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  • Critical Autoethnography and Écriture Feminine Critical Autoethnography and Écriture Feminine
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    Critical Autoethnography and Écriture Feminine

    The project offers a collection of new interdisciplinary critical autoethnographic engagements with Hélène Cixous écriture feminine and work Three steps on the ladder of writing. Critical autoethnography shares a reciprocal, and inter-animating...
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  • Alterity and Capitalism in Speculative Fiction Alterity and Capitalism in Speculative Fiction
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    Alterity and Capitalism in Speculative Fiction

    Speculative fiction has been traditionally studied in Marxist literary criticism, following Darko Suvin's paradigmatic model of science fiction, according to a hierarchical division of its multiple subgenres in terms of their assumed inherent political...
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  • Anthropocene Poetry Anthropocene Poetry
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    Anthropocene Poetry

    Anthropocene Poetry: Place, Environment and Planet argues that the idea of the Anthropocene is inspiring new possibilities for poetry. It can also change the way we read and interpret poems. If environmental poetry was once viewed as linked to...
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  • Cultural Mobilities Between China and Italy Cultural Mobilities Between China and Italy
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    Cultural Mobilities Between China and Italy

    This book offers a critical analysis of global mobilities across China and Italy in history. In three periods in the twentieth century, new patterns of physical mobilities and cultural contact were established between the two countries which were either...
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  • Vegetarianism and Science Fiction Vegetarianism and Science Fiction
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    Vegetarianism and Science Fiction

    Vegetarianism and Science Fiction: A History of Utopian Animal Ethics examines how vegetarian ideals promoted within science fiction and utopian literature have had a real-world impact on the awareness and spread of vegetarianism and animal advocacy, as...
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  • The Beatles and the Beatlesque The Beatles and the Beatlesque
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    The Beatles and the Beatlesque

    The Beatles and the Beatlesque address a paradox emanating from The Beatles' music through a cross-disciplinary hybrid of reflections, drawing from both, musical practice itself and academic research. Indeed, despite their extreme stylistic variety, The...
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  • Chronotropics Chronotropics
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    Chronotropics

    This book deconstructs androcentric approaches to spacetime inherited from western modernity through its theoretical frame of the chronotropics. It sheds light on the literary acts of archival disruption, radical remapping, and epistemic marronnage by...
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    Visualizing Loss in Latin America

    Visualizing Loss in Latin America engages with a varied corpus of textual, visual, and cultural material with specific intersections with the natural world, arguing that Latin American literary and cultural production goes beyond ecocriticism...
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    Legacies and Lifespans in Contemporary Women's Writing

    This book examines the connections and conversations between women writers from the twentieth century and the twenty-first century. The essays consider the ways in which twenty-first-century women writers look back and respond to their predecessors...
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    Iris Murdoch and the Literary Imagination

    This volume is the third volume in Palgrave' Macmillan's new Iris Murdoch Today scholarly series.Iris Murdoch and the Literary Imagination is the first major collection of literary essays since her centenary in 2019. It brings together leading Murdoch...
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    The Rearguard of Subjectivity

    Edmund Husserl's ideas, informed by Kant's Critiques, constituted a point of departure when rereading philosophical problems of subject and subjectivity. In his "Phänomenologie und Egologie" (1961/63), Jan Broekman revealed how Husserl analysed the...
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    Representing the Rural on the English Stage

    This book explores how the English rural has been represented in contemporary theatre and performance. Exploring a range of plays, forms, and contexts of theatre production, Representing the Rural celebrates the lively engagement with rurality on English...
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  • Reading W.S. Merwin in a New Century Reading W.S. Merwin in a New Century
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    Reading W.S. Merwin in a New Century

    This edited collection explores the work of highly awarded and twice American Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin. Spanning Merwin's early career, his mid-career success, his Hawaiian epic, his eco-poetry, his lesser-known later poetry and the influence of...
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  • Medieval Mobilities Medieval Mobilities
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    Medieval Mobilities

    This collection explores the intersection of gender and mobility across the Global Middle Ages. Medieval Mobilities questions how medieval people, texts, images, and ideas move across physiological, geographical, literary, and spiritual boundaries...
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  • Literature and its Language Literature and its Language
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    Literature and its Language

    This stimulating volume brings together an international team of emerging, mid-career, and senior scholars to investigate the relations between philosophical approaches to language and the language of literature. It has proven easy for philosophers of...
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  • George C. Williams and Evolutionary Literacy George C. Williams and Evolutionary Literacy
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    George C. Williams and Evolutionary Literacy

    In this book, a case study of a humanistic reading of an essential evolutionary theorist, George C. Williams (May 12, 1926-September 8, 2010), the author contends that certain classic works of evolutionary theory and history are the...
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  • The Community in Avant-Garde Literature and Politics The Community in Avant-Garde Literature and Politics
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    The Community in Avant-Garde Literature and Politics

    This book rethinks the concept of community taking Jean-Luc Nancy's influential essay "La communauté désoeuvrée" as its starting point, tracing subsequent scholarship on community and adding new insights on avant-garde aesthetics and politics...
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  • Literary Animal Studies and the Climate Crisis Literary Animal Studies and the Climate Crisis
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    Literary Animal Studies and the Climate Crisis

    Literary Animal Studies and the Climate Crisis connects insights from the field of literary animal studies with the urgent issues of climate change and environmental degradation, and features considerations of new interventions by literature in...
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  • Affective Geographies and Narratives of Chinese Diaspora Affective Geographies and Narratives of Chinese Diaspora
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    Affective Geographies and Narratives of Chinese Diaspora

    In various ways, Chinese diasporic communities seek to connect and re-connect with their "homelands" in literature, film, and visual culture. The essays in Affective Geographies and Narratives of Chinese Diaspora examine how diasporic bodies and emotions...
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  • Semiotics and Pragmatism Semiotics and Pragmatism
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    Semiotics and Pragmatism

    This collection of essays brings together a selection of some of the most important studies of Professor Ivo Assad Ibri about the work of Charles Sanders Peirce. In the last decades, Prof. Ibri made important contributions to Peirce studies by showing...
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  • Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction
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    Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction

    This volume addresses the current boom in biographical fictions across the globe, examining the ways in which gendered lives of the past become re-imagined as gendered narratives in fiction. Building on this research, this book is the first to address...
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  • Hydrocriticism and Colonialism in Latin America Hydrocriticism and Colonialism in Latin America
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    Hydrocriticism and Colonialism in Latin America

    Hydrocriticism and Colonialism in Latin America is organized around the critical and theoretical "turn" known as hydro-criticism, an innovative approach to the study of the ways in which bodies of water (oceans, seas, rivers, archipelagos, lakes,...
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  • A. S. Byatt and Intellectual Women A. S. Byatt and Intellectual Women
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    A. S. Byatt and Intellectual Women

    This monograph is a study of the work of British author A. S. Byatt, exploring the cultural representation of the woman intellectual in her fiction. It argues that Byatt's representations of this figure show narratives of intellectual women to be...
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  • Austen After 200 Austen After 200
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    Austen After 200

    Austen After 200 explores our contemporary relationship with Jane Austen in the wake of the bicentenaries of her death and the first publication of her novels. The volume begins by looking at Austen's popular appeal and at how she is consumed today...
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  • Samuel Beckett and Catastrophe Samuel Beckett and Catastrophe
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    Samuel Beckett and Catastrophe

    Samuel Beckett and Catastrophe is a groundbreaking collection of original essays that explore the relation between Samuel Beckett and catastrophe in terms of war, the Holocaust, nuclear disasters and ecological crisis. Responding to the...
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  • Health Humanities in Application Health Humanities in Application
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    Health Humanities in Application

    This book focuses on health humanities in application. The field reflects many intellectual interests and practical applications, serving researchers, educators, students, health care practitioners, and community members wherever health and...
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  • Reading the Social in American Studies Reading the Social in American Studies
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    Reading the Social in American Studies

    Reading the Social in American Studies offers a unique exploration of the advantages and benefits in using sociological terms and concepts in American literary and cultural studies and, conversely, in using literature-understood broadly-to uncover a...
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  • Decolonising the Literature Curriculum Decolonising the Literature Curriculum
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    Decolonising the Literature Curriculum

    This book explores pedagogical approaches to decolonising the literature curriculum through a range of practical and theoretically-informed case studies. Although decolonising the curriculum has been widely discussed in the academe and the media,...
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  • Anti-Proverbs in Five Languages Anti-Proverbs in Five Languages
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    Anti-Proverbs in Five Languages

    This book is the first comparative study of English, German, French, Russian and Hungarian anti-proverbs based on well-known proverbs. Proverbs are by no means fossilized texts but are adaptable to different times and changed values. While anti-proverbs...
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  • Biosemiotics and Evolution Biosemiotics and Evolution
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    Biosemiotics and Evolution

    This book reviews the evolution of Biosemiotics and gives an outlook on the future of this interdisciplinary new discipline. In this volume, the foundations of symbolism are transformed into a phenomenological, technological, philosophical and...
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  • The Sensory Modes of Animal Rhetorics The Sensory Modes of Animal Rhetorics
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    The Sensory Modes of Animal Rhetorics

    The Sensory Modes of Animal Rhetorics: A Hoot in the Light presents the latest research in animal perception and cognition in the context of rhetorical theory. Alex C. Parrish explores the science of animal signaling that shows human and nonhuman...
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  • Joseph Conrad and Postcritique Joseph Conrad and Postcritique
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    Joseph Conrad and Postcritique

    This book takes a postcritical perspective on Joseph Conrad's central texts, including Heart of Darkness, The Secret Agent, Under Western Eyes, and Lord Jim. Whereas critique is a form of reading that prioritizes suspicion, unmasking, and...
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  • Biosemiotic Literary Criticism Biosemiotic Literary Criticism
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    Biosemiotic Literary Criticism

    This volume is based to a large extent on the understanding of biosemiotic literary criticism as a semiotic-model-making enterprise.  For Jurij Lotman and Thomas A. Sebeok, "nature writing is essentially a model of the relationship between...
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  • The Work of Reading The Work of Reading
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    The Work of Reading

    The Work of Reading: Literary Criticism in the 21st Century is a sustained critical examination of the developments in the field of literary studies from the early 2000s onwards within the context of the systematic problems in the humanities. This...
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  • Literatures of Urban Possibility Literatures of Urban Possibility
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    Literatures of Urban Possibility

    This book demonstrates how city literature addresses questions of possibility. In city literature, ideas of possibility emerge primarily through two perspectives: texts may focus on what is possible for cities, and they may present the urban environment...
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  • Images of Europe Images of Europe
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    Images of Europe

    This book deals with the fundamental semantics of images of Europe, which consist of valences, mirror beliefs and affectivities. This is why it relaunches the importance of the European discourse in its symbolic dimension. As such, it explores the many...
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  • The Menstrual Imaginary in Literature The Menstrual Imaginary in Literature
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    The Menstrual Imaginary in Literature

    This book draws on literary, cultural, and critical examples forming a menstrual imaginary-a body of work by women writers and poets that builds up a concept of women's creativity in an effort to overturn menstrual prejudice. The text addresses...
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  • Time, the City, and the Literary Imagination Time, the City, and the Literary Imagination
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    Time, the City, and the Literary Imagination

    Time, the City, and the Literary Imagination explores the relationship between the constructions and representations of the relationship between time and the city in literature published between the late eighteenth century and the present. This...
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  • Exploring the Spatiality of the City across Cultural Texts Exploring the Spatiality of the City across Cultural Texts
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    Exploring the Spatiality of the City across Cultural Texts

    Exploring the Spatiality of the City across Cultural Texts: Narrating Spaces, Reading Urbanity explores the narrative formations of urbanity from an interdisciplinary perspective. Within the framework of the "spatial turn," contributors from disciplines...
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  • Jameson and Literature Jameson and Literature
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    Jameson and Literature

    This book demonstrates how Fredric Jameson's understanding of the novel form has heavily influenced his work as a critical theorist. It contends that Jameson's idiosyncratic engagements with the literary canon have had a major impact...
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  • Transnational Crime Fiction Transnational Crime Fiction
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    Transnational Crime Fiction

    Focusing on contemporary crime narratives from different parts of the world, this collection of essays explores the mobility of crimes, criminals and investigators across social, cultural and national borders. The essays argue that such border crossings...
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  • Early Anthropocene Literature in Britain, 1750-1884 Early Anthropocene Literature in Britain, 1750-1884
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    Early Anthropocene Literature in Britain, 1750-1884

    This book questions when exactly the Anthropocene began, uncovering an "early Anthropocene" in the literature, art, and science of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. In chapters organized around the classical elements of Earth, Fire, Water,...
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