Filter by
Literature and sustainability : concept, text and culture
Sustainability has become a key socio-political issue over recent years. However, whilst the literary-critical community has advanced enthusiastically on an exciting range of environmentally-based analyses (most obviously through the work of ecocriticism), its response specifically to sustainability—as an attempt to reconceptualise the way we live, as an idea with a particular history, and as…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781526107633
- Collation
- xvii, 253p. : ill
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 823.0093553 LIT l
Reading Shakespeare's mind
This book shows that William Shakespeare was a more personal writer than any of his innumerable commentators have realised. It asserts that numerous characters and events were drawn from the author's life, and puts faces to the names of Jaques, Touchstone, Feste, Jessica, the 'Dark Lady' and others. Steven Sohmer explores aspects of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets that have been hitherto overlo…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781526113276
- Collation
- xii, 212p. : ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 822.33 SOH r
Disabled bodies in early modern Spanish literature: prostitutes, aging women …
Encarnacion Juarez-Almendros.
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781786940780
- Collation
- viii, 201 pages ; 24 cm.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Narrative concepts in the study of eighteenth-century literature
This collection of essays studies the encounter between allegedly ahistorical concepts of narratology and eighteenth-century literature. It questions whether the general concepts of narratology are as such applicable to historically specific fields, or whether they need further specification. Furthermore, at issue is the question whether the theoretical concepts actually are, despite their appe…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789048527380
- Collation
- 314p. : ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 820.9005 NAR n
A world of fiction : digital collections and the future of literary history
During the 19th century, throughout the Anglophone world, most fiction was first published in periodicals. In Australia, newspapers were not only the main source of periodical fiction, but the main source of fiction in general. Because of their importance as fiction publishers, and because they provided Australian readers with access to stories from around the world—from Britain, America an…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780472130856
- Collation
- viii, 252p. : ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 809.3034 BOD a
Contemporary Nordic Literature and Spatiality
This open access collection offers a detailed mapping of recent Nordic literature and its different genres (fiction, poetry, and children’s literature) through the perspective of spatiality. Concentrating on contemporary Nordic literature, the book presents a distinctive view on the spatial turn and widens the understanding of Nordic literature outside of canonized authors. Examining literatu…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030233532
- Collation
- XVII, 307 p.
- Series Title
- Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
- Call Number
- 839.509 CON c
Traces of the old, uses of the new : the emergence of digital literary studies
Digital Humanities remains a contested, umbrella term covering many types of work in numerous disciplines, including literature, history, linguistics, classics, theater, performance studies, film, media studies, computer science, and information science. In Traces of the Old, Uses of the New: The Emergence of Digital Literary Studies, Amy Earhart stakes a claim for discipline-specific history…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780472072781
- Collation
- ix, 161p. : ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 802.85 EAR t
Architecture and modern literature
Architecture and Modern Literature explores the representation and interpretation of architectural space in modern literature from the early nineteenth century to the present, with the aim of showing how literary production and architectural construction are related as cultural forms in the historical context of modernity. In addressing this subject, it also examines the larger questions of the…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780472071715
- Collation
- xiii, 285p. : ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 809.93357 SPU a
Originality, imitation, and plagiarism : teaching writing in the digital age
A timely intervention in national debates about what constitutes original or plagiarized writing
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780472070343
- Collation
- 269p. : ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 808 ORI o
Tactics of the human : experimental technics in American fiction
A comparative literary perspective on emerging digital cultures and how the systems-thinking of Post-World War II information and dynamic systems theory have entered into everyday life and lived space, prompting tactical (re)understandings of the human
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780472072385
- Collation
- viii, 265p. : ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 813.009356 SHA t
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography