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The Wealthy, the Brilliant, the Few
Elite Education in Contemporary American Discourse
Sophie Spieler explores elite education and its peculiar position in American cultural discourse, focusing particularly on the negotiation of merit.
Marko Kölbl
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Fritz Trümpi
(eds.)
Music and Democracy
Participatory Approaches
This book explores how music relates to democratic participation - on- and offline, throughout cultures, in various times, social settings, and political systems.
Postmigration
Art, Culture, and Politics in Contemporary Europe
This book explores the concept of »postmigration« by analyzing artistic, literary, and cultural developments in different contemporary European societies.
Taking Sides
Theories, Practices, and Cultures of Participation in Dissent
An exploration of interdisciplinary, contemporary perspectives on participation in resistance, dispute, and opposition through practices, cultures, and theories of dissent.
Jessica Fischer
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Gesa Stedman
(eds.)
Imagined Economies – Real Fictions
New Perspectives on Economic Thinking in Great Britain
An urgently needed interdisciplinary view on the performative power of economic thought. And a new perspective on political changes in Great Britain.
Practices of Speculation
Modeling, Embodiment, Figuration
This book offers new ways of thinking about speculation at a time when anticipation of catastrophe in an apocalyptic mode is the order of the day.
Espen Aarseth
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Stephan Günzel
(eds.)
Ludotopia
Spaces, Places and Territories in Computer Games
Space is the dominant element of computer games. This book successfully explores the various relations between games and spatial representation, and thus opens up a new field in game studies.
»Truth« and Fiction
Conspiracy Theories in Eastern European Culture and Literature
Analyses of conspirational thinking in Eastern European cultures and literatures.
Fictions of Legibility
The Human Face and Body in Modern German Novels from Sophie von La Roche to Alfred Döblin
This monograph focuses on the human body as a symbolic medium through which novelistic literature negotiated its identity vis-à-vis other disciplines.
Elena Furlanetto
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Dietmar Meinel
(eds.)
A Poetics of Neurosis
Narratives of Normalcy and Disorder in Cultural and Literary Texts
This volume investigates how neuroses are romanticized or vilified in literary and cultural texts to illustrate unresolved cultural tensions.