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  • Love, Etc.

    Essays on Contemporary Literature and Culture

    The look of love . . . through an analytic lensLong treated with skepticism in literary and cultural studies, love – as a subject of serious scholarly inquiry – is now attracting intense interest and renewed attention. Love, Etc. centers on two key themes: representations of love in literature and culture and love as a relationship to literature and culture. How are our attitudes to love changing ... Read more

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  • Extinction and Memorial Culture

    Reckoning with Species Loss in the Anthropocene

    Edited by Hannah Stark ...
    This book considers how we encounter and make meaning from extinction in diverse settings and cultures. It brings together an international and interdisciplinary range of scholars to consider how extinction is memorialised in museums and cultural institutions, through monuments, in literature and art, through public acts of ritual and protest, and in everyday practices.In an era in which species ... Read more

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  • The Theory of Love

    Ideals, Limits, Futures

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The Theory of Love: Ideals, Limits, Futures explores stories about love that recuperate a vision of intimate life as a resource for creating bonds beyond heterosexual coupledom. This book offers a variety of ethical frames through which to understand changing definitions of love, intimacy, and interdependency in the context of struggles for marriage equality and the increasing recognition of post ... Read more

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  • The Poetics and Politics of Gardening in Hard Times

    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    How do poets, writers and cultural critics contend with and represent the garden or their own gardening as they are changed by austerity? Gardening under austerity encompasses a diversity of places, spaces, practices, and actors: suburban allotments and zoological gardens, Victory diggers and urban foragers, human gardeners and the unruly more-than-human world. Theorizing the politics, poetics and ... Read more

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  • Trucker and Train

    by Hannah Stark ...
    Illustrated by Bob Kolar ...
    Kindness and friendship triumph over bullying in this action-packed story that’s perfect for fans of Little Blue Truck and Loren Long’s Otis stories, and for every vehicle-obsessed little one.Trucker, the big rig, loves to rule the road with his size, strength, and mighty horn. The other vehicles swerve and shake as Trucker blasts past, expecting them to follow along in awe. Then Trucker meets the ... Read more

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  • The Green Thread

    Dialogues with the Vegetal World

    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World is an interdisciplinary collection of essays in the emerging field of Plant Studies. The volume is the first of its kind to bring together a dynamic body of scholarship that shares a critique of long-standing human perceptions of plants as lacking autonomy, agency, consciousness, and, intelligence.The leading metaphor of the book—“the green thread ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Eco Culture

    Disaster, Narrative, Discourse

    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    The edited collection, Eco Culture: Disaster, Narrative, Discourse, opens a conversation about the mediated relationship between culture and ecology. The dynamic between these two great forces comes into stark relief when a disaster—in its myriad forms and narratives—reveals the fragility of our ecological and cultural landscapes. Disasters are the clashing of culture and ecology in violent and ... Read more

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  • Feminist Theory After Deleuze

    Series series Deleuze and Guattari Encounters
    Feminist Theory After Deleuze addresses the encounter between one of the 20th century's most important philosophers, Gilles Deleuze, and one of its most significant political and intellectual movements, feminism. Feminist theory is a broad, contradictory, and still evolving school of thought. This book introduces the key movements within feminist theory, engaging with both Anglo-American and ... Read more

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  • Language and Gender

    Language and Gender is an introduction to the study of the relation between gender and language use, written by two leading experts in the field. This new edition, thoroughly updated and restructured, brings out more strongly an emphasis on practice and change, while retaining the broad scope of its predecessor and its accessible introductions which explain the key concepts in a non-technical way. ... Read more

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  • You Must Work Harder to Write Poetry of Excellence

    Craft Discourse and the Common Reader in Canadian Poetry Book Reviews

    While Canadian poetic practices have steadily pluralised since the early 1960s, the poetry review has remained stubbornly constant. You Must Work Harder to Write Poetry of Excellence is a critical, and at times hilarious survey of reviews of innovative Canadian poetry in English since 1961. What is at stake in the reviewing of poetry? What fantasies are inherent to the practice? How is poetry ... Read more

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  • Fates of the Performative

    From the Linguistic Turn to the New Materialism

    Series series Thinking Theory
    A powerful new examination of the performative that asks “what’s next?” for this well-worn conceptFrom its humble origins in J. L. Austin’s speech-act theory of the 1950s, the performative has grown to permeate wildly diverse scholarly fields, ranging from deconstruction and feminism to legal theory and even theories about the structure of matter. Here Jeffrey T. Nealon discovers how the ... Read more

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