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Inszenierte Mehrsprachigkeit

Die bildungspolitische Diskussion zu Mehrsprachigkeit verläuft in Indien und Deutschland - trotz der unterschiedlichen gesellschaftlichen Ausgangssituationen - überraschend ähnlich. Dies zeigt, dass ihre …

Lara Ehrenfried

Literature and Sound Film in Mid-Century Britain

This book traces how film adjusted to the new sound technology and how literature responded to the fact that cinema could now provide a synchronized, audio-visual entertainment experience to its viewers. …

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…

Joan Didion

The Year of Magical Thinking

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • A landmark work about grief, love, and survival from one of America's most iconic writers One of The New York Times 's 100 Best Books of the 21st C…

Richard Cavell

Mediatic Shakespeare

Shakespeare produced his works during a media shift that was unmatched -- until our own.Mediatic Shakespeare by media theorist Richard Cavell examines how Shakespeare's writing engaged with the cultural u…

Mary Coughlan

Life Stories

Anna Shechtman

The Riddles of the Sphinx

"A surprising and ambitious investigation of language and the varied ways women resist the paradoxes of patriarchy both on and off the page."---New York TimesCombining the soul-baring confession…

Paul Cornell

The Mighty Avengers vs. the 1970s

The Avengers was thecomic book of the 1970s. From Civil Rights to Women's Lib, battles for the soul of America became battles between super heroes.Writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby co-created the all-…

How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic

A chronicle of ableism and disability activism in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic documents the pivotal experiences of disabled people living in an early epicen…

Stuart Moore

Doctor Strange: A Decade of Dark Magic

Explore the Stories Behind the LegendsEnter a world where reality bends, and magic reigns supreme.From psychedelic dimensions to counterculture cool, Doctor Strange was unlike anything else in comics. One…

Jesse Kavadlo

Rock of Pages

Identifies how "dangerous" 1980s heavy metal can be analyzed through literary criticism, how heavy metal helps us understand what's dangerous about literature, and why metal music matters.

Verheißung und Verlust

Der Band fragt nach dem Verhältnis des aus der Reformation hervorgegangenen Protestantismus zum geistesgeschichtlichen Impuls der Romantik und bietet zugleich weiterführende Reflexionen zur Rolle der Reli…

Amy Motlagh

Colorblind

With this book, Amy Motlagh considers how racial thinking underpins cultural practices in Iran and the Iranian diaspora. Despite cultural traditions depicting black people and the documented presence of b…

Andrea Horbinski

Manga's First Century

"Manga are big. And in the growing field of manga studies, Andrea Horbinski's work is a standout. With years of deep research, rich new insights, and sparkling prose, Manga's First Century will delig…

Michael Thomas

The Broken King

From Reconstruction, to Jim Crow and the Civil Rights movement, Thomas explores fathers and sons, lovers and beloved, trauma and recovery, race and de-racination in a beautifully unique memoir.

James Reichert

Literature for the Masses

Literature for the Masses is the first English-language book on popular stories known in Japan alternatively as period fiction or mass literature. It highlights the important cultural and ideological work…

Jules Kielmann

Wechselwirkungen

Die Schriftstellerin Amalie von Helvig, geb. von Imhoff (1776-1831), galt lange Zeit als Paradebeispiel jenes "weiblichen" Dilettantismus, wie ihn Goethe und Schiller Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts v…

Savala Nolan

Good Woman

A raw and lyrical exploration of the confining expectations of womanhood and, if we dare, what lies beyond those limitations---from a writer Roxane Gay calls "vibrant and thoughtful."Gorgeous, b…

Alice M Chapman-Kelly,

Fanfiction as Queer Healing

The first book-length exploration of femflash fanfiction and its implications for wider fan communities, this text presents new theories of queer, fan, and fantasy time based on fan-authored works inspire…