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Jens Herlth
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Edward M. Swiderski
(eds.)
Stanislaw Brzozowski and the Migration of Ideas
Transnational Perspectives on the Intellectual Field in Twentieth-Century Poland and Beyond
The first English-language collection of essays on the intellectual and cultural contexts of the works of the great Polish writer and philosopher.
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.
Because of You: Understanding Second-Person Storytelling
Some stories authors tell in the second person. The book explains what happens – narratively – because of you.
Writing Emotions
Theoretical Concepts and Selected Case Studies in Literature
The collection of essays stresses the complex link between aesthetic and non-aesthetic emotional components. Readers interested in the topic will be presented with a concept of aesthetic emotions as both formative within the writing and the reading process.
Transnational Black Dialogues
Re-Imagining Slavery in the Twenty-First Century
This transnational study focuses on black authors who, from a 21st-century perspective, revisit slavery and engage in the intricacies of (re-)appropriating slavery's archive.
Houses, Secrets, and the Closet
Locating Masculinities from the Gothic Novel to Henry James
This study investigates the literary production of masculinities and their relation to secrets and sexualities in English literature from the early Gothic until the turn of the twentieth century.
Intersex Narratives
Shifts in the Representation of Intersex Lives in North American Literature and Popular Culture
Intersex activists reclaim their narratives from the medical hegemony. How do cultural productions negotiate this recent shift in ideas about intersex?
DiverCity – Global Cities as a Literary Phenomenon
Toronto, New York, and Los Angeles in a Globalizing Age
This work provides the connecting link for exploring the triad of globalization and its effects, global cities as cultural nodal points, and cultural diversity in a globalizing age as a literary phenomenon.
Wounds and Words
Childhood and Family Trauma in Romantic and Postmodern Fiction
Trauma re-examined – at the intersections of literature and psychiatry, of Romanticism and postmodernism.