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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.
Re-discovering Age(ing)
Narratives of Mentorship
This book offers an analysis of the narrative of mentorship as reflected in various cultural texts, which cover fiction, drama, film, life writing.
Because of You: Understanding Second-Person Storytelling
Some stories authors tell in the second person. The book explains what happens – narratively – because of you.
Carmen Concilio
(ed.)
Imagining Ageing
Representations of Age and Ageing in Anglophone Literatures
What do literary texts tell us about growing old? Representations of ageing and old age in canonical works of English and postcolonial literature.
Transgression and Subversion
Gender in the Picaresque Novel
Transgressive and subversive – gender constructions in Spanish, French, English and German picaresque novels.
Exploring the Fantastic
Genre, Ideology, and Popular Culture
Exploring the far-reaching theoretical and cultural importance of the fantastic – this volume illuminates interdisciplinary approaches.
andererseits – Yearbook of Transatlantic German Studies
Vol. 5/6, 2016/17
andererseits seeks to provide a forum for research and reflections on topics related to the German-speaking world and the field of German Studies. With contributions by Carsten Dutt, Klaus Modick, Tanja Nusser, Thomas Pfau, Margarethe von Trotta, and others.
Actors and Networks in the Megacity
A Literary Analysis of Urban Narratives
This is a concise introduction to Bruno Latour's Actor-Network Theory and its application in a literary analysis of documentary urban narratives of the 21st century.
Writing Emotions
Theoretical Concepts and Selected Case Studies in Literature
The collection of essays stresses the complex link between aesthetic and non-aesthetic emotional components. Readers interested in the topic will be presented with a concept of aesthetic emotions as both formative within the writing and the reading process.