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Centers and Peripheries in Romance Language Literatures in the Americas and A…
What is center and periphery? How can centers and peripheries be recognized by their ontological and axiological features? How does the axiological saturation of a literary field condition aesthetics? How did these factors transform center-periphery relationships to the former metropolises of Romance literatures of the Americas and Africa? What are the consequences of various deperipheralizatio…
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- Volume: 105
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- 978-90-04-69113-1
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It’s My Party = Tat Ming Pair and the Postcolonial Politics of Popular Musi…
This book is unique in focusing on just one band from one city – but the story of Tat Ming Pair, in so many ways, is the story of Hong Kong's recent decades, from the Handover to the Umbrella Movement to 2019's standoff. A comprehensive, theoretically informed study of the sonic history and present of Hong Kong through the prism of Tat Ming Pair, this book will be of interest to cultural stu…
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- 1
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- 9789819967100
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- XXIV, 230 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Vulnerability in Scandinavian Art and Culture
In this open access book, seventeen scholars discuss how contemporary Scandinavian art and media have become important arenas to articulate and stage various forms of vulnerability in the Scandinavian welfare states. How do discourses of privilege and vulnerability coexist and interact in Scandinavia? How do the Scandinavian countries respond to vulnerability given increased migration? How is v…
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- 1
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- 9783030373825
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- XVII, 324 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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A Poetic History of the Oceans: Literature and Maritime Modernity
What is the ocean’s role in human and planetary history? How have writers, sailors, painters, scientists, historians, and philosophers from across time and space poetically envisioned the oceans and depicted human entanglements with the sea? In order to answer these questions, Søren Frank covers an impressive range of material in A Poetic History of the Oceans: Greek, Roman and Biblical text…
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- Volume: 98
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- 9789004426702
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History and Speculative Fiction
This open access book demonstrates that despite different epistemological starting points, history and speculative fiction perform similar work in “making the strange familiar” and “making the familiar strange” by taking their readers on journeys through space and time. Excellent history, like excellent speculative fiction, should cause readers to reconsider crucial aspects of their soc…
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- 978-3-031-42235-5
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- XIV, 293
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The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture and Medicine
This open access book studies breath and breathing in literature and culture and provides crucial insights into the history of medicine, health and the emotions, the foundations of beliefs concerning body, spirit and world, the connections between breath and creativity and the phenomenology of breath and breathlessness. Contributions span the classical, medieval, early modern, Romantic, Victori…
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- 1
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- 978-3-030-74443-4
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- Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
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- XXII, 555
Negotiating Non-Motherhood
This open access edited volume focuses on the representations, perceptions, and experiences of women who do not have children against the backdrop of traditional gender norms, pronatalist policies, and patriarchal structures. While involuntary and voluntary childlessness have typically been treated separately and studied within different disciplines in most previous scholarship, contributing au…
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- 1
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- 978-3-031-66697-1
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- Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
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- XVII, 251
Orte und Räume im Roman
Dieses Open-Access-Buch bietet eine breit angelegte, digital unterstützte, korpusbasierte Studie zur Referenzierung von Orten und Räumen in Erzähltexten. Aus literaturwissenschaftlicher, insbesondere narratologischer Forschung sowie mathematischen, philosophischen, physikalischen und kulturwissenschaftlichen Ansätzen zur Thematik des Raumes wird ein fuzzy-set-Modell herausgearbeitet, mit de…
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- 1
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- Digitale Literaturwissenschaft
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- XIII, 234
Frères Ennemis : The French in American Literature, Americans in French Lite…
Frères Ennemis focuses on Franco-American tensions as portrayed in works of literature. An Introduction is followed by nine chapters, each focused on a French or American literary text which shows the evolution/devolution of the relations between the two nations at a particular point in time. While the heart of the analysis consists of close textual readings, social, cultural and political con…
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- 9781786941329
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- 800 CLO f
Creativity and Science in Contemporary Argentine Literature : Between Romanti…
With a burgeoning academic interest in Latin American science fiction and cyberfiction and in representations of science and technology in Latin American literature and cinema, this book adds new understanding to the growing body of interdisciplinary work on the relationship between literature and science in postmodern culture. Joanna Page examines how contemporary fiction and literary theory i…
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- 9781552387702
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- 304 halaman
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- Latin American & Caribbean Studies
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- 800 PAG c
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