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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.
The Supernatural Media Virus
Virus Anxiety in Gothic Fiction Since 1990
An exploration of the cultural relevance of the trope of the supernatural media virus and imaginations of the network society in Gothic fiction since 1990.
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.
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.
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.
Henriette Gunkel
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kara lynch
(eds.)
We Travel the Space Ways
Black Imagination, Fragments, and Diffractions
This book provides a conversation about black visioning of a future between Africa, Europe, and the Americas.
andererseits – Yearbook of Transatlantic German Studies
Vol. 7/8, 2018/19
andererseits seeks to provide a forum for research and reflections on topics related to the German-speaking world and the field of German Studies.
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.
Pál Kelemen
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Nicolas Pethes
(eds.)
Philology in the Making
Analog/Digital Cultures of Scholarly Writing and Reading
An analysis of philological practices as they are challenged by their commitment to tradition and the possibilities of new digital tools.