Urban Mobilities in Literature and Art Activism explores the entwinement of mobility and immobility in urban spaces by focusing on their representation in literary narratives but also in visual and performing arts.
Taking the literary world by storm upon its publication in 1922, James Joyce's ULYSSES stands as one of the most significant works of modernist literature.
This book looks at literary historiography in Russia, Latvia, the Czech Republic and Finland, focusing on how seismic shifts in state politics and ideology after 1990 changed the writing of national literary histories in these countries.
The Financial Image: Finance, Philosophy, and Contemporary Film draws on a broad range of narrative feature films, documentaries, and moving image installations in the US, Europe, and Asia.
This volume examines a selection of life writing in English by authors from the South West Indian Ocean, namely South Africa, East Africa, Mauritius and Sri Lanka.
This collection of essays reappraises the contributions made by modernist movements from regions generally regarded as peripheral or semi-peripheral to a global aesthetic of Modernism.
The Financial Image: Finance, Philosophy, and Contemporary Film draws on a broad range of narrative feature films, documentaries, and moving image installations in the US, Europe, and Asia.
This volume examines a selection of life writing in English by authors from the South West Indian Ocean, namely South Africa, East Africa, Mauritius and Sri Lanka.
This collection of essays reappraises the contributions made by modernist movements from regions generally regarded as peripheral or semi-peripheral to a global aesthetic of Modernism.
Jane Austen and Vampires is the first book to investigate the literary convergence of Jane Austen and vampires in Austen fanfic after the success of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight (2005) and Seth Grahame-Smith's Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2009).
Jane Austen and Vampires is the first book to investigate the literary convergence of Jane Austen and vampires in Austen fanfic after the success of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight (2005) and Seth Grahame-Smith's Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2009).
Das Buch beschäftigt sich mit der Bedeutung der Philosophie des Wiener Kreises und Otto Neuraths Konzept der „visuellen Erziehung" für die Entstehung eines neuen Bild-Text-Stils, insbesondere im modernen illustrierten Sachbuch.
This book looks at Neobaroque Latin American fiction, poetry, essay and performance from the 1970s to the early 2000s in order to explore the cultural hybridization and transgressive identity transformations at play in these works.
Visual Culture in Freud's Vienna shows how photography and film in turn-of-the-century Vienna (the birthplace of psychoanalysis) not only reflected modernist ideas already in force, but helped to bring into being what might be referred to as a "e;psychoanalytic imagination.
Visual Culture in Freud's Vienna shows how photography and film in turn-of-the-century Vienna (the birthplace of psychoanalysis) not only reflected modernist ideas already in force, but helped to bring into being what might be referred to as a "e;psychoanalytic imagination.
Das Buch beschäftigt sich mit der Bedeutung der Philosophie des Wiener Kreises und Otto Neuraths Konzept der „visuellen Erziehung" für die Entstehung eines neuen Bild-Text-Stils, insbesondere im modernen illustrierten Sachbuch.
This book looks at Neobaroque Latin American fiction, poetry, essay and performance from the 1970s to the early 2000s in order to explore the cultural hybridization and transgressive identity transformations at play in these works.
Poetry, Architecture, and the New York School: Something Like a Liveable Space examines the relationship between poetics and architecture in the work of the first generation New York School poets, Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, and James Schuyler.
Disability Identity in Simulation Narratives considers the relationship between disability identity and simulation activities (ranging from traditional gameplay to more revolutionary technology) in contemporary science fiction.
Disability Identity in Simulation Narratives considers the relationship between disability identity and simulation activities (ranging from traditional gameplay to more revolutionary technology) in contemporary science fiction.
Poetry, Architecture, and the New York School: Something Like a Liveable Space examines the relationship between poetics and architecture in the work of the first generation New York School poets, Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, and James Schuyler.
Women's Health in Britain and America: Texts and Contexts offers an unparalleled record of women's health in the United Kingdom and the United States since 1750.
This book likens writers' incessant focus on racism, negative ethnicity, patriarchy and social stratification in societies to a naive physician who prescribes analgesics to treat symptoms while the underlying cause of the disease seethes in the blood.
This is the first volume to consistently examine Soviet engagement with world literature from multiple institutional and disciplinary perspectives: intellectual history, literary history and theory, comparative literature, translation studies, diaspora studies.
Neue literaturwissenschaftliche und interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf das Werk des Schweizer Schriftstellers Friedrich DürrenmattDie Wechselbeziehung zwischen Wirklichkeit und Fiktion prägt das literarische Schaffen von Friedrich Dürrenmatt ebenso wie seine poetologische und kritische Reflexion.
This book likens writers' incessant focus on racism, negative ethnicity, patriarchy and social stratification in societies to a naive physician who prescribes analgesics to treat symptoms while the underlying cause of the disease seethes in the blood.
In 1908, Joseph Conrad was criticised by a reviewer for being a man 'without either country or language': even his shipboard communities were the product of a 'cosmopolitan' vision.
Queer Kinship in Sarah Schulman's AIDS Novels is the first book to extensively discuss the works of Sarah Schulman, a journalist, activist and globally recognized novelist.
Women's Health in Britain and America: Texts and Contexts offers an unparalleled record of women's health in the United Kingdom and the United States since 1750.
Ästhetische, politische, ethnische und Gender-Aspekte des Tanzes in Vicki Baums Erzählwerk, journalistischen Arbeiten und ReiseberichtenDie Schriftstellerin Vicki Baum symbolisierte den Typus der "Neuen Frau" in der Weimarer Republik, zu deren emanzipiertem, selbst- und körperbewusstem Lebensstil nicht zuletzt der Tanz gehörte.
Queer Kinship in Sarah Schulman's AIDS Novels is the first book to extensively discuss the works of Sarah Schulman, a journalist, activist and globally recognized novelist.
The study compares three Bosnian authors with three European titans: The poet Mak Dizdar to Homer, the novelist Mesa Selimovic to Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the novelist Ivo Andric to Leo Tolstoy.
By examining portrayals of male homosociality in Sally Rooney's novels, the book documents how male relationships are formed, challenged, and often disavowed and the profound negative effects this can have for the wellbeing of men.
