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The Aesthetics of Anthony Burgess : Fire of Words / / by Jim Clarke
| The Aesthetics of Anthony Burgess : Fire of Words / / by Jim Clarke |
| Autore | Clarke Jim |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2017.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XIII, 303 p.) |
| Disciplina | 809.04 |
| Soggetto topico |
Literature, Modern - 20th century
Fiction Twentieth-Century Literature Fiction Literature |
| ISBN | 3-319-66411-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction -- 2. Double Vision -- 3. All A Matter Of A Goddess -- 4. Conflict And Confluence -- 5. Nowhere But The Fire Of Words -- 6. Conclusion. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910255077103321 |
Clarke Jim
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| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Affects, Cognition, and Politics of Samuel Beckett's Postwar Drama and Fiction : Revolutionary and Evolutionary Paradoxes / / by Cristina Ionica
| The Affects, Cognition, and Politics of Samuel Beckett's Postwar Drama and Fiction : Revolutionary and Evolutionary Paradoxes / / by Cristina Ionica |
| Autore | Ionica Cristina |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2020.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xi, 286 pages) |
| Disciplina |
848.91409
828.91209 |
| Collana | New Interpretations of Beckett in the Twenty-First Century |
| Soggetto topico |
Literature, Modern - 20th century
European literature Drama Theater - History Fiction Twentieth-Century Literature European Literature Contemporary Theatre and Performance Fiction Literature |
| ISBN | 3-030-34902-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction to Beckett’s “Absurdist” Excess -- Part I Contagion and Accessibility: Revolutionary Beckett -- 2. Repetition, Deliberation, and an Other Power: The Paradox as Practice -- 3. The Liberating Laughter of “Nearly There”: Beckett’s Solidarity-Building Dramas -- 4. Under-the-Radar Derision and Anger: Becoming Revolutionary in/ through Beckett’s Fiction -- Part II Script Evaluation and Enrichment: Evolutionary Beckett -- 5. Beckett’s “Script Multiplication and Enrichment”: Rejecting Toxic Disjunctions and Seeking Inclusivity -- 6. Evaluation, Expulsion, Expansion, and Reframing: Building Processing Speed and Tolerance to Cognitive Strain -- 7. Conclusion. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910483424503321 |
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Ionica Cristina
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| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Agatha Christie and the Guilty Pleasure of Poison / / by Sylvia A. Pamboukian
| Agatha Christie and the Guilty Pleasure of Poison / / by Sylvia A. Pamboukian |
| Autore | Pamboukian Sylvia A. |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2022.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (230 pages) |
| Disciplina | 823.912 |
| Collana | Crime Files |
| Soggetto topico |
Literature, Modern - 20th century
Fiction Literature - Philosophy Feminism and literature Ethnology - Great Britain Culture Twentieth-Century Literature Fiction Literature Feminist Literary Theory British Culture |
| ISBN |
9783031160004
9783031159992 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Agatha Christie, Poison, and Crime -- 2. Agatha Christie and Pharmacy -- 3. Dying Game: Unrepentant Outlaws in Christie and Doyle -- 4. Cheering Bystanders in Christie and Sayers -- 5. The Revenger’s Comeuppance in Christie and Jackson -- 6. The Poisoner’s Afterlives -- 7. Readers and the Poison Garden. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910624310403321 |
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Pamboukian Sylvia A.
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| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Air Travel Fiction and Film : Cloud People / / by Erica Durante
| 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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| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020 | ||
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Alfred Bester’s The Stars My Destination : A Critical Companion / / by D. Harlan Wilson
| Alfred Bester’s The Stars My Destination : A Critical Companion / / by D. Harlan Wilson |
| Autore | Wilson D. Harlan |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2022.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (133 pages) |
| Disciplina | 813.54 |
| Collana | Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon |
| Soggetto topico |
Fiction
Literature, Modern - 20th century America - Literatures Popular Culture Motion pictures Television broadcasting Fiction Literature Twentieth-Century Literature North American Literature Film and Television Studies |
| ISBN |
9783030969462
9783030969455 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction -- 2. Synopsis -- 3. Cyberpunk Previsions and Literary Influences -- 4. The Frankenstein Riff -- 5. Architectures of Psyche, Power and Patriarchy -- 6. Speaking in Gutter Tongues -- 7. Coda. . |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910568244303321 |
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Wilson D. Harlan
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| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022 | ||
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American Literature in the Era of Trumpism : Alternative Realities / / edited by Dolores Resano
| American Literature in the Era of Trumpism : Alternative Realities / / edited by Dolores Resano |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2022.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (292 pages) |
| Disciplina |
811.3
810.935873933 |
| Collana | American Literature Readings in the 21st Century |
| Soggetto topico |
America - Literatures
Literature, Modern - 20th century Literature, Modern - 21st century Fiction America - Politics and government North American Literature Contemporary Literature Fiction Literature American Politics |
| ISBN |
9783030738587
9783030738570 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction (Dolores Resano, University College Dublin) -- Section One: Thinking about Fiction -- Chapter 1: Empathy and Fiction in the Trump Era (Robert Anthony Siegel, University of North Carolina Wilmington) -- Chapter 2: Intersections of Literature, Politics and Narrative in a Fake News World: Huck Finn, Alice in Wonderland and Hannah Arendt’s Conception of the “New” in Narrative (Karen Armstrong, York University) -- Chapter 3: “The office could be any office” – Moral Responsibility, Poststructuralism and the New Sincerity in American Literature and Right-Wing Politics (Dominik Steinhilber, University of Mannheim) -- Chapter 4: Writing the Resistance: Claudia Rankine’s Exploration of Whiteness in The White Card (Angela Mullis, Rutgers University) -- Section Two: Alternative Histories of America -- Chapter 5: Alternative Histories, Alternative Homes, Alternative Nations: Contemporary Literature and Genre in the Age of Trump (Martha Jane Nadell, Brooklyn College, CUNY) -- Chapter 6: The Day the Music Died: The Invisible Republic in Steve Erickson’s Shadowbahn (Liam Kennedy, University College Dublin) -- Chapter 7: “The Direction of the Bizarre”: Reimagining History in Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad (Sonia Weiner, University of Tel Aviv) -- Chapter 8: Underground Airlines, Entropy, and Dehumanization (Karen Hellekson, Independent Scholar) -- Section Three: Subversive Humor as Contestation -- Chapter 9: How Do We Laugh about This? Literary Satire in Trump Times (Teresa Botelho, Nova University of Lisbon) -- Chapter 10: Writing as Antidote: Muslim Writers Resist in Don’t Panic, I’m Islamic and Banthology (Maria Mothes, University of Koblenz-Landau) -- Chapter 11: “I’d get so constipated if I were you”: Otessa Moshfegh’s Intimate Disgust (Tim Groenland, University College Cork).-12. Coda: Empathy in the Age of Trump. Or, Using Our Weird Cultural Moment to Reassess How Fiction Works (Robert Anthony Siegel, University of North Carolina Wilmington). |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910590087303321 |
| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022 | ||
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American Women's Regionalist Fiction : Mapping the Gothic / / edited by Monika Elbert, Rita Bode
| American Women's Regionalist Fiction : Mapping the Gothic / / edited by Monika Elbert, Rita Bode |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2021.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XIII, 372 p. 2 illus.) |
| Disciplina | 813.08729099287 |
| Collana | Palgrave Gothic |
| Soggetto topico |
Fiction
America - Literatures Sex Books - History Ethnology - America Culture Fiction Literature North American Literature Gender Studies History of the Book American Culture |
| ISBN | 3-030-55552-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- New England Gothic: Resisting Nation -- Nancy Sweet, “Gothic Woods and the Shining City on a Hill: Harriet Prescott Spofford’s ‘Circumstance’” -- Melissa McFarland Pennell, “New England Gothic/New England Guilt: Mary Wilkins Freeman’s Giles Corey and the Salem Witchcraft Episode” -- Cécile Roudeau, “Sarah Orne Jewett’s New England Gothic: ‘Lady Ferry’ and the Uncanny Durability of Colonial History” -- New England’s Landscapes and the Eco-Gothic -- Rita Bode, “Local Habitations as Gothic Terrain in Rose Terry Cooke” -- Daniel Mrozowski, “Hallowed Ground: The Gothic New England of Sarah Orne Jewett and Mary Wilkins Freeman” -- Cynthia Murillo, “Life By Landscape: The Sublime and the Spectacle of Transcendence in the Gothic Fiction of Edith Wharton” -- Southern Gothic: Folklore, Superstition, Race -- Alicia Mischa Renfroe ‘That Dim Abode’: Uncanny Region in Rebecca Harding Davis’s “The Tragedy of Fauquier” -- Wendy Ryden, “Gothic Chopin: Negotiating Realism’s Divide in Bayou Folk” -- Ellen Weinauer, “The Gothic and the “Southern Lady”: Catherine Warfield’s The Household of Bouverie” -- Jeffrey Weinstock, “Haunted Homesteads: E.D.E.N. Southworth’s Dual Gothic” -- Valerie Levy, ““Hoodoo and Voodoo in Zora Neale Hurston’s Gothic Folklore” -- West Coast Gothic -- Lesley Ginsberg, “Mary Austin’s California Gothic” -- Dara Downey, “Emma Frances Dawson’s Urban California Gothic” -- Laura Laffrado, “’It Will Haunt the Reader after the Others have Faded into the Mists’: The Gothic West of Ella Rhoads Higginson’s ‘In the Bitter Root Mountains’” -- Laura Mielke, “Zitkala Sa’s Defiant Gothicism” -- Midwest Hauntings -- Monika Elbert, “Alice Cary and Margaret Fuller: Mundane Musings and Great Lakes Hauntings” -- Stéphanie Durrans, “Specters of the Great Plains: Cather’s My Antonia as a Gothic Regionalist Novel” -- Jane Anne Fleming, “Gothic Spaces and the “Homeland”: Resisting Exceptionalism in Constance Fenimore Woolson’s Tales of the Great Lakes and Reconstruction”. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910483999603321 |
| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Amputation in Literature and Film : Artificial Limbs, Prosthetic Relations, and the Semiotics of "Loss" / / edited by Erik Grayson, Maren Scheurer
| Amputation in Literature and Film : Artificial Limbs, Prosthetic Relations, and the Semiotics of "Loss" / / edited by Erik Grayson, Maren Scheurer |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2021.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (324 pages) |
| Disciplina | 809.933561 |
| Collana | Literary Disability Studies |
| Soggetto topico |
Comparative literature
Fiction Medicine and the humanities Motion pictures Medicine - Philosophy Comparative Literature Fiction Literature Medical Humanities Global Film and TV Philosophy of Medicine |
| ISBN | 3-030-74377-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction: Amputation and the Semiotics of “Loss” -- Part I: The Politics of Amputation -- 2. “Lame Doings.” Amputation, Impotence, and Community in The Shoemaker’s Holiday and A Larum for London -- 3. Complicating the Semiotics of Loss. Gender, Power and Amputation Narratives -- 4. Stalin’s Samovars: Disabled Veterans in (Post-)Soviet Literature -- Part II. Amputations’s Intersections -- 5. “She Had Wept So Long and So Much on the Stumps”: Amputation and Embodiment in “The Girl Without Hands” -- 6. Defective Femininity and (Sur)Realist Empowerment: Benito Pérez Galdós’s and Luis Buñuel’s Tristana -- 7. “Even at This Late Juncture”: Amputation, Old Age, and Paul Rayment’s Prosthetic Family in J.M. Coetzee’s Slow Man -- Part III: Grief and Prosthetic Relations -- 8. The Penalty in Novel and Film: Grieving with the Vengeful Amputee -- 9. “The Blunt Remnant of Something Whole”: Living Stumps and Prosthetic Relations in Thomas Bernhard’s Die Billigesser and Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America -- 10. “But the Damage … Lasted”: Phantom Pain and Mourning in Moritz’s Anton Reiser -- Part IV: Philosophy, Language, Disability -- 11. Zhuangzi, Amputees, and Virtue (de) -- 12. Speech—Amputation—Writing: Philomela’s Notalogy -- 13. (In)complete Amputation: Body Integrity Identity Disorder and Maurice Blanchot. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910495192903321 |
| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021 | ||
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Animals in Detective Fiction / / edited by Ruth Hawthorn, John Miller
| Animals in Detective Fiction / / edited by Ruth Hawthorn, John Miller |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2022.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (311 pages) |
| Disciplina |
050
809.387209362 |
| Collana | Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature |
| Soggetto topico |
Literature and technology
Mass media and literature Fiction Ecocriticism Communication in the environmental sciences Animal welfare - Moral and ethical aspects Animal culture Literature and Technology Fiction Literature Environmental Communication Animal Ethics Animal Science |
| ISBN | 3-031-09241-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Origins and Evolutions: The Brutal History of Detective Fiction -- Ontologies -- Tigers, Criminals, Rogues: Animality in Dickens’ Detective Fiction -- Quantum Entanglements in Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles -- Wolverines, Werewolves and Demon Dogs: Animality, Criminality and Classification in James Ellroy’s L.A. Quartet -- Ethics -- The Psittacine Witness: Parrot Talk and Animal Ethics in Earl Derr Biggers’ The Chinese Parrot and Earl Stanley Gardner’s The Case of the Perjured Parrot -- Ecology, Capability and Companion Species: Conflicting Ethics in Nevada Barr’s Blood Lure -- Laboratory Tech-Noir: Genre, Narrative Form, and the Literary Model Organism in Jay Hosking’s Three Years with the Rat -- Reptiles, Buddhism, and Detection in John Burdett’s Bangkok 8 -- Politics -- Animals, Biopolitics, and Sensation Fiction: M. E. Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret -- “The Motto of the Mollusc”: Patricia Highsmith and the Semiotics of Snails -- “Before the white man came, when animals still talked”: Colonial Creatures in Sherman Alexie’s Indian Killer and Adrian C. Louis’s Skins -- Forms -- Aping the Classics: Terry Pratchett’s Satirical Animals and Detective Fiction -- Animal Image and Human Logos in Graphic Detective Fiction -- “As easy to spot as a kangaroo in a dinner jacket”: Animetaphor in Raymond Chandler and Jonathan Lethem. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910634041403321 |
| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022 | ||
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Ann Leckie’s "Ancillary Justice" : A Critical Companion / / by David M. Higgins
| Ann Leckie’s "Ancillary Justice" : A Critical Companion / / by David M. Higgins |
| Autore | Higgins David M |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2022.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (100 pages) |
| Disciplina |
809.3
813.6 |
| Collana | Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon |
| Soggetto topico |
Fiction
Literature - Philosophy Feminism and literature Literature, Modern - 20th century Literature, Modern - 21st century Popular Culture Sex Race Fiction Literature Feminist Literary Theory Contemporary Literature Gender Studies Race and Ethnicity Studies |
| Soggetto non controllato | American Literature |
| ISBN | 3-031-18261-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1.Introduction -- 2.“She Was Probably Male” Gender and Embodiment -- 3. “Luxury Always Comes at Someone Else’s Expense” The Economics of Empire -- 4.“You Have to be Human to be Radchaai” Race, Citizenship, and Imperial Personhood -- 5.“Save it for When it will Make a Difference” Cynical Reason, Agency, and the Politics of Revolution -- 6.Conclusion: Mercy, or the Sword? |
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Higgins David M
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