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In "Morals Versus Art," Anthony Comstock embarks on a provocative exploration of the complicated interplay between artistic expression and moral accountability. Written at the turn of the 20th centu……続きを見る

In "Limbo, and Other Essays; To which is now added Ariadne in Mantua," Vernon Lee explores the intricate interplay of art, aesthetics, and personal experience through a series of reflective essays t……続きを見る

Unbound Queer Time in Literature, Cinema, and Video Games investigates the potential of queer conceptions of time to unbind forms of understanding identities. In doing so, it recognizes the power of……続きを見る

In "Adventures in Criticism," Arthur Quiller-Couch embarks on a captivating exploration of literary criticism, illuminating the complexities of interpreting literature through a series of engaging e……続きを見る

In "A Study of Fairy Tales," Laura Fry Kready conducts an extensive examination of the origins, structures, and thematic elements that define the fairy tale genre. Through a meticulous analysis of v……続きを見る

Drawings and sequential images are an integral part of human expression dating back at least as far as cave paintings, and in contemporary society appear most prominently in comics. Despite this fun……続きを見る

Thinking Outside the Canon traces author Michael J. Shapiro's intellectual journey as a political theorist who has adapted multidisciplinary practices and unconventional texts across his career to d……続きを見る

This book offers an intermedial approach to truthful communication. Bringing together a wide range of media types and interactions from a transmedial perspective, the volume maps out how truth claim……続きを見る

A noncommissioned officer of the Nicaraguan National Guard travels to New York to meet the famous bodybuilder, Charles Atlas. When he approaches his hero, he finds a body pierced with syringes and t……続きを見る

Autism is a profoundly contested idea. The focus of this book is not what autism is or what autistic people are, but rather, it grapples with the central question: what does it take for autistic peo……続きを見る

This open access book examines how the form of the list features as a tool for meaning-making in the genre of detective fiction from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The book analyzes how……続きを見る

This open access book suggests new ways of reading nineteenth-century African American literature environmentally. Combining insights from ecocriticism, African American studies, and Foucauldian the……続きを見る

This carefully crafted ebook: "Rameau's Nephew (in a new translation by Ian C. Johnston)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Rameau's Nephew, or the Seco……続きを見る

This book deconstructs androcentric approaches to spacetimeinherited from western modernity through its theoretical frame of the chronotropics. It sheds light on the literary acts of archival disrup……続きを見る

This Handbook presents a transnational and interdisciplinary study of refugee narratives, broadly defined. Interrogating who can be considered a refugee and what constitutes a narrative, the thirty-……続きを見る

Erotic Medievalisms is about the liberatory potential of sexualities, particularly as they relate to medieval histories and modern pleasures. Each of the texts analyzed within subvert norms rooted i……続きを見る

In "Laokoon: Oder, Über die Grenzen der Malerei und Poesie" erörtert Gotthold Ephraim Lessing das Spannungsfeld zwischen bildender Kunst und Literatur. Das Werk ist eine grundlegende Untersuchung de……続きを見る

A classic work of anthropology that offers a groundbreaking exploration of what culture is Named one of the 100 most important books published since World War II by the Times Literary Supplement “As……続きを見る

In "Über die Dichtkunst" eröffnet Aristoteles eine tiefgründige Analyse der Tragödie, die bis heute als grundlegend für das Verständnis der Literatur gilt. Er untersucht die Elemente, die ein litera……続きを見る

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. During the breakdown of an unhappy marriage, writer Joanna Walsh got a job as a hotel revie……続きを見る

The novels of Henry James are filled with ghosts, but most of them escape dramatic treatment. These elusive specters are the voices of precursors that haunt his narratives, compromising their consti……続きを見る

This book combines the theory of intertextuality and intermediality with imagological reflections. These are understood as a way of intercultural, hermeneutically oriented secondary communication in……続きを見る

Queer Tolstoy is a multidimensional work combining psychoanalysis, political history, LGBTQ+ studies, sexology, ethics, and theology to explore the life and art of Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy. Usi……続きを見る

Construit avec minutie, ce roman multiplie les personnages, points de vue narratifs et intrigues secondaires diverses autour d'une histoire centrale. Par la liberté de l'écriture et la multiplicité ……続きを見る

This volume takes a deep dive into the philosophical hermeneutics of Shakespearean tradition, providing insight into the foundations, theories, and methodologies of hermeneutics in Shakespeare. Cent……続きを見る

This Open Access book considers the cultural representation of gender violence, vulnerability and resistance with a focus on the transnational dimension of our contemporary visual and literary cultu……続きを見る

In recent decades, age studies has started to emerge as a new approach to study children’s literature. This book builds on that scholarship but also significantly extends it by exploring age in vari……続きを見る

Tracing the shift from liberal to neoliberal education from the nineteenth century to the present day, this open access book provides a rich and previously underdeveloped narrative of value in highe……続きを見る

By highlighting relations between experimental and theoretical work, this volume explores new ways of addressing one of the central challenges in the study of language and cognition. The articles br……続きを見る

Drawing on the analogy between musical meaning-making and human subjectivity, this book develops the concept of the acoustic self, exploring the ways in which musical characterization and structure ……続きを見る