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  • Werewolves, Wolves and the Gothic

    by Robert McKay, John Miller ...
    Series series Gothic Literary Studies
    Wolves lope across Gothic imagination. Signs of a pure animality opposed to humanity, in the figure of the werewolf they become liminal creatures that move between the human and the animal. Werewolves function as a site for exploring complex anxieties of difference – of gender, class, race, space, nation or sexuality – but the imaginative and ideological uses of wolves also reflect back on the ... Read more

    $30.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Against All the Odds

    Story of a Dream Chaser

    by Robert Mckay ...
    In Against All the Odds, Robert Mckay takes readers on an emotional journey through triumphs and tribulations with twenty-three years of guitar playing, a fourteen-year cancer survival story, and overcoming the heartbreak of losing both parents before they could see Robert Mckay on stage. Robert Mckay finds resilience in music. After facing unemployment from a bankrupt meat-cutting job, Robert ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Animal Satire

    Edited by Robert McKay, Susan McHugh ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Animal Satire presents a cultural history of animal satire, a critically neglected but persistent presence in the history of cultural production, in which animals expose human folly while the strategies of satire expose the folly of human-animal relations. Highlighting the teeming animal presences across the history of satirical expression from Aristophanes to Twitter, with chapters on key works ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Animal Remains

    Edited by Sarah Bezan, Robert McKay ...
    Series series Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture
    The dream of humanism is to cleanly discard of humanity’s animal remains along with its ecological embeddings, evolutionary heritages and futures, ontogenies and phylogenies, sexualities and sensualities, vulnerabilities and mortalities. But, as the contributors to this volume demonstrate, animal remains are everywhere and so animals remain everywhere. Animal remains are food, medicine, and ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Animals and Literature

    Edited by Susan McHugh, Robert McKay, John Miller ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This volume is the first comprehensive guide to current research on animals, animality, and human-animal relations in literature. To reflect the history of literary animal studies to date, its primary focus is literary prose and poetry in English, while also accommodating emergent discussions of the full range of media and contexts with which literary studies engages, especially film and critical ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • Against Value in the Arts and Education

    Edited by Sam Ladkin, Robert McKay, Emile Bojesen ...
    Series series Disruptions
    Against Value in the Arts and Education proposes that it is often the staunchest defenders of art who do it the most harm, by suppressing or mollifying its dissenting voice, by neutralizing its painful truths, and by instrumentalizing its ambivalence. The result is that rather than expanding the autonomy of thought and feeling of the artist and the audience, art’s defenders make art self-satisfied ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment

    Edited by Louise Westling ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment is an authoritative guide to the exciting new interdisciplinary field of environmental literary criticism. The collection traces the development of ecocriticism from its origins in European pastoral literature and offers fifteen rigorous but accessible essays on the present state of environmental literary scholarship. Contributions from ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction

    Edited by Jerrold E. Hogle ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Gothic as a form of fiction-making has played a major role in Western culture since the late eighteenth century. In this volume, fourteen world-class experts on the Gothic provide thorough and revealing accounts of this haunting-to-horrifying type of fiction from the 1760s (the decade of The Castle of Otranto, the first so-called 'Gothic story') to the end of the twentieth century (an era haunted ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Literary Theory

    An Anthology

    Edited by Julie Rivkin, Michael Ryan ...
    Series series Blackwell Anthologies
    The new edition of this bestselling literary theory anthology has been thoroughly updated to include influential texts from innovative new areas, including disability studies, eco-criticism, and ethics.Covers all the major schools and methods that make up the dynamic field of literary theory, from Formalism to PostcolonialismExpanded to include work from Stuart Hall, Sara Ahmed, and Lauren Berlant ... Read more

    $70.00 USD

  • The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and the Environment

    by Timothy Clark ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    The degrading environment of the planet is something that touches everyone. This 2011 book offers an introductory overview of literary and cultural criticism that concerns environmental crisis in some form. Both as a way of reading texts and as a theoretical approach to culture more generally, 'ecocriticism' is a varied and fast-changing set of practices which challenges inherited thinking and ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Literature

    by Peter Widdowson ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    This introductory volume provides an overview of the history of Literature as a cultural concept, and reflects on the contemporary nature, place and function of what the literary might mean for us today. Literature:* offers a concise history of the canonic concept of 'literature' from its earliest origins* illustrates the kinds of theoretical issues which are currently invoked by the term ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • A New Companion to The Gothic

    Edited by David Punter ...
    Series Book 179 - Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
    The thoroughly expanded and updated New Companion to the Gothic, provides a series of stimulating insights into Gothic writing, its history and genealogy. The addition of 12 new essays and a section on ‘Global Gothic’ reflects the direction Gothic criticism has taken over the last decade.Many of the original essays have been revised to reflect current debatesOffers comprehensive coverage of ... Read more

    $44.00 USD