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Trade ReviewHorror Fiction in the 20th Century is both an educational and informational resource that is thoroughly researched and inclusive of the genre in all its forms. Perhaps even more valuable, it serves as an indispensable resource for your next thrilling horror read. * Kirkus Reviews *At long last, the horror genre has been mapped. Those who wish to explore its dark forests, haunted cities and cursed monuments will now have the perfect starting point. * Women Write About Comics *Highly recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates; general readers. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Why Write About Horror? What Is Horror Fiction? American and British Horror Literature Before the Twentieth Century International Horror Part One 1901–1939, The Golden Age Chapter 1 British Writers The "Classical" Tradition(s) The Machen Quartet Breaks with Tradition Naturalism and the Psychological Ghost Story Traditionalists and Holdovers New Voices The War Years Voices of the Twenties The End of the Golden Age Chapter 2 American Writers The Great Age of the American Ghost Story East Coast versus West Coast The East Coast School Sexism and Great Age Content East Coast Membership The West Coast School Exceptions After Weird Tales' Debut Chapter 3 Horror in the Pulps Before Weird Tales Weird Tales H. P. Lovecraft The Weird Tales Crew What Lovecraft and Weird Tales Wrought, and What They Did Not Outside of Weird Tales The Shudder Pulps The End of Weird Tales' Golden Age Chapter 4 Horror in the Mainstream The Creation of the Mainstream Before the Great War America England After the War Chapter 5 Outside the Anglosphere, 1901–1939 Africa (Angola, Lesotho, Nigeria, South Africa) The Americas (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela) Asia (India, China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Philippines) Europe (Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia and the Soviet Union, Spain) The Middle East (Egypt, Iran, Turkey) Part Two 1940–1970, Midcentury Frights Chapter 6 American Writers Ray Bradbury Robert Bloch Richard Matheson Charles Beaumont The Group Fritz Leiber Midcentury Writers of Horror One-Shots Chapter 7 British Writers The Changing Landscape The 1940s The 1950s The 1960s Chapter 8 Horror in the Mainstream The Effects of the War American Writers Writers of the United Kingdom Chapter 9 Horror on the Cheap Pulps and Digests Paperbacks Comics Chapter 10 Outside the Anglosphere, 1940–1970 Africa (Angola, Congo, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Lesotho, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa) The Americas (Argentina, Barbados, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Guyana, Mexico, Uruguay, Venezuela) Asia (India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines) Europe (Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain) The Middle East (Israel, Syria, Turkey) Part Three 1971–2000, The Boom Years Chapter 11 Horror as Big Business American Best Sellers The British Response In the Mainstream Chapter 12 The Boom and Bust of the 1980s and 1990s Full-Timers Part-Timers, Tourists, and Dabblers RPG Fiction Chapter 13 Short-Fiction Authors, 1971–2000 From Before the Boom The 1970s Generation The 1980s Generation The 1990s Generation Chapter 14 Horror for Children and Young Adults 1900–1960 The 1960s The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s Chapter 15 Outsiders Writing Horror African American Writers Australian Aboriginal Writers Latinx Horror Native American Horror Queer Horror Chapter 16 Outside the Anglosphere, 1971–2000 Africa (Congo, Guinea, Kenya, Mauritania, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa) The Americas (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Québec, Venezuela) Asia (China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand) Europe (Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Russia, Spain, Switzerland) The Middle East (Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Syria, Turkey) Epilogue Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Trade ReviewAuthorship’s Wake animates a new path for exploring the enduring legacy of the “authorship debates.” This lively and original book not only brilliantly elucidates the political stakes of proclaiming the “death of the author,” but also uses these insights to form novel and compelling arguments regarding a range of contemporary phenomena from campus speech debates to man-splaining. What the sole author leaves in his wake, we come to learn, are nothing less than the seeds for cultivating vital new practices of affect, agency, and collectivity. * Jennifer Friedlander, Edgar E. and Elizabeth S. Pankey Professor of Media Studies, Pomona College, USA *Inventive. Inspiring. Important. A passionate defense of the emancipatory post-war writing daring to stretch beyond authorship and the fiction/theory binary; a celebration, in the wake of Roland Barthes, of the wildly critical visions of such writers as Teju Cole, Chris Kraus, Maggie Nelson, Zadie Smith, and David Foster Wallace; and an invitation to form a new kind of study group with them all as we take on this startlingly strange and yet terrifyingly familiar 21st century. * Alice Jardine, Professor, Harvard University, USA, and author of At the Risk of Thinking: An Intellectual Biography of Julia Kristeva (Bloomsbury, 2020) *Table of ContentsIntroduction: “Words Streaming in Your Wake” 1. Communication: Maggie Nelson and the Literary Text as Letter 2. Intention: The Inconsistent Anti-Intentionalism of Zadie Smith and Judith Butler 3. Agency: Roland Barthes and the Men Who Hold Forth 4. Labor: David Foster Wallace, Cowboy of Information Conclusion: Study Groups Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisVolume offering a guide to and reassessment of Thomas Mann's famous novel. Thomas Mann was the first writer since Goethe to attract a large international audience to stories written in German, bringing German fiction into the mainstream of European literature. His second major work, The Magic Mountain (1924), explores the heady intellectual culture of the chaotic and broken Germany that emerged from the First World War, and, along with the earlier Buddenbrooks, earned him a Nobel Prize for literature in 1929. Mann himself considered The Magic Mountain to be his greatest novel, and few in his own day doubted the preeminence of this modernist classic; however, many have argued that the age of literary modernism has passed. If this is so, how might we best understand Mann's masterpiece now? Topics covered in this volume, which aims to provide both a survey of and new research into important aspects of the work, include Mann's comic vision, his homosexuality, his fraught attitude toward Jews, the place of his novel in the landscape of postmodern life, the theme of solitude, music in the novel, and technology. Stephen D. Dowden is Professor of German at Brandeis University. Contributors: David Blumberg, Michael Brenner, Stephen Dowden, Edward Engelberg, Ulker Gökberk, Eugene Goodheart, Joseph P. Lawrence, Karla Schultz, Susan Sontag, Kenneth Weisinger. Stephen D. Dowden is Professor of German at Brandeis University.Trade ReviewBringing together a variety of approaches to the novel, this volume adds significantly to the literature available.... * CHOICE *Magisterial ruminations by prominent American academics who supply much intellectual and imaginative verve and insight. * FORUM FOR MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES *This collection represents a stimulating companion indeed to the Magic Mountain. * MONATSHEFTE *[The work] succeeds by offering a range of both familiar and innovative approaches to Mann's text, surprising even the experienced reader of Mann's novel with sometimes unexpected vistas. * COLLOQUIA GERMANICA *Table of ContentsTransfiguration in Silence: Hans Castorp's Uncanny Awakening - Joseph Lawrence Mann's Ethical Style - Stephen D. Dowden Thomas Mann's Comic Spirit - Eugene Goodheart War as Mentor: Thomas Mann and Germanness - Ulker Gokberk From Muted Chords to Maddening Cacophony: Music in The Magic Mountain - David Blumberg Ambiguous Solitude: Hans Castorp's Sturm und Drang nach Osten - Edward Engelberg Mortal Illness on the Magic Mountain - Stephen Meredith - MD Beyond Naptha: Thomas Mann's Jews and German-Jewish Writing - Michael Brenner Technology as Desire: X-Ray Vision in The Magic Mountain - Karla L. Schultz Distant Oil Rigs and Other Erections - Kenneth Weisinger Pilgrimage - Susan Sontag

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Book SynopsisSixteen new, carefully focused essays on the prose works of one of the great writers of modernity. Thomas Mann is among the greatest of German prose writers, and was the first German novelist to reach a wide English-speaking readership since Goethe. Novels such as Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain, and Doktor Faustus attest to his mastery of subtle, distanced irony, while novellas such as Death in Venice reveal him at the height of his mastery of language. In addition to fresh insights about these best-known works of Mann, this volume treats less-often-discussed works such as Joseph and His Brothers, Lotte in Weimar, and Felix Krull, as well as his political writings and essays. Mann himself was a paradox: his role as family-father was both refuge and façade; his love of Germany was matched by his contempt for its having embraced Hitler. While in exile during the Nazi period, he functioned as the prime representative of the "good" Germany in the fight against fascism, and he has often been remembered this way in English-speaking lands. But a new view of Mann is emerging half a century after his death: a view of him as one of the great writers of a modernity understood as extending into our 21st century. This volume provides sixteen essays by American and European specialists. They demonstrate the relevance of his writings for our time, making particular use of the biographical material that is now available. Contributors: Ehrhard Bahr, Manfred Dierks, Werner Frizen, Clayton Koelb, Helmut Koopmann, Wolfgang Lederer, Hannelore Mundt, Peter Pütz, Jens Rieckmann, Hans Joachim Sandberg, Egon Schwarz, and Hans Vaget. Herbert Lehnert is Research Professor, and Eva Wessell is Lecturer in Humanities, both at the University of California, Irvine.Trade ReviewLehnert and Wessell, themselves accomplished Mann scholars, assembled a stellar team of specialists from three countries for this collection...offers a wealth of insights. Essential. * CHOICE *[The book gives] reliable and readable accounts of Mann's works. It also introduces readers to current scholarship on those works. It thus accomplishes exactly what it is meant to do. It does so, moreover, in admirable breadth and depth. * MONATSHEFTE *This collection of essays forms part of a Camden House series in which 27 volumes have appeared since 1999 and which will eventually provide a panorama of the accepted peaks of German and Austrian literature from Hartmann von Aue to Thomas Bernhard and beyond. Almost without exception, the contributions provide good, general introductions to the texts under discussion and new insights for the specialist, or both. * MLR *Together with familiar facts well known to the reader of Thomas Mann one also finds quite original insights.... This work is of such richness that it would be useful translated into German to make it available to a larger public. * ETUDES GERMANIQUES *

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Book SynopsisNew essays on the most prominent German dramatist and short-story writer of the early 19th century. For over 150 years, Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) has been one of the most widely read and performed German authors. His status in the literary canon is firmly established, but he has always been one of Germany's most contentiously discussed authors. Today's critical debate on his unique prose narratives and dramas is as heated as ever. Many critics regard Kleist as a lone presager of the aesthetics and philosophies of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century modernism. Yet there can be no question that he responds in his works and letters to the philosophical, aesthetic, and political debates of his time. During the last thirty years, the scholarship on Kleist's work and life has departed from the existentialist wave of the 1950s and early 1960s and opened up new avenues for coming to terms with his unusual talent. The present volume brings together the most important and innovative of these newer scholarly approaches: the essays include critically informed, up-to-date interpretations of Kleist's most-discussed stories and dramas. Other contributions analyze Kleist's literary means and styles and their theoretical underpinnings. They include articles on Kleist's narrative and theatrical technique, poetic and aesthetic theory, philosophical and political thought, and insights from new biographical research. Contributors: Jeffrey L. Sammons,Jost Hermand, Anthony Stephens, Bianca Theisen, Hinrich C. Seeba, Bernhard Greiner, Helmut J. Schneider, Tim Mehigan, Susanne Zantop, Hilda M. Brown, and Seán Allan. Bernd Fischer is Professor of German and Head of theDepartment of German at Ohio State University.Trade ReviewThis volume... succeeds in providing insight into the rich complexity of Kleist's writings and ... bears testimony to the continued relevance of his oeuvre today. * GERMAN QUARTERLY *This volume is a stimulating study that contains much that will arouse the reader's interest and that promises to pave the way for further exciting probes into Kleist's remarkable contemporary oeuvre. * SEMINAR *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Heinrich von Kleist's Life and Work - Bernd Fischer Jupiterists and Alkemists: Amphitryon as an Example of How Kleist's Texts Read Interpreters - Jeffery L. Sammons Kleist's Penthesilea: Battleground of Gendered Discourses - Jost Hermand On Structures in Kleist - Anthony Stephens--til 7/03 Strange News: Kleist's Novellas - Bianca Theisen The Eye of the Beholder: Kleist's Visual Poetics of Knowledge - Hinrich C. Seeba The Performative Turn of the Beautiful: "Free Play" of Language and the "Unspeakable Person" - Bernhard Greiner The Facts of Life: Kleist's Challenge to Enlightenment Humanism (Lessing) - Helmut J. Schneider "Betwixt a false reason and none at all": Kleist, Hume, Kant, and the "Thing in Itself" - Tim Mehigan Changing Color: Kleist's "Die Verlobung in St. Domingo" and the Discourses of Miscegenation - Susanne Zantop-Deceased Ripe Moments and False Climaxes: Thematic and Dramatic Configurations of the Theme of Death in Kleist's Works - "Mein ist die Rache spricht der Herr": Violence and Revenge in the Works of Heinrich von Kleist - Sean Allan

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Book SynopsisA much-needed look at the fiction that was actually read by masses of Germans in the late nineteenth century, and the conditions of its publication and reception. The late nineteenth century was a crucial period for the development of German fiction. Political unification and industrialization were accompanied by the rise of a mass market for German literature, and with it the beginnings ofthe German bestseller.Offering escape, romance, or adventure, as well as insights into the modern world, nineteenth-century bestsellers often captured the imagination of readers well into the twentieth century and beyond. However, many have been neglected by scholars. This volume offers new readings of literary realism by focusing not on the accepted intellectual canon but on commercially successful fiction in its material and social contexts. It investigates bestsellers from writers such as Freytag, Dahn, Jensen, Raabe, Viebig, Stifter, Auerbach, Storm, Möllhausen, Marlitt, Suttner, and Thomas Mann. The contributions examine the aesthetic strategies that made the works sucha success, and writers' attempts to appeal simultaneously on different levels to different readers. Bestselling writers often sought to accommodate the expectations of publishers and the marketplace, while preserving some sense ofartistic integrity. This volume sheds light on the important effect of the mass market on the writing not just of popular works, but of German prose fiction on all levels. Contributors: Christiane Arndt, Caroline Bland, Elizabeth Boa, Anita Bunyan, Katrin Kohl, Todd Kontje, Peter C. Pfeiffer, Nicholas Saul, Benedict Schofield, Ernest Schonfield, Martin Swales, Charlotte Woodford. Charlotte Woodford is Lecturer in German and Directorof Studies in Modern Languages at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge. Benedict Schofield is Senior Lecturer in German and Head of the Department of German at King's College London.Trade Review[T]akes a fresh and highly productive look at German best-selling novels and novellas written between the 1840s and the early 1900s. It combines sociohistorical enquiry into the history of literary writing, publishing, and reading with a particular focus on 'the fertile crossover between so-called high literature and works written for the mass market.' . . . The twelve chapters . . . written by established Germanists as well as younger researchers, are well researched and thoughtful almost throughout. Many are highly successful in combining socio-historical enquiry with in-depth literary analysis. --Dirk Göttsche, * MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW *[F]ascinating . . . . In her excellent introduction, Charlotte Woodford draws attention to the production and distribution of literature in the nineteenth century as well as to the rapid growth of subscription libraries. The serialisation of longer fiction was also an important factor in bringing literature to a wider and broader-based audience. All these factors are taken up . . . by Benedict Schofield, [Woodford's] co-editor, and the other ten contributors to the volume. * JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN STUDIES *Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. * CHOICE *Handsomely produced and expertly edited . . . . The essays are often fascinating and always informative. The best of them make their arguments against the forgetting of their once-bestselling authors exciting. They share a passion for getting to the bottom of why, in or outside Germany, we know so little about books that were, in the main, not just flashes in the pan, as they often endured for up to a century. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT [P]resents a fresh look at late-nineteenth-century realist ?ction by examining the 'fertile crossover between so-called high literature and works written for the mass market' (1). [D]emonstrates an exceptional breadth . . . . [T]his impressive collection will surely inject new energy into nineteenth-century scholarship. . . . [I]ts unique focus on poetics provides a welcome complement to recent scholarship such as Publishing Culture and the 'Reading Nation' (edited by Lynne Tatlock, [Camden House], 2010). * MONATSHEFTE *Table of ContentsIntroduction: German Fiction and the Marketplace in the Nineteenth Century - Charlotte Woodford Gustav Freytag's Soll und Haben: Politics, Aesthetics, and the Bestseller - Benedict Schofield Felix Dahn's Ein Kampf um Rom: Historical Fiction as Melodrama - Todd Kontje Wilhelm Jensen and Wilhelm Raabe: Literary Value, Evolutionary Aesthetics, and Competition in the Marketplace - Nicholas Saul Clara Viebig: Using the Genres of Heimatkunst und Großstadtroman to Create Bestselling Novels - Caroline Bland Buddenbrooks as Bestseller - Ernest Schonfield Homeliness and Otherness: Reflections on Stifter's Bergkristall - Martin Swales Berthold Auerbach's Schwarzwälder Dorfgeschichten: Political and Religious Contexts of a Nineteenth-Century Bestseller - Anita Bunyan Theodor Storm's Der Schimmelreiter: Schauerralismus or Gothic Realism in the Family Periodical - Christiane Arndt Selling the Experience of the New World: Balduin Möllhausen's Novellistic Imagination of America - Peter Pfeiffer E. Marlitt's Bestselling Poetics - Katrin Kohl Bertha von Suttner's Die Waffen nieder! and Gabriele Reuter's Aus guter Familie: Sentimentality and Social Criticism - Charlotte Woodford Taking Sex to Market: Tagebuch einer Verlorenen: Von einerToten and Josefine Mutzenbacher, Die Lebensgeschichte einer wienerischen Dirne, von ihr selbst erzählt - Elizabeth Boa Works Cited Notes on the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisFirst comprehensive look at how today's German literary fiction deals with questions of German victimhood. In recent years it has become much more accepted in Germany to consider aspects of the Second World War in which Germans were not perpetrators, but victims: the Allied bombing campaign, expulsions of "ethnic" Germans, mass rapes of German women, and postwar internment and persecution. An explosion of literary fiction on these topics has accompanied this trend. Sebald's The Air War and Literature and Grass's Crabwalk are key texts, but there are many others; the great majority seek not to revise German responsibility for the Holocaust but to balance German victimhood and German perpetration. This book of essays is the first in English to examine closely the variety ofthese texts. An opening section on the 1950s -- a decade of intense literary engagement with German victimhood before the focus shifted to German perpetration -- provides context, drawing parallels but also noting differences between the immediate postwar period and today. The second section focuses on key texts written since the mid-1990s shifts in perspectives on the Nazi past, on perpetration and victimhood, on "ordinary Germans," and on the balance between historical empathy and condemnation. Contributors: Karina Berger, Elizabeth Boa, Stephen Brockmann, David Clarke, Mary Cosgrove, Rick Crownshaw, Helen Finch, Frank Finlay, Katharina Hall, Colette Lawson, Caroline Schaumann, Helmut Schmitz, Kathrin Schödel, and Stuart Taberner. Stuart Taberner is Professor of Contemporary German Literature, Culture, and Society at the University of Leeds. Karina Berger holds a PhD in German from the University of Leeds.Trade Review[A]n impressive testament to collaborative research. The . . . essays . . . all offer highly stimulating discussions of individual texts and topics, and can be read as self-contained pieces, but the book is far more than the sum of its parts: the coherence of its argument suggests not only masterly editing, but also the real benefits of scholars with related interests working together over an extended period. [This book] will be of interest to students, specialists, and general readers alike, and given the implications of the topic, deserves the widest possible audience. * JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES *Contributes to a growing body of research on the evolution of memory politics in post-unification Germany... Adds important inflections to current debates... Important, thought-provoking, and fittingly nuanced. * MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW *The individual essays make a compelling and well-conceived contribution to an important and on-going discussion that in the ten years of its existence has gained in nuance and sophistication. * MONATSHEFTE *Provides a valuable overview about the range and complexity of literary accounts on 'German suffering. * GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW *Provocative yet accessible to a wide audience. * CHOICE *The volume adds support to the argument that the notion of 'German victims' did not begin with the fall of the Berlin Wall. * GERMAN QUARTERLY *Clearly structured, with a common theme that gives the work cohesion.... Will certainly stimulate academic debate and scholarship for years to come. * H-NET GERMAN *Has an impressive array of contributions. . . . [C]ertainly demonstrates the complexities of the current debates. * THIS YEAR'S WORK IN MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES *Table of ContentsIntroduction - Stuart Taberner and Karina Berger W. G. Sebald and German Wartime Suffering - Stephen Brockmann The Natural History of Destruction: W. G. Sebald, Gert Ledig, and the Allied Bombings - Colette Lawson Expulsion Novels of the 1950s: More than Meets the Eye? - Karina Berger "In this prison of the guard room": Heinrich Böll's Briefe aus dem Krieg 1939-1945 in the Context of Contemporary Debates - Frank Finlay Family, Heritage, and German Wartime Suffering in Hanns-Josef Ortheil, Stephan Wackwitz, Thomas Medicus, Dagmar Leupold, and Uwe Timm - Helmut Schmitz Lost Heimat in Generational Novels by Reinhard Jirgl, Christoph Hein, and Angelika Overath - Elizabeth Boa "A Different Family Story": German Wartime Suffering in Women's Writing by Wibke Bruhns, Ute Scheub, and Christina von Braun - Caroline Schaumann The Place of German Wartime Suffering in Hans-Ulrich Treichel's Family Texts - David Clarke "Why only now?": The Representation of German Wartime Suffering as a "Memory Taboo" in Günter Grass's Novella Im Krebsgang - Katharina Hall Rereading Der Vorleser, Remembering the Perpetrator - Rick Crownshaw Narrating German Suffering in the Shadow of Holocaust Victimology: W. G. Sebald, Contemporary Trauma Theory, and Dieter Forte's Air Raids Epic - Mary Cosgrove Günter Grass's Account of German Wartime Suffering in Beim Häuten der Zwiebel: Mind in Mourning or Boy Adventurer? - Helen Finch Jackboots and Jeans: The Private and the Political in Uwe Timm's Am Beispiel meines Bruders - Frank Finlay Memory-Work in Recent German Novels: What (if Any) Limits Remain on Empathy with the "German Experience" of the Second World War? - Stuart Taberner "Secondary Suffering" and Victimhood: The "Other" of German Identity in Bernhard Schlink's "Die Beschneidung" and Maxim Biller's "Harlem Holocaust" - Kathrin Schodel

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Book SynopsisA refreshing new interdisciplinary slant on magical realism as an international literary phenomenon emerging from the trauma of colonial dispossession. Companion to Magical Realism provides an assessment of the world-wide impact of a movement which was incubated in Germany, flourished in Latin America and then spread to the rest of the world. It provides a set of up-to-date assessments of the work of writers traditionally associated with magical realism such as Gabriel García Márquez [in particular his recently published memoirs], Alejo Carpentier, Miguel ngel Asturias, Juan Rulfo, Isabel Allende,Laura Esquivel and Salman Rushdie, as well as bringing into the fold new authors such as W.B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney, José Saramago, Dorit Rabinyan, Ovid, María Luisa Bombal, Ibrahim al-Kawni, Mayra Montero, Nakagami Kenji, José Eustasio Rivera and Elias Khoury, discussed for the first time in the context of magical realism. Written in a jargon-free style, and with all quotations translated into English, this book offers a refreshing new interdisciplinary slant on magical realism as an international literary phenomenon emerging from the trauma of colonial dispossession. The companion also has a Guide to Further Reading. Stephen Hart is Professor of Hispanic Studies, University College London and Doctor Honoris Causa of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Peru. Wen-chin Ouyang lectures in Arabic Literature and Comparative Literature at the School of Oriental and African Studies,London.Trade ReviewThis companion is a valuable, updated and much needed consolidation of magical realism scholarship. * JILAS~ JOURNAL OF IBERIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES *Insightful [and] essential. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Globalization of Magical Realism: New Poltics of Aesthetics [with Wen-chin Ouyang] - Introduction: Globalization of Magical Realism: New Politics of Aesthetics [with Stephen M Hart] - Wen-Chin Ouyang Section I: Introduction: Genealogies, Myths, Archives - Swords and Silver Rings: Magical Objects in the Work of Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel García Márquez - Lois Parkinson Zamora The Presence of Myth in Borges, Carpentier, Asturias, Rulfo and García Márquez - Donald L Shaw The Earth as Archive in Bombal, Parra, Asturias and Rulfo [with Julia King] - Alejo Carpentier's Re-invention of América Latin as Real and Marvellous - The Golden Age Myth in Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude and Ovid's Metamorphoses - Lorna Robinson Lessons from the Golden Age in Gabriel García Márquez's Living to Tell the Tale - Efraín Kristal Section II: Introduction: History, Nightmare, Fantasy - History and the Fantastic in José Saramago's Fiction - David Henn Magical-Realist Elements in José Eustasio Rivera's The Vortex - Humberto Nuñez-Faraco Beyond Magic Realism in The Red of His Shadow by Marya Montero - Alejandra Rengifo Cops, Robbers, and Anarcho-terrorists: Crime and Magical Realism's Jewish Question - J F Friedenthal Flights of Fancy: Angela Carter's Transgressive Narratives - Sarah Sceats Section III: Introduction: The Politics of Magic - Wen-Chin Ouyang Humour and Magical Realism in El reino de este mundo - Evelyn Fishburn Magical Realism and Children's Literature: Isabel Allende's La Ciudad de las Bestias - Philip Swanson Unsavoury Representations in Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate - Helene Price Not so Innocent - An Israeli Tale of Subversion: Dorit Rabinyan's Persian Brides - Tsila Ratner Magical Realism as Ideology: Narrative Evasions in the Work of Nakagami Kenji - Mark Morris Legend, Fantasy and the Birth of the New in `Los funerales de la Mamá Grande by Gabriel García Márquez - Robin Fiddian Section IV: Introduction: Empire, Nation, Magic - Wen-Chin Ouyang Magical Nationalism, Lyric Poetry and the Marvellous: W. B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney - Johnathan Allison Empire and Tribal Magic in a Tuareg Epic: Ibrahim al-Kuni's Lunar Eclipse - Stefan Sperl Magical Realism and Nomadic Writing in the Maghreb - John Erickson Of Numerology and Butterflies: Magical Realism in Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses - Stephanie Jones From The Thousand and One Nights to Magical Realism: Postnational Predicament in The Journey of Little Ghandi by Elias KhouryElias Khoury - Wen-Chin Ouyang Guide to Further Reading [with Kenneth Reeds] - Stephen M. Hart Select Bibliography - Stephen M. Hart

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Book SynopsisAmputation 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.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Amputation and the Semiotics of “Loss”Part I: The Politics of Amputation2. “Lame Doings.” Amputation, Impotence, and Community in The Shoemaker’s Holiday and A Larum for London3. Complicating the Semiotics of Loss. Gender, Power and Amputation Narratives4. Stalin’s Samovars: Disabled Veterans in (Post-)Soviet LiteraturePart 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 Relations8. The Penalty in Novel and Film: Grieving with the Vengeful Amputee9. “The Blunt Remnant of Something Whole”: Living Stumps and Prosthetic Relations in Thomas Bernhard’s Die Billigesser and Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America10. “But the Damage … Lasted”: Phantom Pain and Mourning in Moritz’s Anton ReiserPart IV: Philosophy, Language, Disability11. Zhuangzi, Amputees, and Virtue (de)12. Speech—Amputation—Writing: Philomela’s Notalogy13. (In)complete Amputation: Body Integrity Identity Disorder and Maurice Blanchot

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Book SynopsisIn October 1967, Pier Paolo Pasolini travelled to Venice to interview Ezra Pound for broadcast on national television. One a lifelong Marxist, the other a former propagandist for the Fascist regime, their encounter was billed as a clash of opposites. But what do these poets share? And what can they tell us about the poetics and politics of the twentieth century? This book reads one by way of the other, aligning their engagement with different temporalities and traditions, polities and geographies, languages and forms, evoked as utopian alternatives to the cultural and political crises of capitalist modernity. Part literary history, part comparative study, it offers a new and provocative perspective on these poets and the critical debates around them – in particular, on Pound’s Italian years and Pasolini’s use of Pound in his work. Their connection helps to understand the implications and legacies of their work today. Trade Review“Sean Mark’s in-depth study of Pound and Pasolini, subtitled Poetics of Crisis, is a remarkable piece of scholarship, beautifully written, masterfully organised, and which reads almost like the plot of a detective novel … .” (Jonathan Pollock, Transatlantica Issue 2, 2023)Table of ContentsIntroduction: Pound and/or Pasolini Chapter 1: Family Portraits Chapter 2: Creatures Facing Backwards Chapter 3: Exposition Chapter 4: An Economy of Signs Chapter 5: Failure Coda: Afterlives Appendix A. The Pasolini-Pound Interview B. The Ronsisvalle-Pound Interview

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Book SynopsisThis essay collection examines the theory and history of graphic narrative as one of the most interesting and versatile forms of storytelling in contemporary media culture. Its contributions test the applicability of narratological concepts to graphic narrative, examine aspects of graphic narrative beyond the ‘single work’, consider the development of particular narrative strategies within individual genres, and trace the forms and functions of graphic narrative across cultures. Analyzing a wide range of texts, genres, and narrative strategies from both theoretical and historical perspectives, the international group of scholars gathered here offers state-of-the-art research on graphic narrative in the context of an increasingly postclassical and transmedial narratology.This is the revised second edition of From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels, which was originally published in the Narratologia series.

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