There are few features of the contemporary world more significant than national and regional borders. In modern Europe, the practices of human division have defined the continent from the early years of the Cold War to the present barriers of Fortre...Loe edasi...
The Anthropocene has ushered in remarkable progress and unprecedented challenges, with ecological crises threatening all life-especially the most vulnerable. In search of new solutions in this open access book, Lay Sion Ng turns to an unexpecte...Loe edasi...
Counterfeit Culture explores the possibility of writing epic in an age of alternative facts. It addresses the relationship between the American epic and postmodernism. This book is for graduates and researchers working on post World War II American...Loe edasi...
A revised and expanded edition of David Darks influential first book Everyday Apocalypse recovers the root meaning of the term apocalypse (revelation) to use the concept as a lens through which art and other acts of creative no...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Liverpool University Press, ISBN-13: 9781836244882)
In the first book-length study of this major contemporary author, Peter Morey traces the influence of Kamila Shamsies formative years, spent under a military dictatorship in 1980s Karachi, on writing with an acute sense of social justice and an awar...Loe edasi...
Showing the political importance of play in postwar French literature In postwar France, authors approached writing ludically, placing rules and conditions on language and on the context of composition itself. They eliminated es and femin...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Northwestern University Press, ISBN-13: 9780810149281)
A comprehensive examination of how and why French authors turned to ludic methods to grapple with their political moment-- Provided by publisher....Loe edasi...
From the popular and award-winning staff writer for The Atlantic, an eye-opening look at how the current media landscape has incentivized us to see our fellow citizens as characters in an ongoing entertainment—and how we can fight...Loe edasi...
These developments are presented in France and the Spanish-speaking world, while also considering Germany and England: While Montaigne, Pedro Mexía, Pérez de Oliva, Vives, and Gracián prioritize literature, Pascal contrasts the esprit de finesse w...Loe edasi...
This transdisciplinary study expands on theories of theatricality beyond performance studies and into poetry, media technology, translation studies, critical and psychoanalytic theory. Builds upon Antonin Artauds elaboration of the theatre as a plag...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781032993775)
Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: Concepts and Applications introduces major critical and literary theories to undergraduate and postgraduate students. Key features include: - Comprehensive coverage: Includes major theoretical schools such...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781032993782)
Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: Concepts and Applications introduces major critical and literary theories to undergraduate and postgraduate students.Key features include:Comprehensive coverage: In...Loe edasi...
The final book by the founder of Surrealism, translated into English for the first time. Cavalier Perspective shows us the lion in winter, André Breton near the end of his life, trying to reconcile all the contradictions of his extraordi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198957928)
This book examines the similarity between capitalism and socialism over the twentieth century as both systems found ways to encourage happiness and optimism in their citizens. Comparing radically different novels, it brings diverse social contexts an...Loe edasi...
I knew at once I had come upon the city of some extinct civilization, hidden away in this inaccessible mesa for centuriesThe Professors House (1925) depicts the mid-life crisis of Godfrey St. Peter, a history prof...Loe edasi...
This new anthology brings together a generous selection of famous wartime poets alongside works by civilians and soldiers, offering a symphony of different voices, all connected in their shared experience of the Second World War. An introduction prov...Loe edasi...
Athens Tales is a portrait of Greeces capital through the citys own writers. The book is made up of eighteen short stories, in English translation, by different Greek authors, some of whom have never appeared before in English. Taking a ro...Loe edasi...
Celebrating 70 years, this is the timeless classic story of Dylan Thomass childhood Christmas memories, featuring the wonderful artwork of Kate Greenaway medallist, Edward Ardizzone in this beautiful mini hardback edition....Loe edasi...
This book combines close literary readings with detailed considerations of visual media to demonstrate that key American authors of the past two centuries created new literary forms by reworking the immediacy effects of photography, film, and TV. It...Loe edasi...
In narratives of literature and cultural production, hope and despair remain fundamental in exploring our world. In recent years, political polarization, the Covid pandemic, global warming, and new and ongoing wars have contributed to global crise...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198918776)
Humanities Theory pioneers a new topic: the theory of the humanities. It is an urgent topic right now because the humanities face a suite of forceful new challenges and are in a period of significant change. For these reasons, it has become...Loe edasi...
Humanities Theory pioneers a new topic: the theory of the humanities. It is an urgent topic right now because the humanities face a suite of forceful new challenges and are in a period of significant change. For these reasons, it has become...Loe edasi...
This book revisits womens literature in 1922, long hailed as the miracle year of literary modernism, a landmark year of avant-garde innovations in publications that included James Joyces Ulysses, T....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Ohio State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780814215975)
Considers the works of Sarah Orne Jewett, Gwendolyn Brooks, Gertrude Stein, and Elizabeth Bishop to locate a queer aesthetic of the ordinary in literary modernism, challenging the notion that queerness and ordinariness are incompatible or antagonist...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1969, Shaw – “The Chucker Out” quotes much entirely new and previously unpublished Shaw material (the fruits of six years’ research at the British Museum and elsewhere) as the basis for his aim of assisting towards a...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1920, The Quintessence of Bernard Shaw, the title a play on Shaw’s own essay The Quintessence of Ibsenism, offered a coherent review of his ideas mainly, though not exclusively, as expressed in his plays and p...Loe edasi...
Contemporary Irish Ecocentric Poetry and the Writing of Nature explores how poetic language can apprehend non-anthropocentric points of view. It builds on the recent developments in environmental humanities and seeks to show that the four Irish poet...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Bloomsbury Publishing USA, ISBN-13: 9798765124451)
This edited collection explores the multiple dimensions of authorship that constitute the ecology of writing. Examining the early 20th century to the present, Ecologies of Writing expands our understanding of this period of dramatic media-technolo...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198965114)
Edward Thomas (1878-1917) wrote in the last two and a half years of his life a body of poetry that has endured. This book considers Thomas’s varied work in prose on its own terms, exploring his nature writing, imaginative prose (both short stories an...Loe edasi...
Muireann Maguire, Brian James Baer, Michelle Woods
Sari: Literatures, Cultures, Translation
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Bloomsbury Publishing USA, ISBN-13: 9798765121917)
This open-access book tells the story of Nicholas Wreden. It also narrates for the first time, using archival sources to rediscover the lives of Wreden and other translators, the history of the translation of Russian literature in America, its criti...Loe edasi...
With a focus on regions neglected in African Anglophone literature (such as Egypt, Libya, and Ethiopia), this book enlightens the reader about the diversity of postcolonial literature, including the role of Afro-Mediterranean cultures and the dynami...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Bloomsbury Publishing USA, ISBN-13: 9798765114896)
Despite an affinity with early 20th-century modernism, Lacans name is still more routinely associated with the category of so-called postmodernism, thus rendering the question of style and periodization somewhat out of focus. Understanding Lacan,...Loe edasi...
Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo, Rosalind Sibielski, Lan Dong, Jay N. Shelat, Akash Belsare, Kevin A. Blanks, Laura Soderberg, Cara Anne Kinnally, Evan Chaloupka, Jennifer Holl...
This edited collection reimagines the coming-of-age genre, exploring youth, identity, and belonging in narratives at the margins of comics, videogames, and experimental novels....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9798855804089)
Considers how a series of poets reimagined the possibilities of O as a gesture of apostrophe and, even more so, of writing. In poetry circles, O is commonly associated with apostrophea dramatized turn to call out to an absent friend o...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1979, the central focus of this study is the concept of culture as employed by English literary intellectuals over the preceding 100 years, a period characterized by a constant process of re-definition and change. The tradi...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1988, this book brings brain science to literary criticism. The Brain of Robert Frost combines psychoanalysis with the findings of brain research and cognitive psychology to model the way we create and respond to lit...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1981, this book examines why and how textual difficulty became a norm of modernist literature and questions how we can begin to account for the forms of obscurity and difficulty which developed in the late 19th C...Loe edasi...
In this book, originally published in 1974, Cecily Mackworth writes about four outstanding French poets who came to England at that time. Mallarmé, Verlaine, Paul Valéry and Valery Larbaud each discovered England at a period when great changes were...Loe edasi...
This two-volume study traces developments in English narrative structure from the late Middle Ages to the early modern period, building on the theses set out in Monika Fludernik’s award-winning Towards a ‘Natural’ Narratology (1996)....Loe edasi...
Auto/Biography and Reputation Politics brings together for the first time these two research fields to demonstrate that life writing is reputation politics. ...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Virginia Press, ISBN-13: 9780813953298)
Charting the twentieth-century course of the literature of the Americas The second volume of Earl E. Fitz s magisterial survey of the field, The Literatures of Spanish America and Brazil: The Twentieth Century, analyzes Spanish- and Portu...Loe edasi...
Sari: Edinburgh Historical Studies of Iran and the Persian World
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399550833)
Explores Azeri Turkish literature to offer insights into the ideas of centralism, monolingualism and nationalism in twentieth-century Iran....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009422710)
Surveys the career of the influential Nobel-prize winning author Ernest Hemingway. Pays close attention to prose style to see how Hemingway sought to find or impose order in a chaotic world. A recognition of the importance of disability offers new w...Loe edasi...
