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Fatal Fascinations
Cultural Manifestations of Crime and Violence
What is the impact of portraying violence? This book examines representations of crime and violence across media—from fiction and film to journalism—to interrogate the ethics of spectacle and the political contexts in which narratives of good and evil are defined.
What is the impact of portraying violence? This book examines representations of crime and violence across media—from fiction and film to journalism—to interrogate the ethics of spectacle and the political contexts in which narratives of good and evil are defined.
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De-Centring Cultural Studies
Past, Present and Future of Popular Culture
This volume proves that cultural studies is blooming, even in Southern and Eastern Europe. These interdisciplinary essays explore the borders between popular and canonical culture, studying film, pop music, and literature from the perspectives of gender and age.
This volume proves that cultural studies is blooming, even in Southern and Eastern Europe. These interdisciplinary essays explore the borders between popular and canonical culture, studying film, pop music, and literature from the perspectives of gender and age.
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Growing Up a Woman
The Private/Public Divide in the Narratives of Female Development
The contributions to this volume explore contemporary transformations of the female Bildungsroman, highlighting the continuing relevance of the intersection of the genre and gender brought to critical attention in the context of second wave feminism.
The contributions to this volume explore contemporary transformations of the female Bildungsroman, highlighting the continuing relevance of the intersection of the genre and gender brought to critical attention in the context of second wave feminism.
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Text and Image in the City
Manuscript, Print and Visual Culture in Urban Space
The essays within discuss how the city is textualized, and address many aspects of how texts and images are written and produced in, and about, cities. They investigate how the creation, distribution and consumption of urban texts and images affect the shaping of the city itself.
The essays within discuss how the city is textualized, and address many aspects of how texts and images are written and produced in, and about, cities. They investigate how the creation, distribution and consumption of urban texts and images affect the shaping of the city itself.
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The concept of culture industry leads a double life. This book is a contribution to a critical tradition that explores the term in relation to media, philosophy, and consumption, showing the continued relevance of an expression whose muteness corroborates its darkest content.
The concept of culture industry leads a double life. This book is a contribution to a critical tradition that explores the term in relation to media, philosophy, and consumption, showing the continued relevance of an expression whose muteness corroborates its darkest content.
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Death may be the “great equalizer,” but our journeys towards it are not. This interdisciplinary collection addresses the many socio-cultural inequalities surrounding death and the end of life to encourage research and action that can improve the experience for all.
Death may be the “great equalizer,” but our journeys towards it are not. This interdisciplinary collection addresses the many socio-cultural inequalities surrounding death and the end of life to encourage research and action that can improve the experience for all.
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This volume's eight essays examine Italian narrative from the 1980s to the present, focusing on genres and trends rather than authors. It covers a wide range of themes, from detective stories to lesbian and gay writing, immigration literature, and dystopia.
This volume’s eight essays examine Italian narrative from the 1980s to the present, focusing on genres and trends rather than authors. It covers a wide range of themes, from detective stories to lesbian and gay writing, immigration literature, and dystopia.
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Connecting Past and Present
Exploring the Influence of the Spanish Golden Age in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Experts offer analyses of contemporary works influenced by the Spanish Golden Age. A frequent source of inspiration, this book explores how contemporary Spaniards reach into the past, an epoch of political and religious upheaval, to connect with their present world.
Experts offer analyses of contemporary works influenced by the Spanish Golden Age. A frequent source of inspiration, this book explores how contemporary Spaniards reach into the past, an epoch of political and religious upheaval, to connect with their present world.
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Zulfiqar examines the work of a group of African women writers who have emerged over the last forty years. In so doing, she demonstrates how African women’s literature engages with political issues and revisits Fredric Jameson’s controversial assumptions on third-world texts.
Zulfiqar examines the work of a group of African women writers who have emerged over the last forty years. In so doing, she demonstrates how African women’s literature engages with political issues and revisits Fredric Jameson’s controversial assumptions on third-world texts.
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Laughter in the Trenches
Humour and Front Experience in German First World War Narratives
This study explores humour in German WWI narratives like *All Quiet on the Western Front*. It shows how these works, regardless of ideology, shared narrative strategies using soldier laughter to justify violence and oppressive power structures.
This study explores humour in German WWI narratives like *All Quiet on the Western Front*. It shows how these works, regardless of ideology, shared narrative strategies using soldier laughter to justify violence and oppressive power structures.
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This book challenges the standards, values, and parameters used to judge women in society. Drawing on literary texts, case studies, and insights from global scholars, it serves as an authentic representative of the women’s cause.
This book challenges the standards, values, and parameters used to judge women in society. Drawing on literary texts, case studies, and insights from global scholars, it serves as an authentic representative of the women’s cause.
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Essays
Exploring the Global Caribbean
More than a location, the Caribbean is a global crossroads. This collection traces the flows of people, literature, and ideas that connect the West Indies to the world, revealing the islands as powerful makers of international culture and meaning.
More than a location, the Caribbean is a global crossroads. This collection traces the flows of people, literature, and ideas that connect the West Indies to the world, revealing the islands as powerful makers of international culture and meaning.
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A step-by-step guide for professionals on designing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating developmental interventions. This volume introduces key concepts and procedures, using real project examples to help readers understand and adopt these practices in their own work.
A step-by-step guide for professionals on designing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating developmental interventions. This volume introduces key concepts and procedures, using real project examples to help readers understand and adopt these practices in their own work.
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Focusing on the work of three US Cuban writers, this book shows that such writers incorporate Caribbean and Latin American archival sources and interpretive frameworks in order to develop a critical and investigative approach to the politics of Cuban exile historiography.
Focusing on the work of three US Cuban writers, this book shows that such writers incorporate Caribbean and Latin American archival sources and interpretive frameworks in order to develop a critical and investigative approach to the politics of Cuban exile historiography.
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Women Rewriting Boundaries
Victorian Women Travel Writers
Inspired by a panel at the 2013 Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention, this compilation offers fresh insights on how to read travel writing by women. It analyzes the connections between class, gender, physicality, and sexuality as found in 19th-century literature.
Inspired by a panel at the 2013 Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention, this compilation offers fresh insights on how to read travel writing by women. It analyzes the connections between class, gender, physicality, and sexuality as found in 19th-century literature.
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Representations of Female Identity in Italy
From Neoclassism to the 21st Century
This volume examines iconic female characters in Italian literature, art and film who depict distinct representatives of female identity within this national culture. It characterizes the evolution of women’s identity and their representation in such expressive modalities.
This volume examines iconic female characters in Italian literature, art and film who depict distinct representatives of female identity within this national culture. It characterizes the evolution of women’s identity and their representation in such expressive modalities.
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Culture, Communion and Recovery
Tolkienian Fairy-Story and Inter-Religious Exchange
This study argues that the cultural influence of The Lord of the Rings provides a model for understanding the transformative relationship between religion and culture, and an unexplored pathway for inter-religious exchange.
This study argues that the cultural influence of The Lord of the Rings provides a model for understanding the transformative relationship between religion and culture, and an unexplored pathway for inter-religious exchange.
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India in Canada
Canada in India
This collection of articles offers an interdisciplinary, Indo-Canadian perspective on the Humanities. It covers literature, film, and history, exploring themes of diaspora and gender, and features creative writing by renowned Indo-Canadian authors.
This collection of articles offers an interdisciplinary, Indo-Canadian perspective on the Humanities. It covers literature, film, and history, exploring themes of diaspora and gender, and features creative writing by renowned Indo-Canadian authors.
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This book situates African literature as a site of artistic and cultural production within postcolonial politics. It evaluates the literature as a cultural contestation with imperial knowledge and as an ideological strategy for societal self-knowledge.
This book situates African literature as a site of artistic and cultural production within postcolonial politics. It evaluates the literature as a cultural contestation with imperial knowledge and as an ideological strategy for societal self-knowledge.
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Bodies and Culture
Discourses, Communities, Representations, Performances
This interdisciplinary collection examines the role of culture in shaping bodies. Essays interrogate how the body articulates social differences under hegemonic ideologies, forms identities, and is modified through physical and artistic performance.
This interdisciplinary collection examines the role of culture in shaping bodies. Essays interrogate how the body articulates social differences under hegemonic ideologies, forms identities, and is modified through physical and artistic performance.
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