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  • Will & Grace

    by Tison Pugh ...
    Series series TV Milestones
    The creation and legacy of the sitcom that transformed queer representation in American television.The sitcom Will & Grace (1998–2006, 2017–20) shifted the media landscape and its treatment of queer themes by starring an openly gay protagonist, Will Truman, on primetime network television. Will, along with his best friend Grace Adler and their constant companions Jack McFarland and Karen Walker, ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Truman Capote

    A Literary Life at the Movies

    by Tison Pugh ...
    Series series The South on Screen
    The author of Queer Chivalry presents a biographical study of the celebrity writer "rich with insight into [his] literary and cinematic achievements" ( Publishers Weekly).Truman Capote's legacy is in many ways defined by his complex relationship with Hollywood. In Truman Capote: A Literary Life at the Movies, Tison Pugh explores the author and his literature through a cinematic lens, weaving ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Harry Potter and Beyond

    On J. K. Rowling's Fantasies and Other Fictions

    by Tison Pugh ...
    An illuminating study of Rowling's novels that broke new ground while adhering to traditional narrative formulasHarry Potter and Beyond explores J. K. Rowling's beloved best-selling series and its virtuoso reimagining of British literary traditions. Weaving together elements of fantasy, the school-story novel, detective fiction, allegory, and bildungsroman, the Harry Potter novels evade simplistic ... Read more

    $15.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Queer Oz

    L. Frank Baum's Trans Tales and Other Astounding Adventures in Sex and Gender

    by Tison Pugh ...
    Series series Children's Literature Association Series
    Regardless of his own sexual orientation, L. Frank Baum’s fictions revel in queer, trans, and other transgressive themes. Baum’s life in the late 1800s and early 1900s coincided with the rise of sexology in the Western world, as a cascade of studies heightened awareness of the complexity of human sexuality. His years of productivity also coincided with the rise of children’s literature as a unique ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Engagements with Literary Gaming

    by Tison Pugh, Lynn Ramey ...
    Series series Routledge Engagements with Literature
    How is literature like a game, and how are games like literature? Engagements with Literary Gaming examines the cultural significance of these two converging forms, defining the concept of literary gaming for a new narrative, ludic, and media landscape.Narratives have long featured ludic themes, and games are increasingly incorporating narrative structures. As a critical concept, ludonarratology ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Southerners Acting Southern

    On Celebrities and Their Star Personas in the Imagined South

    by Tison Pugh, Scott Romine ...
    Series series Southern Literary Studies
    What is the difference between a star born in the South and a “southern star”? In Southerners Acting Southern, Tison Pugh answers this intriguing question, pondering the ways in which some performers from the South metamorphose into southern stars by accentuating their geographic and cultural roots as key aspects of their star personas.Many celebrities, particularly actors, seek to transcend their ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Bad Chaucer

    The Great Poet’s Greatest Mistakes in the Canterbury Tales

    by Tison Pugh ...
    Acclaimed for centuries as the “Father of English Literature,” Geoffrey Chaucer enjoys widespread and effusive praise for his classic Canterbury Tales—and rightfully so. Still, even the greatest of authors cannot claim perfection, and so Bad Chaucer: The Great Poet’s Greatest Mistakes in the Canterbury Tales analyzes his various missteps, missed opportunities, and other blunders in this peerless ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Teaching Games and Game Studies in the Literature Classroom

    Teaching Games and Game Studies in the Literature Classroom offers practical suggestions for educators looking to incorporate ludic media, ranging from novels to video games and from poems to board games, into their curricula. Across the globe, video games and interactive media have already been granted their own departments at numerous larger institutions and will increasingly fall under the ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • The United States of Medievalism

    Edited by Tison Pugh, Susan Aronstein ...
    The United States of Medievalism contemplates the desires, dreams, and contradictions inherent in experiencing the Middle Ages in a nation that is so temporally, spatially, and at times politically removed from them. The European Middle Ages have long influenced the national landscape of the United States through the medieval sites that permeate its self-announced republican landscapes and cities. ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

  • On the Queerness of Early English Drama

    Sex in the Subjunctive

    by Tison Pugh ...
    Often viewed as theologically conservative, many theatrical works of late medieval and early Tudor England nevertheless exploited the performative nature of drama to flirt with unsanctioned expressions of desire, allowing queer identities and themes to emerge. Early plays faced vexing challenges in depicting sexuality, but modes of queerness, including queer scopophilia, queer dialogue, queer ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Literary Studies

    A Practical Guide

    by Tison Pugh, Margaret E. Johnson ...
    Literary Studies: A Practical Guide provides a comprehensive foundation for the study of English, American, and world literatures, giving students the critical skills they need to best develop and apply their knowledge. Designed for use in a range of literature courses, it begins by outlining the history of literary movements, enabling students to contextualize a given work within its cultural and ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Queer Fantasies of the American Family Sitcom

    by Tison Pugh ...
    Winner of the 2019 John Leo and Dana Heller Award for the Best Work in LGBTQ Studies from the PCAThe Queer Fantasies of the American Family Sitcom examines the evasive depictions of sexuality in domestic and family-friendly sitcoms. Tison Pugh charts the history of increasing sexual depiction in this genre while also unpacking how sitcoms use sexuality as a source of power, as a kind of camouflage ... Read more

    $23.99 USD