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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “jesse barker”
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  • Affect and Belonging in Contemporary Spanish Fiction and Film

    Crossroads Visions

    by Jesse Barker ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book brings together recent Spanish fictions and films that point to individualism as the root problem driving diverse circumstances of social, economic, and psychological suffering in the present and recent past. The works privilege sensation, movement, and emotion—rather than identity—as the core elements of existential experience. However, the works also problematize notions of ... Read more

    $71.09 USD

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  • Literary Ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism

    The Haunting Interval

    by Luke Thurston ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
    This book resituates the ghost story as a matter of literary hospitality and as part of a vital prehistory of modernism, seeing it not as a quaint neo-gothic ornament, but as a powerful literary response to the technological and psychological disturbances that marked the end of the Victorian era. Linking little-studied authors like M. R. James and May Sinclair to such canonical figures as Dickens, ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Do All Knights Have Gallant Steeds? Learning about Knights and their Horses - Ancient History Books | Children's Ancient History

    by Baby Professor ...
    In literature, knights always have their gallant steeds to accompany them. But sometimes literature can be wrong or it could have a mix of imagination. In this nonfiction book, we're going to take a peek into the real world of real knights. Be ready for some surprising facts! Open this book today! ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Margherita Sarrocchi's Letters to Galileo

    Astronomy, Astrology, and Poetics in Seventeenth-Century Italy

    by Meredith K. Ray ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book examines a pivotal moment in the history of science and women’s place in it. Meredith Ray offers the first in-depth study and complete English translation of the fascinating correspondence between Margherita Sarrocchi (1560-1617), a natural philosopher and author of the epic poem, Scanderbeide (1623), and famed astronomer, Galileo Galilei. Their correspondence, undertaken soon after the ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Decadence, Degeneration, and the End

    Studies in the European Fin de Siècle

    by Marja Härmänmaa, Christopher Nissen ...
    Art and literature during the European fin-de-siècle period often manifested themes of degeneration and decay, both of bodies and civilizations, as well as illness, bizarre sexuality, and general morbidity. This collection explores these topics in relation to artists and writers as diverse as Oscar Wilde, August Strindberg, and Aubrey Beardsley. ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Imagining Outer Space

    European Astroculture in the Twentieth Century

    Edited by Alexander C.T. Geppert ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Imagining Outer Space makes a captivating advance into the cultural history of outer space and extraterrestrial life in the European imagination. How was outer space conceived and communicated? What promises of interplanetary expansion and cosmic colonization propelled the project of human spaceflight to the forefront of twentieth-century modernity? In what way has West-European astroculture been ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Gendered Masks of Liminality and Race

    Black Female Trickster’s Subversion of Hegemonic Discourse in African American Women Literature

    by Yomna Saber ...
    Shape shifters, purveyors of chaos, rules’ breakers, crude creatures and absurd figures, tricksters can be traced as recurrently transgressive figures that do not wither away with time. Tricksters rove and ramble in the pages of literature; the canon is replete with tricksters who throw dust in the eyes of their dupes and end up victoriously. But what if the trickster is African American? And a ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Towards Turkish American Literature

    Narratives of Multiculturalism in Post-Imperial Turkey

    by Barbara Buchenau, Elena Furlanetto ...
    Series Book 10 - Interamericana
    The author expands the definition of Turkish American literature beyond fiction written by Americans of Turkish descent to incorporate texts that literally ‘commute’ between two national spheres. This segment of Turkish American literature transcends established paradigms of immigrant life-writing, as it includes works by Turkish authors who do not qualify as American permanent residents and were ... Read more

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  • Balzac, Literary Sociologist

    by Allan H. Pasco ...
    Melding the fields of literature, sociology, and history, this book develops analyses of the ten novels in Balzac's Scènes de la vie de province. Following the order of the novels projected in La Comédie humaine, Allan H. Pasco investigates how Balzac used art as a tool of social inquiry to obtain startlingly accurate insights into the relationships that defined his turbulent society. His repeated ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • What's Queer about Europe?

    Productive Encounters and Re-enchanting Paradigms

    by Mireille Rosello, Sudeep Dasgupta ...
    What’s Queer about Europe? examines how queer theory helps us initiate disorienting conjunctions and counterintuitive encounters for imagining historical and contemporary Europe. This book queers Europe and Europeanizes queer, forcing a reconsideration of both. Its contributors study Europe relationally, asking not so much what Europe is but what we do when we attempt to define it.The topics ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Bennewitz, Goethe, 'Faust'

    German and Intercultural Stagings

    by David G. John ...
    Series series German and European Studies
    Fritz Bennewitz (1926-1995) was the director-in-chief of East Germany's Weimar National Theatre. Extraordinary in his capacity for cultural and linguistic adjustment, he directed productions in twelve countries, always adapting shows to make them meaningful to local audiences. Notably, Bennewitz conducted stagings of Goethe's Faust in four different languages over a series of seven productions — ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Freedom and Confinement in Modernity

    Kafka's Cages

    Edited by A. Kordela, D. Vardoulakis ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Kafka's literary universe is organized around constellations of imprisonment. Freedom and Confinement in Modernity proposes that imprisonment does not signify a tortured state of the individual in modernity. Rather, it provides a new reading of imprisonment suggesting it allows Kafka to perform a critique of a modernity instead. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD