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  • Rereading Childhood Books
    Alison Waller
    Childhood books play a special role in reading histories, providing touchstones for our future tastes and giving shape to our ongoing identities. Bringing the latest work in Memory Studies to bear on writers’ memoirs, autobiographical accounts of reading, and interviews with readers, Rereading Childhood Books explores how adults remember, revisit, and sometimes forget, these si...
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    173,91 €

  • New Media and the Transformation of Postmodern American Literature
    Casey Michael Henry
    How has American literature after postmodernism responded to the digital age? Drawing on insights from contemporary media theory, this is the first book to explore the explosion of new media technologies as an animating context for contemporary American literature. Casey Michael Henry examines the intertwining histories of new media forms since the 1970s and literary postmodern...
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    174,04 €

  • The Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy
    Edwin Wong
    WHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT IT, BIRNAM WOOD COMES TO DUNSINANE HILLThe Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy presents a profoundly original theory of drama that speaks to modern audiences living in an increasingly volatile world driven by artificial intelligence, gene editing, globalization, and mutual assured destruction ideologies. Tragedy, according to risk theatre, puts us face to face w...
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    33,97 €

  • The Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy
    Edwin Wong
    WHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT IT, BIRNAM WOOD COMES TO DUNSINANE HILLThe Risk Theatre Model of Tragedy presents a profoundly original theory of drama that speaks to modern audiences living in an increasingly volatile world driven by artificial intelligence, gene editing, globalization, and mutual assured destruction ideologies. Tragedy, according to risk theatre, puts us face to face w...
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    26,17 €

  • The Cambridge Companion to World Literature
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    120,30 €

  • The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales
    Maria Tatar
    Murder, mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide, and incest: the darker side of classic fairy tales is the subject of this groundbreaking and intriguing study of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s Nursery and Household Tales. This expanded edition includes a new preface and an appendix featuring translations of six tales with commentary by Maria Tatar. Throughout the book, Tatar draws on t...
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    30,28 €

  • The Essentialist Villain
    Mikko Tuhkanen
    The first book-length study of Bersani’s work, tracing the unfolding of his onto-ethics/aesthetics amidst numerous literary, artistic, and philosophical influences. ...
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    42,04 €

  • Adorno’s Poetics of Form
    Josh Robinson
    A critical study of the concept of form in Adorno’s writings on art and literature. ...
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    41,93 €

  • After Said
    Bashir Abu-Manneh
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    33,34 €

  • After Lacan
    Ankhi Mukherjee
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    35,95 €

  • Naming Adult Autism
    Dr. James McGrath / James Dr. McGrath / James DrMcGrath
    Naming Adult Autism is one of the first critiques of cultural and medical narratives of Autism to be authored by an adult diagnosed with this condition. Autism is a ’social disorder’, defined by interactions and lifestyle. Yet, the expectations of normalcy against which Autism is defined have too rarely been questioned. This book demonstrates the value of the Humanities towards...
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    47,29 €

  • Making the Modern Reader
    Barbara M. Benedict / Barbara MBenedict
    Inquiring into the formation of a literary canon during the Restoration and the eighteenth century, Barbara Benedict poses the question, 'Do anthologies reflect or shape contemporary literary taste?' She finds that there was a cultural dialectic at work: miscellanies and anthologies transmitted particular tastes while in turn being influenced by the larger culture they helped t...
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    65,21 €

  • Making the Modern Reader
    Barbara M. Benedict / Barbara MBenedict
    Inquiring into the formation of a literary canon during the Restoration and the eighteenth century, Barbara Benedict poses the question, 'Do anthologies reflect or shape contemporary literary taste?' She finds that there was a cultural dialectic at work: miscellanies and anthologies transmitted particular tastes while in turn being influenced by the larger culture they helped t...
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    156,53 €

  • The Theory and Craft of Digital Preservation
    Trevor Owens
    Many people believe that what is on the Internet will be around forever. At the same time, warnings of an impending "digital dark age"--where records of the recent past become completely lost or inaccessible--appear with regular frequency in the popular press. It's as if we need a system to safeguard our digital records for future scholars and researchers. Digital preservat...
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    47,25 €

  • Stanley Cavell and the Claim of Literature
    David Rudrum
    Stanley Cavell is widely recognized as one of America's most important contemporary philosophers, and his legacy and writings continue to attract considerable attention among literary critics and theorists. Stanley Cavell and the Claim of Literature comprehensively addresses the importance of literature in Cavell's philosophy and, in turn, the potential effect of his ph...
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    47,15 €

  • Hegel and the Foundations of Literary Theory
    M. A. R. Habib / MARHabib
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    120,00 €

  • Site Reading
    David J. Alworth / David JAlworth
    Site Reading offers a new method of literary and cultural interpretation and a new theory of narrative setting by examining five sites-supermarkets, dumps, roads, ruins, and asylums-that have been crucial to American literature and visual art since the mid-twentieth century. Against the traditional understanding of setting as a static background for narrative action and charact...
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    46,18 €

  • Occupying Memory
    Trevor Hoag
    Occupying Memory investigates the forces of trauma and mourning as deeply rhetorical in order to account for their capacity to seize one’s life. Rather than viewing memory as granting direct access to the past and being readily accessible or pliant to human will, Trevor Hoag exposes how the past is a rhetorical production and that trauma and mourning shatter delusions of sovere...
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    129,16 €

  • Understanding Media Semiotics
    Marcel Danesi
    Media semiotics is a valuable method of focusing on the hidden meanings within media texts. This new edition brings Understanding Media Semiotics fully up to date and is written for students of the media, of linguistics and those interested in studying the ever-changing media in more detail. Offering an in-depth guide to help students investigate and understand the media usin...
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    206,25 €

  • The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Travel Writing
    Robert Clarke
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    36,08 €

  • Dao and Sign in History
    Daniel Fried
    From its earliest origins in the Dao De Jing, Daoism has been known as a movement that is skeptical of the ability of language to fully express the truth. While many scholars have compared the earliest works of Daoism to language-skeptical movements in twentieth-century European philosophy and have debated to what degree early Daoism does or does not resemble these recent movem...
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    126,68 €

  • Comparative Literature in the Light of Chinese Prosody
    Shudong Chen
    In the light of Chinese prosody and various mutually illuminating major cases from the original English, Chinese, French, Japanese and German classical literary texts, the book explores the possibility of discovering 'a road not taken' within the road well-trodden in literature. In an approach of 'what Wittgenstein calls criss-crossing,' this monographic study, the first ever o...
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    128,97 €

  • The Cambridge Companion to Narrative Theory
    Matthew Garrett
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    35,48 €

  • The Cambridge Companion to World Literature
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    35,58 €

  • Making Signs, Translanguaging Ethnographies
    This book is the start of a conversation across Social Semiotics, Translanguaging, Complexity Theory and Sociolinguistics. In its explorations of meaning, multimodality, communication and emerging language practices, the book includes theoretical and empirical chapters that move toward an understanding of communication in its dynamic complexity. ...
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    169,45 €

  • Making Signs, Translanguaging Ethnographies
    This book is the start of a conversation across Social Semiotics, Translanguaging, Complexity Theory and Sociolinguistics. In its explorations of meaning, multimodality, communication and emerging language practices, the book includes theoretical and empirical chapters that move toward an understanding of communication in its dynamic complexity. ...
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    48,18 €

  • The Cambridge Companion to Narrative Theory
    Matthew Garrett
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    107,91 €

  • Practicing Relativism in the Anthropocene
    Barbara Herrnstein Smith
    In Practicing Relativism in the Anthropocene, Barbara Herrnstein Smith addresses a set of contemporary issues involving knowledge and science from a constructivist-pragmatist perspective often labeled "relativism." Practicing that relativism, she argues, does not mean refusing judgment or asserting absurdities but being conscious of the existence and significance of contingency...
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    19,02 €

  • The Zukofsky Era
    Ruth Jennison
    Zukofsky, Oppen, and Niedecker wrote with a diversity of formal strategies but a singularity of purpose: the crafting of an anticapitalist poetics.Inaugurated in 1931 by Louis Zukofsky, Objectivist poetry gave expression to the complex contours of culture and politics in America during the Great Depression. This study of Zukofsky and two others in the Objectivist constellation,...
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    60,46 €

  • Signatures of Struggle
    Oded Nir
    Signatures of Struggle offers a unique perspective on Israeli literature, bringing Marxist cultural critique to bear on a field from which it has hitherto been absent. Oded Nir moves beyond the dominant interpretive horizon of Israeli literary criticism: the relation of literature to national ideology. Rather than reproducing the usual narrative in which fiction resists the nat...
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    126,83 €