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  1. Robert Holdstock’s Mythago Wood
    A Critical Companion
    Author: Kincaid, Paul
    Published: 2022.
    Publisher:  Springer International Publishing, Cham ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

    1 Introduction: Into the Wood -- 2 War -- 3 Time -- 4 Myth -- 5 Aftermath -- Bibliography -- Index. "Paul Kincaid’s engaging discussion of Robert Holdstock’s masterwork is a model of enlightening criticism, providing both historical and literary... more

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    1 Introduction: Into the Wood -- 2 War -- 3 Time -- 4 Myth -- 5 Aftermath -- Bibliography -- Index. "Paul Kincaid’s engaging discussion of Robert Holdstock’s masterwork is a model of enlightening criticism, providing both historical and literary contexts without resorting to special pleading or academic jargon. Even readers who have long loved Mythago Wood are likely to be pleasantly surprised at how thoroughly Kincaid unravels the true depth and complexity of the novel." —Gary K. Wolfe, Professor of Humanities Emeritus, Roosevelt University, USA This book is a detailed examination of one of the most important works of fantasy literature from the twentieth century. It goes through Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock considering how it engages with war on a personal and family level, how it plays with ideas of time as something fluid and disturbing, and how it presents mythology as something crude and dangerous. The book places Mythago Wood in the context of Holdstock’s other works, noting in part how complex ideas of time have been a consistent element in his fiction. The book also briefly examines how the themes laid out in Mythago Wood are carried through into later books in the sequence as well as the Merlin Codex. Paul Kincaid is the author of books on Iain Banks, Christopher Priest, and Brian Aldiss, as well as two collections of essays. He has twice won the BSFA Non-Fiction Award and has also received the Science Fiction Research Association’s Thomas Clareson Award.

     
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    Series: Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon
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    Subjects: Fiction.; Popular Culture.; Literature, Modern—20th century.; Literature, Modern—21st century.; Literature—History and criticism.
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 91 p.)
  2. New Perspectives on Contemporary German Science Fiction
    Contributor: Schmeink, Lars (HerausgeberIn); Cornils, Ingo (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2022.
    Publisher:  Springer International Publishing, Cham ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

    Introduction: Science Fiction in German – An Overview Ingo Cornils / Lars Schmeink (University of Leeds, UK / HafenCity University, Germany) -- Going Round in Cycles: Time Travel and Determinism in Dark (2017–) Juliane Blank (University of the... more

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    Introduction: Science Fiction in German – An Overview Ingo Cornils / Lars Schmeink (University of Leeds, UK / HafenCity University, Germany) -- Going Round in Cycles: Time Travel and Determinism in Dark (2017–) Juliane Blank (University of the Saarland) -- White German Agency in Transfer, Die kommenden Tage, Hell Evan Torner (University of Cincinnati, USA) -- Popular German Science Fiction Film and European Migration Gabriele Müller (York University, Canada) -- Daring Dystopia: Finding the Female Voice in Formal Experiments Klaudia Seibel (University of Giessen, Germany) -- 'Last Men' in the Dystopian Novel of Contemporary German Literature Kristina Mateescu (University of Heidelberg, Germany) -- Dirk C. Fleck’s Maeva Trilogy Peter Seyferth (Independent Scholar, Munich, Germany) -- QualityLand: Marc-Uwe Kling's Social Commentary as "Funny Dystopia" Joscha Klüppel (University of Oregon, United States) -- Part III: New Criticism – Climate Change and Ecology -- Ecocriticism in Contemporary German SF Laura Zinn (University of Giessen, Germany) -- Misogyny and climate change in Karen Duve’s Macht -- Clarisa Novello (University of Aberdeen, Scotland) -- Apocalyptic Greeneries: Climate, Vegetation and the End of the World in Ransmayr, Kracht and Fritsch Solvejg Nitzke (Technical University of Dresden, Germany) -- The Language of Ice in the Anthropocene: The Case of Der Schwarm, Eiszeit In Europa? and Eistau Matteo Gallostampino (University of Bergamo, Italy) -- Part IV: New Identities – Gender, Health, Posthumanism -- From Fiction to Society: Gender-Neutral Pronouns in the Near Future Novel Wasteland Aşkın-Hayat Doğan (Independent Scholar, Berlin, Germany) -- The Paradoxes of Illness and Health in Juli Zeh’s Corpus Delicti: Ein Prozess Mylene Branco (Université Luxembourg) -- Nach der Langeweile. Boredom, Critical Posthumanism and Critique of Culture Hanna Schumacher (University of Edinburg, Scotland) -- Transhumanism Revisited: Dietmar Dath’s Abschaffung der Arten Roland Innerhofer (University of Vienna, Austria). New Perspectives on Contemporary German Science Fiction demonstrates the variety and scope of German science fiction (SF) production in literature, television, and cinema. The volume argues that speculative fictions and explorations of the fantastic provide a critical lens for studying the possibilities and limitations of paradigm shifts in society. Lars Schmeink and Ingo Cornils bring together essays that study the renaissance of German SF in the twenty-first century. The volume makes clear that German SF is both global and local—the genre is in balance between internationally dominant forms and adapting them to Germany’s reality as it relates to migration, the environment, and human rights. The essays explore a range of media (literature, cinema, television) and relevant political, philosophical, and cultural discourses. Lars Schmeink is Research Fellow at the Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany. For 2022, he has received a Leverhulme Visiting Professorship at the University of Leeds, UK. He is a researcher in the FutureWork research project of the German Ministry of Education at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. He is the founder of the Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung and has served as president of the board from 2010 to 2019. He has published widely on science fiction, the fantastic, and popular culture, including The Routledge Companion to Cyberpunk Culture (co-editor, 2020); Cyberpunk and Visual Culture (co-editor, 2018); Biopunk Dystopias: Genetic Engineering, Society, and Science Fiction (2016), Collision of Realities (co-editor, 2012), and Fremde Welten (co-editor, 2012). Ingo Cornils is Professor of German Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. He has published widely on science fiction, edited two special issues of the academic journal literatur für leser on German language science fiction co-edited, with Ricarda Vidal, the volume Alternative Worlds: Blue-Sky Thinking since 1900 (2015), and authored of the monograph Beyond Tomorrow: German Science Fiction and Utopian Thought in the 20th and 21st Century (2020).

     
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    Contributor: Schmeink, Lars (HerausgeberIn); Cornils, Ingo (HerausgeberIn)
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    ISBN: 9783030959630
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    Series: Studies in Global Science Fiction
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    Subjects: Literature, Modern—20th century.; Literature, Modern—21st century.; Fiction.; European literature.; Motion picture plays, European.; Human ecology—History.; Europe, Central—History.
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 317 p. 8 illus.)
  3. The Change of Narrative Modes in Chinese Fiction (1898–1927)
    Author: Chen, Pingyuan
    Published: 2022.
    Publisher:  Springer Singapore, Singapore ; Imprint: Springer

    Chapter One: Introduction -- Part I Enlightenment from Western Fiction and the Transformation of Narrative Mode in Chinese Fiction -- Chapter Two: Transformation of Narrative Time in Chinese Fiction -- Chapter Three: Transformation of Point of View... more

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    Chapter One: Introduction -- Part I Enlightenment from Western Fiction and the Transformation of Narrative Mode in Chinese Fiction -- Chapter Two: Transformation of Narrative Time in Chinese Fiction -- Chapter Three: Transformation of Point of View in Chinese Fiction -- Chapter Four: Transformation of Narrative Structure in Chinese Fiction -- Part II Influence of Traditional Literature on the Transformation of Narrative Mode in Chinese Fiction -- Chapter Five: Creative Transformation of Traditional Literature -- Chapter Six: Penetration of Traditional Style into Fiction -- Chapter Seven: Influence of Historical Biography and Poetry -- Chapter Eight: Conclusion. This book examines the Chinese fictions (xiaoshuo) published between 1898 and 1927 – three pivotal decades, during which China underwent significant social changes. It applies Narratology and Sociology of the Novel methods to analyze both the texts themselves and the social-cultural factors that triggered the transformation of the narrative mode in Chinese fiction. Based on empirical data, the author argues that this transformation was not only inspired by translated Western fiction, but was also the result of a creative transformation in tradition Chinese literature. .

     
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    Series: Springer eBook Collection
    Subjects: Oriental literature.; Fiction.
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource(XII, 362 p. 5 illus.)
  4. Late Europeans and Melancholy Fiction at the Turn of the Millennium
    Author: Ellison, Ian
    Published: 2022.
    Publisher:  Springer International Publishing, Cham ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

    1 Introduction -- 2 Detecting lateness in Dora Bruder by Patrick Modiano -- 3 Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald: A Late Fairy Tale -- 4 Exiled Lateness in Sefarad by Antonio Muñoz Molina -- 5 Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography. “In an account informed by... more

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    1 Introduction -- 2 Detecting lateness in Dora Bruder by Patrick Modiano -- 3 Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald: A Late Fairy Tale -- 4 Exiled Lateness in Sefarad by Antonio Muñoz Molina -- 5 Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography. “In an account informed by Benjamin and Nietzsche, Ian Ellison explores the melancholy of late modernist fictions by Patrick Modiano, W. G. Sebald and Antonio Muñoz Molina. These epigonal fictions cross the threshold between fiction and history and are gathered here as works of detection which emphasize the pathos of their own epistemological failure. Although Ellison acknowledges that these novels communicate the exhaustion of European culture and the irreconcilable violence of its past, notably against its Jews, he proposes that a rejuvenation of the future is still possible. This book is a fresh and adeptly theorised work by an emerging scholar in comparative literary studies.” --Richard Robinson, Associate Professor of English, Swansea University, UK This book is the first comparative study of novels by Patrick Modiano, W. G. Sebald, and Antonio Muñoz Molina. Drawing on many literary figures, movements, and traditions, from the Spanish Golden Age, to German Romanticism, to French philosophy, via Jewish modernist literature, Ian Ellison offers a fresh perspective on European fiction published around the turn of the millennium. Reflecting on what makes European fiction European, this book examines how certain novels understand themselves to be culturally and historically late, expressing a melancholy awareness of how the past and present are irreconcilable. Within this framework, however, it considers how backwards-facing, tradition-oriented self-consciousness, burdened by a sense of exhaustion in European culture and the violence of its past, may yet suggest the potential for re-enchantment in the face of obsolescence. Ian Ellison divides his time as a DAAD PRIME postdoctoral research fellow between the University of Kent in Canterbury, UK, their Paris School of Arts & Culture, France, and the Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. This is his first book.

     
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    Series: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature
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    Subjects: European literature.; Literature, Modern—20th century.; Literature, Modern—21st century.; Fiction.; Comparative literature.; Literature—Aesthetics.
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 274 p.)
  5. Alfred Bester’s The Stars My Destination
    A Critical Companion
    Author: Wilson, D. Harlan
    Published: 2022.
    Publisher:  Springer International Publishing, Cham ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

    1. Introduction -- 2. Synopsis -- 3. Cyberpunk Previsions and Literary Influences -- 4. The Frankenstein Riff -- 5. Architectures of Psyche, Power and Patriarchy -- 6. Speaking in Gutter Tongues -- 7. Coda. . In this comprehensive study of The Stars... more

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    1. Introduction -- 2. Synopsis -- 3. Cyberpunk Previsions and Literary Influences -- 4. The Frankenstein Riff -- 5. Architectures of Psyche, Power and Patriarchy -- 6. Speaking in Gutter Tongues -- 7. Coda. . In this comprehensive study of The Stars My Destination, D. Harlan Wilson makes a case for the continued significance of Alfred Bester’s SF masterwork, exploring its distinctive style, influences, intertextuality, affect, and innovation as well as its extensive metafictional properties. In Stars, Bester established himself as a son of the pulp-SF and high-modernist writers that preceded him and a forefather to the New Wave and cyberpunk movements that followed his lead. Wilson’s study depicts Bester as an SF insider as much as an outlier, writing in the spirit of the genre but breaking with the fixation on hard science in favor of psychological interiority, literary experimentation, and adult themes. The book combines close-readings of the novel with broader concerns about contemporary media, technoculture, and the current state of SF itself. In Wilson’s view, SF is a moribund artform, and Stars foresaw the inevitable science fictionalization of our benighted world. With scholarly lucidity and precision, Wilson shows us that Stars pointed the way to what we have (un)become. D. Harlan Wilson is an American novelist, playwright, editor, critic, and Professor of English at the Lake Campus of Wright State University, USA. He is the author of over 30 book-length works of fiction and nonfiction.

     
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    Series: Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon
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    Subjects: Fiction.; Literature, Modern—20th century.; America—Literatures.; Popular Culture.; Motion pictures.; Television broadcasting.
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 124 p. 1 illus.)
  6. Reading Slaughter
    Abattoir Fictions, Space, and Empathy in Late Modernity
    Author: Borkfelt, Sune
    Published: 2022.
    Publisher:  Springer International Publishing, Cham ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

    1. Introduction: Fleshing Out Invisibilities -- 2. Literary Narratives and the Empathics of Slaughter -- 3. Anthropomorphism and the Abattoir -- 4. Flesh of the City: Slaughterhouses and the Urban -- 5. Ruralities and the Abattoir -- 6. Who... more

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    1. Introduction: Fleshing Out Invisibilities -- 2. Literary Narratives and the Empathics of Slaughter -- 3. Anthropomorphism and the Abattoir -- 4. Flesh of the City: Slaughterhouses and the Urban -- 5. Ruralities and the Abattoir -- 6. Who Slaughters and Who Consumes? On Butcher(ing) Identities -- 7. Dark Spaces: The Horrific Slaughterhouse -- 8. Coda. Reading Slaughter: Abattoir Fictions, Space, and Empathy in Late Modernity examines literary depictions of slaughterhouses from the development of the industrial abattoir in the late nineteenth century to today. The book focuses on how increasing and ongoing isolation and concealment of slaughter from the surrounding society affects readings and depictions of slaughter and abattoirs in literature, and on the degree to which depictions of animals being slaughtered creates an avenue for empathic reactions in the reader or the opportunity for reflections on human-animal relations. Through chapters on abattoir fictions in relation to narrative empathy, anthropomorphism, urban spaces, rural spaces, human identities and horror fiction, Sune Borkfelt contributes to debates in literary animal studies, human-animal studies and beyond. Sune Borkfelt lectures at Aarhus University, Denmark. His publications include articles and book chapters on nonhuman otherness, postcolonial animals, the naming of nonhuman animals, and the ethics of animal product marketing. He is also co-author of a critical research-based Danish book on hunting.

     
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    Series: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature
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    Subjects: Fiction.; Literature, Modern—20th century.; Literature, Modern—21st century.; Space.; Culture.; Literature—History and criticism.; Animal welfare—Moral and ethical aspects.; Cognition in animals.
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource(VIII, 279 p.)
  7. Amputation in Literature and Film
    Artificial Limbs, Prosthetic Relations, and the Semiotics of "Loss"
    Contributor: Grayson, Erik (HerausgeberIn); Scheurer, Maren (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2021.
    Publisher:  Springer International Publishing, Cham ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

    1. Introduction: Amputation and the Semiotics of “Loss” -- Part I: The Politics of Amputation -- 2. “Lame Doings.” Amputation, Impotence, and Community in The Shoemaker’s Holiday and A Larum for London -- 3. Complicating the Semiotics of Loss.... more

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    1. Introduction: Amputation and the Semiotics of “Loss” -- Part I: The Politics of Amputation -- 2. “Lame Doings.” Amputation, Impotence, and Community in The Shoemaker’s Holiday and A Larum for London -- 3. Complicating the Semiotics of Loss. Gender, Power and Amputation Narratives -- 4. Stalin’s Samovars: Disabled Veterans in (Post-)Soviet Literature -- Part II. Amputations’s Intersections -- 5. “She Had Wept So Long and So Much on the Stumps”: Amputation and Embodiment in “The Girl Without Hands” -- 6. Defective Femininity and (Sur)Realist Empowerment: Benito Pérez Galdós’s and Luis Buñuel’s Tristana -- 7. “Even at This Late Juncture”: Amputation, Old Age, and Paul Rayment’s Prosthetic Family in J.M. Coetzee’s Slow Man -- Part III: Grief and Prosthetic Relations -- 8. The Penalty in Novel and Film: Grieving with the Vengeful Amputee -- 9. “The Blunt Remnant of Something Whole”: Living Stumps and Prosthetic Relations in Thomas Bernhard’s Die Billigesser and Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America -- 10. “But the Damage … Lasted”: Phantom Pain and Mourning in Moritz’s Anton Reiser -- Part IV: Philosophy, Language, Disability -- 11. Zhuangzi, Amputees, and Virtue (de) -- 12. Speech—Amputation—Writing: Philomela’s Notalogy -- 13. (In)complete Amputation: Body Integrity Identity Disorder and Maurice Blanchot. “This collection accomplishes the difficult work of situating the meanings of amputation in their historical contexts, within a gendered and sexual economy organized around shifting power relations. In this way, the book brings a sophisticated analysis rooted in disability studies to the examination of amputation as a signifier and as a material reality.” —Sarah E. Chinn, Hunter College, CUNY, USA Amputation in Literature and Film: Artificial Limbs, Prosthetic Relations, and the Semiotics of “Loss” explores the many ways in which literature and film have engaged with the subject of amputation. The scholars featured in this volume draw upon a wide variety of texts, both lesser-known and canonical, across historical periods and language traditions to interrogate the intersections of disability studies with social, political, cultural, and philosophical concerns. Whether focusing on ancient texts by Zhuangzi or Ovid, renaissance drama, folktales collected by the Brothers Grimm, novels or silent film, the chapters in this volume highlight the dialectics of “loss” and “gain” in narratives of amputation to encourage critical dialogue and forge an integrated, embodied understanding of experiences of impairment in which mind and body, metaphor and materiality, theory and politics are considered as interrelated and interacting aspects of disability and ability. Erik Grayson is Associate Professor of English at Northampton Community College, USA. Previously, he was Assistant Professor of English at Wartburg College, USA, and Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Luther College, USA. He has published essays on J.M. Coetzee, Walter M. Miller, Jr., Don DeLillo, and Jamaica Kincaid, among others. Maren Scheurer is Researcher and Lecturer in the Department of Comparative Literature at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She is the author of Transferences: The Aesthetics and Poetics of the Therapeutic Relationship (2019) and co-editor, with Susan Bainbrigge, of Narratives of the Therapeutic Encounter: Psychoanalysis, Talking Therapies and Creative Practice (2020). With Aimee Pozorski, she serves as executive co-editor of Philip Roth Studies.

     
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
    Series: Literary Disability Studies
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    Subjects: Comparative literature.; Fiction.; Cultural studies.; Motion pictures.; Medicine—Philosophy.
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource(XX, 325 p.)
  8. The Palgrave Handbook of Magical Realism in the Twenty-First Century
    Contributor: Perez, Richard (HerausgeberIn); Chevalier, Victoria A. (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2020.
    Publisher:  Springer International Publishing, Cham ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

    1. Proliferations of Being: The Persistence of Magical Realism in Twenty-First Century Literature and Culture, Richard Perez & Victoria A. Chevalier -- 2. The Global Life of Genres and the Material Travels of Magical Realism, Mariano Siskind -- 3.... more

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    1. Proliferations of Being: The Persistence of Magical Realism in Twenty-First Century Literature and Culture, Richard Perez & Victoria A. Chevalier -- 2. The Global Life of Genres and the Material Travels of Magical Realism, Mariano Siskind -- 3. Magical Realism, Afrofuturism, and (Afro)surrealism: The Entanglement of Categories in African Fiction, Lydie Moudileno -- 4. South Asian Magical Realism, Roanne L. Kantor -- 5. Magical Realism and the Descriptive Turn, María del Pilar Blanco -- 6. Harboring Spirits: Deontological Time, Magic, and Race in Gods Go Begging by Alfredo Vea, Richard Perez -- 7. 1978, the Year of Magical Thinking: Magical Realism and the Paradoxes of White Gay Ontology in Andrew Holleran’s Dancer from the Dance and Edmund White’s Nocturnes for the King of Naples, Nicholas F. Radel -- 8. Magical Realism and Indigenous Survivance in Australia: The Fiction of Alexis Wright, Maria Takolander -- 9. Magical Terrestrealism in Edwidge Danticat’s Claire of the Sea Light, Carine M. Mardorossian Angela Veronica Wong -- 10. The Multiplicity of This World: Troubling Origins in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing, Victoria A. Chevalier -- 11. The Analogical Legacy of Ground Zero: Magical Realism in Post-9/11 Literary and Filmic Trauma Narratives, Eugene Arva -- 12. The Uses of Enchantment: Magic Realism in Toni Morrison’s Later Writing, Claudine Raynaud -- 13. Reconstructing Personal Identity and Creating an Alternative National History: Magical Realism and the Marginalised Female Voice in Gioconda Belli’s The Inhabited Woman, Md Abu Shahid Abdullah -- 14. Black Magic: Conjure, Syncretism, and Satire in Ishmael Reed, Joshua Lam -- 15. The Magical Book-Within-the Book: I.B. Singer, Bruno Schulz, and Contemporary Jewish Post-Holocaust Fiction, Caroline Rody -- 16. Magical Realism in the Fiction of Bessie Head, Nicole Rizzuto -- 17. The Magical and Paradigmatic Intimacy of Blackness and Indianness in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Chad B. Infante -- 18. Fiction on the Verge: Testing Taboos in The Republic of Wine, Keming Liu -- 19. Magical Embodiment: Strategic Deontology in Toni Morrison’s Fiction, Johanna X. K. Garvey -- 20. Out of Time: Resisting the Nation in One Hundred Years of Solitude, Lorna L. Perez -- 21.‘The Deep Root Snapped’: Reproductive Violence and Family Un/making in Quan Barry’s She Weeps Each Time You’re Born, Mai-Linh K. Hong -- 22. Undocumented Magic: Magical Realism as ‘Aesthetic Turbulence’ in Salvador Plascencia’s The People of Paper, Marion Rohrleitner -- 23. Flying Over the Abyss: Magical Realism in Salim Barakat's The Captives of Sinjar, Fadia F. Suyoufie -- 24. Pedagogical Magic: Magical Realism’s Appeal for the Twenty-First Century Classroom, Kim Anderson Sasser & Rachael Mariboho -- 25. Outrageous Humour: Satirical Magical Realism, Maggie Ann Bowers -- 26. Winged Words and Gods as Birds: Magical Realism and Nature in the Homeric Epic, Lorna Robinson -- 27. Streaming from the Past: Magical Realism as Postmodern Fairy Tale, Dana Del George. The Palgrave Handbook of Magical Realism in the Twenty-First Century examines magical realism in literatures from around the globe. Featuring twenty-seven essays written by leading scholars, this anthology argues that literary expressions of magical realism proliferate globally in the twenty-first century due to travel and migrations, the shrinking of time and space, and the growing encroachment of human life on nature. In this global context, magical realism addresses twenty-first century politics, aesthetics, identity, and social/national formations where contact between and within cultures has exponentially increased, altering how communities and nations imagine themselves. This text assembles a group of critics throughout the world—the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Australia—who employ multiple theoretical approaches to examine the different ways magical realism in literature has transitioned to a global practice; thus, signaling a new stage in the history and development of the genre. .

     
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    Series: Springer eBook Collection
    Subjects: Literature, Modern—20th century.; Literature, Modern—21st century.; Literature   .; Fiction.; Motion pictures.; Ethnology—Latin America.
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource(XXI, 650 p. 2 illus., 1 illus. in color.)
  9. Women’s Agency in the Dune Universe
    Tracing Women’s Liberation through Science Fiction
    Author: Kennedy, Kara
    Published: 2021.
    Publisher:  Springer International Publishing, Cham ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

    1. Introduction: The Sidelining of the Women of Dune -- 2. Mind-Body Synergy -- 3. Reproduction and Motherhood -- 4. Voices -- 5. Education and Memory -- 6. Sexuality -- 7. Conclusion. This book undertakes the first large-scale analysis of women’s... more

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    1. Introduction: The Sidelining of the Women of Dune -- 2. Mind-Body Synergy -- 3. Reproduction and Motherhood -- 4. Voices -- 5. Education and Memory -- 6. Sexuality -- 7. Conclusion. This book undertakes the first large-scale analysis of women’s agency in Frank Herbert’s six-book science fiction Dune series. Kara Kennedy explores how female characters in the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood—from Jessica to Darwi Odrade—secure control and influence through five avenues of embodied agency: mind-body synergy, reproduction and motherhood, voices, education and memory, and sexuality. She also discusses constraints on their agency, tensions between individual and collective action, and comparisons with other characters including the Mentats, Bene Tleilaxu, and Honored Matres. The book engages with second-wave feminist theories and historical issues to highlight how the series anticipated and paralleled developments in the women’s liberation movement. In this context, it addresses issues regarding sexual difference and solidarity, as well as women’s demand to have control over their bodies. Kennedy concludes that the series should be acknowledged as a significant contribution to the genre as part of both New Wave and feminist science fiction. Kara Kennedy is a researcher, writer, and educator in the areas of science fiction, digital literacy, and writing. She is an avid scholar of Dune who has lectured and published on various topics including world-building. She posts literary analyses of Dune for a mainstream audience on her blog DuneScholar.com.

     
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    Subjects: Fiction.; Literature—Philosophy.; America—Literatures.; Popular Culture.; History.; Sociology.; Feminism in literature; Women in literature; Literary criticism; Critiques littéraires
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 225 p.)
  10. Shipwreck Narratives: Out of our Depth
    Author: Titlestad, Michael
    Published: 2021.
    Publisher:  Springer International Publishing, Cham ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

    1. Introduction -- Part I. Historical Narratives -- 2. An Incidental Dystopia: The Wreck of the Batavia (1629) -- 3. Captain of a Shipwreck: The Wreck of the Wager (1741) -- 4. The Limits of the Law: The Wreck of the Grosvenor (1791) -- 5.... more

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    1. Introduction -- Part I. Historical Narratives -- 2. An Incidental Dystopia: The Wreck of the Batavia (1629) -- 3. Captain of a Shipwreck: The Wreck of the Wager (1741) -- 4. The Limits of the Law: The Wreck of the Grosvenor (1791) -- 5. Remembering William Mackay: The Wreck of the Juno (1795) -- 6. The Cannibals and the Butterfly: The Wreck of the Medusa (1816) -- 7. King Baba’s Largesse: The Wreck of the Winterton (1792) -- Part II. Representations -- 8. James F. Cobb and Daphne du Maurier in Cornwall -- 9. Stephen Crane and James Hanley’s Open Boats -- 10. Proximity in Alfred Hitchcock’s Lifeboat -- 11. John Steinbeck’s ‘Lifeboat’: An Unfinished Journey 12 -- Making Room: The Lifeboat, an Invidious Motif -- 13. The Inner Wreck in Sheila Fugard’s The Castaways 143 Coda -- 14. Soundings: Gavin Bryars and Brian Eno’s Titanics -- 15. Politics in Hans Magnus Enzensberger’s The Sinking of the Titanic -- 16. ‘The Endlessly Sinking Ship’: Günter Grass’s Crabwalk -- 17. Regarding Lampedusa -- 18. Jacki McInnes’s Urban Wreck -- 19. Constructive Wrecks -- 20. Postscript: Thinking from the Sea. Shipwreck Narratives: Out of Our Depth studies both the representation of shipwreck and the ways in which shipwrecks are used in creative, philosophical, and political works. The first part of the book examines historical shipwreck narratives published over a period of two centuries and their legacies. Michael Titlestad points to a range of narrative conventions, literary tropes and questions concerning representation and its limits in narratives about these historic shipwrecks. The second part engages novels, poems, films, artwork, and musical composition that grapple with shipwreck. Collectively the chapters suggest the spectacular productivity of shipwreck narrative; the multiple ways in which its concerns and logic have inspired anxious creativity in the last century. Titlestad recognizes in weaving in his personal experience that shipwreck—the destruction of form and the advent of disorder—could be seen not only as a corollary for his own neurological disorder, but also an abiding principle in tropology. This book describes how shipwreck has figured in texts (from historical narratives to fiction, film and music) as an analogue for emotional, psychological, and physical fragmentation. Michael Titlestad is Personal Professor in the Department of English, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. He has published widely in the fields of South African literature, apocalypticism, whiteness and jazz. He is the author of Making the Changes: Jazz in South African Literature and Reportage and is the co-editor (with David Watson) of The Ongoing End: The Limits of Apocalyptic Narrative. He is also the editor of English Studies in Africa, the most widely read literary studies journal in South Africa. .

     
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    Series: Maritime Literature and Culture
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    Subjects: Fiction.; Literature—Philosophy.; History.; Military history.; Archaeology.
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  11. Science Fiction in Translation
    Perspectives on the Global Theory and Practice of Translation
    Contributor: Campbell, Ian (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2021.
    Publisher:  Springer International Publishing, Cham ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

    1: Introduction: Translation and SF: Theory and Practice -- 2: Translation of/and Speculative Fiction -- 3: Ponying the Slovos: A Parallel Linguistic Analysis of Translations of A Clockwork Orange -- 4: Is Jean-Pierre April’s Story a “Canadian... more

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    1: Introduction: Translation and SF: Theory and Practice -- 2: Translation of/and Speculative Fiction -- 3: Ponying the Slovos: A Parallel Linguistic Analysis of Translations of A Clockwork Orange -- 4: Is Jean-Pierre April’s Story a “Canadian Dream”, or a Linguistic Nightmare?- 5: Promoting the Science Fiction of Stateless Languages: Militant Translation and Translating the Catalan Masterpiece Typescript of the Second Origin -- 6: Censorship or cultural adjustment? Sexual violence in Hungarian translations of Asimov’s Second Foundation -- 7: A Feminist Utopia : Language, Translation & Reproduction in Chroniques du Pays des Mères -- 8: Ungendering the Women’s Language in the English Translation of Strugatsky’s Snail on the Slope -- Philip K. Dick in French: A Voice Changing in Time -- 9: Retranslating HG Wells into Turkish -- 10: Speculative Orientalism? On “Eastern” and “Western” Referents in Boualem Sansal’s 208 -- 11: Otared and The Second Dog War : Two Arabic SF Novels -- 12: Social Technologies and Trauma in Two Novels -- 13: Alien Invasion, Brutalization and Hostile Takeover in the Enslavement Poetry of Juan Francisco Manzano 13: Ghosts, Aliens, and Machines: Epistemic Continuity and Assemblage in Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay’s Science Fiction -- 14: Pure of Heart and Strong of Stature: Retranslating the “Sick Man of Asia” -- 15: Translating the Chinese Monster in Waste -- 15: Missing Mars: Cosmic Homelessness and the Transfiguration of Anglo-American Science Fiction Tropes in Harry Martinson’s -- 16: Ménageries of an Unstable Canon: Some Notes on Three Portuguese SF Short Story Anthologies Compiled by Portuguese Editors. . Science Fiction in Translation: Perspectives on the Global Theory and Practice of Translation focuses on the process of translation and its implications. The volume explores the translation of works of science fiction (SF) from one language to another and the translation of SF tropes, terms, and ideas of SF theory into cultures outside the West. Providing a comprehensive examination of the state of translation into English, the essays consider how representative the body of translated work of SF is from the source language/culture. It also considers the social, political, and economic choices in selecting a work to translate. The book illustrates the dramatic growth both in SF production outside the Anglosphere, the translation of works from other languages into English, and the practice of translating English-language SF into other languages. Altogether, the essays map the theory, practice, and business of SF translation around the world.

     
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    Series: Studies in Global Science Fiction
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    Subjects: Fiction.; Literature.; Literature—Philosophy.; Popular Culture.; Philology.; Criticism, interpretation, etc
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  12. Bestsellers: Popular Fiction Since 1900
    Author: Bloom, Clive
    Published: 2021.
    Publisher:  Springer International Publishing, Cham ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

    1. Origins, Problems and Philosophy of the Bestseller -- 2. How the British Read -- 3 Genre: History and Form -- 4. Literature for Children -- 5. Further Thoughts on Literature for Children -- 6. Best-selling Authors Since 1900. This book charts the... more

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    1. Origins, Problems and Philosophy of the Bestseller -- 2. How the British Read -- 3 Genre: History and Form -- 4. Literature for Children -- 5. Further Thoughts on Literature for Children -- 6. Best-selling Authors Since 1900. This book charts the publishing industry and bestselling fiction from 1900, featuring a comprehensive list of all bestselling fiction titles in the UK. This third edition includes a new introduction which features additional information on current trends in reading including the rise of Black, Asian and LGBTQIA+ publishing; the continuing importance of certain genres and up to date trends in publishing, bookselling, library borrowing and literacy. There are sections on writing for children, on the importance of audiobooks and book clubs, self- published bestsellers as well as many new entries to the present day including bestselling authors such as David Walliams, Peter James, George R R Martin and far less well known authors whose books s sell in their thousands. This is the essential guide to best-selling books, authors, genres, publishing and bookselling since 1900, providing a unique insight into more than a century of entertainment, and opening a window into the reading habits and social life of the British from the death of Queen Victoria to the Coronavirus Pandemic. .

     
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    Subjects: Fiction.; Literature, Modern—20th century.; Books—History.; Literature, Modern—21st century.; Printing.; Publishers and publishing.
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource(XXII, 459 p. 2 illus., 1 illus. in color.)
  13. The Emergence of Neuroscience and the German Novel
    Poetics of the Brain
    Author: Boos, Sonja
    Published: 2021.
    Publisher:  Springer International Publishing, Cham ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

    1. Introduction -- 2. Dissecting the Subject: Brain Localization in The Nightwatches of Bonaventura -- 3. Fiction’s Scientific Double: Hallucinations in Jean Paul’s Siebenkäs -- 4. A Tale from the Right Hemisphere: Amusia and Aphasia in Franz... more

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    1. Introduction -- 2. Dissecting the Subject: Brain Localization in The Nightwatches of Bonaventura -- 3. Fiction’s Scientific Double: Hallucinations in Jean Paul’s Siebenkäs -- 4. A Tale from the Right Hemisphere: Amusia and Aphasia in Franz Grillparzer’s The Poor Musician -- 5. Symmetry as Narrative Structure: OCD in Gottfried Keller’s A Village Romeo and Juliet -- 6. Writing Against Forgetting: Korsakoff’s Syndrome in Theodor Fontane’s On Tangled Paths -- 7. Allegory, Modernity, Learning to See: Cytoarchitectonics in Rainer Maria Rilke’s The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge -- 8. Reading Gestures: Body Schema Disorder and Schizophrenia in Franz Kafka’s Prose. The Emergence of Neuroscience and the German Novel: Poetics of the Brain revises the dominant narrative about the distinctive psychological inwardness and introspective depth of the German novel by reinterpreting the novel’s development from the perspective of the nascent discipline of neuroscience, the emergence of which is coterminous with the rise of the novel form. In particular, it asks how the novel’s formal properties—stylistic, narrative, rhetorical, and figurative—correlate with the formation of a neuroscientific discourse, and how the former may have assisted, disrupted, and/or intensified the medical articulation of neurological concepts. This study poses the question: how does this rapidly evolving field emerge in the context of nineteenth century cultural practices and what were the conditions for its emergence in the German-speaking world specifically? Where did neuroscience begin and how did it broaden in scope? And most crucially, to what degree does it owe its existence to literature?

     
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    Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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    Subjects: Literature, Modern—19th century.; Fiction.; European literature.; Cultural studies.; Technology—Sociological aspects.; Communication.
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  14. Nonhuman Agencies in the Twenty-First-Century Anglophone Novel
    Contributor: Liebermann, Yvonne (HerausgeberIn); Rahn, Judith (HerausgeberIn); Burger, Bettina (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2021.
    Publisher:  Springer International Publishing, Cham ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

    1. Introduction: Narrating the Nonhuman -- Section I: Nonhuman Poetics: Agency of Literary Forms -- 2. Forms of Agency, Agency of Forms: Reading and Teaching More-than-Human Fictions -- 3. Nonhuman Agencies in and of Literature -- 4. Deontologising... more

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    1. Introduction: Narrating the Nonhuman -- Section I: Nonhuman Poetics: Agency of Literary Forms -- 2. Forms of Agency, Agency of Forms: Reading and Teaching More-than-Human Fictions -- 3. Nonhuman Agencies in and of Literature -- 4. Deontologising the Nonhuman: Arthur Gordon Pym, Contemporary Literature, and the Limits of the Human.-Section II: Negotiating the Human in the Light of the Nonhuman -- 5. Anthropogenesis: Ian McEwan’s Fictions of the Human -- 6. Arctic Snowmobilities: Encounters with Sled Dogs in Gary Paulsen’s Winterdance -- 7. Reframing the Nonhuman: Grievability and the Value of Life in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go -- 8. Hopeless Necromantics: Decomposition and Transcorporeal Love in Jim Crace’s Being Dead -- Section III: Imagining Biocentric Communities -- 9. The Gender Politics of Trees -- 10. “Mycorrhizal Multiplicities”: Mapping Collective Agency in Powers’s The Overstory -- 11. The Climate Crisis and Affective Nonhuman Encounters: Ali Smith’s Autumn (2016) and Jon McGregor’s Reservoir 13 (2017) -- 12. Postcolonial Fictions of the Anthropocene: Tracing Nonhuman Agency in Shubhangi Swarup’s Latitudes of Longing -- Section IV: Negotiating Reality: Approaching the Nonhuman’s Inescapable Alterity -- 13. Cthulhu Calling: Weird Intimacy and Estrangement in the Anthropocene -- 14. “Just a Surface”: Anamorphic Perspective and Nonhuman Narration in Jeff VanderMeer’s The Strange Bird -- 15. “All Life Matters, or None does” – Connecting Human and Nonhuman Worlds in Ambelin Kwaymullina’s The Tribe Series. This book offers an overview on the growing field of nonhuman studies in relation to Anglophone novels. It illuminates the variety of nonhuman actors that take centre stage in the twenty-first-century novel and the formal changes that the Anthropocene, the digital turn, the animal rights movement, and research into plant consciousness have brought to the novel as a form. The book is divided into four sections, each focusing on a different aspect of twenty-first-century literature that engages with the nonhuman. The collection investigates how the environmental changes and the increasing use of AI technologies have fostered the flourishing of genres like the New Weird, Climate Fiction, and speculative fiction, how it makes us embrace new perceptions of life in relation to genetic engineering, and how it forces us to engage with newly emerging political contexts. Yvonne Liebermann is Lecturer and Research Assistant at Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Germany. She is currently completing a book Latency and Memory in Contemporary Anglophone Literature. She has written articles in the field of contemporary literature, which have been published in peer-reviewed journals including European Journal of English Studies and Ariel: A Review of International English Literature, together with Birgit Neumann. Judith Rahn is Lecturer in the Department of English and American Studies at Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Germany. She is currently finishing her book Exploring Posthuman Life in Contemporary Fiction and is co-editor of the special issue Afrofuturism’s Transcultural Trajectories (2020, with Eva U. Pirker). She is author of (Re-)Negotiating Black Posthumanism – The Precarity of Race in Nnedi Okorafor's Lagoon (2019). Bettina Burger is Lecturer in Postcolonial and Anglophone Literatures at the University of Duesseldorf, Germany. She has previously organised a successful conference on the topic of Nonhuman Agency in Anglophone Literatures. Her publications include contributions to the Literary Encyclopedia and an article on challenges to Western science in Nnedi Okorafor’s Africanfuturist fiction. .

     
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    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
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    Subjects: Literature, Modern—20th century.; Literature, Modern—21st century.; Literature—Philosophy.; Technology in literature.; Fiction.; Veterinary medicine.; History.
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource(XVII, 320 p. 3 illus.)
  15. The Legacies of Ursula K. Le Guin
    Science, Fiction, Ethics
    Contributor: Robinson, Christopher L. (HerausgeberIn); Bouttier, Sarah (HerausgeberIn); Patoine, Pierre-Louis (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2021.
    Publisher:  Springer International Publishing, Cham ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

    1. Introduction -- 2. Always Coming Home and the Hinge in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Career -- 3. Making Narrative Connections with Ursula K. Le Guin, Rosi Braidotti and Teresa de Lauretis -- 4. Utopias Unrealizable and Ambiguous: Plato, Leo Strauss, and... more

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    1. Introduction -- 2. Always Coming Home and the Hinge in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Career -- 3. Making Narrative Connections with Ursula K. Le Guin, Rosi Braidotti and Teresa de Lauretis -- 4. Utopias Unrealizable and Ambiguous: Plato, Leo Strauss, and The Dispossessed -- 5. Many Voices in the Household: Indigeneity and Utopia in Le Guin's Ekumen -- 6. The Language of the Dusk: Anthropocentrism, Time, and Decoloniality in the Work of Ursula K. Le Guin -- 7. The Dream of Power and the Power of Dreams: Ursula K. Le Guin and the X-Men -- 8. Ursula K. Le Guin, Thinking in SF Mode. This excellent volume is devoted to Le Guin’s ongoing critical reception. It presents a fine mix of international contributors that culminates in a masterful article from Isabelle Stengers. Here Stengers does for Le Guin what she famously did for the British philosopher Alfred North Whitehead: she shows how to ‘think with’ this author, how to ‘think in SF mode’ while engaging the intellectual investments that animate Le Guin’s fiction. The other authors in the volume rise to the occasion of the brilliance that concludes it.” —Bruce Clarke, Paul Whitfield Horn Distinguished Professor of Literature and Science, Department of English, Texas Tech University The Legacies of Ursula K. Le Guin explores how Le Guin’s fiction and essays have built a speculative ethical practice engaging indigenous knowledge and feminism, while crafting utopias in which human and other-than-human life forms enter into new relations. Her work also delineates new ways of making sense of the “science” of science fiction. The authors of this collection provide up-to-date discussions of well-known works as well as more experimental writings. Written in an accessible style, Legacies will appeal to any readers interested in literature, science fiction and fantasy, as well as specialists of science and technology studies, philosophy of science, ethics, gender studies, indigenous studies and posthumanism. Christopher L. Robinson is Assistant Professor of English at the École Polytechnique, IP-Paris, France. After completing his dissertation on Ursula K. Le Guin, he went on to publish numerous articles in gender and genre studies. His current research focuses on the intersections of literature, art and the sciences. Sarah Bouttier is Assistant Professor of English at Ecole Polytechnique, IP-Paris, France. She has widely published on the nonhuman/posthuman in literature, ecopoetics, modernist literature and contemporary poetry. Pierre-Louis Patoine is Assistant Professor of American literature at Sorbonne Nouvelle University, France. He is co-director of the Science/Literature research group (litorg.hypotheses.org) and co-editor of the journal epistemocritique.org. He has published a monograph on the role of the empathic, physiological body in the experience of reading (Corps/texte 2015).

     
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    Subjects: Fiction.; Literature, Modern—20th century.; Literature, Modern—21st century.; Cultural studies.; Bioethics.; Sociology.
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  16. The Making of Barbara Pym
    Oxford, the War Years, and Post-war Austerity
    Author: Stockard, Emily
    Published: 2021.
    Publisher:  Springer International Publishing, Cham ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

    Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Elements of Continuity: Youth and the Oxford Years -- Chapter 3: The War Years: Surprising Continuities -- Chapter 4: Crampton Hodnet: The Continuous Cycle -- Chapter 5: Some Tame Gazelle: Continuity and... more

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    Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Elements of Continuity: Youth and the Oxford Years -- Chapter 3: The War Years: Surprising Continuities -- Chapter 4: Crampton Hodnet: The Continuous Cycle -- Chapter 5: Some Tame Gazelle: Continuity and Contentment -- Chapter 6: Excellent Women: A Continuous Role -- Chapter 7: Jane and Prudence: The End of Austerity. “It is always a treat to welcome a new book about Barbara Pym, especially one that is written so well: free of what Henry James referred to as the 'shackles of theory,' aimed at the general literate reader, and above all, delivered passionately in the author’s own voice. A generous helping of extracts from Pym’s notebooks and commonplace book, heretofore unpublished, along with new insights into the early years of the developing writer, offer a fresh perspective from which Prof. Stockard explores 'change' as an important developing theme. The Making of Barbara Pym: Oxford, the War Years, and Post-War Austerity is a fine book on many levels.” --Dale Salwak, Professor of English, Citrus College, USA and editor of The Life and Work of Barbara Pym The Making of Barbara Pym offers new insights into Pym’s formative years as a writer, during which she honed a complex view of the necessity of change on individual and cultural levels. Supported by newly published archival material, this comprehensive study of Pym’s early work explores her personal and fictional pre-war and wartime writing, including unpublished and posthumously published works, before looking closely at Some Tame Gazelle and Excellent Women, published during Britain’s post-war austerity period. Of central importance is a new recognition of Pym’s use of social roles, particularly those of women, as proper avenues for change. The book traces how Pym came to devise characters whose individual development can be seen as analogous to or representative of larger cultural movements. Pym uses the spinster figure to embody the forward-looking cultural perspectives that she endorsed and then, finally, in Jane and Prudence, to figure the end of Britain’s austerity period. Emily Stockard is Associate Professor of English at Florida Atlantic University, USA. A graduate of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, she has taught classes in British literature, from Chaucer to the 18th century. She has published on 16th and 17th-century poetry and drama and, most recently, on Denton Welch and Barbara Pym.

     
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    Subjects: Literature, Modern—20th century.; Fiction.; Ethnology—Europe.
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  17. Ernest Hemingway
    A Literary Life
    Author: Wagner-Martin, Linda
    Published: 2021.
    Publisher:  Springer International Publishing, Cham ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

    1. “‘Fraid a Nothing” -- 2. Eighteen and Fear: And Agnes -- 3. “Dear Ernesto” -- 4. The Route to In Our Time: The Arrival -- 5. Of Babies and Books -- 6. Pauline Pfeiffer and Hadley Richardson Hemingway -- 7. Marriage in the Midst of Men Without... more

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    1. “‘Fraid a Nothing” -- 2. Eighteen and Fear: And Agnes -- 3. “Dear Ernesto” -- 4. The Route to In Our Time: The Arrival -- 5. Of Babies and Books -- 6. Pauline Pfeiffer and Hadley Richardson Hemingway -- 7. Marriage in the Midst of Men Without Women -- 8. A Farewell to Arms -- 9. The Bullfight as Center -- 10. Hemingway as the Man in Charge -- 11. Esquire and Africa -- 12. Hemingway in the World -- 13. Martha Gellhorn and Spain -- 14. War in Europe and at Home -- 15. The Fourth Mrs. Hemingway -- 16. From Cuba to Italy -- 17. Old Men, Prizes, and Reports of Hemingway’s Death -- 18. A Moveable Feast in Retrospect -- 19. Islands in the Stream in Retrospect -- 20. The Garden of Eden in Retrospect -- 21. Endings. Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Life includes new research on the best-known of the posthumous publications: A Moveable Feast, 1964 (and the 2009 A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition); Islands in the Stream, 1970; and The Garden of Eden, 1986. Linda Wagner-Martin provides background and intertextual readings—particularly of the way Hemingway’s unpublished stories (“Phillip Haines was a writer”) and his fiction from Men Without Women and Winner Take Nothing interface with the memoir. The revised edition also highlights and provides background on Hemingway’s treatment of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein, his life in Paris in the 1920s, and his connection to the poetry scene there—putting this in conversation with Mary Hemingway’s edits of A Moveable Feast. The new chapters also illuminate the reception of Islands in the Stream and a new way of understanding the role of gender and androgyny in The Garden of Eden. On a whole, the book draws from extensive archival research, particularly correspondence of all four of Hemingway’s wives.

     
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    Subjects: Literature, Modern—20th century.; America—Literatures.; Fiction.; Creative nonfiction.; Literature—History and criticism.
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  18. Weird Fiction
    A Genre Study
    Author: Cisco, Michael
    Published: 2021.
    Publisher:  Springer International Publishing, Cham ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

    Chapter 1: Genre and Judgement -- Chapter 2: The Supernatural -- Chapter 3: The Bizarre -- Chapter 4: Destiny -- Chapter 5: Case Studies. Weird Fiction: A Genre Study presents a comprehensive, contemporary analysis of the genre of weird fiction by... more

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    Chapter 1: Genre and Judgement -- Chapter 2: The Supernatural -- Chapter 3: The Bizarre -- Chapter 4: Destiny -- Chapter 5: Case Studies. Weird Fiction: A Genre Study presents a comprehensive, contemporary analysis of the genre of weird fiction by identifying the concepts that influence and produce it. Focusing on the sources of narrative content—how the content is produced and what makes something weird—Michael Cisco engages with theories from Deleuze and Guattari to explain how genres work and to understand the relationship between identity and the ordinary. Cisco also uses these theories to examine the supernatural not merely as a horde of tropes, but as a recognition of the infinity of experience in defiance of limiting norms. The book also traces the sociopolitical implications of weird fiction, studying the differentiation of major and minor literatures. Through an articulated theoretical model and close textual analysis, readers will learn not only what weird fiction is, but how and why it is produced.

     
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    Subjects: Fiction.; Literature, Modern—20th century.; Literature, Modern—21st century.; Literature—History and criticism.; Goth culture (Subculture).; Metaphysics.
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  19. Christine Brooke-Rose and Post-War Literature
    Author: Darlington, Joseph
    Published: 2021.
    Publisher:  Springer International Publishing, Cham ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

    1. Introduction -- 2. The 1950s: Postgraduate Linguistics and Social Satire -- 3. The 1960s: Experimentalism in the Space Age -- 4. The 1970s: Chaos at Vincennes and Poststructuralism -- 5. The 1980s: Postmodernism and Digital Writing -- 6. The... more

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    1. Introduction -- 2. The 1950s: Postgraduate Linguistics and Social Satire -- 3. The 1960s: Experimentalism in the Space Age -- 4. The 1970s: Chaos at Vincennes and Poststructuralism -- 5. The 1980s: Postmodernism and Digital Writing -- 6. The 1990s: Fire, Fury and Maximalism -- 7. The 2000s: Fragments; Truth, Death and Memory -- 8. Conclusion: Christine Brooke-Rose and the Physicality of Language. “Through a synthesis of biographical research and textual analysis Joseph Darlington's monograph grounds Brooke-Rose’s fascinating novels in a new way, showing how they were responses to the circumstances of the author’s eventful life and concerns at the time of writing. In so doing, it links the array of disciplinary fields Brooke-Rose was significant in and allows the reader to see her contribution as a sum of its many parts.” —Glyn White, Senior Lecturer in Twentieth Century Literature and Culture, University of Salford, UK This book utilizes archive research, interviews and historical analysis to present a comprehensive overview of the works of Christine Brooke-Rose. A writer well-known for her idiosyncratic and experimental approaches to the novel form; this work traces her development from her early years as a social satirist, through her space-aged experimentalism in the 1960s, to her later poststructuralism and interest in digital computing and genetics. The book gives an overview of her writing and intellectual career with new archival research that places Brooke-Rose’s work in the context of the historically important events in which she was a participant: Bletchley Park codebreaking in the Second World War, the events in Paris during May 1968, the dawning of the internet and the rise of poststructuralism. Joseph Darlington begins with Brooke-Rose’s first novels written in the late 1950s of social satire, studies her experimental phase of writing and finally illuminates her unique approach to autobiography, arguing for reevaluating this interdisciplinary author and her contribution to poststructuralism, life writing and post-war literature. Joseph Darlington is a writer and academic from Manchester, UK. He is programme leader for the animation degree at Futureworks Media School, and is the author of British Terrorist Novels of the 1970s (Palgrave Macmillan 2018) and co-editor of the Manchester Review of Books. He was awarded a Harry Ransom Fellowship for his work on Brooke-Rose in 2012, and has published a number of research papers exploring her work.

     
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    Subjects: Literature, Modern—20th century.; Poststructuralism.; Fiction.; Language and languages—Philosophy.; Postmodernism.; World history.; English fiction; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); Criticism, interpretation, etc
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  20. Translocality in Contemporary City Novels
    Author: Mattheis, Lena
    Published: 2021.
    Publisher:  Springer International Publishing, Cham ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

    Introducing Translocal Narratability -- 1. Simultaneity -- 2. Palimpsest -- 3. Mapping -- 4. Scaling -- 5. Silence, Absence, Non-Place -- 6. Haunting -- Conclusion. Translocality in Contemporary City Novels responds to the fact that... more

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    Introducing Translocal Narratability -- 1. Simultaneity -- 2. Palimpsest -- 3. Mapping -- 4. Scaling -- 5. Silence, Absence, Non-Place -- 6. Haunting -- Conclusion. Translocality in Contemporary City Novels responds to the fact that twenty-first-century Anglophone novels are increasingly characterised by translocality—the layering and blending of two or more distant settings. Considering translocal and transcultural writing as a global phenomenon, this book draws on multidisciplinary research, from globalisation theory to the study of narratives to urban studies, to explore a corpus of thirty-two novels—by authors such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dionne Brand, Kiran Desai, and Xiaolu Guo—set in a total of ninety-seven cities. Lena Mattheis examines six of the most common strategies used in contemporary urban fiction to make translocal experiences of the world narratable and turn them into relatable stories: simultaneity, palimpsests, mapping, scaling, non-places, and haunting. Combining and developing further theories, approaches and techniques from a variety of research fields—including narratology, human geography, transculturality, diaspora spaces, and postcolonial perspectives—Mattheis develops a set of cross-disciplinary techniques in literary urban studies.

     
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    Subjects: Literature.; Fiction.; Cities and towns—History.; Cultural studies.; Urban geography.
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  21. Embryology and the Rise of the Gothic Novel
    Author: Edelman, Diana Pérez
    Published: 2021.
    Publisher:  Springer International Publishing, Cham ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

    1. Conceiving the Gothic; or, “A New Species of Romance” -- 2. “A very natural dream”; or, The Castle of Otranto -- 3. “The liberty of choice”; or, The Novels of Ann Radcliffe -- 4. “Dark, shapeless substances”; or, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein -- 5.... more

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    1. Conceiving the Gothic; or, “A New Species of Romance” -- 2. “A very natural dream”; or, The Castle of Otranto -- 3. “The liberty of choice”; or, The Novels of Ann Radcliffe -- 4. “Dark, shapeless substances”; or, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein -- 5. “Nature preached a milder theology”; Or, Melmoth the Wanderer -- 6. “Something scarcely tangible”; Or, James Hogg’s Confessions -- 7. Conclusion: Gothic Offspring; or, “the qualitas occulta”. “Foregrounding some of the most canonical and widely studied Gothic and Romantic texts, offering readings that are at once vibrant and new while still somehow familiar in the best possible way, Edelman makes it clear just how fundamental a concern with generation is to any understanding of the period. This work is deeply learned and wonderfully accessible—and profoundly urgent.” —James Robert Allard, Brock University, Canada, and author of Romanticism, Medicine, and the Poet’s Body (2007) “Edelman argues that contemporary theories of embryology (not yet an empirical science) debate often contradictory concerns about origins, identity, hybridity, and the potential for an infinite number of forms. Gothic narratives express similar anxieties, adapting to popular and high art, changing historical circumstances, and media unimaginable at their birth. Reading the evolution of Gothic in the context of inherently contradictory theories of embryology illuminates the literature’s own contradictions. (Is it conservative or revolutionary? Feminist or misogynist?) Edelman’s learned and cogent exposition of this unexpected biological context will engage not only students of the Gothic tradition, but also the growing audience discovering the material and scientific roots of Romanticism.” —Anne Williams, Professor of English Emeritus, University of Georgia, USA, and author of Art of Darkness: A Poetics of Gothic (1995) This book argues that embryology and the reproductive sciences played a key role in the rise of the Gothic novel in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Diana Pérez Edelman dissects Horace Walpole’s use of embryological concepts in the development of his Gothic imagination and provides an overview of the conflict between preformation and epigenesis in the scientific community. The book then explores the ways in which Gothic literature can be read as epigenetic in its focus on internally sourced modes of identity, monstrosity, and endless narration. The chapters analyze Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto; Ann Radcliffe’s A Sicilian Romance, The Italian, and The Mysteries of Udolpho; Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; Charles Robert Maturin’s Melmoth the Wanderer; and James Hogg’s Confessions of a Justified Sinner, arguing that these touchstones of the Gothic register why the Gothic emerged at that time and why it continues today: the mysteries of reproduction remain unsolved. Diana Pérez Edelman is Associate Professor of English at the University of North Georgia, Gainesville, USA.

     
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    Subjects: Literature, Modern—19th century.; Fiction.; Literature—Philosophy.; Goth culture (Subculture).; Gothic fiction (Literary genre).; History.; Cultural studies.
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  22. Food in Margaret Atwood’s Speculative Fiction
    Author: Labudova, Katarina
    Published: 2022.
    Publisher:  Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

    1 Fasting and Feasting: Food in Speculative Fiction Novels by Margaret Atwood -- 2 Women as White Meat: Chicken, Eggs and “Torsos Only” in The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments -- 3 Canned Food: Canned Death in Oryx and Crake -- 4 Corporate... more

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    1 Fasting and Feasting: Food in Speculative Fiction Novels by Margaret Atwood -- 2 Women as White Meat: Chicken, Eggs and “Torsos Only” in The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments -- 3 Canned Food: Canned Death in Oryx and Crake -- 4 Corporate Cannibalism: The Year of the Flood -- 5 Eating and Story-telling: Maddaddam -- 6 Junk Food and Prison Food: The Heart Goes Last -- 7 Hybrid Genres: Festive Intertextuality and Hungry Reality. This book looks at Margaret Atwood’s use of food motifs in speculative fiction. Focusing on six novels – The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments, the Maddaddam trilogy, and The Heart Goes Last – Katarina Labudova explores the environmental, ecological, and cultural questions at play and the possible future scenarios which emerge for humanity’s survival in apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic conditions. Labudova argues that food has special relevance in these novels and that characters’ hunger, limited food choices, culinary creativity and eating rituals are central to Atwood’s depictions of hostile environments. She also links food to hierarchy, dominance and oppression in Atwood’s novels, and foregrounds the problem of hunger, both psychological or physical, caused by pollution and loss of contact with the natural and authentic. The book shows how Atwood’s writing draws from a range of genres, including apocalyptic fiction, science fiction, speculative fiction, dystopia, utopia, fairy tale, myth, and thriller – and how food is an important, highly versatile motif linking these intertextual threads. Katarina Labudova lectures on British and Canadian literature at the Department of English Language and Literature, Catholic University in Ruzomberok, Slovakia. She co-edited Presences and Absences: Transdisciplinary Essays (2013). She has published numerous articles on Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter, identity, monstrosity and the representations of the body and food in postmodern literatures.

     
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    Subjects: Fiction.; America—Literatures.; Literature—Aesthetics.; Culture—Study and teaching.
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  23. Agatha Christie and the Guilty Pleasure of Poison
    Author: Pamboukian, Sylvia A.
    Published: 2022.
    Publisher:  Springer International Publishing, Cham ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

    1. Agatha Christie, Poison, and Crime -- 2. Agatha Christie and Pharmacy -- 3. Dying Game: Unrepentant Outlaws in Christie and Doyle -- 4. Cheering Bystanders in Christie and Sayers -- 5. The Revenger’s Comeuppance in Christie and Jackson -- 6. The... more

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    1. Agatha Christie, Poison, and Crime -- 2. Agatha Christie and Pharmacy -- 3. Dying Game: Unrepentant Outlaws in Christie and Doyle -- 4. Cheering Bystanders in Christie and Sayers -- 5. The Revenger’s Comeuppance in Christie and Jackson -- 6. The Poisoner’s Afterlives -- 7. Readers and the Poison Garden. Agatha Christie and the Guilty Pleasure of Poison examines Christie’s female poisoners in the context of Christie’s own experience in pharmacy and of detective fiction. In doing so, it uncovers an overlooked dynamic in which female poisoners deliver well-deserved comeuppance for gendered and classed wrongdoing ordinarily accepted in everyday life. While critics have long recognized male outlaws, like Robin Hood, who use crime to oppose a corrupt system, this book contends that female outlaws – witches and poisoners – offer a similar heritage of empowered femininity. Far from cozy and formulaic, Agatha Christie’s outlaw poisoners offer readers the surprising pleasures of comeuppance, and they set the stage for contemporary detective fiction writers, more recent films depicting poisoning as empowering, and even poison gardens, which are tourist destinations that offer visitors the guilty pleasure of poison.

     
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    Series: Crime Files
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    Subjects: Literature, Modern—20th century.; Fiction.; Literature—Philosophy.; Feminism and literature.; Ethnology—Great Britain.; Culture.
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  24. Gender Roles and Political Contexts in Cold War Spy Fiction
    Author: MacArthur, Sian
    Published: 2022.
    Publisher:  Springer International Publishing, Cham ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

    Chapter 1: ‘It’s a game of dog eat dog’ - Discontent and Disintegration in American Pulp Fiction -- Chapter 2: ‘The name’s Bond. James Bond’– The Rise of the Spy Novel in British Literature -- Chapter 3: ‘The man who looked both East and West.’ - The... more

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    Chapter 1: ‘It’s a game of dog eat dog’ - Discontent and Disintegration in American Pulp Fiction -- Chapter 2: ‘The name’s Bond. James Bond’– The Rise of the Spy Novel in British Literature -- Chapter 3: ‘The man who looked both East and West.’ - The Double Agent at Work -- Chapter 4: ‘The greatest weapon on earth’ - Games of Power and Propaganda -- Chapter 5: ‘A world of shadows and suspicions’- The Psychology of Paranoia -- Chapter 6: ‘So we’re not enemies?’– The End of the Cold War -- Chapter 7: ‘A perpetual state of war.’ – Legacies and Lasting Impressions. This book analyses the gender roles and political contexts of spy fiction narratives published during the years of the Cold War. It offers an introduction to the development of spy fiction both in England and in the United States and explores the ways in which issues such as the atomic bomb, double agents, paranoia, propaganda and megalomania manifest themselves within the genre. The book examines the ongoing marginalization of women within spy fiction texts, exploring the idea that this unique period in global history is responsible for the active promotion and celebration of masculinity and male superiority. From James Bond to Jason Bourne, the book evaluates the ongoing enforcement of patriarchal ideas and oppressions that, in the name of national security and patriotic duty, have contributed to the development of a genre in which discrimination and bias continue to dominate. Sian MacArthur is an independent academic and researcher with literary interests in Gothic and science fiction, and historical interests in the Cold War. She is the author of Crime and the Gothic: Identifying the Gothic Footprint in Modern Crime Fiction (2011) and Gothic Science Fiction: 1818 to the Present (Palgrave 2015), and Re-defining the Gothic with Mo Haydar in The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Gothic.

     
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    Subjects: Fiction.; Literature—Philosophy.; Feminism and literature.; Literature, Modern—20th century.; World history.; International relations—History.; Crime—Sociological aspects.
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  25. The Multiverse of Office Fiction
    Bartlebys at Work
    Author: Kobayashi, Masaomi
    Published: 2022.
    Publisher:  Springer International Publishing, Cham ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

    Prologue Edward Hopper, or Bartleby on Bartlebys -- Part I Reading Out -- Chapter One Advice Columnist, Auto-Recall Specialist, Cyber Capitalist: Bartleby and His Kinsmen -- Chapter Two At Work, At Home, At Life: Bartleby and His Kinswomen -- Part II... more

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    Prologue Edward Hopper, or Bartleby on Bartlebys -- Part I Reading Out -- Chapter One Advice Columnist, Auto-Recall Specialist, Cyber Capitalist: Bartleby and His Kinsmen -- Chapter Two At Work, At Home, At Life: Bartleby and His Kinswomen -- Part II Farther Along -- Chapter Three Poe, Kafka, and Far Beyond: Bartleby and His Contexts -- Chapter Four Post-9/11, Posthuman, Post Office: Between and Beyond Bartlebys -- Epilogue Every Office Tells a Story and So Does Every Bartleby. The Multiverse of Office Fiction liberates Herman Melville’s 1853 classic, “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” from a microcosm of Melville studies, namely the so-called Bartleby Industry. This book aims to illuminate office fiction—fiction featuring office workers such as clerks, civil servants, and company employees—as an underexplored genre of fiction, by addressing relevant issues such as evolution of office work, integration of work and life, exploitation of women office workers, and representation of the Post Office. In achieving this goal, Bartleby plays an essential role not as one of the most eccentric characters in literary fiction, but rather as one of the most generic characters in office fiction. Overall, this book demonstrates that Bartleby is a generative figure, by incorporating a wide diversity of his cousins as Bartlebys. It offers fresh contexts in which to place these characters so that it can ultimately contribute to an ever-evolving poetics of the office. Masaomi Kobayashi is Associate Professor at the University of the Ryukyus, Japan. He has coedited and coauthored books on literature and English. His articles have been published in a variety of academic journals, both national and international.

     
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    Subjects: America—Literatures.; Fiction.; Literature, Modern—19th century.; Literature—History and criticism.; Ethnology—America.; Culture.
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