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Delving into the landscapes and politics of 20th and 21st century Yorkshire, Modern and Contemporary Yorkshire Poetry asks: what is Yorkshire poetry? In other words, what is it that connects poems by Larkin, Hughes, Armitage and Mort, whilst setting them apart from poetry of other UK regions?
This book offers a provocative analysis of the work of Nobel Laureate Olga Tokarczuk, situating her output in comparative contexts. The chapters making up the volume range from myth-critical focused readings, to interdisciplinary and intercultural perspectives, and read Tokarczuk's fiction alongside other arts and other authors.
This monograph is the first comprehensive analysis of the works of Ivan Vladislavi¿. Bringing a flaneur's sensitivity and deep word hoard to postcolonial Johannesburg, Vladislavi¿ developed an "internal GPS" and a minimalist style, which helped him to establish a critical sense of home and to create a culture of sustainability.
Representing Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Literature identifies the new and old forms of vulnerability that find a representation in late 20th- and 21st-century literature in English in order to analyze and problematize their underlying aesthetic and ethical rationale, as well as their causes and effects on the reading public.
Representing Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Literature identifies the new and old forms of vulnerability that find a representation in late 20th- and 21st-century literature in English in order to analyze and problematize their underlying aesthetic and ethical rationale, as well as their causes and effects on the reading public.
It addresses the changes mediasphere and communication technologies have brought for the contemporary subject, submitting them to the tyranny of a new attention economy to show how the contemporary novel and memoir evince resilience by promoting an ecology of attention whose poetics help develop an ethics of the particularist type
The book analyses the response given by Anglophone fictions since the 1990s to the ethical and political demands of the facts of war, exclusion, climate change, contagion, posthumanism and other central issues of our post-trauma age by adapting traditional forms of expressing grievability such as elegy, testimony or (pseudo-)autobiography
The book analyses the response given by Anglophone fictions since the 1990s to the ethical and political demands of the facts of war, exclusion, climate change, contagion, posthumanism and other central issues of our post-trauma age by adapting traditional forms of expressing grievability such as elegy, testimony or (pseudo-)autobiography
The book is the first study of Paul Muldoon's elegiac poetry. It covers virtually all of his elegies, showing how the elegiac attitude has underlain Muldoon's poetic development and shaped his aesthetics and formal developments, as it also demonstrates the extent to which Muldoon's elegies have transformed the genre
This collection argues that Connie Willis's oeuvre performs science fiction's task of cognitive estrangement by highlighting by highlighting our human inability to read the times correctly-and yet also affirming the ethical imperative to attempt to truly observe and record our temporal location
Real Recognition investigates the complexities of literary and social recognition to put a fresh, cross-disciplinary spin on reader identification and social acknowledgment. It argues that literary texts can make readers get what social acknowledgment is all about and thereby help us redefine a key concept in the social sciences
This book offers a constructive dialogue on the concept of the transmodern, focusing on the works by very different contemporary authors from all over the world, such as: Chimanda Ngozi Adichie, Margaret Atwood, and Sebastian Barry.
Providing an intellectual interpretation to the work of Edwidge Danticat, this new edited collection provides a pedagogical approach to teach and interpret her body of work in undergraduate and graduate classrooms.
This collection opens up new theoretical perspectives on McGrath's corpus, moving conversations around his work decisively forward and seeking to situate McGrath as a key voice in Anglophone letters in our millennial global moment.
This collection brings together a diverse and compelling array of voices from academics leading their fields around the world, to pioneer a new approach to literary analysis anchored in engagement with our changing world.
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