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  • Masculinities and Mental Health

    Eating Disorders in Men’s Lived Experience and Contemporary Discourse

    by Heike Bartel, James Downs, Georgios Paslakis ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Literature and Health Humanities
    Masculinities and Mental Health explores literary texts, images, and performances which engage with the under-explored topic of eating disorders in men. Eating disorders are psychiatric illnesses commonly associated with females only. The fact that men can suffer from anorexia, bulimia, binge-eating disorder, and other types of eating disorders too, presents a challenge not only to healthcare ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Men Writing Eating Disorders

    Autobiographical Writing and Illness Experience in English and German Narratives

    by Heike Bartel ...
    Series series Emerald Points
    Eating disorders are situated at the complex interface of biology, medicine, culture, society, and politics, and are seen differently from each perspective. This book brings together discussions of eating, food, gender, sexuality and mental health through analysis of published autobiographical narratives authored by men with experience of living with one of the main eating disorders (anorexia ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • The Short Story in German in the Twenty-First Century

    by Lyn Marven, Helmut Schmitz, Gillian Pye, Heide Kunzelmann, Elizabeth Boa, Heike Bartel, Aine McMurtry, Rafaël Newman, Caroline Wiedmer, Leonhard Herrmann0, Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger1, Andrew Plowman3, Kate Roy5, Katharina Gerstenberger6, Todd Herzog7, Emily Spiers8 ...
    Since the 1990s, the short story has re-emerged in the German-speaking world as a vibrant literary genre, serving as a medium for both literary experimentation and popular forms. Authors like Judith Hermann and Peter Stamm have had a significant impact on German-language literary culture and, in translation, on literary culture in the UK and USA. This volume analyzes German-language short-story ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Emerging German-Language Novelists of the Twenty-First Century

    by Lyn Marven, Professor Julian Preece, Kate Roy, Executive Dean Rebecca Braun, Sonja Klocke, Professor Stephen Brockmann, Stuart Taberner, Valerie Heffernan, Andrew Plowman0, Anke S. Biendarra1, Barbara Mennel2, Brigid Haines3, Emily Jeremiah4, Frauke Matthes5, Heike Bartel6 ...
    After the international success in the 1990s of authors such as Bernhard Schlink, Marcel Beyer, and Thomas Brussig, an impressive number of new German-language novelists are making a significant impact. Some, like Karen Duve, Daniel Kehlmann, and Sasa Stanisic, have achieved international recognition; some, like Julia Franck, have won major prizes; others, like Clemens Meyer, Alina Bronsky, and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Unbinding Medea

    by Heike Bartel ...
    Medea - simply to mention her name conjures up echoes and cross-connections from Antiquity to the present. The vengeful wife, the murderess of her own children, the frail, suicidal heroine, the archetypal Bad Mother, the smitten maiden, the barbarian, the sorceress, the abused victim, the case study for a pathology. For more than two thousand years, she has arrested the eye in paintings, ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • Comparative Children's Literature

    by Emer O'Sullivan ...
    Translated by Anthea Bell ...
    WINNER OF THE 2007 CHLA BOOK AWARD!Children's literature has transcended linguistic and cultural borders since books and magazines for young readers were first produced, with popular books translated throughout the world.Emer O'Sullivan traces the history of comparative children's literature studies, from the enthusiastic internationalism of the post-war period – which set out from the idea of a ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Tatort Germany

    The Curious Case of German-Language Crime Fiction

    by Lynn M. Kutch, Magdalena Waligórska, Sascha Gerhards, Susanne C. Knittel, Todd Herzog, Traci S. O'Brien, Angelika Baier, Anita McChesney, Carol Anne Costabile-Heming0, Faye Stewart1, Heike Henderson2, Jon Sherman3, Kyle Frackman4 ...
    Although George Bernard Shaw quipped that "the Germans lack talent for two things: revolution and crime novels," there is a long tradition of German crime fiction; it simply hasn't aligned itself with international trends. Duringthe 1920s, German-language writers dispensed with the detective and focused instead on criminals, a trend that did not take hold in other countries until after 1945, by ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Phantoms of War in Contemporary German Literature, Films and Discourse

    The Politics of Memory

    by A. Fuchs ...
    Series series New Perspectives in German Political Studies
    Phantoms of War in Contemporary German Literature, Films and Discourse offers an up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of fundamental shifts in German cultural memory. Focusing on the resurgence of family stories in fiction, autobiography and in film, this study challenges the institutional boundaries of Germany's memory culture that have guided and arguably limited German identity debates. Essays ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Discursive Perspectives in Therapeutic Practice

    Edited by Andy Lock, Tom Strong ...
    Series series International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry
    For an endeavour that is largely based on conversation it may seem obvious to suggest that psychotherapy is discursive. After all, therapists and clients primarily use talk, or forms of discourse, to accomplish therapeutic aims. However, talk or discourse has usually been seen as secondary to the actual business of therapy - a necessary conduit for exhanging information between therapist and ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Anxious Journeys

    Twenty-First-Century Travel Writing in German

    by Professor Karin Baumgartner, John Blair, Magda Tarnawska Senel, Monika Shafi, Professor Muriel Cormican, Nicole Coleman, Nicole Grewling, Sunka Simon, Andrew Wright Hurley0, Anke S. Biendarra1, Carola Daffner2, Christina Gerhardt3, Christina Kraenzle4, Gundela Hachmann5, Heather Merle Benbow6 ...
    The rich contemporary literature of travel has been the focus of numerous recent publications in English that seek to understand how travel narratives, with their distinctive representations of identities, places, and cultures, respond to today's globalized, high-speed world characterized by the dual mass movements of tourism and migration. Yet a corresponding cutting-edge discussion of twenty ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • An Other Kind of Home

    Gender-Sexual Abjection, Subjectivity, and the Uncanny in Literature and Film

    by Kyle Frackman ...
    Series Book 9 - Kulturtransfer und Geschlechterforschung
    In this study, the author examines works of German-language literature and film from the nineteenth and twentieth century in order to chart a certain kind of otherness. Common to all of the examined cultural products are aspects of gender, sexuality, a notion of home or belonging, and pressures of abjection. Other elements of identity include race and disease. The characters in the analyzed works ... Read more

    $49.59 USD

  • Principles Of Social Psychology

    by Nicky Hayes ...
    This is designed to be a clear and readable introduction to social psychology for A-level students, for those studying psychology as a supplement to other applied courses, and for those requiring an overview of the major concerns and issues in this subject.; The book aims to integrate the traditional material, such as conformity, attitudes and prejudice, with some of the more recent insights into ... Read more

    $57.99 USD