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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.
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.
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
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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.
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.
Creating Communities
Towards a Description of the Mask-function in Literature
How reading novels and getting involved in fiction can make you a full partner in shaping a better future society.
Because of You: Understanding Second-Person Storytelling
Some stories authors tell in the second person. The book explains what happens – narratively – because of you.