Animals and Desire in South African Fiction [[electronic resource] ] : Biopolitics and the Resistance to Colonization / / by Jason D. Price |
Autore | Price Jason D |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2017.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Disciplina | 809.6 |
Collana | Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature |
Soggetto topico |
African literature
Literature, Modern—20th century Literature, Modern—21st century Literature Critical theory African Literature Contemporary Literature Postcolonial/World Literature Critical Theory |
ISBN | 3-319-56726-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Sameness and Difference in the “New” South Africa: Desire and Nonhuman Resistance -- Space and Desire on the (non)Farm: the Return of the Same in Disgrace and The Devil’s Chimney -- Ways of Desiring: Postcolonial Animals and Affect in The Whale Caller -- Consuming the Other and the Ethics of “Eating:” Dominant Desire in Tanuki Ichiban and The Mother of All Eating -- Desire and the Law: Creative Resistance in The Reluctant Passenger and The Heart of Redness -- Transformative Encounters: Desiring Aliens & Hospitality in District 9. |
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Price Jason D | ||
Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 | ||
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Apocalyptic California [[electronic resource] ] : Gender in Climate Fiction / / by MaryKate Messimer |
Autore | Messimer MaryKate |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2023.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (120 pages) |
Disciplina | 809.93355 |
Soggetto topico |
Literature, Modern—20th century
Literature, Modern—21st century America—Literatures Ecocriticism Literature—Philosophy Feminism and literature Human ecology—History Contemporary Literature North American Literature Feminist Literary Theory Environmental History |
ISBN |
9783031299209
9783031299193 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Chapter One: Introduction -- Chapter Two: Indigenous Influences on Early Ecofeminist Utopias -- Chapter Three: Cruel Optimism in the Slow Violence of Apocalypse -- Chapter Four: Hyperobjects and Hyperempathy in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower -- Chapter Five: Embodying the Land in N.K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season. |
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Messimer MaryKate | ||
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Arabic Science Fiction [[electronic resource] /] / by Ian Campbell |
Autore | Campbell Ian |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2018.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (328 pages) |
Disciplina | 741.5973 |
Collana | Studies in Global Science Fiction |
Soggetto topico |
Literature, Modern—20th century
Literature, Modern—21st century Middle Eastern literature Fiction Contemporary Literature Middle Eastern Literature |
ISBN | 3-319-91433-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1:Introduction -- Chapter 2: Postcolonial Literature and Arabic SF -- Chapter 3: Arabic SF: Definitions and Origins -- Chapter 4: Criticism and Theory of Arabic SF -- Chapter 5: Double Estrangement in Nihād Sharīf’s The Conqueror of Time -- Chapter 6: Continuity Within Rupture in Two Novels by Muṣṭafā Maḥmūd -- Chapter 7: “Utopia” as a Critique of Utopia in Ṣabrī Mūsā’s The Gentleman from the Spinach Field -- Chapter 8: Male Gaze as Colonial Gaze in ’Aḥmad ‘Abd al-Salām al-Baqqāli’s The Blue Flood -- Chapter 9: Mysticism and SF in Ṭālib ‘Umrān’s Beyond The Veil of Time -- Chapter 10: Inheritance and Intertextuality in a Three-Novel Series by Ṭība ’Aḥmad Ibrāhīm -- Chapter 11: Conclusion. |
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Campbell Ian | ||
Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 | ||
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Autofiction in English [[electronic resource] /] / 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 |
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Avant-garde Orientalism [[electronic resource] ] : The Eastern 'Other' in Twentieth-Century Travel Narrative and Poetry / / by David LeHardy Sweet |
Autore | Sweet David LeHardy |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2017.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Disciplina | 809.04 |
Soggetto topico |
Literature, Modern—20th century
Literature Comparative literature Literature, Modern—21st century Twentieth-Century Literature Postcolonial/World Literature Comparative Literature Contemporary Literature |
ISBN | 3-319-50373-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction -- 2. The Poetics of Travel, Postcolonial Criticism, and the Theory of the Avant-Garde -- 3. A Literary Genealogy of Avant-garde Orientalism -- 4. The Maghreb and Tangier -- 5. Egypt and Palestine -- 6. India -- 7. Conclusion: The Far East. . |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910163005703321 |
Sweet David LeHardy | ||
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Materiale a stampa | ||
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Ayn Rand and the Posthuman [[electronic resource] ] : The Mind-Made Future / / by Ben Murnane |
Autore | Murnane Ben |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2018.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (IX, 197 p.) |
Disciplina | 809 |
Soggetto topico |
Literature, Modern—20th century
Literature, Modern—21st century Technology in literature Literature—Philosophy Contemporary Literature Literature and Technology/Media Literary Theory |
ISBN | 3-319-90853-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1: Introduction: A Posthuman Objective -- Chapter 2: Points of Entry -- Chapter 3: The Posthuman and the Objectivist -- Chapter 4: Rand Noir vs Rand Incorporated -- Chapter 5: Objectivism in BioShock -- Chapter 6: Howard Roark, John Galt, and The Transhumanist Wager -- Chapter 7: Afterword: The Mind-Made Future. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910300024603321 |
Murnane Ben | ||
Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Bad Girls and Transgressive Women in Popular Television, Fiction, and Film [[electronic resource] /] / 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. |
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The Body in Pain in Irish Literature and Culture [[electronic resource] /] / 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. |
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Borders and Border Crossings in the Contemporary British Short Story [[electronic resource] /] / 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 |
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 [[electronic resource] ] : 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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910300015903321 |
Gheorghiu Oana-Celia | ||
Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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