Literary studies: general

Philosophical debates around individualization and the implications for intimacy, reflexivity and identity have occupied a central part of social and cultural theorizing in the West in the last decade.

El mito adquiere perseverancia en la tradición americana desde el mismo momento en que la Conquista significa la interrupción de unas culturas sustentadas por narraciones cosmológicas y religiosas que se apropian del tiempo y el espacio para definirlo, para entrever orígenes y destinos, para explicar el pasado, el presente y el futuro.

This book focuses on the construction of hegemonic masculinity as well as its representations in literature, culture, and film.

The past decade has given us explorations of such forms as the Bildungsroman, the Kunstleroman, the utopian and Gothic novel as women have written them; studies are even now emerging of the female-authored elegy, sonnet sequence and other pure and mixed poetic modes.

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This engrossing volume studies the poetics of evil in early modern English culture, reconciling the Renaissance belief that literature should uphold morality with the compelling and attractive representations of evil throughout the period's literature.

Literature as History presents a selection of specially commissioned essays by a range of key contemporary thinkers on the interdisciplinary study of literature and history.

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This book explores the intersection between the recent work on queer temporality and the experiments of literary modernism.

This new book explores the latest advances in probiotic research in the prevention and treatment of cancer.

In this book, author Helene Thiesen recounts her experience of being removed from her family in Greenland as a young Inuk child, to be 're-educated' in Denmark and an orphanage in Greenland.

The essays in this book explore the role of Grace King's fiction in the movement of American literature from local color and realism to modernism and show that her work exposes a postbellum New Orleans that is fragmented socially, politically, and linguistically.

Writers at War addresses the most immediate representations of the First World War in the prose of Ford Madox Ford, May Sinclair, Siegfried Sassoon and Mary Borden; it interrogates the various ways in which these writers contended with conveying their war experience from the temporal and spatial proximity of the warzone and investigates the multifarious impact of the war on the (re)development of their aesthetics.

This compelling volume offers the first full portrait of the life and work of writer Lillian Smith (1897-1966), the foremost southern white liberal of the mid-twentieth century.

This volume is an accessible yet in-depth narratological study of Euripides' Alcestis - the earliest extant play of Euripides and one of the most experimental masterpieces of Greek tragedy, not only standing in place of a satyr-play but also preserving at least some of its typical features.

This book is the first comprehensive study of mainstream British dystopian fiction and the Cold War.

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While Gender Studies has made its mark on literary studies, much scholarship on the German Middle Ages is largely inaccessible to the Anglo-American audience.

The period between 1750 and 1850 was a time when knowledge and its modes of transmission were reconsidered and reworked in fundamental ways.

This interdisciplinary volume of contributed essays focuses on issues of gender in the British novel of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, particularly Hardy and Trollope.

This book gathers together many of the principal essays of Richard Hunter, whose work has been fundamental in the modern re-evaluation of Greek literature after Alexander and its reception at Rome and elsewhere.

This groundbreaking book analyses premodern whiteness as operations of fragility, precarity and racialicity across bodily and nonsomatic figurations.

Edgar Allan Poe's image and import shifted during the twentieth century, and this shift is clearly connected to the work of three writers from the Rio de la Plata region of South America-Uruguayan Horacio Quiroga and Argentines Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortazar.

We Want Land to Live explores the current boundaries of radical approaches to food sovereignty.

This book explores how the publication of women's life writing influenced the reputation of its writers and of the genre itself during the long nineteenth century.

Some of the most meaningful moments in early American literature relied on historical patterns of gift exchange, David Faflik argues in this compelling book.

Immigrant communities evince particular and deep relationship to place.

Personajes míticos e históricos de la conquista de México en la escritura de mujeres es el resultado de una investigación colectiva enmarcada en el proyecto "Construcción/reconstrucción del mundo precolombino y colonial en la escritura de mujeres en México", y surge de la necesidad de ampliar las lecturas en torno a un periodo histórico imprescindible para entender el México de hoy con textos escritos por mujeres que, de un modo u otro, han tematizado la conquista en sus obras.

Advances in Food and Nutrition Research recognizes the integral relationship between the food and nutritional sciences and brings together outstanding and comprehensive reviews that highlight this relationship.

Detailing the adventures of a supernatural clan of vampires, witches, and assorted monstrosities, Ray Bradbury's Elliott family stories are a unique component of his extensive literary output.

Secrecy and Community in 21st-Century Fiction examines the relation between secrecy and community in a diverse and international range of contemporary fictional works in English.

The purpose of this Handbook is to bring together all the available information on the nutritional requirements of animal organisms for specific processes and functions.

Showcasing the very latest technologies for neutralising the unpleasant-and sometimes dangerous-odours from industrial and waste management processes, this Springer Brief in Environmental Sciences covers physical, chemical and biological methods.

Adams argues that the many significant changes seen in this period were due not to architects' efforts but to the work of feminists and health reformers.

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David Almond is one of the most exciting and innovative authors writing for children and young people today.

Julius Caesar presents a performance history of a controversial play, moving from its 1599 opening all the way into the new millennium with particular emphasis on its twentieth- and twenty-first-century incarnations on stage and screen.

This book examines fictional works by women authors who have left their homes in West Africa and now live as members of the diaspora.

This collection of lectures, broadcasts, reviews, and articles (several of which have not previously been published) embraces many aspects of the English literary scene in the middle of the nineteenth century.

Taken for Wonder focuses on nineteenth-century travelogues authored by Iranians in Europe and argues for a methodological shift in the way scholars interpret travel writing.

Welsh Gothic, the first study of its kind, introduces readers to the array of Welsh Gothic literature published from 1780 to the present day.

Elaborate analogies between Irish and Jewish history, between Irish and Jewish subjectivities, occur with surprising frequency throughout American literature.