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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.
Belonging and Narrative
A Theory of the American Novel
Laura Bieger discusses American novels from four centuries to show how the human need to belong is a driving force of literary production.
Because of You: Understanding Second-Person Storytelling
Some stories authors tell in the second person. The book explains what happens – narratively – because of you.
Carmen Concilio
(ed.)
Imagining Ageing
Representations of Age and Ageing in Anglophone Literatures
What do literary texts tell us about growing old? Representations of ageing and old age in canonical works of English and postcolonial literature.
Christa Buschendorf
(ed.)
Power Relations in Black Lives
Reading African American Literature and Culture with Bourdieu and Elias
The contributions of this volume offer new readings of Black literature and culture by applying key concepts of relational sociology by Bourdieu and Elias.
Actors and Networks in the Megacity
A Literary Analysis of Urban Narratives
This is a concise introduction to Bruno Latour's Actor-Network Theory and its application in a literary analysis of documentary urban narratives of the 21st century.
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.