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Maria Stepanova,
The Disappearing ACT

The writer M has lived in the city of B ever since her homeland declared war on a neighboring state. Exiled, she is unable to write there and suffers from loneliness, shame, and despair, but then M is inv…

lieferbar ab 17.2.2026.

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Peter J Kalliney
The Aesthetic Cold War

How decolonization and the cold war influenced literature from Africa, Asia, and the CaribbeanHow did superpower competition and the cold war affect writers in the decolonizing world? In The Aesthetic Col…

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John Muthyala,
Drone Cultures

Expanding on common perceptions of the drone as a tool of war and surveillance, this book argues that they are also instruments for creative activity, entertainment, and innovative education and public sa…

lieferbar ab 22.1.2026.

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John Muthyala,
Drone Cultures

Expanding on common perceptions of the drone as a tool of war and surveillance, this book argues that they are also instruments for creative activity, entertainment, and innovative education and public sa…

lieferbar ab 22.1.2026.

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Mathias Enard,
The Deserters

A filthy and exhausted soldier emerges from the Mediterranean wilderness-he is escaping from an unspecified war, trying to flee incessant violence and find refuge in solitude. Meanwhile, on September 11, …

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Darcy A Krasne
Structuring the Cosmos in Valerius Flaccus's Argonautica

Structuring the Cosmos in Valerius Flaccus's Argonautica offers a comprehensive reading of a Latin epic from the Flavian period of ancient Rome (69-96 CE). It centers intertextuality- the study of verbal …

lieferbar ab 27.2.2026.

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Jeffrey Sacks
Poeticality

"Jeffrey Sacks writes with such fluent intensity, with an erudition so broad and so focused, that he reveals a mode of reading that seizes the time and is unheld by it, that defends the land and is u…

lieferbar ab 6.1.2026.

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Jeffrey Sacks
Poeticality

"Will you not memorize a little poetry to halt the slaughter?" the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish wrote. Darwish's poetic statement points to world-evacuating and genocidal violences ---in a t…

lieferbar ab 6.1.2026.

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Cormac Pentecost
Psychick Albion

Does fiction that inhabits a fantasy world have to be escapist or can it tell us something unexpectedly radical?This book will look at a range of cultural products from the post-war period including child…

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Alex Trustrum-Thomas
Russian Theatre at the Margins of High Putinism

Russian Theatre at the Margins of High Putinism traces the development of fringe theatre in Russia over the course of the second decade of the twenty-first century.

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Political Ontology, Community, and Institutions

Focuses on key aspects of Robert Esposito's thought and explores the ways in which some major contemporary thinkers have been crucial interlocutors in their elaboration.Political Ontology, Community, and …

lieferbar ab 2.11.2025.

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Georges Darien,
The Thief

"We are on the eve of 1900, when decadentism and anarchy join hands to bring the century to an end. Georges Randal, a young man from a good family, an orphan ruined by an indelicate uncle, when the t…

lieferbar ab 21.4.2026.

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Drew Paul
Arrested Movement in the Middle East

How has cultural production from the Middle East responded to two simultaneous and contradictory trends: growing ease of global mobility brought about by advances in transportation and communication techn…

lieferbar ab 27.11.2025.

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Joaquim Maria Machado De Assis,
Memorial de Ayres

Released just two months before his death in 1908, Memorial de Ayres was Machado de Assis's final novel. Written in the form of a diary, it follows the day-to-day happenings of a retired diplomat, Counsel…

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Felix Nesi,
People from Oetimu

"In 1998, men living on the border between West and East Timor are gathering at the police station to watch the World Cup. They train their eyes on Brazilian superstar Ronaldo Luiz Nazario de Lima, u…

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Richard Wilson,
Shakespeare's Fascist Followers

' Richard Wilson's meticulously researched, powerfully argued and brilliantly written account of Shakespeare's 20th-century fascist followers is not just an important but a genuinely essential book.' Robe…

lieferbar ab 13.11.2025.

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Annette Wannamaker
How to Read Like an Anti-Fascist

On the urgent need to promote critical reading skills amidst rising authoritarianismChildren's author Philip Pullman famously said that "There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fict…

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Louis Paul Boon,
Chapel Road

"A meta-textual matryoshka doll of a novel from a renowned voice in Flemish literature. The twisting narrative of Louis Paul Boon's 1953 masterpiece follows a young girl named Ondine and her brother …

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Reactionary Worldbuilding

The first in-depth study of the dark side of worldbuilding, exploring the connection between speculative imagination and political practice.Speculative imagination brings to life an array of possible worl…

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Vladimir Sorokin,
The Sugar Kremlin

Presenting a wide variety of genres and tones, The Sugar Kremlin lays out a frightening vision of speculative mercilessness and carnivalesque political horror.The Sugar Kremlin is the follow-up to Vladimi…

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