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  • Bisexuality and Popular Culture

    Edited by Ian Kinane ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This is an excellent and timely book that makes a valuable contribution to the field of bisexual studies. The range of genres covered in this book, and the ways in which authors have been able to site their discussions in similar theoretical ground (liminality, erasure, stereotypes) without the discussions ever feeling repetitive, is impressive. Instead, each chapter sheds new light on these ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • On the Very Edge

    Bidentities in Michelle Cliff’s Fiction

    by Ian Kinane ...
    On the Very Edge: Bidentities in Michelle Cliff’s Fiction uses the life and work of bisexual, biracial, and bicultural author Michelle Cliff (1946–2016) to develop an entirely new approach to intersectional cultural, race, and gender/sexuality studies that prioritizes “bi-ness” as a methodological tool. The book focuses not “simply” on bisexuality, biracialism, or biculturalism as isolated ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Isn't it Ironic?

    Irony in Contemporary Popular Culture

    Edited by Ian Kinane ...
    Series series The Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture
    This volume addresses the relationship between irony and popular culture and the role of the consumer in determining and disseminating meaning. Arguing that in a cultural climate largely characterised by fractious communications and perilous linguistic exchanges, the very role of irony in popular culture needs to come under greater scrutiny, it focuses on the many uses, abuses, and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Ian Fleming and the Politics of Ambivalence

    by Dr Ian Kinane ...
    Previously considered an avowed nationalist, this book explores how Ian Fleming's writings and his representational politics contain an implicit resistance to imperial rhetoric. Through an examination of Fleming's Jamaica-set novels Live and Let Die, Dr. No, and The Man with the Golden Gun, as well as the later film adaptations of these novels, Ian Kinane reveals Fleming's deep ambivalence to ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • Rewriting Crusoe

    The Robinsonade across Languages, Cultures, and Media

    by Robert Mayer, Rivka Swenson, Patrick A. Gill, Przemyslaw Uscinski, Frederick Burwick, Marta Pellerdi, Lora E. Geriguis, Krzysztof Skonieczny, Jennifer Preston Wilson, Ian Kinane, Daniel Cook ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
    Published in 1719, Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe is one of those extraordinary literary works whose importance lies not only in the text itself but in its persistently lively afterlife. German author Johann Gottfried Schnabel—who in 1731 penned his own island narrative—coined the term “Robinsonade” to characterize the genre bred by this classic, and today hundreds of examples can be identified worldwide ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Theorising Literary Islands

    The Island Trope in Contemporary Robinsonade Narratives

    by Ian Kinane ...
    Series series
    Theorising Literary Islands is a literary and cultural study of both how and why the trope of the island functions within contemporary popular Robinsonade narratives. It traces the development of Western “islomania” – or our obsession with islands – from its origins in Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe right up to contemporary Robinsonade texts, focusing predominantly on American and European ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • Landscapes of Liminality

    Between Space and Place

    Edited by Dara Downey, Elizabeth Parker, Ian Kinane ...
    Landscapes of Liminality expands upon existing notions of spatial practice and spatial theory, and examines more intricately the contingent notion of “liminality” as a space of “in-between-ness” that avoids either essentialism or stasis. It capitalises on the extensive research that has already been undertaken in this area, and elaborates on the increasingly important and interrelated notion of ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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    An introduction to literary and cultural theory: Fourth edition

    by Peter Barry, John McLeod ...
    Series series Beginnings
    Beginning theory has been helping students navigate through the thickets of literary and cultural theory for over two decades. This new and expanded fourth edition continues to offer readers the best single-volume introduction to the field. The bewildering variety of approaches, theorists and technical language is lucidly and expertly unravelled. Unlike many books which assume certain positions ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Genders

    by David Glover, Cora Kaplan ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    The concept of gender continues to be a central issue in literary and cultural studies, with a significance that crosses disciplinary boundaries and provokes lively debate. In this fully revised and updated second edition, David Glover and Cora Kaplan offer a lucid and illuminating introduction to ’gender’ and its implications, including:an overview of the critical language and concepts ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • A Brief Take on the Australian Novel

    by Jean-François Vernay ...
    Grab the popcorn, sit back and let the story of Australian literature roll ... From Jean-Francois Vernay, "A Brief Take on the Australian Novel" offers a sweeping view of Australian writing since colonialism. Written from an outsider's perspective, this single-authored overview will appeal to readers through its playful, jargon-free and potentially contentious account of the Australian novel. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Rewriting the Victorians

    Modes of Literary Engagement with the 19th Century

    by Andrea Kirchknopf ...
    The 19th century has become especially relevant for the present--as one can see from, for example, large-scale adaptations of written works, as well as the explosion of commodities and even interactive theme parks. This book is an introduction to the novelistic refashionings that have come after the Victorian age with a special focus on revisions of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Charles Dickens ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • An Analysis of Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own

    by Tim Smith-Laing, Fiona Robinson ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    A Room of One's Own is a very clear example of how creative thinkers connect and present things in novel ways.Based on the text of a talk given by Virginia Woolf at an all-female Cambridge college, Room considers the subject of 'women and fiction.' Woolf’s approach is to ask why, in the early 20th century, literary history presented so few examples of canonically 'great' women writers. The common ... Read more

    $8.95 USD