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Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick was one of the most significant literary theorists of the last forty years and a key figure in contemporary queer theory. In this engaging and inspiring guide, Jason Edwards: ……続きを見る

Through examination of the functions of language and cross-cultural readings of literature – from African queer reading to postcolonial Shakespeare – Rooney explores the nature of the real, providin……続きを見る

An indispensable guide for Harry Potter fans of all ages. Harry Potter is, without doubt, the publishing sensation of the past decade. Here for the first time in dictionary form is an unofficial rea……続きを見る

The past decade has seen a profound shift in our collective understanding of the digital network. What was once understood to be a transcendent virtual reality is now experienced as a ubiquitous gri……続きを見る

If America worships success, then why has the nation's literature dwelled obsessively on failure? This book explores encounters with failure by nineteenth-century writers - ranging from Edgar Allan ……続きを見る

Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare’s texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories. The book attempts to acco……続きを見る

This volume examines and theorizes the oft-ignored phenomenon of male-to-female (MTF) crossdressing in early modern drama, prose, and poetry, inviting MTF crossdressing episodes to take a fuller pla……続きを見る

Friendship and Allegiance explores the concept of friendship as it was defined, contested and distorted by writers of the early eighteenth century. Setting well-known canonical texts (The Beggar's O……続きを見る

An engaging account of how Jane Austen became a household name. Just how did Jane Austen become the celebrity author and the inspiration for generations of loyal fans she is today? Devoney Looser's ……続きを見る

Una raccolta di riflessioni sulle trasformazioni della comunicazione contemporanea attraverso quelle dei suoi strumenti tecnologici, delle teorie che ne discutono, delle ideologie sottostanti. 続きを見る

Ruggero Ragonese insegna Semiotica presso l’Università Statale di Milano. Ha studiato a Bologna dove è stato assegnista di ricerca presso la Scuola Superiore di Studi Umanistici diretta da Umberto E……続きを見る

The Ecophobia Hypothesis grows out of the sense that while the theory of biophilia has productively addressed ideal human affinities with nature, the capacity of “the biophilia hypothesis” as an exp……続きを見る

How has the Internet changed literary culture? 2nd Place, N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature by The Electronic Literature Organization Reports of the book’s death have ……続きを見る

An engaging account of how Jane Austen became a household name. Just how did Jane Austen become the celebrity author and the inspiration for generations of loyal fans she is today? Devoney Looser's ……続きを見る

Edward F. Mooney takes us into the lived philosophies of Melville, Kierkegaard, Henry Bugbee, and others who write deeply in ways that bring philosophy and religion into the fabric of daily life, in……続きを見る

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Cropping up everywhere, whether steel latticework or tapered monopoles, encrusted with fibe……続きを見る

Through original analysis of three contemporary, auteur-directed melodramas (Matthew Weiner’s Mad Men, Lars von Trier’s Melancholia and Todd Haynes’s Mildred Pierce), Living Screens reconceives and ……続きを見る

Merleau-Ponty has long been known as one of the most important philosophers of aesthetics, yet most discussions of his aesthetics focus on visual art. This book corrects that balance by turning to M……続きを見る

Architecture and ekphrasisexamines how eighteenth-century prints and drawings of antique architecture operated as representations of thought. Using original archival material, it considers the idea ……続きを見る

L'anima ama gli spazi. Non sappiamo che cosa sia questa entità o se esista davvero, nonostante l'enorme messe di dottrine e credenze al riguardo. Constatiamo però che da sempre scrittori, filosofi, ……続きを見る

William Faulkner and Mortality is the first full-length study of mortality in William Faulkner’s fiction. The book challenges earlier, influential scholarly considerations of death in Faulkner’s wor……続きを見る

Truth and Wonder is an accessible introduction to Plato and Aristotle, showing their crucial influence for literary and cultural studies, modern languages and related disciplines. It focusses on bot……続きを見る

Obra planteada desde la práctica de la formación literaria y para la misma en el espacio de la web 2.0, atendiendo a las nuevas modalidades discursivas, la multimodalidad y la conectividad, en relac……続きを見る

Robert Greene holds a significant place in our understanding of Elizabethan literature. This book offers the most rigorous attempt yet undertaken to determine the scope of the playwright’s canon thr……続きを見る

Feminist Discourse in Irish Literature addresses the role of young adult (YA) Irish literature in responding and contributing to some of the most controversial and contemporary issues in today’s mod……続きを見る

Queer Kinship after Wilde investigates the afterlife of the Decadent Movement's ideas about kinship, desire, and the family during the modernist period within a global context. Drawing on archival m……続きを見る

Präsentation und Signifikanz Prags im Erzählwerk von Cynthia Ozick und Philip Roth bilden das zentrale, bislang nicht erforschte Thema dieses Buches. Die Verbindungen, die durch Ozicks Rückgriff auf……続きを見る

Dans quelle mesure une étude comparée des pratiques et représentations des langues chez des acteurs scolaires (enseignants, élèves, parents d’élèves et représentants institutionnels) permet-elle d’i……続きを見る

Die Aufsätze in diesem Band behandeln Aspekte des literarischen Lebens in Galizien vom 18. Jahrhundert bis in die Gegenwart. Sie basieren zum großen Teil auf vergleichenden Untersuchungen, die polni……続きを見る

Antonfrancesco Grazzini, known as Il Lasca (The Roach), was born and lived in Florence at the height of the Renaissance. He wrote prolifically in most genres, including novelle, burlesque poetry, an……続きを見る