'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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London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 | ||
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(Re)mapping the Latina/o Literary Landscape [[electronic resource] /] / 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
Literature Literature, Modern—20th century Literature, Modern—21st century Latino Culture Postcolonial/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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New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 | ||
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9/11 in European Literature [[electronic resource] ] : 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 |
17.80
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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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 | ||
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Affect Theory and Literary Critical Practice [[electronic resource] ] : 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
Literature, Modern Literature, Modern—20th century Literature, Modern—21st century Literature, Modern—18th century Literature, Medieval Literary Theory Early Modern/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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910483515903321 |
Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019 | ||
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The Afro-Latin@ Experience in Contemporary American Literature and Culture [[electronic resource] ] : 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 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
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Ageing in Irish Writing [[electronic resource] ] : 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 | ||
Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 | ||
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Air Travel Fiction and Film [[electronic resource] ] : 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 |
Collana | Studies in Mobilities, Literature, and Culture |
Soggetto topico |
Literature, Modern—20th century
Literature, Modern—21st century Fiction Literature Culture Motion pictures—History Cultural geography Contemporary Literature Postcolonial/World Literature Global/International Culture Film History 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 |
Durante Erica | ||
Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
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American Crime Fiction [[electronic resource] ] : 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 | ||
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Anglophone Literature of Caribbean Indenture [[electronic resource] ] : The Seductive Hierarchies of Empire / / by Alison Klein |
Autore | Klein Alison |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2018.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (261 pages) |
Disciplina | 809.93358 |
Collana | New Caribbean Studies |
Soggetto topico |
Latin American literature
Literature, Modern—20th century Literature, Modern—21st century Oriental literature Latin American/Caribbean Literature Contemporary Literature Asian Literature |
ISBN | 3-319-99055-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction: The Ties That Bind -- 2. To Have and to Hold: The Role of Marriage in Nonfiction Indenture Narratives -- 3.Tying the Knot: Early Depictions of Indenture -- 4.Tangled Up: Gendered Metaphors of Nation in Contemporary Indo-Caribbean Narratives -- 5. Family Ties: Embodiment of Female Laborers in the Poetry of Indenture -- 6. At the End of their Tether: Women Writing about Indenture -- 7. Conclusion: Loose Threads. |
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Klein Alison | ||
Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
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Animal Biography [[electronic resource] ] : Re-framing Animal Lives / / edited by André Krebber, Mieke Roscher |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2018.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (268 pages) |
Disciplina | 590 |
Collana | Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature |
Soggetto topico |
Literature—Philosophy
Literature, Modern—20th century Literature, Modern—21st century Animal welfare Literary Theory Contemporary Literature Animal Welfare/Animal Ethics |
ISBN | 3-319-98288-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction: Biographies, Animals and Individuality, André Krebber and Mieke Roscher -- 2. Living, Biting Monitors, a Morose Howler, and Other Infamous Animals: Animal Biographies in Ethology and Zoo Biology, Matthew Chrulew -- 3. Finding a Man and his Horse in the Archive?, Hilda Kean -- 4. Recovering and Reconstructing Animal Selves in Literary Autozoographies, Frederike Middelhoff -- 5. A Dog’s Life: The Challenges and Possibilities of Animal Biography, Aaron Skabelund -- 6. “We Know Them All” – Does it Make Sense to Create a Collective Biography of the European Bison?, Markus Krzoska -- 7. Animal Life Stories; Or, the Making of Animal Subjects in Primatological Narratives of Fieldwork, Mira Shah -- 8. Taxidermy's Literary Biographies, Susan McHugh -- 9. Caesar – The Rise and Dawn of a Humanimalistic Identity, Daniel Wolf -- 10. Postscript, Posthuman: Werner Herzog's “Crocodile” at the End of the World, Dominic O’Key -- 11. The Elephant’s I: Looking for Abu’l Abbas, Radhika Subramaniam -- 12. Topsy: The Elephant We Must Never Forget, Kim Stallwood -- 13. Online Animal (Auto-)Biographies: What Does it Mean When We “Give Animals a Voice”?. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910300031203321 |
Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018 | ||
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