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'Brave New World': Contexts and Legacies [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Jonathan Greenberg, Nathan Waddell
| '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’. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910255252603321 |
| London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 | ||
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The Afro-Latin@ Experience in Contemporary American Literature and Culture : Engaging Blackness / / by Jill Toliver Richardson
| 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. . |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910255241203321 |
Richardson Jill Toliver
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Ageing in Irish Writing : Strangers to Themselves / / by Heather Ingman
| 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910300029603321 |
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Ingman Heather
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| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 | ||
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Autofiction in English / / edited by Hywel Dix
| Autofiction in English / / edited by Hywel Dix |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2018.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XVI, 283 p. 1 illus.) |
| Disciplina | 809 |
| Collana | Palgrave Studies in Life Writing |
| Soggetto topico |
Literature, Modern—20th century
Literature, Modern—21st century Literature—Philosophy Contemporary Literature Twentieth-Century Literature Literary Theory |
| ISBN | 3-319-89902-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction: Autofiction in English – The Story So Far: Hywel Dix -- 2. Does Autofiction Belong to French or Francophone Authors and Readers only?: Karen Ferreira-Meyers -- 3. Autofiction in the Third Person, with a Reading of Christine Brooke-Rose’s Remake: Lorna Martens -- 4. How Art Constitutes the Human: Aesthetics, Empathy and the Interesting in Autofiction: Meg Jensen -- 5. Autoethnography in post-British Literatures: A Comparative Reading of Charlotte Williams and Jackie Kay: Lisa Sheppard -- 6. Graphic Autofiction and the Visualization of Trauma in Lynda Barry and Phoebe Gloeckner’s Graphic Memoirs: Olga Michael -- 7. Illness Narratives and the Consolations of Autofiction: Graham J. Matthews -- 8. Lives in Story: Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried: Sarah Foust Vinson -- 9. Unpicked and Remade: Creative Imperatives in John Burnside’s Autofictions: Ricarda Menn -- 10) Autofiction as a Reflexive Mode of Thought: Implications for Personal Development: Celia Hunt -- 11. Autofictionalizing Reflective Writing Pedagogies: Risks and Possibilities: Amelia Walker -- 12. Roth is Roth as Roth: Autofiction and the Implied Author: Todd Womble -- 13. Self and Fiction in Walking to Hollywood: Alex Belsey -- 14. Eye to I: American Autofiction and its Contexts from Jerzy Kosinski to Dave Eggers: Bran Nicol. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910300013703321 |
| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Bad Girls and Transgressive Women in Popular Television, Fiction, and Film / / edited by Julie Chappell, Mallory Young
| Bad Girls and Transgressive Women in Popular Television, Fiction, and Film / / edited by Julie Chappell, Mallory Young |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2017.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (289 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 301 |
| Soggetto topico |
Culture
Gender Popular Culture United States—Study and teaching Motion pictures—United States Literature, Modern—20th century Literature, Modern—21st century Culture and Gender American Culture American Cinema and TV Contemporary Literature |
| ISBN | 3-319-47259-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1.Introduction - Mallory Young -- 2.“How do you like my darkness now?”: Women, Violence, and the Good ‘Bad Girl’ in Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Kaley A. Kramer -- 3. Hollywood’s Warrior Woman for the New Millennium - Kate Waites -- 4. Reading Kathleen Mallory: Trauma and Survival in the Detective Fiction of Carol O’Connell - Kathleen A. Kennedy -- 5. Vera Caspary’s Bedelia: Murder as a Domestic Art, or Lethal Home Economics - Kirsten T. Saxton -- 6. The Dirty Secret: Domestic Disarray in Chick Lit - Joanne Knowles -- 7. Good Teachers, Bad Teachers, and Comedic Performance in Popular American Cinema - Joel Gwynne -- 8. Mean Girls End Up Dead: The Dismal Fate of Teen Queen Bees in Popular Culture - Sara K. Day -- 9. Bad Girl, Bad Mother, Bad Queen: Catherine de’ Medici in Contemporary Fiction, Film, and History - William B. Robison -- 10. “Let Them Know That Men Did This”: Medusa, Rape, and Female Rivalry in Contemporary Film and Women’s Writing - Elizabeth Johnston -- 11. At the Crossroads: Carnival, Hybridity, Legendary Womanhood in Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber - N.A. Pierce -- 12. Just Another Monster: Michonne’s Defiance in The Walking Dead - Samaa Abdurraqib -- 13. Bad Girls in Outer Space: Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples’ Saga and the Graphic Representation of Subversive Femininity - Mihaela Precup and Dragoş Manea. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910255070603321 |
| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 | ||
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The Body in Pain in Irish Literature and Culture / / edited by Fionnuala Dillane, Naomi McAreavey, Emilie Pine
| The Body in Pain in Irish Literature and Culture / / edited by Fionnuala Dillane, Naomi McAreavey, Emilie Pine |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2016.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XVI, 283 p. 1 illus.) |
| Disciplina | 809.41 |
| Collana | New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature |
| Soggetto topico |
British literature
Literature, Modern—20th century Literature, Modern—21st century Fiction Ethnology—Europe British and Irish Literature Contemporary Literature Twentieth-Century Literature European Culture |
| ISBN | 3-319-31388-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Introduction: The Body in Pain in Irish Literature and Culture; Fionnuala Dillane, Naomi McAreavey and Emilie Pine -- 1. Where Does It Hurt? How Pain Makes History in Early Modern Ireland; Patricia Palmer -- 2. 'Most barbarously and inhumaine maner butchered’: Masculinity, Trauma and Memory in Early Modern Ireland; Dianne Hall -- 3. ‘Those Savage Days of Memory’: John Temple and his Narrative of the 1641 Uprising; Sarah Covington -- 4. Severed Heads and Floggings: The Undermining of Oblivion in Ulster in the Aftermath of 1798; Guy Beiner -- 5. ‘Tá mé ag imeacht’: The Execution of Myles Joyce and its Afterlives; Margaret Kelleher -- 6. Pain, Trauma and Memory in the Irish War of Independence: Remembering and Contextualizing Irish Suffering; Ian Miller -- 7. Pain, Pleasure and Revolution: The Body in Roger Casement’s Writings; Michael G. Cronin -- 8. ‘Targets of Shame’: Negotiating the Irish Female Migrant Experience in Kathleen Nevin’s You’ll Never Go Back (1946) and Kate O’Brien’s Mary Lavelle (1936); Sinéad Wall -- 9. ‘Intertextual quotation’: Troubled Irish Bodies and Jewish Intertextual Memory in Colum McCann’s ‘Cathal’s Lake’ and ‘Hunger Strike’; Alison Garden -- 10. The Vulnerable Body on Stage: Reading Interpersonal Violence in Rape as Metaphor; Lisa Fitzpatrick -- 11. Recovery and Forgetting: Haunting Remains in Northern Irish Culture; Shane Alcobia Murphy -- 12. ‘That’s not so comfortable for you, is it?’: The Spectre of Misogyny in The Fall; Caroline Magennis -- 13. ‘The Art of Grief’: Irish Women’s Poetry of Loss and Healing; Catriona Clutterbuck -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910155307303321 |
| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 | ||
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Borders and Border Crossings in the Contemporary British Short Story / / edited by Barbara Korte, Laura Mª Lojo-Rodríguez
| Borders and Border Crossings in the Contemporary British Short Story / / edited by Barbara Korte, Laura Mª Lojo-Rodríguez |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2019.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (289 pages) |
| Disciplina |
809.93355
823.0109355 |
| Soggetto topico |
Literature, Modern—20th century
Literature, Modern—21st century British literature Literature Emigration and immigration Contemporary Literature British and Irish Literature Postcolonial/World Literature Migration |
| ISBN | 3-030-30359-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1: Introduction: Border(ing)s in Contemporary Short Stories of the British Isles -- Chapter 2: Glimpses of a Divided Kingdom in Zadie Smith’s Short Stories of the 2010s -- Part I: Grievable Lives and Refugees’ Tales -- Chapter 3: Refugee Fictions: Brexit and the Maintenance of Borders in the European Union -- Chapter 4: The Border Lives of the Unmourned: Olumide Popoola’s Refugee Stories -- Chapter 5: Global Travel and In/voluntary Border Crossings: Anne Enright’s “The Hotel” -- Chapter 6: A Permeable Fortress: European Tales of Global Conflict -- Part II: Ethnicity and Liminal Identities -- Chapter 7: Stranded in a Border Zone: Traumatic Liminality in Black British Short Stories -- Chapter 8: Border Experiences and Liminal Identities in Andrea Levy’s Short Stories -- Chapter 9: Sartorial Borders and Border Crossing in Contemporary Multi-Ethnic Short Stories -- Part III: Animal Encounters and Metamorphic Bodies -- Chapter 10: Indifferent Borders: Confined and Liminal Spaces in Sarah Hall’s “Bees” -- Chapter 11: Human Into Animal: Post-Anthropomorphic Transformations in Sarah Hall’s “Mrs Fox” -- Chapter 12: Weird Border Crossings in China Miéville’s “Looking for Jake”, “The Tain” and “Säcken” -- Chapter 13: Liminal Territory in the Fenland Stories of Jon McGregor and Daisy Johnson -- Part IV: The Short Story, Borders and Intermediality -- Chapter 14: Strangers at the Gates: Intermediality, Borders and the Short Story -- Chapter 15: Liminal Encounters between Literature and Music in Contemporary British. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910482958303321 |
| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019 | ||
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British and American Representations of 9/11 : Literature, Politics and the Media / / by Oana-Celia Gheorghiu
| British and American Representations of 9/11 : Literature, Politics and the Media / / by Oana-Celia Gheorghiu |
| Autore | Gheorghiu Oana-Celia |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2018.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (ix, 269 pages) |
| Disciplina | 809 |
| Soggetto topico |
Literature, Modern—20th century
Fiction Literature, Modern—21st century United States—Study and teaching Communication Twentieth-Century Literature Contemporary Literature American Culture Media and Communication |
| ISBN | 3-319-75250-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction - Towards Another Reading of 9/11 Neorealist Fiction -- 2. Making History: Politics and the Media in the Twenty-First Century -- 3. Literary Re-writings of History and Politics after 9/11 -- 4. The Shattered Self of the West -- 5. Extreme Otherness: 'The Muslim Menace' -- 6. Afterthoughts. |
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Gheorghiu Oana-Celia
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| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 | ||
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Carol Ann Duffy : Poet for Our Times / / by Jane Dowson
| Carol Ann Duffy : Poet for Our Times / / by Jane Dowson |
| Autore | Dowson Jane |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2016.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XIII, 240 p.) |
| Disciplina | 809.1 |
| Soggetto topico |
Poetry
Literature, Modern—20th century Literature, Modern—21st century Poetry and Poetics Contemporary Literature |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| ISBN | 1-137-41563-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1.Poet for Our Times -- 2.Lyrics of Love, Loss, and Longing -- 3.Voices from The 1980s and After -- 4.Words Between Women -- 5.Poetry and the Public Sphere -- 6.Poems about and for Childhood -- 7.Bibliography. |
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Dowson Jane
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| London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 | ||
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Celebrity Authorship and Afterlives in English and American Literature [[electronic resource] /] / by Rick Honings ; edited by Gaston Franssen, Rick Honings
| Celebrity Authorship and Afterlives in English and American Literature [[electronic resource] /] / by Rick Honings ; edited by Gaston Franssen, Rick Honings |
| Autore | Honings Rick |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2016.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XII, 209 p. 15 illus., 4 illus. in color.) |
| Disciplina | 809.41 |
| Soggetto topico |
British literature
America—Literatures Literature, Modern—20th century Literature, Modern—21st century Fiction British and Irish Literature North American Literature Contemporary Literature |
| ISBN | 1-137-55868-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction; Gaston Franssen and Rick Honings -- 1. A Friendly Return of the Author: John Keats (1795-1821); Eric Eisner -- 2. Hero of Horror: Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849); Evert Jan van Leeuwen -- 3. Victorian Iconoclast: Eliza Cook (1818-1889); Alexis Easley -- 4. The Daguerreotype Devil: Herman Melville (1819-1891); Kevin J. Hayes -- 5. The Art of Creating a Great Sensation: Oscar Wilde (1854-1900); Sandra Mayer -- 6. Production and Reproduction: Gertrude Stein (1874-1946); Rod Rosenquist -- 7. The Silence of the Celebrity: J.D. Salinger (1919-2010); Gaston Franssen -- 8. Public and Private Posture: Zadie Smith (1975); Odile Heynders -- Bibliography -- Index.-. |
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Honings Rick
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| London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 | ||
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