Close Reading – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 5

Alissa Burger
Remaking the Monster

In Remaking the Monster, Alissa Burger adopts an interdisciplinary approach to examine the continued influence of Frankenstein's Creature on popular culture, demonstrating through close readings the neces…

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Rose Casey
Aesthetic Impropriety

"Aesthetic Impropriety reconceives the aesthetic force of literature to theorize justice. Casey's gorgeous close readings and keen attention to the histories of English-derived property law generate …

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Gina Filo
Shattering the Self in Early Modern English Verse

Reconfiguring our understanding of early modern English erotic and literary landscapesRejecting the ideals of stability and sexual mastery demanded of masculine subjects, early modern English poets threw …

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Pamela Bickley, Jenny Stevens
Essential Shakespeare

Addressing the transition from pre-university to undergraduate Shakespeare studies, this introductory critical guide examines 16 key plays. Each chapter focuses on modern theoretical methods, close readin…

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Richard Jenkyns
The Path from Aulis

The first book to re-assess the Oresteia for a new generation of Classicists. Bridging between the disciplines of Classics, literary studies, gender studies, moral philosophy, and theories of imagery, Jen…

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Jacqueline Beatty
In Dependence

Examines the role of the American Revolution in the everyday lives of women Patriarchal forces of law, finance, and social custom restricted women's rights and agency in revolutionary America. Yet women i…

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Elen Caldecott
Writing for Young People

Applying the approach of 'reading-as-a-writer' to the craft of writing for young people, this textbook combines critical analysis, unique author-insight and practical application of ideas to give writers …

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Stefanie Heine
Tangential Terrains

Tangential Terrains is an ecocritical study of the work of Cormac McCarthy, focusing primarily on his depictions of the desert and inorganic nature in Blood Meridian . Close readings of previously unexami…

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Christian R. Gelder
The Search for a Science of Verse, 1880 to the Present

From large-scale quantitative studies in the digital humanities to AI-generated poetry, scientific reading seemingly reigns supreme. However, these reading practices preceded, and often shaped, modern lit…

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Gina Filo
Shattering the Self in Early Modern English Verse

Reconfiguring our understanding of early modern English erotic and literary landscapesRejecting the ideals of stability and sexual mastery demanded of masculine subjects, early modern English poets threw …

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David J Vázquez
Decolonial Environmentalisms

A critical examination of the environmental movement and the Latinx voices that are shifting how to think about a future shaped by climate change.In Decolonial Environmentalisms, David VÁzquez argues that…

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Mario Telò,
Reading Greek Tragedy with Judith Butler

"Considering Butler's "tragic trilogy"-a set of interventions on Sophocles' Antigone, Euripides' Bacchae, and Aeschylus's Eumenides-this book seeks to understand not just how Butler uses an…

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Teaching with Science Writing in the Humanities Classroom

Options for teaching science writing in humanities coursesScience writing is an expansive genre that invites collaborations between the humanities and science---not as separate endeavors but as mutually c…

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Teaching with Science Writing in the Humanities Classroom

Options for teaching science writing in humanities coursesScience writing is an expansive genre that invites collaborations between the humanities and science---not as separate endeavors but as mutually c…

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Amy De'Ath
Behind Our Backs

In this daring study, Amy De'Ath develops a new type of literary criticism attuned to the way our lives are shaped by capital's impersonal compulsions - by what happens "behind our backs." Chall…

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Charles C. Chiasson
Herodotus and the Greek Poetic Tradition

This is the first comprehensive analysis in any language of Herodotus' interaction with the Greek poetic tradition, including epic, lyric, and tragic poetry. It is essential reading for scholars of ancien…

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Helen Kapstein
Petroforms

Petroforms contributes a much-needed theory of form and genre to the cutting-edge field of petrocriticism, itself an offshoot of developments in postcolonial ecocriticism. Studies of resource fiction and …

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Body Count

Bloodlust

Also gut, Amerika, du wolltest es so – du hast die schlafende Bestie geweckt. Das hier ist nicht der Ice-T, den deine Mutter mag, der sanftmütige TV-Star aus »Law And Order: Special Victims Unit«, der dur…

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Eliot Weinberger,
Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei (with More Ways)

The difficulty (and necessity) of translation is concisely described in Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, a close reading of different translations of a single poem from the Tang Dynasty-from a transl…

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Richard H Weisberg
Law, Literature, and History

Close readings of acclaimed 20th century novels and lesser known but stunning works of popular culture uniquely situate us to understand the clash of religious values that led to genocide in World War II …

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