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  1. A companion to narrative theory
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  Blackwell Pub., Malden, MA

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9780470996935; 0470996935; 140515196X; 9781405151962; 9781405114769; 1405114762; 9781405165037; 1405165030; 1280285990; 9781280285998
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    Series: Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 33
    Subjects: Verteltheorie; Narration; Narrativa (ensaios); Teoria literária; Narration (Rhetoric); LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric; REFERENCE / Writing Skills; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Composition & Creative Writing; Narration; Narration (Rhetoric); Erzähltheorie; Erzählforschung
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 571 p.), 26 cm
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    The 35 original essays in A Companion to Narrative Theory constitute the best available introduction to this vital and contested field of humanistic enquiry. The essays represent all the major critical approaches to narrative - narratological, rhetorical, feminist, post-structuralist, historicist - and investigate and debate the relations among them. In addition, they stretch the boundaries of the field by considering narratives in different disciplines, such as law and medicine, and in a variety of media, including film, music, and painting. The volume is divided into six parts: competing accounts of the history of the field; examinations of recurrent problems; suggestions for theoretical revisions and innovations; explorations of the relations among form, history, politics, and ethics; analyses of the way narrative operates in different disciplines and in media beyond the written word; and speculations about the future of narrative and of narrative theory.; At the same time, it offers provocative analyses of a wide range of works, both canonical and popular, from the Bible through novels by Dickens, Woolf, and Arundhati Roy on to Bernard Herrmann's film music and the action paintings of Jackson Pollock. Among its contributors are many of the leading figures in the field, including such early pioneers as Wayne C. Booth, Seymour Chatman, J. Hillis Miller, and Gerald Prince

  2. Belonging and estrangement in the poetry of Philip Larkin, R.S. Thomas and Charles Causley
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Ashgate, Burlington, VT

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  3. Deutsches Theater-Lexikon, Teil 1, Nachtragsband
    Biographisches und Bibliographisches Handbuch
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  W. de Gruyter, Berlin

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    Language: German
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    ISBN: 9783110285499; 3110285495; 9783110284607
    Subjects: Drama / Bio-bibliography; Opera / Bio-bibliography; Theater / Germany / Bio-bibliography; Theater / Germany / Dictionaries; DRAMA / Continental European; Drama; Opera; Theater; Theater; Theater; Drama; Opera
    Scope: 422 pages
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    This supplement to the Deutsches Theater-Lexikon [German Lexicon of Theater], which was completed in 2011, amplifies and extends Volumes I-IV (A-T), which first appeared between 1953 and 1998. Articles have been re-edited and expanded with an emphasis on the 20th century, and personalities from the world of German-language theater who were not previously included have been newly added. The lexicon contains bio-bibliographic information about playwrights, composers, theatrical directors, producers, actors, singers, set designers, and costume designers

  4. Scientific writing in a second language
    Published: [2013]
    Publisher:  Parlor Press, Anderson. South Carolina

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    ISBN: 1602353816; 9781602353817; 9781602353800; 1602353808; 9781602353794; 1602353794
    Series: Second language writing
    Subjects: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Composition & Creative Writing; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric; REFERENCE / Writing Skills; English language / Study and teaching / Foreign speakers; Second language acquisition; Technical writing; Englisch; Array
    Scope: 1 online resource (xii, 195 pages :), illustrations
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  5. G - J
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin

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    Language: German
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    ISBN: 9783110287585; 3110287587
    Subjects: Theater / Germany / Bio-bibliography; Drama / Bio-bibliography; Opera / Bio-bibliography; Theater / Germany / Dictionaries; DRAMA / Continental European; Drama; Opera; Theater; Theater; Drama; Opera; Theater
    Scope: 432 pages
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    Vorwort; Abkürzungsverzeichnis; G; H; I; J.

    This supplement to the Deutsches Theater-Lexikon amplifies and extends Volumes I-IV (A-T, appeared between 1953 and 1998). Articles have been re-edited with an emphasis on the 20th century, and personalities of German-language theater who were not previously included have been newly added. The lexicon contains bio-bibliographic information about playwrights, composers, theatrical directors, producers, actors, singers, set and costume designers

  6. Iberian modalities
    a relational approach to the study of culture in the Iberian Peninsula
    Contributor: Resina, Joan Ramon (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    Of late the term Iberian Studies has been gaining academic currency, but its semantic scope still fluctuates. For some it is a convenient way of combining the official cultures of two states, Portugal and Spain; yet for others the term opens up... more

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    Of late the term Iberian Studies has been gaining academic currency, but its semantic scope still fluctuates. For some it is a convenient way of combining the official cultures of two states, Portugal and Spain; yet for others the term opens up disciplinary space, altering established routines. A relational approach to Iberian Studies shatters the state’s epistemological frame and complexifies the field through the emergence of lines of inquiry and bodies of knowledge hitherto written off as irrelevant. This timely volume brings together contributions from leading international scholars who demonstrate the cultural and linguistic complexity of the field by reflecting on the institutional challenges to the practice of Iberian Studies. As such, the book will be required reading for all those working in the field

     

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    Contributor: Resina, Joan Ramon (Herausgeber)
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    ISBN: 9781846317880; 9781846318337
    Subjects: Geschichte; Portugalforschung; Spanienforschung
    Scope: 1 online resource (xv, 271 pages)
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  7. Latin American cyberculture and cyberliterature
    Contributor: Taylor, Claire (Herausgeber); Pitman, Thea (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    This collection of critical essays investigates an emergent and increasingly important field of cultural production in Latin America: cyberliterature and cyberculture in their varying manifestations, including blogs and hypertext narratives,... more

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    This collection of critical essays investigates an emergent and increasingly important field of cultural production in Latin America: cyberliterature and cyberculture in their varying manifestations, including blogs and hypertext narratives, collective novels and e-mags, digital art and short Net-films. Highly innovative in its conception, this book provides the first sustained academic focus on this area of cultural production, and investigates the ways in which cyberliterature and cyberculture in the broadest sense are providing new configurations of subjects, narrative voices, and even political agency, for Latin Americans. The volume is divided into two main sections. The first comprises eight chapters on the broad area of cyberculture and identity formation/preservation including the development of different types of cybercommunities in Latin America. While many of the chapters applaud the creative potential of these new virtual communities, identities and cultural products to create networks across boundaries and offer new contestatory strategies, they also consider whether such phenomena may risk reinforcing existing social inequalities or perpetuate conservatism. The second section comprises six chapters and an afterword that deal with the nature of cyberliterature in all its many forms, from the (cyber)cultural legacies of writers such as Julio Cortázar and Jorge Luis Borges, to traditional print literature from the region that reflects on the subject of new technology, to weblogs and hypertext and hypermedia fiction proper

     

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    Contributor: Taylor, Claire (Herausgeber); Pitman, Thea (Herausgeber)
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    ISBN: 9781846313462; 9781846310614
    Subjects: Alltag, Brauchtum; Gesellschaft; Cyberspace / Social aspects / Latin America; Latin American literature / 21st century; Computers and civilization; Literature and the Internet; Internet / Social aspects / Latin America; Internetliteratur
    Scope: 1 online resource (xviii, 295 pages)
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  8. Queer universes
    sexualities in science fiction
    Contributor: Pearson, Wendy G. (Herausgeber); Hollinger, Veronica (Herausgeber); Gordon, Joan (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    Contestations over the meaning and practice of sexuality have become increasingly central to cultural self-definition and critical debates over issues of identity, citizenship and the definition of humanity itself. In an era when a religious... more

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    Contestations over the meaning and practice of sexuality have become increasingly central to cultural self-definition and critical debates over issues of identity, citizenship and the definition of humanity itself. In an era when a religious authority can declare lesbians antihuman while some nations legalise same-sex marriage and are becoming increasingly tolerant of a variety of non-normative sexualities, it is hardly surprising that science fiction, in turn, takes up the task of imagining a diverse range of queer and not-so-queer futures. The essays in Queer Universes investigate both contemporary and historical practices of representing sexualities and genders in science fiction literature. Queer Universes opens with Wendy Pearson’s award-winning essay on reading sf queerly and goes on to include discussions about ‘sextrapolation’ in New Wave science fiction, ‘stray penetration’ in William Gibson’s cyberpunk fiction, the queering of nature in ecofeminist science fiction, and the radical challenges posed to conventional science fiction in the work of important writers such as Samuel R. Delany, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Joanna Russ. In addition, Queer Universes offers an interview with Nalo Hopkinson and a conversation about queer lives and queer fictions by authors Nicola Griffith and Kelley Eskridge

     

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    Contributor: Pearson, Wendy G. (Herausgeber); Hollinger, Veronica (Herausgeber); Gordon, Joan (Herausgeber)
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    ISBN: 9781846313882; 9781846315015
    Subjects: Science fiction / History and criticism; Queer theory; Homosexuality and literature; Gays in literature; Gender identity in literature; Homosexualität <Motiv>; Englisch; Science-Fiction-Literatur
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  9. Science in modern poetry
    new directions
    Contributor: Holmes, John (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    Over the last thirty years, more and more critics and scholars have come to recognize the importance of science to literature. 'Science in Modern Poetry: New Directions' is the first collection of essays to focus specifically on what poets in the... more

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    Over the last thirty years, more and more critics and scholars have come to recognize the importance of science to literature. 'Science in Modern Poetry: New Directions' is the first collection of essays to focus specifically on what poets in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have made of the scientific developments going on around them. In a collection of twelve essays, leading experts on modern poetry and on literature and science explore how poets have used scientific language in their poems, how poetry can offer new perspectives on science, and how the 'Two Cultures' can and have come together in the work of poets from Britain and Ireland, America and Australia. What does the poetry of a leading immunologist and a Nobel-Prize-winning chemist tell us about how poetry can engage with science? Scientific experiments aim to yield knowledge, but what do the linguistic and formal experiments of contemporary American poets suggest about knowledge in their turn? How can universities help to bring these different experimental cultures and practices together? What questions do literary critics need to ask themselves when looking at poems that respond to science? How did developments in biology between the wars shape modernist poetry? What did William Empson make of science fiction, Ezra Pound of the fourth dimension, Thomas Hardy of anthropology? How did modern poets from W. B. Yeats to Elizabeth Bishop and Judith Wright respond to the legacy of Charles Darwin? This book aims to answer these questions and more, in the process setting out the state of the field and suggesting new directions and approaches for research by students and scholars working on the fertile relationship between science and poetry today

     

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    ISBN: 9781846317743; 9781846318092
    Subjects: Poetry / History and criticism; Literature and science; Science in literature; Lyrik; Englisch; Naturwissenschaften <Motiv>; Wissenschaft <Motiv>
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  10. Obelisk
    a history of Jack Kahane and the Obelisk Press
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    This remarkable book details the work of one of the most extraordinary publishing enterprises in history. Censor-baiting, provocative, simultaneous publisher of the literary elite and of ‘dirty books’, Jack Kahane’s Obelisk Press published Henry... more

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    This remarkable book details the work of one of the most extraordinary publishing enterprises in history. Censor-baiting, provocative, simultaneous publisher of the literary elite and of ‘dirty books’, Jack Kahane’s Obelisk Press published Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, Lawrence Durrell, D. H. Lawrence, and James Joyce among others. At the same time Kahane subsidised his literary endeavours with cheap erotica and trash fiction from long-forgotten eccentrics such as New York Daily News’ Rome correspondent and self-styled ‘Marco Polo of Sex’ N. Reynolds Packard. Kahane’s business model was simple: if a book was banned in the UK and US it could be profitably published in Paris. Here, for the first time, Neil Pearson has pulled together the incendiary story of Obelisk, including biographies of Kahane and his major and minor authors, and a bibliography of Obelisk books. This beautifully written volume – part cultural history, part reference book – will be required reading for anyone interested in controversial writing, censorship, 1920s Paris, publishing history and authors such as Miller, Joyce and Nin

     

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    ISBN: 9781846313684; 9781846311017
    Subjects: Geschichte; Publishers and publishing / France / History / 20th century; Pornografie; Literatur
    Other subjects: Kahane, Jack / 1887-1939; Kahane, Jack (1887-1939)
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  11. The historical Jesus and the literary imagination, 1860-1920
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    Fictional reconstructions of the Gospels continue to find a place in contemporary literature and in the popular imagination. Present day writers of New Testament fiction and drama are usually considered as part of a tradition formed by... more

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    Fictional reconstructions of the Gospels continue to find a place in contemporary literature and in the popular imagination. Present day writers of New Testament fiction and drama are usually considered as part of a tradition formed by mid-to-late-twentieth-century authors such as Robert Graves, Nikos Kazantzakis and Anthony Burgess. This book looks back further to the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, when the templates of the majority of today’s Gospel fictions and dramas were set down. In doing so, it examines the extent to which significant works of biblical scholarship both influenced and inspired literary works. Focusing on writers such as Oscar Wilde, George Moore and Marie Corelli, this timely new addition to the English Association Monographs series will be essential reading for scholars working at the intersection of literature and theology

     

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    ISBN: 9781846316159; 9781846314704
    Subjects: Bibel; Christianity in literature; Geschichtlichkeit; Englisch; Literatur
    Other subjects: Jesus Christus; Jesus Christ / In literature; Jesus Christus
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  12. Spanish spaces
    landscape, space and place in contemporary Spanish culture
    Author: Davies, Ann
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    Spanish Spaces is a pioneering study that marries contemporary cultural geography with contemporary Spanish culture. The field of cultural geography has grown both extensively and rapidly, as has the field of cultural analysis and debate on Spanish... more

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    Spanish Spaces is a pioneering study that marries contemporary cultural geography with contemporary Spanish culture. The field of cultural geography has grown both extensively and rapidly, as has the field of cultural analysis and debate on Spanish cultural texts; yet despite a convergence in study between cultural geography (and cultural studies more widely) and cultural texts themselves, this has made little impact to date within the area of contemporary Spanish cultural studies. Yet Spain’s varied terrain, with complex negotiations between rural, urban and coastal (negotiations that have on occasion spilled over into political and violent conflict), and perhaps its very lack of a contemporary landscape tradition familiar to British and German cultural studies, offer the opportunity for fresh insights into questions of landscape, space and place. Spanish Spaces consists of thematic case studies (memory and forgetting, nationalism and terrorism, crime and detection, gender, tourism and immigration as negotiated through cultural texts), selected for their currency and their links to each other and drawing on the explorations of these themes in contemporary Spanish film and literature. Throughout the chapters the author investigates what it means to think of space and place in specifically Spanish terms

     

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    ISBN: 9781846317750; 9781846318221
    Subjects: Alltag, Brauchtum; Film; Cultural geography / Spain; Cultural landscapes / Spain; Motion pictures / Spain / 20th century / History and criticism; Landscapes in motion pictures; Landscapes in literature; Literatur; Landschaft; Film
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  13. Spatial ecologies
    urban sites, state and world-space in French Cultural theory
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    Spatial Ecologies takes a new look at the "spatial turn" in French cultural and critical theory since 1968. Verena Andermatt Conley examines how Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau, Jean Baudrillard, Marc Augé, Paul Virilio, Bruno Latour and Etienne... more

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    Spatial Ecologies takes a new look at the "spatial turn" in French cultural and critical theory since 1968. Verena Andermatt Conley examines how Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau, Jean Baudrillard, Marc Augé, Paul Virilio, Bruno Latour and Etienne Balibar reconsider the experience of space in the midst of considerable political and economic turmoil. The book considers why French critical theorists turned away from questions of time and looked instead toward questions of space. It asks what writing about space can tell us about life in late capitalism. Conley links this question to the problematic of habitality, taking us back to Heidegger and showing how it informs much of French theory. Building on the author's acclaimed earlier study Ecopolitics, Spatial Ecologies argues, through the voices of the authors taken up the eight chapters, for recognition of the virtue of spatial theory and its pragmatic applications in the global milieu. It will be required reading for scholars of literary and cultural theory, and twentieth- and twenty-first century French culture

     

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    ISBN: 9781846317217; 9781846317545
    Subjects: Place (Philosophy); Philosophy, French / 20th century; Raum; Kulturtheorie
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  14. Solar flares
    science fiction in the 1970s
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    Science fiction produced in the 1970s has long been undervalued, dismissed by Bruce Sterling as "confused, self-involved, and stale." The New Wave was all but over and Cyberpunk had yet to arrive. The decade polarised sf – on the one hand it aspired... more

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    Science fiction produced in the 1970s has long been undervalued, dismissed by Bruce Sterling as "confused, self-involved, and stale." The New Wave was all but over and Cyberpunk had yet to arrive. The decade polarised sf – on the one hand it aspired to be a serious form, addressing issues such as race, Vietnam, feminism, ecology and sexuality, on the other hand it broke box office records with Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Alien and Superman: The Movie. Across the political spectrum, writers perceived a series of invisible enemies: radicals addressed the ideological structures of racism, sexism, homophobia, colonialism, pollution and capitalism and the possibility of new social structures, whereas conservatives feared the gains made by the civil rights movement, feminism, gay liberation, independence movements, ecology and Marxism and the perceived threats to the nuclear family. Sf would never be the same again. Beginning with chapters on the First sf and New Wave authors who published during the 1970s, Solar Flares examines the ways in which the genre confronted a new epoch and its own history, including the rise of fantasy, the sf blockbuster, children’s sf, pseudoscience and postmodernism. It explores significant figures such as Joanna Russ, Samuel R. Delany and Octavia Butler. From Larry Niven’s Ringworld to Thomas M. Disch’s On Wings of Song, from The Andromeda Strain to Flash Gordon and from Doctor Who to Buck Rogers, this book reclaims seventies sf writing, film and television – alongside music and architecture – as a crucial period in the history of science fiction

     

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    ISBN: 9781846317798; 9781846318344
    Subjects: Science fiction / History and criticism; Science-Fiction-Film; Science-Fiction-Literatur
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  15. Religion, toleration, and British writing, 1790-1830
    Author: Canuel, Mark
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K.

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    ISBN: 0521815770
    Series: Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 53
    Subjects: Geschichte; English literature; Religion and literature; Religious tolerance in literature; Religion and literature; Religious tolerance; Religious tolerance; English literature; Romanticism; Literatur; Englisch; Romantik; Religiöse Literatur; Religiöse Toleranz
    Scope: vi, 317 p
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  16. Twenty-four lays from the French Middle Ages
    Contributor: Burgess, Glyn S. (Glyn Sheridan) (Übersetzer); Brook, Leslie C. (Übersetzer)
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    This prose translation of twenty-four lays from the French Middle Ages brings to the general reader as well as to scholars a complement to the twelve well-known lays by Marie de France, the possible creator of the genre. These lays are mostly... more

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    This prose translation of twenty-four lays from the French Middle Ages brings to the general reader as well as to scholars a complement to the twelve well-known lays by Marie de France, the possible creator of the genre. These lays are mostly anonymous, and the majority, but by no means all of them, are, like Marie’s lays, centred on a love interest of some kind in a variety of settings. But, unlike Marie’s lays, their treatment varies from the courtly and sophisticated to the comic or the tragic, thereby illustrating the range of poems covered by the term lai in twelfth- and thirteenth-century France. A significant number of these lays, based in the courtly world, contain supernatural elements or magic objects that are fundamental to the story as it is related, and sometimes the heroes leave the real world to dwell forever in an otherworldly domain. Other lays have a more mundane feel to them and seem closer to the fabliau in tone. In one instance, the lay of Haveloc, the tale owes more to legendary history than to pure fantasy. Overall, this collection stakes a claim to make an important contribution to the Medieval French lay within the wider European tradition of the short story and the literature of love

     

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    Contributor: Burgess, Glyn S. (Glyn Sheridan) (Übersetzer); Brook, Leslie C. (Übersetzer)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781781383681
    Series: Exeter studies in medieval Europe
    Subjects: Lays / Translations into English; French poetry / To 1500 / translations into English
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  17. The poems of the Pearl manuscript in modern English prose translation
    Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
    Contributor: Andrew, Malcolm (Herausgeber); Waldron, Ronald (Ronald A.) (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Exeter Press, Exeter, UK

    For students of Middle English, Andrew and Waldron’s The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript has been the key edition of the four Pearl poems (the best-known of which is Sir Gawain and the Green Knight) for 30 years. A comprehensively revised edition was... more

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    For students of Middle English, Andrew and Waldron’s The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript has been the key edition of the four Pearl poems (the best-known of which is Sir Gawain and the Green Knight) for 30 years. A comprehensively revised edition was published in 2007 to ensure the continued dominance on medieval courses of the Andrew/Waldron edition. Now, with the changing needs of today’s student in mind, the editors have produced for the first time a complete prose translation of the four poems.• The new prose translations of the poems are based faithfully on Andrew and Waldron’s new edition of The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript.• By using prose as opposed to verse the authors have ensured that the translations remain as close and accurate to the original as possible.• The prose translations are intended as a means of enhancing the understanding of these four superb but linguistically difficult poems, to help readers get to grips with the original texts.• Andrew and Waldron’s translations can also be used as a means of checking the accuracy of students’ own rendition of the originals

     

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    Contributor: Andrew, Malcolm (Herausgeber); Waldron, Ronald (Ronald A.) (Herausgeber)
    Language: English
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781781388747
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    Subjects: English poetry / Middle English, 1100-1500; Manuscripts, English (Middle) / England / London; Manuscripts, Medieval / England / London; Knights and knighthood / Poetry; Arthurian romances
    Other subjects: Gawain / (Legendary character) / Romances
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  18. Die Schönheiten des Geschlechts
    Intersex im Dialog
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Campus Frankfurt / New York, Frankfurt u.a.

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    Language: German
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    ISBN: 9783593439075
    RVK Categories: MS 2870
    Subjects: Geschlechtsidentität; Intersexualität; Kunst; Geschlecht; Intersexualität <Motiv>; Dekonstruktion
    Other subjects: Gender; Sexualität; Geschlecht; Sex; Homosexualität; Transsexualität; Intersexualität; Intersex; Zwitter; Geschlechtlichkeit
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  19. A dreamer and a visionary
    H.P. Lovecraft in his time
    Author: Joshi, S. T.
    Published: 2001
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    H. P. Lovecraft has come to be recognised as the leading author of supernatural fiction in the twentieth century. But how did a man who died in poverty, with no book of his stories published in his lifetime, become such an icon in horror literature?... more

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    H. P. Lovecraft has come to be recognised as the leading author of supernatural fiction in the twentieth century. But how did a man who died in poverty, with no book of his stories published in his lifetime, become such an icon in horror literature? S. T. Joshi, the leading authority on Lovecraft, traces in detail the course of Lovecraft’s life and shows how Lovecraft was engaged in the political, economic, social and intellectual currents of his time

     

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    ISBN: 9781781386446
    Series: Liverpool science fiction texts and studies
    Subjects: Authors, American / 20th century / Biography; Horror tales / Authorship
    Other subjects: Lovecraft, H. P. / (Howard Phillips) / 1890-1937; Lovecraft, H. P. (1890-1937)
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  20. Alien plots
    female subjectivity and the divine in the light of James Tiptree's 'A momentary taste of being'
    Published: 2000
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    At the heart of this stimulating and provocative study is a science fiction story by James Tiptree Jr (Alice Sheldon-Bradley, 1916–1987) about a brother and a sister (and 58 other human beings) who encounter an alien while on a starship travelling to... more

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    At the heart of this stimulating and provocative study is a science fiction story by James Tiptree Jr (Alice Sheldon-Bradley, 1916–1987) about a brother and a sister (and 58 other human beings) who encounter an alien while on a starship travelling to discover a habitable planet. The book includes an outline of Tiptree’s work and of her remarkable life as the only child of jungle explorers, as a painter, an American agent during and after World War II, an experimental psychologist, and a female science fiction writer in male disguise

     

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    ISBN: 9781846312533
    Series: Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ; 22
    Subjects: Science fiction, American / History and criticism; Subjectivity in literature; Aliens in literature; Women in literature; Frau; Subjektivität
    Other subjects: Tiptree, James / Momentary taste of being; Tiptree, James (1915-1987): A momentary taste of being
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  21. Communities of the heart
    the rhetoric of myth in the fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin
    Published: 2001
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    This book explores the use of imaginative literature as persuasion, focusing on the science fiction of Ursula Le Guin and her rhetorical use of myth. The author concludes that Le Guin (like Emerson, Peirce, Thoreau, Whitman, and Dewey) is a... more

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    This book explores the use of imaginative literature as persuasion, focusing on the science fiction of Ursula Le Guin and her rhetorical use of myth. The author concludes that Le Guin (like Emerson, Peirce, Thoreau, Whitman, and Dewey) is a romantic/pragmatic rhetorician. In that sense, she is arguing for what Vico argued for in the eighteenth century: that knowledge should be seen and studied as an integrated whole, and that Cartesian thinking is only part of how humans make meaning

     

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    ISBN: 9781846312861
    Series: Liverpool science fiction texts and studies
    Subjects: Englisch; Science fiction, American / History and criticism; English language / United States / Rhetoric; Myth in literature; Mythos <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Le Guin, Ursula K. / 1929- / Criticism and interpretation; Le Guin, Ursula K. (1929-2018)
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  22. Gateways to forever
    the story of the science-fiction magazines from 1970 to 1980 : the History of the science-fiction magazine, volume III
    Author: Ashley, Mike
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    This third volume in Mike Ashley’s four-volume study of the science-fiction magazines focuses on the turbulent years of the 1970s, when the United States emerged from the Vietnam War into an economic crisis. It saw the end of the Apollo moon... more

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    This third volume in Mike Ashley’s four-volume study of the science-fiction magazines focuses on the turbulent years of the 1970s, when the United States emerged from the Vietnam War into an economic crisis. It saw the end of the Apollo moon programme and the start of the ecology movement. This proved to be one of the most complicated periods for the science-fiction magazines. Not only were they struggling to survive within the economic climate, they also had to cope with the death of the father of modern science fiction, John W. Campbell, Jr., while facing new and potentially threatening opposition. The market for science fiction diversified as never before, with the growth in new anthologies, the emergence of semi-professional magazines, the explosion of science fiction in college, the start of role-playing gaming magazines, underground and adult comics and, with the success of Star Wars, media magazines. This volume explores how the traditional science-fiction magazines coped with this, from the death of Campbell to the start of the major popular science magazine Omni and the first dreams of the Internet

     

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    ISBN: 9781846313172
    Series: Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ; 34
    Subjects: Geschichte; Science fiction / Periodicals / History; Science fiction, English / History and criticism; Science fiction, American / History and criticism
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  23. Demand my writing
    Joanna Russ, feminism, science fiction
    Published: 1999
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    In this major study of the work of Joanna Russ, Jeanne Cortiel gives a clear introduction to the major feminist issues relevant to Russ’s work and assesses its development. The book will be especially valuable for students of SF and feminist SF,... more

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    In this major study of the work of Joanna Russ, Jeanne Cortiel gives a clear introduction to the major feminist issues relevant to Russ’s work and assesses its development. The book will be especially valuable for students of SF and feminist SF, especially in its concern with the function of woman-based intertextuality. Although Cortiel deals principally with Russ’s novels, she also examines her short stories, and the focus on critically neglected texts is a particularly valuable feature of the study

     

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  24. Queer universes
    sexualities in science fiction
    Contributor: Pearson, Wendy G. (Herausgeber); Hollinger, Veronica (Herausgeber); Gordon, Joan (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    Contestations over the meaning and practice of sexuality have become increasingly central to cultural self-definition and critical debates over issues of identity, citizenship and the definition of humanity itself. In an era when a religious... more

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    Contestations over the meaning and practice of sexuality have become increasingly central to cultural self-definition and critical debates over issues of identity, citizenship and the definition of humanity itself. In an era when a religious authority can declare lesbians antihuman while some nations legalise same-sex marriage and are becoming increasingly tolerant of a variety of non-normative sexualities, it is hardly surprising that science fiction, in turn, takes up the task of imagining a diverse range of queer and not-so-queer futures. The essays in Queer Universes investigate both contemporary and historical practices of representing sexualities and genders in science fiction literature. Queer Universes opens with Wendy Pearson’s award-winning essay on reading sf queerly and goes on to include discussions about ‘sextrapolation’ in New Wave science fiction, ‘stray penetration’ in William Gibson’s cyberpunk fiction, the queering of nature in ecofeminist science fiction, and the radical challenges posed to conventional science fiction in the work of important writers such as Samuel R. Delany, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Joanna Russ. In addition, Queer Universes offers an interview with Nalo Hopkinson and a conversation about queer lives and queer fictions by authors Nicola Griffith and Kelley Eskridge

     

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    Contributor: Pearson, Wendy G. (Herausgeber); Hollinger, Veronica (Herausgeber); Gordon, Joan (Herausgeber)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781781388174
    Subjects: Geschichte; Science fiction, American / History and criticism; Gays' writings, American / History and criticism; Homosexuality and literature / United States / History; Homosexualität <Motiv>; Science-Fiction-Literatur; Englisch
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  25. Deconstructing the starships
    science, fiction, and reality
    Published: 1999
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    The subject matter of this collection is varied, but displays Jones’ stance as a practising SF writer and a feminist; the writing is characterised by both an incisive engagement with the texts and a refusal to dress that engagement in jargon. This... more

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    The subject matter of this collection is varied, but displays Jones’ stance as a practising SF writer and a feminist; the writing is characterised by both an incisive engagement with the texts and a refusal to dress that engagement in jargon. This very readable book provides insight into the work of one of our most interesting writers and presents strong – sometimes even subversive – views of a range of modern SF and fantasy

     

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    ISBN: 9781846312915
    Series: Liverpool science fiction texts and studies ; 16
    Subjects: Science fiction / History and criticism; Science fiction, English / History and criticism; Science fiction, American / History and criticism; Literature and science / English-speaking countries; Englisch; Science-Fiction-Literatur
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