Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Roger Whitson / Jason Whittaker William Blake and the Digital Humanities Collaboration, Participation, and Social Media Klappentext Bibliographische Daten William Blake’s work demonstrates two tendencies that are central to social media: collaboration and participation. Not only does Blake cite and adapt the work of earlier authors and visual artists, but...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Greta Gaard / Simon C. Estok / Serpil Oppermann (Hg.) International Perspectives in Feminist Ecocriticism Klappentext Bibliographische Daten Exploring environmental literature from a feminist perspective, this volume presents a diversity of feminist ecocritical approaches to affirm the continuing contributions, relevance, and necessity of a feminist perspective in...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Clare Hanson Eugenics, Literature, and Culture in Post-war Britain Klappentext Bibliographische Daten This book explores eugenics in its wider social context and in literary representations in post-war Britain. Drawing on a wide range of sources in medicine, social and educational policy, genetics, popular science, science fiction, and literary texts, Hanson tracks the...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Carl Thompson (Hg.) Shipwreck in Art and Literature Images and Interpretations from Antiquity to the Present Day Klappentext Bibliographische Daten Tales of shipwreck have always fascinated audiences, and as a result there is a rich literature of suffering at sea, and an equally rich tradition of visual art depicting this theme. Exploring the shifting...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Justin Edwards / Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet (Hg.) The Gothic in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture Pop Goth Klappentext Bibliographische Daten This interdisciplinary collection brings together world leaders in Gothic Studies, offering dynamic new readings on popular Gothic cultural productions from the last decade. Topics covered include, but are not...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Antony Rowland / Jane Kilby (Hg.) The Future of Testimony Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Witnessing Klappentext Bibliographische Daten Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the groundbreaking Testimony , thiscollection brings together the leading academics from a range of scholarly fields to explore the meaning, use, and value of testimony in law and...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Joni Adamson / Kimberly N. Ruffin (Hg.) American Studies, Ecocriticism, and Citizenship Thinking and Acting in the Local and Global Commons Klappentext Bibliographische Daten This collection reclaims public intellectuals and scholars important to the foundational work in American Studies that contributed to emerging conceptions of an "ecological citizenship"...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Eleftheria Arapoglou / Mónika Fodor / Jopi Nyman (Hg.) Mobile Narratives Travel, Migration, and Transculturation Klappentext Bibliographische Daten Emphasizing the role of travel and migration in the performance and transformation of identity, this volume addresses representations of travel, mobility, and migration in 19 th –21 st -century travel writing,...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Christopher Eagle (Hg.) Literature, Speech Disorders, and Disability Talking Normal Klappentext Bibliographische Daten Examining representations of speech disorders in works of literature, this first collection of its kind founds a new multidisciplinary subfield related but not limited to the emerging fields of disability studies and medical humanities. The...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Andrew Lawson (Hg.) Class and the Making of American Literature Created Unequal Klappentext Bibliographische Daten This book refocuses current understandings of American Literature from the revolutionary period to the present-day through an analytical accounting of class, reestablishing a foundation for discussions of class in American culture. American...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Daniel H. Rellstab / Christiane Schlote (Hg.) Representations of War, Migration, and Refugeehood Interdisciplinary Perspectives Klappentext Bibliographische Daten War, migration, and refugeehood are inextricably linked and the complex nature of all three phenomena offers profound opportunities for representation and misrepresentation. This volume brings...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Maria Beville The Unnameable Monster in Literature and Film Klappentext Bibliographische Daten This book visits the 'Thing' in its various manifestations as an unnameable monster in literature and film, reinforcing the idea that the very essence of the monster is its excess and its indeterminacy. Tied primarily to the artistic modes of the gothic, science fiction, and...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Marita Nadal / Mónica Calvo (Hg.) Trauma in Contemporary Literature Narrative and Representation Klappentext Bibliographische Daten Trauma in Contemporary Literature analyzes contemporary narrative texts in English in the light of trauma theory, including essays by scholars of different countries who approach trauma from a variety of perspectives. The book...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Mark J. Bruhn / Donald R. Wehrs (Hg.) Cognition, Literature, and History Klappentext Bibliographische Daten Cognition, Literature, and History models the ways in which cognitive and literary studies may collaborate and thereby mutually advance. It shows how understanding of underlying structures of mind can productively inform literary analysis and historical inquiry,...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Christin Hoene Music and Identity in Postcolonial British South-Asian Literature Klappentext Bibliographische Daten This book examines the role of music in British-South Asian postcolonial literature, asking how music relates to the construction of postcolonial identity. It focuses on novels that explore the postcolonial condition in India, Pakistan, and the United...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Lorna Fitzsimmons / Youngsuk Chae / Bella Adams (Hg.) Asian American Literature and the Environment Klappentext Bibliographische Daten This book is a ground-breaking transnational study of representations of the environment in Asian American literature. Extending and renewing Asian American studies and ecocriticism by drawing the two fields into deeper dialogue, it brings...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Basuli Deb Transnational Feminist Perspectives on Terror in Literature and Culture Klappentext Bibliographische Daten This book offers a transnational feminist response to the gender politics of torture and terror from the viewpoint of populations of color who have come to be associated with acts of terror. Using the War on Terror in Afghanistan and Iraq, this book...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Meghan Marie Hammond / Sue J. Kim (Hg.) Rethinking Empathy through Literature Klappentext Bibliographische Daten In recent years, a growing field of empathy studies has started to emerge from several academic disciplines, including neuroscience, social psychology, and philosophy. Because literature plays a central role in discussions of empathy across disciplines,...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Elana Gomel Narrative Space and Time Representing Impossible Topologies in Literature Klappentext Bibliographische Daten Space is a central topic in cultural and narrative theory today, although in most cases theory assumes Newtonian absolute space. However, the idea of a universal homogeneous space is now obsolete. Black holes, multiple dimensions, quantum...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Jean-Michel Ganteau / Susana Onega (Hg.) Contemporary Trauma Narratives Liminality and the Ethics of Form Klappentext Bibliographische Daten This book provides a comprehensive compilation of essays on the relationship between formal experimentation and ethics in a number of generically hybrid or "liminal" narratives dealing with individual and collective...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Birgit Mara Kaiser (Hg.) Singularity and Transnational Poetics Klappentext Bibliographische Daten Over the past decade ‘singularity’ has been a prominent term in a broad range of fields, ranging from philosophy to literary and cultural studies to science and technology studies. This volume intervenes in this broad discussion of singularity and its various implications,...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Monica Germana / Aris Mousoutzanis (Hg.) Apocalyptic Discourse in Contemporary Culture Post-Millennial Perspectives on the End of the World Klappentext Bibliographische Daten This interdisciplinary collection of essays focuses on critical and theoretical responses to the apocalypse of the late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century cultural production....
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Ana María Fraile-Marcos (Hg.) Literature and the Glocal City Reshaping the English Canadian Imaginary Klappentext Bibliographische Daten The modern city is a space that can simultaneously represent the principles of its homeland alongside its own unique blend of the cultures that intermingle within its city limits. This book makes an intervention in...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Jernej Habjan / Fabienne Imlinger (Hg.) Globalizing Literary Genres Literature, History, Modernity Klappentext Bibliographische Daten Focused on the relation between processes of globalization and literary genres, this volume intervenes in the prevalent notions of globalization, literary history, genre, and the novel. Using both close reading and world...
Volltext über FID-Lizenzen Jason Haslam Gender, Race, and American Science Fiction Reflections on Fantastic Identities Klappentext Bibliographische Daten This book focuses on the interplay of gender, race, and their representation in American science fiction, from the nineteenth-century through to the twenty-first, and across a number of forms including literature and film. Haslam...
