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Found 6 from your keywords: subject="Literature, Modern"
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Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Sweet, Ryan

This open access book investigates imaginaries of artificial limbs, eyes, hair, and teeth in British and American literary and cultural sources from the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture shows how depictions of prostheses complicated the contemporary bodily status quo, which increasingly demanded an appearance of physical …

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ISBN/ISSN
9783030785895
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xv, 283p. : ill.
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810.93561 SWE p
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Precarious crossings : immigration, neoliberalism, and the Atlantic
Perisic, Alexandra

Examines the underlying precarity in twenty-first-century immigrant fiction and reveals the contradictions inherent in neoliberalism as an ideology.

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ISBN/ISSN
9780814255520
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ix, 232 p. : ill.
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809.933552 PER p
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World literature and dissent
Burns, LornaMuth, Katie

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
ISBN/ISSN
9780203710302
Collation
viii, 204 p. : ill.
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Call Number
809.933581 BUR w
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Familial feeling : entangled tonalities in early black Atlantic writing and t…
Yekani, Elahe Haschemi

This open access book discusses British literature as part of a network of global entangled modernities and shared aesthetic concerns, departing from the retrospective model of a postcolonial “writing back” to the centre. Accordingly, the narrative strategies in the texts of early Black Atlantic authors, like Equiano, Sancho, Wedderburn, and Seacole, and British canonical novelists, such as…

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ISBN/ISSN
9783030586416
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823.709352 YEK f
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Tales of research misconduct : a Lacanian diagnostics of integrity challenges…
Zwart, Hub

This monograph contributes to the scientific misconduct debate from an oblique perspective, by analysing seven novels devoted to this issue, namely: Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (1925), The affair by C.P. Snow (1960), Cantor’s Dilemma by Carl Djerassi (1989), Perlmann’s Silence by Pascal Mercier (1995), Intuition by Allegra Goodman (2006), Solar by Ian McEwan (2010) and Derailment by Died…

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ISBN/ISSN
9783319655543
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ix, 263p. : ill.
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174.95 ZWA t
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Architecture and modern literature
Spurr, David

Architecture and Modern Literature explores the representation and interpretation of architectural space in modern literature from the early nineteenth century to the present, with the aim of showing how literary production and architectural construction are related as cultural forms in the historical context of modernity. In addressing this subject, it also examines the larger questions of the…

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ISBN/ISSN
9780472071715
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xiii, 285p. : ill.
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809.93357 SPU a