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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. …

Women Creating Classics

"From Madeline Miller's Song of Achilles (2012) to Natalie Haynes' A Thousand Ships (2019), there has been a huge rise in women's literary receptions of classics in recent years. This first volume in…

Lucas F W Wilson

At Home with the Holocaust

Based on analyses of literature and oral histories of children of survivors, At Home with the Holocaust reveals how the material conditions of survivor-family homes, along with household practices and bel…

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…

Anna Muenchrath

Making World Literature

"From universities to governments, the Big Five publishers to Amazon, the influence of institutions abounds in US publishing. A diverse array of books from around the globe have been made into world …

Garrett Eisler

Ben Hecht's Theatre of Jewish Protest

A critical and historical study of Ben Hecht's forgotten controversial plays championing Jewish causes during the World War II era. Includes the full texts of four works - We Will Never Die (1943),A Jewis…

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

"How to Be Disabled in a Pandemic chronicles experiences of disabled and chronically-ill people in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic, tracking wide-ranging themes: incarceration, low wage an…

Jenseits der Deiche - Die internationale Vielfalt der Interkulturellen Germanistik

Ausgrenzungspraktiken, Inklusionsverfahren und Polarisierung sind Gegenstände gesellschaftlicher Diskussionen und medialer Auseinandersetzungen, aber auch Unterrichtsstoff in Schulen. Die Dynamiken von Öf…

Paul Fyfe

Digital Victorians

"Perhaps no period better clarifies our current crisis of digital information than the nineteenth century. Self-aware about its own epochal telecommunications changes and awash in a flood of print, t…

Stuart Moore

Doctor Strange: A Decade of Dark Magic

Doctor Strange, one of Marvel's most fascinating early characters, began at the hands of co-creators Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, and his ethereal voyages through other dimensions made him an important figur…

Richard W Etulain

Basques of the American West

Basques of the American West: New and Collected Essays on History and Ethnicity brings together new and previously published work by Richard W. Etulain, blending historical analysis and literary criticism…

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.

Lyta Gold

Dangerous Fictions

"Fictional stories have long been imagined to hold an uncanny power over hearts and minds. These days, everybody frets about fiction: according to the National Coalition Against Censorship, the curre…

Christopher Booker

The Seven Basic Plots

This remarkable and monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small number of 'basic stories' in the world.Using a wealth of examples, from …

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…

Joseph Crawford

Killer Bodies

This book offers a history of the most critically-derided subgenre in American comics: the 'bad girl' comics of the 1990s. Situating these works in relation to the popular feminism of the period, it explo…

Irine Beridze

Neuere Migrationsliteratur

Gegenwärtige Migrationsbewegungen, die häufig auf ethnische und militärische Konflikte folgen, schaffen neue Schreibtraditionen jenseits nationalphilologischer Diskurse. Neue Generationen osteuropäischer …