"Invisible Cities" and the Urban Imagination / / edited by Benjamin Linder |
Autore | Linder Benjamin |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2022.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (355 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina |
354.81150006
853.914 |
Collana | Literary Urban Studies |
Soggetto topico |
Literature, Modern - 20th century
Literature, Modern - 21st century European literature Comparative literature Space Culture Cities and towns - History Contemporary Literature European Literature Comparative Literature Space and Place in Culture Urban History |
ISBN |
9783031130489 (electronic book)
9783031130472 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction: Invisible Cities and the Urban Imagination -- Part I Cities & Theory -- 2. Invisible Cities: Learning to Recognize Urban Society -- 3. How to Map the Invisible -- 4. Invisible Cities and the Work of Storying the Future -- 5. Paris, Latour, and Calvino -- 6. Queer Cities, Bodies & Desire: Reading Nicole Brossard alongside Italo Calvino -- 7. On the Epistemic Ruins of Existence -- Part II Cities & Cities -- 8. “The Void not Filled with Words": The Role of Venice in Invisible Cities -- 9. A Tale of Two Ethnographers: Urban Anthropologists Read Invisible Cities -- 10. Fifty Years of Soul City: Lessons of a Black Utopia -- 11. Tirana Visible and Invisible -- 12. The Lost City: The Pathos of Arab Jerusalem -- 13. “Submerging the City in Its Own Past”: Tracing Glasgow’s Architectures of Inhabitation -- 14. Poetics of the Invisible, Poetics of Rubble -- 15. Encountering Urban Mutualities and Indeterminacy with a Dar es Salaam Taxi Driver -- 16. Reconstructing Memory and Desire in Bhaktapur, Nepal -- 17. The Weight of the City: The Burden and Opportunities of Urban Villages -- 18. Don’t Nuisance the Relented City: Community Barriers and Urban “Keepers” in the Haedo, Buenos Aires -- Part III Cities & Practice -- 19. The Architect and Invisible Cities -- 20. Visible Cities: Calvino in Performance -- 21. The Pedagogy of Storytelling in Invisible Cities -- 22. Invisible Smart Cities -- 23. Peripheral Visions of Empire: Zagreb, Belgrade, Sarajevo (Homage to Calvino) -- 24. Imagining São Paulo with Invisible Cities -- 25. Desires and Fears in the Invisible Eternal City -- 26. Nyctopolis, the City of Darkness -- 27. Epilogue: A Comparative Palimpsest of Urban Plenitude and Difference. |
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'Brave New World': Contexts and Legacies [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Jonathan Greenberg, Nathan Waddell |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2016.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XXIII, 254 p. 3 illus., 1 illus. in color.) |
Disciplina | 809.04 |
Soggetto topico |
Literature, Modern—20th century
Comparative literature Literature, Modern—21st century Twentieth-Century Literature Comparative Literature Contemporary Literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
ISBN | 1-137-44541-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- 1. Brave New World as a Modern Utopia -- 2. Signs of the T -- 3. ‘That Learning Were Such a Filthy Thing' -- 4. The Pleasures of Dystopia -- 5. Huxley and Reproduction -- 6. What Huxley Got Wrong -- 7. Brave New World and Vanity Fair; Carey Snyder -- 8. The Brave New World of Mothering -- 9. Ethics in the Late Anthropocene -- 10. ‘My Hypothetical Islanders’ -- 11. ‘Words Without Reason’. |
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(Re)mapping the Latina/o Literary Landscape / / edited by Cristina Herrera, Larissa M. Mercado-López |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2016.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (270 p.) |
Disciplina | 863.009 |
Collana | Literatures of the Americas |
Soggetto topico |
Ethnology - Latin America
Culture Literature Literature, Modern - 20th century Literature, Modern - 21st century Latino Culture World Literature Twentieth-Century Literature Contemporary Literature |
ISBN | 1-349-94901-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Part 1 Expanding Latinidades -- “Metaphors of Miscegenation: Genre Mixing in Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera.” Shelley García -- “Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Cuban Characters: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda,” Judie Newman -- “Pedro Medina and Suburbano Come to the Fore: Miami as a Cultural Stage and Source of Creativity,” Naida Saavedra -- “Latin/o American Perspectives of the United States in Sam no es mi tío,” Amrita Das -- The Twenty-first Century Politics of Latinidad: Decolonizing Consciousness, Transnational Solidarity, and Global Activism in Demetria Martínez’s Mother Tongue,” Georgina Guzmán -- Part 2 Crossing Literary Terrains -- “‘The Waltons, Chicana Style’: Queer Familia and Reclaimed Sisterhood in Terri de la Peña’s Faults” Cristina Herrera -- “Crossing Borders Through Prostitution: Esperanza’s Box of Saints by María Amparo Escandón and Across a Hundred Mountains by Reyna Grande,” Carolyn González -- “Twenty-first Century Literary Border Formations: Neoliberalism and Domingo Martínez's The Boy Kings of Texas,” Magda García -- “Capirotada: A Renewed Chicana Spirituality through a Chicana Literary Lens,” Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs -- Part 3 Mapping the Body -- “Creating a More Compassionate Narrative: Undoing Desconocimiento through Embodied Intimacy in Helena María Viramontes’ Under the Feet of Jesus and Luis Alberto Urrea’s The Devil’s Highway,” Christina García López -- “Entering the Mainstream: Chicana Lesbian Subjectivity in Contemporary Drama and Performance,” Trevor Boffone -- “Slow Lightning: Image, Time, and An Erotics of Reading,” Eliza Rodríguez y Gibson -- “From Lost Woman to Third Space Mestiza Maternal Subject: La Llorona as a Metaphor of Transformation,” Larissa M. Mercado-López -- Part 4 Writers on Literary (In)visibility: Voicing Activism from the Margins -- “Extremely Brown and Incredibly Ignored,” Alex Espinoza -- “Latino Literature for Children and the Lack of Diversity,” Gabriela Baeza Ventura. |
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21st Century US Historical Fiction : Contemporary Responses to the Past / / edited by Ruth Maxey |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2020.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (278 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina |
813.0810906
800 |
Soggetto topico |
Literature, Modern - 20th century
Literature, Modern - 21st century Literature Contemporary Literature North American Literature Literature, general |
ISBN | 3-030-41897-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. US Historical Fiction since 2000; Ruth Maxey -- 2. Folklore, Fakelore and the History of the Dream: James McBride’s Song Yet Sung; Judie Newman -- 3. To ‘Refract Time’: The Magical History of Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad; Michael Docherty -- 4. Growing up Too Quickly: The Cultural Construction of Children in Lyndsay Faye’s Gods of Gotham Trilogy; James Peacock -- 5. ‘Everyone, we are dead!’: (Hi)story and Power in George Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo; Clare Hayes-Brady -- 6. ‘We cannot create’: The Limits of History in Joyce Carol Oates’s The Accursed; Rachael McLennan -- 7. ‘Key Clacks and Bell Dings and Slamming Platens’: The Historical and Narrative Function of Music in E.L. Doctorow’s Homer and Langley; Villy Karagouni -- 8. Archive Future: Trauma and the Child in Two Contemporary American Bestsellers; Aimee Pozorski -- 9. Creating a Usable Past: Writing the Korean War in Contemporary American Fiction; Ruth Maxey -- 10. Paternity, History, and Misrepresentation in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer; Debra Shostak -- 11. Queering the ‘Lost Year’: Transcription and the Lesbian Continuum in Susan Choi’s American Woman; Rebecca Martin -- 12. The Contemporary Sixties Novel: Post-postmodernism and Historiographic Metafiction; Mark West -- 13. ‘What’s the plot, man?’: Alternate History and the Sense of an Ending in David Means’ Hystopia; Diletta de Cristofaro -- 14. ‘To Avenging My People’: Speculating Revenge for US Slavery in Dwayne Alexander Smith’s Forty Acres; DeLisa D. Hawkes. |
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9/11 in European Literature : Negotiating Identities Against the Attacks and What Followed / / edited by Svenja Frank |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2017.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XI, 386 p. 5 illus.) |
Disciplina | 809.4 |
Soggetto topico |
European literature
Literature, Modern - 20th century Literature, Modern - 21st century Comparative literature European Literature Contemporary Literature Twentieth-Century Literature Comparative Literature |
ISBN | 3-319-64209-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 9/11 in European Literature. Negotiating Identities Against the Attacks and What Followed -- 9/11: The Interpretation of Disaster as Disaster of Interpretation – an American Catastrophe Reflected in American and European Discourses -- The Wind of the Hudson: Gerhard Richter’s September (2005) and the European Perception of Catastrophe -- Burning from the inside out’: Let the Great World Spin (2009) -- Seeing is Disbelieving: The Contested Visibility of 9/11 in France -- Cultural and Historical Memory in English and German Discursive Responses to 9/11 -- The Post-9/11 World in Three Polish Responses: Zagajewski, Skolimowski, Tochman -- The Islamic World as Other in Oriana Fallaci’s ‘Trilogy’ -- National Identity and Literary Culture after 9/11:Pro- and Anti-Americanism in Frédéric Beigbeder’s Windows on the World(2003) and Thomas Hettche’s Woraus wir gemacht sind (2006) -- The Mimicry of Dialogue: Thomas Lehr’s September. Fata Morgana (2010) -- Europe and Its Discontents: Intra-European Violence in Dutch Literature after 9/11 -- Tourist/Terrorist. Narrating Uncertainty in Early European Literature on Guantánamo -- Appendix. |
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A. S. Byatt and Intellectual Women : Fictions, Histories, Myths / / by Leanne Bibby |
Autore | Bibby Leanne |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2022.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (242 pages) |
Disciplina |
305.4
823.914 |
Collana | Palgrave Studies in Contemporary Women’s Writing |
Soggetto topico |
Literature, Modern - 20th century
Literature, Modern - 21st century Literature - Philosophy Feminism and literature Intellectual life - History Prose literature Contemporary Literature Feminist Literary Theory Intellectual History Narrative Text and Prose |
ISBN | 3-031-08671-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1 Introduction -- 2 Cultural Histories of the Intellectual: From Patriarchal Myth to Feminist Mythopoeia -- 3 A. S. Byatt: Creating the Intellectual Woman -- 4 Minds and Bodies -- 5 Intellectuals and Sexual Specificity -- 6 Women Intellectuals, Private Intellectuals? -- 7 Future Histories of Intellectual Women -- 8 Afterword: Mythopoeia: Beyond Torment. |
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Affect Theory and Literary Critical Practice : A Feel for the Text / / edited by Stephen Ahern |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2019.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (261 pages) |
Disciplina | 811.609 |
Collana | Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism |
Soggetto topico |
Literature - Philosophy
European literature - Renaissance, 1450-1600 Literature, Modern - 20th century Literature, Modern - 21st century Literature, Modern - 18th century Literature, Medieval Literary Theory Early Modern and Renaissance Literature Contemporary Literature Eighteenth-Century Literature Medieval Literature Twentieth-Century Literature |
ISBN | 9783319972688 (eBook) |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction: A Feel for the Text, Stephen Ahern -- Part I Feeling Early Modern -- 2. The Body in Wonder: Affective Suspension and Medieval Queer Futurity, Wan-Chuan Kao -- 3. (Non-)Belief in Things: Affect Theory and A New Literary Materialism, Neil Vallelly -- 4. Semblances of Affect in the Early English Novel: Narrating Intensity, Joel P. Sodano -- Part II Affective Transmissions, Romantic to Victorian -- 5. Reading and the Sociality of Disappointing Affects in Jane Austen, Carmen Faye Mathes -- 6. Shame and its Affects: The Form–Content Implosion of Shelley’s The Cenci, Merrilees Roberts -- 7. Bodily Sympathy, Affect, and Victorian Sensation Fiction, Tara MacDonald -- 8. Feeling Other(s): Dracula and the Ethics of Unmanageable Affect, Kimberly O’Donnell -- Part III Modernist Contingencies: Engaging the Ineffable -- 9. Glad Animals: Speed, Affect, and Modern Literature, Katherine G. Sutherland -- 10. Senses without Names: Affective Becomings in William Faulkner and Carson McCullers, Jill Marsden -- Part IV Bodies Write Back: Attending to Affect in Contemporary Writing -- 11. Invisible Memories: Black Feminist Literature and its Affective Flights, Jamie Rogers -- 12. On Good Listening, Postcritique, and Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Affective Testimony, Tobias Skiveren -- 13. Feeling Nature, Reconsidered: Ecocriticism, Affect, and the Case of H is for Hawk, Lisa Ottum. |
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The Afro-Latin@ Experience in Contemporary American Literature and Culture : Engaging Blackness / / by Jill Toliver Richardson |
Autore | Richardson Jill Toliver |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2016.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (X, 170 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.08968 |
Collana | Afro-Latin@ Diasporas |
Soggetto topico |
Ethnology—Latin America
African Americans America—Literatures Literature, Modern—20th century Literature, Modern—21st century Latino Culture African American Culture North American Literature Contemporary Literature |
ISBN | 3-319-31921-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Chapter One: Enduring the Curse: The Legacy of Inter-generational Trauma in Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao -- Chapter Two:Haunting Legacies: Forging Afro-Dominican Women’s Identity in Loida Maritza Pérez’s Geographies of Home -- Chapter Three:‘Boricua, Moreno’: Laying Claim to Blackness in the Post-Civil Rights Era -- Chapter Four: Afro-Latin Magical Realism, Historical Memory, Identity, and Space in Angie Cruz’s Soledad and Nelly Rosario’s Song of the Water Saints -- Chapter Five: Memory and the Afro-Cuban Missing Link in H.G. Carrillo’s Loosing My Espanish -- Conclusion: Conceptualizing Afro-Latinidad. . |
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Richardson Jill Toliver
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Ageing in Irish Writing : Strangers to Themselves / / by Heather Ingman |
Autore | Ingman Heather |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2018.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (IX, 209 p.) |
Disciplina | 809.41 |
Soggetto topico |
British literature
Literature, Modern—20th century Literature, Modern—21st century British and Irish Literature Twentieth-Century Literature Contemporary Literature |
ISBN | 3-319-96430-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction: Gerontology and its Challenges -- 2. Ageing, Time and Aesthetics: Dorian Gray, W. B. Yeats and Elizabeth Bowen’s The Little Girls -- 3. Resisting the Narrative of Decline: Molly Keane, Time After Time, Deirdre Madden Authenticity and Anne Enright The Green Road -- 4. Ageing, the Individual and the Community: Iris Murdoch, John Banville and John McGahern -- 5. A Voice of Their Own: Portraits of Old Age in the Irish Short Story -- 6. Frail Old Age -- 7. Epilogue: The Bedbound and Dying. |
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Ingman Heather
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Air Travel Fiction and Film : Cloud People / / by Erica Durante |
Autore | Durante Erica |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2020.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (222 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina |
809.3932161
800 |
Collana | Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture |
Soggetto topico |
Literature, Modern - 20th century
Literature, Modern - 21st century Fiction Literature Culture Motion pictures - History Human geography Cultural geography Contemporary Literature Fiction Literature World Literature Global and International Culture Film and TV History Social and Cultural Geography |
ISBN | 3-030-52651-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction -- 2. Airworld as an In-Between Space -- 3. Time Out of Control -- 4. Luxury in the Sky with More than Diamonds -- 5. Cloud People: Identities and Paradoxes -- 6. Connections, Disconnections, and Reconnections.-7. Coda: Flying Over. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910484401503321 |
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