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Animal Minds, Other Minds - Nonhuman Intelligence And Narrative Form In American Fiction

by Victoria Googasian

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 How a fascination with animal consciousness, perception, and intelligence shaped American fiction in the twentieth centuryAnimal Minds, Other Minds upends a common assumption: that the minds encountered in fiction are always in some sense fundamentally human. Readers, writers, critics, and narrative theorists have surmised that when fiction turns its attention to the inner lives of its characters, it does so with the aim of revealing their recognizable humanity. This book tells a different story. The narrative styles of American fiction show a growing awareness that human subjectivity exists within a multispecies ecology of minds. The science of animal minds, argues Victoria Googasian, has played a central role in building fiction’s capacity to imagine cognitive diversity, both within our own species and in the wider world of sentience.The multispecies world of twentieth-century American literature exhibits a clear recognition that intelligence can take more than one form. From the fragmented personhood of Jack London’s canine heroes, to the associative intelligence of William Faulkner’s Compson family, to the rabid opacity of Zora Neale Hurston’s Tea Cake, to the sociobiological play of Octavia Butler’s shapeshifters, American fiction abounds with characters whose animalized minds structure the narrative techniques that unfold their behaviors.
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Spectacle Earth - Media For Planetary Change

by Andrew Kalaidjian

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 Artistic, literary, and technological depictions of the climate crisis and how they influence humanity’s response What does it mean to watch a disaster unfold? Does exposure to a source of dread spur people to action or lull them into fatalism and complacency? Andrew Kalaidjian takes up these and other vital questions in Spectacle Earth, a lively and wide-ranging consideration of media engagement, passivity, and virtual environments in relation to ecological crises and climate change. Kalaidjian begins by tracing the long trajectory of environmental aesthetics and natural sciences that have led up to the Anthropocene. He then looks at the lessons learned from artist and activist movements of the 1960s and 1970s before laying out the new challenges in the digital age of artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and virtual reality. The result is groundbreaking, offering readers a new media literacy that goes beyond individual therapeutic experience to provide forms of expression that can lead to the sorts of solidarity and connection needed to change the planet for the better.
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Changed Men - Veterans In American Popular Culture After World War Ii

by Erin Lee Mock

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 Engages with studies of film, media, literature, and gender and sexuality to advance a new perspective on the artistic and cultural output of and about the â€˜Greatest Generationâ€™, arguing that depictions of menâ€™s violent and erotic potential emerged differently in different forms and genres but nonetheless permeated American culture in these years.
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Walk The Barrio - The Streets Of Twenty-First-Century Transnational Latinx Literature

by Cristina Rodriguez

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 In this book about immigrants, writing, and place, Cristina Rodriguez walks neighbourhood streets, talks to immigrants, interviews authors, and puts herself physically in the spaces that she seeks to understand.
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Mapping The Ethical Turn - A Reader In Ethics, Culture And Literary Theory

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 Divided into four sections, this collection of essays traces the interpretive, pedagogic and theoretical concerns inherent in the study of literature, ethics and modes of criticism. The book is a cohesive introduction to a reading paradigm that continues to affect the ways we think and feel.
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Quirks Of The Quantum - Postmodernism And Contemporary American Fiction

by Samuel Chase Coale

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 <DIV>Episodic and disconnected, much of postmodern fiction mirrors the world as quantum theorists describe it, according to Samuel Chase Coale. In Quirks of the Quantum, Coale shows how the doubts, misgivings, and ambiguities reflected in the postmodern American novel have been influenced by the metaphors and models of quantum theory. Coale explains the basic facets of quantum theory in lay terms and then applies them to a selection of texts, including Don DeLillo''s Underworld, Joan Didion''s Democracy, and Thomas Pynchon''s Against the Day. Using a new approach to literature and culture, this book aims to bridge the gap between science and the humanities by suggesting the many areas where they connect.</DIV>
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Chick Lit And Postfeminism

by Stephanie Harzewski

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 Originally a euphemism for Princeton University’s Female Literary Tradition course in the 1980s, "chick lit" mutated from a movement in American women’s avant-garde fiction in the 1990s to become, by the turn of the century, a humorous subset of women’s literature, journalism, and advice manuals. Stephanie Harzewski examines such best sellers as Bridget Jones’s Diary The Devil Wears Prada, and Sex and the City as urban appropriations of and departures from the narrative traditions of the novel of manners, the popular romance, and the bildungsroman. Further, Harzewski uses chick lit as a lens through which to view gender relations in U.S. and British society in the 1990s. Chick Lit and Postfeminism is the first sustained historicization of this major pop-cultural phenomenon, and Harzewski successfully demonstrates how chick lit and the critical study of it yield social observations on upheavals in Anglo-American marriage and education patterns, heterosexual rituals, feminism, and postmodern values.
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Visions Of The Maid - Joan Of Arc In American Film And Culture

by Robin Blaetz

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 Representations of Joan of Arc have been used in the United States for the past 200 years, appearing in advertising, cartoons, popular song, art, criticism and propaganda. ""Visions of the Maid"" examines three pivotal films on the heroine as well as a broad array of popular culture references.
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Animal Minds, Other Minds - Nonhuman Intelligence And Narrative Form In American Fiction

by Victoria Googasian

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Animal Minds, Other Minds - Nonhuman Intelligence And Narrative Form In American Fiction

by Victoria Googasian

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Poetic Drive - American Poetry In The Age Of Automobility

by Joel Duncan

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Poetic Drive - American Poetry In The Age Of Automobility

by Joel Duncan

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No Exit - Contemporary American Literature And The State

by Seth Mckelvey

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American Road Narratives - Reimagining Mobility In Literature And Film

by Ann Brigham

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No Exit - Contemporary American Literature And The State

by Seth Mckelvey

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Dandyism - Forming Fiction From Modernism To The Present

by Len Gutkin

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 Establishing the â€œdandyâ€ as a kind of shorthand for a diverse range of traits and tendencies, including gentlemanliness, rebelliousness, androgyny, theatricality, and extravagance, Len Gutkin traces Victorian aesthetic precendents in the work of the modernist avant-garde, the noir novel, Beatnik experimentalism, and the postmodern thriller.
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No Exit - Contemporary American Literature And The State

by Seth Mckelvey

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 America's authors and the unfulfilled desire to escape the state From hippie culture to neoliberalism to Black Lives Matter, anti-state sentiment and rhetoric persists through varying—and sometimes electorally opposed—forms in American politics and culture. Examining the work of some of the leading authors of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries—including William Carlos Williams, Charles Olson, Richard Wright, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Joan Didion, Karen Tei Yamashita, Junot Díaz, Juliana Spahr, and Nathaniel Mackey—Seth McKelvey offers a new perspective on American literature’s many conceptions of an escape from the political state. Through close readings of texts varied in their political orientations, historical concerns, literary genres, and aesthetic commitments, No Exit reveals a provocative overlap between literary and political representation, showing just how urgent yet difficult it has been for American literature to imagine leaving the state behind.
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We, Us, And Them - Affect And American Nonfiction From Vietnam To Trump

by Douglas Dowland

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 When Americans describe their compatriots, who exactly are they talking about? This is the urgent question that Douglas Dowland asks in We, Us, and Them. In search of answers, he turns to narratives of American nationhood written since the Vietnam War.
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We, Us, And Them - Affect And American Nonfiction From Vietnam To Trump

by Douglas Dowland

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 When Americans describe their compatriots, who exactly are they talking about? This is the urgent question that Douglas Dowland asks in We, Us, and Them. In search of answers, he turns to narratives of American nationhood written since the Vietnam War.
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Changed Men - Veterans In American Popular Culture After World War Ii

by Erin Lee Mock

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 Engages with studies of film, media, literature, and gender and sexuality to advance a new perspective on the artistic and cultural output of and about the â€˜Greatest Generation,â€™ arguing that depictions of menâ€™s violent and erotic potential emerged differently in different forms and genres but nonetheless permeated American culture in these years.
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We, Us, And Them - Affect And American Nonfiction From Vietnam To Trump

by Douglas Dowland

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 When Americans describe their compatriots, who exactly are they talking about? This is the urgent question that Douglas Dowland asks in We, Us, and Them. In search of answers, he turns to narratives of American nationhood written since the Vietnam War.
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Changed Men - Veterans In American Popular Culture After World War Ii

by Erin Lee Mock

~~52,34€~~ 47,11€ 10% OFF

 Engages with studies of film, media, literature, and gender and sexuality to advance a new perspective on the artistic and cultural output of and about the â€˜Greatest Generation,â€™ arguing that depictions of menâ€™s violent and erotic potential emerged differently in different forms and genres but nonetheless permeated American culture in these years.
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Criminal Cities - The Postcolonial Novel And Cathartic Crime

by Molly Slavin

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 Why does crime feature at the centre of so many postcolonial novels set in major cities? This book interrogates the connections that can be found between narratives of crime, cities, and colonialism to bring to light the ramifications of this literary preoccupation, as well as possibilities for cultural, aesthetic, and political catharsis.
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Criminal Cities - The Postcolonial Novel And Cathartic Crime

by Molly Slavin

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 Why does crime feature at the centre of so many postcolonial novels set in major cities? This book interrogates the connections that can be found between narratives of crime, cities, and colonialism to bring to light the ramifications of this literary preoccupation, as well as possibilities for cultural, aesthetic, and political catharsis.
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