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The autofictional : approaches, affordances, forms
This open access book offers innovative and wide-ranging responses to the continuously flourishing literary phenomenon of autofiction. The book shows the insights that are gained in the shift from the genre descriptor to the adjective, and from a broad application of “the autofictional” as a theoretical lens and aesthetic strategy. In three sections on “Approaches,” “Affordances,” a…
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- 9783030784393
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- xvii, 342 p. : ill.
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- 809.382 EFF t
Contextualizing practical knowledge in early modern Europe
The topic of this book is practical knowledge in early modern Europe, interpreted widely as recipes containing art procedures or medical panaceas between 1400 and 1700. In this book, the 1) origin or creation, 2) transmission or dissemination, and 3) use or consumption are key subjects for understanding the place of practical knowledge in early modern European society. After a historiographical…
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- 9783631788912
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- 317 p. : ill.
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- 809.024 LEE c
Bourdieu and literature
[...] a volume clearly focused on the specific topic of literature within Bourdieu's work is certainly timely. Speller's volume aims not only to provide an account of Bourdieu's main theories and analyses of literature, but also has the polemical aim of refuting critics who suggest that Bourdieu's view of literature, grounded as it is in an analysis of the social relations of the cultural field…
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- 9781906924447
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- 203p.
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- 801.3 SPE b
Belonging and narrative : a theory of the American novel
Why did the novel become so popular in the past three centuries, and how did the American novel contribute to this trend? As a key provider of the narrative frames and formulas needed by modern individuals to give meaning and mooring to their lives. Drawing on phenomenological hermeneutics, human geography and social psychology, Laura Bieger contends that belonging is not a given; it is continu…
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- 9783839446003
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- 182 p.
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- 813.0093552 BIE b
Adaptation in the age of media convergence
This collection considers new phenomena emerging in a convergence environment from the perspective of adaptation studies. The contributions take the most prominent methods within the field to offer reconsiderations of theoretical concepts and practices in participatory culture, transmedia franchises, and new media adaptations. The authors discuss phenomena ranging from mash-ups of novels and Yo…
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- 10
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- 9789048534012
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- 232 p.
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- 700.457 FEH a
World literature and dissent
World Literature and Dissent reconsiders the role of dissent in contemporary global literature. Bringing together scholars of world and postcolonial literatures, the contributors explore the aesthetics of resistance through concepts including the epistemology of ignorance, the rhetoric of innocence, the subversion of paying attention, and the radical potential of everydayness. A…
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- 9
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- 9780203710302
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- viii, 204 p. : ill.
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- 809.933581 BUR w
The life of breath in literature, culture and medicine : classical to contemp…
This open access book studies breath and breathing in literature and culture and provides crucial insights into the history of medicine, health and the emotions, the foundations of beliefs concerning body, spirit and world, the connections between breath and creativity and the phenomenology of breath and breathlessness. Contributions span the classical, medieval, early modern, Romantic, Victori…
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- 9783030744434
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- xxii, 555 p. : ill.
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- Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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- 809.933561 FUL t
Tales of darkness and light: Soso Tham's the old days of the Khasis
Soso Tham (1873–1940), the acknowledged poet laureate of the Khasis of northeastern India, was one of the first writers to give written poetic form to the rich oral tradition of his people. Poet of landscape, myth and memory, Soso Tham paid rich and poignant tribute to his tribe in his masterpiece The Old Days of the Khasis. Janet Hujon’s vibrant new translation presents the English reader…
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- 9781783744701
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- 83 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
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- 895.93 THA t
Ethnographica moralia: experiments in interpretive anthropology
Panourgia and Marcus bring together anthropologists working in various parts of the world (Greece, Bali, Taiwan, the United States) with classicists, historians, and scholars in cultural studies. The volume takes into account global realities such as 9/11 and the opening of the Cypriot Green Line and explores the different ways in which Geertz’s anthropology has shaped the pedagogy of their d…
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- 9780823228874
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- 291 p.
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- 301.01 PAN e
Capital at the brink : overcoming the destructive legacies of neoliberalism
Capital at the Brink reveals the pervasiveness, destructiveness, and dominance of neoliberalism within American society and culture. The contributors to this collection also offer points of resistance to an ideology wherein, to borrow Henry Giroux’s comment, “everything either is for sale or is plundered for profit.” The first step in fighting neoliberalism is to make it visible. By discu…
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- 9781607853060
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- 277p. ; ill.
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- 320.51 JEF c
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