Social Criticism – all Bücher, CDs und DVDs, Page 2

Walter Benjamin,
On Goethe

On Goethe contains the full range of Walter Benjamin's reflections on the central figure in modern German culture. The writings in this volume-newly translated, fully annotated, and framed by an extensive…

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Alejandra Márquez
Lenchitudes

Shows how representations of sapphic desire can subvert or sustain prevailing norms of gender, sexuality, and power in Mexican texts from the 1980s to the 2010s.Drawing inspiration from the 2020 Marcha Le…

lieferbar ab 1.1.2026.

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Robert St Clair
Counter-Modernities in Nineteenth-Century French Literature

Counter-Modernities in Nineteenth-Century French Literature explores a counterview of modernity in late nineteenth-century French literature (1848-1891). The principal claim of this book is that what we f…

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Belinda Edmondson
Creole Noise

This book is a history of Creole, or 'dialect', literature and performance in the English-speaking Caribbean. It revises the common view that literary dialect in the Caribbean was a relatively modern twen…

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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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Andrea Long Chu
Authority

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 essay "On Liking Women," the Pulitzer Prize-wi…

lieferbar ab 7.4.2026.

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Lorenzo Casini
Occidentalism and the Egyptian Novel

This book examines Occidentalism, or the set of cultural, literary and political uses of 'the West', in the works of canonical 20th and 21st century Egyptian novelists . Beginning with the writings of Muh…

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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…

lieferbar ab 5.2.2026.

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Diana Berruezo-Sánchez
Black Voices in Early Modern Spanish Literature, 1500-1750

In this groundbreaking study, Diana Berruezo-Sánchez recovers key chapters in the history of Afro-Iberian diasporas by exploring the literary contributions and life experiences of black African communitie…

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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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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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Stefano Serafini
Gothic Italy

Gothic Italy explores how the Gothic permeated and shaped the project of nation-building in the aftermath of Italy's unification.

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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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Universality and Translation

This book collects essays that explore the relationship between translation and universality, especially in and through the traditions of deconstruction and Marxism.

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Universality and Translation

"Universality and Translation is a groundbreaking book that reshapes our understanding of universality, offering fresh insights and tools for bridging diverse fields and perspectives. Through thought…

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Kezia Page
Inside Tenement Time

Inside Tenement Timeis a study of Jamaican literary and cultural texts presenting surveillance in the Caribbean. The project introduces two Afro-Indigenous variations on surveillance--sussveillance and sp…

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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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Mark D Jordan
Queer Callings

CHOICE: OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE FINALIST, THE RANDY SHILTS AWARD FOR GAY NONFICTION, THE PUBLISHING TRIANGLE AWARDS A passionate exhortation to expand the ways we talk about human sex, sexuality, and g…

lieferbar ab 2.12.2025.

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Simona Supekar,
Stock Photo

Brochures, billboards, websites, menus, and memes. We are immersed every day in the imagery of carefully-curated stock photography. Stock Photo blends memoir and cultural history to mine how this unique m…

lieferbar ab 8.1.2026.

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