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Melissa Frazier

Signs of the Material World

Signs of the Material World traces the literary effects of nineteenth-century materialism that includes the mind and body within a multifaceted "living life." The book examines a range of scient…

Natania Meeker

Illusive Materialisms

Illusive Materialisms brings a close attention to gender to bear on the philosophical and political argument that sensual pleasure, framed as a mode of feminine responsiveness, is the primary business of …

Kiron Ward,

Encyclopaedism and Totality in Contemporary Fiction

Taking as key examples work by Don DeLillo, Leslie Marmon Silko, Roberto Bolaño, and Karen Tei Yamashita, this book looks at engagements with encyclopaedic thought and practice in contemporary fiction. Ch…

Sarah Jones

The Doctor-Patient Relationship and the Nineteenth-Century French Novel

This book studies a wide range of canonical authors from across the nineteenth century from the perspective of the medical humanities, focussing on the idealized doctor-patient relationship and the medica…

Oscar Peterson (1925-2007)

The Classic Years

Milt Jackson (1923-1999)

Four Classic Albums (Second Set)

Milton »Milt« Jackson war ein amerikanischer Vibraphonist und gilt als eine der wichtigsten Persönlichkeiten des Modern Jazz. Er sammelte Erfahrungen in der Zusammenarbeit mit den wichtigsten Persönlichke…

Carmen Lamas

The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas

The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas argues that the process of recovering Latina/o figures and writings in the nineteenth century does not merely create a bridge between the US and La…

Patrick Armstrong

Microscopy, Magnification and Modernist Fiction

Exploring how modernism registered shock experiences of the microscopic and extended vision in prose fiction through the work of four modernist writers - D. H. Lawrence, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and…

Laura Bradley

Brecht and the Art of Spectatorship

Bertolt Brecht's epic theatre sought to change how spectators watched performances, equipping them to critique and intervene in the world outside the theatre. Taking its cue from his call for theatre to d…

Jason Lagapa

Unimportant Clerks

Examines the ambivalent, often critical relationship of the New York School poets to bureaucratic culture and the conditions of work.Unimportant Clerks identifies a central tension in the writing of the N…

John Gordon

Sensational Joyce

Exploring how Ulysses imitates the human mind at work, connecting close readings to psychological theories of Joyce's timeIn this book, John Gordon uses historically oriented close readings to demonstrate…

Jeffrey F Keuss,

Activism and the Literary Self in 20th- And 21st-Century Literature

Exploring how Shusaku Endo, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Thomas Merton, Marilynne Robinson, Cormac McCarthy, and Octavia E. Butler engage with social justice and activism, this book explores the significant role tha…

Gary Saul Morson

Wonder Confronts Certainty

Gary Saul Morson brings to life the intense intellectual debates shaping two centuries of Russian writing. Dialogues of great writers with philosophical wanderers and blood-soaked radicals reveal a contes…

Danakil

Dialogue De Sourds

2008 erschienen, ist »Dialogue De Sourds« inzwischen ein Klassiker des French Reggae und mit Songs wie »Les Vieillards«, »Marley«, »Woman« oder dem Titelsong ein Paradebeispiel für den modernen Roots-Soun…

Richard Sperber,

Intertextual Exoticism

Intertextual Exoticism reads a body of non-canonical German exoticist literature published after imperial Germany's loss of colonial Oceania in 1914, applying theories of "intertextuality" (Kris…

Cory A Reed

Cervantes, Technology, and the Novel

This book examines the technological and scientific imagery in Cervantes's novel, Don Quixote , and the ways in which the Scientific Revolution participated in the author's examination of early modern Eur…

Angela Carter's Pasts

This book provides a fresh look at Angela Carter's critical and intertextual engagements with the past.Examining a broad range of Carter's work (novels, short stories, poetry, as well as stage plays), the…

Brinda J Mehta

The Wounds of War and Conflict in Contemporary Arab Women's Writings from North Africa and the Middle East

The Wounds of War and Conflict in Contemporary Arab Women's Writings from North Africa and the Middle East focuses on the writings of women authors from North Africa and the Middle East who open a critica…

Naama Harel

The Jew, the Beauty, and the Beast

The Jew, the Beauty, and the Beast critically examines the entanglements between Jewishness, gender, and animality in modernist Hebrew fiction. Analyzing the effeminate Jew vis-à-vis the animalized woman …