Is literature of political use, and if yes, how might this use be defined? Reading for Democracy addresses this question in a series of essays, with topics ranging from reading as a political practice to the relational aesthetics of literary engagem...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 20-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Ohio State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780814215999)
Puts major theories of narrative in dialogue with post-postmodernist theory to present a new pluralist narratological framework, expanding consideration of recent works that employ unnatural devices for feminist purposes. Authors under discussion in...Lasīt vairāk
There are few features of the contemporary world more significant than national and regional borders. In modern Europe, the practices of human division have defined the continent from the early years of the Cold War to the present barriers of Fortre...Lasīt vairāk
The Anthropocene has ushered in remarkable progress and unprecedented challenges, with ecological crises threatening all life-especially the most vulnerable. In search of new solutions in this open access book, Lay Sion Ng turns to an unexpecte...Lasīt vairāk
Counterfeit Culture explores the possibility of writing epic in an age of alternative facts. It addresses the relationship between the American epic and postmodernism. This book is for graduates and researchers working on post World War II American...Lasīt vairāk
A revised and expanded edition of David Darks influential first book Everyday Apocalypse recovers the root meaning of the term apocalypse (revelation) to use the concept as a lens through which art and other acts of creative no...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Liverpool University Press, ISBN-13: 9781836244882)
In the first book-length study of this major contemporary author, Peter Morey traces the influence of Kamila Shamsies formative years, spent under a military dictatorship in 1980s Karachi, on writing with an acute sense of social justice and an awar...Lasīt vairāk
Showing the political importance of play in postwar French literature In postwar France, authors approached writing ludically, placing rules and conditions on language and on the context of composition itself. They eliminated es and femin...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Northwestern University Press, ISBN-13: 9780810149281)
A comprehensive examination of how and why French authors turned to ludic methods to grapple with their political moment-- Provided by publisher....Lasīt vairāk
From the popular and award-winning staff writer for The Atlantic, an eye-opening look at how the current media landscape has incentivized us to see our fellow citizens as characters in an ongoing entertainmentand how we can fight...Lasīt vairāk
These developments are presented in France and the Spanish-speaking world, while also considering Germany and England: While Montaigne, Pedro Mexķa, Pérez de Oliva, Vives, and Graciįn prioritize literature, Pascal contrasts the esprit de finesse w...Lasīt vairāk
This transdisciplinary study expands on theories of theatricality beyond performance studies and into poetry, media technology, translation studies, critical and psychoanalytic theory. Builds upon Antonin Artauds elaboration of the theatre as a plag...Lasīt vairāk
Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: Concepts and Applications introduces major critical and literary theories to undergraduate and postgraduate students. Key features include: - Comprehensive coverage: Includes major theoretical schools such...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 13-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781032993782)
Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: Concepts and Applications introduces major critical and literary theories to undergraduate and postgraduate students.Key features include:Comprehensive coverage: In...Lasīt vairāk
The final book by the founder of Surrealism, translated into English for the first time. Cavalier Perspective shows us the lion in winter, André Breton near the end of his life, trying to reconcile all the contradictions of his extraordi...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 09-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198957928)
This book examines the similarity between capitalism and socialism over the twentieth century as both systems found ways to encourage happiness and optimism in their citizens. Comparing radically different novels, it brings diverse social contexts an...Lasīt vairāk
I knew at once I had come upon the city of some extinct civilization, hidden away in this inaccessible mesa for centuriesThe Professors House (1925) depicts the mid-life crisis of Godfrey St. Peter, a history prof...Lasīt vairāk
This new anthology brings together a generous selection of famous wartime poets alongside works by civilians and soldiers, offering a symphony of different voices, all connected in their shared experience of the Second World War. An introduction prov...Lasīt vairāk
Athens Tales is a portrait of Greeces capital through the citys own writers. The book is made up of eighteen short stories, in English translation, by different Greek authors, some of whom have never appeared before in English. Taking a ro...Lasīt vairāk
