Sari: Understanding Contemporary American Literature
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Apr-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of South Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781643365770)
New insights into the work of an acclaimed science fiction author. Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006), a pioneer of science fiction and foremother of Afrofuturism, is among the most influential science fiction writers of all time. Her work blurs the boun...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Mar-2004, Hardback, Kirjastus: University Press of Mississippi, ISBN-13: 9781578065592)
American Literature -- Literary Criticism--> There are three wars in the mind and in the art of William Faulkner--the American Civil War, World War I, and World War II. Although he did not fight in any war, he postured as a...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197699690)
The problem of the twentieth century was one of the most important factors in the development of American modernism. W. E. B. Du Bois, of course, identified that problem as the color line a phrase for the broad array of laws and practices that pr...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781032608075)
This volume explores the ways in which religion in the South Asian literary landscape play a significant role in the creation of political structures and secular democracies in South Asia. It highlights how the concepts of nation, nationalism, and se...Loe edasi...
Theorizing Flash Fiction: Postmodern Perspectives aims to theorize the genre of flash fiction. A close theoretical analysis of the genre brings forth the supposition that for any genre to thrive and dominate, the literary fabric of times mu...Loe edasi...
Sari: Race In Nineteenth-Century Literatures And Cultures
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198905950)
Fermanis argues that nineteenth-century settler fiction encodes complex and mobile interrelationships between settlers and migrants across the colonial southern hemisphere. By focusing on novels that depict short-term movement, this book demonstrate...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198930822)
The Tamil Realist Novel in South and Southeast Asia examines how Tamil writers from India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, and Singapore reimagined the realist novel between the 1940s and 1980s as a vehicle for political critique and cultural transform...Loe edasi...
Huining Ouyang’s Reimagining the Madame Butterfly Narrative examines Asian American literary revisions of the Butterfly story since the beginning of American expansionism in Asia. Through textual, intertextual, and contextual analyses, Ouyang demo...Loe edasi...
The privatisation of relationships of care and dependency is increasing; the new social media is facilitating a "confessional" society and our press is keen to interrogate every dimension of our relationships. The combined cultural effec...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009748452)
Analysing the past two decades of young literature grappling with Holocaust memory and migration stories, Agnes Mueller engages with diverse fictional texts first written in German to explore current debates and challenge entrenched ideas on Israe...Loe edasi...
Identifies philosophical scepticism as a major theme across Wallace’s oeuvre, in both fiction and non-fiction. David Foster Wallace and the Question of Scepticism examines the role of scepticism and doubt in Wallace’s work, showing tha...Loe edasi...
Narrating Irish Female Development, 1916-2018 studies narratives of Irish female and feminized development, arguing that these postmodern narratives present Irish female maturation as disordered and often deliberately disorderly. The first...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399561150)
Explores the manifold ways that complexity is framed, understood and negotiated in contemporary Anglophone fictionHow does fiction—including both print books and digital literature in the video game medium—imagine the complexity of...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009661836)
This Element examines how contemporary poets reimagine virtuosity as a mode of poetic performance. It argues that virtuosity is a strategic choice, one a poet may enter at specific moments, in specific forms, to heighten the readers experience. Cer...Loe edasi...
This Element examines how contemporary poets reimagine virtuosity as a mode of poetic performance. It argues that virtuosity is a strategic choice, one a poet may enter at specific moments, in specific forms, to heighten the readers experience. Cer...Loe edasi...
Corpse Encounters in Spanish and Latin American Narrative Fiction: Tantos muertos takes a historically and geographically broad view to argue for the central significance of corpses in modern and contemporary Spanish and Latin American narr...Loe edasi...
This book reexamines William Faulkners If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem (1939), a novel of increasing sociohistorical importance despite being one of Faulkners lesser known and studied works. Wainwright traces Faulkners 1925 visit to Paris, where he f...Loe edasi...
This book explores how the Anancy tales have been reinvented at critical political junctures to speak to identity and heritage. In her monograph, Natalie Lucy considers the influence of an Anancy aesthetic on the writing of British authors with Cari...Loe edasi...
This is the first book to identify and trace a theme of old age running throughout T.S. Eliots oeuvre. Previously unacknowledged, Eliots concern with ageing can now be seen as a significant element in his work, resonating throughout his poetry, his...Loe edasi...
Verse drama is not a dead form, but very much alive on the contemporary stage. Drawing on plays from throughout the English-speaking world, including the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, and the Caribbean, Staging the Lyric seeks...Loe edasi...
Bringing together concerns in border studies, the environmental humanities and Scottish literary studies, this open access book examines the relationship between borders and the environment in Scottish literature from the nineteenth-century to...Loe edasi...
A fully contextualised catalogue of one of the most significant archival Joyce acquisitions of recent times. When Stephen James Joyce died on 23 January 2020, he and his wife Solange bequeathed an archival collection and library to...Loe edasi...
Moving from the micro world of quantum physics to the macro scales of earth science and ecology, this book considers how, in contemporary literature, affective experiences like desire, suffering, anxiety, and joy shape scientific persons, pract...Loe edasi...
From a range of academic and practice-led perspectives, this book explores how a combination of place-based writing and location-based technologies are producing new kinds of experimental ambient literary experience. From a range of aca...Loe edasi...
Explores how material culture is represented in archaeological fiction and media and what it reveals about the cultural practices involved in representing and recognizing objects designated as artefacts. Investigating the represe...Loe edasi...
The first full-length study to bring together the fields of Health Humanities and German studies, this book features contributions from a range of key scholars and provides an overview of the latest work being done at the intersection of these two...Loe edasi...
This book examines Occidentalism, or the set of cultural, literary and political uses of the West, in the works of canonical 20th and 21st century Egyptian novelists. Beginning with the writings of Muhammad Husayn Haykal, Lorenzo Casini...Loe edasi...
Featuring contributions from key names in the field alongside some of the most exciting new voices, this collection presents cutting-edge environmental humanities work on species extinction from a wide variety of perspectives across the humanities...Loe edasi...
Featuring contributions from key names in the field alongside some of the most exciting new voices, this collection presents cutting-edge environmental humanities work on species extinction from a wide variety of perspectives across the humanities...Loe edasi...
Through new ecocritical readings of 18th and 19th century English genre fictions, this book explores the intersection between English national identity and the environment in 16 key novels to highlight the importance of centering the green imaginat...Loe edasi...
Through new ecocritical readings of 18th and 19th century English genre fictions, this book explores the intersection between English national identity and the environment in 16 key novels to highlight the importance of centering the green imaginat...Loe edasi...
Crossing the boundaries of a single-author study, this book rediscovers Flann O’Brien’s attempt to synthesise a commercially successful Irish literary project from international avant-garde influences such as Kafka and Borges. Cr...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197699690)
The problem of the twentieth century was one of the most important factors in the development of American modernism. W. E. B. Du Bois, of course, identified that problem as the color line a phrase for the broad array of laws and practices that pr...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781032608075)
This volume explores the ways in which religion in the South Asian literary landscape play a significant role in the creation of political structures and secular democracies in South Asia. It highlights how the concepts of nation, nationalism, and se...Loe edasi...
Theorizing Flash Fiction: Postmodern Perspectives aims to theorize the genre of flash fiction. A close theoretical analysis of the genre brings forth the supposition that for any genre to thrive and dominate, the literary fabric of times mu...Loe edasi...
Sari: Race In Nineteenth-Century Literatures And Cultures
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198905950)
Fermanis argues that nineteenth-century settler fiction encodes complex and mobile interrelationships between settlers and migrants across the colonial southern hemisphere. By focusing on novels that depict short-term movement, this book demonstrate...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jul-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9798855805017)
Examines the narrative articulation of social invisibility in works by two of the most influential Italian cultural producers of the twentieth century. The product of centuries of systemic violence and active marginalization, the lumpenpr...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198930822)
The Tamil Realist Novel in South and Southeast Asia examines how Tamil writers from India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, and Singapore reimagined the realist novel between the 1940s and 1980s as a vehicle for political critique and cultural transform...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jul-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9798855805154)
Shows how representations of sapphic desire can subvert or sustain prevailing norms of gender, sexuality, and power in Mexican texts from the 1980s to the 2010s. Drawing inspiration from the 2020 Marcha LenchaLesbian Marchin Mexico City...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9798855808391)
Demonstrates the centrality of thinking about time to decolonial poetry and poetics. Revolutionary Poetics considers the role of politically engaged poetry during social revolutions and processes of decolonization. Javier Padilla argues t...Loe edasi...
Huining Ouyang’s Reimagining the Madame Butterfly Narrative examines Asian American literary revisions of the Butterfly story since the beginning of American expansionism in Asia. Through textual, intertextual, and contextual analyses, Ouyang demo...Loe edasi...
The privatisation of relationships of care and dependency is increasing; the new social media is facilitating a "confessional" society and our press is keen to interrogate every dimension of our relationships. The combined cultural effec...Loe edasi...
This volume focuses on the multifaceted meaning of wind and its various attributions. Wind is certainly more than an atmospheric phenomenon: the shape of its contours in words and images, its metaphoric density, its ancestral connotation forged by my...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009748452)
Analysing the past two decades of young literature grappling with Holocaust memory and migration stories, Agnes Mueller engages with diverse fictional texts first written in German to explore current debates and challenge entrenched ideas on Israe...Loe edasi...
Identifies philosophical scepticism as a major theme across Wallace’s oeuvre, in both fiction and non-fiction. David Foster Wallace and the Question of Scepticism examines the role of scepticism and doubt in Wallace’s work, showing tha...Loe edasi...
Narrating Irish Female Development, 1916-2018 studies narratives of Irish female and feminized development, arguing that these postmodern narratives present Irish female maturation as disordered and often deliberately disorderly. The first...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University Press of Florida, ISBN-13: 9781683405719)
An introduction to key concepts in international relations and strategy through the interstellar narratives of Cixin Lius Hugo Awardwinning trilogy Science fiction has long examined social, political, and moral issues through imagined wor...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399561150)
Explores the manifold ways that complexity is framed, understood and negotiated in contemporary Anglophone fictionHow does fiction—including both print books and digital literature in the video game medium—imagine the complexity of...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009661836)
This Element examines how contemporary poets reimagine virtuosity as a mode of poetic performance. It argues that virtuosity is a strategic choice, one a poet may enter at specific moments, in specific forms, to heighten the readers experience. Cer...Loe edasi...
This Element examines how contemporary poets reimagine virtuosity as a mode of poetic performance. It argues that virtuosity is a strategic choice, one a poet may enter at specific moments, in specific forms, to heighten the readers experience. Cer...Loe edasi...
Corpse Encounters in Spanish and Latin American Narrative Fiction: Tantos muertos takes a historically and geographically broad view to argue for the central significance of corpses in modern and contemporary Spanish and Latin American narr...Loe edasi...
This book reexamines William Faulkners If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem (1939), a novel of increasing sociohistorical importance despite being one of Faulkners lesser known and studied works. Wainwright traces Faulkners 1925 visit to Paris, where he f...Loe edasi...
