public sphere. Through poetics and aesthetics of fragmentation largely influenced by music and popular culture, their work encourages contrapuntal ways of (re)thinking histories; ways that interrogate the influence of colonial narratives in processes of silencing but also centre the knowledge found in oral histories and other forms of artistic archives outside official repositories. Discussing literature and selected artwork by artists from Britain, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Puerto Rico, and Trinidad and Tobago, Memory and the Archival Turn in Caribbean Literature and Culture demonstrates the historiographical significance of artistic and cultural production. Marta Fernández Campa is an associate lecturer at Goldsmiths University, and a former Fulbright scholar and Leverhulme fellow. She has researched and taught at the University of East Anglia, UK, the University of Saint Louis, Spain, and the University of Miami, USA. Her work has appeared in Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970-2020, Vol. 3, and in journals such as Anthurium, Callaloo, Journal of West Indian Literature and Small Axe.
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    ISBN: 9783031303128
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 Online-Ressource(XIV, 212 p. 7 illus., 5 illus. in color.)
    Ausgabe: 1st ed. 2023.
    Serie: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
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    Schlagwort(e): Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; Culture—Study and teaching. ; Comparative literature. ; European literature. ; Space. ; Culture. ; Literature, Modern ; Literature, Modern ; Culture
    Kurzfassung: Introduction: Centers-Peripheries; Literary, Cinematic, and Artistic Spaces -- Artistic Practices at the Border: Waiting and Crossing in the Context of Escape and Exile -- Revolutionary Peripheries: Pier Paolo Pasolini’s “Cinema of Borgata” -- Inner Periphery? The Rhine from Borderland to Interzone -- Enrico Pea and the Awareness of Never-Ending Detachment (Alexandria, Egypt 1896–1914) -- From Mexico to Madrid: Thirdspace in Concha Méndez’s Poemas: Sombras y sueños -- Toward the Periphery of Europe: Erich Maria Remarque’s Novel The Night in Lisbon -- Najat El Hachmi: Away from Patriarchy, Hijab, and Cultural Relativism -- Doctor Möbius, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Line.
    Kurzfassung: Spatiality at the Periphery in European Literatures and Visual Arts analyzes the impact migrations, both internal and external, have on Europe’s literary and visual representations in the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. The volume aims to subvert a centripetal reading of European cultural production by including peripheral thinkers, writers, and visual artists operating in transcultural contexts. The essays highlight and investigate the fertile artistic discourses generated in the spatial peripheries outside of Europe or its inner peripheries. The volume addresses the need for geocritical readings that overcome the engrained dichotomy of centers-peripheries. By doing so, the book brings a more nuanced approach to national literatures and proposes the idea of “contact zones of imaginative interaction”. Kathryn Everly is Professor of Spanish, Syracuse University, USA. Stefano Giannini is Associate Professor of Italian, Syracuse University, USA. Karina von Tippelskirch is Associate Professor of German, Syracuse University, USA.
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    ISBN: 9783031221200
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    Seiten: 1 Online-Ressource(XXVII, 238 p. 6 illus., 3 illus. in color.)
    Ausgabe: 1st ed. 2023.
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    Schlagwort(e): America—Literatures. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; Comparative literature. ; Culture. ; Comparative government. ; Literature, Modern ; America ; Literature, Modern
    Kurzfassung: Introduction: Laying the Groundwork: Canada’s (In)visibility -- 1.The Missionary Position: The American Roots of Northrop Frye’s Peaceable Kingdom -- 2. Evangeline’s Revisioning: Reading Ben Farmer’s Post-9/11 Evangeline: A Novel -- 3. German Internment Camps in the Maritimes: Another Untold Story in P.S. Duffy’s The Cartographer of No Man’s Land -- 4. Becoming Bird(ie): Exposing Canadian Government Complicity with Forced Adoptions in Christina Sunley’s The Tricking of Freya -- 5. Playing The Odds: Fleeing to Canada in Stewart O’Nan’s Novel -- 6. Turning Away, Going South and West: The Receding Promise of Canada in Future Home of the Living God and The Underground Railroad -- 7. The Limits of Canadian Exceptionalism: Bowling for Columbine, Come From Away, and Nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up.
    Kurzfassung: This book explores how Canada is imagined primarily by US writers, and what readers and scholars on both sides of the Canada-US border can learn from these recent depictions by examining a selection of US-authored fiction from 9/11 to the present. The novels — and occasionally paintings, films, and musicals — that are the subject of the book provide a deliberately varied set of case studies to probe how US texts, along with works of art produced on both sides of the Canada-US border, uncover moments in Canadian historical and literary studies that have been buried or occluded to protect Canada's self-representation as an exceptional nation. Jennifer Andrews is the dean, Faculty of Arts and Social sciences, and a professor in the Department of English at Dalhousie University. .
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    ISBN: 9783031304552
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    Seiten: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 246 p. 2 illus., 1 illus. in color.)
    Ausgabe: 1st ed. 2023.
    Serie: New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
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    Schlagwort(e): Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; Great Britain—History. ; Fiction. ; Literature, Modern ; Literature, Modern ; Great Britain
    Kurzfassung: Chapter 1: Introduction: Silences that Speak -- Chapter 2: Conspicuously Silent: The excesses of Religion and Medicine in Emma Donoghue’s historical novels The Wonder and The Pull of the Stars -- Chapter 3: “To Pick up the unsaid, and perhaps unknown, wishes”: Reimagining the “True Stories” of the Past in Evelyn Conlon’s Not the Same Sky -- Chapter 4: “He’s been wanting to say that for a long time”: Varieties of Silence in Colm Tóibín’s Fiction -- Chapter 5: The Irish Short Story and the Aesthetics of Silence -- Chapter 6: Infinite Spaces: Kevin Barry’s Lives of Quiet Desperation -- Chapter 7: The Silencing of Speranza -- Chapter 8: “A self-interested silence”: Silences Identified and Broken in Peter Lennon’s Rocky Road to Dublin (1967) -- Chapter 9: Silence in Donal Ryan’s Fiction -- Chapter 10: “Sure, aren’t the church doing their best?” Breaking Consensual Silence in Emer Martin’s The Cruelty Men -- Chapter 11: Unspeakable Injuries and Neoliberal Subjectivities in Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends and Normal People.
    Kurzfassung: This Open access book is a collection of essays and offers an in-depth analysis of silence as an aesthetic practice and a textual strategy which paradoxically speaks of the unspoken nature of many inconvenient hidden truths of Irish society in the work of contemporary fiction writers. The study acknowledges Ireland’s history of damaging silences and considers its legacies, but it also underscores how silence can serve as a valuable, even productive, means of expression. From a wide range of critical perspectives, the individual essays address, among other issues, the conspiracies of silence in Catholic Ireland, the silenced structural oppression of Celtic Tiger Ireland, the recovery of silenced stories/voices of the past and their examination in the present, as well as millennial disaffection and the silencing of vulnerability in today’s neoliberal Ireland. The book ’s attention to silence provides a rich vocabulary for understanding what unfolds in the quiet interstices of Irish writing from recent decades. This study also invokes the past to understand the present and, thus, demonstrates the continuities and discontinuities that define how silence operates in Irish culture. M. Teresa Caneda-Cabrera is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Vigo, Spain. She is the author of a monograph on A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and sits on the Editorial Board of European Joyce Studies. Her research on silence and vulnerability in contemporary Irish fiction has been funded by the Spanish MCIN, AEI and ERDF. She is the co-editor of Atlantic Communities: Translation, Mobility, Hospitality (2023) and the editor of Telling Truths: Evelyn Conlon and the Task of Writing (2023). José Carregal-Romero lectures at the University of Huelva, Spain. His research focuses on the intersections between gender and sexuality in contemporary Irish literature, with a keen interest in silence and vulnerability. He is the co-editor of Revolutionary Ireland, 1916–2016: Historical Facts & Social Transformations Re-Assessed (2020) and the author of Queer Whispers: Gay and Lesbian Voices of Irish Fiction (2021).
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    ISBN: 9783031280931
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    Seiten: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 218 p.)
    Ausgabe: 1st ed. 2023.
    Serie: Palgrave Studies in Contemporary Women’s Writing
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    Schlagwort(e): Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; Literature—Philosophy. ; Comparative literature. ; Feminism and literature. ; Fiction. ; Literature ; Literature, Modern ; Literature, Modern
    Kurzfassung: Introduction: Writing Back and Looking Forward - Gina Wisker, Heidi Yeandle, Leanne Bibby -- Haunting relationships, dark visions, personal dangers and encounters with strangers in Gothic short stories by Katherine Mansfield (1920), Shirley Jackson (1946), Daphne du Maurier (1952), and Alice Munro (2012) - Gina Wisker -- (Dis)continuing the mother-daughter dyad in Alison Bechdel’s Are You My Mother? Working Back Through Our Mothers - Caleb Sivyer -- 'You'll be told lies about me, or perhaps even nothing at all.' Suzannah Dunn's Tudor Queens and the Problem of Historical Romance - Leanne Bibby -- Poet in a lab coat: the creativity in Rachel Carson’s scientific texts - Lisa Matthews -- Decentering Genealogies: L’Écriture Féminine, The Youngest Doll, and Contemporary Puerto Rican Women Writers - Melissa R. Sande -- The Smallest Room of One’s Own: Virginia Woolf and Jeanette Winterson in Close Quarters - Shareena Z. Hamzah -- “Born of a great fire”: Infanticide and Transgenerational Trauma in Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing - Laura Dawkins -- (Re)Writing the Future/ Disavowing the Past: Reading Feminism in The Power and The Handmaid’s Tale - Adele Jones -- Caring and Ageing in Contemporary Women’s Writing - Katsura Sako.
    Kurzfassung: This book examines the connections and conversations between women writers from the twentieth century and the twenty-first century. The essays consider the ways in which twenty-first-century women writers look back and respond to their predecessors within the field of contemporary women’s writing. The book looks back to the foundations of contemporary women’s writing and also considers how this category may be defined in future decades. We ask how writers and readers have interpreted ‘the contemporary’, a moving target and an often-contentious term, especially in light of feminist theory and criticism of the late twentieth century. Writing about the relationships between women’s writings is an always-vital, ongoing political project with a rich history. These essays argue that establishing and defining the contemporary is, for women writers, another ongoing political project to which this collection of essays aims, in part, to contribute.
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    ISBN: 9783031258558
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    Seiten: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 345 p. 9 illus., 4 illus. in color.)
    Ausgabe: 1st ed. 2023.
    Serie: Literary Urban Studies
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    Schlagwort(e): Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; Cities and towns—History. ; Literature. ; Fiction. ; Space. ; Culture. ; Cities and towns ; Literature, Modern ; Literature, Modern
    Kurzfassung: 1 Fair and Unfair Cities: Equity, Ideology, Utopia -- Part I Histories of the Future -- 2 The Dialectics of Revery: Daydreaming and the (Un)Fair City, 1794–1922 -- 3 Utopia as Urban Testing Ground: Spatial and Social Forms in the Works of Ebenezer Howard and H.G. Wells -- 4 Utopia and Agoraphobia in 1920s Marseilles: Empty Space in the Work of László Moholy-Nagy and Siegfried Kracauer -- 5 Ideological Troubles in the Proletarian Paradise: The Four Cities of Werner Illing’s Utopolis (1930) -- 6 Prince Charles’ A Vision of Britain as Populist Retrotopia -- Part II Reclaiming and Remaking -- 7 ‘Another World is Plantable’: Community Gardening and Urban Planning -- 8 Imaginaries of the Future City: Envisioning Climate Change and Technological Cityscapes through Dutch Contemporary Speculative Fiction -- 9 Both Kinds of Occupation: Reclaiming and Remaking the City in Contemporary Poetry -- 10 Navigating Beyond Gender: The City in Feminist Science Fiction -- 11 Pathways Towards Utterance in Contemporary French Poetic Practice: Framing the Urban Real -- Part III Fictional Fieldwork -- 12 Aztecs and Angels in Mexico City: Urban Palimpsests and Social Critique in Fictions by Homero Aridjis and Edgar Clement -- 13 Utopianism and the Writing of Lisbon in José Saramago’s Historical Fiction -- 14 Unruly Utopia: Divergent Spatialities in Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities -- 15 Confronting Otherness: The Built Environments in Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Shadows of the Apt -- 16 ‘City Which Holds All Times and Places’: On Urban Landscape in Maggie Gee’s The Flood.
    Kurzfassung: “This collection maps the terrain of an ‘inter-discipline’ that cuts across and draws together literary studies, philosophy, architecture and visual culture, to name just some of the domains with which its contributors engage. Ranging in time from the nineteenth century into imagined futures, and across our world and others, the volume helps us reimagine and rethink questions of urban existence, coexistence and community, and shows how now more than ever, thinking through forms of urban utopia inevitably involves thinking in planetary terms.” —Edward Welch, Carnegie Professor of French University of Aberdeen, UK Utopia, Equity and Ideology in Urban Texts: Fair and Unfair Cities explores the complex interrelations of three key critical topics across a diverse range of urban writing. Interrogating the links and tensions between aesthetic and political priorities in the representation and imagining of urban life, the volume engages with work from a wide variety of linguistic and cultural origins and across a range of textual practices having the urban phenomenon as a common framing concern. Individual contributions discussing genre and literary fiction, poetic writing, documentary and essayistic texts, planning manifestos and municipal communications materials serve to demonstrate that the nuanced treatments of urban experience and potential which may be gleaned from across this textual spectrum act as a pragmatic corrective to purely conceptual approaches. As such, the volume consolidates the emerging dialogue between the fields of utopian studies and literary urban studies, understanding these as complementary approaches to the reading of the city and its textual prolongations. Michael G. Kelly is Senior Lecturer in French and Director of the Ralahine Centre for Utopian Studies at the University of Limerick. Mariano Paz is Lecturer in Spanish and Associate Director of the Ralahine Centre for Utopian Studies at the University of Limerick.
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    ISBN: 9783031083686
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 221 p. 1 illus.)
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    Schlagwort(e): Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Performing arts. ; Theater. ; Ecocriticism. ; Playwriting. ; Dramatists. ; Literature, Modern
    Kurzfassung: 1. Introduction -- Part I: Catastrophe and Aesthetic Creation -- 2. Tickling your catastrophe, or Beckett’s Laughing Antistrophe -- 3. The Not-all Catastrophe in Ill Seen Ill Said / Mal vu mal dit and ‘Comment dire’ / ‘what is the word’ by Samuel Beckett -- 4. Beckett’s Grey and the Temporality of Afterness -- 5. Samuel Beckett’s Catastrophic Synthesis between Leibniz and Schopenhauer -- Part II: Catastrophes in History -- 6. Beckett’s Sense of History in the Age of Catastrophe -- 7. Imagination’s Dead: Beckett’s Catastrophic Realism -- 8. Catastrophe and Everyday Life in Samuel Beckett -- Part III: Ecological Catastrophe and the Role of Art -- 9. Slow Violence and Slow Going: Encountering Beckett in the Time of Climate Catastrophe -- 10. A Feminist Counter-apocalyptic Interpretation of Precarity: Reading Samuel Beckett’s Catastrophe in the Post-catastrophe Age -- 11. Gestures of Helpless Compassion: Beckett’s Eco-poetics of Extinction.
    Kurzfassung: Samuel Beckett and Catastrophe is a groundbreaking collection of original essays that explore the relation between Samuel Beckett and catastrophe in terms of war, the Holocaust, nuclear disasters and ecological crisis. Responding to the post-catastrophic situations in the twentieth century, Beckett created characters who often seem to have been through an unknown catastrophe. Although the importance of catastrophe in Beckett has been noted sporadically, there has been no substantial attempt to discuss his aesthetics and work in relation to it. This collection will therefore serve as the first sustained study to explore the theme of catastrophe in Beckett and will be a highly significant contribution to Beckett studies. Michiko Tsushima is Professor at University of Tsukuba, Japan. She has published articles and books on Beckett and Arendt. Her publications include The Space of Vacillation: The Experience of Language in Beckett, Blanchot, and Heidegger (2003). With Mariko Hori Tanaka and Yoshiki Tajiri, she co-edited Samuel Beckett and Pain (2012) and Samuel Beckett and trauma (2018). Yoshiki Tajiri is Professor at the University of Tokyo. He has published widely on Samuel Beckett, J. M. Coetzee, Kazuo Ishiguro and other authors. His publications include Samuel Beckett and the Prosthetic Body (Palgrave, 2007). Mariko Hori Tanaka is Professor at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan. She co-edited four collections of essays on Beckett in English and authored two books on Beckett in Japanese including Revised Versions of Waiting for Godot: Beckett as Director (2017). .
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    ISBN: 9783031167348
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    Seiten: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 244 p.)
    Ausgabe: 1st ed. 2023.
    Serie: Literary Urban Studies
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    Schlagwort(e): Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature—Aesthetics. ; Science—Social aspects. ; Cities and towns—History. ; Space. ; Culture. ; Science ; Cities and towns ; Literature, Modern ; Literature
    Kurzfassung: Introduction -- Mediated Sound -- Tunement: Listening to Listening -- Urban Sonar -- Teeming with Traffic -- Crowded Voices -- Aquacities -- Conclusion: Rewind – Fast Forward. .
    Kurzfassung: Navigating Urban Soundscapes: Dublin and Los Angeles in Fiction offers an innovative analytical framework to explore sound in different media and across two distinct urban soundscapes. Studying a wide range of novels, films, and radio dramas, using Dublin and Los Angeles as case studies, Annika Eisenberg asks how sounds are aestheticised to signify urban space in fiction, and how sounds allow such fictional urban spaces to be navigated, both by auscultators, the characters listening within a work of fiction, and by auditeurs, the implied audience of a fictional work. Eisenberg argues that the concept of “urban sound” is a cultural and aesthetic construct, and in doing so, she shows why aesthetics needs to be front and center in sound studies.
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    ISBN: 9783031186905
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    Seiten: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 231 p. 1 illus.)
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    Schlagwort(e): Language and languages—Style. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; Pragmatics. ; Fiction. ; Language and languages ; Literature, Modern ; Literature, Modern
    Kurzfassung: Chapter 1: Why Ian McEwan and Literary Pragma-Stylistics? -- Chapter 2: Pragmatics and the Analysis of Fiction -- Chapter 3: Narrative Tradition in Fiction: A Pragma-Stylistic Approach -- Chapter 4: Intradiegetic (Im)politeness or How the (Im)politeness Theory is used for Internal Characterisation -- Chapter 5: Extradiegetic (Im)politeness or How the Implied Author Communicates with the Reader -- Chapter 6: Conclusion.
    Kurzfassung: This book is a pragma-stylistic study of Ian McEwan’s fiction, providing a qualitative analysis of his selected novels using (im)politeness theory. (Im)politeness is investigated on two levels of analysis: the level of the plot and the story world (intradiegetic level) and the level of the communication between the implied author and implied reader in fiction (extradiegetic level). The pragmatic theory of (im)politeness serves the aim of internal characterisation and helps readers to better understand and explain the characters’ motivations and actions, based on the stylistic analysis of their speech and thoughts and point of view. More importantly, the book introduces the notion of “the impoliteness of the literary fiction” – a state of affairs where the implied author (or narrator) expresses their impolite beliefs to the reader through the text, which has face-threatening consequences for the audience, e.g. moral shock or disgust, dissociation from the protagonist, feeling hurt or ‘put out’. Extradiegetic impoliteness, one of the key characteristics of McEwan’s fiction, offers an alternative to the literary concept of “a secret communion of the author and reader” (Booth 1961), describing an ideal connection, or good rapport, between these two participants of fictional communication. This book aims to unite literary scholars and linguists in the debate on the benefits of combining pragmatics and stylistics in literary analysis, and it will be of interest to a wide audience in both fields. Urszula Kizelbach is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Studies in Culture at the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. She specialises in literary pragmatics, in particular the pragmatic analysis of Shakespearean drama and contemporary fiction. She published a book on (im)politeness and power in politics in Shakespeare’s histories titled The Pragmatics of Early Modern Politics (2014). She is a Polish Ambassador of the Poetics and Linguistics Association. She teaches stylistics, Shakespeare, the history of British literature and translation.
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    ISBN: 9783031298493
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    Serie: Crime Files
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    Schlagwort(e): Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Fiction. ; Popular Culture. ; Mass media and crime. ; Literature, Modern
    Kurzfassung: Part I: Through a Glass Darkly -- Chapter 1: Introduction: What the Spectacled Detective Sees -- Chapter 2: Out of Focus: Ariadne Oliver -- Part II: Seeing the Unseen -- Chapter 3: Scouting Skills: Max Carrados, Sherlock Holmes’ Blind Rival -- Chapter 4: An Unseen Hook and an Invisible Line: Father Brown -- Part III: Seeing Through Glass -- Chapter 5: The Man with the Monocle: Lord Peter Wimsey -- Chapter 6: An Ass in Horn-Rims: Albert Campion -- Part IV: Binocular Vision -- Chapter 7: Seeing Double: Inspector Alleyn -- Chapter 8: The Double Vision of Dornford Yates -- Chapter 9: Conclusion.
    Kurzfassung: From Sherlock Holmes onwards, fictional detectives use lenses: Ocular Proof and the Spectacled Detective in British Crime Fiction argues that these visual aids are metaphors for ways of seeing, and that they help us to understand not only individual detectives’ methods but also the kinds of cultural work detective fiction may do. It is sometimes regarded as a socially conservative form, and certainly the enduring popularity of ‘Golden Age’ writers such as Christie, Sayers, Allingham and Marsh implies a strong element of nostalgia in the appeal of the genre. The emphasis on visual aids, however, suggests that solving crime is not a simple matter of uncovering truth but a complex, sophisticated and inherently subjective process, and thus challenges any sense of comforting certainties. Moreover, the value of eye-witness testimony is often troubled in detective fiction by use of the phrase ‘the ocular proof’, whose origin in Shakespeare’s Othello reminds us that Othello is manipulated by Iago into misinterpreting what he sees. The act of seeing thus comes to seem ideological and provisional, and Lisa Hopkins argues that the kind of visual aid selected by each detective is an index of his particular propensities and biases. Lisa Hopkins is Professor Emerita of English at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. She has published widely on Renaissance drama (particularly Shakespeare, Marlowe and Ford), adaptation studies, and more recently crime fiction. She is co-editor of Shakespeare, the journal of the British Shakespeare Association, and of the Arden Guides to Early Modern Drama. Her previous books include Shakespearean Allusion in Crime Fiction: DCI Shakespeare (Palgrave, 2016) and Burial Plots in British Detective Fiction (Palgrave, 2021).
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    ISBN: 9783031332272
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    Seiten: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 206 p. 5 illus., 4 illus. in color.)
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    Schlagwort(e): Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; Narration (Rhetoric). ; Knowledge, Theory of. ; Literature, Modern ; Literature, Modern ; Englisch ; Kriminalliteratur ; Liste
    Kurzfassung: 1. Introduction: Reading Lists, Listing Clues -- 2. Defining Detective Fiction -- 3. Dossier Novels: The Reader as Detective -- 4. Manipulating Readers: The Novels of Agatha Christie -- 5. Excursus: The Thorndyke Novels and the Language of Science -- 6. Lists and Knowledge -- 7. Conclusion: Models of Knowledge in Detective Fiction.
    Kurzfassung: This open access book examines how the form of the list features as a tool for meaning-making in the genre of detective fiction from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The book analyzes how both readers and detectives rely on listing as an ordering and structuring tool, and highlights the crucial role that lists assume in the reading process. It extends the boundaries of an emerging field dedicated to the study of lists in literature and caters to a newly revived interest in form and New Formalist approaches in narratological research. The central aim of this book is to show how detective fiction makes use of lists in order to frame various conceptions of knowledge. The frames created by these lists are crucial to decoding the texts, and they can be used to demonstrate how readers can be engaged in the act of detection or manipulated into accepting certain propositions in the text. Sarah J. Link is Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Wuppertal, Germany.
    Anmerkung: Open Access
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    ISBN: 9783031080036
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    Seiten: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 327 p. 3 illus.)
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    Serie: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
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    Schlagwort(e): America—Literatures. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; Sex. ; Fiction. ; America ; Literature, Modern ; Literature, Modern
    Kurzfassung: 1. Introduction - Kristi Branham and Kelly L. Reames -- I. Adolescent Friendships and Identity Formation -- 2. Fleur’s Kinship, Pauline’s Whiteness: How Colonization Shapes Friendship in Louise Erdrich’s Tracks - Rachel Griffis -- 3. ‘What obligation do I have toward her?’: College Girl Friendships and Self-Actualization in Hangsaman and The Bell Jar - Julie Ooms -- 4. Entangled Roots: ‘Old Friends’ Reconnected in Ruth Ozeki’s All Over Creation - Marie Drews -- 5. The Gothic’s Creation of Women’s Friendship in Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House - Megan Peabody and Mikkaila Poulin -- 6. Lovers and Friends of the Spirit: Celie and Shug’s Quare Friendship in The Color Purple - Tangela Serls -- II. Alliances and the Promise of Women’s Friendships -- 7. ‘Dorothy and I had quite a little quarrel’: Clever Banter and the ‘Language’ of Female Friendship in Anita Loos’ Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - Krista Aldrich and Emily Wiktor -- 8. ‘We Will Work Together’: Interclass Women’s Collabships in Progressive Era Novels - Alicia Beeson -- 9. Political Progress and Social Stall: Failed Friendships, Feminist Fissures, and Mary McCarthy’s Modern Reform Novel - Cassandra Fetters -- 10. ‘The Tenderness of One Woman for Another’: Female Friendship and Revolt in the 20th-century Works of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman - Susan Stone -- III The Transformative Power of Authors’ Friendships -- 11. ‘These Sweet Trees’: June Jordan, Alice Walker, and Womanist Friendship - Cheryl Hopson -- 12. Chicana Visions: Ana Castillo and Cherríe Moraga’s Friendship, Falling Out, and Forgiveness - Leigh Johnson -- 13. Beat-Associated Women and Female Relationships in Carolyn Cassady’s Off the Road - Josette Lorig -- 14. Reframing Black Women’s Relationships: Exploring the Bond between Alice Dunbar-Nelson and Edwina Kruse through an Unpublished Manuscript - Monet Lewis-Timmons.
    Kurzfassung: This volume presents a collection of critical essays that center women’s friendship in women’s literary and artistic production. Analyzing cultural portrayals of women’s friendships in fiction, letters, and film, these essays collectively suggest new models of literary interpretation that do not prioritize heterosexual romance. Instead, this book represents friendships as mature and meaningful relationships that contribute to identity formation and political coalition. Both the supportive and competitive aspects of friendships are shown to be crucial to women’s identities as individuals, political citizens, and artists. Addressing the complexities of how 20th- and 21st-century cultural texts construe women’s friendships as they navigate patriarchal institutions, this collection advances scholarship on friendship beyond men and masculine models. Kristi Branham is Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at Western Kentucky University, USA. She has published articles in the Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice, Journal of American Studies, Literature and Film Quarterly, and contributed to the edited collection Home Sweat Home: Perspectives on House Work and Modern Relationships. Kelly L. Reames is Associate Professor of English at Western Kentucky University, USA. She is the author of Women and Race in Contemporary U.S. Writing: From Faulkner to Morrison and Toni Morrison's Paradise: A Reader's Guide.
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    ISBN: 9783031100437
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    Serie: Italian and Italian American Studies
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    Schlagwort(e): Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; Italy—History. ; European literature. ; Philosophy. ; Postcolonialism. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Literature, Modern ; Literature, Modern ; Italy
    Kurzfassung: Introduction -- 1 Italian Postcolonial Literature: A Survey -- 2 Gender and its Intersections -- 3 Outside of the Chromatic Norm: Questions of Race, Blackness, Visibility, Italianness and Citizenship -- 4 Politics of (Re)Location: Geographies of Diaspora and New Urban Mappings.
    Kurzfassung: “Interrupted Narratives and Intersectional Representations in Italian Postcolonial Literature is a tour-de-force from one of the leading scholars in the field. Romeo argues that rethinking the concepts of Italian identity and culture is necessary in order to highlight the transnational nature of cultural formations, and that adopting a postcolonial and decolonial approach to those concepts is an equally urgent task. Her deft, comprehensive overview of Italian postcolonial literature and accomplished thematic analysis of an astonishing number of texts make this book essential reading for students and scholars of Italian worldwide. It constitutes a significant contribution to the ongoing reconceptualization of Italian Studies and to the reshaping of cultural understandings of italianità.” -Emma Bond, author of Writing Migration through the Body Interrupted Narratives and Intersectional Representations in Italian Postcolonial Literature is a tribute to one of the most historically significant, culturally incisive, and artistically revitalizing literary and cultural phenomena that have developed in Italy in recent decades. With a new introduction, this expanded English translation of Riscrivere la nazione: La letteratura italiana postcoloniale (2018) exposes the colonial imaginaries that still permeate contemporary Italian culture and examines multiple counternarratives authored by postcolonial writers, artists, and intellectuals. Connecting diverse histories of migration that implicate Italy, including incoming migrations from many parts of the world, colonialism, and periodic waves of emigration, this volume also looks outward to a more diffuse postcolonial condition characterizing Europe at present. Adopting an intersectional perspective, this study analyzes literary and cinematic representations of gender, race, color, and space, thus arguing for a reconceptualization of Italian identity and contributing to a redefinition of national literature as well as to the decolonization of Italian society and culture. Caterina Romeo is Associate Professor at Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy, where she teaches Literary Theory, Gender Studies, and Migration Studies. She is the author of Riscrivere la nazione. La letteratura italiana postcoloniale (2018) and Narrative tra due sponde: Memoir di italiane d'America (2005). She has coedited Postcolonial Italy: Challenging National Homogeneity (2012), Postcolonial Europe (special issue of the journal Postcolonial Studies, 2015), and Intersectional Italy (special issue of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 2022).
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    Schlagwort(e): Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; Europe—History—476-1492. ; Television broadcasting. ; Archaeology. ; Literature, Modern ; Europe ; Literature, Modern
    Kurzfassung: 1 Heroes, Villains, War and Violence in Game of Thrones -- Part I “The Things I do for Love”: Heroes, Villains and None of the Above -- 2 Scheming in the Shadow of Tyrants: The ‘Littlefinger’ Type in Roman Historiography -- 3 Parallel Lives: Connections Between the Lannisters and Historical Dynasties -- 4 The Tragedy of Eddard Stark: Greek Tragedy in A Song of Ice and Fire -- 5 “Was it a God, a Demon, a Sorcerous Trick?”. Magic, Performative Rituals, and Moral Standards in A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones -- Part II “Some Allies are More Dangerous than Enemies”: Warfare and Violence -- 6 Juggling “a Hundred Balls in the Air”: Reflections of the Year of the Four Emperors in the War of the Five Kings -- 7 The Punic Wars in the World of A Song of Ice and Fire -- 8 The “Battle of the Bastards”: A Tactical Iconic Narrative -- 9 Some Heads Are Gonna Roll: Punishments and Executions in G. R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire and in HBO’s TV Series -- 10 From Greek Tragic Drama to Fantastic Terror: Tragic Echoes in A Storm of Swords’ Red Wedding.
    Kurzfassung: “This is, to our knowledge, the most extraordinary collection of varied and fascinating academic consideration on Game of Thrones ever put to press. By bringing together an international gathering of scholars who come from a wide array of disciplines, Game of Thrones: A View from the Humanities has made a real contribution to the study of popular culture and shown the value of humane inquiry into modern works of fiction.” —Elio M. García Jr. and Linda Antonsson, co-authors with G.R.R. Martin of The World of Ice & Fire “A humanistic approach to GOT. Finding bare and reasonable resemblances between Westeros, Essos and the civilizations of the ancient world.” —Aurora López Güeto, University Pablo de Olavide, Seville, Spain This volume focuses on the characters that populate the Game of Thrones universe and on one of the most salient features of their interaction: violence and warfare. It analyses these questions from a multidisciplinary perspective that is chiefly based on Classical Studies. The book is divided into two sections. The first section explores Martin’s characters, the mainstay of both the novels and the TV series, since the author has peopled his universe with three-dimensional intriguing characters that resonate with the reader/audience. The second section is devoted to violence and warfare, both pervasive in the Game of Thrones universe. Alfonso Álvarez-Ossorio is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Seville, Spain. He has co-edited The Present of Antiquity: Reception, Recovery, Reinvention of the Ancient World in Current Popular Culture (2019). Fernando Lozano is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Seville, Spain. His research focuses on the study of Roman religion during the Empire and, specifically, on the imperial cult, as well as Reception studies. Rosario Moreno Soldevila is Professor of Latin at Pablo de Olavide University, Seville, Spain. She has authored or co-authored ten monographs on Latin literature, including A Prosopography to Martial’s Epigrams (2019). Cristina Rosillo-López is Professor of Ancient History at Pablo de Olavide University, Seville, Spain. She has authored and edited several monographs, including Political Conversations in Late Republican Rome (2022).
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    ISBN: 9783031246401
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    Seiten: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 98 p.)
    Ausgabe: 1st ed. 2023.
    Serie: Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon
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    Schlagwort(e): Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; Literature—History and criticism. ; Literature—Philosophy. ; Children's literature. ; Feminism and literature. ; Sex. ; Literature ; Literature ; Literature, Modern ; Literature, Modern
    Kurzfassung: 1 The Boy Wizard and the Young Grand Master -- References -- 2 Between Children’s Literature and “Adult Fantasy”: The Antecedents and Audiences of A Wizard of Earthsea -- Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and Old King Arthur: Earthsea and Its Predecessors -- Earthsea Pedagogies: Learning to Live in an Enchanted World -- References -- 3 Fantasy and the Weight of Whiteness: Racial Dynamics in Earthsea -- A Wizard of Earthsea in Black and White: Uncoupling Whiteness and Goodness -- Illustration, Adaptation, and the Racial Politics of the Visual Imagination -- References -- 4 Light and Shadow, Good and Evil: Ethical, Psychological, and Other Critical Approaches to the Fantastic -- A Brief Taxonomy of Critical Approaches to Le Guin -- The “Way” to Read Le Guin?: Earthsea and Daoism -- Fantasy and the Unconscious: Jung and the Nature of the Shadow -- References -- 5 Bringing Women to Roke Knoll: Gender and the Lifelong Evolution of Earthsea -- Introduction: Reimagining Earthsea -- “You need not fear a woman”: The Witch and the Sorceress -- Ennobling Hearth and Home -- References -- 6 Conclusion: Le Guin’s Legacies in Fiction and in Scholarship -- The Schools for Wizards: Magical Pedagogy Today -- The Future(s) of Le Guin Studies -- References.
    Kurzfassung: Written not so long after "Tolkien mania" first gripped the United States in the 1960s, Ursula K. Le Guin's novel A Wizard of Earthsea (1968) has long been recognized as a classic of the fantasy genre, and the series of Earthsea books that followed on it over the next several decades earned its author both considerable sales and critical accolades. This new introduction to the text will closely contextualize the original novel in relation to its heady decade of composition and publication — a momentous time for genre publishing — and also survey the half century and more of scholarship on Earthsea, which has shifted in direction and emphasis many times over the decades, just as surely as Le Guin frequently adjusted her own sails when composing later works set in the fantasy world. Above all, this book positions A Wizard of Earthsea as perhaps an "old text" that nevertheless belongs in a "new canon," a key novel in the author's career and the genre in which it participates, and one that at once looks back to Tolkien and his own antecedents in masculinist early fantasy; looks forward to Le Guin's own continuing feminist and progressive education; and anticipates and indeed helped to shape young adult literature in its contemporary form. Timothy S. Miller is Assistant Professor of English at Florida Atlantic University, USA.
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    ISBN: 9783031179457
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    Seiten: 1 Online-Ressource(XXVII, 391 p. 55 illus., 35 illus. in color.)
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    Serie: Iris Murdoch Today
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    Schlagwort(e): Literature—Philosophy. ; Art—History. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Aesthetics. ; Comparative literature. ; Art ; Literature ; Literature, Modern
    Kurzfassung: 1. Writer Meets Painter -- 2. Murdoch and Visual Art -- 3. Murdoch and Visual Artists -- 4. Kindred Spirits -- 5. ‘All Your Colours Are So Triumphant’: The Rhetoric of Colour -- 6. ‘Shadow-Bound Consciousness’: The Mask as Icon -- 7. ‘More than a Likeness’: The Ethics of Portraiture -- 8. ‘Something in a Dark Picture’: Reconceptualising Angels.
    Kurzfassung: The novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch and the painter Harry Weinberger engaged in over twenty years of close friendship and intellectual discourse, centred on sustained discussion of the practice, teaching and morality of art. This book presents a reappraisal of Murdoch’s novels – chiefly, three mature novels, The Sea, The Sea (1978), Nuns and Soldiers (1980) and The Good Apprentice (1985), and two enigmatic late novels, The Green Knight (1993) and Jackson’s Dilemma (1995) – perceived through the prism of her discourse with Weinberger. It draws upon a run of almost 400 letters from Murdoch to Weinberger, and upon Murdoch’s philosophical writings, Weinberger’s private writings, the remarks of both artists in interviews, and other material relating to their views on art and art history, much of which is unpublished and has received no previous critical attention. Scrutiny of their shared values, methods and the imagistic dialogue that takes place in their art provides original perspectives on Murdoch’s creativity, and new ways of understanding her experimentation with the visual arts. This book offers a new line of enquiry into Murdoch's novels, and into the relationship between literature and the visual arts.
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    Ausgabe: 2nd ed. 2023.
    Serie: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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    Schlagwort(e): Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Fiction. ; Adaptation (Literary, artistic, etc.). ; Literature, Modern
    Kurzfassung: 1. Introduction: The Nearly Silent Listener -- 2. Herland: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Literature of the Beehive -- 3. Swastika Night: Katharine Burdekin and the Psychology of Scapegoating -- 4. ‘No Woman Born’: C. L. Moore’s Dancing Cyborg -- 5. The Left Hand of Darkness: Ursula Le Guin and the Haploid Heart -- 6. The Handmaid’s Tale: Margaret Atwood and the Politics of Choice -- 7. The Power: Naomi Alderman and Archaeologies of Gender -- 8. The City We Became: N. K. Jemisin and Posthuman Urbanism.
    Kurzfassung: Women, Science and Fiction Revisited is an analysis of selected science fiction novels and short stories written by women over the past hundred years from the point of view of their engagement with how science writes the world. Beginning with Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland (1918) and ending with N K Jemisin's The City We Became (2020), Debra Benita Shaw explores the re-imagination of gender and race that characterises women's literary crafting of new worlds. Along the way, she introduces new readings of classics like Ursula Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, examining the original novels in the context of their adaptation to new media formats in the twenty-first century. What this reveals is a consistent preoccupation with how scientific ideas can be employed to challenge existing social structures and argue for change.
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    Ausgabe: 1st ed. 2023.
    Serie: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature
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    Schlagwort(e): Literature—Philosophy. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; Postmodernism. ; Literature ; Literature, Modern ; Literature, Modern
    Kurzfassung: 1 Introduction -- 2 Superficiality -- 3 Secret -- 4 Energy -- 5 Acceleration -- 6 Credit -- 7 Follow Through (Epilogues).
    Kurzfassung: “After postmodernism’s literature of exhaustion, Emmanuel Bouju asks what new life the novel can breathe into the present. Building on Kafka and Calvino, Walter Benjamin and Gilles Deleuze, Bouju ranges freely among a host of contemporary writers, probing their complex revitalization of modernist themes and tropes in ‘a new consistency of literary and artistic discontinuity.’ At once intense and playful, Epimodernism breathes new life into narrative studies today.” —David Damrosch, Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University “‘Epi’” – a prefix denoting surface, as well as ‘with’ and ‘among’ – is mobilized here in bold and interesting ways for a vocabulary of literary criticism that skirts the tired ‘isms’ and ‘posts’ of late capitalism’s unraveling. A true comparatist, Bouju offers six ‘memos,’ each describing a literary epiphenomenon in its travels across multiple languages, traditions and cultural sites. From the sound-values of Kafka’s ‘K,’ which rewrite ‘Amerika’ the world over, to phantom pains and mirror-boxes conserving distant wartime memories, to genetic crossings of biofiction and autofiction, to the crypto-currencies and autopilots of contemporary metanarratives, Epimodernism investigates the byways of aesthetic microworlds hitherto unknown and unauthorized.” —Emily Apter, Silver Professor of French and Comparative Literature, New York University' Postmodernism has had its day. Are we now in the era of epimodernism? Reinterpreting the six “memos” that Italo Calvino suggested more than thirty years ago for “the new Millennium”, in this acclaimed book Emmanuel Bouju identifies six new values for literature in the twenty-first century: Superficiality, Secrecy, Energy, Acceleration, Credit, and Follow Through. Based on the principal meanings of the Ancient Greek prefix epi – surface, contact, origin, extension, duration, authority, and finality – these values represent six different ways of relating to the legacy of modernist utopias, reorienting postmodern critique and rebooting, with all due irony, its various forms of engagement and empowerment. Equal parts cultural criticism and literary creation, this highly original essay both enacts and explores the epimodern turn in contemporary European literature. Rigorous and humorous, provocative and playful, Epimodernism helps us to understand what literature can describe, imagine, and invent in our challenging times. Emmanuel Bouju is Professor of Comparative Literature at Paris 3 La Sorbonne Nouvelle, and a Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France.
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    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 Online-Ressource(XVIII, 269 p. 11 illus., 10 illus. in color.)
    Ausgabe: 1st ed. 2023.
    Serie: Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment
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    Schlagwort(e): Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; Culture—Study and teaching. ; Ethnology—Latin America. ; Cities and towns—History. ; Ecocriticism. ; Latin American literature. ; Culture. ; Literature, Modern ; Literature, Modern ; Ethnology ; Culture. ; Cities and towns
    Kurzfassung: 1: Introduction -- 2: Destruction: The Garbage Dump as Global Biopolitical Trope -- 3: Sustainability: Waste and its Social, Cultural, and Aesthetic Re-significations -- 4: Preservation: Nature and Urbanism -- 5: Conclusion.
    Kurzfassung: Visualizing Loss in Latin America engages with a varied corpus of textual, visual, and cultural material with specific intersections with the natural world, arguing that Latin American literary and cultural production goes beyond ecocriticism as a theoretical framework of analysis. Gisela Heffes poses the following crucial question: How do we construct a conceptual theoretical apparatus to address issues of value, meaning, tradition, perspective, and language, that contributes substantially to environmental thinking, and that is part and parcel of Latin America? The book draws attention to ecological inequality and establishes a biopolitical, ethics-based reading of Latin American art, film, and literature that operates at the intersection of the built environment and urban settings. Heffes suggest that the aesthetic praxis that emerges in/from Latin America is permeated with a rhetoric of waste—a significant trait that overwhelmingly defines it.
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    Seiten: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 237 p.)
    Ausgabe: 1st ed. 2023.
    Serie: Crime Files
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    Schlagwort(e): Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; America—Literatures. ; Crime—Sociological aspects. ; Fiction. ; Popular Culture. ; Sex. ; Literature, Modern ; Literature, Modern ; Crime ; America
    Kurzfassung: 1 Introduction: Consumption, Control, and Cannibalism -- 2 Criminal Consumption in Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon (1929) -- 3 Control and Cannibalism in Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep (1939) -- 4 Mature Consumption in Leigh Brackett’s No Good from a Corpse (1944) -- 5 Pathologies of Prophylactic Masculinity in Dorothy B. Hughes’s In a Lonely Place (1947) -- 6 Dangers of Postwar Satiety in Jim Thompson’s The Killer Inside Me (1952) -- 7 Homosocial Consumption in Rex Stout’s Champagne for One (1958) -- 8 Conclusions.
    Kurzfassung: Food, Consumption, and Masculinity in American Hardboiled Fiction draws on three related bodies of knowledge: crime fiction criticism, masculinity studies, and the cultural analysis of food and consumption practices from a critical eating studies perspective. In particular, this book focuses on food as an analytical category in the study of tough masculinity as represented in American hardboiled fiction. Through an examination of six American novels: Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon, Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep, Leigh Brackett's No Good from a Corpse, Dorothy B. Hughes's In a Lonely Place, Jim Thompson's The Killer Inside Me, and Rex Stout's Champagne for One, this book shows how these novels reflect the gradual process of redefining consumption and consumerism in America, which traditionally has been coded as feminine. Marta Usiekniewicz shows that food and eating also reflect power relations and larger social and economic structures connected to class, gender, geography, sexuality, and ability, to name just a few. Marta Usiekniewicz is an Assistant Professor at the University of Warsaw’s American Studies Center. A specialist in American literature and cultural studies, she has published on crime fiction, disability studies, and intersections of fatness, race, and consumption. She teaches courses on embodiment in popular culture, food studies, and sexualities. She is on the editorial board of Gender Forum – An Internet Journal of Gender Studies.
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    ISBN: 9783031321887
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    Seiten: 1 Online-Ressource(XVI, 269 p.)
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    Schlagwort(e): Russia—History. ; Europe, Eastern—History. ; Soviet Union—History. ; Literature, Modern—18th century. ; Literature, Modern—19th century. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; European literature. ; Russia ; Europe, Eastern ; Soviet Union ; Literature, Modern ; Literature, Modern ; Literature, Modern
    Kurzfassung: This edited volume explores the historical, cultural and literary legacies of Polish Britain, and their significance for both the British and Polish nations. The focus of the book is twofold. First, it investigates the history of Polish immigration and the ways in which Polish immigrants have conceptualised their own experiences and encounters with Britain and the British. Second, it examines how Poles and Poland have been represented by Anglophone writers in both fictional and non-fictional forms of discourse. Inevitably, these issues are intertwined. Polish experiences of Britain have been shaped, in part, by British ideas about Poland, just as British notions of Poland have been transformed by the emergence of large and culturally active Polish communities in the UK. By studying these issues together, this volume develops a wide-ranging and original analysis of Polish Britain. Maggie Ann Bowers is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Portsmouth, UK. She is the editor of two special issues focusing on contemporary writing and culture: Journal of Postcolonial Writing’s ‘Imaginary Europes’ and Wasafiri’s ‘North American Native Literature and Literary Activism’. She is also the author of Magic(al) Realism (2004), and the editor of the multilingual volume Convergences and Interferences: Newness in Intercultural Practices (2001). Ben Dew is Associate Professor in Cultural History at the Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities, Coventry University, UK. He is the author of Commerce, Finance and Statecraft: Histories of England, 1600-1780 (2018) and the editor of Tea and Commerce (2010) and Historical Writing in Britain (2014). .
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    Serie: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature
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    Schlagwort(e): Pasolini, Pier Paolo - 1922-1975 ; Pound, Ezra - 1885-1972 ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Comparative literature. ; European literature. ; Poetry. ; Motion picture plays, European. ; Literature, Modern ; Political and social views ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Hochschulschrift ; Pound, Ezra 1885-1972 ; Pasolini, Pier Paolo 1922-1975
    Kurzfassung: Introduction -- Chapter 1. Family Portraits -- Chapter 2. Creatures Facing Backwards -- Chapter 3. Exposition -- Chapter 4. An Economy of Signs -- Chapter 5. Failure -- Coda. .
    Kurzfassung: In October 1967, Pier Paolo Pasolini travelled to Venice to interview Ezra Pound for broadcast on national television. One a lifelong Marxist, the other a former propagandist for the Fascist regime, their encounter was billed as a clash of opposites. But what do these poets share? And what can they tell us about the poetics and politics of the twentieth century? This book reads one by way of the other, aligning their engagement with different temporalities and traditions, polities and geographies, languages and forms, evoked as utopian alternatives to the cultural and political crises of capitalist modernity. Part literary history, part comparative study, it offers a new and provocative perspective on these poets and the critical debates around them – in particular, on Pound’s Italian years and Pasolini’s use of Pound in his work. Their connection helps to understand the implications and legacies of their work today. .
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    Seiten: 1 Online-Ressource(IX, 221 p.)
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    Schlagwort(e): Literature—History and criticism. ; Literature, Modern—19th century. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature. ; Comparative literature. ; African literature. ; Literature ; Literature, Modern ; Literature, Modern
    Kurzfassung: 1 Introduction -- 2 ‘This world of languages touching’: Translation and Mediation -- 3 ‘Multilingual babblers’: The Limits of Nationalism -- 4 ‘Friendly opposites’: Religion, Affiliation and Comedy -- 5 Conclusion: Prisms, Parallax, and Comparison.
    Kurzfassung: This book compares the Victorian British poet Robert Browning and the twentieth-century Ghanaian poet and novelist Kojo Laing—two writers whose texts frequently foreground multi-scalar transregional cartographies, points of connection and translation, and imaginative kinships between different linguistic and cultural communities. Starting from the numerous and surprising points of connection and resemblance between both authors’ texts, this book puts pressure on critical practices that would keep writers like Laing and Browning separate, positing instead the importance of paying attention to the transnational, cross-cultural, and cross-temporal imaginative relationships texts themselves generate. By comparing two writers whose texts represent different points of view on a number of shared and congruent contexts, this book seeks an original way of understanding the relationship between texts and (post-) colonial contexts, texts and other texts. Browning’s and Laing’s shared tendency to foreground trans- and post-national cartographies of relation and difference, and their similarly translational aesthetics, both demand a probing of the disciplinary separation between ‘English Literature’ and ‘Comparative Literature’, as well as ‘literature’ and ‘comparison’, and a fresh awareness of the ways in which literature itself makes comparisons and affiliations. It also involves a version of ‘world literature’ intent on accentuating the relational worlds (linguistic, imaginative, ethical) that texts themselves generate; a criticism sensitive to the ways in which writers from different times and places can still be seen to overlap. Joseph Hankinson is Career Development Lecturer in English at Jesus College, University of Oxford, UK. He currently leads the ‘Comparative African Literatures’ Research Strand at the Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation (OCCT) Research Centre. He has published widely in leading international journals on literature from the nineteenth century to the present day.
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    Serie: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
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    Schlagwort(e): Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature—Aesthetics. ; European literature. ; Ecocriticism. ; Space. ; Culture. ; Sex. ; Literature, Modern ; Literature
    Kurzfassung: 1. Introduction: Virginia Woolf’s Modernist Waterscapes -- 2. Aqueous Affinities: Woolf, Bachelard and the English Romantic Poets -- 3. ‘How It Floats Me Afresh’: Water in Woolf’s Early Experimental Fiction -- 4. The Fluid Texture of Time: To the Lighthouse, Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando, The Waves -- 5. ‘The Obscure Body of the Sea’: Female Bodies, Water and Artistic Creation from The Voyage Out to The Waves -- 6. ‘Floating Down a River into Silence’: Water in Woolf’s Later Works -- 7. Conclusion. .
    Kurzfassung: This book identifies water as the key element of Virginia Woolf’s modernist poetics. The various forms, movements, and properties of water inspired Woolf’s writing of reality, time, and bodies and offered her an apt medium to reflect on the possibilities as well as on the exhaustion of her art. As a deeply intertextual writer, Woolf recognised how profoundly water has shaped human imagination and the landscape of the literary past. In line with recent ecocritical and ecofeminist assessments of her works, this book also shows Woolf’s attraction to water as part of an indifferent nature that exists prior to and beyond the symbolic. Through close analyses that span the whole of Woolf’s oeuvre, and that centre on the metaphorical and the material voices of water in her works, Modernist Waterscapes offers a fresh perspective on a writing that is as versatile as the element from which it draws. The monograph addresses postgraduate students and scholars working in modernist studies and Woolf studies in particular. Marlene Dirschauer holds a PhD in Comparative Literature. Currently, she works as Research Fellow at the University of Hamburg, Germany. Her research interests are English modernism as well as religious writings of the early modern era.
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    Serie: Sustainable Development Goals Series
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    Schlagwort(e): Literature—Philosophy. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; Science—History. ; Medicine and the humanities. ; Communication in science. ; Literature, Modern ; Literature ; Science ; Literature, Modern
    Kurzfassung: Introduction: “What does it mean to do the health humanities in application?”.-Chapter 1: “Black Feminist Field Notes: On Designing an Undergraduate, Online, Health Humanities Course in Women’s and Gender Studies” -- Chapter 2: “Mapping Reproductive Health Policy Using Arts-Based Research Methods: A Model of Pedagogical Transgression” -- Chapter 3: “A Case Study of Pedagogical Possibilities of Viral Imaginations, Artistic Expressions of Lived Experience of the Coronavirus Pandemic” -- Chapter 4: “Working in the Consciousness of My Body: A Study of Painscape” -- Chapter 5: “Addressing Cultural Competency in Physician-Patient Communication through Traditional Dance Exchanges” -- Chapter 6: “Seeing the Wonder: Extending Healthy Grieving Practices through the Digital” -- Chapter 7: “Interdisciplinary Health Humanities: Art Creation with Digital Tools”.-Chapter 8: “The ‘network’-ed Anthropocene: Coronavirus, Facebook and Indian politics” -- Chapter 9: “Deep Flow: Embodies Materialities and Performative Phenomenologies in Dance and Health” -- Chapter 10: “Medical Progress, Health, and the Chronic Disease of Racism in Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation” -- Chapter 11: “Narrative Medicine Praxis: Toward Epistemological Activism and Liberatory Care” -- Chapter 12: “The Army as the Anthropocene: Redrawing Histories in Malik Sajad’s A Boy in Kashmir”.
    Kurzfassung: This book focuses on health humanities in application. The field reflects many intellectual interests and practical applications, serving researchers, educators, students, health care practitioners, and community members wherever health and wellness and the humanities intersect. How we implement health humanities forms the core approach, and perspectives are global, including North America, Africa, Europe, and India. Emphasizing key developments in health humanities, the book’s chapters examine applications, including reproductive health policy and arts‑based research methods, black feminist approaches to health humanities pedagogy, artistic expressions of lived experience of the coronavirus, narratives of repair and re‑articulation and creativity, cultural competency in physician‑patient communication through dance, embodied dance practice as knowing and healing, interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity, eye tracking, ableism and disability, rethinking expertise in disability justice, disability and the Global South, coronavirus and Indian politics, visual storytelling in graphic medicine, and medical progress and racism in graphic fiction.
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    Seiten: 1 Online-Ressource(XX, 367 p. 84 illus., 83 illus. in color.)
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    Schlagwort(e): Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; Europe—History—476-1492. ; Television broadcasting. ; Archaeology. ; Literature, Modern ; Europe ; Literature, Modern
    Kurzfassung: 1. Reflections on Time, Space and Culture in Game of Thrones -- Part I: “Winter is Coming”: Landscape, Climate Change and Natural History in Game of Thrones -- 2. Ludus Thronis: De novem orbis miraculis—The Wonders of the Ancient World in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire -- 3. "There had been a Great Strength in those Stones": Materiality and Archaeological Perspectives of Westerosi Fortifications -- 4. From Python to Viserion: Dragon’s Natural History -- 5. A Song of Ice and Fire as a Narrative of Environmental Crisis and Climate Change -- Part II: “You Win or You Die”: Aesthetic and Cultural Approaches to Game of Thrones -- 6. Game of Thrones and the Sublime -- 7. "When You Play the Game of Thrones, You Win or You Die”: Game of Thrones between Mainstream Culture and Counterculture -- 8. The Symbology of Popular Culture in Game of Thrones: Carnivalization and Tyrion’s Wedding Party -- Part III: “One Voice May Speak you False, but in Many there is Always Truth to be Found”: Linguistic and Temporal Bridges -- 9. A Reception Study of the Game of Thrones Audiovisual Translations into Spanish: Translation Problems vs. Translation Errors -- 10. Study of the Translation of the Fictional World of Game of Thrones -- 11. The Portrayal of Interpreters in Audiovisual Texts, Illustrated by the Character of Missandei in the TV Series Game of Thrones -- 12. Westeros Versus the West: A Ludic Bridge for Teaching History.
    Kurzfassung: “This is, to our knowledge, the most extraordinary collection of varied and fascinating academic consideration on Game of Thrones ever put to press. By bringing together an international gathering of scholars who come from a wide array of disciplines, Game of Thrones: A View from the Humanities has made a real contribution to the study of popular culture and shown the value of humane inquiry into modern works of fiction.” —Elio M. García Jr. and Linda Antonsson, co-authors with G.R.R. Martin of The World of Ice & Fire “A humanistic approach to GOT. Finding bare and reasonable resemblances between Westeros, Essos and the civilizations of the ancient world.” —Aurora López Güeto, Pablo de Olavide University, Seville, Spain This book reflects on time, space and culture in the Game of Thrones universe. It analyses both the novels and the TV series from a multidisciplinary perspective ultimately aimed at highlighting the complexity, eclecticism and diversity that characterise Martin’s world. The volume is divided into three thematic sections. The first section focuses on space—both the urban and natural environment—and the interaction between human beings and their surroundings. The second section follows different yet complementary approaches to Game of Thrones from an aesthetic and cultural perspective. The final section addresses the linguistic and translation implications of the Game of Thrones universe, as well as its didactic uses. This book is paired with a second volume that focuses on the characters, violence and warfare in Martin’s universe. Alfonso Álvarez-Ossorio is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Seville, Spain. He has co-edited The Present of Antiquity: Reception, Recovery, Reinvention of the Ancient World in Current Popular Culture (2019). Fernando Lozano is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Seville, Spain. His research focuses on the study of Roman religion during the Empire and, specifically, on the imperial cult, as well as Reception studies. Rosario Moreno Soldevila is Professor of Latin at Pablo de Olavide University, Seville, Spain. She has authored or co-authored ten monographs on Latin literature, including A Prosopography to Martial’s Epigrams (2019). Cristina Rosillo-López is Professor of Ancient History at Pablo de Olavide University, Seville, Spain. She has authored and edited several monographs, including Political Conversations in Late Republican Rome (2022).
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    Serie: New Directions in Book History
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    Schlagwort(e): Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; Books—History. ; Economics and literature. ; Australasian literature. ; Printing. ; Publishers and publishing. ; Celebrities. ; Literature, Modern ; Books ; Literature, Modern
    Kurzfassung: Introduction: At the Literary Dinner -- Chapter One: Making Carey, Making the Globe -- Chapter Two: Into the Marketplace -- Chapter Three: Manufacturing Celebrity -- Chapter Four: The Archive and the Canon -- Chapter Five: Free Market and the Future of the Novel -- Conclusion: Acts of Resistance.
    Kurzfassung: Peter Carey: The Making of a Global Novelist recounts Peter Carey’s literary career from his emergence in the Australian literary scene as a contributor to local literary magazines to when he published his fiction exclusively with large conglomerate publishers. As Australia’s most decorated author for a period nearing half a century, Carey’s career gives unparalleled insights into the global contemporary publishing and the making of global literary prestige from the periphery, and significant cultural currency for Australian literature and culture worldwide. Carey’s fiction is not only a product of the global dynamic in literary publishing of the last quarter of the twentieth century, but also it holds something of its productive tension for Australian writing and writers. Allahyari retraces the fraught synthesis of an individual literary proclivity with a growing commercial cultural appetite: the coincidence of Carey’s career with the conglomeration of global publishing pushed further towards anti-elitist, popular aesthetics. Keyvan Allahyari teaches in the English and Theatre Studies Program at the University of Melbourne. He specializes in world literatures and contemporary Australian literature with a dual focus on border regimes and water imaginaries. His peer-reviewed journal articles have appeared in Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Australian Humanities Review, JASAL, and Antipodes, among others. He is currently writing a book about Abdulrazak Gurnah and the oceanic world literatures.
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    Serie: Literatures of the Americas
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    Schlagwort(e): Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Ethnology—Latin America. ; Literature—Philosophy. ; Women—History. ; Latin American literature. ; Culture. ; Feminism and literature. ; Literature, Modern ; Literature ; Ethnology ; Women
    Kurzfassung: 1. Introduction -- 2. Elena Poniatowska: Legacy and Biography -- 3. Diego I’m Alone, Diego I am no longer alone, Frida Kahlo -- 4. María Izquierdo, Backwards and Forwards -- 5. Nahui Olin, She who Made Waves -- 6. Pita Amor in the Arms of God -- 7. Elena Garro, The Rebellious Particle -- 8. Rosario From “My Dear Beloved Guerra” to the “Little Boy with Corn-Colored Hair” -- 9. Nellie Campobello, Who Was Not Granted Death.
    Kurzfassung: This delightful collection of essays by Elena Poniatowska presents readers with a wide panorama of important Mexican female artists and writers. Elizabeth Martínez’s excellent translation brings Poniatowska’s keen eye and searing observations beautifully into English, meaning that these extraordinary women, their lives, and their art emerge fully realized from the page. The book is a wonderful read for both those well-versed in Mexican literature and for those wanting to know more about Mexican art and culture! - Paul M. Worley and Melissa Birkhofer, Appalachian State University, North Carolina, translators of Word Mingas: Oralitegraphies and Mirrored Visions on Oralitures and Indigenous Contemporary Literatures by Miguel Rocha Vivas This book consists of a collection of essays by Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska in their first English translation, and a critical introduction. The highly engaging essays explore the lives of seven transformational figures for Mexican feminism. This includes Frida Kahlo, Maria Izquierdo, and Nahui Olin, three outstanding artists of the cultural renaissance of the early twentieth century, and Nellie Campobello, Elena Garro, Rosario Castellanos, and Pita Amor, forerunner writers and poets whose works laid a path for Mexican women writers in the later twentieth century. Poniatowska’s essays discuss their fervent activity, interactions with other prominent figures, details and intricacies about their specific works, their scandalous and irreverent activities to draw attention to their craft, and specific revelations about their lives. The extensive critical introduction surveys the early feminist movement and Mexican cultural history, explores how Mexico became a more closed society by the mid-twentieth century, and suggests further reading and films. This book will be of interest both to the general reader and to scholars interested in feminist/gender studies, Mexican literary and cultural studies, Latin American women writers, the cultural renaissance, translation, and film studies. Elizabeth Coonrod Martinez was Professor at DePaul University, USA, 2010 to 2020, and at Sonoma State University, USA, 1995 to 2010. Her recent books include Teaching Late Twentieth Century Mexicana and Chicana Writers (2021), Josefina Niggli, Mexican American Writer: A Critical Biography (2007), and Lilus Kikus and Other Stories by Elena Poniatowska, translation and introduction (2005). She was Editor of the academic journal Diálogo, an Interdisciplinary Studies journal from 2010 to 2020. Elena Poniatowska is one of the most powerful and important voices of Spanish American literature and journalism. Her chosen genre is literary journalism, much of which is collected in the 7 volume Todo México (1991-1999). Her prolific career has won her many awards including the Mazatlán Prize twice for Hasta no verte Jesús mío (1970) and Tinísima (1992), the Alfaguara Prize for La piel del cielo (2007), and the Cervantes Prize for Literature in 2013. .
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    Schlagwort(e): Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; America—Literatures. ; Literature—Philosophy. ; Human ecology—History. ; Ecocriticism. ; Feminism and literature. ; America ; Literature, Modern ; Literature ; Literature, Modern ; Human ecology
    Kurzfassung: Chapter One: Introduction -- Chapter Two: Indigenous Influences on Early Ecofeminist Utopias -- Chapter Three: Cruel Optimism in the Slow Violence of Apocalypse -- Chapter Four: Hyperobjects and Hyperempathy in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower -- Chapter Five: Embodying the Land in N.K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season.
    Kurzfassung: This book explores concepts of environmentalism and feminism in science fiction novels written by women. By extrapolating the future of climate change, the authors of these texts model how readers can apply utopian feminist and environmental theories in their own lives. Chapter One establishes an understanding of ecofeminist environmental thinking through original research conducted at the Ursula K. Le Guin archive at the University of Oregon. Chapter Two shows an example of climate change dystopia set in California in Claire Vaye Watkins’ novel Gold Fame Citrus. The final chapters explore utopian visions of queer ecologies in books by Octavia Butler and N.K. Jemisin. Because climate change is so difficult for individuals to grapple with, a new perspective is needed to survive it. The queer ecological philosophy in these novels points to a way of life that can reduce environmental harm in an era of climate change. .
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    Serie: Palgrave Studies in Language, Literature and Style
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    Schlagwort(e): Language and languages—Style. ; Psycholinguistics. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; Poetry. ; Film genres.
    Kurzfassung: Chapter 1: Towards A Poetics of Dystopia -- Chapter 2: Language in Dystopia -- Chapter 3: Building Dystopian Worlds -- Chapter 4: Reading Dystopian Minds -- Chapter 5: Dystopian Ethics -- Chapter 6: Unreliability and Dystopian Refraction -- Chapter 7: Reconceiving Dystopia.
    Kurzfassung: This book presents an extended account of the language of dystopia, exploring the creativity and style of dystopian narratives and mapping the development of the genre from its early origins through to contemporary practice. Drawing upon stylistic, cognitive-poetic and narratological approaches, the work proposes a stylistic profile of dystopia, arguing for a reader-led discussion of genre that takes into account reader subjectivity and personal conceptualisations of prototypicality. In examining and identifying those aspects of language that characterise dystopian narratives and the experience of reading dystopian fictions, the work discusses in particular the manipulation and construction of dystopian languages, the conceptualisation of dystopian worlds, the reading of dystopian minds, the projection of dystopian ethics, the unreliability of dystopian refraction, and the evolution and hybridity of the dystopian genre. Jessica Norledge is part of the Applied English Team at the University of Nottingham, UK, where she teaches across Literary Linguistics and Applied Linguistics. She specialises in the cognitive poetics of emotion and the language of dystopia, having published on the dystopian short story, dystopian epistolary, dystopian minds, and the experience of reading dystopian fiction.
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    Serie: Palgrave Studies in Language, Literature and Style
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    Schlagwort(e): Language and languages—Style. ; Poetry. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature.
    Kurzfassung: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Cognitive Grammar and Style -- Chapter 3: Creativity, Embodiment and Context -- Chapter 4: Proximity -- Chapter 5: Trauma -- Chapter 6: Blame -- Chapter 7: Revision -- Chapter 8: Conclusion. .
    Kurzfassung: This book presents a cognitive stylistic analysis of the writing of Siegfried Sassoon, a First World War poet who has typically been perceived as a poet of protest and irony, but whose work is in fact multi-faceted and complex in theme and shifted in style considerably throughout his lifetime. The author starts from the premise that a more systematic account of Sassoon’s style is possible using the methodology of contemporary stylistics, in particular Cognitive Grammar. Using this as a starting point, he revisits common ideas from Sassoon scholarship and reconfigures them through the lens of cognitive stylistics to provide a fresh perspective on Sassoon's style. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of stylistics, war poetry, twentieth-century literature, and cognitive linguistics. Marcello Giovanelli is Reader in Literary Linguistics and Head of English, Languages and Applied Linguistics at Aston University, UK. He teaches on undergraduate modules in stylistics, cognitive poetics and English literature and supervises doctoral students working on topics in cognitive stylistics. He has previously published on both the work of Siegfried Sassoon and on stylistic applications of Cognitive Grammar. .
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    Seiten: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIII, 282 p. 17 illus., 3 illus. in color.)
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    Serie: Palgrave Studies in Language, Literature and Style
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    Schlagwort(e): Language and languages—Style. ; Poetry. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century.
    Kurzfassung: Chapter 1. Contemporary poetry and textual meaning -- Part 1: Core Features Of Textual Meaning -- Chapter 2. Naming and Describing: people, places and things in poems -- Chapter 3. Representing processes: actions, states and events in poetry -- Chapter 4. Prioritising: Subordination and information structure in poems -- Chapter 5. Representing time, space and society: constructing the world of the poem -- Part 2: Intermittent Features Of Textual Meaning -- Chapter 6. Equating and Contrasting: Constructing equivalence and opposition in poems -- Chapter 7. Enumerating and Exemplifying: Lists and open meaning in poems -- Chapter 8. Negating: Poetic construction of what is not -- Chapter 9. Hypothesising: Possible Worlds, hypothetical scenarios and wish fulfilment in poems -- Chapter 10. Alluding: Implying and Assuming in poems -- Chapter 11. Presenting others’ speech and thought: Multiple voices in poems -- Chapter 12. Evoking: experiencing the poem’s world -- Part Three: Conclusions -- Chapter 13. Putting it all together: Integrated analysis of poems -- Chapter 14. Textual meaning, linguistic theory and the stylistics of poetry.
    Kurzfassung: This book introduces a new way of looking at how poems mean, drawing on the framework first developed in the author’s book Critical Stylistics, but applied here to aesthetic more than ideological meaning. The aim is to empower readers of poetry to articulate the features of poetic language that they come across and explain to themselves and others why these features convey the meanings that they do. While this volume focuses on contemporary poets writing in English and mostly based in the UK and Ireland, the framework will work just as well for other eras’ poetry, as well as for other cultures and languages. Lesley Jeffries is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Huddersfield, UK. She has published widely in stylistics, focussing on the style of contemporary poetry and ideology in news reporting and political discourse. She is also co-editor (with Dan Mcintyre) of Babel: The Language Magazine.
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    Schlagwort(e): Spirituality. ; Christianity. ; Religion—Philosophy. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Aesthetics.
    Kurzfassung: Chapter 1. Introduction: Tolstoy’s Quest for God and Meaning -- Chapter 2. Society -- Chapter 3. Nature -- Chapter 4. Spirituality -- Chapter 5. God and Man -- Chapter 6. Shall We Be As Gods? -- Chapter 7. Epilogue: Our Longing for God and Meaning.
    Kurzfassung: This book examines Leo Tolstoy’s struggle to understand the relationship of God and man, in connection with his attempt to answer questions regarding the meaning of life. Tolstoy addressed such issues in a systematic way and with great concerns for the future of humanity. Predrag Cicovacki approaches Tolstoy both as a thinker and as an artist, and examines various sides of his intellectual and artistic engagement: his social criticism, his ambiguous relationship to nature, his understanding of art, and his attempted reconstruction of the true religion. By combining philosophical, religious, and literary analysis, Cicovacki undertakes an interdisciplinary study, showing much can be learned from Tolstoy's insights, as well as from his mistakes. Predrag Cicovacki is Professor of Philosophy at the College of the Holy Cross, USA. He is the author of eleven books, including Dostoevsky and the Affirmation of Life (2012), Gandhi’s Footprints (2015), The Luminosity of Love (2018), and The Meaning of Life. A Quick Immersion (2021). “Predrag Cicovacki, a professor of peace and conflict studies, is perfectly situated to guide us through Tolstoy’s powerful, often infuriating practical ethics. Blending theology with anthropological argument, he suggests that Tolstoy insisted above all that we cease to mutilate: ourselves, the world, the resources of the present and the meaning of love. Not an easy task and Tolstoy can be a stubborn mentor, but Cicovacki makes a subtle, respectful, even-handed case.” —Caryl Emerson, A. Watson Armour III University Professor Emeritus of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University, USA “Combining the resources of a trained philosopher with an ear for a great writer, Predrag Cicovacki has produced an insightful and panoramic evaluation of Tolstoy the God-driven man who found meaning in becoming a “slave” – of God, not of man, of the divine truth, not of the fictions of humankind. An impressive achievement.” —John D. Caputo, Professor Emeritus, Syracuse University, USA, and author of In Search of Radical Theology: Expositions, Explorations, Exhortations and Cross and Cosmos: A Theology of Difficult Glory. .
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    Serie: Politics of Citizenship and Migration
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    Schlagwort(e): Emigration and immigration—Government policy. ; Emigration and immigration. ; Culture—Study and teaching. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; Anthropology.
    Kurzfassung: 1. Making Home Away: Introduction to the Collection -- 2. Watfa' Speaks -- 3. Refugee-Refugee Hosting as Home in Protracted Urban Displacement: Sudanese Refugee Men in Amman, Jordan -- 4. Archiving Displacement and Identities: Recording Struggles of the Displaced Re/making Home in Britain -- 5. Archival Home Making: Reference, Remixing and Reverence in Palestinian Visual Art -- 6. Collecting: The Migrant's Method for Home-making -- 7. Syrian Experiences of Remaking Home: Migratory Journeys, State Refugee Policies, and Negotiated Belonging -- 8. Making Home in the Earth: Ecoglobalism in the Camps -- 9. Home is Like Water.
    Kurzfassung: This book is about homemaking in situations of migration and displacement. It explores how homes are made, remade, lost, revived, expanded and contracted through experiences of migration, to ask what it means to make a home away from home. We draw together a wide range of perspectives from across multiple disciplines and contexts, which explore how old homes, lost homes, and new homes connect and disconnect through processes of homemaking. The volume asks: how do spaces of resettlement or rehoming reflect both the continuation of old homes and distinct new experiences? Based on collaborations with migrants, refugees, practitioners and artists, this book centres the lived experiences, testimonies, and negotiations of those who are displaced. The volume generates appreciation of the tensions that emerge in contexts of migration and displacement, as well as of the ways in which racial categories and colonial legacies continue to shape fields of lived experience. Yasmine Shamma is Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary English Literature, University of Reading, UK. Suzan Ilcan is Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology and Legal Studies, University of Waterloo and the Balsillie School of International Affairs, Canada. Vicki Squire is Professor of International Politics, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick, UK. Helen Underhill is a Researcher in the School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape at Newcastle University, UK.
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    Serie: New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
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    Schlagwort(e): Literature, Modern—20th century. ; European literature. ; Comparative literature. ; Europe—History. ; English literature ; Irish authors ; Irish literature ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Italy ; Geschichte 1914-1945 ; Geschichte 1914-1945 ; Irland ; Literatur ; Rezeption ; Italien
    Kurzfassung: Introduction – Imagining Ireland in Italy -- 2. Early irlandesisti -- 3. False Start: Carlo Linati and the Irish -- 4: Ireland in Fascist Italy -- 5. We are all Irish in the eyes of Mussolini: Irish theater in the war years -- 6. Conclusion.
    Kurzfassung: This book addresses both the dissemination and increased understanding of the specificity of Irish literature in Italy during the first half of the twentieth century. This period was a crucial time of nation-building for both countries. Antonio Bibbò illustrates the various images of Ireland that circulated in Italy, focusing on political and cultural discourses and examines the laborious formation of an Irish literary canon in Italy. The center of this analysis relies on books and articles on Irish politics, culture, and literature produced in Italy, including pamplets, anthologies, literary histories, and propaganda; translations of texts by Irish writers; and archival material produced by writers, publishers, and cultural and political institutions. Bibbò argues that the construction of different and often conflicting ideas of Ireland in Italy as well as the wavering understanding of the distinctiveness of Irish culture, substantially affected the Italian responses to Irish writers and their presence within the Italian publishing field. This book contributes to the discussion on transnational aspects of canon formation, reception studies, and Italian cultural studies. Antonio Bibbò is Lecturer in English and Translation at the University of Trento, Italy. He has translated works by Woolf, Defoe, Wilde and Pound.
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    Schlagwort(e): Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; Literature—Philosophy. ; Comparative literature. ; Psycholinguistics. ; Sex.
    Kurzfassung: 1. Introduction -- Part I: The Son Who Stutters -- 2. Stuttering Orators and Their Counterparts -- 3. Five Victorian Sons -- 4. Four Modern Sons -- Part II: The Son with Other Challenges -- 5. The Guilty Son -- 6. The Anorexic Son -- 7. 7. The Patricidal Son -- 8. Afterword.
    Kurzfassung: “Myron Tuman’s book is a beautifully written and powerfully argued analysis of what it means to stutter. From Demosthenes to Joe Biden, Tuman brings us closer to understanding this enigmatic condition as well as reminding those of us who stutter that we are part of a unique and talented community going back centuries. This is a well-researched and important addition to the small but growing canon of stutter lit.” —Jonty Claypole MBE, author of Words Fail Us “Myron Tuman’s The Stuttering Son is a pioneering work by a masterful writer and scholar in this under-examined field of literary studies. Among the book’s many strengths is its compelling weave of discourses between the psychoanalytic, literary, and personal. The case studies are compelling in their dramatic fusion of the biographic and the literary, enlivened by Tuman’s engaging, anecdotal, storytelling voice and enriched throughout by the lucid elegance of his prose. The Stuttering Son is not only a significant contribution and welcome addition to this area of literary studies, but to our understanding of the traumatic origins of the creative impulse—on which it sheds an inspired and instructive light.” —Stephen G. Brown, UNLV The Stuttering Son: A Literary Study of Boys and Their Fathers examines stuttering, a condition which overwhelmingly affects boys, in terms of the complex relationships a number of male authors have had with their fathers. Most of these writers, from Cotton Mather to John Updike, were themselves stutterers; for two others, Melville and Kafka, the focus shifts to how similar family tensions contributed to their interest in the related condition of anorexia. A final section looks at the patricidal impulse lurking behind much of this analysis, as evident in Dostoyevsky, Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and Nietzsche. By focusing on the issue of a boy’s emotional development, this book attempts to re-establish the value of a broadly psychological approach to understanding stuttering. Myron Tuman was a professor of English at universities in West Virginia, Alabama, and Louisiana. His work on male writers and their mothers, The Sensitive Son and the Feminine Ideal in Literature (Palgrave Macmillan 2019) follows earlier studies of male writers and their sons, Melville’s Gay Father, and female writers and their fathers, Don Juan and His Daughter.
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    Schlagwort(e): Fiction. ; Literature—Philosophy. ; Feminism and literature. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; World history. ; International relations—History. ; Crime—Sociological aspects.
    Kurzfassung: Chapter 1: ‘It’s a game of dog eat dog’ - Discontent and Disintegration in American Pulp Fiction -- Chapter 2: ‘The name’s Bond. James Bond’– The Rise of the Spy Novel in British Literature -- Chapter 3: ‘The man who looked both East and West.’ - The Double Agent at Work -- Chapter 4: ‘The greatest weapon on earth’ - Games of Power and Propaganda -- Chapter 5: ‘A world of shadows and suspicions’- The Psychology of Paranoia -- Chapter 6: ‘So we’re not enemies?’– The End of the Cold War -- Chapter 7: ‘A perpetual state of war.’ – Legacies and Lasting Impressions.
    Kurzfassung: This book analyses the gender roles and political contexts of spy fiction narratives published during the years of the Cold War. It offers an introduction to the development of spy fiction both in England and in the United States and explores the ways in which issues such as the atomic bomb, double agents, paranoia, propaganda and megalomania manifest themselves within the genre. The book examines the ongoing marginalization of women within spy fiction texts, exploring the idea that this unique period in global history is responsible for the active promotion and celebration of masculinity and male superiority. From James Bond to Jason Bourne, the book evaluates the ongoing enforcement of patriarchal ideas and oppressions that, in the name of national security and patriotic duty, have contributed to the development of a genre in which discrimination and bias continue to dominate. Sian MacArthur is an independent academic and researcher with literary interests in Gothic and science fiction, and historical interests in the Cold War. She is the author of Crime and the Gothic: Identifying the Gothic Footprint in Modern Crime Fiction (2011) and Gothic Science Fiction: 1818 to the Present (Palgrave 2015), and Re-defining the Gothic with Mo Haydar in The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic.
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    Schlagwort(e): Poetry. ; America—Literatures. ; Literature, Modern—20th century.
    Kurzfassung: 1. Introduction: The Poetics of Doublespeak -- 2. “Lack-Land Atoms Split Apart”: Robert Lowell’s Atomic Confessions -- 3. The Poetics of Double-Talk: John Berryman’s Dream Songs as Cold War Testimonials -- 4. Fastening a New Skin: Anne Sexton, Self-Help, and the Illness of Responsibility -- 5. Toward a Poetics of Terror: Sylvia Plath and the Instant of Death -- 6. New Critical Conspiracy Theory: Randall Jarrell and the Poetics of Dissent.
    Kurzfassung: This book explores how confessional poets in the 1950s and 1960s US responded to a Cold War political climate that used the threat of nuclear disaster and communist infiltration as affective tools for the management of public life. In an era that witnessed the state-sanctioned repression of civil liberties, poets such as Robert Lowell, John Berryman, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and Randall Jarrell adopted what has often been considered a politically benign confessional style. Although confessional writers have been criticized for emphasizing private turmoil in an era of public crisis, examining their work in relation to the political and affective environment of the Cold War US demonstrates their unique ability to express dissent while averting surveillance. For these poets, writing the fear and anxiety of life in the bomb’s shadow was a form of poetic doublespeak that critiqued the impact of an affective Cold War politics without naming names. Adam Beardsworth is a professor of English at Memorial University’s Grenfell Campus, Canada, where he teaches contemporary literature and critical theory. He is the author of numerous articles and chapters on US and Canadian poetry and is a past-president of the Canadian Association for American Studies. He lives in Steady Brook, Newfoundland.
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    Serie: Literary Lives
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    Schlagwort(e): Literature, Modern—20th century. ; America—Literatures. ; Literature—Philosophy. ; Culture—Study and teaching. ; Fiction. ; Literature—History and criticism.
    Kurzfassung: Introduction: Morrison’s Early Years -- Song of Solomon: One Beginning of Morrison’s Career -- Tar Baby and Other Folktales -- Beloved, Beloved, Beloved -- Jazz and Morrison’s Trilogy: New York in the 1920s -- Morrison as Public Intellectual.-The Nobel Prize in Literature and Morrison’s Trilogy -- Morrison and the Twenty-first Century: Love -- Morrison and Various Mercies -- Morrison and the Definitions of Home -- God Help the Child -- The Origin of Others and The Source of Self-Regard -- Coda.
    Kurzfassung: A reading of the oeuvre of Toni Morrison—fiction, non-fiction, and other—drawing extensively from her many interviews as well as her primary texts, Toni Morrison: A Literary Life, second edition provides an overview of Morrison’s intellectual growth as an artist. Linda Wagner-Martin aligns Morrison's novels with the works of Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner, assessing her works as among the most innovative, and most significant, worldwide, of the past fifty plus years. The revised edition includes new discussion of God Help the Child, The Origin of Others, and The Source of Self-Regard. These additions present and intensify scholarship on Morrison’s major literary contributions, but also trace her significant role as a public intellectual, bringing to light the consistency of Morrison’s aesthetic and political visions. Linda Wagner-Martin is Frank Borden Hanes Professor of English and Comparative Literature Emerita at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA. She has written and edited more than eighty books, has won a number of teaching awards, and such grants as the Guggenheim, the Senior National Endowment for the Humanities, ACLS, Ford, and Rockefeller—and been a fellow at Bellagio, Bogliasco, and the Radcliffe Institute. She was awarded the Hubbell Medal for Lifetime Service to American Literature. Her book The Life of the Author: Maya Angelou (2021) has been nominated for the Plutarch Prize. In the Palgrave Macmillan Literary Lives series, she has published works on Emily Dickinson (2013), Sylvia Plath (2003), John Steinbeck (2017), Walt Whitman (2021), and Ernest Hemingway (second edition, 2022).
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    Schlagwort(e): Fiction. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; America—Literatures. ; Latin American literature. ; Comparative literature. ; Geschichte ; Geschichte ; USA ; Literatur ; Abenteurerin
    Kurzfassung: 1. Introduction -- 2. Revisiting the Canon, Rewriting History: Sena Jeter Naslund’s Ahab’s Wife, Or The Stargazer -- 3. Domesticating the Wilderness, a Woman’s Mission: Jane Smiley, The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton -- 4. Women and an Uncivil War: Paulette Jiles, Enemy Women -- 5. Adventures of Body and Soul: Audrey Thomas, Isobel Gunn -- 6. Home and Away: Jane Urquhart, Away: A Novel -- 7. The Female Epic: Antonine Maillet, Pélagie: The Return to Acadie -- 8. Conquistador’s Moll or Mother of the Nation? Laura Esquivel, Malinche -- 9. The Female Conquistador: Isabel Allende, Inés of My Soul -- 10. The Legacy of the Conquistadors: Esmeralda Santiago, Conquistadora -- 11. Conclusion. .
    Kurzfassung: “This ground-breaking study introduces a challenging genre of women’s writing in which dauntless female protagonists represent a powerful alternative to the dominant traditions of the heroic male adventurer. The study is underpinned by substantive historical research. The clarity and engagement of King’s writing ensure it will be appreciated by academic and general readers alike.” —Pam Morris, independent scholar, formerly Professor of Modern Critical Studies at Liverpool John Moores University This book brings together for the first time nine groundbreaking historical novels by women from the United States, Canada and Latin America, united by their focus on female adventurers. These novels introduce the neglected women of history, real and imagined, who accompanied their menfolk to the New World, and enabled its settlement or colonisation. Familiar novelists include Isabel Allende, Audrey Thomas and Jane Smiley, but this book also introduces less familiar writers who have produced richly textured and densely historical novels. In addition to putting women back into history, these writers engage with the literature of the past, including the American canon of male fiction which dominated literary history before the intervention of feminist scholars. The book begins with an introduction to the history of historical fiction and provides a theoretical, historical and geographical context for the novels themselves. Jeannette King is Professor Emerita of English at the University of Aberdeen, UK. Publications include: Discourses of Ageing in Fiction and Feminism (2012), The Victorian Woman Question in Contemporary Feminist Fiction (2005), Women and the Word: Contemporary Women Novelists and the Bible (2000) , and Tragedy in the Victorian Novel: Theory and Practice in the Novels of George Eliot, Thomas Hardy and Henry James (1978) .
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    Serie: Chinese Literature and Culture in the World
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    Schlagwort(e): Literature, Modern—19th century. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; European literature. ; Imperialism. ; China—History. ; Ethnology—Asia. ; Culture.
    Kurzfassung: 1 Introduction: History Is Made of Details -- 2 Historical Background -- 3 What Was Macao and Who Were the Macanese? -- 4 Views of Europeans Other Than French.-5 Theoretical Reference.-6 The Scope of the French Views.-7 French Views of Macao.-8 Macao’s Status and Importance in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries.-9 Conclusion .
    Kurzfassung: The French in Macao in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: Literary, Cultural, and Historical Perspectives investigates the role that Macao played as a meeting place of the East and the West during this period of time and its decline as a Portuguese colony in the eyes of the Europeans. The book provides a comprehensive view of representations of Macao as portrayed by the French. These texts in French have been studied less than Chinese or Portuguese texts on Macao. Overall, the book contributes to the study of colonial history, cultural studies, and China in the late Qing dynasty. Jingzhen Xie holds a Ph.D. in French from Johns Hopkins University, USA and is Research Librarian at the University of Macau, China. Her main research areas include Macao studies, history of translation from French to Chinese, and the relationship of information to culture. She has published on historical studies and library and information science. She is a co-editor of Dictionnaire français-chinois 拉鲁斯法汉词典 (2014), the main co-editor of East Meets West: An Illustrated Catalogue of Some Rare Books in Western Languages in the University of Macau Library (2016), and a co-author of Transferring Information Literacy Practices (2019).
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    ISBN: 9783031131578
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    Serie: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
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    Schlagwort(e): America—Literatures. ; Poetry. ; Ecocriticism. ; Literature, Modern—20th century.
    Kurzfassung: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part I: Merwin and Other Poets -- Chapter 2: “High Company”: W.S. Merwin, John Berryman and the Art of Poetry -- Chapter 3: The Value and Forms of Contact in the Work of William Carlos Williams and W.S. Merwin -- Chapter 4: The Lost Steps: W. S. Merwin and the Journey Backward -- Part II: Nature, Zen and Ecopoetics -- Chapter 5: Bound to Reverence: Not Knowing, Emptiness, Time, and Nature in W.S. Merwin’s Poetry -- Chapter 6: Merwin’s Ecopoetic Conservancy -- Chapter 7: Reverence for Nature: Trees in the Poetry of W.S. Merwin and Others -- Chapter 8: The Fox Sleeps in Plain Sight: Zen in the Poetry of W.S. Merwin -- Part III: The Poet’s Craft -- Chapter 9: “A Sense of Being Linked with People”: Poetry, Listening, Intonation -- Chapter 10: Lyric “Unpunctuation”: W. S. Merwin’s Early New Yorker Correspondence -- Chapter 11: W.S. Merwin’s Homecoming in the Heart of Europe -- Chapter 12: Resilience of the Oracular in W.S. Merwin’s “Forgotten Language” -- Part IV: The Sense of an Ending -- Chapter 13: W.S. Merwin’s “Retirement”: Late Style and Themes in the 1990s and After -- Chapter 14: Merwin’s Epic of Dispossession -- Chapter 15: Memory, Belatedness, and Paradise in W.S. Merwin’s Later Poetry -- Chapter 16: “The Last Days of the World”: Apocalyptic Visions in the Poetry of W.S. Merwin and William Butler Yeats.
    Kurzfassung: “This is a pioneering study of Merwin which will become essential reading for anyone in the field. It works as an introductory text to those who are fairly unfamiliar with Merwin yet also has much to say to those who are informed about his work and overall career. It is notably strong on Merwin’s affinities with other poets and the essays are well-organised, into sections on affinities/influence, the significance of Zen and eco-poetics, the craft of poetry, and apocalypticism.” —Stephen Matterson, Professor of English, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland "This new book of exciting essays is an important intervention in Merwin scholarship, contributing to a reflowering of interest in Merwin's poetry." —Steven Gould Axelrod, University of California, Riverside, USA This edited collection explores the work of highly awarded and twice American Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin. Spanning Merwin’s early career, his mid-career success, his Hawaiian epic, his eco-poetry, his lesser-known later poetry and the influence of Buddhism on his work, the volume offers new perspectives on Merwin as a major poet. Exploring his works across the twentieth and twenty-first century, this collection presents Merwin as a necessary and contemporary poet. It emphasizes contemporary readings of Merwin as an environmental advocate, showing how his poetry seeks to help each reader re-establish an intimate relationship with the natural world. It also highlights how Merwin’s work presents our place in history as a pivotal moment of transition into a new era of international cooperation. This volume both celebrates his life and writing and takes scholarship on his work forward into the new century. Cheri Colby Langdell, a member of the Emily Dickinson International Society, the Modernist Studies Association, and the Pacific Association of Ancient and Modern Languages, has published in the Emily Dickinson Journal and is the author of W.S. Merwin (1981) and Adrienne Rich: The Moment of Change (2004), as well as other books, reviews and articles. She has taught at the University of California, Riverside, and the University of Southern California, and in the UK at the University of Nottingham, the University of Leicester, Birkbeck University of London and Queen Mary University of London. She now teaches at East Los Angeles College and Los Angeles Valley College, USA.
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    Serie: Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment
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    Schlagwort(e): Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Ecocriticism. ; America—Literatures. ; Human ecology—History. ; Science—History. ; Communication in science.
    Kurzfassung: Introduction: The Face of the Adaptationist Program -- Chapter 1. A Balance of Forces: Homes and Schools, Genes, Senescence, and Altruism -- Chapter 2.Design, Parsimony, and a Critique of Adaptation -- Chapter 3.Opening Sociobiology: Disciplining the Plain Style -- Chapter 4.Sex, Death, and the Language of Sociobiology -- Chapter 5.How Scientific Reductionism leads to Evolutionary Explanation -- Chapter 6.Evolution and Human Ethics: An Expansion from Sociobiology -- Chapter 7.History, Natural Selection, and the Book of Nature -- Chapter 8.Repairing Human Natures -- Chapter 9.The Dark Side of Biology -- Chapter 10.How Shall a Human Face Death.
    Kurzfassung: In this book, a case study of a humanistic reading of an essential evolutionary theorist, George C. Williams (May 12, 1926–September 8, 2010), the author contends that certain classic works of evolutionary theory and history are the most important nature writing of recent times. What it means to be scientifically literate—is essential for humanistic scholars, who must ground themselves with literary reading of scientific texts. As the most influential American evolutionary theorist of the second half of the twentieth century, Williams masters critique, frames questions about adaptation and natural selection, and answers in a plain, aphoristic writing style. Williams aims for parsimony—to “recognize adaptation at the level necessitated by the facts and no higher”—through a minimalist writing style. This voice articulates a powerful process that operates at very low levels by blind and selfish chance at the expense of its designed products, using purely trial and error. Michael P. Cohen works at the intersection of literary theory and nature writing. His books include Pathless Way: John Muir and American Wilderness (1984), A Garden of Bristlecones: Tales of Change in the Great Basin (1998) and Granite and Grace: Seeking the Heart of Yosemite (2019). .
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    Schlagwort(e): Literature. ; America—Literatures. ; Literature, Modern—20th century.
    Kurzfassung: 1. Introduction: American Fiction Abroad -- Part I: Why Teach …? -- 2. Toni Morrison’s A Mercy in Hungary: Racialized Discourse in the Classroom -- 3. Charles Yu’s Interior Chinatown in Europe as an Evaluative Tool of U.S. Race Relations: “When you think American, what color do you see?” -- 4. Octavia Butler at a Swedish University: Gender, Genre, and Intercultural Encounters -- 5. John Updike in Serbia -- 6. Contemporary American Women Writers in Romania -- Part II: How to Teach …? -- 7. Thomas Pynchon and David Foster Wallace: Contextualizing the “Systems Novel” in Estonia -- 8. Donald Barthelme at Sorbonne University: Narrative, Internet Memes, and “The Rise of Capitalism” -- 9. The (Post)Apocalypse in Hungary: American Science Fiction and Social Analysis -- 10. Gloria Anzaldúa at European Universities: Straddling Borders of Fiction and Identity -- Part III: What Lessons Might Be Gained by …? -- 11. Teaching Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah in Ireland: “If you don’t understand, ask questions” -- 12. Teaching Philip Roth in Denmark: It’s Complicated -- 13. Teaching Post-Black Aesthetics and the Coming-of-Age Novels of Danzy Senna and Colson Whitehead in Portugal: Reconsidering the Gap -- 14. Teaching Marilynne Robinson, Democracy and the Mystery of American Belonging Through the PostChristian Eyes of Millennial Brits: “Homesick for a place I never left” -- 15. Teaching Jesmyn Ward and William T. Vollmann in Finland: Genres of Environmental Justice -- Part IV: What Light from the Recent Past? -- 16. A Backward Glance o’er American Fiction in French Academia -- 17. American Literature: A Tale of Two Polands -- Part V: Additional Resources -- 18. Incorporating One’s Own Literary Criticism into the Curriculum: The Teachable Essay via John Updike’s Short Stories -- 19. Sources for Further Study.
    Kurzfassung: This book offers insight into the ways students enrolled in European classrooms in higher education come to understand American experience through its literary fiction, which for decades has been a key component of English department offerings and American Studies curricula across the continent and in Great Britain and Ireland. The essays provide an understanding of how post-World War II American writers, some already elevated to ‘canonical status’ and some not, are represented in European university classrooms and why they have been chosen for inclusion in coursework. The book will be of interest to scholars and teachers of American literature and American studies, and to students in American literature and American studies courses. Laurence W. Mazzeno is President Emeritus of Alvernia University, USA. He is the author or editor of twenty scholarly books, including Teaching Victorian Literature in the Twenty-First Century (2017) and Victorian Environmental Nightmares (2019). Sue Norton is Lecturer of English at Technological University Dublin, Ireland. She has published numerous articles and essays on topics in American literature as well as on classroom practice. She co-edited European Perspective on John Updike (2018).
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    Serie: Sustainable Development Goals Series
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    Schlagwort(e): Ecocriticism. ; European literature. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; Human ecology—History. ; Continental Philosophy.
    Kurzfassung: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Michel Serres’s Biosemiotic Thought: Writing the “Immense Rhapsody” or “Great Story” of Life -- Chapter 2: Edgar Morin’s Complex, “Ecologized” Thought: The Ubiquity of “Informational Capital” on the Battlefield of Life in the COVID-19 Era -- Chapter 3: The Biosemiosic Gaze of the “Wholly Other” and the Philosophical Exercise of “Limitrophy” in Jacques Derrida’s Posthumous Philosophy -- Chapter 4: Michel Onfray’s Biosemiotic, Materialistic, and Post-Monotheistic Reworking of Human and Other-Than-Human Semiosis -- Chapter 5: Dominique Lestel’s Pioneering Biosemiotic Vision of “The Enchanted Space of Trans-Specific Communication” Within Hybrid Societies.
    Kurzfassung: Contemporary French Environmental Thought in the Post-COVID-19 Era is focused on the fields of biosemiotics, linguistics, ecocriticism, and environmental ethics. Closely aligning with Sustainable Development Goal 13.1, Keith Moser’s study aims to strengthen resilience to climate-related hazards by drawing on ecological theories developed by French philosophers in conversation with biosemiotic principles. Not only does the novel theoretical framework offered by biosemiotic interpretations of the universe and our place in it represent an indispensable conceptual tool for understanding the unprecedented medical challenges at the dawn of a new millennium, but it also beckons us to think harder about the environmental crisis that threatens the continued existence of all sentient beings who call the biosphere home. This book also highlights the richness, diversity, and utility of the ecological theories developed by the French philosophers Michel Serres, Edgar Morin, Jacques Derrida, Dominique Lestel, and Michel Onfray in addition to how they engage with biosemiotic principles. Taken together, the book probes the scientific, linguistic, philosophical, and ethical implications of biosemiotic theories in a post-pandemic world from an environmental and medical perspective.
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    Serie: Palgrave Studies in Contemporary Women’s Writing
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    Schlagwort(e): Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; Literature—Philosophy. ; Feminism and literature. ; Literature. ; Russia—History. ; Europe, Eastern—History. ; Soviet Union—History. ; Collective memory.
    Kurzfassung: 1 Introduction: Towards a Poetics of Displacement and Postmemory -- 2 Lived Religion, Displacement and Gender in Ludmila Ulitskaya’s Daniel Stein, Interpreter -- 3 Remembering Childhood and Reassessing the Past in Elena Chizhova’s The Time of Women -- 4 Voices of the Lost Experiences in Svetlana Alexievich’s Secondhand Time. The Last of the Soviets -- 5 In Search of Memory in Maria Stepanova’s In Memory of Memory -- 6 Conclusion: From Poetics to Politics of Displacement and Postmemory.
    Kurzfassung: The book examines prominent literary works from the past two decades by Russian women writers dealing with the Soviet past. It explores works such as Daniel Stein, Interpreter by Ludmilla Ulitskaya, The Time of Women by Elena Chizhova, Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich, and In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova, and uncovers connecting thematic structures and features. Focusing on the concepts of displacement and postmemory, the book shows how these works have given voice to those on the margins of society and of ‘great history’ whose resistance was often silent. In doing so, these women writers portray the everyday experiences and trauma of displaced women and girls during the second half of the twentieth century. This study offers new insights into the importance of these women writers’ work in creating and preserving cultural memory in post-Soviet Russia. Marja Sorvari is Associate Professor of Russian Language and Culture at the University of Eastern Finland. She specializes in contemporary Russian literature and gender studies. She is author of About the Self and the Time: On Autobiographical Texts by Maria Arbatova, Elena Bonner, Ėmma Gerštejn, Tamara Petkevič and Maija Pliseckaja (2004) and has co-edited several volumes.
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    Serie: Studies in Global Science Fiction
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    Kurzfassung: Introduction: Science Fiction in German – An Overview Ingo Cornils / Lars Schmeink (University of Leeds, UK / HafenCity University, Germany) -- Going Round in Cycles: Time Travel and Determinism in Dark (2017–) Juliane Blank (University of the Saarland) -- White German Agency in Transfer, Die kommenden Tage, Hell Evan Torner (University of Cincinnati, USA) -- Popular German Science Fiction Film and European Migration Gabriele Müller (York University, Canada) -- Daring Dystopia: Finding the Female Voice in Formal Experiments Klaudia Seibel (University of Giessen, Germany) -- 'Last Men' in the Dystopian Novel of Contemporary German Literature Kristina Mateescu (University of Heidelberg, Germany) -- Dirk C. Fleck’s Maeva Trilogy Peter Seyferth (Independent Scholar, Munich, Germany) -- QualityLand: Marc-Uwe Kling's Social Commentary as "Funny Dystopia" Joscha Klüppel (University of Oregon, United States) -- Part III: New Criticism – Climate Change and Ecology -- Ecocriticism in Contemporary German SF Laura Zinn (University of Giessen, Germany) -- Misogyny and climate change in Karen Duve’s Macht -- Clarisa Novello (University of Aberdeen, Scotland) -- Apocalyptic Greeneries: Climate, Vegetation and the End of the World in Ransmayr, Kracht and Fritsch Solvejg Nitzke (Technical University of Dresden, Germany) -- The Language of Ice in the Anthropocene: The Case of Der Schwarm, Eiszeit In Europa? and Eistau Matteo Gallostampino (University of Bergamo, Italy) -- Part IV: New Identities – Gender, Health, Posthumanism -- From Fiction to Society: Gender-Neutral Pronouns in the Near Future Novel Wasteland Aşkın-Hayat Doğan (Independent Scholar, Berlin, Germany) -- The Paradoxes of Illness and Health in Juli Zeh’s Corpus Delicti: Ein Prozess Mylene Branco (Université Luxembourg) -- Nach der Langeweile. Boredom, Critical Posthumanism and Critique of Culture Hanna Schumacher (University of Edinburg, Scotland) -- Transhumanism Revisited: Dietmar Dath’s Abschaffung der Arten Roland Innerhofer (University of Vienna, Austria).
    Kurzfassung: New Perspectives on Contemporary German Science Fiction demonstrates the variety and scope of German science fiction (SF) production in literature, television, and cinema. The volume argues that speculative fictions and explorations of the fantastic provide a critical lens for studying the possibilities and limitations of paradigm shifts in society. Lars Schmeink and Ingo Cornils bring together essays that study the renaissance of German SF in the twenty-first century. The volume makes clear that German SF is both global and local—the genre is in balance between internationally dominant forms and adapting them to Germany’s reality as it relates to migration, the environment, and human rights. The essays explore a range of media (literature, cinema, television) and relevant political, philosophical, and cultural discourses. Lars Schmeink is Research Fellow at the Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany. For 2022, he has received a Leverhulme Visiting Professorship at the University of Leeds, UK. He is a researcher in the FutureWork research project of the German Ministry of Education at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. He is the founder of the Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung and has served as president of the board from 2010 to 2019. He has published widely on science fiction, the fantastic, and popular culture, including The Routledge Companion to Cyberpunk Culture (co-editor, 2020); Cyberpunk and Visual Culture (co-editor, 2018); Biopunk Dystopias: Genetic Engineering, Society, and Science Fiction (2016), Collision of Realities (co-editor, 2012), and Fremde Welten (co-editor, 2012). Ingo Cornils is Professor of German Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. He has published widely on science fiction, edited two special issues of the academic journal literatur für leser on German language science fiction co-edited, with Ricarda Vidal, the volume Alternative Worlds: Blue-Sky Thinking since 1900 (2015), and authored of the monograph Beyond Tomorrow: German Science Fiction and Utopian Thought in the 20th and 21st Century (2020).
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    Schlagwort(e): Literature—History and criticism. ; Cities and towns—History. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; Sociology, Urban.
    Kurzfassung: This encyclopaedia will be an indispensable resource and recourse for all who are thinking about cities and the urban, and the relation of cities to literature, and to ways of writing about cities. Covering a vast terrain, this work will include entries on theorists, individual writers, individual cities, countries, cities in relation to the arts, film and music, urban space, pre/early and modern cities, concepts and movements and definitions amongst others. Written by an international team of contributors, this will be the first resource of its kind to pull together such a comprehensive overview of the field.
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    Schlagwort(e): Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; European literature. ; Fiction. ; Communication in science. ; Ethnology—Europe. ; Culture. ; Science—Social aspects.
    Kurzfassung: 1 Introduction -- Bibliography -- 2 Reading the Enigmatic Worlds of Futuristic Novels -- Looking for Clues: The Investigations Entrusted to the Reader -- The Broader Scope of the Books of Nature and the World -- The Figure of the Last Man -- Bibliography -- 3 Modalities and Fictional Storyworlds in Futuristic Novels -- Dissonant Minds of Fictional Storyworlds -- Dualities and Modal Structures of Fictional Storyworlds: Knowledge, Duty, and Ability -- Differences in Actions of Fictional Minds as Readers -- Bibliography -- 4 The Idea of the Book and Its Symbolism in Times of Change -- Metaphors of the Closed Symbolism of the Book -- Metaphors and Metalepses of the Open Symbolism of the Book -- Metamorphoses and Human Mutations: The Relationship to Insect Animalism -- Bibliography -- 5 Regaining Humanity by Learning from Escapes and Detours -- The Metaphysical Manhunt -- Traces and Memories in Information and Knowledge Societies of the Future -- The Trial of Walking -- Bibliography -- 6 Encounters with Bodies and Narratives: A Matrix of Contemporary Philosophical Quests -- The Value of Speech and Literature Under the Threat of Violence in Amélie Nothomb -- Writing and Walking the Wilderness as a Scribe in Alain Damasio -- Shifting Determinism with the Reminiscent Body of an Artificial Intelligence in Romain Lucazeau -- Bibliography -- 7 Conclusion -- Bibliography.
    Kurzfassung: “Emmanuel Buzay’s thesis, centered around the notion of writing and the question of the book, is fascinating. A whole new way of understanding anticipation novels opens up when we consider them as metafiction. A particularly original and promising approach.” —Alexandre Gefen, Director of Research, Institut des Sciences Humaines et Sociales du CNRS, France “Emmanuel Buzay’s absorbing book explores the overlap of literature and technology in contemporary French and Francophone works of science fiction and other future-oriented novels. The current tug-of-war between technophilia and technophobia provides the background before which Buzay’s arguments unfold, endowing them with an urgency that many scholarly books on contemporary literature do not have.” —Christy Wampole, Professor, Princeton University This book sheds a new light on the metafictional aspects of futuristic and science fiction novels, at the crossroads of information and media studies, possible worlds theories applied to cognitive narratology, questions related to the criticism of post-humanity, and, more broadly, contemporary French and Francophone literature. It examines the fictional minds of characters and their conceptions of resistance to the anticipated worlds they inhabit, particularly in novels by Pierre Bordage, Marie Darrieussecq, Michel Houellebecq, Amin Maalouf, Jean-Christophe Rufin, Antoine Volodine, and Élisabeth Vonarburg. It also explores how corporal postures serve as a matrix for philosophical quests in novels by Amélie Nothomb, Alain Damasio, and Romain Lucazeau. More specifically, from the fictional readers’ points of view, it provides a critical approach to the mythologies of writing, in the wake of the French philosophical tales by authors including Cyrano de Bergerac and Voltaire, to question the traditionally expressed formulations of the mythologies of writing, that is, of the metaphors of the book (the book of life, nature, and the world), to rethink the idea of a humanity within its limits. Emmanuel Buzay is Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. His research interests include contemporary French and Francophone literature, literatures of the imagination (science fiction, anticipatory novels, and fantasy), memory studies, and narrative and semiotic studies of film and video games.
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    Sprache: Englisch
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    Ausgabe: 1st ed. 2022.
    Serie: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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    Schlagwort(e): Literature, Modern—19th century. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Fiction.
    Kurzfassung: 1. Introduction: Stories of Science and Empire -- 2. The Knights of Science: Medicine and Mythology -- 3. Expeditions into ‘Central Man’: Imperial Romance, Tropical Medicine, and Heroic Masculinity -- 4. Detecting the Diagnosis: Parasitology, Crime Fiction, and the British Medical Gaze -- 5. Imperial Aetiologies: Violence, Sleeping Sickness, and the Colonial Encounter -- 6. Microbial Empires: Active Transmission Strategies and Postcolonial Critique -- 7. Epilogue: Pan Narrans.
    Kurzfassung: This open access book considers science and empire, and the stories we tell ourselves about them. Using British Nobel laureate Ronald Ross (1857-1932) and his colleagues as access points to a wider professional culture, Empire Under the Microscope explores the cultural history of parasitology and its relationships with the literary and historical imagination between 1885 and 1935. Emilie Taylor-Pirie examines a wealth of archival material including medical lectures, scientific publications, popular biography, and personal and professional correspondence, alongside novels, poems, newspaper articles, and political speeches, to excavate the shared vocabularies of literature and medicine. She demonstrates how forms such as poetry and biography; genres such as imperial romance and detective fiction; and modes such as adventure and the Gothic, together informed how tropical diseases, their parasites, and their vectors, were understood in relation to race, gender, and nation. From Ancient Greece, to King Arthur’s Knights, to the detective work of Sherlock Holmes, parasitologists manipulated literary and historical forms of knowledge in their professional self-fashioning to create a modern mythology that has a visible legacy in relationships between science and society today. Emilie Taylor-Pirie is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Birmingham, UK. She has a BSc in Biology and higher degrees in the humanities.
    Anmerkung: Open Access
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    Schlagwort(e): America—Literatures. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; Literature—Philosophy. ; Feminism and literature. ; Comparative literature. ; Psychic trauma.
    Kurzfassung: Chapter 1: Introduction: Contextualizing the Wound and the Political Literary Voice in the Theory of Trauma -- Chapter 2: Trauma, Temporality, and Testimony: The Enslaved Daughter’s Body in Carolivia Herron’s Thereafter Johnnie -- Chapter 3: Trauma, “Trash,” and Memory in Dorothy Allison’s Bastard out of Carolina -- Chapter 4: Betty Louise Bell’s Faces in the Moon: Trauma, Settler Colonialism, and Storytelling -- Chapter 5: Transnational Trauma and Testimonio in Denise Chávez’s Face of an Angel -- Chapter 6: Trauma, Survival, and Intertextuality in Patricia Chao’s Monkey King -- Chapter 7: Conclusion: Trauma and Resistance in a Literary Third Voice at the Intersections.
    Kurzfassung: This book explores the intersections of sexualized, gendered, and racialized traumas in five US novels about father-daughter incest from the 1990s. It examines how incest can be connected to wider past and present structural oppression and institutional abuse, and what fiction looks like that testifies against and references a historical background of slavery, poverty, settler colonialism, annexation, and immigration. Investigating the means of resistance used against attempts at silencing and denial in these texts, the book also shows how contemporary women’s novels can propose social change. Overall, this study uniquely argues that the individual trauma of incest in these texts must be understood in relation to histories of and present collective wounding against marginalized communities. By sitting at the intersections between trauma theory and US third world feminism, it allows for theory to meet literary activism. Marinella Rodi-Risberg is an affiliated researcher at the Department of Language and Communication Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. She has published on representations of trauma in journals and chapters, including in Trauma and Literature (2018), and is co-editor of Transnational Crime Fiction: Mobility, Borders, and Detection (2020).
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    Serie: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
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    Schlagwort(e): Poetry. ; Poststructuralism. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; America—Literatures. ; Ethnology—America. ; Culture. ; O'Hara, Frank 1926-1966 ; Berrigan, Ted 1934-1983 ; Forbes, John 1950-1998
    Kurzfassung: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Frank O’Hara: Myth as Madrigal -- Chapter 3: “You in Me, That is What the Soul Is”: The Traffic of Frank O’Hara’s -- Chapter 4: Daemon -- Chapter 5: Tricked Myth Machines: Making Ted Berrigan Making The Sonnets -- Chapter 6: Phantasmatic Transmission: Ted Berrigan’s vida and razo -- Chapter 7:The Textural Shimmer of John Forbes’s Dead Reckoning -- Chapter 8: The Pagan Sermons of John Forbes -- Chapter 9: Charismatic Animals.
    Kurzfassung: The Pursuit of Myth in the Poetry of Frank O'Hara, Ted Berrigan and John Forbes traces a tradition of revolutionary self-mythologising in the lives and works of Frank O’Hara, Ted Berrigan and John Forbes, as a significant trefoil in twentieth-century English language poetry. All three had untimely deaths, excited a collective homage, and developed cult followings that reverberate today. This book tracks the transmission of the poem as charm, the poet as charmer, and the reinstitution of troubadour erotics as a kind of social poetics. Starting with Orpheus, the book refreshes the myth of the poet as mythmaker, examining how myths of “self” and “nation” are regenerated for the twenty-first century and how persons-as-myths are made in community through coteries of artists and beyond. Duncan Bruce Hose’s critical vocabulary, with its nucleus of mythos, searches the edges of phenomenal enquiry, closing in on the work of “glamour”, “aura”, “charm”, “possession”, “phantasm”, the “daemonic”, and the logic of haunting in the continuing being of these three poets as “charismatic animals”.
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    Serie: Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon
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    Schlagwort(e): Fiction. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; Adaptation (Literary, artistic, etc.). ; Popular Culture. ; Prose literature. ; Cities and towns—History.
    Kurzfassung: 1. Introduction: It Starts With Doors -- 2. Bridges to Fantasy: Neverwhere and Genre -- 3. “Mind the Gap”: Neverwhere, Language and Intertextuality -- 4. “Falling Through the Cracks”: Neverwhere as Social Commentary -- 5. Fidelity and Innovation: Adaptation, Transmediality, and the Neverwhere Megatext -- 6. The Key.
    Kurzfassung: Fantasy author Neil Gaiman’s 1996 novel Neverwhere is not just a marvelous self-contained novel, but a terrifically useful text for introducing students to fantasy as a genre and issues of adaptation. Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock’s briskly written A Critical Companion to Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere offers an introduction to the work; situates it in relation to the fantasy genre, with attention in particular to the Hero’s Journey, urban fantasy, word play, social critique, and contemporary fantasy trends; and explores it as a case study in transmedial adaptation. The study ends with an interview with Neil Gaiman that addresses the novel and a bibliography of scholarly works on Gaiman. Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock is Professor of English at Central Michigan University, USA, and an Associate Editor for The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. He is the author or editor of 26 books and almost 100 essays and book chapters on fantasy, horror, science fiction, and American literature and culture. Visit him at JeffreyAndrewWeinstock.com. .
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    Serie: Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture
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    Schlagwort(e): Literature, Modern—19th century. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; European literature. ; Creative nonfiction. ; Great Britain—History. ; Collective memory.
    Kurzfassung: Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 The value of diary writing -- Chapter 3 Changes over time.-Chapter 4 Location matters -- Chapter 5 Constraints of the life course -- Chapter 6 Gender -- Chapter 7 Money matters -- Chapter 8 The significance of journey purpose -- Chapter 9 Immobility -- Chapter 10 Conclusions.
    Kurzfassung: This book uses diaries written by ordinary British people over the past two centuries to examine and explain the nature and extent of everyday mobilities, such as travel to school, to work, to shop or to visit friends, and to explore the meanings attached to these mobilities. After a critical evaluation of diary writing, the ways in which mobility changed over time, interacted with new forms of transport technology, and varied from place to place are examined. Further chapters focus on the roles of family and life course, gender, income and class, and journey purpose in shaping mobilities, including immobility. It is argued that easy and frequent everyday mobilities were experienced by most of the diarists studied, that travellers could exercise their own agency to adapt easily to new forms of transport technology, but that factors such as gender, class, and location also created significant mobility inequalities. Colin G. Pooley is Emeritus Professor of Social and Historical Geography in the Environment Centre and the Centre for Mobilities Studies (CeMoRe), Lancaster University, UK. His research focuses on the social geography of Britain and continental Europe since circa 1800, with recent projects focused on residential migration, travel to work, everyday mobilities and sustainable transport. Marilyn E. Pooley is an Historical Geographer. She was formerly a Teaching Associate in the Environment Centre at Lancaster University, UK, and in retirement is researching (with Colin Pooley) everyday mobility in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain using life writing. .
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    ISBN: 9783031119224
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    Seiten: 1 Online-Ressource(XIX, 252 p. 2 illus.)
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    Schlagwort(e): Poetry. ; Japan—History. ; Literature—History and criticism. ; Literature, Modern—18th century. ; Literature, Modern—19th century. ; Literature, Modern—20th century.
    Kurzfassung: Chapter One: “Yosa Buson and the Colors of the Literati Mind” -- Chapter Two: “Sense and Sensibility in the Poetry of Ema Saikō” -- Chapter Three: “Representing Life in the Prose Poems of Masaoka Shiki” -- Chapter Four: “Grief and Grieving in the Prose Poems of Natsume Sōseki” -- Coda: “Echoes in the Ether”.
    Kurzfassung: This book explores how two early modern and two modern Japanese writers – Yosa Buson (1716–83), Ema Saikō (1787–1861), Masaoka Shiki (1867–1902), and Natsume Sōseki (1867–1916) – experimented with the poetic artifice afforded by the East Asian literati (bunjin) tradition, a repertoire of Chinese and Japanese poetry and painting. Their experiments generated a poetics of irony that transformed the lineaments of lyric expression in literati culture and advanced the emergence of modern prose poetry in Japanese literature. Through rigorous close readings, this study changes our understanding of the relationship between lyric form and the representation of self, sense, and feeling in Japanese poetic writing from the late eighteenth through the early twentieth century. The book aims to reach a broad audience, including specialists in East Asian Studies, Anglophone literary studies, and Comparative Literature. Matthew Mewhinney is Assistant Professor of Japanese in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics at Florida State University, USA, where he teaches Japanese language, literature, and culture. His research interests include lyric poetry and theory, literati culture, narrative, subjectivity, and translation. His scholarship has appeared in Poetica: An International Journal of LinguisticLiterary Studies, The Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture, and Japanese Language and Literature.
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    ISBN: 9783030901073
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    Seiten: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 209 p.)
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    Schlagwort(e): Comparative literature. ; Phenomenology . ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; Poststructuralism.
    Kurzfassung: 1 Introduction -- 2 Disability and Embodiment -- 3 Blindness and Perception -- 4 Blackness and Visibility -- 5 Gayness and Invisibility.
    Kurzfassung: This book explores how phenomenological ideas about embodiment, perception, and lived experience are discussed within disability studies, critical race theory, and queer studies. Building on these disciplines, it offers readings of memoirs and novels that address the consequences of stigmatization and the bodily dimensions of social differences. The texts include Robert F. Murphy’s The Body Silent, Simi Linton’s My Body Politic, Rod Michalko’s The Two-in-One: Walking with Smokie, Walking with Blindness, three memoirs by Stephen Kuusisto, Vincent O. Carter’s The Bern Book, as well as two novels, Matthew Griffin’s Hide and Armistead Maupin’s Maybe the Moon. All of the texts discussed in this book negotiate the significance of bodily and perceptual habits, the influence of language and culture on embodiment, the importance of relationality and community, the severe effects of misrecognition, and the possibilities of emancipation and social recognition. Hence, they are read as pioneering contributions to the emerging field of critical phenomenology. Simon Dickel is Professor of Gender and Diversity Studies at Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, Germany. He is the author of Black/Gay: The Harlem Renaissance, the Protest Era, and Constructions of Black Gay Identity in the 1980s and 90s (2011).
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    ISBN: 9783031115578
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    Seiten: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 166 p.)
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    Schlagwort(e): Literature—Philosophy. ; Literature—Aesthetics. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; European literature.
    Kurzfassung: 1. The Dis-/Appearing Community: The Avant-Garde, Politics, and Literature -- 2. Manifesting Dispossession: Politics of the Avant-Garde -- 3. Literary Communities and the Political -- 4. Experiencing Community: Theoretical Collectives and Circles -- 5. Totalitarian Subject(s) and Literature -- 6. Art Collective and the Politics of Anonymity -- 7. Conclusion.
    Kurzfassung: “The topic of community could not be more important in the contemporary world. Zrinka Bozic’s fascinating, wide-ranging study offers a new perspective on totalitarianism, community, art and the avant-garde. Demonstrating lucidly the intimate connections between community, art and politics, this timely investigation dissects the political, philosophical and artistic past and present, and in doing so even offers some hope for the future.” — Sarah Colvin, Schröder Professor of German and Fellow, Jesus College, University of Cambridge, UK. "In this sophisticated study, Zrinka Božić re-examines the important and highly contentious relationship between communitarianism and the ideologies and practices of the historical avant-garde. Mobilising a plethora of conceptual resources, from Bataille and Nancy to Agamben and Esposito, Božić offers an intriguing account of how various avant-garde movements embrace collectivity, seeking to preserve forms of political and social engagement that are as radical as they are ephemeral, while artistically working with and against the limitations of communitarian cultures." — Professor Galin Tihanov, is George Steiner Professor of Comparative Literature, Queen Mary University of London, UK. This book rethinks the concept of community taking Jean-Luc Nancy’s influential essay “La communauté désoeuvrée” as its starting point, tracing subsequent scholarship on community and adding new insights on avant-garde aesthetics and politics. Extensively exploring the communitarian dimension of avant-garde aesthetics and politics (focusing on artistic groups, intellectual circles and theoretical collectives), the author aims to bring literature and art into a philosophical examination of the paradoxical and complex idea of community. Zrinka Božić is Assistant Professor of Literary Theory and History in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. Her research interests include narrative theory, intersections between literature and philosophy, the position of literature and literary theory in relation to politics, avant-garde theory and practice, theories of representation and problems of testimony. .
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    Serie: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature
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    Schlagwort(e): European literature. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; Fiction. ; Comparative literature. ; Literature—Aesthetics.
    Kurzfassung: 1 Introduction -- 2 Detecting lateness in Dora Bruder by Patrick Modiano -- 3 Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald: A Late Fairy Tale -- 4 Exiled Lateness in Sefarad by Antonio Muñoz Molina -- 5 Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography.
    Kurzfassung: “In an account informed by Benjamin and Nietzsche, Ian Ellison explores the melancholy of late modernist fictions by Patrick Modiano, W. G. Sebald and Antonio Muñoz Molina. These epigonal fictions cross the threshold between fiction and history and are gathered here as works of detection which emphasize the pathos of their own epistemological failure. Although Ellison acknowledges that these novels communicate the exhaustion of European culture and the irreconcilable violence of its past, notably against its Jews, he proposes that a rejuvenation of the future is still possible. This book is a fresh and adeptly theorised work by an emerging scholar in comparative literary studies.” --Richard Robinson, Associate Professor of English, Swansea University, UK This book is the first comparative study of novels by Patrick Modiano, W. G. Sebald, and Antonio Muñoz Molina. Drawing on many literary figures, movements, and traditions, from the Spanish Golden Age, to German Romanticism, to French philosophy, via Jewish modernist literature, Ian Ellison offers a fresh perspective on European fiction published around the turn of the millennium. Reflecting on what makes European fiction European, this book examines how certain novels understand themselves to be culturally and historically late, expressing a melancholy awareness of how the past and present are irreconcilable. Within this framework, however, it considers how backwards-facing, tradition-oriented self-consciousness, burdened by a sense of exhaustion in European culture and the violence of its past, may yet suggest the potential for re-enchantment in the face of obsolescence. Ian Ellison divides his time as a DAAD PRIME postdoctoral research fellow between the University of Kent in Canterbury, UK, their Paris School of Arts & Culture, France, and the Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. This is his first book.
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    Schlagwort(e): Literature—History and criticism. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Children's literature. ; European literature. ; Biografie ; Crompton, Richmal 1890-1969
    Kurzfassung: 1. Introduction -- 2. Edward Lamburn and a Classical Education -- 3. William and Mr Brown -- 4. Clara Crompton and her Family in Bury -- 5. William, Mrs Brown and Mothers in Crompton -- 6. Royal Holloway College, the First World War and Women’s Suffrage -- 7. Birth of Auntie and the Story of a Marriage -- 8. Birth of Richmal Crompton and William Brown -- 9. More than Auntie Richmal, the Spinster -- 10. Polio in Summer 1923 -- 11. Birth of Violet Elizabeth and Introducing William-Lite Characters -- 12. Growing Up -- 13. On Stage and in Literary London -- 14. Richmal Crompton, the Wanderer -- 15. On the Home Front with William and Richmal -- 16. William, Flawed Hero -- 17. William Becomes a Postwar Hero on TV and Radio -- 18. Richmal Crompton in Her Own Words -- 19. William, At Home and Abroad -- 20. Writers' Homage to Crompton and William.
    Kurzfassung: Richmal Crompton, Author of Just William: A Literary Life celebrates the first two William books, Just William (1922) and More William (1922). As well as a study of her famous character William Brown, this book is an introduction to Richmal Crompton’s less well-known fiction and a story about her writing life. Her multifaceted identity—her deep knowledge of Classical Greek and Latin literature and languages, her life as a disabled writer, and her writing about domestic violence and disability—played a role in her literary persona. Jane McVeigh moves beyond Richmal Crompton’s impact on children’s literature and offers an appraisal of all her writing including her novels and short fiction, her media profile on radio and TV, her impact on her readers—both adults and children—and her international success. Particularly, McVeigh considers Crompton in the context of twentieth century woman writers and the development of crossover fiction for dual audiences. The book argues that as a woman writer pigeon-holed as a writer for children, Crompton’s other novels and short stories have been side-lined and overlooked. More than a century after the first book collection of Crompton’s William stories was published, this biography places Richmal Crompton among other twentieth century women writers. Jane McVeigh is Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Roehampton, UK where the Richmal Crompton Collection is located. .
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    ISBN: 9783031182617
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    Serie: Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon
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    Schlagwort(e): Fiction. ; Literature—Philosophy. ; Feminism and literature. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; Popular Culture. ; Sex. ; Race.
    Kurzfassung: 1.Introduction -- 2.“She Was Probably Male” Gender and Embodiment -- 3. “Luxury Always Comes at Someone Else’s Expense” The Economics of Empire -- 4.“You Have to be Human to be Radchaai” Race, Citizenship, and Imperial Personhood -- 5.“Save it for When it will Make a Difference” Cynical Reason, Agency, and the Politics of Revolution -- 6.Conclusion: Mercy, or the Sword?
    Kurzfassung: "From racial capitalism and neo-imperialism to gender expression and revolutionary agency, Higgins writes with nuance and generosity to all potential readers about the real-world conditions that lie just under the surface of Leckie's far-future space opera. A big-hearted masterwork of accessible criticism, this is a book that you will want to share with students and colleagues alike." —Rebekah Sheldon, Associate Professor of English, Indiana University, Bloomington, and author of The Child to Come: Life After the Human Catastrophe (2016) "David Higgins gives us a masterful analysis of Ancillary Justice, the first novel in Leckie's trilogy, deftly tracing the book's major themes, together with its unusual use of language, and showing how the novel helps us think about the most urgent concerns of our present moment." —Steven Shaviro, DeRoy Professor of English, Wayne State University. This book argues that Ann Leckie’s novel Ancillary Justice offers a devastating rebuke to the political, social, cultural, and economic injustices of American imperialism in the post 9/11 era. Following an introductory overview, the study offers four chapters that examine key themes central to the novel: gender, imperial economics, race, and revolutionary agency. Ancillary Justice’s exploration of these four themes, and the way it reveals how these issues are all fundamentally entangled with the problem of contemporary imperial power, warrants its status as a canonical work of science fiction for the twenty-first century. The book concludes with a brief interview with Leckie herself touching on each of the topics examined during the preceding chapters. David M. Higgins is a Senior Editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books, and he is the Chair of the English Department at Inver Hills College in Minnesota, where he teaches classes on science fiction, graphic novels, American literature, and composition. He is the author of Reverse Colonization: Science Fiction, Imperial Fantasy, and Alt-Victimhood, which won the 2021 Science Fiction Research Association Book Award. .
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    Schlagwort(e): Comparative literature. ; Literature, Modern—19th century. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Space. ; Culture. ; Drama.
    Kurzfassung: 1 A Circuitous Way of Making Sense of the World -- Part One: Scripting the Itinerary -- 2 Describing a Circumference: Jules’s Verne’s Guidebook for the Modern World -- 3 The Portable Printing Press: Jules Verne as World Literature -- Part Two: Committing Circumnavigation to Print -- 4 The New York World and the Cosmopolitan: Print Nationalism, Circumnavigation, and the Literary Imagination -- 5 Playing Nellie Bly: On the Travel Writing of an American Girl -- 6 The Other Direction: Elizabeth Bisland’s Guide to Cosmopolitan Composition -- Part Three: The Modernist World Stage -- 7 Jean Cocteau’s Around-the-World Performance: Notes on Sensation -- 8 A Modernist Theatrum Mundi: Orson Welles and the Theater of Attractions -- 9 Verne in the American Century: Circumnavigation as a Foreign Policy.
    Kurzfassung: This book shows how Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days changed the global imagination. Through his novel, the world was converted into a personal itinerary, scaled to the individual traveller and, by extension, to the individual reader. Exploring Verne’s modern legacy, this study shows how subsequent generations of artists and writers took on Around the World in Eighty Days as an adaptable guidebook to the modern world. It investigates how Verne’s work leads its reader beyond the book itself. It considers Verne’s place in world literature, traces some of the many real reenactments of Verne’s itinerary, and recalls the theatrical adaptations of Verne’s story. Published to coincide with the 500th anniversary of the first circumnavigation and the 150th anniversary of Verne’s novel, this book offers new insights into the largely overlooked influence of Verne on twentieth-century literature and culture and on the field of global modernism. Kevin Riordan is Assistant Professor in the School of Humanities at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
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    Serie: Literary Disability Studies
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    Schlagwort(e): Literature—Philosophy. ; European literature. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Social justice. ; Ethnology—Europe. ; Culture.
    Kurzfassung: Chapter 1: Introduction Crip Enchantments, Autonomist Narratives of Disability and Nationed Avoidance: Notes Towards an Autonomist Cripistemology in Scottish Literature -- Chapter 2: Writing the Crip Nation: Nationed Narratives of Disability in Scottish Literature -- Chapter 3: Crip Trash: Dysgenic Logics and Disability in Scottish Writing from the First Half of the Twentieth Century -- Chapter 4: Crip Negativities: Disability and Refusals of Care and Work in Post-War Scottish Writing -- Chapter 5: Crip Dignities: Antagonism and Disability in Devolutionary Scottish Writing -- Chapter 6: Crip Precarities: Immaterial Labour and Disability in Post-Devolutionary Scottish Writing -- Chapter 7: Crip Imaginal Machines: Disability, the Radical Imagination and Contextualist Pursuits in Scottish Literature.
    Kurzfassung: Autonomist Narratives of Disability in Modern Scottish Writing: Crip Enchantments explores the intersection between imaginaries of disability and representations of work, welfare and the nation in twentieth and twenty-first century Scottish literature. Disorienting effects erupt when non-normative bodies and minds clash with the structures of capitalist normalcy. This book brings into conversation Scottish studies, disability studies and Marxist autonomist theory to trace the ways in which these “crip enchantments” are imagined in modern Scottish writing, and the “autonomist” narratives of disability by which they are evoked.
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    Serie: New Directions in Book History
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    Schlagwort(e): Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; Digital humanities. ; Economics and literature. ; Books—History. ; Printing. ; Publishers and publishing. ; Digital media. ; Konferenzschrift 2020 ; Buchaufstellung ; Bücherregal ; Elektronisches Buch ; COVID-19 ; Buchaufstellung ; Bücherregal ; Elektronisches Buch ; COVID-19
    Kurzfassung: Foreword, Lydia Pyne -- Introduction, Corinna Norrick-Rühl and Shafquat Towheed -- Section 1: Private and public reading spaces -- Chapter 1: ‘An examination of Bookshelves in the Age of the COVID-19 Pandemic as a liminal space’, Shafquat Towheed (The Open University, UK) -- Chapter 2: ‘Crisis Book Browsing: Restructuring the Retail Shelf Life of Books’, Kenna MacTavish (University of Melbourne, Australia) -- Chapter 3: ‘Your Bookshelf is Problematic’: Progressive and Problematic Publishing in the Age of COVID-19' Chiara Bullen (University of Stirling, Scotland) -- Chapter 4: ‘Old Books on New Media: Reader Responses to The Thorn Birds and Late Night with Seth Meyers’ Jennifer Burek Pierce (Universit of Iowa, USA) -- Section 2: Material culture on screen -- Chapter 5: ‘Zoom as a Digital Medium: Bookshelves in Backgrounds throughout History’ Paizha Stoothoff (California State University, Los Angeles, USA) -- Chapter 6: ‘You Can Look but You Can’t Touch: Representations of the Materiality of the Printed Book on Screen’, Amanda Lastoria (Simon Fraser University, Canada) -- Chapter 7: ‘Bookish Objects on the Bookshelf’, Emily Baulch (University of Queensland, Australia) -- Chapter 8: ‘Writing with Spines: Bookshelf Art, Found Poetry, and the Practice of Assemblage’ Claire Battershill (University of Toronto, Canada) -- Section 3: Libraries, pedadogy and reading during the pandemic.-Chapter 9: ‘Books, reading and #parentinginapandemic’ Corinna Norrick-Rühl (University of Münster, Germany) -- Chapter 10: ‘A Bookshelf of the World. Bringing Students’ Books inside the Classroom: a Means for Epistemic Democracy?’, Nelleke Moser (Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands) -- Chapter 11: ‘Online Learning, Library Access and Bookcase Insecurity: A German Case Study’ Chandni Ananth, Ellen Barth, Laura Ntoumanis and Natalia Tolpstopyat (University of Münster, Germany) -- Chapter 12: ‘ “Ummmmm, guys? Don't microwave your books”: Readers, Authors, and Institutions in #PandemicReading Tweets’ Leah Henrickson (University of Leeds, UK).
    Kurzfassung: Bookshelves in the Age of the COVID-19 Pandemic provides the first detailed scholarly investigation of the cultural phenomenon of bookshelves (and the social practices around them) since the start of the pandemic in March 2020. With a foreword by Lydia Pyne, author of Bookshelf (2016), the volume brings together 17 scholars from 6 countries (Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, the UK, and the USA) with expertise in literary studies, book history, publishing, visual arts, and pedagogy to critically examine the role of bookshelves during the current pandemic. This volume interrogates the complex relationship between the physical book and its digital manifestation via online platforms, a relationship brought to widespread public and scholarly attention by the global shift to working from home and the rise of online pedagogy. It also goes beyond the (digital) bookshelf to consider bookselling, book accessibility, and pandemic reading habits. Corinna Norrick-Rühl is Professor of Book Studies at the University of Muenster (WWU), Germany. Her recent publications are The Novel as Network: Forms, Ideas, Commodities (2020, co-edited with Tim Lanzendörfer, in this series) and Book Clubs and Book Commerce (2019). Shafquat Towheed is Senior Lecturer in English in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) at The Open University, UK. He directs The Open University’s History of Books and Reading (HOBAR) research collaboration and was UK principal investigator for the Reading Europe Advanced Data Investigation Tool (READ-IT) project (2018–2021). .
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    Serie: New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
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    Schlagwort(e): Poetry. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; Great Britain—History.
    Kurzfassung: Introduction: Preservation of the Other in Contemporary Irish Poetry -- Chapter 1. Between Detection and Deception: Paul Muldoon’s Why Brownlee Left. - Chapter 2. Framing Potentiality: Vona Groarke’s Four Sides Full and X -- Chapter 3. ‘Lady Other, Lady Mine’: Freedom of the Materialist self in Sinéad Morrissey’s Parallax -- Chapter 4. Poetry as Endurance: Caitríona O’Reilly’s Geis. - Chapter 5. “Flurred and Flummoxed but Unbleared”: The restoration of the self and the experience of language in Alan Gillis’s Scapegoat -- Chapter 6. ‘The Miraculous Flesh’ of the Everyday Giants: Nick Laird’s Go Giants.
    Kurzfassung: Constitutions of Self in Contemporary Irish Poetry explores the figure of the lyrical self in the work of six contemporary Irish poets: Paul Muldoon, Vona Groarke, Sinéad Morrissey, Caitríona O’Reilly, Alan Gillis and Nick Laird. By focusing on the self, this study offers the first sustained exploration of what is arguably one of the most distinctive features of Irish poetry. Readings utilise the latest theories of the lyric filtered through the work of such philosophers as Jacques Derrida, Umberto Eco, Slavoj Žižek, Giorgio Agamben and Zygmunt Bauman, and connect an interdisciplinary approach with attention to the operations of the poetic text to bring out aspects of the self in Irish writing that have been given only cursory critical attention so far. Wit Pietrzak is a Professor of British and Irish Literature at the Institute of English Studies, University of Łódź, Poland. His main areas of interest are modernist and contemporary Anglophone poetry as well as theory and philosophy of literature. He has published The Critical Thought of W. B. Yeats (2017), and numerous essays on contemporary British and Irish poetry.
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    Serie: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature
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    Schlagwort(e): Ecocriticism. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; Human ecology—History. ; Communication in science. ; Human ecology—Study and teaching.
    Kurzfassung: Introduction Sune Borkfelt and Matthias Stephan -- Part 1: Extinction -- Sara Schotland Do Humans Dream of Disappearing Insects? -- Nathaniel Otjen The Climate of Extinction: Resistant Multispecies Communities in Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior and Richard Powers’s The Overstory -- Abby Schroering Playing Against Extinction: “The Dreaded Comparison” and the Distribution of the Human in Mlima’s Tale -- Brianna Burke Anthropomorphization and Conjoined Extinction in “The Great Silence” by Ted Chiang and Sila by Chantal Bilodeau -- Part 2: Climate Crisis -- Emily McAvan “Undoing Creation in the Climate Change Apocalypse: Animality and Evolution in Louise Erdrich’s Future Home of the Living God” -- Alex Lockwood Hopping, crawling, hiding: creatural movements on the path to climate emergency -- Markku Lehtimaki Polar Bears and Butterflies: Allegory, Science, and Embodiment in Climate Change Fiction -- Elana Santana Bodies Tell Stories: Race, Species, and Climate Change in Jesmyn Ward’s novel, Salvage the Bones -- Anastassiya Adrianova A Spokesbear for Climate Crisis? The Role of Zoos in Yoko Tawada’s Memoirs of a Polar Bear -- Part 3: Posthuman -- Dolly Jørgensen Resurrecting Species through Robotics: Animal Extinction and Deextinction in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -- Aaron Van Neste Alien Oceans as Climate Salvation: Finding Hope in the Deep Blue Unknown -- Daniel Bedggood Ecocrises and Posthuman-Animal Futures in Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl and Schoen’s Barsk.
    Kurzfassung: Literary Animal Studies and the Climate Crisis connects insights from the field of literary animal studies with the urgent issues of climate change and environmental degradation, and features considerations of new interventions by literature in relation to these pressing questions and debates. This volume informs academic debates in terms of how nonhuman animals figure in our cultural imagination of topics such as climate change, extinction, animal otherness, the posthuman, and environmental crises. Using a diverse set of methodologies, each chapter presents relevant cases which discuss the various aspects of these interstices. This volume is an intersection between literary animal studies and climate fiction intended as an interdisciplinary intervention that speaks to the global climate debate and is thus relevant across the environmental humanities. Sune Borkfelt lectures at Aarhus University, Denmark. He is author of Reading Slaughter: Abattoir Fictions, Space, and Empathy in Late Modernity (2022). Matthias Stephan is associate professor at Aarhus University, coordinator of the Centre for Studies of Otherness, author of Defining Literary Postmodernism for the Twenty-First Century, and general editor of Otherness: Essays and Studies.
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    Serie: Palgrave Gothic
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    Schlagwort(e): Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; Fiction. ; Goth culture (Subculture). ; Animal welfare—Moral and ethical aspects. ; Ecocriticism.
    Kurzfassung: Introduction: Of vampires and vegetarians -- Chapter 1: Rat’s blood and Rice: Interview with the proto-vegetarian vampire -- Chapter 2: ‘What, they were all out of boils and blinding torment?’: Chips, curses and choosing the animal-blood diet in Buffy the Vampire Slayer -- Chapter 3: Soymilk, sustainability and salvation in The Twilight Saga -- Chapter 4: Banked blood and bunnies: Ethical predation in The Vampire Diaries -- Chapter 5: True Blood and fake vegans: Artificiality and the Anthropocene -- Conclusion: Vampires in the Anthropocene and Beyond.
    Kurzfassung: This Pivot traces the rise of the so-called “vegetarian” vampire in popular culture and contemporary vampire fiction, while also exploring how the shift in the diet of (some) vampires, from human to animal or synthetic blood, responds to a growing ecological awareness that is rapidly reshaping our understanding of relations with others species. The book introduces the trope of the vegetarian vampire, as well as important critical contexts for its discussion: the Anthropocene, food studies, and the modern practice, politics and ideologies of vegetarianism. Drawing on references to recent historical contexts and developments in the genre more broadly, the book investigates the vegetarian vampire’s relationship to other more violent and monstrous forms of the vampire in popular twenty-first century horror cinema and television. Texts discussed include Interview with the Vampire, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Twilight, The Vampire Diaries and True Blood. Reading the Vegetarian Vampire examines a new aspect of contemporary interest in considering vampire fiction. Sophie Dungan is a teaching associate at the University of Melbourne and Monash University, Australia. Her primary research interests are in vampire studies, Gothic fiction, ecocriticism, food and Anthropocene studies.
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    Serie: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
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    Schlagwort(e): Poetry. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; Language and languages—Style. ; Rhetoric. ; Literature—History and criticism. ; Historical linguistics. ; Englisch ; Mundart ; Lyrik ; Geschichte 1950-2000 ; Heaney, Seamus 1939-2013 ; Brooks, Gwendolyn 1917-2000 ; Harrison, Tony 1937- ; Clifton, Lucille 1936-2010
    Kurzfassung: Chapter 1: Introduction: Local Tongues -- Chapter 2: Troubled Tongues: Seamus Heaney and the Political Poetics of Speech -- Chapter 3: The Gwendolynian Tongue: Gwendolyn Brooks’s Noncolloquial Local Speech -- Chapter 4: Tongue-Tied Fighting: Tony Harrison’s Linguistic Divisions -- Chapter 5: Mortal Tongues: Lucille Clifton’s Local-Speech Admonitions -- Chapter 6: Coda: The Twenty-First Century Local-Speech Poem.
    Kurzfassung: The Politics of Speech in Later Twentieth-Century Poetry: Local Tongues in Heaney, Brooks, Harrison, and Clifton argues that local speech became a central facet of English-language poetry in the second half of the twentieth century. It is based on a key observation about four major poets from both sides of the Atlantic: Seamus Heaney, Gwendolyn Brooks, Tony Harrison, and Lucille Clifton all respond to societal crises by arranging, reproducing, and reconceiving their particular versions of local speech in poetic form. The book’s overarching claim is that “local tongues” in poetry have the capacity to bridge aesthetic and sociopolitical realms because nonstandard local speech declares its distinction from the status quo and binds people who have been subordinated by hierarchical social conditions, while harnessing those versions of speech into poetic structures can actively counter the very hierarchies that would degrade those languages. The diverse local tongues of these four poets marshaled into the forms of poetry situate them at once in literary tradition, in local contexts, and in prevailing social constructs.
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    Serie: Crime Files
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    Schlagwort(e): Fiction. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature—History and criticism. ; Mass media and crime. ; Ethnology—Great Britain. ; Culture. ; Europe—History. ; Englisch ; Kriminalliteratur ; Geschichte 1880-1965
    Kurzfassung: C hapter 1: Introduction and overview -- Chapter 2: Policing in the Shadow of Jack the Ripper: Myths, Monsters, and the Real Limits of the Late-Victorian Detective -- Chapter 3: Pot-stirring or Pot-boiling? Crises, crime, and other contexts for Mary Agnes Hamilton's Murder in the House of Commons (1932) -- Chapter 4: Domesticating the Horrors of Modern War: How Interwar Sensation and Detective Fiction Faced the War to Come -- Chapter: 5 Agatha Christie in Southern Africa -- Chapter 6: Time is always guilty’: Narratives of Progress and Decline in Interwar Detective Fiction -- Chapter 7: Death Haunts the British Hotel, 1918-1965 -- Chapter 8:Semi-Colonial Horsewifery as Detective Fiction: ‘Trinket’s Colt’ and the Mysteries of the Irish R.M -- Chapter 9: Magic is My Business’: Raymond Chandler and Detective Fiction as Fairy Tale -- Chapter 10: Indecently Preposterous’: The Interwar Press and Golden Age Detective Fiction.
    Kurzfassung: British Murder Mysteries, 1880-1965: Facts and Fictions conceptualizes detective fiction as an archive, i.e., a trove of documents and sources to be used for historical interpretation. By framing the genre as a shifting set of values, definitions, and practices, the book historicizes the contested meanings of analytical categories like class, race, gender, nation, and empire that have been applied to the forms and functions of detection. Three organizing themes structure this investigation: fictive facticity, genre fluidity, and conservative modernity. This volume thus shows how British detective fiction from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century both shaped and was shaped by its social, cultural, and political contexts and the lived experience of its authors and readers at critical moments in time.
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    Serie: Palgrave Studies in Contemporary Women’s Writing
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    Schlagwort(e): Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; Literature—Philosophy. ; Feminism and literature. ; Intellectual life—History. ; Prose literature. ; Byatt, A. S. 1936-2023 ; Frauenliteratur ; Byatt, A. S. 1936-2023 ; Frau ; Intellektueller
    Kurzfassung: 1 Introduction -- 2 Cultural Histories of the Intellectual: From Patriarchal Myth to Feminist Mythopoeia -- 3 A. S. Byatt: Creating the Intellectual Woman -- 4 Minds and Bodies -- 5 Intellectuals and Sexual Specificity -- 6 Women Intellectuals, Private Intellectuals? -- 7 Future Histories of Intellectual Women -- 8 Afterword: Mythopoeia: Beyond Torment.
    Kurzfassung: This monograph is a study of the work of British author A. S. Byatt, exploring the cultural representation of the woman intellectual in her fiction. It argues that Byatt’s representations of this figure show narratives of intellectual women to be inherently mythopoeic, or capable of restructuring the myth of the intellectual as male by default. This mythopoeia is, furthermore, intrinsically feminist in function, thus potentially broadening the conventional, limited view of women in intellectual history. The book will be the first study of Byatt’s work to examine this figure in detail, and the first study of women intellectuals in historical and literary discourse to apply concepts of mythopoeia and sexual difference in ways that allow new readings of women’s status and work in public spheres. Leanne Bibby is Senior Lecturer in English Studies at Teesside University, UK.
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    Serie: Crime Files
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    Kurzfassung: 1. Agatha Christie, Poison, and Crime -- 2. Agatha Christie and Pharmacy -- 3. Dying Game: Unrepentant Outlaws in Christie and Doyle -- 4. Cheering Bystanders in Christie and Sayers -- 5. The Revenger’s Comeuppance in Christie and Jackson -- 6. The Poisoner’s Afterlives -- 7. Readers and the Poison Garden.
    Kurzfassung: Agatha Christie and the Guilty Pleasure of Poison examines Christie’s female poisoners in the context of Christie’s own experience in pharmacy and of detective fiction. In doing so, it uncovers an overlooked dynamic in which female poisoners deliver well-deserved comeuppance for gendered and classed wrongdoing ordinarily accepted in everyday life. While critics have long recognized male outlaws, like Robin Hood, who use crime to oppose a corrupt system, this book contends that female outlaws – witches and poisoners – offer a similar heritage of empowered femininity. Far from cozy and formulaic, Agatha Christie’s outlaw poisoners offer readers the surprising pleasures of comeuppance, and they set the stage for contemporary detective fiction writers, more recent films depicting poisoning as empowering, and even poison gardens, which are tourist destinations that offer visitors the guilty pleasure of poison.
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    Serie: New Interpretations of Beckett in the Twenty-First Century
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    Schlagwort(e): Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Fiction. ; Literature. ; Drama. ; Theater—History.
    Kurzfassung: 1. Introduction -- 2. Janus-Faced Arguments: Beckett’s Interwar Essays and Other Self-Divided Defenses of Modernism -- 3. Impossible Anti-values: Beckett’s Postwar Writing and the Self-defeating Pursuit of Absolute Loss -- 4. Slippery Self-commentaries: Avant-garde Celebrity from Dream to Endgame -- 5. Staged Compromises: Anticipating Appropriation from Eleutheria to Havel to Catastrophe. 6. Re-targeting Modernist Failure.
    Kurzfassung: Samuel Beckett’s work is littered with ironic self-reflexive comments on presumed audience expectations that it should ultimately make explicable sense. An ample store of letters and anecdotes suggests Beckett’s own preoccupation with and resistance to similar interpretive mindsets. Yet until now such concerns have remained the stuff of scholarly footnotes and asides. Beckett’s Imagined Interpreters and the Failures of Modernism addresses these issues head-on and investigates how Beckett’s ideas about who he writes for affect what he writes. What it finds speaks to current understandings not only of Beckett’s techniques and ambitions, but also of modernism’s experiments as fundamentally compromised challenges to enshrined ways of understanding and organizing the social world. Beckett’s uniquely anxious audience-targeting brings out similarly self-doubting strategies in the work of other experimental twentieth-century writers and artists in whom he is interested: his corpus proves emblematic of a modernism that understands its inability to achieve transformative social effects all at once, but that nevertheless judiciously complicates too-neat distinctions drawn within ongoing culture wars. For its re-evaluations of four key points of orientation for understanding Beckett’s artistic ambitions—his arch critical pronouncements, his postwar conflations of value and valuelessness, his often-ambiguous self-commentary, and his sardonic metatheatrical play—as well as for its running dialogue with wider debates around modernism as a social phenomenon, this book is of interest to students and researchers interested in Beckett, modernism, and the relations between modern and contemporary artistic and social developments. Nick Wolterman is an independent scholar based in York, UK. He received his PhD in English and Related Literature from the University of York. .
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    Schlagwort(e): Comparative literature. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; Motion pictures. ; Literature.
    Kurzfassung: 1 Introduction: Feeling Men—Emotional Masculine Subjectivities, Ethics, and the Postpaternal -- Part I. Fathers and Sons: Mirroring, Lack, and Masculine Subjectivities -- 2 Narrative Ethics of Care: Folding Fathers, Gifts Given, Subjectivity beyond Mastery -- 3 Ethics of Creation: Copy of the Copy: Sons' Narratives of Feeling of Selfhood -- Part II. The Gentleman Deconstructed -- 4 Ethics of Honour: Post-Gentlemen's Narratives and Affects of Alterity -- 5 Ethics of Proximity: Lack and Dispossession -- 6 Conclusion: Masculinities of Feeling at Matrixial Borderspaces.
    Kurzfassung: “Mooney’s gendered approach to twentieth- and twenty-first-century male narratives demonstrates, through an impressively varied global range of authors, that the presumed monolith of Western culture—the Patriarchal Order—is fully porous. Just as something meaningful persists outside the significance of language, something uncanny, mythic, matrixial, operates with an affective power all around the presumably foreclosed fortress of the masculine subject. With admirable dexterity, Mooney blends affect studies, psychoanalysis and feminist narratology (to name only a few) into an astonishing anatomization of the anguished yearning between, among and beyond all the fathers and sons stuck in the amber of our totalized and totalizing understanding of ‘masculinity’.” --Garry Leonard, Professor of English, University of Toronto “The Making and Mirroring of Masculine Subjectivities is a broad-ranging taxonomy of masculinity as a relational and ethical phenomenon, exploring virtually every social and literary role a male character could be expected to assume in the modern and postmodern eras. So what, exactly, is Mooney doing here? Nothing less than reevaluating masculinity in global film and literature. She starts with the most obvious manifestation of patriarchal masculinity (paternity), but quickly juxtaposes it with that other classic masculine narrative pattern (the hero story) that appears to require its protagonist to be self-contained, independent, and all but unencumbered by filial ties. This is a book of remarkable ambition; even more remarkable is how well Mooney achieves what she sets out to do.” --Eliot Borenstein, Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies, New York University This book shows how diverse, critical modern world narratives in prose fiction and film emphasize masculine subjectivities through affects and ethics. Highlighting diverse affects and mental states in subjective voices and modes, modern narratives reveal men as feeling, intersubjective beings, and not as detached masters of master narratives. Modern novels and films suggest that masculine subjectivities originate paradoxically from a combination of copying and negation, surplus and lack, sameness and alterity: among fathers and sons, siblings and others. In this comparative study of more than 30 diverse world narratives, Mooney deftly uses psychoanalytic thought, narrative theories of first- and third-person narrators, and Levinasian and feminist ethics of care, creativity, honor, and proximity. We gain a nuanced picture of diverse postpaternal postgentlemen emerging out of older character structures of the knight and gentleman. Susan Mooney, professor of Comparative Literature at the University of South Florida, USA, is author of The Artistic Censoring of Sexuality: Fantasy and Judgment in the Twentieth-Century Novel (2008).
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    Serie: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Economics
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    Schlagwort(e): Comparative literature. ; Oriental literature. ; Literature. ; Poetry. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; China—History.
    Kurzfassung: Introduction Gai 改: Modernity as Change: Introductory Notes on Culture, Enlightenment Modernity, Capitalism, Complexity, Semantic Overlap -- 1.Shi Chang Jing Ji 市场经济: Market Economy: Modernity, Corporate Capitalism, and Chinese Literature since 1978 -- 2. Xian Feng 先锋: Economies of Meaning: Semiotics, the Avant-Garde, And Corporate Capitalism -- 3. Che Dan扯蛋: The Bathos of High Literary Modernism: Qian Zhongshu’s Fortress Besieged and Performances of Literary Joking -- 4. Zhou 周: The Sublime Poetics of Literary Modernism: Luminous Detail and the Pursuit of Immanence in the Poetry of Mang Ke -- 5. Kun Nan 困难: Difficulty and Clan in Literary Modernism: Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury and Mo Yan’s Big Beasts & Wide Hips -- Afterword Fei Jian Dan 非简单: The Non-Simplicities of Culture: A Concluding Note.
    Kurzfassung: This book examines organizations of consumerist economics, which developed at the turn of the twentieth century in the West and at the turn of the twenty-first century in China, in relation to modernist poetics. Consumerist economics include the artificial “person” of the corporation, the vertical integration of production, and consumption based upon desire as well as necessity. This book assumes that poetics can be understood as a theory in practice of how a world works. Tracing the relation of economics to poetics, the book analyzes the impersonality of indirect discourse in Qian Zhongshu and James Joyce; the impressionist discourses of Mang Ke and Ezra Pound; and discursive difficulty in Mo Yan and William Faulkner. Bringing together two notably distinct cultures and traditions, this book allows us to comprehend modernism as a theory in practice of lived experience in cultures organized around consumption. Tiao Wang is Associate Professor of English Language and Literature at the School of Foreign Languages, Harbin Institute of Technology, China. She has published 23 articles, 9 of which are in English, focused on American and European modernism. She is also co-translator of Yong Bao Teng Tong (2017), a translation of Pain and Suffering by Ronald Schleifer (2014). Ronald Schleifer is George Lynn Cross Research Professor and Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the University of Oklahoma, USA. His publications in literary modernism include Modernism and Time: The Logic of Abundance in Literature, Science, and Culture, 1880–1930 (2000), Modernism and Popular Music (2011), and A Political Economy of Modernism: Literature, Post-Classical Economics, and the Lower Middle-Class (2018). .
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    ISBN: 9783030995300
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    Seiten: 1 Online-Ressource(XXII, 667 p. 16 illus., 14 illus. in color.)
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    Schlagwort(e): Literature—Philosophy. ; Feminism and literature. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; Medicine and the humanities. ; Law—History. ; Ethics. ; Social medicine.
    Kurzfassung: 1. Introduction -- 2. Recognizing Issues of Reproductive Justice in Nineteenth-Century US Literature -- 3. “Learn and Run”: Reproductive Oppression and Resistance in the Works of Octavia E. Butler -- 4. Reading Reproductive Justice through Toni Morrison -- 5. Reproductive Justice in Ntozake Shange’s “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf” -- 6. Reproductive Rights and Reproductive Justice in Recent German-Language Fiction and Film -- 7. Cultivating Access, Cultivating Ignorance: A Survey of Herbal Abortifacients in American Fiction -- 8. Female Narratives of Abortion in Italian Literature From the 1970s to the Present -- 9. Re-Presenting the Un-Presentable: Annie Ernaux’s L’évènement and Cristian Mungiu’s 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and Two Days -- 10. Re-conceiving the World: Dystopia and Reproductive Justice -- 11. Reproductive and Disability Justice: Deaf Peoples’ Right to be Born -- 12. Queer Argonauts for Reproductive Justice -- 13. On the One-Child Policy of China: Reading Ma Jian’s Novel The Dark Road -- 14. Pregnancy Self-Help Literature as Disembodiment: An Issue of Reproductive Justice -- 15. Birthing Bodies Delivering Power in Anglophone Literature of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries -- 16. Writing and Birthing on Country: Examining Indigenous Australian Birth Stories from a Reproductive Justice Lens -- 17. Reproductive Experiences of Poor Mothers in India: An Analysis of YouTube Documentaries -- 18. Spain and Structural Infertility: Towards an Integrative Vision of Motherhood in the Novel Quién quiere ser madre by Silvia Nanclares -- 19. “Give me children, or else I die”: Baby-hunger, Surrogacy, and Family-Making by Any Means Necessary -- 20. Surrogacy or Sale: Reflecting upon Reproductive Justice through The House for Hidden Mothers and A House of Happy Mothers -- 21. Claiming Motherhood: Reproductive Justice and Surrogacy in Chinese American Literature of the New Millennium -- 22. Reimagining the Past, Present, and the Future of Reproductive Bodies in Contemporary Japanese Women’s Fiction: Mieko Kawakami’s Breasts and Eggs and Sayaka Murata’s Vanishing World -- 23. State Terror and the Destruction of Families for Reproductive “Management” in Three Argentine Films -- 24. Scroungers, Strivers, and Single Mothers: Reproductive Justice and the British Welfare State in Ken Loach’s Social Realism -- 25. Reproductive Justice in Undocumented Women’s Memoirs -- 26. Challenging Racialized Motherhood and the Sixties Scoop with Indigenous Theatre -- 27. “I’ll Never Be Ready!”: Applying a Reproductive Justice Lens in the Lower-Division Literature Classroom -- 28. Teaching Reproductive Justice: Reading Motherhood with Generations X, Y, and Z -- 29. Mayday: Rethinking Reproductive Justice Protests Utilizing Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale -- 30. Not an Easy Read for “Normal” “Colored” People: Conversations on Shange’s and Rooney’s Literatures of Sexual Citizenship.
    Kurzfassung: This handbook offers a collection of scholarly essays that analyze questions of reproductive justice throughout its cultural representation in global literature and film. It offers analysis of specific texts carefully situated in their evolving historical, economic, and cultural contexts. Reproductive justice is taken beyond the American setting in which the theory and movement began; chapters apply concepts to international realities and literatures from different countries and cultures by covering diverse genres of cultural production, including film, television, YouTube documentaries, drama, short story, novel, memoir, and self-help literature. Each chapter analyzes texts from within the framework of reproductive justice in an interdisciplinary way, including English, Japanese, Italian, Spanish, and German language, literature and culture, comparative literature, film, South Asian fiction, Canadian theatre, writing, gender studies, Deaf studies, disability studies, global health and medical humanities, and sociology. Academics, graduate students and advanced undergraduate students in Literature, Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, Cultural Studies, Motherhood Studies, Comparative Literature, History, Sociology, the Medical Humanities, Reproductive Justice, and Human Rights are the main audience of the volume. Beth Widmaier Capo is Edward Capps Professor of Humanities and Professor of English at Illinois College, USA. She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University, USA. She is the author of Textual Contraception: Birth Control and Modern American Fiction (2007) and co-edited Reproductive Rights Issues in Popular Media: International Perspectives (2017). Laura Lazzari holds a Ph.D. from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and a Master of Studies from Oxford, UK. A scholar in Motherhood Studies, she works at the Sasso Corbaro Foundation for the Medical Humanities, Switzerland. She was the recipient of a 2015-2016 AAUW International Postdoctoral Fellowship at Georgetown University, USA, and has lectured for several universities in Switzerland and the United States.
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    ISBN: 9783031062018
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 Online-Ressource(XIII, 233 p.)
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    Schlagwort(e): Literature, Modern—19th century. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; Motion pictures. ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Englisch ; Roman ; Sachkultur ; Geschichte 1837-1901 ; Rezeption ; Fernsehspiel ; Großbritannien ; Neuseeland ; Film ; USA ; Geschichte 1980-2022
    Kurzfassung: 1. Introduction: Stuff and Things: Introducing Neo-Victorian Materialities -- 2. Objects and Memorabilia in Deborah Lutz’s The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects -- 3. “Around the Mizzenpole”: Charles Johnson’s Middle Passage and African Americanizing the Neo-Victorian-at-sea -- 4. Touching, Writing, Collecting: Opium Paraphernalia and Neo-Victorian Material Culture -- 5. An Instrumental Thing: Pianos Extending and Becoming Postcolonial Bodies in Jane Campion’s The Piano and Daniel Mason’s The Piano Tuner -- 6. “Wilful Phantoms”: Haunted Dress, Memory, and Agentic Materiality in Colm Tóibín’s The Master -- 7. The Thing About Haunted Houses: In The Turn of the Screw, The Innocents and The Haunting of Hill House -- 8. There’s Something in the Tea: Murder and Materiality in Dark Angel -- 9. Criminal Things: Sherlock Holmes’ Details of Detection and Their Neo-Victorian Revisions -- 10. The Sleight of Hand: Appearance and Disappearance of Things in Neo-Victorian Magic.
    Kurzfassung: Neo-Victorian Things: Re-Imagining Nineteenth-Century Material Cultures in Literature and Film is the first volume to focus solely on the replication, reconstruction, and re-presentation of Victorian things. It investigates the role of materiality in contemporary returns to the past as a means of assessing the function of things in remembering, revisioning, and/or reimagining the nineteenth century. Examining iterations of material culture in literature, film and popular television series, this volume offers a reconsideration of nineteenth-century things and the neo-Victorian cultural forms that they have inspired, animated, and even haunted. By turning to new and relatively underexplored strands of neo-Victorian materiality—including opium paraphernalia, slave ships, clothing, and biographical objects—and interrogating the critical role such objects play in reconstructing the past, this volume offers ways of thinking about how mis/apprehensions of material culture in the nineteenth century continue to shape our present understanding of things.
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    Serie: Palgrave Studies in Music and Literature
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    Schlagwort(e): Poetry. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Music—History and criticism. ; Music theory.
    Kurzfassung: Chapter 1. Introduction: Reflections on Musicking Stevens -- Chapter 2: The Enigmatic Relation between Music and Memory- Chapter 3: The Enigmatic Relation between Music and Memory -- Chapter 4: The Lifelong Lures of Birdsong -- Chapter 5: The Vibrations of Latent Music: Juxtaposing Stevens with Strauss, Mahler, Hindemith, and Debussy -- Chapter 6: Shared Aspects of a Musical Poetics: Juxtaposing Stevens with Stravinsky -- Chapter 7: Learning from Ned Rorem’s Last Poems of Wallace Stevens. .
    Kurzfassung: Wallace Stevens’s musicality is so profound that scholars have only begun to grasp his ties to the art of music or the music of his own poetry. In this study, two long-time specialists present a polyphonic composition in which they pursue various interlocking perspectives. Their case studies demonstrate how music as a temporal art form may affect a poetic of ephemerality, sensuous experience, and affective intensification. Such a poetic, they argue, invites flexible interpretations that respond to poetry as an art of textual performance. How did Stevens enact the relation between music and memory? How can we hear his verse as a form of melody-making? What was specific to his ways of recording birdsong? Have we been missing the latent music of Richard Strauss, Gustav Mahler, and Claude Debussy in particular poems? What were the musical poetics he shared with Igor Stravinsky? And how is our experience of the late poetry transformed when we listen to a musical setting by Ned Rorem? The Poetic Music of Wallace Stevens will appeal to experts in the poet’s work, students of Modernism in the arts, and a wider audience fascinated by the dynamics of exchange between music and poetry. Bart Eeckhout is Professor of English and American Literature at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, and has been Editor of The Wallace Stevens Journal since 2011. His books include Wallace Stevens and the Limits of Reading and Writing (2002), five co-edited volumes on Stevens, and twelve co-edited thematic issues of The Wallace Stevens Journal. Most recently he co-edited The New Wallace Stevens Studies (2021). Eeckhout is a Member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts. Lisa Goldfarb is Professor at New York University’s Gallatin School, USA, President of The Wallace Stevens Society, and Associate Editor of The Wallace Stevens Journal. She is the author of The Figure Concealed: Wallace Stevens, Music, and Valéryan Echoes (2011) and Unexpected Affinities: Modern American Poetry and Symbolist Poetics (2018), as well as co-editor of several edited collections on Stevens and special issues of The Wallace Stevens Journal. She has recently contributed a chapter, “Music of the Sea: Elizabeth Bishop and Symbolist Poetics,” to Elizabeth Bishop and the Music of Literature (Palgrave 2019).
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    Serie: Renewing the American Narrative
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    Kurzfassung: 1. What Would Robert Mitchum Do? The Cultural Production of Pulp Virilities -- 2. The Eisenhower Blues: Returning GIs and Racial Masquerade -- 3. Pulp Sexualities: Gender and American Popular Crime Fiction at Midcentury -- 4. Run Man Run: Black Urban Crime Fiction in the 1960s and 1970s -- 5. Nightmare Alleys: The Afterlives of Pulp Virility.
    Kurzfassung: This book interrogates the repertoire of masculine performance in popular crime fiction and cinema from the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. This critical survey of the back alleys of pulp culture reveals American masculinities to be unsettled, contentious, crisis-ridden, racially fraught, and sexually anxious. Libertarian in their sensibilities, self-aggrandizing in their sentiments, resistant to the lures of upper mobility, scornful of white collar and corporate culture, the protagonists of these popular and populist works viewed themselves as working-class heroes cast adrift. Pulp Virilities explores the enduring traditions of hard-boiled and noir literature, casting a critical eye on its depictions of urban life and representations of gender, crime, labor, and race. Demonstrating how anxieties and possibilities of American masculinity are hammered out in works of popular culture, Pulp Virilities provides a rich cultural genealogy of contemporary American social life. Arthur Redding is Professor of English at York University in Toronto, Canada, where he teaches American literature. He has written four books and numerous articles about such topics as anarchism and writing, the culture of the Cold War, contemporary gothic fiction, and American public intellectuals. .
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    ISBN: 9783031143830
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    Seiten: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 290 p.)
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    Kurzfassung: 1 Introduction: ‘They at Least Were Not Hybrids’ -- A Multiplicity in Unity: The Birmingham Writers and Their City -- Shaping Influences: Finding the Exotic in the Everyday -- ‘Going Over’: The Cultural Diaspora -- ‘At last the British are Coming’: Prevailing and Contemporary Critiques of Working-Class Literature -- The Ethnographic Turn -- 2 This Working Life: Work and the Workplace -- A Fellow Traveller? Henry Green: Birmingham’s Adoptive Proletarian -- Walter Allen: ‘As a Film Director might present it’: Blind Man’s Ditch -- ‘As Unpolitical a Man as I Have Ever Met’: Leslie Halward -- Leslie Halward: ‘Belcher’s Hod’ -- 3 Feeling the Pinch: Unemployment -- A Qualitative Deficit: Filling the Statistical Gap -- Walter Brierley: Frustration and Bitterness: A Colliery Banksman -- Walter Brierley: Means Test Man -- John Hampson: ‘Man About the House’ -- Walter Allen: Innocence Is Drowned -- 4 Writing Their Selves: Subjectivity and Representation in Birmingham Group Narrative -- A Reluctant Collier? Walter Brierley: ‘Body’ -- Walter Brierley: Sandwichman -- Leslie Halward: ‘A Broken Engagement’ -- Peter Chamberlain: An Eavesdropper’s Secrets: ‘Mr. Marris’ Reputation’ and ‘What the Hell?’ -- John Hampson: Saturday Night at the Greyhound -- 5 Conclusion -- Coda: Dispersal -- The Legacy.
    Kurzfassung: The focus of this study is the collective of writers known variously as the Birmingham Group, the Birmingham School or the Birmingham Proletarian Writers who were active in the City of Birmingham in the decade prior to the Second World War. Their narratives chronicle the lived-experience of their fellow citizens in the urban manufacturing centre which had by this time become Britain’s second city. Presumed ‘guilty by association’ with a working-class literature considered overtly propagandistic, formally conservative, or merely the naive emulation of bourgeois realism, their narratives have in consequence suffered undue critical neglect. This book repudiates such assertions by arguing that their works not only contrast markedly with other examples of working-class writing produced in the 1930s but also prove themselves responsive to recent critical assessments seeking a more holistic and intersectional approach to issues of working-class identity. Robin Harriott holds the degrees of B.A. (Hons), M. Phil., and was recently (2021) awarded his PhD in English Literature from the University of Birmingham, UK. Formerly a teacher of English, he is now an independent researcher with interests in working-class writing and culture.
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    ISBN: 9783031068171
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    Seiten: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIII, 300 p.)
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    Kurzfassung: Foreword: Precarity and the Human-Nonhuman Interface - Wai Chee Dimock (Yale University, Editor, PMLA) -- 1. Introduction - Om Prakash Dwivedi (Bennett University, India) -- Part I Infrastructure -- 2. Precarity as a Mode of Enquiry: Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness and Jeet Thayil’s Narcopolis - Lisa Lau (University of Keele, UK) and Ana Cristina Mendes (University of Lisbon, Portugal) -- 3. Being Filthy Poor in Rising Asia: Precarity, Globalization, and the Evolution of South Asian Literature in English - Neelam Srivastava (Newcastle University, UK) -- 4. The Precarious Rule of Aesthetics: Form, Informality, Infrastructure in Urban India - Dominic Davies (City, University of London, UK) -- 5. Rural-to-urban Migration and Precarity in The Story of My Assassins, Q & A, and The White Tiger - Robbie BH Goh (National University of Singapore, Singapore) -- 6. The Precarity of the Urban Spirit: Abha Dawesar’s Babyji, Diksha Basu’s The Windfall, and Vivek Shanbhag’s Ghachar Ghochar - John C Hawley (Santa Clara University, US) -- Part II Body -- 7. Purity, Precarity and Power: Prayaag Akbar’s Leila - Pramod K Nayar (University of Hyderabad, India) -- 8. Drag, and Other Forms of Self-Making in Precarious Times : Yashica Dutt’s Coming out as Dalit: A Memoir and Bagul, Baburao’s When I Hid My Cast - Toral Jatin Gajarwala (New York University, US) -- 9. “[S]titched Together by Threads of Light”: Perturbatory Narration, Queer Necropolitics and Biopower, and Transversality in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness - Alberto Fernández Carbajal (University of Roehampton, UK) -- 10. The Precarity and Predatory Behaviour of the ‘Mediahideen’ in Fatima Bhutto’s Isis Novel The Runaways - Clare Chambers (University of York, UK) -- 11. Imagining the Lives of Others: Ethics and Aesthetics of Representing Precarity in Neel Mukherjee’s A State of Freedom (2017) - Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp (University of Bonn, Germany) -- 12. Pride, Prejudice and Precarity in Sri Lanka: A Reading of Yasmine Gooneratne’s Sweet and Simple Kind - Feroza Jussawalla -- 13. Why Do They Hate Us So Much? Precarity in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Adnan Mahmoutovic -- 14. Precarious Culture: Bangladeshi Novels in English And in English Translation - Kaiser Haq (University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh, Bangladesh).
    Kurzfassung: “In its diverse explorations of the intersections between precarity and neoliberalism in South Asian fiction, this exciting collection redraws the cultural imaginary of the region. It also confirms the everydayness of precarity and precariousness as mutating and crossing all socio-geographic boundaries at a time when social and economic inequality continues. As compelling studies of vulnerability to the threat of precarity and forms of resilience, these essays testify to the growing need to understand such conditions.” --Professor Janet M. Wilson, University of Northampton, UK This book analyzes precarious conditions and their manifestations in recent South Asian literature in English. Themes of disability, rural-urban division, caste, terrorism, poverty, gender, necropolitics, and uneven globalization are discussed in this book by established and emerging international scholars. Drawing their arguments from literary works rooted in the neoliberal period, the chapters show how the extractive ideology of neoliberalism invades the cultural, political, economic, and social spheres of postcolonial South Asia. The book explores different forms of “precarity” to investigate the vulnerable and insecure life conditions embodied in the everyday life of South Asia, enabling the reader to see through the rhetoric of “rising Asia”. Om Prakash Dwivedi is Associate Professor of English Literature and Head of the School of Liberal Arts at Bennett University, India. He is the co-author of Re-Orientalism and Indian Writing in English (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). His latest publications include a special issue on “Fractured Identities in Postcolonial and Postapocalyptic Settings: Framing the post-Corona World” (Journal of Postcolonial Writing).
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    ISBN: 9783030948504
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 Online-Ressource(XXIV, 265 p. 32 illus., 30 illus. in color.)
    Ausgabe: 1st ed. 2022.
    Serie: The New Middle Ages
    Serie: Springer eBook Collection
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    Schlagwort(e): Literature, Medieval. ; Literature—History and criticism. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Judaism and culture. ; Philosophy, Medieval. ; Europe—History—476-1492.
    Kurzfassung: 1. Introduction: Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 -- 2. The Pardoner, the Prioress, and the Pandemic: Jews and Other Scapegoats in Fourteenth-Century European Culture -- 3. Death and the Maiden: Mourning and Melancholy in Pearl and the Late Medieval European Elegy -- 4. The Plague’s The Thing: Pandemic and Religious Politics in Shakespeare’s Drama -- 5. The Brown Plague and the White Sickness: Fascism and the Crisis of Democracy in Twentieth-Century Plague Fiction and Film -- 6. Conclusion.
    Kurzfassung: Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 brings a holistic and comparative perspective to “plague writing” from the later Middle Ages to the twenty-first century. It argues that while the human “hardware” has changed enormously between the medieval past and the present the human “software” has remained remarkably similar across time. Through close readings of works by medieval writers like Guillaume de Machaut, Giovanni Boccaccio, and Geoffrey Chaucer in the fourteenth century, select plays by Shakespeare, and modern “plague” fiction and film, Alfred Thomas convincingly demonstrates psychological continuities between the Black Death and COVID-19. Thomas highlights the danger of scapegoating vulnerable minority groups such as Asian Americans and Jews in today’s America. This wide-ranging study will thus be of interest not only to medievalists but also to students of modernity as well as the general reader.
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    ISBN: 9783030969462
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 124 p. 1 illus.)
    Ausgabe: 1st ed. 2022.
    Serie: Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon
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    Schlagwort(e): Fiction. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; America—Literatures. ; Popular Culture. ; Motion pictures. ; Television broadcasting.
    Kurzfassung: 1. Introduction -- 2. Synopsis -- 3. Cyberpunk Previsions and Literary Influences -- 4. The Frankenstein Riff -- 5. Architectures of Psyche, Power and Patriarchy -- 6. Speaking in Gutter Tongues -- 7. Coda. .
    Kurzfassung: In this comprehensive study of The Stars My Destination, D. Harlan Wilson makes a case for the continued significance of Alfred Bester’s SF masterwork, exploring its distinctive style, influences, intertextuality, affect, and innovation as well as its extensive metafictional properties. In Stars, Bester established himself as a son of the pulp-SF and high-modernist writers that preceded him and a forefather to the New Wave and cyberpunk movements that followed his lead. Wilson’s study depicts Bester as an SF insider as much as an outlier, writing in the spirit of the genre but breaking with the fixation on hard science in favor of psychological interiority, literary experimentation, and adult themes. The book combines close-readings of the novel with broader concerns about contemporary media, technoculture, and the current state of SF itself. In Wilson’s view, SF is a moribund artform, and Stars foresaw the inevitable science fictionalization of our benighted world. With scholarly lucidity and precision, Wilson shows us that Stars pointed the way to what we have (un)become. D. Harlan Wilson is an American novelist, playwright, editor, critic, and Professor of English at the Lake Campus of Wright State University, USA. He is the author of over 30 book-length works of fiction and nonfiction.
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    ISBN: 9783030989156
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 Online-Ressource(VIII, 279 p.)
    Ausgabe: 1st ed. 2022.
    Serie: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature
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    Schlagwort(e): Fiction. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; Space. ; Culture. ; Literature—History and criticism. ; Animal welfare—Moral and ethical aspects. ; Cognition in animals.
    Kurzfassung: 1. Introduction: Fleshing Out Invisibilities -- 2. Literary Narratives and the Empathics of Slaughter -- 3. Anthropomorphism and the Abattoir -- 4. Flesh of the City: Slaughterhouses and the Urban -- 5. Ruralities and the Abattoir -- 6. Who Slaughters and Who Consumes? On Butcher(ing) Identities -- 7. Dark Spaces: The Horrific Slaughterhouse -- 8. Coda.
    Kurzfassung: Reading Slaughter: Abattoir Fictions, Space, and Empathy in Late Modernity examines literary depictions of slaughterhouses from the development of the industrial abattoir in the late nineteenth century to today. The book focuses on how increasing and ongoing isolation and concealment of slaughter from the surrounding society affects readings and depictions of slaughter and abattoirs in literature, and on the degree to which depictions of animals being slaughtered creates an avenue for empathic reactions in the reader or the opportunity for reflections on human-animal relations. Through chapters on abattoir fictions in relation to narrative empathy, anthropomorphism, urban spaces, rural spaces, human identities and horror fiction, Sune Borkfelt contributes to debates in literary animal studies, human-animal studies and beyond. Sune Borkfelt lectures at Aarhus University, Denmark. His publications include articles and book chapters on nonhuman otherness, postcolonial animals, the naming of nonhuman animals, and the ethics of animal product marketing. He is also co-author of a critical research-based Danish book on hunting.
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    ISBN: 9783031103742
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 91 p.)
    Ausgabe: 1st ed. 2022.
    Serie: Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon
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    Schlagwort(e): Fiction. ; Popular Culture. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—21st century. ; Literature—History and criticism. ; Holdstock, Robert 1948-2009
    Kurzfassung: 1 Introduction: Into the Wood -- 2 War -- 3 Time -- 4 Myth -- 5 Aftermath -- Bibliography -- Index.
    Kurzfassung: "Paul Kincaid’s engaging discussion of Robert Holdstock’s masterwork is a model of enlightening criticism, providing both historical and literary contexts without resorting to special pleading or academic jargon. Even readers who have long loved Mythago Wood are likely to be pleasantly surprised at how thoroughly Kincaid unravels the true depth and complexity of the novel." —Gary K. Wolfe, Professor of Humanities Emeritus, Roosevelt University, USA This book is a detailed examination of one of the most important works of fantasy literature from the twentieth century. It goes through Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock considering how it engages with war on a personal and family level, how it plays with ideas of time as something fluid and disturbing, and how it presents mythology as something crude and dangerous. The book places Mythago Wood in the context of Holdstock’s other works, noting in part how complex ideas of time have been a consistent element in his fiction. The book also briefly examines how the themes laid out in Mythago Wood are carried through into later books in the sequence as well as the Merlin Codex. Paul Kincaid is the author of books on Iain Banks, Christopher Priest, and Brian Aldiss, as well as two collections of essays. He has twice won the BSFA Non-Fiction Award and has also received the Science Fiction Research Association’s Thomas Clareson Award.
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    ISBN: 9783031169342
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 Online-Ressource(X, 198 p.)
    Ausgabe: 1st ed. 2022.
    Serie: Chinese Literature and Culture in the World
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    Schlagwort(e): Oriental literature. ; Comparative literature. ; Theater. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; America—Literatures. ; Adaptation (Literary, artistic, etc.).
    Kurzfassung: 1. Introduction -- 2. Speaking the Unspoken and the Unspeakable: Translating Tennessee Williams -- 3. From Cautious Curiosity to Deep Dive: Interpreting Tennessee Williams -- 4. Becoming Blanche Dubois: Adapting Tennessee Williams for the Chinese Stage -- 5. Conclusion.
    Kurzfassung: This book is the first comprehensive study of the reception of Tennessee Williams in China, from rejection and/or misgivings to cautious curiosity and to full-throated acceptance, in the context of profound changes in China’s socioeconomic and cultural life and mores since the end of the Cultural Revolution. It fills a conspicuous gap in scholarship in the reception of one of the greatest American playwrights and joins book-length studies of Chinese reception of Shakespeare, Ibsen, O’Neill, Brecht, and other important Western playwrights whose works have been eagerly embraced and appropriated and have had catalytic impact on modern Chinese cultural life.
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    ISBN: 9783031188503
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 271 p.)
    Ausgabe: 1st ed. 2022.
    Serie: Italian and Italian American Studies
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    Schlagwort(e): European literature. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Literature, Modern—19th century. ; Comparative literature.
    Kurzfassung: 1 Introduction -- 2 Darwin’s Traces -- 3 Svevo: Life and Writing -- 4 De Roberto: Power and Transformism -- 5 Pirandello: Name and Performance -- 6 Conclusion.
    Kurzfassung: “Andrea Sartori provides an original reinterpretation of key works by De Roberto, Verga, Pirandello, D’Annunzio, and Marinetti (among many others) by unpacking their use of concepts such as ‘struggle for life’, ‘adaptation’, and ‘degeneration’. Offering a nuanced and stimulating reading of the use of Darwinian and Darwinist theories in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Italian literature, The Struggle for Life and the Modern Italian Novel rewrites the history of the Belpaese as it ushered in modernity.” —Mimmo Cangiano, University of Venice Ca’ Foscari This book explores Darwinism in modern Italian literature. In the years between Italy’s unification (1861) and the rise of fascism, many writers gave voice to anxieties connected with the ideas of evolution and progress. This study shows how Italian authors borrowed and reworked a scientific vocabulary to write about the contradictions and the contrasting tensions of Italy’s cultural and politicaleconomic modernization. It focuses, above all, on novels by Italo Svevo, Federico De Roberto and Luigi Pirandello. The analysis centers on such topics as the struggle against adverse social conditions in a capitalist society; the risk of failing to survive the struggle itself; the adaptive issues of individuals uprooted from their family and work environments; and the concerns about the heritability of maladaptive characteristics. The book also argues that the hybridization and variation of both narrative forms and collective mindsets describes the modernist awareness of the cultural complexity experienced in Italy and Europe at this time. Andrea Sartori teaches Italian and European Culture at Politecnico of Milan, Italy, for the year 2022–23. He is the author of Scompenso (2010) and L’inventalavoro (2012). He co-edited Perspectives on Italian Difference: Italian Differences in Perspective (2018) and Terry Pinkard’s La Fenomenologia di Hegel in Italian (2013).
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    ISBN: 9783031089114
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 330 p.)
    Ausgabe: 1st ed. 2022.
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    Schlagwort(e): Comparative literature. ; Literature, Modern—19th century. ; Literature, Modern—20th century. ; Women—History.
    Kurzfassung: Chapter 1: The “persistent rebels” of Maternal Modernism -- Chapter 2: The New Woman, New Modernisms, and New Motherhoods -- Chapter 3: Mothers in New Woman Fiction: “the terra incognita of herself” -- Chapter 4: “The ‘momentousness’ of motherhood”: Maternal Ideologies, Discourses, and Debates in The Freewoman: A Weekly Feminist Review and The Freewoman: A Weekly Humanist Review -- Chapter 5: “The Title Role of ‘Mother’”: Silent-Film Stardom and Celebrity Maternity in Photoplay Magazine -- Chapter 6: “Freedom and childbearing”: Prams, Politics, and Literary Life in NewWoman Autobiographies of the Interwar Era -- Chapter 7: “A mother, a wife, a worker and a wonder-woman”: Matroethnography, Black Feminism, and Postcolonial New Womanhood in Buchi Emecheta’s London Narratives -- Chapter 8: Coda: New Womanism in the Twenty-First Century. .
    Kurzfassung: “Operating within the frame of the “New Modernist Studies,” Podnieks considers the challenges and alternatives women writers and performers make to social conventions relating to motherhood. She engages with scholarship in modernist, feminist and maternal areas, is highly qualified to do so, and advances these fields. The narratives she studies come from a refreshing variety of sources, including New Woman narratives, the journal The Freewoman, the film magazine, Photoplay, and autobiographies, usefully juxtaposing the more recent London narratives of Buchi Emecheta and extending her thinking into the 21st century.” – Bonnie Kime Scott, Professor Emerita of Women’s Studies, San Diego State University, USA Drawing on the figure and discourses of the Victorian fin-de-siècle New Woman, this book examines women writers who struggled with conservative, patriarchal ideologies of motherhood in novels, periodicals and life writings of the long modernist period. It shows how these writers challenged, resisted, adapted and negotiated traditional ideas with their own versions of new motherhood, with needs for identities and experiences beyond maternity. Tracing the period from the end of the nineteenth century through the twentieth, this study explores how some of the numerous elements and forces we identify with modernism are manifested in equally diverse and often competing representations of mothers, mothering and motherhood. It investigates how historical personages and fictional protagonists used and were constructed within textual spaces where they engaged critically with the maternal as institution, identity and practice, from perspectives informed by gender, sexuality, nationhood, race and class. The matrifocal literatures examined in this book exemplify how feminist motherhoods feature as a prominent thematic of the long modernist era and how rebellious New Woman mothers provocatively wrote maternity into text and history. Elizabeth Podnieks is Professor of English at Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada. Her publications include, among others, Daily Modernism: The Literary Diaries of Virginia Woolf, Antonia White, Elizabeth Smart and Anaïs Nin; the critical edition Rough Draft: The Modernist Diaries of Emily Holmes Coleman; and the edited collection Mediating Moms: Mothers in Popular Culture.
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    ISBN: 9783030792459
    Sprache: Englisch
    Seiten: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 271 p. 51 illus., 2 illus. in color.)
    Ausgabe: 1st ed. 2021.
    Serie: Palgrave Studies in Language, Gender and Sexuality
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    Schlagwort(e): Applied linguistics. ; Cultural studies. ; Social sciences—Philosophy. ; Sociology. ; Literature, Modern—20th century.
    Kurzfassung: Chapter 1: Reconsidering Feminism Since 1945 Through Encounter, Translation and Resignification: Towards a Historical Narrative (Maud Bracke, Julia C. Bullock, Penelope Morris and Kristina Schulz) -- Chapter 2: The Many Faces of Beauvoir: Paratranslated Materiality in Le Deuxième Sexe (Pauline Henry-Tierney) -- Chapter 3: Promoting Beauvoir: The Role of the Translator in Crafting a Literary Legacy (Julia C. Bullock) -- Chapter 4: Communicating Through Books, Spaces and Personal Exchange: Women’s Bookshops as Cultural Translators (1970s-1990s) (Lisia Bürgi and Kristina Schulz) -- Chapter 5: Transnational Transfers & Mainstream Mappings: Women’s Liberation Calendars of the 1970s and 1980s (Hannah Yoken) -- Chapter 6: Paratranslating Iraqi Women’s Stories Twice: With Reference to Alia Mamdouh’s Novel النفتالين (1986/2000), Mothballs (1995) and Naphtalene: A Novel of Baghdad (2005) (Ruth Abou Rached) -- Chapter 7: Translation or Transliteration?: ‘Gender’ Troubles in Russia (Erin Katherine Krafft) -- Chapter 8: ‘Love is Love’ and ‘Love is Equal’: Fansubbing and Queer Feminism in China (Ting Guo) -- Chapter 9: How Rebel Can Translation Be? A (Con)textual Study of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls and Two Translations in Spanish (Olga Castro and María Laura Spoturno).
    Kurzfassung: In these times of the intensified transnational flows of feminist knowledges, translation has become central to the cross-border travels of feminist theories and practices. This innovative multidisciplinary book gathers a rich range of essays from diverse epistemological formations to explore the many ways translation actively participates in building feminist agendas in “transnational, translingual and transcultural encounters,” while always sensitive to a “politics of location.” The anthology makes a much-needed contribution and will surely become required reading for those engaged in the burgeoning field of transnational feminism and translation studies. Claudia J de Lima Costa, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil This edited book addresses the diversity across time and space of the sites, actors and practices of feminist translation from 1945-2000. The contributors examine what happens when a politically motivated text is translated linguistically and culturally, the translators and their aims, and the strategies employed when adapting texts to locally resonating discourses. The collection aims to answer these questions through case studies and a conceptual rethinking of the process of politically engaged translation, considering not only trained translators and publishers, but also feminist activists and groups, NGOs and writers. The book will be of interest to students and researchers in the fields of translation studies, gender/women's studies, literature and feminist history.
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