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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.
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.
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.
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.