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The autofictional : approaches, affordances, forms
This open access book offers innovative and wide-ranging responses to the continuously flourishing literary phenomenon of autofiction. The book shows the insights that are gained in the shift from the genre descriptor to the adjective, and from a broad application of “the autofictional” as a theoretical lens and aesthetic strategy. In three sections on “Approaches,” “Affordances,” a…
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- 9783030784409
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- v, 338 p.: ill. - cm
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- 337 THE t
Hyperion : or, the hermit in Greece
Friedrich Hölderlin’s only novel, Hyperion (1797–99), is a fictional epistolary autobiography that juxtaposes narration with critical reflection. Returning to Greece after German exile, following his part in the abortive uprising against the occupying Turks (1770), and his failure as both a lover and a revolutionary, Hyperion assumes a hermitic existence, during which he writes his letters…
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- 9781783746576
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- 212p.
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- 833.6 GAS h
Articulating bodies : the narrative form of disability and illness in victori…
Articulating Bodies investigates the contemporaneous developments of Victorian fiction and disability’s medicalization by focusing on the intersection between narrative form and body. The book examines texts from across the century, from Frederic Shoberl’s 1833 English translation of Victor Hugo’s Notre-Dame de Paris to Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes story “The Adventure of the …
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- 9781789624953
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- ix. ;232 p.
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- 823.8093561. KYL a
Making Black history : diasporic fiction in the moment of afropolitanism
This study proposes that Afropolitanism may be best approached as a distinct cultural moment or historical constellation that allows us to glimpse the shifting and multiple silhouettes which Africa – as signifier, as real and imagined locus – embodies in the globalized cultural landscape of the 21st century. As such, Making Black History looks at contemporary diasporic fictions that have be…
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- 9783110722093
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- vii, 254 p. : ill.
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- 420 HAE m
The autofictional : approaches, affordances, forms
This open access book offers innovative and wide-ranging responses to the continuously flourishing literary phenomenon of autofiction. The book shows the insights that are gained in the shift from the genre descriptor to the adjective, and from a broad application of “the autofictional” as a theoretical lens and aesthetic strategy. In three sections on “Approaches,” “Affordances,” a…
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- 9783030784393
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- xvii, 342 p. : ill.
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- 809.382 EFF t
Belonging and narrative : a theory of the American novel
Why did the novel become so popular in the past three centuries, and how did the American novel contribute to this trend? As a key provider of the narrative frames and formulas needed by modern individuals to give meaning and mooring to their lives. Drawing on phenomenological hermeneutics, human geography and social psychology, Laura Bieger contends that belonging is not a given; it is continu…
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- 9783839446003
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- 182 p.
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- 813.0093552 BIE b
American cities in post-apocalyptic science fiction
Visions of the American city in post-apocalyptic ruin permeate literary and popular fiction, across print, visual, audio and digital media. American Cities in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction explores the prevalence of these representations in American culture, drawing from a wide range of primary and critical works from the early-twentieth century to today. Beginning with science fiction in li…
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- 9781800080980
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- ix, 201 p. : ill
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- 810.9321732 YEA a
Virtual play and the victorian novel : the ethics and aesthetics of fictional…
Pondering the town he had invented in his novels, Anthony Trollope had 'so realised the place, and the people, and the facts' of Barset that 'the pavement of the city ways are familiar to my footsteps'. After his novels end, William Thackeray wonders where his characters now live, and misses their conversation. How can we understand the novel as a form of artificial reality? Timothy Gao propose…
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- 9781108938518
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- vi, 238 p. ; ill
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- 823.809357 GAO v
Zombies in western culture: a twenty-first century crisis
Why has the zombie become such a pervasive figure in twenty-first-century popular culture? John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro and Filip Miscevic seek to answer this question by arguing that particular aspects of the zombie, common to a variety of media forms, reflect a crisis in modern Western culture. The authors examine the essential features of the zombie, including mindlessness, ugl…
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- 9781783743308
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- viii, 93 p. : ill. : ind. ; 24 cm
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- 398.21 VER z
Middlemarch: epigraphs and mirrors
In Middlemarch, George Eliot draws a character passionately absorbed by abstruse allusion and obscure epigraphs. Casaubon’s obsession is a cautionary tale, but Adam Roberts nonetheless sees in him an invitation to take Eliot’s use of epigraphy and allusion seriously, and this book is an attempt to do just that. Roberts considers the epigraph as a mirror that refracts the meaning of a tex…
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- 9781800641600
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- 149 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
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- 823.8 ROB m
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