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Mediating Memory: Tracing the Limits of Memoir by Bunty Avieson 9780367667429
RRP: €47.59€41.72The argument has been made that memoir reflects and augments the narcissistic tendencies of our neo-liberal age. Mediating Memory: Tracing the Limits of Memoir challenges and dismantles that assumption. Focusing on the history, theory and practice of... -
Postcolonial Naturalism: Periodization, World-Literature, and the Anglophone Novel by Eric D. Smith 9781837640508
€114.97Postcolonial Naturalism proposes an innovative periodizing schema for historicizing contemporary Anglophone fiction. Engaging and revising the materialist paradigm of the Warwick Research Collective’s concept of “world-literature,” Fredric Jameson’s... -
The Ethos of Digital Environments: Technology, Literary Theory and Philosophy by Susanna Lindberg 9780367643324
RRP: €47.59€41.72While self-driving cars and autonomous weapon systems have received a great deal of attention in media and research, the general requirements of ethical life in today’s digitalizing reality have not been made sufficiently visible and evaluable. This... -
Zadie Smith and Postcolonial Trauma: Decolonising Trauma, Decolonising Selves by Beatriz Pérez Zapata 9781032034638
RRP: €47.59€41.72This monograph analyses Zadie Smith’s White Teeth, On Beauty, NW, The Embassy of Cambodia, and Swing Time as trauma fictions that reveal the social, cultural, historical, and political facets of trauma. Starting with Smith’s humorous critique of... -
Serialization in Literature Across Media and Markets by Sara Tanderup Linkis 9781032209142
RRP: €23.79€21.05Serialization is an old narrative strategy and a form of publication that can be traced far back in literary history, yet serial narratives are as popular as ever. This book investigates a resurgence of serial narratives in contemporary literary culture... -
Musical Stimulacra: Literary Narrative and the Urge to Listen by Ivan Delazari 9780367688196
RRP: €47.59€41.72The title coinage of this book, stimulacra, refers to the fundamental capacity of literary narrative to stimulate our minds and senses by simulating things through words. Musical stimulacra are passages of fiction that readers are empowered to transpose... -
Representing Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Literature by Miriam Fernandez-Santiago 9781032130316
RRP: €148.75€128.83Representing Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Literature includes a collection of essays exploring the ways in which recent literary representations of vulnerability may problematize its visibilization from an ethical and aesthetic perspective. Recent... -
Literature and the War on Terror: Nation, Democracy and Liberalisation by Sk Sagir Ali 9781032424835
RRP: €45.21€39.72This book examines cultural imaginations post 9/11. It explores the idea of a religious community and its multifaceted representations in literature and popular culture. The essays in the volume focus on the role of literature, film, music, television... -
Narratives of Trauma in South Asian Literature by Goutam Karmakar 9781032405353
RRP: €42.83€37.71This volume addresses cultural and literary narratives of trauma in South Asian literature. Presenting a novel cross-cultural perspective on trauma theory, the essays within this volume study the divergent cultural responses to trauma and violence in... -
Narratives of Trauma in South Asian Literature by Goutam Karmakar 9781032256825
RRP: €148.75€128.35This volume addresses cultural and literary narratives of trauma in South Asian literature. Presenting a novel cross-cultural perspective on trauma theory, the essays within this volume study the divergent cultural responses to trauma and violence in... -
Contemporary Capitalism, Crisis, and the Politics of Fiction: Literature Beyond Fordism by Roberto del Valle Alcala 9781032240015
RRP: €47.59€41.72Contemporary Capitalism, Crisis, and the Politics of Fiction: Literature Beyond Fordism proposes a fresh approach to contemporary fictional engagements with the idea of crisis in capitalism and its various social and economic manifestations.Book... -
Serialization in Literature Across Media and Markets by Sara Tanderup Linkis 9780367608095
RRP: €59.49€48.43Serialization is an old narrative strategy and a form of publication that can be traced far back in literary history, yet serial narratives are as popular as ever. This book investigates a resurgence of serial narratives in contemporary literary culture... -
Asian American Literature by Jinqi Ling 9781350336018
RRP: €27.36€23.93This book introduces Asian American literary studies by engaging the conditions, contingencies, and immediate and long-term effects of its major debates. Two rationales inform Ling's presentation of the field in this way: first is a felt need to provide... -
The Noah Myth in Twenty-First-Century Cli-Fi Novels: Rewritings from a Drowning World by Helen E. Mundler 9781640141315
RRP: €59.50€56.94With the rise of concern about global warming in recent years, climate-change fiction, or cli-fi, has become increasingly important both as a publishing phenomenon and as an area of academic study and research. Flood narratives have become a subsection... -
Literary Studies and Well-Being: Structures of Experience in the Worldly Work of Literature and Healthcare by Ronald Schleifer
€28.12The literary arts represent and provoke experiences of understanding and emotion, and this open access study examines how the practical pursuit of well-being in healthcare reveals purposes at the core of our engagements with and understanding of... -
Literature and the War on Terror: Nation, Democracy and Liberalisation by Sk Sagir Ali
RRP: €148.75€128.35This book examines cultural imaginations post 9/11. It explores the idea of a religious community and its multifaceted representations in literature and popular culture. The essays in the volume focus on the role of literature, film, music, television... -
Posthumanity in the Anthropocene: Margaret Atwood's Dystopias by Esther Muñoz-González
RRP: €154.70€133.41This book is an opportunity to enter and expand critical discussions of Atwood’s dystopian work, an object of global interest at all academic levels from the perspective of posthuman discourse. Moreover, The Heart Goes Last, a novel that has been... -
Real Recognition: What Literary Texts Reveal about Social Validation and the Politics of Identity by MARIE-ELISABETH LEI PIHL
RRP: €148.75€128.35Real Recognition investigates the complexities of literary and social recognition with the aim of putting a fresh, cross-disciplinary spin on reader identification and social acknowledgment. Engaging with contemporary Danish and Anglophone works on... -
Contemporary Capitalism, Crisis, and the Politics of Fiction: Literature Beyond Fordism by Roberto del Valle Alcala
RRP: €160.65€139.56Contemporary Capitalism, Crisis, and the Politics of Fiction: Literature Beyond Fordism proposes a fresh approach to contemporary fictional engagements with the idea of crisis in capitalism and its various social and economic manifestations. The book... -
Digital Literature and Critical Theory by Annika Elstermann
RRP: €42.83€37.71The aim at the core of this book is a synthesis of increasingly popular and culturally significant forms of digital literature on the one hand, and established literary and critical theory on the other: reading digital texts through the lens of canonical... -
Dalit Cosmos: Understanding Caste, Marginalisation and Dalit Literature in India by Mudnakudu Chinnaswamy
RRP: €148.75€128.35This book is a fierce argument against social and caste discrimination in India, especially untouchability and emphatic call for social justice. Written by a first-generation Kannada Dalit writer, the book provides an insider’s view of caste... -
Representing Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Literature by Miriam Fernandez-Santiago
RRP: €42.83€37.71Representing Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Literature includes a collection of essays exploring the ways in which recent literary representations of vulnerability may problematize its visibilization from an ethical and aesthetic perspective. Recent... -
Women, Poetry and the Voice of a Nation by Anne Varty
RRP: €107.10€87.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474489843Author Anne VartyFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 156g -
Writing the Past in Twenty-First-Century American Fiction by Alexandra Lawrie
€129.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474463447Author Alexandra LawrieFormat HardbackPage Count 242Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 156g -
Transhumanism and Posthumanism in Twenty-First Century Narrative: Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture by Sonia Baelo-Allue
RRP: €45.21€39.72Transhumanism and Posthumanism in Twenty-First Century Narrative brings together fifteen scholars from five different countries to explore the different ways in which the posthuman has been addressed in contemporary culture and more specifically in key... -
Ecospectrality: Haunting and Environmental Justice in Contemporary Anglophone Novels by Laura A. White
€128.34Along with humans and animals, ghosts populate the pages of contemporary Anglophone novels. Analysing novels from across the world-including Australia, Nigeria, South Africa, India, and Jamaica, this book explores how these ghosts can help readers to... -
Disability in Translation: The Indian Experience by Someshwar Sati
RRP: €45.21€39.72This volume explores how disability is seen, written about, read and understood through literature and translation. Foregrounding the asymmetrical world of power relations, it delves into the act of translation to exhibit how disability is constructed... -
Understanding Stewart O'Nan by Heike Paul
RRP: €21.36€17.67This first book-length study of Stewart O'Nan's work offers a comprehensive introduction to his writings and carefully examines recurring thematic concerns and stylistic characteristics of his novels. The author of eighteen novels, several works of... -
Chris Abani by Annalisa Oboe
RRP: €101.15€71.60This is the first full-length book on the work of 'global Igbo' writer Chris Abani. The volume dedicates a chapter to each of Abani's fiction books, the two novellas Becoming Abigail (2006) and Song for Night (2007), the three novels GraceLand (2004),... -
The Politics of Literature in a Divided 21st Century by Katharina Donn
RRP: €44.02€39.19How does literature matter politically in the 21st century? This book offers an ecocritical framework for exploring the significance of literature today. Featuring a diverse body of texts and authors, it develops a future-oriented politics embedded in... -
A Companion to Mia Couto by Grant Hamilton
RRP: €77.35€74.03Already well-established in the Lusophone world, Mia Couto is increasingly acknowledged as a major voice in World literature. Winner of the Camoes Prize for Literature in 2013, the most prestigious literary prize honouring Lusophone writers, he was... -
Interviews from the Edge: 50 Years of Conversations about Writing and Resistance by Mark Yakich
RRP: €26.17€24.50Interviews from the Edge presents a selection of conversations, drawn from 50 years of the international journal New Orleans Review, that dive head-first into the most enduring aesthetic and social concerns of the last half century. From reflections... -
David Mitchell's Post-Secular World by Dr Rose Harris-Birtill
RRP: €130.90€66.59Since the publication of Ghostwritten (1999), David Mitchell has rapidly established himself as one of the most inventive and important British novelists of the 21st century. In this landmark study, Rose Harris-Birtill reveals the extent to which... -
Contemporary Narratives of Dementia: Ethics, Ageing, Politics by Sarah Falcus
RRP: €160.65€139.56This book examines narratives of dementia in contemporary literary texts, studying what is now a pressing issue with deep political, economic, and social implications for many ageing societies. As part of the increasing visibility of dementia in social... -
Open at the Close: Literary Essays on Harry Potter by Cecilia Konchar Farr
RRP: €29.69€24.11Contributions by Lauren R. Carmacci, Keridiana Chez, Kate Glassman, John Granger, Marie Schilling Grogan, Beatrice Groves, Tolonda Henderson, Nusaiba Imady, Cecilia Konchar Farr, Juliana Valadao Lopes, Amy Mars, Christina Phillips-Mattson, Patrick... -
Cormac McCarthy, Philosophy and the Physics of the Damned by Patrick O'Connor
RRP: €107.10€95.89Explains Cormac McCarthy's consistent philosophical preoccupations across the span of his literary output.About the AuthorPatrick O'Connor, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Staffordshire University.Book InformationISBN 9781474497268Author Patrick... -
Latin American Comics in the Twenty-First Century: Transgressing the Frame James Scorer 9781477329023
€48.83How twenty-first-century Latin American comics transgress social, political, and cultural frontiers. Given comics’ ability to cross borders, Latin American creators have used the form to transgress the political, social, spatial, and cultural borders... -
(In)Hospitable Encounters in Chicanx and Latinx Literature, Culture, and Thought Maria Antònia Oliver-Rotger 9781032733500
RRP: €160.65€136.55This volume addresses the notion of (in)hospitality in the culture, literature, and thought of Chicanx and Latinx in the United States. It underscores those “stranger others” against whom nativist fear and state violence are directed: undocumented... -
The War Comes with You: Enduring War in Life, Fiction, and Fantasy Stacey Peebles 9781643365145
RRP: €116.62€99.13How do we tell twenty-first-century war stories when the wars seem to go on forever? In the post-2011 surge of war stories published in America and Iraq, the defining characteristic is the depiction of combat violence that crosses borders, overtakes... -
The Neoliberal Imagination in Contemporary Literature: A Study of Empathy in a Time of Global Crisis Tammy Amiel Houser 9781032752129
RRP: €166.60€141.61This book examines the relationship between empathy and neoliberalism as it unfolded in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis and through the turbulent 2010s. Via close readings of contemporary novels, as well as various non-fictional texts, it...