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Bücher der Reihe Critical Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture

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  • - The Rhetoric of Dissent in American Writing
     
    74,80 €

    The essays in this book explore the rhetoric of dissent in a range of texts that include letters, novels, poems and nonfiction, mostly focusing on selected works by such authors as Abigail Adams, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mary Ovington, Toni Morrison, Adrienne Rich, Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo.

  • von Raúl Montero Gilete
    40,95 €

    El objetivo de nuestro estudio es demostrar cómo el concepto culturalmente relevante e interesante de hogar y naturaleza juega un papel activo y central en La Comunidad del Anillo de JRR Tolkien y en Mago y Cristal de Stephen King. Para ello, analizamos la idea de hogar desarrollada en ambas obras desde el punto de vista de la crítica medioambiental, aportando puntos ilustrativos que justifican las implicaciones ecológicas en la obra de Tolkien y, a su vez, contrastando los resultados obtenidos mediante un análisis comparativo con la obra de King. Presentamos la forma en que ambos autores añaden una nueva perspectiva al concepto de hogar, en la que se presenta un enfoque sostenible y ambientalmente integrado en el que la naturaleza no se sitúa en un espacio separado y artificial, sino al mismo nivel que los protagonistas de las historias.

  • von Juan de Dios Torralbo Caballero
    41,95 €

    When the book titled Poems. By the Incomparable Mrs K.P. was published in 1664 Katherine Philips herself defined it as "those fugitive papers that have escap'd my hands", expressing her reluctance to publish them and her aversion to her works appearing in print. Despite her (apparent) modesty, Orinda and her work definitely occupied an important position in the literary field of that time. This book studies the life and work of Katherine Philips (1632-1664) from a historicist and socio-critical perspective. It posits that 'the Matchless Orinda' embodies the literary shift from manuscript to printed literature, and shows how a woman poet, following in the footsteps of successful male counterparts, such as Abraham Cowley and John Dryden, was able to achieve fame in the male-dominated literary world.

  • von Bruno Echauri Galván
    55,95 €

    La carrera de John Fante tras un éxito esquivo está repleta de anécdotas sorprendentes y giros inesperados. El último, el encuentro casual entre su obra y las manos de Charles Bukowski en una biblioteca de Los Ángeles, sería el que le permitiría, finalmente, darle caza. En el despertar tardío de la bibliografía fantiana sobresale Ask the Dust, un retrato en claroscuro del amor fatal en los márgenes de la L.A. de los años 30 que golpeó la inspiración del director y guionista Robert Towne al primer contacto: arrancaba entonces un nuevo pillapilla entre la pasión del genio y el pragmatismo de la industria que recorrería los pasillos de Hollywood durante más de tres décadas. 2006 pondría término a la espera y alfombra roja a la película: Ask the Dust desembarcaba en los cines estadounidenses. Por fin.Este trabajo da cuerpo a las historias esbozadas en las líneas anteriores, pero también penetra en una fracción de la alfaguara paratextual que sucedió al lanzamiento de la película para analizar su recepción por parte de crítica y público. Al mismo tiempo, sus páginas calibran el peso de la (in)fidelidad a la novela en sus valoraciones y desglosan cómo aborda cada audiencia este aspecto, tan central como controvertido en la genealogía de los estudios de adaptación. Para saber más, no hace falta preguntar al polvo: basta con leer este libro.

  • - The Portrayal of Nature in British Fantasy and its Projection in Ursula K. Le Guin's Western American "Earthsea"
    von Martin Simonson
    53,45 €

    The portrayal of nature in works of fantasy is coloured by the corresponding context. This book shows how the natural world has been depicted within this genre, comparing the British tradition with Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea cycle. Because of her specific context, Le Guin's works deviate from the received tradition in significant ways.

  • - Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction
    von IRE P REZ FERN NDEZ
    70,10 €

    This collection studies new developments in postmillennial popular romance fiction. The book discusses romance in different countries and explores how the genre has always been sensitive to customer demands and market trends. The chapters focus on how traditional formulae are being reshaped to meet the needs of contemporary transnational markets.

  • - Power, sexualities and ideologies in text and performance
     
    70,10 €

    This book studies dramatic texts, dedications, autobiographies, adaptations and performative practices, to prove that the boundaries between on and off stage performances of gender are blurred. The limits that separate theatre and life are highly permeable and the relations between both are bidirectional: the performativity of gender and identity.

  • - Contexts, Legacies, Media
     
    106,10 €

    This book sheds new light on various interconnected aspects of the Gothic through the lens of converging critical and methodological approaches. With its interdisciplinary perspective, the authors explore the domains of literary, pictorial, filmic, televisual and popular cultural texts in English from the eighteenth century to the present day.

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    95,45 €

    This volume discusses women in Nabokov. It has two parts: In the first one, there are biographical essays on the role of the real women in Nabokov's life and how their love and suffering are reflected in his prose. The second part deals with Nabokov's women in his fiction.

  • - Japanese and Western Literature, Art and Philosophy
     
    102,35 €

    The present volume focuses on explaining the strong impact that Japanese culture bore on Western intellectuals, Modernist literary writers and artists from the second half of the nineteenth century onwards, and, conversely, the impact of Western modernity on Japanese cultural modernization from the Meiji Era onwards.

  • - Experience Put to Use
     
    111,45 €

    Further to the first book, Writers of the Spanish Civil War, on the war writing by some British and American authors, this second one studies the relevant work by eight more foreign authors: Virginia Woolf, John Dos Passos, Franz Borkenau, V. S. Pritchett, Andre Malraux, Arthur Koestler, Martha Gellhorn and Peter Kemp.

  • - E. M. Forster's Legacies in British Fiction
     
    103,75 €

    This book questions the artistic, aesthetic, political and ethical legacy of E. M. Forster's novels. It covers Forster's literary, cinematic and musical legacies across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and deal with many authors, such as Melville, Isherwood, Hollinghurst and Kureishi.

  • - Virginia Woolf's Developing Concept of Consciousness
    von Masako Nasu
    81,65 €

    This book argues that a profound shift can be found in the works of Virginia Woolf, from an early pursuit of the individual to a late pursuit of the collective. Evidence for this shift is found both in the narrative modes she employed and the methods by which thought is represented in the works themselves, and in ideas and ruminations found in Woolf's diaries and essays. The stylistic analysis covers works from The Voyage Out (1915) to the posthumously published Between the Acts (1941), and shows how several of the shorter pieces can be considered to be experiments with techniques that were fully employed in Woolf's longer, major fictions. This shift arises from changes in Woolf's concept of the conscious and unconscious over time, and the argument shows how she took deliberate steps to reflect these changes in her fiction. This framework provides key insights for new interpretations of her works.

  • - The Testimony of their Auto/Biographies
     
    78,85 €

    Brings together essays on six of the most important British and American writers who lived in or visited Spain in the 20th century and whose work bears the impact of the Spanish Civil War of 1936-39.

  • - Essays on Contemporary Cultural and Literary Identity
     
    78,85 €

    Offers varied studies of the problematic construction of contemporary identities from a literary and cultural perspective. This book covers transcendental, relevant and polemic topics like the difficulty of growing up, classist and interracial struggles, narratives of displacement and exile, queering the world, power politics and the individual.

  • - Literary Testimonies on Ageing and Desire
     
    122,50 €

    Flaming Embers

  • - A Collection of Critical Essays
     
    102,35 €

    This collection explores the literary creativity of outstanding women writers of American, Canadian, English, and Irish origins. Each chapter offers an individual study of the writers' work and associated process of ageing.

  • - History and Travelling in the Fiction of Patrick White
    von Elena Ungari
    99,65 €

    The study examines exploration in Voss. It shows that the novel absorbs (and contests) a variety of literary genres, starting as a "chronicle" and ending up as a parable. The literary transformation enables the reader to understand White's historical novel as a parable of the writer's exploration of Australia in the 1950s.

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