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The New Believers - Religion And The Contemporary Novel

by Jack (Mount Saint Maryâ€™S University) Dudley

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 The New Believers helps readers and scholars of the novel understand why novels so often feel so depressing and identifies in Margaret Atwood, J. M. Coetzee, Junot DÃaz, and George Saunders a new set of important writers whose novels instead use spiritual belief to imagine better, hopeful ways of being.
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The New Believers - Religion And The Contemporary Novel

by Jack (Mount Saint Maryâ€™S University) Dudley

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 The New Believers helps readers and scholars of the novel understand why novels so often feel so depressing and identifies in Margaret Atwood, J. M. Coetzee, Junot DÃaz, and George Saunders a new set of important writers whose novels instead use spiritual belief to imagine better, hopeful ways of being.
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British Black And Asian Poetry - Race, Aesthetics And Politics 1970â€“2023

by Omaar (Wake Forest University, North Carolina) Hena

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 Profiling a dozen prominent British poets of color who engage urgent social crises spanning policing and racial violence through cultural recognition by museums, publishing, and prizes, this book will appeal to scholars of race and literature and poetry enthusiasts alike. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
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Entangled Life In Twenty-First-Century Fiction - A Multi-Scalar Poetics

by Liliane (Sorbonne Nouvelle University And Institut Universitaire De France) Campos

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 Will appeal to all readers interested in the ecological power of literature. Views fiction as a sensing instrument which helps us to engage with other scales of life. It shows how contemporary novels and short stories are shaping our biological awareness and ecological responsibility. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
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The Near Future In Twenty-First-Century Fiction - Climate, Retreat And Revolution

by David (University Of Plymouth) Sergeant

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 This book shows how novels and films set in the near future can shed light both on our failures of imagination before the challenges of climate change, and possible ways forward in the face of planetary disaster. It will appeal to researchers working in twenty-first century literary studies, climate and literature, and environmental humanities.
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Book, Text, Medium - Cross-Sectional Reading For A Digital Age

by Garrett (University Of Iowa) Stewart

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 This book assess the transformative arc between medieval books and today's e-books. It will appeal to graduates and researchers working in the 21st century literary studies generally, in the relationships between the book and the digital age specifically.
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Utopia And The Contemporary British Novel

by Caroline (Birkbeck College, University Of London) Edwards

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 This book is for scholars of contemporary literature. It argues for a renaissance of British literary talent in the twenty-first century, introducing readers to several new writers. The analysis of utopian anticipation will also be of interest to academics working in utopian studies, critical theory and the philosophy of time.
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Unseen City - The Psychic Lives Of The Urban Poor

by Ankhi Mukherjee

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 This study offers a critical interpretation of literary representations of urban poverty and the sustained trauma associated with exploitation, homelessness, displacement, or racism. It advocates the value of an adapted psychoanalysis for the poor in not only addressing mental health needs but building capacity.
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Irish Expatriate Novel In Late Capitalist Globalization

by Joe Cleary

108,65€ + 10% CARD

 This book will engage readers interested in Irish fiction dealing with the United States, Asia, the Global South and Europe. A conceptually innovative study of Irish expatriate novels that situates Irish writing in terms of the country's changing place in an international order in a time of turbulent global change.
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Biopolitical Futures In Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction

by Sherryl Vint

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 This book demonstrates how developments in biotechnology such as cloning, synthetic biology, surrogate pregnancies, organ transplants and more have significant implications for personhood, ethics, and governance. Drawing attention to the commodification of life, it shows how the biological functions of life itself are shaped to economic agendas.
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Metamodernism And Contemporary British Poetry

by Antony Rowland

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 This book discusses contemporary British poetry in the context of metamodernism. It asks if the concept of metamodernist poetry helps to recalibrate the opposition between mainstream and innovative poetry, and whether a new generation of British poets can be accurately defined as metamodernist.
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Unseen City - The Psychic Lives Of The Urban Poor

by Ankhi (University Of Oxford) Mukherjee

51,37€ + 10% CARD

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 This study offers a critical interpretation of literary representations of urban poverty and the sustained trauma associated with exploitation, homelessness, displacement, or racism. It advocates the value of an adapted psychoanalysis for the poor in not only addressing mental health needs but building capacity.
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Metamodernism And Contemporary British Poetry

by Antony (Manchester Metropolitan University) Rowland

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 This book discusses contemporary British poetry in the context of metamodernism. It asks if the concept of metamodernist poetry helps to recalibrate the opposition between mainstream and innovative poetry, and whether a new generation of British poets can be accurately defined as metamodernist.
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Biopolitical Futures In Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction

by Sherryl (University Of California, Riverside) Vint

51,37€ + 10% CARD

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 This book demonstrates how developments in biotechnology such as cloning, synthetic biology, surrogate pregnancies, organ transplants and more have significant implications for personhood, ethics, and governance. Drawing attention to the commodification of life, it shows how the biological functions of life itself are shaped to economic agendas.
ENGLISH

Book, Text, Medium - Cross-Sectional Reading For A Digital Age

by Garrett Stewart

45,05€ + 10% CARD

 This book assess the transformative arc between medieval books and today's e-books. It will appeal to graduates and researchers working in the 21st century literary studies generally, in the relationships between the book and the digital age specifically.
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Book, Text, Medium - Cross-Sectional Reading For A Digital Age

by Garrett (University Of Iowa) Stewart

117,61€ + 10% CARD

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 This book assess the transformative arc between medieval books and today's e-books. It will appeal to graduates and researchers working in the 21st century literary studies generally, in the relationships between the book and the digital age specifically.
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Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing - The New Audacity

by Jennifer (Loughborough University) Cooke

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 Contemporary Feminist Life-writing is the first volume to identify and analyse the new audacity of recent feminist writings from life. It discusses texts that feature rape, struggles with mental health, sexual and chemical experimentation, transitioning, sex work, and women's self-authorship, and challenges conventional discourses of women's victimhood.
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Market Logics Of Contemporary Fiction

by Paul Crosthwaite

131,18€ + 10% CARD

 This book shows how interrelated shifts in the global financial system and the global publishing industry have transformed the production of contemporary fiction in Britain and the USA. It will appeal to graduate students and researchers working in twenty-first-century literary studies, especially scholars of contemporary British and American fiction.
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Utopia And The Contemporary British Novel

by Caroline Edwards

45,05€ + 10% CARD

 This book is for scholars of contemporary literature. It argues for a renaissance of British literary talent in the twenty-first century, introducing readers to several new writers. The analysis of utopian anticipation will also be of interest to academics working in utopian studies, critical theory and the philosophy of time.
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The Market Logics Of Contemporary Fiction

by Paul (University Of Edinburgh) Crosthwaite

133,84€ + 10% CARD

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 This book shows how interrelated shifts in the global financial system and the global publishing industry have transformed the production of contemporary fiction in Britain and the USA. It will appeal to graduate students and researchers working in twenty-first-century literary studies, especially scholars of contemporary British and American fiction.
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Conceptualising The Global In The Wake Of The Postmodern - Literature, Culture, Theory

by Joel Evans

131,18€ + 10% CARD

 This book offers an original insight into ways in which the global is being conceptualised in contemporary culture, providing a fresh approach to the field of cultural studies of globalisation. It focuses on contemporary literature, film and theory, arguing that here we can see a resurgence in figurations of totality.
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Metamodernism And Contemporary British Poetry

by Antony (Manchester Metropolitan University) Rowland

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 This book discusses contemporary British poetry in the context of metamodernism. It asks if the concept of metamodernist poetry helps to recalibrate the opposition between mainstream and innovative poetry, and whether a new generation of British poets can be accurately defined as metamodernist.
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The Irish Expatriate Novel In Late Capitalist Globalization

by Joe (Yale University, Connecticut) Cleary

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 This book will engage readers interested in Irish fiction dealing with the United States, Asia, the Global South and Europe. A conceptually innovative study of Irish expatriate novels that situates Irish writing in terms of the country's changing place in an international order in a time of turbulent global change.
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Conceptualising The Global In The Wake Of The Postmodern - Literature, Culture, Theory

by Joel (University Of Nottingham) Evans

133,84€

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 This book offers an original insight into ways in which the global is being conceptualised in contemporary culture, providing a fresh approach to the field of cultural studies of globalisation. It focuses on contemporary literature, film and theory, arguing that here we can see a resurgence in figurations of totality.
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