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Susanna L Sacks

Networked Poetics

"Simultaneously transnational and local, poetry in the twenty-first century is produced across digital networks, shaped through local communities, and evaluated on a global scale. It might start on social…

Adeline Soldin

Proust's Snobs, Inverts, and Jews

"This study examines Proust's exploitation of classification systems as a means to subvert the notion of a fixed identity, laying bare Proust's radical challenges to the social order and its rigid systems…

Power and Society in Terry Pratchett's Discworld

A critical deep-drive into conceptions of power and society in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, this book brings together experts in fantasy literature, political sciences, economics, philosophy, histo…

Adela Pinch

The Location of Experience

"The relationship between experience and realism, what it means and what it feels like to read fiction: in Adela Pinch's hands, these longstanding questions come to seem newly strange and newly fascinatin…

Gregory Porter (geb. 1971)

All Rise

Beinahe vier Jahre sind verstrichen, seit Gregory Porter mit »Take Me To The Alley« sein letztes Album mit frischem Eigenmaterial herausgebracht hat. Vier Jahre, in denen der Sänger natürlich nicht untäti…

Charles Andrews,

The English Modernist Novel as Political Theology

"Exploring novels by Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Evelyn Waugh, and Sylvia Townsend Warner as political theology-works that imagine a resistance to the fusion of Christianity and patriotism which fuele…

Gregory Porter (geb. 1971)

All Rise (Limited Deluxe Edition)

Beinahe vier Jahre sind verstrichen, seit Gregory Porter mit »Take Me To The Alley« sein letztes Album mit frischem Eigenmaterial herausgebracht hat. Vier Jahre, in denen der Sänger natürlich nicht untäti…

Sunayani Bhattacharya

The Novel in Nineteenth-Century Bengal

"Examines a history of reading practices in 19th-century Bengal at the intersection of Sanskrit and Perso-Arabic aesthetics, British colonial pedagogy, and the rise of Bengali novels"--

Die Tragédie en musique zwischen Lully und Rameau

Samuel Beckett and Ecology

"Beckett and Ecology is the first full-length book to offer a wide range of scholarly and artistic responses to the ecological crises provoked, mediated, or challenged by Beckett's work. The volume reflec…

David Faflik

The Literary Gift in Early America

Some of the most meaningful moments in early American literature relied on historical patterns of gift exchange, David Faflik argues in this compelling book. Gift exchange kept a surprising variety of lit…

Female Identity in Contemporary Fictional Purgatorial Worlds

Examining fictional purgatorial worlds in contemporary literature, film and video games, this book examines the way in which the female characters trapped within them construct identity positions of resis…

Tobias William Harris,

Flann O'Brien and the European Avant-Garde, 1934-45

Crossing the boundaries of a single-author study, this book uncovers Flann O'Brien's attempt to forge a commercially successful Irish literary project from international avant-garde influences. Situating…

Denae Dyck,

Biblical Wisdom and the Victorian Literary Imagination

Examining the creative thought that arose in response to 19th-century religious controversies, this book demonstrates that the pressures exerted by historical methods of biblical scholarship prompted an i…

Interwar Salzburg

"A long-overdue reassessment of post-1918 Salzburg as a distinct Austrian cultural hub that experimented in moving beyond war and empire into a modern, self-consciously inclusive, and international center…

Will Gompertz,

Was gibt's zu sehen?

Der neue Will Gompertz gehört sicherlich zu den kurzweiligsten Büchern über die Kunstgeschichte der Moderne [ ] Beste Unterhaltung. NÜRNBERGER NACHRICHTEN Nach diesem Buch wird niemand mehr sagen, dass di…

Zoran Milutinovic

When Criticism Goes to War

A bold intervention into the lingering debates on Serbian writers Njegos and Andric in the late Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav period, which interrogates the political and moralizing (mis)use of literature.

Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction

"Critical and cultural interrogations of African fiction, showcasing how each author's work engages with Afro-centered futurism. Through ethnographic reflections and intense scrutinies of African writing,…

Francisco E Robles

Coalition Literature

"In a series of incisive readings, Francisco E. Robles provides a literary history of midcentury US multiethnic literature, tracing the shift from coalitional aesthetics to multiculturalism by focusing on…