Their writings shed new light on a period little discussed by social and military historians, providing not only a new approach to Bronte Studies, but also acting as a familial case study for how the media captivated and enticed the public imag...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 25-Jan-2020, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Central European University Press, ISBN-13: 9789633863572)
In Avala Is Falling, Jovanovics breakout success in 1978, a young woman challenges the expectations that teachers, parents, bus drivers and doctors have for her. The Avala of the title refers to a mountain south of Belgrade which is home to some o...Lasīt vairāk
In studies of fashion and literature, the trend over the past two decades has been to focus on clothing and dress within literary texts. This book raises a provocative question: What about the author? How did he dress? What where her shopping practic...Lasīt vairāk
This book focuses on literal and metaphorical ruins, as they are appropriated and imagined in different forms of writing. Examining British and American literature and culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the book begins in the...Lasīt vairāk
George Meredith: The Life and Writing of an Alteregoist is not only a critical biography of the Victorian novelist and poet George Meredith but also a portrait of the novel in the later nineteenth century....Lasīt vairāk
Achilles is the quintessential Greek hero, but that does not mean that he is a conventional hero. His uniqueness is dictated by his birth, as the son of a sea goddess, and his education at the hands of a centaur. The heros exceptional nature a...Lasīt vairāk
Huidobro published this collection of manifestos and statements on poetics in 1925, and it summed up the previous 8 or 9 years of his work. The truth is, however, that he was already moving away from some of the positions espoused in this volum...Lasīt vairāk
The first biography of Julia Kristeva-one of the most important intellectuals of the last 100 years. It connects her personal journey with the history of her ideas, clarifies her legacy within the context of postwar European thought, and demon...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 23-Jan-2020, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Bloomsbury Academic USA, ISBN-13: 9781501341342)
The first biography of Julia Kristeva-one of the most important intellectuals of the last 100 years. It connects her personal journey with the history of her ideas, clarifies her legacy within the context of postwar European thought, and demon...Lasīt vairāk
Reinterpreting Badious philosophy in light of both his persistent, reverent invocations of the German-Jewish poet Paul Celan, and his long-term engagement with Samuel Beckett, Badiou, Poem and Subject fundamentally reassesses Badious radical...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 23-Jan-2020, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Bloomsbury Academic USA, ISBN-13: 9781501352225)
Through close readings of a selection of European novels and novellas written between 1340 and 1827, this study of analytical fiction examines how unconsummated love stories probe the frailty of self-knowledge. Tracing elements of what the Fr...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 23-Jan-2020, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Bloomsbury Academic USA, ISBN-13: 9781501342585)
Explores the disparate creative works that are characterized as Afropolitan literature, contextualizing them within the fundamental questions of world literature, such as translation, circulation, and cultural specificity while also examining Afro...Lasīt vairāk
Everybody knows, and maybe even loves, a microgenre. Plague romances and mommy memoirs. Nudie-cutie movies, Nazi zombies, and dinosaur erotica. Baby burlesks, Minecraft fiction, grindcore, premature ejaculation poetry...microgenres come in all...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 23-Jan-2020, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Bloomsbury Academic USA, ISBN-13: 9781501350542)
Imagining the Unimaginable examines popular fictions treatment of the Holocaust in the dystopian and alternate history genres of speculative fiction, analyzing the effectiveness of the genres major works as a lens through which to view the mo...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 23-Jan-2020, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Bloomsbury Academic USA, ISBN-13: 9781501345814)
Microgenres: A Quick Survey presents a previously untreated point of cultural curiosity, revealing the profound truth that humanitys desire to classify is often only matched by the unsustainability of the obscure and hyper-specific.-- E...Lasīt vairāk
Over the coming days they embark on a whirlwind of self-destructive misadventures as Ullis attempts to mask his grief through excessive narcotics, resulting in episodes of increasing dysfunctionality that flirt with total self-obliteration - an...Lasīt vairāk
How is the medieval world depicted today? Two German museums serve as case studies for a vibrant, imaginative, and provocative enactment of twenty-first century medievalism: the Museum Wolfram von Eschenbach in Wolframs Eschenbach (1995) and th...Lasīt vairāk