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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.
Subjects of Substance
Recent American Literature and the Materiality of Mind
Subjects of Substance reveals how the materiality of mind has shaped the works of authors like Don DeLillo, Siri Hustvedt, and David Foster Wallace.
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.
Creating Realities
Business as a Motif in American Fiction, 1865–1929
Erhan Simsek explores the motif of business and its aesthetic functions in American realism, naturalism, and modernism.
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.
Who Can Speak and Who Is Heard/Hurt?
Facing Problems of Race, Racism, and Ethnic Diversity in the Humanities in Germany
At long last the mechanisms behind and the implications of racialized power relations in German society and the humanities are up for discussion.
An Organon of Life Knowledge
Genres and Functions of the Short Story in North America
The short story as a tool for acquiring knowledge of and about life? This study offers a fresh take on the the genre and explores how it constructs and circulates `life knowledge'.
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.