Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
Lu Xun’s Affirmative Biopolitics: Nothingness and the Power of Self-Transcendence
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By Wenjin Cui
September 25, 2023
This book explores an extraordinary case of affirmative biopolitics through the study of Lu Xun (1881–1936), the most prominent cultural figure of modern China. Diverging from the Enlightenment-humanist framework in reference to which Lu Xun is commonly interpreted, it demonstrates how his thinking...
(In)digestion in Literature and Film: A Transcultural Approach
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By Serena J. Rivera, Niki Kiviat
May 31, 2023
(In)digestion in Literature and Film: A Transcultural Approach is a collection of essays spanning diverse geographic areas such as Brazil, Eastern Europe, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, South Korea, Taiwan and the United States. Despite this geographic variance, they all question disordered...
Gender and Memory in the Postmillennial Novels of Almudena Grandes
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By Lorraine Ryan
May 31, 2023
Almudena Grandes is one of Spain´s foremost women´s writers, having sold over 1.1 million copies of her episodios de una guerra interminable, her six-volume series that ranges from the Spanish Civil War to the democratic period; the myriad prizes awarded to her, 18 in total, confirm her ...
Ghostly Encounters: Cultural and Imaginary Representations of the Spectral from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
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By Mark Sandy, Stefano Cracolici
May 31, 2023
This volume reflects on the ghostly and its varied manifestations including the uncanny, the revenant, the echo, and other forms of artistic allusion. These unsettling presences of the spectral other occur in literature, history, film, and art. The ghostly (and its artistic, literary, filmic, ...
Queer Women in Modern Spanish Literature: Activism, Sexuality, and the Otherness of the 'Chicas Raras'
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By Ana I. Simón-Alegre, Lou Charnon-Deutsch
May 31, 2023
This original collection of essays explores the work and life choices of Spanish women who, through their writings and social activism, addressed social justice, religious dogmatism, the educational system, gender inequality, and tensions in female subjectivity. It brings together writers who are ...
Recycling Virginia Woolf in Contemporary Art and Literature
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By Monica Latham, Caroline Marie, Anne-Laure Rigeade
May 31, 2023
Recycling Virginia Woolf in Contemporary Art and Literature exam>ines Woolf’s life and oeuvre from the perspective of recycling and pro>vides answers to essential questions such as: Why do artists and writers recycle Woolf’s texts and introduce them into new circuits of meaning? Why do they ...
Trans(in)fusion: Reflections for Critical Thinking
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By Ranjan Ghosh
May 31, 2023
Trans(in)fusion is a highly original book that tries to radicalize our ways of ‘critical thinking’ across disciplines. The book, refreshingly, brings into play critical philosophy, literary criticism, studies in mathematics, physics, chemistry and developmental biology, and various other ...
Telling Details: Chinese Fiction, World Literature
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By Jiwei Xiao
March 10, 2022
What is a detail? How is it different from xijie, its Chinese counterpart? Is "reading for the details" fundamentally different from "reading for the plot"? Did xijie xiaoshuo, the Chinese novel of details, give the world its earliest form of modern fiction? Inspired by studies of vision and ...
Literary Twinship from Shakespeare to the Age of Cloning
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By Wieland Schwanebeck
December 13, 2021
Unlike previous efforts that have only addressed literary twinship as a footnote to the doppelganger motif, this book makes a case for the complexity of literary twinship across the literary spectrum. It shows how twins have been instrumental to the formation of comedies of mistaken identity, the ...
The Waste Fix: Seizures of the Sacred from Upton Sinclair to the Sopranos
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By William G. Little
March 31, 2021
First published in 2002. This book explores the philosophical, social, and aesthetic implications of twentieth-century America's obsession with eliminating waste. Through interdisciplinary engagement with fiction and popular culture, William Little traces the way this obsession finds expression in ...
Figures of Finance Capitalism: Writing, Class and Capital in Mid-Victorian Narratives
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By Borislav Knezevic
January 17, 2019
Figures of Finance Capitalism brings into focus Victorian narratives by major middle-class writers in which the workings of finance capitalism are prominently featured, and reads this interest in finance capitalism in the context of middle-class misgivings about a class system still dominated by a ...
Ethics and Politics in Modern American Poetry
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By John Wrighton
August 23, 2018
From the Objectivists to e-poetry, this thoughtful and innovative book explores the dynamic relationship between the ethical imperative and poetic practice, revitalizing the study of the most prominent post-war American poets in a fresh, provocative way. Contributing to the "turn to ethics" in ...