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Tolstoy'S Search For The Kingdom Of God - Gender And Queer Anarchism

by Javier (Primary Care Provider, Usa) Sethness Castro

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 This book uncovers queer-anarchist dimensions of the second half of Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy's life (1828â€"1910), and the Russian writer's later art-works. It features queer-friendly readings of classics like Anna Karenina (1875â€"1877), â€œThe Death of Ivan Ilychâ€ (1886), and Resurrection (1899).
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Reading Contemporary India - An Interdisciplinary Enquiry Into Sociocultural Issues

by Mk Raghavendra

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 This is the first ever effort to bring such a wide range of socio-cultural issues and establish interdisciplinary links between them by studying Indiaâ€™s past, ancient and modern. The issues include caste and hierarchy, religious and political conflict linked sharply to diverse others like literary practice and intellectual life.
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Beat Film, Beat Writers

by David Stephen Calonne

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 Beat Film, Beat Writers is the first monograph to analyze the fims of Christopher Maclaine, Lawrence Jordan, ruth weiss, Ron Rice, Robert Frank, Barbara Rubin, Shirley Clarke, William S. Burroughs, and Joanne Kyger. It emphasizes women filmmakers and traces the interrelationships between Beat film and Beat literature.
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Multidisciplinary Representations Of Home And Homeland In Diaspora

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 This collection examines our fascination with homes, blending comparative literature, critical art history, and diaspora studies. Emphasizing the fluidity of home/homeland concepts, it explores multi-local affiliations, gender roles, languages, and power in contested national narratives.
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Charlie Kaufmanâ€™S Mobius Strip - Film, Philosophy And Literary Theory

by Colm Oâ€™Shea

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 Charlie Kaufman's Moebius Strip: Film, Philosophy and Literary Theory presents Kaufman's diagnosis of alienation in the modern age as a spiritual malady. Each chapter builds on a theological/metaphysical idea, drawing from Kierkegaard, Kafka, Wittgenstein, Wallace, the Talmud, Tibetan Buddhism, and Christian mysticism.
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Beyond Resilience In The Arts, Humanities And Social Sciences - Research On Critical Terms

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 Beyond Resilience in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences: Research on Critical Terms examines the stakes of public discourse on how people respond to crisis. This interdisciplinary volume examines multilingual critical alternatives to the all-pervasive language of â€˜resilienceâ€™ and â€˜crisisâ€™.
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Reading Food In Literature, Film And Other Imaginative Texts - Gastrocriticism

by Anke Klitzing

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 Reading Food in Literature, Film and Other Imaginative Texts is the first dedicated guide to gastrocriticism â€" an emerging interdisciplinary, critical framework for investigating food, drinks, and foodways in literature, film and other imaginative texts.
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New Approach To Reading Videogames As Story - Virtual Cathedrals In An Age Of Decadence

by Thomas Rowland

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 This book will help educators to define videogames in a literary context, gives an overview of their history, and the current state of the industry, while also providing critical discussions of videogame theory.
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Nature, Literature And Culture - Affinities, Influences, Lives And Ideas

by Jonathan Locke Hart

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 Nature, Literature and Culture: Affinities, Influences, Lives and Ideas explores the profound connections between scientific inquiry and literary expression across generations. The volume focuses on great scientific and literary minds, concluding with contemporary ecological writing.
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Anamorphic Distortion In Literature, Visual Art And Film

by Tony Fabijancic

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 Anamorphic Distortion in Literature, Visual Art and Film explores four key types of anamorphic distortion in media across several centuries.
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Negative Empathy In Literature And The Arts

by Massimo Fusillo e Stefano Ercolino

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 It introduces the concept of â€œnegative empathyâ€ to examine how readers and viewers engage emotionally and cognitively with ethically troubling artworks. Through a comparative and intermedial approach, it offers a compelling new theory of aesthetic engagement with representations of negativity in art.
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Modern Fiction, Disability, And The Hearing Sciences

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 At a time when visual media otherwise seem to have captured the imagination, Modern Fiction, Disability, and the Hearing Sciences makes the case for a wide range of literature. In doing so, the book reveals the diverse ways in which writers have plotted and voiced experiences of hearing, from the nineteenth century to the present day.
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Literature And Citizenship In The Age Of Revolution - A Wish For Air And Liberty

by Mitchell Gauvin

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 A Wish for Air and Liberty examines how upheaval and humanitarian crisis provoked literary authors to engage with emergent questions of citizenship and belonging. Playing on the double meaning of â€œrevolutionâ€ as both rupture and rotation, this book uncovers how literature both serviced and subverted concepts of citizenship.
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The Neoliberal Imagination In Contemporary Literature - A Study Of Empathy In A Time Of Global Crisis

by Tammy Amiel Houser

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 This book examines the relationship between empathy and neoliberalism following the 2008 financial crisis through the turbulent 2010s. Through close readings of contemporary novels and various non-fictional texts, it sheds light not only on the affective dynamics underpinning contemporary neoliberalism
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The Aesthetic Subject In Contemporary Continental Philosophy And Literature - Thinking The Body-Thought

by Robert Hughes

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 This book elucidates the work of 21st-century European thinkers to describe the event of art as an intuited correspondence between (a) a sensuous object grasped at its limit of form and deformation and (b) an aesthetic subject unsettlingly exposed at its own limits of form and the real.
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Narrating Multiplicities In Motion - The Transformative Power Of Storytelling In Anglophone Cultures

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 It brings together scholars from literature, linguistics, and media studies to explore how storytelling can confront complex issues such as marginalisation, bodily autonomy, and posthuman relationsâ€"making it relevant across disciplines and especially engaging for readers seeking new ways to think about social transformation.
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Narratives Of Hope And Despair - Ruin And Regeneration In Literature And Culture

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 In narratives of literature and cultural production, hope and despair remain fundamental in exploring our world. In recent years, political polarization, the Covid pandemic, global warming, and new and ongoing wars have contributed to global crises, to which despair is an understandable response. Yet hope is continually sought and proclaimed
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A New Approach To Reading Videogames As Story - Virtual Cathedrals In An Age Of Decadence

by Thomas Rowland

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 This book will help educators to define videogames in a literary context, gives an overview of their history, and the current state of the industry, while also providing critical discussions of videogame theory.
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Anamorphic Distortion In Literature, Visual Art And Film

by Tony Fabijancic

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 Anamorphic Distortion in Literature, Visual Art and Film explores four key types of anamorphic distortion in media across several centuries.
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Subversion And Conformity Of Literary Collage - Between Cut And Glue

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 The book fills a gap in the current scholarship on literary collage, by addressing how different the interpretations of the concept are, depending on the author who uses the concept and the material and writers surveyed.
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Negative Empathy In Literature And The Arts

by Massimo Fusillo e Stefano (University Of Turin, Italy) Ercolino

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 It introduces the concept of â€œnegative empathyâ€ to examine how readers and viewers engage emotionally and cognitively with ethically troubling artworks. Through a comparative and intermedial approach, it offers a compelling new theory of aesthetic engagement with representations of negativity in art.
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Reading Digital Fiction - Narrative, Cognition, Mediality

by Alice Bell e Astrid Ensslin

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 Reading Digital Fiction showcases medium- and platform-specific methods of reader response research by analysing and theorising five generations of digital fiction and their reading including hypertext fiction, hypermedia fiction, 3D-narrative video games, app fiction, and virtual reality.
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Narrating Multiplicities In Motion - The Transformative Power Of Storytelling In Anglophone Cultures

~~232,51€~~ 209,26€ 10% OFF

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 It brings together scholars from literature, linguistics, and media studies to explore how storytelling can confront complex issues such as marginalisation, bodily autonomy, and posthuman relationsâ€"making it relevant across disciplines and especially engaging for readers seeking new ways to think about social transformation.
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Resistant Reproductions - Pregnancy And Abortion In British Literature And Film

by Fran Bigman

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 This book challenges the association of abortion with the radical and pregnancy with the conventional by exploring the reproductive politics of British literature and film from 1907 when abortion was first used as a critical plot point in literature to 1967 when abortion law was liberalized in England, Scotland, and Wales.
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