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This work explores portrayals of Spanish immigration to the United States (1900–1950) through six novels. It examines how Spanish immigrants navigate cultural shifts, balancing their heritage with A……続きを見る

Louis-René des Forêts incarne à coup sûr l’une des figures les plus importantes du XXe siècle littéraire français. L’aura que suscite l’écrivain, même en marge de la lumière médiatique où il s’est t……続きを見る

Este livro propõe a reconsideração do estado das relações entre a Bíblia e a literatura em torno de um pacto, de longa tradição, firmado entre poesia e teologia. A questão da dessemantização bíblica……続きを見る

Das Buch widmet sich der empirischen Erforschung von Einstellungen bosnisch-herzegowinischer Schülerinnen und Schüler zu ihren Muttersprachen bzw. deren Varietäten (Bosnisch, Kroatisch, Serbisch) un……続きを見る

Most of Norman Mailer’s works depict the reality of the United States of America and the complexities of the contemporary American social, political and economic scenes. They also contributed to the……続きを見る

Dieses Buch interpretiert das Werk der Schriftstellerin, Übersetzerin und selbsternannten pädagogischen Theoretikerin Therese Huber «neu» und betrachtet es in einem gesellschaftshistorischen, kultur……続きを見る

Polish culture after 1989 has been defined by conflicts surrounding the remnants of modernity, phenomena marginalised during communism. The book considers two such phenomena: the search for a common……続きを見る

Tales of neoliberalism’s death are serially overstated. Following the financial crisis of 2008, neoliberalism was proclaimed a “zombie,” a disgraced ideology that staggered on like an undead monster……続きを見る

La notion d’auteur est une énigme pour les disciplines littéraires. De nombreuses difficultés méthodologiques et théoriques liées au statut de l’auteur ont en effet pour origine la nature fuyante du……続きを見る

Step into the world of intellectual debate and controversy with "Under Dispute" by Agnes Repplier, a thought-provoking collection of essays that challenges conventional wisdom and explores the compl……続きを見る

'On Joan Lindsay's Picnic at Hanging Rock' reviews Joan Lindsay's work in its completion together with the original last chapter. Drawing on the evidence of Joan Lindsay's video interviews the revie……続きを見る

Desacuerdos, crisis y movimientos recorre caminos insospechados, resalta las relaciones temáticas y metodológicas más subrepticias, para descartar, así, las conexiones cartográficas usuales de las l……続きを見る

Detaining Time is the first book to investigate the representation of time in literature in terms of the project to reconceptualize time, so that its movement no longer threatens security. Focusing ……続きを見る

Including topics as diverse as feminism and its relationship to the marketplace, plagiarism and copyright, silence and forgetting, and myth in a digital age, this book explores the role of rewriting……続きを見る

This book introduces a number of selected ideas from the work of Charles Sanders Peirce, the founder of pragmatism. Peirce, pronounced ‘purse’, was born in America in 1839 and died in 1914. He publi……続きを見る

This book examines the concept of “ Neurosemantics”, a term currently used in two different senses: the informational meaning of the physical processes in the neural circuits, and semantics in its c……続きを見る

While much of the critical discussion about the emerging genre of 9/11 fiction has centred on the trauma of 9/11 and on novels by EuroAmerican writers, this book draws attention to the diversity of ……続きを見る

Examining a range of contemporary Anglophone texts, this book opens up postcolonial and transcultural studies for discussions of visuality and vision. It argues that the preoccupation with visual pr……続きを見る

Language and History in Theodor W. Adorno's Notes to Literature explores Adorno’s essays on literature as an independent contribution to his aesthetics with an emphasis on his theory and practice of……続きを見る

Originally published in 1982, this brilliant study provides a perceptive and up-to-date assessment of the novels of Iris Murdoch, up to and including Nuns and Soldiers, published in 1980. The Fire a……続きを見る

Originally published in 1988, the last few decades had seen the appearance of some brilliant and complex new kinds of fiction. The ambitious experiments of writers such as Greene, Garcia Márquez, Bo……続きを見る

Originally published in 1981 and now reissued with a new preface by Randolph Splitter, this volume examines Proust’s novel A la recherche du temps perdu from a psychoanalytic viewpoint, showing that……続きを見る

This book reports findings of a qualitative study intended to disrupt notions of heteronormativity amongst preservice elementary teachers by engaging them in multimodal writing and text production a……続きを見る

When you are half lost in a work of art, what happens to the half left behind? Semi-Detached delves into this state of being: what it means to be within and without our social and physical milieu, a……続きを見る

The concept of gender continues to be a central issue in literary and cultural studies, with a significance that crosses disciplinary boundaries and provokes lively debate. In this fully revised and……続きを見る

What accounts for the power of stories to both entertain and illuminate? This question has long compelled the attention of storytellers and students of literature alike, and over the past several de……続きを見る

Zionism and Revolution in European-Jewish Literature examines twentieth-century Jewish writing that challenges imperialist ventures and calls for solidarity with the colonized, most notably the Arab……続きを見る

First published in 1982, Images of Crisis explores the premise that literature and art exploit various images to present culturally prevalent ideas, and thus create their own form of iconology. Geor……続きを見る

Contemporary theory is replete with metaphors of travelーdisplacement, diaspora, borders, exile, migration, nomadism, homelessness, and tourism to name a few. In Questions of Travel, Caren Kaplan ex……続きを見る

Plurality, Conjunction and Events presents a novel theory of plural and conjoined phrases, in an event-based semantic framework. It begins by reviewing options for treating the alternation between `……続きを見る