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The First Lady in Contemporary Popular Culture

From Martha Washington to Jill Biden, Mars Attacks! to Scandal, and the Ladies' Home Journal to Vogue this diverse collection examines how the nation's First Lady has become an important cultural icon wit…

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Christoph Strosetzki
Literature in Dialogue with the Natural Sciences

The thesis of the book is that in the early modern period, literature claimed precedence over the observation of nature. There were shifts through phases of temporary parity, the priority of natural scien…

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Laura Wiemer
Großstädte transkulturell erzählen

mimesis

Das Narrativ der Textstadt <<Buenos Paris Aires>> stellt ein wirklichkeits-, identitäts- und kollektivstiftendes Erzählmuster in argentinischen und französischen Stadttexten unterschiedlicher …

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Mantra Mukim,
Samuel Beckett's Lyric Failure

Providing one of the first book-length accounts of Samuel Beckett's poetry, this work illustrates how Beckett's poetry, and its failures, reconfigure the lyric form. Reading Beckett alongside nineteenth a…

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Valérie Bénéjam
Joyce's Theatrical Poetics

Looking beyond the view of James Joyce as a failed playwright to uncover how Joyce's modernist breakthroughs are grounded in theatrical techniquesIn this book, Valérie Bénéjam argues that the success of J…

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Antje Czudaj
Miranda July's Intermedial Art

This first in-depth study of Miranda July's work reveals some of its major motives and consequently provides fascinating insights into the lifestyle of the contemporary white Californian middle class. Thr…

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Jeremy Rosen
Genre Bending

Detective, horror, fantasy, romance, science fiction, spy thrillers, westerns, zombie novels. In recent decades, acclaimed and ambitious writers of literary fiction have increasingly gravitated to popular…

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David Mence
Melville's Maritime Politics

Melville's Maritime Politics: Enlightenment at Sea offers a new account of the political thought of Herman Melville (1819-1891). Reading Melville in dialogue with Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and …

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Stephanie Bird
Responses to Nazi Perpetration in Fiction

Looking at novels by authors from countries directly involved in and affected by genocidal violence and its legacies this book analyses representations of Nazi perpetration and complicity.

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Kiron Ward,
Encyclopaedism and Totality in Contemporary Fiction

Taking as key examples work by Don DeLillo, Leslie Marmon Silko, Roberto Bolaño, and Karen Tei Yamashita, this book looks at engagements with encyclopaedic thought and practice in contemporary fiction. Ch…

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Colette Nic Aodha
David Jones, Disability and Modernist Form

Employing a fresh theoretical approach to David Jones' work, this is the first book to use disability studies as a lens through which to consider his post-war work.

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Michael Blouin
The Political Poe

The Political Poe examines the collective works of Edgar Allan Poe through a political lens. While others have gestured toward Poe's gloomy conservatism, Michael J. Blouin argues that Poe's reaction again…

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Ruth Perry
The Ballad World of Anna Gordon, Mrs. Brown of Falkland

This is a scholarly biography of Anna Gordon Brown, posthumously known as Mrs Brown of Falkland, an eighteenth-century Scottish ballad collector. This pioneering new study takes us to the overlapping worl…

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Simone Murray
The Digital Future of English

The Digital Future of English: Literary Media Studies takes a refreshingly optimistic approach to the future of English studies by examining how digital technologies recast and expand understandings of wh…

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Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare's Macbeth

New avenues for teaching MacbethShakespeare's Macbeth combines the themes of ambition, assassination, guilt, and the supernatural in ways that continue to provoke questions about political legitimacy, the…

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Josie Billington
Reading Literature and Chronic Pain

"This valuable and insightful study into chronic pain and its treatment advances a striking analysis of the complex phenomenon of chronic pain, also attesting to the importance of the medical humanit…

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Susan Farrell
Vonnegut's War

Banned, burned, and censored, Kurt Vonnegut's 1969 novel Slaughterhouse-Fiveis widely regarded as one of the greatest (and most controversial) novels of the twentieth century. Fusing vivid biography with …

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Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare's Macbeth

New avenues for teaching MacbethShakespeare's Macbeth combines the themes of ambition, assassination, guilt, and the supernatural in ways that continue to provoke questions about political legitimacy, the…

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Thomas Mann,
Doctor Faustus

Oxford World's Classics

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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Gustav Mahlers Symphonien: Entstehung, Deutung, Wirkung

Bärenreiter Werkeinführungen

Hg.: Renate Ulm Taschenbuch, 358 Seiten, mit Notenbeispielen. Jede Symphonie Mahlers wird in einem eigenen Kapitel behandelt, das aus einem Mahler-Porträt und einer dazugehörigen Bildbetrachtung, einer We…

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