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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Shakespeares Influence on Karl Marx

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Introduction to Gender and Sexuality in Literature in Canada

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Between Class and Discourse

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    Book SynopsisThis provocative book addresses the ideological and political crisis of the Western left, comparing it with the problems facing leftist politics in Russia and other countries.The author presents a radical critique of the current state of the Western left which puts discourse above class interest and politics of diversity above politics of social change. The trajectory away from class politics towards feminism, minority rights and the coalition of coalitions led to the destruction of the basic strategic pillars of the movement. Some elements of this broad progressive agenda became mainstream, but in fact this made the crisis of the left even deeper and contributed to the disintegration of the left''s identity. The author demonstrates that a simple return to the good old times' of classical socialist politics of the industrial age is not possible, suggesting that class politics must be redefined and reinvented through the experience of new radical populism.This book speaTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Logic of Fragmentation 2. Europe Versus the European Union 3. The Era of Populism 4. The Lessons of America 5. France: from Republic to Oligarchy 6. Unreasonable Rationality 7. Overcoming the Crisis of Thought, in Order to Begin to Act Conclusion

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Literature and Understanding

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Transinfusion Reflections for Critical Thinking Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Transinfusion

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Handbook of Literary Geographies

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Truth and Wonder

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory

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    Book SynopsisThe Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory brings together top scholars in the field to explore the significance of narrative to pressing social, cultural, and theoretical issues. How does narrative both inform and limit the way we think today? From conspiracy theories and social media movements to racial politics and climate change future scenarios, the reach is broad. This volume is distinctive for addressing the complicated relations between the interdisciplinary narrative turn in the academy and the contemporary boom of instrumental storytelling in the public sphere. The scholars collected here explore new theories of causality, experientiality, and fictionality; challenge normative modes of storytelling; and offer polemical accounts of narrative fiction, nonfiction, and video games. Drawing upon the latest research in areas from cognitive sciences to complexity theory, the volume provides an accessible entry point for those new to the myriad applications of narrative Table of ContentsIntroduction - Narrative Today: Telling Stories in a Post-Truth World Paul Dawson (University of New South Wales) and Maria Mäkelä (Tampere University)I Narrative and Its Others1. My Story, Your Narrative: Scholarly Terms and Popular Usage Maria Mäkelä (Tampere University) and Samuli Björninen (Tampere University) 2. Non-Narrative Genres: Exposition, Lists, Lyric, etc Monika Fludernik (University of Freiburg) 3. Narrative and Economic Modelling Lindsay Holmgren (McGill University) 4. Data Narratives: Visualization and Interactivity in Representations of Covid-19Madeleine Sorapure (UC Santa Barbara) II Narrative and the Public Sphere5. What is ‘the Narrative’? Conspiracy Theories and Journalistic Emplotment in the Age of Social Media Paul Dawson (University of New South Wales) 6. Rodney King, The Fugitive, and the Cogency of Cultural NarrativesAlan Nadel (University of Kentucky) 7. Personal Storytelling in Social Movements Francesca Polleta (University of California Irvine)III Narrative and Social Media8. Co-tellership in Social Media Storytelling Ruth Page (University of Birmingham) 9. (Small) Stories as Features on Social Media: Toward Formatted StorytellingAlex Georgakopoulou (King’s College London) 10. Quantified Storytelling: How the Tellable and the Countable Intermingle on Digital PlatformsAlex Georgakopoulou (King’s College London), Stefan Iversen (Aarhus University), and Carsten Stage (Aarhus University) 11. Networks, Interfaces, Digital Media Infrastructure, and Their Implications for Fictional World TheoryDan Punday (Mississippi State University) IV Narrative Truth12. Legal Facts, Affective Truths, and Changing Narratives in Trials Involving Sexual Assault: Harvey Weinstein and #MeTooGreta Olson (Justus-Liebig-University Giessen) 13. My Mouth, Your Story: On Co-Witnessing Irene Kacandes (Dartmouth College)14. Playing Games with the Truth: Tabloid Stories, Urban Legends, Tall Tales, and Bullshit Marie-Laure Ryan (independent scholar) V Narrative and the Novel15. The Undead Novel: A History of Realism or a History of Prose Fiction?Paul Dawson (University of New South Wales) 16. This is Not a Novel: Some Varieties of Anti-Novel Brian McHale (The Ohio State University) 17. Panexperientiality, Media, and Narrative’s Time Management ProblemDavid Ciccoricco (University of Otago) 18. Chinese Narratology: Tradition, Developments, and PerspectivesBiwu Shang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)VI Narrative and Selfhood19. Life and Narrative Hanna Meretoja (University of Turku) 20. Just the Facts? Nonfictionality and Life Writing Julie Rak (University of Alberta) 21. Toward a Rhetorical Narrative Medicine: Or, Corpus, Close Reading, and the Cases of Oates’s "Hospice/Honeymoon" and Ward’s "On Witness and Respair"James Phelan (The Ohio State University) 22. Reading Celebrity Autofiction: Fictionality, Authorship, and Reader Responses in Narrative TheoryAlison Gibbons (Sheffield Hallam University)VII Narrative and Social Change 23. It Gets Better vs. To This Day: Queerness, Causality, Narrativity Jesse Matz (Kenyon College) 24. What Does It Mean to #BelieveWomen? Popular Feminism and Survivor Narratives Tanya Serisier (Birbeck, University of London) 25. Narrating Eighteenth-Century Black Lives: Abolition and the Politics of FormSusan S. Lanser (Brandeis University) VIII Narrative and Cognition26. Human Cognition and Narrative Form Richard Walsh (University of York) 27. Adaptationism, Postmodernism, and a Biocultural NarratologyH. Porter Abbott (University of California, Santa Babara) 28. The Experience of Narrative: Aesthetics and Embodiment Karin Kukkonen (University of Oslo)IX Narrative and Complex Systems29. Video Games as Complex Narratives and Embodied MetalepsisAstrid Ensslin (University of Bergen) 30. Perspectives on Causality in Sciences and Arts: On the Limits and Benefits of Narrative Representation Marina Grishakova (University of Tartu) 31. Concepts and Aspects of an Integrated Narrative Generation Approach Based on Post-Narratology Takashi Ogata (Iwate Prefectural University)32. Storytelling and Narrative Capital in Organizations: Bringing Boje and Bourdieu into Conversation Klarissa Lueg (University of Southern Denmark) X Narrative and International Relations33. Narrative in Politics and the Politics of Narrative Monika Barthwal-Datta (University of New South Wales), Roxani Krystalli (University of St Andrews), and Laura J. Shepherd (University of Sydney)34. The Narrative Turn in European Studies: A Synergic Approach Luis Bouza Garcia (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) and Carmen Sancho Guinda (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)35. Migration and Narrative DynamicsRoy Sommer (University of Wuppertal)36. Deconstructing the ‘Hollow Man’: Visual Narrative Analysis and World PoliticsKatja Freistein (University of Duisburg-Essen) and Frank Gadinger (University of Duisburg-Essen) XI Narrative and the Environment37. Fables for Tomorrow: Narrating Net Zero Genevieve Lively (University of Bristol) 38. Storying the Anthropocene: Narrative Challenges and Opportunities in Times of Climate Change Marco Caracciolo (Ghent University)39. Narrative’s Environments Eric Morel (University of Delaware)

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Memory Voice and Identity

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  • Taylor & Francis Womens Writing of the First World War

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  • Taylor & Francis Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference

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  • Taylor & Francis Journeys of Remembrance Representations of Travel and Memory in PostWar French and German Literature

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  • Taylor & Francis Jungian Theory for Storytellers

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Spatial Literary Studies

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd The Work of Life Writing Essays and Lectures Routledge AutoBiography Studies

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd The Work of Life Writing

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Violent Liminalities in Early Modern Culture

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  • Taylor & Francis Violent Liminalities in Early Modern Culture

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    Book SynopsisViolent liminalities in Early Modern Culture is a methodologically innovative book combining the twin disciplines of queer theory and disability studies. It investigates the violence feared from, and directed at, inhabitants of the âbetwixt and betweenâ spaces of early modern literature and culture, through a focus on the perpetuated metamorphic states of Shakespeareâs and Spenserâs liminal figures including Lavinia, Puck, and Britomart. With chapters on gender, sexuality, adolescence, madness, and physical disability, Kaye McLelland applies a bi-theoretical lens to interrogate the ways in which being simultaneously âneitherâ and âbothâ brings to bear the non-normative disruption identified by queer theory in ways that use binary systems against themselves. For many of Spenserâs and Shakespeareâs characters, the âin-betweenâ state, whether ritually or otherwise induced, transforms the instantaneous binary threshold of the limen into a permanent âhabitationâ. This created sp

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  • Taylor & Francis Grief Memoirs

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Historical Traces and Future Pathways of Poststructuralism

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Charting Literary Urban Studies

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Locating Classed Subjectivities

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Handbook of Fiction and Belief

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Baudrillard and Lacanian Psychoanalysis

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Teaching Literature in Times of Crisis

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Baudrillard and Lacanian Psychoanalysis

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd The Domain of the Novel

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd The Literary Exception and the Rule of Law

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd The Literary Exception and the Rule of Law

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  • Taylor & Francis Reading Paul Howard

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  • Taylor & Francis Ltd Literature and the Critics

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    Book SynopsisThis timely volume presents a rich and absorbing selection of extracts from over two hundred leading literary critics of the last several decades, writing on many of the most widely studied literary texts in English, from Shakespeare to Toni Morrison. Structured chronologically, working through familiar literary periods, this book presents illuminating and stimulating examples of critical readings of familiar texts, demonstrating a variety of methods and approaches to critical practice. The range of critical voices represented from Abrams and Adelman to Zimmerman and Žižek provides students with eloquent and insightful models of how to read, think and write about texts so that they can form their own critical responses and develop as independent readers. The book also shows how criticism has developed over time and how it has always been intimately involved in wider cultural, social and political debates. Connections between criticism, culture and politics are explored in tTrade Review‘[I]n covering English literature from Shakespeare to postmodernism, it manages to make the subject sound both entertaining and important; the study of literature being a way of understanding the world and the mind—and also, by extension, as a kind of dissolving agent through which we can see the hypocrisies and motives of a malign state. And it is also hugely readable.’ - Nicholas Lezard, The New Statesman, 6th July 2022'Literature and the Critics enriches our understanding of literature, modern and contemporary culture, and our place in the world. While the texts examined in it are often dark and disturbing and the critical terminology employed to interpret those texts sometimes difficult, the book’s drive, energy, and occasional combativeness make for a compelling and instructive read. At a time when academic freedom and the very notion of dissent are under threat, Literature and the Critics celebrates iconoclasm, freethinking, skepticism, confrontation, self-reflection, and fresh ideas.' - Rod Keller, The Use of English, 74.1, Autumn 2022Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Literature, criticism, culture, and why they matter 2. Shakespeare 3. Early modern literature 1590-1690 4. Early romantic writings 1750-1800 5. Later romantic writings 1790-1830 6. Realist fiction in England and America 1840-1870 7. Realism towards modernism: English and American fiction 1870-1900 8. Modernisms: British, Irish and American literature 1890-1970 9. Postmodernity and the contemporary novel 1970-2020

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