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R. L. Victoria Pöhls
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Mariane Utudji
(eds.)
Powerful Prose
How Textual Features Impact Readers
An absorbing analysis of what makes readers experience a text as ›powerful‹ and how it affects them.
Authority and Authorship in Medieval and Seventeenth Century Women's Visionary Writings
This book investigates how women gained authority and a voice of their own in medieval and seventeenth century visionary writings.
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.
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.
»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.
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.
Fugitive Borders
Black Canadian Cross-Border Literature at Mid-Nineteenth Century
»Community« not »nation« – Nele Sawallisch argues that black autobiographical writing in 19th-century Canada functions as a form of cross-border textual community-building.