(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Sep-2021, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478014621)
Modernity arrived in Japan, as elsewhere, through new forms of ownership. In A Fictional Commons, Michael K. Bourdaghs explores how the literary and theoretical works of Natsume Sōseki (1867&;1916), widely celebrated as Japans greate...Loe edasi...
Asks important questions about the very nature of stories--examines why we read stories rather than just learning the endings. Asks important questions about the very nature of stories and examines why we read stories rather than just learnin...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197687383)
No Place Like Home examines the home through the lens of female writers and thinkers across history, in order to reinstate the home as a philosophical problem....Loe edasi...
This book is a sustained engagement with Mahadeva’s work that seeks to fill this lacuna. It includes translations of select samples of Mahadeva’s fiction and nonfiction writings and some of the major responses to these works from Kannada. ...Loe edasi...
We are in the middle of a vibrant renaissance of queer writing. But LGBTQ+ writers, characters and readers have been here since the beginning quietly, defiantly, and persistently telling their stories if you know where to look. ...Loe edasi...
First published in 1985, Novel and Society in Elizabethan England presents a whole range of English fiction of the Elizabethan period against its social background. It considers the major authors of prose fiction and examines how they organised thei...Loe edasi...
“Through identifying connections between teaching and learning, I suggest that teaching can give a life meaning, that we might define ourselves, understand ourselves, meaningfully, as teachers. Teaching is a way of living and not just a way to mak...Loe edasi...
“Through identifying connections between teaching and learning, I suggest that teaching can give a life meaning, that we might define ourselves, understand ourselves, meaningfully, as teachers. Teaching is a way of living and not just a way to mak...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1973, this is foremost a study of Dryden as a writer, but, the author maintains, his ideas cannot be separated from his art. Drydens concern with familiar 17th Century problems make him almost as important to the historian as...Loe edasi...
The year 1688 is a turning point in English culture, and one from which can be dated numerous distinctively modern notions of truth, property and political order. The texts assembled in this collection, originally published in 1986, focus on this in...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1971, this book elucidates Becketts work in the light of his concern with literary form. This is seen as an increasingly compressed and dense medium for the purer and purer statement of his view of mans existence....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197839300)
The environmental and political crises humanity faces today have given rise to influential new theories of life, matter, and time. Vitalism, a controversial term describing the ideas of philosophers from Lucretius to Bergson, provides a common intell...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Fordham University Press, ISBN-13: 9781531514150)
Shows how art and literature can both describe and instantiate the slow, unredeemed violence of physical deterioration. Mere Materialism challenges us to recognize a neglected, transhistorical aesthetics of loss. Against the...Loe edasi...
Shows how art and literature can both describe and instantiate the slow, unredeemed violence of physical deterioration. Mere Materialism challenges us to recognize a neglected, transhistorical aesthetics of loss. Against the...Loe edasi...
As writing and language teachers, we recognize the difference immediately; an event has occurred, and a new subject has appeared in the classroom. Increasingly our students struggle to pay attention, to dissociate from their cell phones, to complete...Loe edasi...
This Palgrave Companion brings together original essays by leading scholars to explore the multifaceted work of one of todays most provocative thinkers. Spanning Raymond Talliss contributions to literary criticism, fiction, poetry, philosophy of min...Loe edasi...
Turning reading into research: Researching literature through its reception. First methods-focused handbook in the field Strongly practical and suitable for advanced teaching Bridging qualitative and quantitative res...Loe edasi...
Short, sharp and original commentary inspired by Peter Brooks’s diverse critical work. For many decades Peter Brooks’s critical writing has been a force of illumination and inspiration for readers of many kinds, with memorable books that c...Loe edasi...
Animates the conversional potential of language by exploring the catalytic force of words across diverse cultures and linguistic systems. Logomotives are words that change worlds – past, present, and future. Bearing a wide range of linguistic...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399543170)
Telepoetics explores how telephony has shaped and been shaped by literature. Tapping into a wide range of the protocols, practices and forms of the telephone and its extended apparatus – from analogue to digital; from corded candlestic...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009522403)
American popular culture wields tremendous power as a cultural force both domestically and abroad but is rarely studied for this purpose. Today, when students beliefs and values are more highly molded through commercial entertainment than at any hi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009300407)
Examines the relationship between fashion and literature from the medieval period to the present. It explains key questions that have inspired scholarship on the topic and presents cutting edge work in the field. It provides a vital resource for sch...Loe edasi...
In recent decades, digital scholarly editions have gained prominence, the shift from print to digital demands not only new editorial approaches but also sustained attention to issues of technical and financial sustainability. This essay examines the...Loe edasi...
This Element centers the Black Pacific as a generative site for comparative and intersectional methodologies and transnational frameworks for thinking about racial formations, post-national literary forms, and cultural histories....Loe edasi...
Sari: Elements in Race in American Literature and Culture
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009644334)
This Element centers the Black Pacific as a generative site for comparative and intersectional methodologies and transnational frameworks for thinking about racial formations, post-national literary forms, and cultural histories....Loe edasi...
This book theorizes the slave ship as a unique site for the imaginative and material convergence of abolitionism and environmental justice. In pairing twentieth- and twenty-first century works of black literature with multimedia texts from the envir...Loe edasi...
Taylor Swift, arguably the most prolific and acclaimed singer-songwriter of the 21st century, has shaped her listeners collective consciousness and challenged her industrys often limiting attitudes toward genre, revision, and collaboration. ...Loe edasi...
Extends the field of translation studies and theory by examining three radical science-fiction treatments of translation.The so-called fictional turn in translation studies has staked out territory previously unclaimed by translat...Loe edasi...
This book explores short fiction by migrant women writers in Canada and the United States from 1980 to 2020, including Jhumpa Lahiri, Edwidge Danticat, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jamaica Kincaid, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and Shani Mootoo, amongst m...Loe edasi...
This open access book sets out to investigate how contemporary African women writers are challenging traditional ideas of Postcolonial and World Literature. This study offers an alternative framework of analysis, one in which the term world is not a...Loe edasi...
In this study, the engaging art created by childrens author Margaret Wise Brown receives the critical attention it deserves as a lasting contribution to American childrens literature....Loe edasi...
Understanding (Post)feminist Girlhood Through Young Adult Fantasy Literature takes advantage of growing critical interest in popular young adult texts and their influence on young people. The monograph offers an innovative approach by pairi...Loe edasi...
It is a collection of essays analysing works of contemporary fiction concerned with innovative models of the mind, new concepts of its nature and specific functions, frequently employing for the purpose experimental narrative techniques. These schol...Loe edasi...
This volume considers Samuel Becketts fiction and drama as major aesthetic and thematic influences on the work of Irish authors Eimear McBride, Keith Ridgway, Emma Donoghue, and Kevin Barry in the post-crash period of 2009-2015....Loe edasi...
Elevating Humanity via Africana Womanism is a short and powerful book, advocating unity/collectivity as a panacea for all societal ills....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Ohio State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780814258651)
The 1963 publication of Thomas Pynchon’s V. changed the landscape of American fiction. Becoming Pynchon: Genetic Narratology and V. offers a detailed examination of the dramatic transformations that took place as Pynchon’s found...Loe edasi...
This book explores how African fiction offers revolutionary models for understanding temporality and reimagining history in our catastrophe-ridden twenty-first century. This book explores how African fiction offers revolutionary mo...Loe edasi...
This book explores how African fiction offers revolutionary models for understanding temporality and reimagining history in our catastrophe-ridden twenty-first century. Examining eight works from diverse African writers—ranging from Achebe’s class...Loe edasi...
This book takes a new look at an old question: what is the relationship between beauty and monstrosity? How has the notion of beauty transformed through the years and how does it coincide with monstrous ontologies?...Loe edasi...
Narratives of Injury redescribes the history of injury from the perspective of those most at risk, rather than medical professionals and other outsiders, refocusing on the first-hand perspectives found in literary texts and journalistic accounts....Loe edasi...
Clear mirrors and scripture in English, revolutionary innovations of the Elizabethan age, inspired Shakespeares drive towards a new purpose for drama....Loe edasi...
Across humanities disciplines, public scholarship brings academics and community members and organizations together in mutually-beneficial partnership for research, teaching, and programming. This Companion brings together wide-ranging case studies...Loe edasi...
A timely and significant contribution to Palestinian childrens literature from 1967 to the present day, Palestinian Memory and Identity in Modern Childrens Literature examines a myriad of motifs and popular culture....Loe edasi...
