'Post'-9/11 South Asian Diasporic Fiction [[electronic resource] ] : Uncanny Terror / / by P. Liao |
Autore | Liao P |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2013.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (198 p.) |
Disciplina | 823.009358 |
Soggetto topico |
Literature - Philosophy
Culture - Study and teaching Literature American literature - 19th century Literature, Modern - 20th century British literature Literary Theory Cultural Theory Postcolonial/World Literature North American Literature Twentieth-Century Literature British and Irish Literature |
ISBN |
1-283-94671-8
1-137-29737-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Uncanny Terror and the 'Post'-9/11; 1 The Uncanny Violence of Strangers: Salman Rushdie's Shalimar the Clown; 2 Crossing the Borders of the Body Politic after 9/11: The Virus Metaphor and Autoimmunity in Hari Kunzru's Transmission; 3 Home-land Insecurity: Unhomely Homes in Monica Ali's Brick Lane; 4 The Post-9/11 'Return Home' Novel: Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist; Conclusion: The Precarious Life of the Other; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Liao P | ||
London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2013 | ||
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100 American Crime Writers / / edited by Steven Powell |
Edizione | [1st edition 2012.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Basingstoke, Hampshire : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 373 pages) |
Disciplina | 813.087209 |
Collana | Crime Files Series |
Soggetto topico |
Crime writing
Detective and mystery stories, American - History and criticism America Literature, Modern - 20th century Culture - Study and teaching Fiction North American Literature Twentieth-Century Literature Regional and Cultural Studies |
ISBN |
9781785395499
1785395491 9781283587662 1283587661 9786613900111 6613900117 9781137031662 1137031662 |
Classificazione | FIC022000FIC030000LIT004020 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements "Out of the Venetian Vase": From Golden Age to Hard-boiled"After These Mean Streets": Crime Fiction and the Chandler InheritanceMegan AbbottPaul AusterW.T. BallardAnn BannonRobert BlochLawrence BlockLeigh BrackettGil BrewerFredric BrownHoward BrowneEdward BunkerJames Lee BurkeW.R. BurnettJames M. CainPaul CainTruman CapoteJohn Dickson CarrVera CasparyRaymond ChandlerHarlan CobenMax Allan CollinsRichard CondonMichael ConnellyPatricia CornwellRobert CraisJames CrumleyCarroll John DalyNorbert DavisMignon G. EberhardtJames EllroyJanet EvanovichWilliam FaulknerKenneth FearingRudolph FisherKinky FriedmanJacques FutrelleErle Stanley GardnerWilliam Campbell GaultDavid GoodisSue GraftonDavis GrubbFrank GruberDashiell HammettThomas HarrisCarl HiaasonPatricia HighsmithGeorge V. HigginsTony HillermanChester HimesDorothy B. HughesRoy HugginsDay KeaneJonathan KellermanC Daly KingJonathon LatimerDennis LehaneElmore LeonardIra LevinElizabeth LinningtonEleazar LipskyJohn LutzEd McBainHorace McCoyWilliam P. McGivernJohn D. MacDonaldRoss MacdonaldDan J. MarloweMargaret MillarWalter MoselyMarcia MullerFrederick NebelBarbara NeelyWilliam F. NolanSara ParetskyRobert B. ParkerGeorge PelecanosEdgar Allan PoeMelville Davisson PostRichard S PratherBill PronziniEllery Queen (aka Dannay and Lee)Arthur B. ReeveMary Roberts RinehartJames SallisGeorge S SchuylerViola Brothers ShoreIceberg SlimMickey SpillaneRex StoutJim ThompsonErnest TidymanLawrence TreatS.S. Van Dine (Willard Huntington Wright)Joseph WambaughCarolyn WellsDonald E WestlakeRaoul WhitfieldCharles WillefordCharles WilliamsCornell Woolrich Bibliography Index. |
Altri titoli varianti |
One hundred American crime writers
Hundred American crime writers |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785798103321 |
Basingstoke, Hampshire : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2012 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910483669603321 |
Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020 | ||
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Abraham Lincoln and William Cullen Bryant : Their Civil War / / by Gilbert H. Muller |
Autore | Muller Gilbert H |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2017.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XIII, 255 p. 21 illus., 10 illus. in color.) |
Disciplina | 973 |
Soggetto topico |
United States—History
Civilization—History America—Literatures US History Cultural History North American Literature |
ISBN | 3-319-31589-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preface.-.Prologue: The Politician and the Poet -- 1. Lincoln at Cooper Union: “An Eminent Citizen of the West” -- 2. The Campaign of 1860: “A Real Representative Man” -- 3. The Secession Winter: “The Madness of the South” -- 4. The Shock of War: “This Most Wicked and Wanton Rebellion” -- 5. The Heart of the Rebellion: “No More Playing at War” -- 6. The Fiery Trial: “What Does the President Wait For?” -- 7. The Road to Chattanooga: “How the War Drags On” -- 8. Dark Days: “A Shower of Blood” -- 9. The Union Vindicated: “Glory to the Lord of Hosts!” -- Epilogue: The President and the Poet. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910163048003321 |
Muller Gilbert H | ||
Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 | ||
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The Aesthetics of Democracy : Eighteenth-Century Literature and Political Economy / / by Craig Carson |
Autore | Carson Craig |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2017.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (V, 170 p.) |
Disciplina | 809.033 |
Soggetto topico |
Literature, Modern - 18th century
European literature America - Literatures Eighteenth-Century Literature European Literature North American Literature |
ISBN | 3-319-33963-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1: “Biopolitics and the Image Obscured” -- Chapter 2: The Image of Suffering -- Chapter 3: “Only the Shape of Man” -- Chapter 4: “Defoe’s Catastrophic Prose,”. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910255066403321 |
Carson Craig | ||
Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 | ||
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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. . |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910255241203321 |
Richardson Jill Toliver | ||
Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 | ||
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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 |
Wilson D. Harlan | ||
Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022 | ||
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Alien Audiences : Remembering and Evaluating a Classic Movie / / by M. Barker, K. Egan, S. Ralph, T. Phillips |
Autore | Barker M |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2016.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Pivot, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (X, 139 p.) |
Disciplina | 791.43 |
Collana | Palgrave Pivot |
Soggetto topico |
Motion pictures—Production and direction
Motion pictures—United States Motion pictures—History Arts America—Literatures Fiction Directing American Cinema and TV Film History North American Literature |
ISBN | 1-137-53206-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910255253503321 |
Barker M | ||
London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Pivot, , 2016 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
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Alternating Narratives in Fiction for Young Readers : Twice Upon a Time / / by Perry Nodelman |
Autore | Nodelman Perry |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2017.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (IX, 249 pages) |
Disciplina | 809.89282 |
Collana | Critical Approaches to Children's Literature |
Soggetto topico |
Children's literature
Fiction America—Literatures Children's Literature North American Literature |
ISBN | 3-319-50817-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Alternating Narratives: An Introduction -- 2 Alternating Narratives as Puzzles -- 3. Alternating Narratives and Represented Writing -- 4. Fictional Collage as Alternating Narratives -- 5. Distance Education: The Readerly Effects of Alternating Narratives -- 6. Alternating Narratives as Variations of Each Other -- 7. Structural Ideologies in Alternating Narratives: Individuality -- 8. Structural Ideologies in Alternating Narratives: Connection and Community -- 9. Structural Ideologies in Alternating Narratives: Indigeneity -- . |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910255061803321 |
Nodelman Perry | ||
Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
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American Crime Fiction : A Cultural History of Nobrow Literature as Art / / by Peter Swirski |
Autore | Swirski Peter |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2016.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XIII, 222 p. 12 illus.) |
Disciplina | 809.04 |
Soggetto topico |
Literature, Modern - 20th century
America - Literatures Literature, Modern - 21st century Twentieth-Century Literature North American Literature Contemporary Literature |
ISBN | 3-319-30108-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Nobrow: Contents and Discontents -- Briefcases for Hire: Dashiell Hammett and John Grisham -- Boilerplate Potboilers: William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway -- The Not So Simple Art of Murder: Raymond Chandler -- The Urban Procedural: Ed McBain -- Take Two: Nelson DeMille and F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Bibliography. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910255243803321 |
Swirski Peter | ||
Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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