Social Criticism – alle Bücher und DVDs, Seite 2

Andrea Long Chu
Authority

Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award Many worry that criticism is suffering from a crisis of authority. In a world where everyone's a critic, what is criticism for? Since her canonical es…

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Kasia Szymanska
Translation Multiples

"A new genre of writing that demonstrates that translation is neither a transparent medium nor a secondary form of literatureIn Translation Multiples, Kasia Szymanska examines what happens when trans…

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Maria Damkjær
Fiction on the Page in Nineteenth-Century Magazines

This book uncovers the genre mixing of the Victorian era's mass media, and argues that authors like Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell and George Augustus Sala had to reckon with the commercial needs of p…

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Ana I Oancea
Dangerous Creations

Dangerous Creations investigates a previously unidentified genre of nineteenth-century French literature - the inventor novel - where science fiction, naturalism, and decadence intersect.

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Carol Mavor
Like a Lake

"Like a Lake is like a novella teasing an essay, or an erotic ghost haunting a fictional memoir, or a negative searching for its lost prints. It is an unnerving question-machine where desire, memory,…

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Matthew J C Cella
Disability and Rurality in American Literature

Matthew J.C. Cella examines the ways in which contemporary American writers deploy disability in order to deconstruct American pastoralism.An essential tenet of pastoralism is that encounters with rural l…

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Sally Shuttleworth
In Quest of a Cure

People have always travelled for health, but as industrial pollution increased in nineteenth-century Britain, doctors started ordering their patients abroad in ever-growing numbers. Self-styled 'English C…

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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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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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Lena Mattheis
Queer Forms and Pronouns

Queer Forms and Pronouns is a journey into the world of gender nonconformity (GNC) pronouns in literature. Pronouns are frequently discussed in the contexts of language policies, grammar, and inclusion, b…

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Kelly Ann Fitzpatrick
Neomedievalism, Popular Culture, and the Academy

The medieval in the modern world is here explored in a variety of media, from film and book to gaming.Medievalism - the ways in which post-medieval societies perceive, interpret, reimagine, or appropriate…

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Twelfth Night, or What You Will: The State of Play

Offering new insights from a range of experienced and emerging scholars, this volume analyses Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, or What You Willthrough a variety of critical lenses.Shakespeare's comedy of gend…

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Lauren Shizuko Stone
The Small Worlds of Childhood

"Bound up as they may be in fantasies of normative futurity, children in The Small Worlds of Childhood are neither innocents nor pre-adults. Lauren Stone's elegantly written book encourages us to tar…

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Angus Vine
Early Modern Merchants and Their Books

Vine provides the first dedicated account of the literary and intellectual lives of the merchants of 17th-century Britain. Drawing on methods in book history, and presenting a series of examples chosen to…

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Ross A Eaman
Architecture as Communication

Ross Eaman explores how the built environment, including but not restricted to architecture, functions as a medium of communication.

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Martin Amis
Visiting Mrs. Nabokov

Visiting Mrs. Nabokov brings together the whirlwind journalistic adventures that, alongside his seismic novels, transformed Martin Amis into England's brightest literary star.It was the golden age of maga…

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Arab Women Writers

**"An immense, indispensable resource."-CHOICE,Named an Outstanding Academic Title Selection"As a women's studies librarian, I treasure this guide as a reference tool."- Feminist Colle…

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Nao Tomabechi
Supervillains

This book provides a savvy investigation of the supervillains that appear in superhero comics. Exploring villainous archetypes and Otherness in relation to the notion of evil, the book investigates how su…

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Lili Berger,
On the Waves of Destiny

On the Waves of Destiny is a powerful collection of essays and works of fiction that introduces English-speaking readers to Lili Berger, one of the most prolific and insightful Yiddish women writers of th…

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Will Tattersdill,
The Social Dinosaur

A history of Dinosaurs in popular literature and culture, from the Victorian age to the present, this book is the first to explore the many ways in which the prehistoric creatures have seized the public i…

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