Filter by
A Narratological Approach to Lists in Detective Fiction
This open access book examines how the form of the list features as a tool for meaning-making in the genre of detective fiction from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The book analyzes how both readers and detectives rely on listing as an ordering and structuring tool, and highlights the crucial role that lists assume in the reading process. It extends the boundaries of an emerging fi…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-031-33227-2
- Collation
- oer.unej.ac.id
- Series Title
- Crime Files
- Call Number
- 379
Reading Breath in Literature
This open access book presents five different approaches to reading breath in literature, in response to texts from a range of historical, geographical and cultural environments. Breath, for all its ubiquity in literary texts, has received little attention as a transhistorical literary device. Drawing together scholars of Medieval Romance, Early Modern Drama, Fin de Siècle Aesthetics, American…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-99948-7
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
- Call Number
- X, 134
Pynchon and Philosophy
Pynchon and Philosophy radically reworks our readings of Thomas Pynchon alongside the theoretical perspectives of Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno. Rigorous yet readable, Pynchon and Philosophy seeks to recover philosophical readings of Pynchon that work harmoniously, rather than antagonistically, resulting in a wholly fresh approach. Dr. Martin Paul Eve is a lecturer in literature at the…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-1-137-40550-0
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- XIII, 229
Humanities World Report 2015
This book is open access under a CC BY license. The first of its kind, this Open Access 'Report' is a first step in assessing the state of the humanities worldwide. Based on an extensive literature review and enlightening interviews the book discusses the value of the humanities, the nature of humanities research and the relation between humanities and politics, amongst other issues.
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-1-137-50028-1
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- IX, 215
Environmental Humanities in India
This open access book offers an introduction to the field of the environmental humanities in India. The environmental humanities, often referred to as ‘EH’, are a multifaceted, relatively new, and swiftly evolving field of scholarship that integrates the theories and approaches of various disciplines - from anthropology, art, communications, cultural studies, philosophy and ecology to histo…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-981-97-3932-5
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- Asia in Transition
- Call Number
- X, 234
A History of Chilean Literature
This book covers the full range and diversity of Chilean literature from the times of the Spanish conquest to the present. By emphasizing transnational, hemispheric, and global approaches to Chilean literature, it reflects the relevance of themes such as neoliberalism, migration and exile, as well as subfields like ethnic studies, and gender and sexuality studies. It showcases the diversity of …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781108766616
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Bourdieu and Literature
Bourdieu and Literature is a wide-ranging, rigorous and accessible introduction to the relationship between Pierre Bourdieu's work and literary studies. It provides a comprehensive overview and critical assessment of his contributions to literary theory and his thinking about authors and literary works. One of the foremost French intellectuals of the post-war era, Bourdieu has become a standard…
- Edition
- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781906924423
- Collation
- 203
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 301 RWS b
The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Literature
This comprehensive Handbook presents the major perspectives within philosophy and literary studies on the relations, overlaps and tensions between philosophy and literature. Drawing on recent work in philosophy and literature, literary theory, philosophical aesthetics, literature as philosophy and philosophy as literature, its twenty-nine chapters plus substantial Introduction and Afterword exa…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-1-137-54794-1
- Collation
- Literasi Filsafat
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 379
Climate Crisis and the 21st-Century British Novel
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. The challenge of rapid climate change is forcing us to rethink traditional attitudes to nature. This book is the first study to chart these changing attitudes in 21st-century British fiction. Climate Crisis and the 21st-Century British Novel examines twelve works…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781474271141
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
A Grand Army of Black Men Letters from African-American Soldiers in the Unio…
The Civil War stands vivid in the collective memory of the American public. There has always been a profound interest in the subject, and specifically the participation of black Americans in and reactions to the war and the war's outcome. Almost 200,000 African-American soldiers fought for the Union in the Civil War. Although most were illiterate ex-slaves, several thousand were well-educated, …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780511663574
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture (63)
- Call Number
- -
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography