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  • - Orientalism and Indianness in the Anglophone World
    af Rochester Institute of Technology, USA) Ray & Amit (Amit Ray
    628,95 - 1.803,95 kr.

    Tracing the fortunes of Orientalist scholars from the inception of British rule, this study charts the work of key Indologists in the colonial era. It charts a cultural history of Indianness in the Anglophone world, locating moments where India and Indianness are offered up as solutions to modern moral, ethical and political questions in the West.

  • af Frances Restuccia
    542,95 - 1.588,95 kr.

  • - Mourning, Compensation, and Reality in Antebellum American Literature
    af USA) Balaam & Peter (Carleton College
    633,95 - 1.710,95 kr.

    Reveals the strain of a moment in American cultural history that led several writers - including Emerson, Warner, and Melville - to render the rupture of loss in various ways. This book shows how these three writers rejected Calvinist and sentimental models of bereavement, creating instead the compensations of a mature American literature.

  • - Performance and Space in Shakespeare's London
    af D. J. Hopkins
    689,95 - 1.796,95 kr.

    Examines plays, pageants, maps, and masques. This book locates the ways in which these ephemeral events contributed to change in the spatial concepts and physical topograpy of early modern London.

  • - Culture, Ideology, and Action in the Gastonia Novels of Myra Page, Grace Lumpkin, and Olive Dargin
    af Wes Mantooth
    658,95 - 1.808,95 kr.

  • af Julia Bleakney
    681,95 - 1.806,95 kr.

    Explores the memorializing practices of American veterans of the Vietnam War at several of the most significant contemporary sites of memory in the United States and Vietnam. This book examines how veterans' memorializing practices have become increasingly individualized, commodified, and conservative since the early 1980s.

  • - Readings in Romanticism's Quotidian Sublime
    af Canada) Poetzsch & Markus (Wilfrid Laurier University
    574,95 - 1.527,95 kr.

    Undertakes a reconceptualization of the theoretical and experiential framework of the Romantic sublime by shifting the focus from Burke's and Kant's prescriptions of natural vastness and grandeur to the narrower but no less wondrous spaces, objects and experiences of everyday life.

  • - Racial Ideology in the Literature and Popular Culture of the 1920's
    af Betsy Lee Nies
    619,95 - 1.885,95 kr.

    "Eugenic Fantasies" combines interpretive strategies from the fields of psychoanalysis, anthropology and literary theory to create a new model for theorizing race.

  • - Whitman, Religion, and Constructions of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Culture
    af William Pannapacker
    550,95 - 1.649,95 kr.

    An examination of self-representation in US culture. Drawing on studies of the history of the book, Pierre Bourdieu's sociology, and ethnic and gender revisionism, it focuses on the processes of national development, the self-construction of authorial personae and the appropriation of the personae by interpretive communities.

  • - On the Treatment of Racial Hybridity in the North American and Latin American Literary Traditions
    af Carlos Hiraldo
    619,95 - 1.701,95 kr.

    This book explores how the presence of African peoples has influenced the national and literary identity of American countries that have a significant black population, but do not imagine themselves primarily as black.

  • - The Little Magazine in New York
    af Adam McKible
    658,95 - 1.649,95 kr.

    Examining reactions to the Russian Revolution by four little magazines of the teens and twenties, this book emphasises the vitality of little magazines and argues for their necessary place in the study of modernism.

  • af UK) Wrighton & John (University of Aberystwyth
    633,95 - 1.807,95 kr.

    Examines the relationship between ethics, politics, and poetics. This book studies twentieth-century experimental American poetry. Relying upon the ethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, it charts the development of ethical praxis in experimental work from the Objectivists of the 1920s, through to analysis of the Black Mountain and Beat writers.

  • - Ethics, Politics, and Global Change in the Works of Kazuo Ishiguro, Michael Ondaatje, Jamaica Kincaid, and J. M. Coetzee
    af New Jersey, USA) Stanton & Katherine (Princeton University
    674,95 - 1.833,95 kr.

    Participating in the reframing of literary studies, this book identifies, as "cosmopolitan fiction", a genre of global literature that investigates the ethics and politics of complex and multiple belonging.

  • - Configurations of Feminine Subjectivity in Jane Austen Charlotte Bronte, and George Eliot
    af San Jeong Cho
    632,95 - 1.718,95 kr.

  • - Reading and Information Overload in Early Eighteenth-Century Literature
    af Katherine E. Ellison
    446,95 - 1.282,95 kr.

    Examines the emergence of alternative communication models, literary genres, and reading and interpretive strategies in response to mass media over the period of 1678 to 1722. It reveals that the term 'information' undergoes a significant transformation with social, cultural and literary consequences.

  • - Authorship and the Discourse of Literary Property Rights in Nineteenth-Century America
    af Martin T. Buinicki
    460,95 - 1.588,95 kr.

    Demonstrates how debates over copyright law in nineteenth-century America forced authors to defend their profession and their literary property in the courts, the press and in the pages of their own texts. This book argues that the act of taking out a copyright was more than a mere legal mechanism marking a transition from amateur to professional.

  • - A Transcultural Approach
     
    1.709,95 kr.

    This is a collection of essays representative of diverse geographies, all of which underscore moments of disordered eating. The volume removes the pathology and stigma surrounding non-normative eating, highlighting these acts as expressions of resistance against the sociopolitical order of operations.

  • - Irony and Audience in the Novels of Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Charles Johnson, and Tim O'Brien
    af Christopher Donovan
    616,95 - 1.649,95 kr.

    This book provides a wide-ranging discussion of realism, postmodernism, literary theory and popular fiction before focusing on the careers of four prominent novelists.

  • - The Edge of the Intelligible in Hardy, Stevens, Larking, Plath, and Gluck
    af DeSales Harrison
    630,95 - 1.812,95 kr.

    This book seeks to include among accounts of modern lyric poetry a theory of the poem's relation to the unintelligible.

  • - The Monument and Public Speech in American Poetry
    af Jake Adam York
    658,95 - 1.649,95 kr.

    This study argues that American poets become civic actors when their poems imagine and reconstruct the conceptual architecture of the moment.

  • - Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens, John Ashbery
    af Krystyna Mazur
    658,95 - 1.708,95 kr.

    The work of Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens and John Ashbery is analysed in order to discern the patterns which may operate across a broad range of examples, as well as to consider the variety of ways repetition can structure a poetic text.

  • - William James, Henry James and Edith Wharton
    af Jill M. Kress
    631,95 - 1.649,95 kr.

    This work, through analysis of metaphors of conciousness, traces the significance of representations of knowledge, gender and social class, revealing how writers conceived of the self in modern literature.

  • - The Photographic Image and the Written Word in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
    af Megan Williams
    658,95 kr.

    The Civil War was the first 'image war', as photographs of the battlefields became the dominant means for capturing an epochal historical moment. This title examines how key19th-century American writers attempted to combat, understand, and incorporate the advent of photography in their fiction.

  • - British Romantic Writings about the Ottoman Empire
    af Filiz Turhan
    658,95 - 1.649,95 kr.

    This study provides copious historical context for the role the Ottoman Empire played in the development of imperial discourses in a time when the colonial holdings of Great Britain increased exponentially.

  • - The Female Body and Biomedical Discourse in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel
    af Sondra M. Archimedes
    401,95 - 1.110,95 kr.

    Analyzing novels by Charles Dickens, H Rider Haggard and Thomas Hardy, this book examines nineteenth-century literary representations of the pathologized female body in relation to biomedical discourses about gender and society in Victorian England.

  • - The Post-Holocaust Narratives of Pynchon, Abish, DeLillo, and Spiegelman
    af Katalin Orban
    628,95 - 1.705,95 kr.

    This title suggests that although the treatment and evasion of the Holocaust in certain postmodern texts often seems irresponsible, the texts have a deep affinity with ethical theories anchored in notions of obsession, persecution and trauma.

  • - Literary Culture and Consumer Capitalism in Rhys, Woolf, Stein, and Nella Larsen
    af Alissa G. Karl
    616,95 - 1.771,95 kr.

    The relationship of writers and artists to mass-marketplaces and popular cultural forms is often understood as one of ambivalence. This book redirects this established line of inquiry, considering the practical and conceptual interfaces between literary practice and dominant economic institutions and ideas.

  • - Seizures of the Sacred from Upton Sinclair to the Sopranos
    af William G. Little
    452,95 - 1.409,95 kr.

    Through interdisciplinary engagement with fiction and popular culture, this book explores the philsophical, social, and aesthetic implications of twentieth-century America's obsession with eliminating waste.

  • - Anxieties of Authorship in the Mass Market
    af Bradley Deane
    284,95 - 489,95 kr.

    This book examines a sequence of crisis in nineteenth-century print culture in order to offer an original narrative of what it meant, and what it could have meant to be a Victorian Novelist.

  • - Mapping Gender, Race, Space, and Identity in Willa Cather and Toni Morrison
    af Danielle Russell
    614,95 - 1.802,95 kr.

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