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  • Unnatural Narrative

    Impossible Worlds in Fiction and Drama

    by Jan Alber ...
    Series series Frontiers of Narrative
    A talking body part, a character that is simultaneously alive and dead, a shape-changing setting, or time travel: although impossible in the real world, such narrative elements do appear in the storyworlds of novels, short stories, and plays. Impossibilities of narrator, character, time, and space are not only common in today’s world of postmodernist literature but can also be found throughout the ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Unnatural Narratology

    Extensions, Revisions, and Challenges

    by Jan Alber, BRIAN RICHARDSON ...
    Series series Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
    Unnatural Narratology: Extensions, Revisions, and Challenges offers a number of developments, refinements, and defenses of key aspects of unnatural narrative studies. The first section applies unnatural narrative theory and analysis to ideologically charged areas such as feminism, postcolonial studies, cultural alterity, and subaltern discourse. The book goes on to engage with and intervene in ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Responsibility and Liability in the Context of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes by Sea

    Existing Rules and the 1999 Liability Protocol to the Basel Convention

    by Jan Albers ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    The term “hazardous wastes” covers a wide range of disused products and production wastes generated not only in industrial sectors, but also in all areas of everyday life. Hazardous wastes are to a large extent shipped by sea to third countries for recycling or disposal. While the procedural requirements for such movements are laid out in the 1989 Basel Convention, explicit rules of responsibility ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Stones of Law, Bricks of Shame

    Narrating Imprisonment in the Victorian Age

    by Jan Alber, Frank Lauterbach ...
    The prison system was one of the primary social issues of the Victorian era and a regular focus of debate among the period?s reformers, novelists, and poets. Stones of Law, Bricks of Shame brings together essays from a broad range of scholars, who examine writings on the Victorian prison system that were authored not by inmates, but by thinkers from the respectable middle class.Studying the ways ... Read more

    $64.09 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Literature and Cognitive Studies

    Edited by Jan Alber, Ralf Schneider ...
    Series series Routledge Literature Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Literature and Cognitive Studies offers a comprehensive survey of cognitive approaches to literature, introducing the influential theoretical tools and latest developments in this vigorously multi-disciplinary field, with leading scholars illuminating the cognitive, affective, and bodily dimensions of literary reading. Comprised three main sections, this Companion ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Home Front Patriots

    by Jan Eileen Albers ...
    During the summer of 1944, World War 2 hits close to home for Sarabeth, Chet and Bro, when they suspect a neighboring farmer is a Nazi spy. Eager to do anything to help end the war and hasten the return of a Marine brother, fighting in the Pacific, they begin an investigation. Media of that period--radio, newspapers, movies-- and bond rallies urged children to partake in the war effort.The caper ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Fact and Fiction in Contemporary Narratives

    Edited by Jan Alber, Alice Bell ...
    This book explores the complex interrelationship between fact and fiction in narratives of the twenty-first century.Current cultural theory observes a cultural shift away from postmodernism to new forms of expression. Rather than a radical break from the postmodern, however, postmodernist techniques are repurposed to express a new sincerity, a purposeful self-reflexivity, a contemporary sense of ... Read more

    $57.99 USD