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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.
Resilience Stories
Individualized Tales of a Metanarrative
A multidisciplinary approach to human resilience as a social and narrative construct.
From Post-Yugoslavia to the Female Continent
A Feminist Reading of Post-Yugoslav Literature
The book shows how the feminist reading of literature can help locate two chimeric sites: Post-Yugoslavia and a female continent.
Dramatic Disgust
Aesthetic Theory and Practice from Sophocles to Sarah Kane
Pity, Fear, DISGUST: This study investigates how from antiquity to in-yer-face theatre the sensation of disgust has animated the dramatic genre.
The Transformative Potential of Black British and British Muslim Literature
Heterotopic Spaces and the Politics of Destabilisation
Lisa Ahrens explores space and social exclusion in British society through the analysis of Black British and British Muslim Literature.
Narcissistic Mothers in Modernist Literature
New Perspectives on Motherhood in the Works of D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Jean Rhys
Deconstructing conventional ideas on motherhood through an innovative reading of narcissistic mothers in the works of influential modernist writers.
Post-Apartheid Criticism
Perceptions of Whiteness, Homosexuality, and Democracy in South Africa
The book is a meticulous analysis of South African post-apartheid narrative as narrations of post-apartheid democracy's flaws and of visions how to address them for better futures.
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.