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  • The Short Fiction in Peter Motteux’s «The Gentleman’s Journal» (1692-1694)

    A Critical Edition

    by Gerd Bayer, María José Coperías-Aguilar ...
    This collection brings together the short fictions published in Peter Motteux’s The Gentleman’s Journal, one of the main Restoration periodicals running from 1692 to 1694. These proto-novelistic fictions are accompanied by a scholarly introduction as well as notes and comments to make them more accessible to twenty-first-century readers. Published at a time when there was no firm agreement on the ... Read more

    $61.19 USD

  • The Ethics of Survival in Contemporary Literature and Culture

    Edited by Rudolf Freiburg, Gerd Bayer ...
    The Ethics of Survival in Contemporary Literature and Culture delves into the complex problems involved in all attempts to survive. The essays analyze survival in contemporary prose narratives, short stories, poems, dramas, and theoretical texts, but also in films and other modes of cultural practices. Addressing diverse topics such as memory and forgetting in Holocaust narratives, stories of ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Heavy Metal at the Movies

    Edited by Gerd Bayer ...
    Series series Ashgate Screen Music Series
    The chapters collected in this volume shed light on the areas of interaction between film studies and heavy metal research, exploring how the audio-visual medium of film relates to, builds on and shapes metal culture. At one end of the spectrum, metal music serves as a form of ambient background in horror films that creates an intense and somewhat threatening atmosphere; at the other end, the high ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Novel horizons

    The genre making of Restoration fiction

    by Gerd Bayer ...
    Novel horizons analyses how narrative prose fiction developed during the English Restoration. It argues that after 1660, generic changes within dramatic texts occasioned an intense debate within prologues and introductions. This discussion about the poetics of a genre was echoed in the paratextual material of prose fictions. In the absence of an official poetics that defined prose fiction, ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Holocaust Cinema in the Twenty-First Century

    Images, Memory, and the Ethics of Representation

    Edited by Gerd Bayer, Oleksandr Kobrynskyy ...
    In the first fifteen years of the twenty-first century, a large number of films were produced in Europe, Israel, the United States, and elsewhere addressing the historical reality and the legacy of the Holocaust. Contemporary Holocaust cinema exists at the intersection of national cultural traditions, aesthetic conventions, and the inner logic of popular forms of entertainment. It also reacts to ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Early Modern Constructions of Europe

    Literature, Culture, History

    Edited by Florian Kläger, Gerd Bayer ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
    Between the medieval conception of Christendom and the political visions of modernity, ideas of Europe underwent a transformative and catalytic period that saw a cultural process of renewed self-definition or self-Europeanization. The contributors to this volume address this process, analyzing how Europe was imagined between 1450 and 1750. By whom, in which contexts, and for what purposes was ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Heavy Metal Music in Britain

    Edited by Gerd Bayer ...
    Series series Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
    Heavy metal has developed from a British fringe genre of rock music in the late 1960s to a global mass market consumer good in the early twenty-first century. Early proponents of the musical style, such as Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Judas Priest, Saxon, Uriah Heep and Iron Maiden, were mostly seeking to reach a young male audience. Songs were often filled with violent, sexist and nationalistic ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

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    Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust

    by Marianne Hirsch ...
    Series series Gender and Culture Series
    Can we remember other people's memories? The Generation of Postmemory argues we can: that memories of traumatic events live on to mark the lives of those who were not there to experience them. Children of survivors and their contemporaries inherit catastrophic histories not through direct recollection but through haunting postmemories-multiply mediated images, objects, stories, behaviors, and ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • A Nazi Word for a Nazi Thing

    by So Mayer ...
    In 1937 the Nazis staged an exhibition of seized artworks to showcase the 'perverse Jewish spirit' pervading German culture. It contained work by Jewish artists, but also those were queer or foreign. It was an event that sought to define degeneracy and put it on display. This exhibition, Entartete Kunst, is just a single episode in a long running culture war, one that has always been fought on ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Concentrationary Imaginaries

    Tracing Totalitarian Violence in Popular Culture

    Edited by Griselda Pollock, Max Silverman ...
    Series series New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, Concepts
    In 1945, French political prisoners returning from the concentration camps of Germany coined the phrase 'the concentrationary universe' to describe the camps as a terrible political experiment in the destruction of the human. This book shows how the unacknowledged legacy of a totalitarian mentality has seeped into the deepest recesses of everyday popular culture. It asks if the concentrationary ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • English Literature

    Its History and Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World

    by William J. Long ...
    This book, which presents the whole splendid history of English literature from Anglo-Saxon times to the close of the Victorian Era, has three specific aims. The first is to create or to encourage in every student the desire to read the best books, and to know literature itself rather than what has been written about literature. The second is to interpret literature both personally and ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Postmodernism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Christopher Butler ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Postmodernism has been a buzzword in contemporary society for the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this Very Short Introduction Christopher Butler challenges and explores the key ideas of postmodernists, and their engagement with theory, literature, the visual arts, film, architecture, and music. He treats artists, intellectuals, critics, and social scientists 'as if they were all ... Read more

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