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: Liebermann Yvonne, Rahn Judith, Burger Bettina : Nonhuman Agencies in the Twenty-First-Century Anglophone Novel ISBN: 3030794415 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030794415 : Springer : : 130430.00 T : . : 1. Introduction: Narrating the Nonhuman.- Section I: Nonhuman Poetics: Agency of Literary Forms.- 2. Forms of Agency, Agency of Forms: Reading and Teaching More-than-Human Fictions.- 3. Nonhuman Agencies in and of Literature.- 4. Deontologising the Nonhuman: Arthur Gordon Pym, Contemporary Literature, and the Limits of the Human.-Section II: Negotiating the Human in the Light of the Nonhuman.- 5. Anthropogenesis: Ian McEwan's Fictions of the Human.- 6. Arctic Snowmobilities: Encounters with Sled Dogs in Gary Paulsen's Winterdance.- 7. Reframing the Nonhuman: Grievability and the Value of Life in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go.- 8. Hopeless Necromantics: Decomposition and Transcorporeal Love in Jim Crace's Being Dead.- Section III: Imagining Biocentric Communities.- 9. The Gender Politics of Trees.- 10. "Mycorrhizal Multiplicities" Mapping Collective Agency in Powers's The Overstory.- 11. The Climate Crisis and Affective Nonhuman Encounters: Ali Smith's Autumn (2016) and Jon McGregor's Reservoir 13 (2017).- 12. Postcolonial Fictions of the Anthropocene: Tracing Nonhuman Agency in Shubhangi Swarup's Latitudes of Longing.- Section IV: Negotiating Reality: Approaching the Nonhuman's Inescapable Alterity.- 13. Cthulhu Calling: Weird Intimacy and Estrangement in the Anthropocene.- 14. "Just a Surface" Anamorphic Perspective and Nonhuman Narration in Jeff VanderMeer's The Strange Bird.- 15. "All Life Matters, or None does" - Connecting Human and Nonhuman Worlds in Ambelin Kwaymullina's The Tribe Series
: Harriet E.H. Earle, Martin Lund : Identity and history in non-anglophone comics ISBN: 1032480874 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781032480879 : Taylor&Francis : : 42870.00 T : . : This book explores the historical and cultural significance of comics in languages other than English, examining the geographic and linguistic spheres which these comics inhabit and their contributions to comic studies and academia.
The Anglia Book Series (ANGB) offers a selection of high quality work on all areas and aspects of English philology. It publishes book-length studies and essay collections on English language and linguistics, on English and American literature and culture from the Middle Ages to the present, on the new English literatures, as well as on general and comparative literary studies, including aspects of cultural and literary theory.
: Deepika Bahri, Filippo Menozzi : Teaching Anglophone South Asian Women Writers ISBN: 1603294899 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781603294898 : Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) : : 97020.00 T : . : Focusing on South Asian women writers, essays in this volume address historical and political contexts, including colonialism, partition, migration, ecological concerns, and evolving gender roles, and consider both traditional and contemporary genres such as graphic novels, chick lit, and Instapoetry.
: Alison Klein : Anglophone Literature of Caribbean Indenture ISBN: 3319990543 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319990545 : Springer : : 26080.00 T : . : This book is the first comprehensive study of Anglophone literature depicting the British Imperial system of indentured labor in the Caribbean. Through an examination of intimate relationships within indenture narratives, this text traces the seductive hierarchies of empire the oppressive ideologies of gender, ethnicity, and class that developed under imperialism and indenture and that continue to impact the Caribbean today. It demonstrates that British colonizers, Indian and Chinese laborers, and formerly enslaved Africans negotiated struggles for political and economic power through the performance of masculinity and the control of migrant women, and that even those authors who critique empire often reinforce patriarchy as they do so. Further, it identifies a common thread within the work of those authors who resist the hierarchies of empire: a poetics of kinship, or, a focus on the importance of building familial ties across generations and across classifications of people.
Since the late twentieth century, letters in literature have seen a remarkable renaissance. The prominence of letters in recent fiction is due in part to the rediscovery, by contemporary writers, of letters as an effective tool for rendering aspects of historicity, liminality, marginalization and the expression of subjectivity vis-a-vis an other; it is also due, however, to the artistically challenging inclusion of the new electronic media of communication into fiction. While studies of epistolary fiction have so far concentrated on the eighteenth century and on thematic concerns, this volume charts the epistolary renaissance in recent literature, entering new territory by also focusing on the aesthetic implications of the epistolary mode. In particular, the essays in this volume illuminate the potential of the epistolary (including digital forms) for rendering contemporary sensitivities. The volume thus offers a comprehensive assessment of letter narratives in contemporary literature. Through its focus on the aesthetic and structural aspects of new epistolary fiction, the inclusion of various narrative forms, and the consideration of both conventional letters and their new digital kindred, The Epistolary Renaissance offers novel insight into a multi-facetted (re)new(ed) genre.
: St?hler, Axel : Anglophone Jewish Literature ISBN: 0415414644 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415414647 : Taylor&Francis : : 102080.00 T : .
: Poisoned cornucopia ISBN: 3631646208 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783631646205 : Peter Lang : : 92290.00 T : . : This volume explores the notions of excess, intemperance and overabundance in cultures and literatures of both the English- and Chinese-speaking worlds. It concentrates on some aspects of literary and cultural meanings of excess(es) in various theories and practices of these antipodean territories of human experience and consciousnesses, bringing together what is common between them and what sets the West apart from the East: eroticism, drug abuse, alcoholism, urban concepts, music, food, etc. In times of a serious crisis of Western-style capitalism, growing consumerism and the collapse of traditional values, the eyes of the world are now turned to the East, seeking solutions in China, Taiwan, Singapore or Hong Kong for what may come as Eastern-style neopostmodernism.
: Zouidi Nizar : Performativity of Villainy and Evil in Anglophone Literature and Media ISBN: 3030760545 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030760540 : Springer : : 158380.00 T : . : Performativity of Villainy and Evil in Anglophone Literature and Media studies the performative nature of evil characters, acts and emotions across intersecting genres, disciplines and historical eras.
: Stefan Helgesson, Birgit Neumann, Gabriele Rippl : Handbook of Anglophone World Literatures ISBN: 3110580845 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110580846 : Walter de Gruyter : : 297530.00 T : . : This handbook series has been designed to offer students and researchers a compact means of orientation in their study of Anglophone literary texts. Each volume involving a particular historical or theoretical focus introduces readers to current concepts and methodologies, as well as academic debates, by combining theory with text analysis and contextual anchoring. It is this bridging between abstract survey and concrete analysis which is the central aim and defi ning feature of the series, bringing together literary history and interpretation, theory and text. At a time when students of English and American literary studies have to deal with an overwhelming amount of highly specialized research literature, such a handbook series is indispensable. However, this series is also catering to the requirements of scholars who would like to keep up with the current state of various fields within their discipline. Individual volumes in this Handbook series will typically provide: knowledge of relevant literary periods, genres, and historical developments; knowledge of representative authors and works of those periods; knowledge of cultural and historical contexts; knowledge about the adaptation of literary texts through other media; knowledge of relevant literary and cultural theories; examples of how historical and theoretical information weaves fruitfully into interpretations of literary texts.
