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Gabriele Lazzari,
New Global Realism

A comparative study of contemporary realist novels that employ totality as a method and a formal principle to represent the social and economic inequalities of the present, this book studies writing in En…

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Arvi Särkelä
Vicious Circles

How can social critique respond to a catastrophic world? From Emerson to Adorno, a tradition of radical social critique has flourished that utilize methods which disclose rather than judge the form of lif…

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Pilar Martinez Benedi, Ralph James Savarese,
Herman Melville and Neurodiversity, or Why Hunt Difference with Harpoons?

Focusing on the difference between lower-level perceptual processes in the "neural unconscious" and higher-order thought in the frontal lobes, this open access book shows how Herman Melville sou…

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Deborah Pike, Ann Vickery
Modernism Beyond the Canon

Modernist navigations with modernity are diverse and culturally nuanced. Taking students and researchers beyond the narrow canon of 'great modernists', Modernism Beyond the Canon is an essential introduct…

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Joel P Christensen
The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Odyssey

The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer's Odyssey brings together internationally recognized experts to provide commentary style essays for non-specialists on each book of the Homeric epic. The introduction pr…

lieferbar ab 28.2.2026.

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Mary Jo Bona
Mothers, Mobility, Narrative

Shows how US literary representations of mothering across racial, ethnic, and LGBTQ communities challenge ideological prescriptions about motherhood and maternal love.Mothers, Mobility, Narrative pairs wo…

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Daniel Cook,
Frankenstein Retold

Takes stock of the extraordinary range of book-based adaptations of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, comprising reimaginings, sequels and coquels following the novel's original publication up to the 21st cent…

lieferbar ab 16.4.2026.

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Matthias Stephan,
Anglophone Literature and the Fight Against Climate Change

Offering a methodology for identifying particularly impactful literary narratives of climate change, this open access book examines a range of Anglophone fiction authors such as Margaret Atwood, Paolo Bac…

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Benjamin Mangrum
The Comedy of Computation

"In this cultural history of the computer, Benjamin Mangrum shows that comedy has been central to how we've made sense of the technology's sweeping effects on public life and private experience. From…

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Chris Holmes,
Kazuo Ishiguro Against World Literature

A study of how Kazuo Ishiguro's novels respond to and represent the world through characters that are profoundly limited in their understanding of the systems that bind them.How has a writer known princip…

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Nicholas Dames
The Chapter

A history of the chapter from its origins in antiquity to today

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Gary Watt
Shakespeare and the Law

Shakespeare and the Law argues that Shakespeare was not primarily concerned with the technical accuracy of law, but with its capacity to generate drama through dispute and playing with rules.

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Thomas Mann, Ritchie Robertson
Doctor Faustus

Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus (1947) recounts the life of a solitary composer, Adrian Leverkühn, whose personal and musical development provides a panorama of middle-class German society in the early twent…

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Nicholas Allen
Late Heaney

Late Heaney is a book about poetry, landscape and experience, exploring how Seamus Heaney's sense of belonging evolved over time. It visits the places and people that were important to Heaney in the later…

lieferbar ab 26.1.2026.

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Nub&,
The Genius of Invective

An exposition of Arabic literate culture In 11th-century Córdoba, the celebrated poet Ibn Zaydūn found himself jockeying for the affections of Wallādah, accomplished poet and free-spirited daughter of an …

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Laura Jansen
Susan Sontag's Tangential Classics

Susan Sontag's Tangential Classics examines the role the Greco-Roman classics play in Susan Sontag's intellectual and literary achievement. The collected chapters consider Sontag as a case of a thinker in…

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Edward I Condren
Chaucer from Prentice to Poet

This book corrects the traditional interpretations of Geoffrey Chaucer's early poems, providing new readings of the three "dream visions" and Troilus and Criseyde.

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Arvi Särkelä
Vicious Circles

How can social critique respond to a catastrophic world? From Emerson to Adorno, a tradition of radical social critique has flourished that utilize methods which disclose rather than judge the form of lif…

lieferbar ab 10.3.2026.

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The Oxford Chaucer

This authoritative edition of the complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer presents Chaucer's works for a new generation of students, and for a wide range of general readers. It provides all that undergraduates…

lieferbar ab 2.1.2026.

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Madness in Literature and Visual Culture

A wide-ranging, future-focused study from a variety of cultural and academic perspectives, this illustrated book brings together a range of internationally recognised scholars committed to mapping and unp…

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