In 1976-the bicentennial year-Robert Penn Warren told Bill Moyers that he was "e;in love with America"e; but his love for the nation was more often than not troubled and angry.
Die hier vorgelegte Studie begreift sich als Fortführung der Arbeiten an einer philologischen Hermeneutik des Textes, die 1977 abgebrochen wurden und hier zu einem Abschluß gebracht werden.
Passages: On geo-analysis and the aesthetics of precarity is a multi-genre and transdisciplinary text addressing themes such as colonialism, nuclear zones of abandonment, migration control regimes, transnational domestic work, the biocolonial hostilities of the hospitality industry, legal precarities behind the international criminal justice regime, the shadow-worlds of the African soccerscape, and immunity regimes related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Arguing that the 19th century concept of living form (the idea that, like an organism, a poem develops itself from within, according to an internal logic) is not, as some critics have argued, anathema to avant-garde writing, this book contends that the concept survived and flourished in the work of a number of contemporary experimental poets.
A study of how Kazuo Ishiguro's novels respond to and represent the world through characters that are profoundly limited in their understanding of the systems that bind them.
The traditional narrative of the mid-century (1930s-60s) is that of a wave of expansion and constriction, with the swelling of economic and political freedoms for women in the 1930s, the cresting of women in the public sphere during the Second World War, and the resulting break as employment and political opportunities for women dwindled in the 1950s when men returned home from the front.
Achille Mbembe is a key thinker in contemporary African philosophy who has been influential in literary and cultural theory, African literature, and postcolonial studies.
Ha pasado más de un siglo y medio desde que un paseo en barca con las niñas Liddell inspirara a Lewis Carroll para escribir 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' (1865).
Dieses Buch untersucht, wie phänomenologische Ansätze zu den Themen Verleiblichung, Wahrnehmung und gelebte Erfahrung innerhalb der Disability Studies, der Critical Race Theory und der Queer Studies diskutiert werden.
This volume considers Samuel Beckett's fiction and drama as major aesthetic and thematic influences on the work of Irish authors Eimear McBride, Keith Ridgway, Emma Donoghue, and Kevin Barry in the post-crash period of 2009-2015.
Dieses Buch untersucht, wie phänomenologische Ansätze zu den Themen Verleiblichung, Wahrnehmung und gelebte Erfahrung innerhalb der Disability Studies, der Critical Race Theory und der Queer Studies diskutiert werden.
The Red Pencil (1989) examines the many ways in which Soviet censorship interfered in the creative process - in the words of those who experienced it first hand.
This long overdue reevaluation of Jack Kerouac gives fresh perspectives on his unique literary output, his vexed relation to issues of race, class, and gender, as well as his continuing cultural afterlife.
Dieses Buch bietet einen ersten wissenschaftlichen Überblick über einen bislang vernachlässigten Bereich der deutschsprachigen Kriminalliteratur, der unter der Genrebezeichnung ‚Thriller‘ firmiert – und den Buchmarkt derzeit geradezu dominiert.
During the Great War, books and stories for young men were frequently used as unofficial propaganda for recruitment and to sell the war to British youth as a moral crusade.
In this study, the engaging art created by children's author Margaret Wise Brown receives the critical attention it deserves as a lasting contribution to American children's literature.
This volume, grounded in the Diary of a Young Girl and its continued appeal to readers of all ages, sees both promise in the relevance of Anne Frank's story in the twenty first century, and potential for new ways of teaching her story and those of other genocides and human right violations.
This volume, grounded in the Diary of a Young Girl and its continued appeal to readers of all ages, sees both promise in the relevance of Anne Frank's story in the twenty first century, and potential for new ways of teaching her story and those of other genocides and human right violations.
A representative overview of some of the most pressing concerns in contemporary literary criticism in South Africa, demonstrating literary form's shaping power in the interpretation of politically contentious content.
The ethical approaches to literature have come into prominence in the twentieth century, calling for a 'turn to ethics' in the studies of humanities, in general, and literary studies, in particular.
Exploring twentieth- and twenty-first century texts that wrestle with the Irish domestic interior as a sexualized and commodified space, this book provides readings of the power and authority of the feminized body in Ireland.
A critical deep-drive into conceptions of power and society in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, this book brings together experts in fantasy literature, political sciences, economics, philosophy, history, and journalism to consider the intricate social tapestry of one of the most intricate worlds in modern fantasy.
This long overdue reevaluation of Jack Kerouac gives fresh perspectives on his unique literary output, his vexed relation to issues of race, class, and gender, as well as his continuing cultural afterlife.
