Literary Sociology – all Bücher, Page 2

Gerry Smyth
Serpent, Siren, Maelstrom, and Myth

An entrancing collection of myths and legends of the sea The sea is beautiful and alluring, but it is also dangerous and deadly. Above all, it is unknowable and untamable. Storytelling offered our ancesto…

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Sarah Smarsh
Bone of the Bone

"A must-read for today's politics" (San Francisco Chronicle), the brilliant and provocative essays that established National Book Award finalist Sarah Smarsh as one of the most important comment…

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Dk
A History of Horror, Fear, and the Uncanny

Take a step - if you dare - into the shadows, and discover the blood-curdling history of horror across the world in this gruesomely illustrated title.A History of Horror, Fear and the Uncanny explores the…

available from 21.4.2026.

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Amara Moira,
(So What) If I'm a Puta?

An incisive, intimate diary of the life of a travesti sex worker in Brazil, with a foreword by Charlotte ShaneSo What If I'm a Puta, originally published on author Amara Moira's popular blog of the same n…

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Daniela Rea,
Fruto

Mothering always comes at a price, paid by women regardless of their means."Daniela Rea's Fruto is a calm room late at night where women gather to talk: with their stories and their words they take c…

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Lilian Mengesha
Critical Dreaming

Ways of knowing against colonialism In the 1990s, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), and US and Canadian boarding/residential schools' practices led to…

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We Are Civic Media

Through the experiences of grassroots practitioners working across a range of mediums and disciplines, this book offers accessible insights for those interested in understanding, respecting, and practicin…

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Hector Amaya
The Economy of Anonymity

We use avatars to play videogames. We use pseudonyms on social media. We use VPNs to mask our identities and activities. In the digital realm, anonymity is everywhere, a persistent option for those who wi…

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Hector Amaya
The Economy of Anonymity

We use avatars to play videogames. We use pseudonyms on social media. We use VPNs to mask our identities and activities. In the digital realm, anonymity is everywhere, a persistent option for those who wi…

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Form and Transformation in Soviet Underground Writing

Form and Transformation in Soviet Underground Writing examines the rich literary and cultural innovation that thrived under Soviet censorship in the post-Stalin era. Moving beyond the idea of the undergro…

available from 25.8.2026.

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Joseph Trinidad
Lucky Creatures

Winner of the inaugural 2024 Sarabande Prize in the Essay, selected by Alexander CheeA humorous and endearing debut about migration, queerness and the transnational experience for readers of Ocean Vuong's…

available from 16.6.2026.

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Geography with John Berger

This book captures the significance of John Berger's political and creative praxis for scholarship on space, place, landscape, and spatial experience.

available from 9.7.2026.

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John Miller
Readings Between Animal Studies and the Environmental Humanities

The relationship between animal studies and the environmental humanities is both intimate and tense. It makes little sense to examine the representation of environments without thinking about the animals …

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John Miller
Readings Between Animal Studies and the Environmental Humanities

The relationship between animal studies and the environmental humanities is both intimate and tense. It makes little sense to examine the representation of environments without thinking about the animals …

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Curtis White
On Resistance

From the writer Ellecalls the "most inspiringly wicked social critic of the moment" comes a hands-on, don't-lose-hope study of how writers, painters, musicians, and other cultural figures respon…

available from 11.8.2026.

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Sunaura Taylor
Beasts of Burden

A bold and beautifully written inquiry into the intertwined struggles for animal and disability justice--challenging what it means to be humanIn this provocative and original work, artist, activist, and s…

available from 21.7.2026.

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Rachel Aviv
You Won't Get Free of It

A collection of reported stories that explore the relationship between mothers and daughters, by the award-winning author of Strangers to OurselvesYou Won't Get Free of It tells the stories of mothers and…

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Xuenan Cao
Chinese Media Improvisations

Xuenan Cao offers an unexpected angle on China's technological rise, spotlighting the role of deficit-driven improvisation. As Cao demonstrates, where printing paper, computers, and microchips have been i…

available from 11.8.2026.

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Xuenan Cao
Chinese Media Improvisations

Xuenan Cao offers an unexpected angle on China's technological rise, spotlighting the role of deficit-driven improvisation. As Cao demonstrates, where printing paper, computers, and microchips have been i…

available from 11.8.2026.

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Naomi S Baron
Reader Bot

What happens to human reading when AI bots can do it for us?Explosive developments in artificial intelligence have awed everyday users with the technology's ability to draw, do computer coding, and especi…

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