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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.
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.
Home/Fronts
Contemporary War in British Literature, Drama, and Film
An analytical survey of contemporary war narratives in British Literature, Drama, Film, and Television.
Savage Horrors
The Intrinsic Raciality of the American Gothic
While the white American Gothic novel must be understood as a highly racialized and structural anti-Black text, Black authors have creatively deconstructed the Gothic since the 18th century.
Thomas Lahusen
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Schamma Schahadat
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Postsocialist Landscapes
Real and Imaginary Spaces from Stalinstadt to Pyongyang
This volume explores the traces of socialism in very different parts of the world today, from East Central Europe to North Korea, in private as well as in public spaces.
Cultures of Economy in South-Eastern Europe
Spotlights and Perspectives
Economics in literature, film, and art as well as public discourse in Yugoslavia from the late 19th and early 20th centuries to the socialist and post-socialist periods.
Dorothee Birke
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Stella Butter
(eds.)
Comfort in Contemporary Culture
The Challenges of a Concept
This book is the first to provide a broader investigation of »comfort« as a cultural narrative and emotional touchstone in contemporary culture.
Bouncing Back: Queer Resilience in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century English Literature and Culture
The first book-length study on human resilience in literary and cultural studies, focusing especially on LGBTQ people and lives.