Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Books
Liverpool University Press Aristocratic Universe of Karen Blixen: Destiny
Book SynopsisKaren Blixen's works are explored in the light of a passionate insistence on living out a double nature of the divine and the demonic. The 'aristocratic' is examined as her depiction of a conduct of life that is faithful to destiny: the aristocratic viewpoint is in tune with eternity, and places no obstructive morality between self and life. Vitality has its source in direct access to the ocean of inexhaustible opportunities with which life presents us. The 'world' of Africa, for example, plays a key role as the consummate illustration of an aristocratic culture. The aesthetic guidelines for literary form (as well as art) as advocated by KB are discussed, and her view of art is similarly defined and explained as 'aristocratic'. Her private correspondence (including the recently published Karen Blixen in Denmark: Letters, 1931-62) is drawn upon to shed new light on her life and work.
£30.00
Liverpool University Press Valle-Inclan: The Captain's Daughter and the Dead
Book SynopsisRamon del Valle-Inclan is one of Spain's greatest dramatists. His particular legacy is theesperpento, a satirical mode combining tragedy and farce and characterised by its use of the grotesque.The Dead Man's Finery (1926) andThe Captain's Daughter (1927) are two short esperpentos that satirise the military, which for Valle-Inclan encapsulated the worst and most retrogressive qualities of the Spanish nation. InThe Dead Man's Finery, Johnny Bluster is a decommissioned veteran of the Spanish American War who steals a dead man's clothes in order to woo a prostitute. A parody of the Don Juan legend, the play takes the problematic, protean and devilish Don Juan and sets his outrageous behaviour in a very particular social and historical context.The Captain's Daughteris the most historically and politically oriented of Valle-Inclain's works for the theatre. A man is killed and the accident of his death sets off a chain of events in which exploitation and self-interest are the orchestrating forces, concluding in a military coup that topples the government. An overt satire of the rise to power of General Primo de Rivera in 1923, the play dispenses with the individual protagonist and portrays a society in crisis. Notorious for his recondite use of language, Valle-Inclain emphasises the popular idiom without ever falling into picturesque realism. Rather than recreate accurate modes of speech he creates a mode of expression that highlights incongruity and contrast, emphasising the puppet-like quality of his characters. Translated here for the first time into English, the plays are accompanied by a critical introduction and notes to guide the reader or director of these plays. Notorious for his recondite use of language, in these plays Valle-Inclan emphasises the popular idiom without ever falling into picturesque realism; rather than recreate accurate modes of speech he creates a mode of expression that brings together all the play's characters, regardless of their status or place in society. The emphasis on incongruity and contrast creates a peculiarly sarcastic tone that permeates the dialogue. The plays are accompanied by a critical introduction and notes to guide the reader or director of these plays, both fine examples of Valle-Inclan's expressionistic and experimental theatre.Table of Contents Translator’s Note Critical Introduction Bibliography Las galas del difunto/The Dead Man’s Finery Notes La hija del capitán/The Captain’s Daughter Notes
£27.09
Liverpool University Press Going Down to Morocco
Book SynopsisGoing Down to Morocco (Bajarse al moro), is one of the most emblematic and best known theatrical work of recent times in Spain. It both contributed to and documented La Movida, a drug-fuelled youth movement that placed Madrid firmly on the global cultural map in the early 1980s. Alonso de Santos' play, a commercial and critical success when first staged in 1985, was made into a film starring Antonio Banderas in 1989. Chusa, a free-spirited and spontaneously generous young drug smuggler introduces Elena, a middle-class runaway, to the apartment she shares with her cousin Pepito and her boyfriend Alberto, a rookie policeman. The result is chaos in their previously disorderly but happy life. The comedy explores opposing lifestyles of young people in 1980s Spain, during a period of radical social change. It is characterised by humour, creative use of contemporary slang, and intertextual film references. Duncan Wheeler's translation of the original play marks with footnotes the changes made in the new version done in 2008 for a high-profile revival to celebrate its twenty-fifth anniversary. This edition also includes an unpublished interview conducted by Duncan Wheeler with Alonso de Santos in 2010.Table of Contents Introduction Bibliography Interview with JoséLuis Alonso de Santos Bajarse al moro/Going Down to Morocco
£29.69
Liverpool University Press Going Down to Morocco
Book SynopsisGoing Down to Morocco (Bajarse al moro), is one of the most emblematic and best known theatrical work of recent times in Spain. It both contributed to and documented La Movida, a drug-fuelled youth movement that placed Madrid firmly on the global cultural map in the early 1980s. Alonso de Santos' play, a commercial and critical success when first staged in 1985, was made into a film starring Antonio Banderas in 1989. Chusa, a free-spirited and spontaneously generous young drug smuggler introduces Elena, a middle-class runaway, to the apartment she shares with her cousin Pepito and her boyfriend Alberto, a rookie policeman. The result is chaos in their previously disorderly but happy life. The comedy explores opposing lifestyles of young people in 1980s Spain, during a period of radical social change. It is characterised by humour, creative use of contemporary slang, and intertextual film references. Duncan Wheeler's translation of the original play marks with footnotes the changes made in the new version done in 2008 for a high-profile revival to celebrate its twenty-fifth anniversary. This edition also includes an unpublished interview conducted by Duncan Wheeler with Alonso de Santos in 2010.Table of Contents Introduction Bibliography Interview with JoséLuis Alonso de Santos Bajarse al moro/Going Down to Morocco
£53.17
Liverpool University Press Rainy Days / Dias de Lluvia: Short Stories by
Book SynopsisWriters, publishers, readers and scholars have stopped apologising for the short story: the genre is no longer a bad investment, a trial-exercise for a novel or a minor entertainment, as demonstrated by exceptional writers with an almost exclusive dedication to it, such as Jorge Luis Borges, Alice Munro, Quim Monzó or Cristina Fernández Cubas. With deep roots in classic and medieval literatures, and great achievements in the nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries, the genre of the short story, which benefits from the linguistic tightness of poetry and the narrative comforts of the novel, has finally been recognised as having a (hybrid) identity of its own. This volume re-edits and expands a previous bilingual collection published in 1997. The first edition included stories by twelve writers: Pilar Cibreiro, Cristina Fernández Cubas, Paloma Díaz-Mas, Adelaida García Morales, Lourdes Ortiz, Laura Freixas, Marina Mayoral, Mercedes Abad, Rosa Montero, Maruja Torres, Soledad Puértolas and María Eugenia Salaverri. The present edition adds another four: Nuria Amat, Juana Salabert, Luisa Castro and Berta Marsé. The stories gathered in this second edition were written between 1980 and 2010, and testify to the richness and vitality of women’s writing in contemporary Spain. With the original texts in Spanish as well as facing-page English translations, an Introduction, notes, and bio-bibliographical information on each author, this volume is a useful tool for students of the Spanish language and culture at all levels. It includes a selection of secondary reading on Spanish women writers and a selection of anthologies of Spanish short stories since 1997.Trade Review'In conclusion, Rainy Days/Días de lluvia will enhance knowledge and understanding of important contemporary Spanish women writers, both for those familiar with Spanish literature and for those wanting to learn about them. Montserrat Lunati’s bilingual anthology is highly recommended.'Lynn K. Talbot, Bulletin of Spanish StudiesTable of Contents‘Fugitive alchemy’: some notes on the second edition of Rainy Days[introduction to the second edition]Women writers in Post-Franco Spain: Writing as a transgression?[introduction to the first edition]PILAR CIBREIRO: Días de lluvia / Rainy DaysCRISTINA FERNÁNDEZ CUBAS: El reloj de Bagdad /The Clock from BaghdadADELAIDA GARCÍA MORALES: El encuentro /A Chance EncounterLOURDES ORTIZ: Penélope / PenelopeLAURA FREIXAS: Memoria en venta / Memories for SaleMARINA MAYORAL: Nueve meses y un día / Nine Months and a DayMERCEDES ABAD: Pasión defenestrante / Uncontrolled PassionROSA MONTERO: El abuelo / The GrandfatherNURIA AMAT: Hipatia / HypatiaMARUJA TORRES: Desparecida / The Woman Who DisappearedSOLEDAD PUÉRTOLAS: Viejas historias / Tales from the PastMARÍA EUGENIA SALAVERRI: Cirugía plástica / Plastic SurgeryLUISA CASTRO: Mi madre en la ventana / My Mother at the WindowJUANA SALABERT: Serás aire volador / You’ll Become a Whisper of AirPALOMA DÍAZ-MAS: Los mayorales exhaustos / The Exhausted FarmersBERTA MARSÉ: Cocinitas / Playing HousesA selection of critical works on Spanish women’s writing since 1997 (dealing with more than one single author)A selection of anthologies of Spanish cuentos and studies on the short story genre since 1997
£109.50
Liverpool University Press Rainy Days / Dias de Lluvia: Short Stories by
Book SynopsisWriters, publishers, readers and scholars have stopped apologising for the short story: the genre is no longer a bad investment, a trial-exercise for a novel or a minor entertainment, as demonstrated by exceptional writers with an almost exclusive dedication to it, such as Jorge Luis Borges, Alice Munro, Quim Monzó or Cristina Fernández Cubas. With deep roots in classic and medieval literatures, and great achievements in the nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries, the genre of the short story, which benefits from the linguistic tightness of poetry and the narrative comforts of the novel, has finally been recognised as having a (hybrid) identity of its own. This volume re-edits and expands a previous bilingual collection published in 1997. The first edition included stories by twelve writers: Pilar Cibreiro, Cristina Fernández Cubas, Paloma Díaz-Mas, Adelaida García Morales, Lourdes Ortiz, Laura Freixas, Marina Mayoral, Mercedes Abad, Rosa Montero, Maruja Torres, Soledad Puértolas and María Eugenia Salaverri. The present edition adds another four: Nuria Amat, Juana Salabert, Luisa Castro and Berta Marsé. The stories gathered in this second edition were written between 1980 and 2010, and testify to the richness and vitality of women’s writing in contemporary Spain. With the original texts in Spanish as well as facing-page English translations, an Introduction, notes, and bio-bibliographical information on each author, this volume is a useful tool for students of the Spanish language and culture at all levels. It includes a selection of secondary reading on Spanish women writers and a selection of anthologies of Spanish short stories since 1997.Trade Review'In conclusion, Rainy Days/Días de lluvia will enhance knowledge and understanding of important contemporary Spanish women writers, both for those familiar with Spanish literature and for those wanting to learn about them. Montserrat Lunati’s bilingual anthology is highly recommended.'Lynn K. Talbot, Bulletin of Spanish StudiesTable of Contents‘Fugitive alchemy’: some notes on the second edition of Rainy Days[introduction to the second edition]Women writers in Post-Franco Spain: Writing as a transgression?[introduction to the first edition]PILAR CIBREIRO: Días de lluvia / Rainy DaysCRISTINA FERNÁNDEZ CUBAS: El reloj de Bagdad /The Clock from BaghdadADELAIDA GARCÍA MORALES: El encuentro /A Chance EncounterLOURDES ORTIZ: Penélope / PenelopeLAURA FREIXAS: Memoria en venta / Memories for SaleMARINA MAYORAL: Nueve meses y un día / Nine Months and a DayMERCEDES ABAD: Pasión defenestrante / Uncontrolled PassionROSA MONTERO: El abuelo / The GrandfatherNURIA AMAT: Hipatia / HypatiaMARUJA TORRES: Desparecida / The Woman Who DisappearedSOLEDAD PUÉRTOLAS: Viejas historias / Tales from the PastMARÍA EUGENIA SALAVERRI: Cirugía plástica / Plastic SurgeryLUISA CASTRO: Mi madre en la ventana / My Mother at the WindowJUANA SALABERT: Serás aire volador / You’ll Become a Whisper of AirPALOMA DÍAZ-MAS: Los mayorales exhaustos / The Exhausted FarmersBERTA MARSÉ: Cocinitas / Playing HousesA selection of critical works on Spanish women’s writing since 1997 (dealing with more than one single author)A selection of anthologies of Spanish cuentos and studies on the short story genre since 1997
£34.99
Watkins Media Limited The Sea View Has Me Again: Uwe Johnson in
Book SynopsisThe story of Uwe Johnson, one of Germany's greatest and most-influential post-war writers, and how he came to live and work in Sheerness, Kent in the 1970s. In 1974, a strange man called "Charles" arrived in the small town of Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent. He could often be found sitting at the bar in the Napier Tavern, drinking beer and smoking Gaulloises while flicking through the Kent Evening Post. But who was this unlikely newcomer? This "Charles" was in actual fact Uwe Johnson, one of the greatest and most-influential East-German writers of the post-war period. But what quirk of Cold War history had caused him to end up in Sheerness, when his contemporaries had instead fled the DDR to Rome, New York or West Berlin? Drawn from Johnson's letters to his friends Max Frisch, Hannah Arendt, Christa Wolf, and others, as well as contemporary accounts and archival materials, this intriguing mix of literary and cultural history and memoir uncovers the last ten years of Johnson's life as it was in Sheerness, set against the backdrop of the social and cultural upheaval of the late 1970s.Trade Review"A monumental sifting and arranging of local particulars, stitched against the savage farce of a great European novelist’s elective exile... Patrick Wright has picked over the landfill of a very specific Estuary culture to devastating effect.""A double 'biography' of the great but always tempestuous German writer Uwe Johnson and his ultimate home, the gritty and disreputable Isle of Sheppey. 'Biography' is in quotes because Wright is a saboteur of genres and his books encompass multiple worlds. I stand in awe of what he has accomplished here.""A masterful modernist history, and Patrick Wright’s most important book, bringing Europe to England by showing it has always been here, at a moment when too many want to believe something else.""An extraordinary, haunting book... a phenomenal achievement.""An astonishing chronicle of the great German author Uwe Johnson, who moved to Sheerness, Kent, in the 70s.”“To repeat: this tidal book, reaching into everything and then withdrawing to show what is left behind, is a triumph.""A model portrait of person and place, a kind of cultural and literary geography that never fails to fascinate."“A huge achievement: a comprehensive portrait of a place and a person, and the best book about Brexit that’s yet been written."“Wright is not a biographer or a journalist but a sort of spirit-ethnographer, patient and attentive to change and complexity.”"A glorious rabbit hole of a book ... a longue durée portrait, from the 17th century to Thatcher, of a single location on the edges of British national life."“Wright plays both the anatomist and the elegist for the blighted modernity of seemingly forsaken spots such as Sheppey … a fragmentary panorama of traumatic, half-remembered history, personal and national.”“Thorough, discerning, compassionate.”"The most involving and originally-conceived social history of modern England to have appeared in decades." "A hymn to estuarial peculiarity and a lament for an awkward man determined never to find his place." "I was entirely captivated by this microscopic, discursive study of Uwe Johnson... a great book about the relationship between Britain and the rest of Europe, and not a page too long."
£23.75
Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana Escritura afropuertorriquena y modernidad
Book SynopsisEste libro se inscribe dentro de la tradición escritural que discute el problema de escribir sin contar con el soporte de una tradición literaria y de pensamiento teórico afropuertorriqueño, al tiempo que trata de contribuir a subsanar esa falla que identifica como marca elíptica de la tradición misma. La narrativa de Rodríguez Torres es hasta hoy, el testimonio escrito más amplio sobre la condición afropuertorriqueña dentro de la literatura insular. Su narrativa habla poco sobre los colores de piel, y menos sobre conflictos raciales. En sus textos se lee la represión de un discurso racial en la conciencia de personajes negros y mulatos. A nivel global el análisis que ofrecemos de los textos de Rodriguez Torres también supone dos fases de lectura: una que, en líneas generales, está influenciada por el modelo de Michel Foucault, y otra que sigue el paradigma teórico de Michel de Certeau. En la primera, se abordan los discursos sobre raza e identidad como determinante de la crisis ontológica que representa el escritor afroviequense. Esta es una lectura interesada primordialmente en decodificar una respuesta de orden estratégico. La segunda lectura, en cambio se activa con el registro de la dificultad que encuentra el ejercicio del habla y la escritura y la constatación del fracaso parcial del proyecto escritural afrocéntrico. El silencio y el fracaso vienen a ser una demostración de la represión de la voz negra en la historia y en la literatura. ~ This book takes part in the scriptural tradition that discusses the problem of writing without the support of an Afro-Puerto Rican literary tradition and theoretical thought, while trying to help correct this flaw that it identifies as an elliptical mark of the tradition itself. Rodríguez Torres's narrative is to date the most extensive written testimony on the Afro-Puerto Rican condition within insular literature. His narrative says little about skin color, and less about racial conflict. In his texts, one can read the repression of a racial discourse in the consciousness of black and mixed race characters. At a global level, the analysis that we offer of Rodriguez Torres' texts also involves two different reading; one that, in general terms, is influenced by the model of Michel Foucault, and another that follows the theoretical paradigm of Michel de Certeau. In the first, the discourses on race and identity are addressed as a determinant of the ontological crisis represented by the Afro-Viecan writer. This is a reading interested primarily in decoding a response of a strategic order. The second reading, on the other hand, is activated with the recording of the difficulty encountered in the exercise of speaking and writing and the verification of the partial failure of the Afrocentric writing project. Silence and failure come to be a demonstration of the repression of the black voice in history and literature.
£35.00
Western Michigan University, New Issues Press Flux
Book SynopsisFusing lyric meditation and narrative perceptions, the poems in Cynthia Hogue's new collection 'Flux' track the natural world and the self in it -- from the Sonoran Desert of the Southwest to the far north of Iceland. In the tradition of the distilled and lyrically abstract poetry of Dickinson and H.D., Flux opens into visionary language and the search for transcendence.
£15.80
Western Michigan University, New Issues Press Household Mechanics
Book SynopsisSarah Mangold's brilliant and eccentric 'Household Mechanics' is about the attempt at telling the story. And the impossibility of telling the story. Never fully narrated but introduced and re-introduced, a continuous attempts at a telling. Overheard conversation, family stories, literary theory, music, and even TV become part of history -- what you repeat and share -- the story you retell. What is the story? It is an attempt at communication -- the reattempt -- with different words. It is an attempt at telling it right -- that there is no right -- no ultimate story.
£14.87
Western Michigan University, New Issues Press Emergences and Spinner Falls
Book SynopsisThese strong and vital poems are a tribute to water, the source of water and the expression of water in the forms of rivers, bloodstreams and pools of mystery. This extraordinary collection is poetry with teeth that both nibbles and bites hard. It is full of the things of this world scarcely notices even by most poets, and shared with a marvellous sense of grace and wit.
£15.80
Western Michigan University, New Issues Press Goodnight Architecture
Book SynopsisThis delicate, beautiful yet often heartbreaking collection peels back the layers of daily social convention and hardened family mythologies to reveal the viscous and resonant sorrows beneath. It houses the mind and heart harmoniously and detonates the family romance to remind us how home an be both schoolhouse and ground zero.
£15.80
Western Michigan University, New Issues Press The Bovine Two–Step
Book SynopsisReynolds tests delineations between the interior and exterior worlds, between self and world. The poems address these distinctions, often wrestling with the blur that results from their mingling. Revelations in these poems are small and quiet and open to questioning-both delimiting and mirroring our human business.
£15.80
Western Michigan University, New Issues Press A Breathable Light
Book SynopsisAt the beginning of Rodney Torreson's fascinating second book, everything is in its place -- ordinary, time-honoured, known. Then quite without warning, the familiar becomes new, alien, strangely awful or strangely dazzling. In subversive ways, this book takes the human figure out of his seat in the foreground, strips him of all privileges and asks him to understand himself as nature understands him.
£15.80
MerwinAsia Wang Meng: A Life
Book Synopsis“Wang Meng is the only Chinese writer who really understands China,” according to noted sinologist Merle Goldman, as well as being the writer that many at home and abroad have considered as deserving of a Nobel Prize if any Chinese writer ever did. His memoir is a colorful record of life in an eventful era when one could get up in the morning a CCP official and go to bed an “enemy” of the people.Wang Meng knew the hardships of life from an early age. A brilliant student since childhood, Wang gave up the chance of college to join the Communist underground. Ultimately installed as a regular Communist Party cadre in charge of a district Party Youth League and bored with petty bureaucracy, Wang published a short story which rhapsodized the soul-searching of an earnest young “newcomer” on the scene—an instant bestseller. In spite of Chairman Mao's favorable comments on the story, Wang Meng became a “rightist”—i.e., categorized as the enemy.Banished to distant Xinjiang, Wang Meng mastered the Uighur language, learned farming skills, and was embraced by the Uighurs as one of their own. The attack on his short story “Hard Porridge,” a masterpiece of irony (first English translation published in the Paris Review), only served to highlight his genius and started off a serio-comic string of writings on “porridge” from every conceivable angle by a host Chinese writers, becoming the memorable event of the year.Wang Meng did not change his spots when he became Minister of Culture and a member of the Chinese People’s Consutative Conference. While making contributions to cultural exchanges on the international scene, Wang Meng kept his identity as first and foremost a writer.
£26.36
Cornell University Press The Novel in Transition: Gender and Literature in
Book SynopsisHaving been marginalized from the literature-proper sphere of Confucian elite culture, the novel began to transform significantly at turn of the twentieth century in Korea. Selected novels in transformation that Jooyeon Rhee investigates in this book include both translated and creative historical novels, domestic novels, and crime novels, all of which were produced under the spell of civilization and enlightenment. Rhee places the transformation of the novel in the complex nexus of civilization discourses, transnational literary forces, and modern print media to show how they became a driving force behind the development of modern Korean literature. Gender is an analytical category central to this book since it became an important epistemological ground on which to define the Korean nation and modernity in literature at the time, and because the novel was one of the most effective technologies that mediated and populated knowledge about gender roles and relations. The masculine norms and principles articulated in novels, Rhee argues, are indicative of writers' and translators' negotiation with political and cultural forces of the time; their observations of the ambiguity of modernity manifest in the figure of mobile, motivated, and forward-looking woman and immobile, emotional, and suppressed men.
£50.40
Cornell University Press Stories from the Samurai Fringe: Hayashi Fusao's
Book SynopsisA cultural history of writer and literary critic Hayashi Fusaō's (1903–1975) tenkō experience, Stories from the Samurai Fringe examines Hayashi's tenkō (ideological conversion) through a close reading of his proletarian short stories. Tracing Hayashi's move from "romanticizing" to "defining" to "remembering" the proletarian literature movement and its participants in his proletarian fiction, this study argues for a far more personal and political rationale for Hayashi's subsequent turn to ultranationalism. Stories from the Samurai Fringe concludes with a consideration of Hayashi's tenkō experience, first, within the historiographical context of the early Showa years (1926–1937), and then within the trans-war setting of Hayashi's reemergence as a proponent of wartime nationalism.
£50.40
Clemson University Digital Press Fascist Directive: Ezra Pound and Italian
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£109.50
Clemson University Digital Press Virginia Woolf and Her Female Contemporaries:
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£109.50
Clemson University Digital Press Rewriting The Hour-Glass: A Play Written in Prose
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£109.50
Clemson University Digital Press Sons and Lovers: The Biography of a Novel
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£109.50
Clemson University Digital Press Yeats, Philosophy, and the Occult
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£109.50
Clemson University Digital Press Theodore Dreiser Recalled
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£109.50
Clemson University Digital Press A Reader's Guide to Yeats's A Vision
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£109.50
Clemson University Digital Press Gastro-modernism: Food, Literature, Culture
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£109.50
Clemson University Digital Press John Dos Passos and Cinema
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£109.50
University of Nevada Press Under the Western Sky: Essays on the Fiction and
Book SynopsisThis original collection of essays by experts in the field weave together the first comprehensive examination of Nevada-born Willy Vlautin’s novels and songs, as well as featuring 11 works of art that accompany his albums and books.Brutally honest, raw, gritty, down to earth, compassionate and affecting, Willy Vlautin’s writing evokes a power in not only theme, but in methodology. Vlautin’s novels, The Motel Life, Northline, Lean on Pete and The Free (2006-2014) chart the dispossessed lives of young people struggling to survive in difficult economic times and in regions of the U.S. West and Pacific Northwest traditionally viewed as affluent and abundant. Yet as his work shows, are actually highly stratified and deprived.Likewise, Vlauntin’s songs, penned as lead singer of the Americana band Richmond Fontaine chart a related territory of blue-collar landscapes of the American West and Northwest with a strong emphasis on narrative and affective soundscapes evocative of the similar worlds defined in his novels.Featuring an interview with Vlautin himself, this edited collection aims to develop the first serious, critical consideration of the important novels and songs of Willy Vlautin by exploring relations between region, music, and writing through the lens of critical regionality and other interdisciplinary, cultural, and theoretical methodologies. In so doing, it will situate his work within its regional frame of the American New West, and particularly the city of Reno, Nevada and the Pacific Northwest, whilst showing how he addresses wider cultural and global issues such as economic change, immigration shifts, gender inequality, and the loss of traditional mythic identities.The essays take different positions in relation to considerations of both novels and music, looking for links and relations across genres, always mindful of their specificity. Under the Western Sky shows how although apparently rooted in place, Vlautin’s work traces diverse lines of contemporary cultural enquiry, engaging in an effective and troubling examination of regional haunting.Trade ReviewBringing a sophisticated set of contemporary lenses to bear upon the musical and novel-writing career of Willy Vlautin, Under the Western Sky makes a strong case for Vlautin as a resonant voice in a new kind of West a considerable distance from earlier regional mythologies. In fact, Vlautin emerges as not only a representative, but a central figure whose fictions and songs evoke a series of landscapes - urban, rural, desert - characterized by marginalization, failure, and transience in many forms. Vlautin emerges as a literary son of Raymond Carver, but one who writes in his own voice and for whom music forms a profound and intimate complement to the fiction."" - Alan Weltzien, University of Montana Western
£28.46
Clemson University Digital Press The Sensuous Pedagogies of Virginia Woolf and
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£109.50
Clemson University Digital Press Virginia Woolf, Europe, and Peace: Vol. 2
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£109.50
Clemson University Digital Press Between Worlds: Mina Loy’s Aesthetic Itineraries
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£109.50
Clemson University Digital Press American Modern(ist) Epic: Novels to Refound a
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£104.00
Clemson University Digital Press Axis/Axes to Grind: Political Slants in American
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£109.50
Clemson University Digital Press Eco-Modernism: Ecology, Environment and Nature in
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£95.00
Clemson University Digital Press Satiric Modernism
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£109.50
Rutgers University Press Obsessed: The Cultural Critic’s Life in the
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2020 Gourmand Awards, Translation Section, USA Even the most brilliant minds have to eat. And for some scholars, food preparation is more than just a chore; it’s a passion. In this unique culinary memoir and cookbook, renowned cultural critic Elisabeth Bronfen tells of her lifelong love affair with cooking and demonstrates what she has learned about creating delicious home meals. She recounts her cherished food memories, from meals eaten at the family table in postwar Germany to dinner parties with friends. Yet, in a thoughtful reflection on the pleasures of cooking for one, she also reveals that some of her favorite meals have been consumed alone. Though it contains more than 250 mouth-watering recipes, Obsessed is anything but a conventional cookbook. As she shares a lifetime of knowledge acquired in the kitchen, Bronfen hopes to empower both novice and experienced home chefs to improvise, giving them hints on how to tweak her recipes to their own tastes. And unlike cookbooks that assume readers have access to an unlimited pantry, this book is grounded in reality, offering practical advice about food storage and reusing leftovers. As Bronfen serves up her personal stories and her culinary wisdom, reading Obsessed is like sitting down to a home-cooked meal with a clever friend.Trade Review"As Julia Child once said, 'People who love to eat are always the best people' and reading this precise and passionate collection of recipes, I felt like I'd met a kindred soul. Obsessed by Elisabeth Bronfen is a magnificent spread of tastes and textures, family memories, and brilliant reflection. It also left me very hungry." -- Ann Mah * bestselling author of The Lost Vintage and Mastering the Art of French Eating *"Bronfen’s gift for sensual descriptions of food is so vivid, reading this book gave me hunger pangs. Beautifully organized according to a taxonomy of culinary practice, Obsessed is much more than a cook book, although it is that, too. It an intimate exploration of food, memory, family, food, pleasure, and culture. I loved it." -- Siri Hustvedt * author of Memories of the Future *Table of ContentsCONTENTS Introduction 1 Cold Dishes: Raw or chilled 2 The Pan: Dishes made quickly 3 All stocked up 4 The Pot: Flavors slowly develop 5 The Oven: Enveloped by dry heat 6 Delicious Disasters: What can be salvaged in the kitchen 7 Cooking for oneself Acknowledgements Bibliography Index
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Rutgers University Press Dreaming the Graphic Novel: The Novelization of
Book SynopsisWinner of the Best Book Award in Comics History from the Grand Comics Database Honorable Mention, 2019-2020 Research Society for American Periodicals Book Prize The term “graphic novel” was first coined in 1964, but it wouldn’t be broadly used until the 1980s, when graphic novels such as Watchmen and Maus achieved commercial success and critical acclaim. What happened in the intervening years, after the graphic novel was conceptualized yet before it was widely recognized? Dreaming the Graphic Novel examines how notions of the graphic novel began to coalesce in the 1970s, a time of great change for American comics, with declining sales of mainstream periodicals, the arrival of specialty comics stores, and (at least initially) a thriving underground comix scene. Surveying the eclectic array of long comics narratives that emerged from this fertile period, Paul Williams investigates many texts that have fallen out of graphic novel history. As he demonstrates, the question of what makes a text a ‘graphic novel’ was the subject of fierce debate among fans, creators, and publishers, inspiring arguments about the literariness of comics that are still taking place among scholars today. Unearthing a treasure trove of fanzines, adverts, and unpublished letters, Dreaming the Graphic Novel gives readers an exciting inside look at a pivotal moment in the art form’s development. Trade Review"A thoughtful and engaging exploration of the complex disagreements and debates over the term, form and temporality of the 'graphic novel.'" -- Mel Gibson * editor of Superheroes and Identities *"The 1970s are one of the most under-appreciated periods in the history of comic books. As sales collapsed, comic book publishers grasped at any innovation that offered a potential road forward. Paul Williams’s masterful study focuses on this chaotic period as it traces the complex ways that catastrophic change spurred a fundamental reconsideration of what comic books were and could be. Drawing on a vast array of historical documents, Williams shows how the graphic novel became the cultural format of our time." -- Bart Beaty * author of The Greatest Comic Book of All Time *"Accessible and detailed, Williams’s study expands on previous scholarship on the evolution of comics into graphic narratives. Highly recommended." * Choice *"As Williams’ detailed scholarship shows, efforts by major creators like Corben, Will Eisner, and Art Spiegelman secured academic and cultural legitimacy for the graphic novel while ensuring, through their newly integrative approach, a differential art recognized for its aesthetic seriousness yet independent of institutional strictures." * Technical Communication Journal *"There is much to recommend in Williams’ examples of, and conversation around, long-form comics of the period provided throughout the book....An excellent corrective to the scatter-shot references one usually encounters [that] succeeds in correcting some long-standing misconceptions about the development of the graphic novel." * Inks * Review of Dreaming the Graphic Novel in Medienwissenschaft 01/2021 * Medienwissenschaft *"Dreaming the Graphic Novel is a methodological wonder for scholars interested in American popular culture, digital humanities, text mining, and the history of comics and graphic novels. His mixed methodological approach allows him to successfully participate in 'the ongoing recovery of comics studies’ prehistory' as well as establish 'a new way of doing graphic novel history.' Williams’ book should be a required reading...for courses offering an introduction to graphic novels in the U.S. Comics fans, comics scholars, and those interested in the history of graphic novel might also find this a stimulating read." * ImageTexT *"Dreaming the Graphic Novel undertakes the very important task of deepening our understanding of the origins of book format comics and giving a historical context to the anxieties around comics and graphic novels in the 2000s." * European Journal of American Culture *Table of ContentsContents Preface Abbreviations Introduction 1) The Death of the Comic Book 2) Eastern Promise 3) Making Novels 4) The ‘Graphic Novel’ Triumphant 5) Putting the ‘Novel’ into ‘Graphic Novel’ 6) Comics as Literature? Conclusion Appendix Acknowledgments Bibliography
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Enid Blyton: A Literary Life
Book SynopsisThis book is a study of the best-selling writer for children Enid Blyton (1897-1968) and provides a new account of her career. It draws on Blyton’s business correspondence to give a fresh account of a misunderstood figure who for forty years was one of Britain’s most successful and powerful authors. It examines Blyton’s rise to fame in the 1920s and considers the ways in which she managed her career as a storyteller, journalist and magazine editor. There is discussion of her most famous series including the Famous Five, the Secret Seven, Malory Towers and Noddy, but attention is also given to lesser-known works including the family stories she published to acclaim in the 1940s and early 1950s, as well as her attempts to become a dramatist. The book also discusses Blyton’s fluctuating critical reputation, how she and her works were received and how Blyton the person has fared at the hands of biographers and the media.Trade Review“Enid Blyton – A Literary Life is a well-researched and engaging review into the life and work of well-known children’s book author Enid Blyton. … Maunder has created a well-researched, engaging and informative discussion on the life of Enid Blyton. The reader is given insight into not only why she became such a major literary figure but also touches on the different faces of someone portrayed as having it all.” (Philip Jefferies, Children’s Books History Society, Newsletter, Issue 133, 2022)“Maunder covers Blyton's life, work and reputation in a readable, analytical and considered overview, concluding that Blyton is ‘a figure whose rehabilitation is long Overdue’. … Librarians began taking Blyton books off the shelf in libraries. In this latest volume, Maunder documents the reassessments of Blyton which have emerged in the last three decades. In doing so, he has judiciously established the framework for the continuing debate on Blyton's influence and her role in children's literature and publishing.” (Colin Steele, The Canberra Times, canberratimes.com.au, April 1, 2022)Table of Contents1. Introduction.- 2. Blyton and the Critics.- 3. Blyton’s Early Career.- 4. Homes.- 5. Wartime.- 6. Adventure.- 7. Austerity and Kenneth Waters.- 8. Blyton the Missionary.- 9. Blyton and Gender. - 10. Blyton and the 1950s.- 11. Blyton and the Theatre.- 12. Final Things.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Life
Book SynopsisErnest Hemingway: A Literary Life includes new research on the best-known of the posthumous publications: A Moveable Feast, 1964 (and the 2009 A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition); Islands in the Stream, 1970; and The Garden of Eden, 1986. Linda Wagner-Martin provides background and intertextual readings—particularly of the way Hemingway’s unpublished stories (“Phillip Haines was a writer”) and his fiction from Men Without Women and Winner Take Nothing interface with the memoir. The revised edition also highlights and provides background on Hemingway’s treatment of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein, his life in Paris in the 1920s, and his connection to the poetry scene there—putting this in conversation with Mary Hemingway’s edits of A Moveable Feast. The new chapters also illuminate the reception of Islands in the Stream and a new way of understanding the role of gender and androgyny in The Garden of Eden. On a whole, the book draws from extensive archival research, particularly correspondence of all four of Hemingway’s wives. Table of Contents1. “‘Fraid a Nothing”.2. Eighteen and Fear: And Agnes.3. “Dear Ernesto”.4. The Route to In Our Time: The Arrival.5. Of Babies and Books.6. Pauline Pfeiffer and Hadley Richardson Hemingway.7. Marriage in the Midst of Men Without Women.8. A Farewell to Arms.9. The Bullfight as Center.10. Hemingway as the Man in Charge.11. Esquire and Africa.12. Hemingway in the World.13. Martha Gellhorn and Spain.14. War in Europe and at Home.15. The Fourth Mrs. Hemingway.16. From Cuba to Italy.17. Old Men, Prizes, and Reports of Hemingway’s Death.18. A Moveable Feast in Retrospect.19. Islands in the Stream in Retrospect.20. The Garden of Eden in Retrospect.21. Endings.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Contemporary American Fiction in the European
Book SynopsisThis book offers insight into the ways students enrolled in European classrooms in higher education come to understand American experience through its literary fiction, which for decades has been a key component of English department offerings and American Studies curricula across the continent and in Great Britain and Ireland. The essays provide an understanding of how post-World War II American writers, some already elevated to ‘canonical status’ and some not, are represented in European university classrooms and why they have been chosen for inclusion in coursework. The book will be of interest to scholars and teachers of American literature and American studies, and to students in American literature and American studies courses.Trade Review“Contemporary American Fiction in the European Classroom: Teaching and Texts … fills a gap in research by exploring the subject of teaching literature at university through a compilation of essays written by professors of American literature at various higher-education institutions across Europe. … This book provides a glimpse into the list of authors and works of fiction that are part of the syllabus, with each part of the book examining a different aspect of education … .” (Olga Kajtár-Pinjung, Americana - E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary, Vol. 18 (1), 2022)Table of Contents1. Introduction: American Fiction Abroad.- Part I: Why Teach …?.- 2. Toni Morrison’s A Mercy in Hungary: Racialized Discourse in the Classroom.- 3. Charles Yu’s Interior Chinatown in Europe as an Evaluative Tool of U.S. Race Relations: “When you think American, what color do you see?”.- 4. Octavia Butler at a Swedish University: Gender, Genre, and Intercultural Encounters.- 5. John Updike in Serbia.- 6. Contemporary American Women Writers in Romania.- Part II: How to Teach …?.- 7. Thomas Pynchon and David Foster Wallace: Contextualizing the “Systems Novel” in Estonia.- 8. Donald Barthelme at Sorbonne University: Narrative, Internet Memes, and “The Rise of Capitalism”.- 9. The (Post)Apocalypse in Hungary: American Science Fiction and Social Analysis.- 10. Gloria Anzaldúa at European Universities: Straddling Borders of Fiction and Identity.- Part III: What Lessons Might Be Gained by …?.- 11. Teaching Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah in Ireland: “If you don’t understand, ask questions”.- 12. Teaching Philip Roth in Denmark: It’s Complicated.- 13. Teaching Post-Black Aesthetics and the Coming-of-Age Novels of Danzy Senna and Colson Whitehead in Portugal: Reconsidering the Gap.- 14. Teaching Marilynne Robinson, Democracy and the Mystery of American Belonging Through the PostChristian Eyes of Millennial Brits: “Homesick for a place I never left”.- 15. Teaching Jesmyn Ward and William T. Vollmann in Finland: Genres of Environmental Justice.- Part IV: What Light from the Recent Past?.- 16. A Backward Glance o’er American Fiction in French Academia.- 17. American Literature: A Tale of Two Polands.- Part V: Additional Resources.- 18. Incorporating One’s Own Literary Criticism into the Curriculum: The Teachable Essay via John Updike’s Short Stories.- 19. Sources for Further Study.
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Springer International Publishing AG Maternal Modernism: Narrating New Mothers
Book SynopsisDrawing on the figure and discourses of the Victorian fin-de-siècle New Woman, this book examines women writers who struggled with conservative, patriarchal ideologies of motherhood in novels, periodicals and life writings of the long modernist period. It shows how these writers challenged, resisted, adapted and negotiated traditional ideas with their own versions of new motherhood, with needs for identities and experiences beyond maternity. Tracing the period from the end of the nineteenth century through the twentieth, this study explores how some of the numerous elements and forces we identify with modernism are manifested in equally diverse and often competing representations of mothers, mothering and motherhood. It investigates how historical personages and fictional protagonists used and were constructed within textual spaces where they engaged critically with the maternal as institution, identity and practice, from perspectives informed by gender, sexuality, nationhood, race and class. The matrifocal literatures examined in this book exemplify how feminist motherhoods feature as a prominent thematic of the long modernist era and how rebellious New Woman mothers provocatively wrote maternity into text and history.Table of ContentsChapter 1: The “persistent rebels” of Maternal ModernismChapter: The New Woman, New Modernisms, and New MotherhoodsChapter 3: Mothers in New Woman Fiction: “the terra incognita of herself”Chapter 4: “The ‘momentousness’ of motherhood”: Maternal Ideologies, Discourses, and Debates in The Freewoman: A Weekly Feminist Review and The Freewoman: A Weekly Humanist ReviewChapter 5: “The Title Role of ‘Mother’”: Silent-Film Stardom and Celebrity Maternity in Photoplay MagazineChapter 6: “Freedom and childbearing”: Prams, Politics, and Literary Life in NewWoman Autobiographies of the Interwar EraChapter 7: “A mother, a wife, a worker and a wonder-woman”: Matroethnography, Black Feminism, and Postcolonial New Womanhood in Buchi Emecheta’s London NarrativesChapter 8: Coda: New Womanism in the Twenty-First Century
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Springer International Publishing AG Pulp Virilities and Post-War American Culture
Book SynopsisThis book interrogates the repertoire of masculine performance in popular crime fiction and cinema from the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. This critical survey of the back alleys of pulp culture reveals American masculinities to be unsettled, contentious, crisis-ridden, racially fraught, and sexually anxious. Libertarian in their sensibilities, self-aggrandizing in their sentiments, resistant to the lures of upper mobility, scornful of white collar and corporate culture, the protagonists of these popular and populist works viewed themselves as working-class heroes cast adrift. Pulp Virilities explores the enduring traditions of hard-boiled and noir literature, casting a critical eye on its depictions of urban life and representations of gender, crime, labor, and race. Demonstrating how anxieties and possibilities of American masculinity are hammered out in works of popular culture, Pulp Virilities provides a rich cultural genealogy of contemporary American social life.Table of Contents1. What Would Robert Mitchum Do? The Cultural Production of Pulp Virilities.2. The Eisenhower Blues: Returning GIs and Racial Masquerade.3. Pulp Sexualities: Gender and American Popular Crime Fiction at Midcentury.4. Run Man Run: Black Urban Crime Fiction in the 1960s and 1970s.5. Nightmare Alleys: The Afterlives of Pulp Virility.
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Springer International Publishing AG Virginia Woolf, Literary Materiality, and
Book SynopsisThis book interrogates the relationship between the material conditions of Woolf's writing practices and her work as a printer and publisher at the Hogarth Press. In bringing to light her embodied literary processes, from drafting and composition to hand-printing and binding, this study foregrounds the interactions between Woolf's modernist experimentation and the visual and material aspects of her printed works. By drawing on the field of print culture, as well as the materialist turn in Woolf scholarship, it explores how her experience in print, book-design and publishing underlines her experimental writing, and how her literary texts are conditioned by the context of their production. This book, therefore, provides new ways of reading Woolf's modernism in the context of twentieth-century print, material, and visual cultures. By suggesting that Woolf's work at the Hogarth Press sensitized her to the significant role the visual aspects of a text play in its system of representation, it also considers the extent to which materiality informs both her work, as well as her engagement with Bloomsbury formalist aesthetics, which often exaggerate the distinction between visual and verbal modes of expression.Table of ContentsPart I: Materiality.1. Introduction: Writing, Materiality, and Aesthetics.2. Conversations in Colour and Ink: Feminist Aesthetics in ‘The Mark on the Wall’ and Kew Gardens.3. ‘Fill in the sketch as you like’: Developing the Fragmentary Form of Jacob’s Room.4. ‘The cold raw edge of one’s relinquished pages’: Reading Mrs Dalloway as a Palimpsest.Part II. Aesthetics.5. Drafting Mrs Ramsay and Lily Briscoe: Feminist Aesthetics in the Manuscript of To the Lighthouse.6. ‘A succession of semblances’: Form and Feminism in The Waves.7. ‘Getting the past to shadow this broken surface’: Time, Materiality, and Aesthetics.
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Palgrave Macmillan The Palgrave Handbook of Literary Memory Studies
Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction, Lucy Bond and Jessica Rapson.- Chapter 2: Roundtable, Cathy Caruth, Stef Craps, Marianne Hirsch, Jill Jarvis and Ann Rigney.- Section 1: Reading and Writing Memory and Literature.- Chapter 3: This isn't about me: literature, memory and memoirs, Susannah Radstone.- Chapter 4: Cross-reading Memory: Remediating Loss in Noel Streatfeild's Saplings, Jessica Rapson.- Chapter 5: How do you say Brexit in French? Gender, Class and Exceptionality, Clare Hemmings.- Chapter 6: Diary of a Disappearance: Palestinian Processes, Yasmine Shamma.- Section 2: Remediations and Intersections in Memory and Literature.- Chapter 7: Looking at Race with 20/20 Vision: How are we (Mis)Remembering the Past?, Jon Ward.- Chapter 8: No no / He is dead. A chapter in which a nine-minute video about Bertolt Brecht is not a nine-minute video about Bertolt Brecht, Kate Graham.- Chapter 9: Literature between Archive and Memory in David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas and Thomas Pynchon's Bleeding Edge, Pieter Vermeulen and Tom Chadwick.- Chapter 10: Literary Memory across the longue durée: The Odyssey as a Travelling Narrative, Astrid Erll.- Section 3: Local to Global Cultures in Memory and Literature.- Chapter 11: Nostalgia for the Sweet Smiling Village in Ireland: Local Colour Fiction, Homeland and Diaspora, Marguerite Corporaal.- Chapter 12: Migration and Memory, Mads Rosendhal Thomsen.- Chapter 13: Dark Food: Sugar and Memory in Cristina García's novel Dreaming in Cuban, Alessandra Pino.- Chapter 14: Footsteps, Asha Chand.- Section 4: Postcolonial and Decolonial Approaches to Memory and Literature.- Chapter 15: Mutable Past, Dreamable Future: The Work of Memory and the Making of Postcolonial Angola in Jose Eduardo Agualusa's Novels, Sakiru Adebayo.- Chapter 16: Memory and coloniality: A dialogue across history, literature, and Country, Chris Healy and Tony Birch.- Chapter 17: But What We Are is What Our Ancestors Did: Indigenous Postmemory in Tommy Orange's There There, Jessica Young. Chapter 18: What Remains: Postcolonial Ecofiction and Mnemonic Anchoring in Indra Sinha's Animal's People, Hanna Teichler.- Section 5: Environmental and More-than-Human Memory and Literature.- Chapter 19: Forget what it means to be human: Precarity, Posthumanism, and the Allegorical Imagination in Joshua Ferris's The Unnamed, Lucy Bond.- Chapter 20: Remembering Rain: Pluvial Poesis and Marronage in Dionne Brand's At the Full and Change of the Moon, Ifor Duncan.- Chapter 21: Remembering the Anthropocene in the Literature of War: Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, Rick Crownshaw.- Chapter 22: And then Country's Tone changed': Eco-Sonic Memory in Australian Pyrocene Fiction, Ben de Bruyn.- Section 6: Memory, Literature, Law and Justice.- Chapter 23: Guantánamo and the Production of Cosmopolitan Memory, Terri Tomsky.- Chapter 24: Justice for the Srebrenica Genocide? Law, Theatre and Memory, Anna Katila.- Chapter 25: In Search of A Spectral Other: the Ungrievable Tie and Time in Postsocialist China, Yawen Li.- Chapter 26: Kafka and the right to memory, Noam Tirosh.
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Palgrave Macmillan Youth Subcultures in Postwar and Contemporary
Book SynopsisIntroduction.- Chapter 1: Subcultures in Theory.- Chapter 2: Subcultures in Fiction.- Chapter 3: The Young Ones: Teenagers, Teds and Jazz.- Chapter 4: Take a Walk on the Wild Side: Countercultural Fictions.- Chapter 5: Teenage Kicks: Punk Fiction, Punk in Fiction.- Chapter 6: The Black Album: Old and New Ethnicities.- Chapter 7: Girls Just Want to Have Fun: Gender and Sexuality.- Chapter 8: Life on Mars: Sci-Fi, Dystopian and Alternative Subcultures.
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De Gruyter Bertolt Brechts Interferenz mit der Quantenphysik
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De Gruyter Ödön-von-Horváth-Handbuch
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De Gruyter The idea of freedom in Vargas Llosa's fiction:
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De Gruyter Ciudades Y Mundos Posibles
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