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  • Microutopias and Everyday Hope

    by Janne Stigen Drangsholt, Dr. Asbjørn Skarsvåg Grønstad, Henrik Gustafsson, Lene M. Johannessen, Anders Lysne, Tijana Przulj, Henriette Rørdal, Zoltan Varga, Øyvind Vågnes0, Dr. Birger Solheim1, Randi Koppen2 ...
    In eleven essays of scholarly inquiry encompassing a variety of disciplinary perspectives including literature, visual culture, and media studies, Microutopias and Everyday Hope illuminates the potential for alternative futures that resides in utopian thinking on smaller scales.Reflecting on analyses of source material that ranges from entertainment media to concrete sites, contributors draw our ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Literature's Critique, Subversion, and Transformation of Justice

    by Ruben Moi, Charles I. Armstrong, William Dwyer III, Cassandra Falke, Lill Tove Fredriksen, Lene M. Johannessen, Anthony W. Johnson, Edvard Lia, Erik Mustad, Christopher Loe Olsen0, Dr. Asbjørn Skarsvåg Grønstad1 ...
    Literature is an institution per se, as is justice, and these two institutions enact each other in complex ways. Justice appears in many forms from divine right and religious ordainment to metaphysical imperative and natural law, to national jurisdiction, social order, human rights, and civil disobedience. What is just and right has varied in time and place, in war and peace. A sense of justice ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Microdystopias

    Aesthetics and Ideologies in a Broken Moment

    by Lene M. Johannessen, Janne Stigen Drangsholt, Henrik Gustafsson, Anders Lysne, Holger Pötzsch, Michael J. Prince, Knut Rio, Øyvind Vågnes, Nahum N. Welang, Dr. Asbjørn Skarsvåg Grønstad0 ...
    This edited collection examines the effects that macrosystems have on the figuration of our everyday—of microdystopias—and argues that microdystopic narratives are part of a genre that has emerged in contrast to classic dystopic manifestations of world-shattering events. From different methodological and theoretical positions in fieldworks ranging from literary works and young adult series to ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Aesthetic Apprehensions

    Silence and Absence in False Familiarities

    by Aidan Conti, Janne Stigen Drangsholt, Ingrid Galtung, Jennifer Ladino, Genevieve Liveley, Ruben Moi, Timothy Saunders, Sara L. Spurgeon, Zoltan Varga, Helle Ha°konsen Lapeniene, Nahum N. Welang ...
    Series series Transforming Literary Studies
    Aesthetic Apprehensions: Silences and Absences in False Familiarities is a scholarly conversation about encounters between habitual customs of reading and seeing and their ruptures and ossifications. In closely connected discourses, the thirteen essays collected here set out to carefully probe the ways our aesthetic immersions are obfuscated by deep-seated epistemological and ideological ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Emerging Aesthetic Imaginaries

    by Mark Ledbetter, Julie Adams, Susan G. Cumings, Jena Habegger-Conti, Anne Karhio, Scott Rettberg, Laura Saetveit Miles, Erik Tonning, Lene M. Johannessen0, John McLeod1, Øyvind Vågnes2, Dr. Asbjørn Skarsvåg Grønstad3 ...
    Series series Transforming Literary Studies
    Emerging Aesthetic Imaginaries considers aesthetic imaginaries as they constitute and are constituted by and in our shared realities. With contributions from twelve scholars working in the fields of literary studies, visual studies, anthropology, cultural studies, and digital culture, this book takes a multidisciplinary approach to “aesthetic imaginaries,” which tests the conceptual potential from ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • Horizons of Enchantment

    Essays in the American Imaginary

    by Lene M. Johannessen ...
    Horizons of Enchantment is about the peculiar power and exceptional pull of the imaginary in American culture. Johannessen’s subject here is the almost mystical American belief in the promise and potential of the individual, or the reliance on a kind of “modern magic” that can loosely be characterized as a fundamental and unwavering faith in the secular sanctity of the American project of ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

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    Canadian Literature and Criticism after Modernism

    Edited by Robert David Stacey ...
    Series series Reappraisals: Canadian Writers
    It would be difficult to exaggerate the worldwide impact of postmodernism on the fields of cultural production and the social sciences over the last quarter century—even if the concept has been understood in various, even contradictory, ways. An interest in postmodernism and postmodernity has been especially strong in Canada, in part thanks to the country’s non-monolithic approach to history and ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism

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    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism offers a comprehensive introduction to postmodernism. The Companion examines the different aspects of postmodernist thought and culture that have had a significant impact on contemporary cultural production and thinking. Topics discussed by experts in the field include postmodernism's relation to modernity, and its significance and relevance to literature, ... Read more

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  • Landscape Theory

    Edited by Rachel DeLue, James Elkins ...
    Series series The Art Seminar
    Artistic representations of landscape are studied widely in areas ranging from art history to geography to sociology, yet there has been little consensus about how to understand the relationship between landscape and art. This book brings together more than fifty scholars from these multiple disciplines to establish new ways of thinking about landscape in art. ... Read more

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  • Disidentifications

    Queers of Color And The Performance of Politics

    by José Esteban Muñoz ...
    Series Book 2 - Cultural Studies of the Americas
    There is more to identity than identifying with one’s culture or standing solidly against it. José Esteban Muñoz looks at how those outside the racial and sexual mainstream negotiate majority culture—not by aligning themselves with or against exclusionary works but rather by transforming these works for their own cultural purposes. Muñoz calls this process “disidentification,” and through a study ... Read more

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  • Sonic Agency

    Sound and Emergent Forms of Resistance

    by Brandon Labelle ...
    Series Book 1 - Goldsmiths Press / Sonics Series
    A timely exploration of whether sound and listening can be the basis of political change.In a world dominated by the visual, could contemporary resistances be auditory? This timely and important book from Goldsmiths Press highlights sound's invisible, disruptive, and affective qualities and asks whether the unseen nature of sound can support a political transformation. In Sonic Agency, Brandon ... Read more

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  • Ghostly Matters

    Haunting and the Sociological Imagination

    by Avery F. Gordon ...
    “Avery Gordon’s stunningly original and provocatively imaginative book explores the connections linking horror, history, and haunting. ” —George Lipsitz“The text is of great value to anyone working on issues pertaining to the fantastic and the uncanny.” —American Studies International“Ghostly Matters immediately establishes Avery Gordon as a leader among her generation of social and cultural ... Read more

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