![Maternal Abandonment and Queer Resistance in Twenty-First-Century Swedish Literature]( "Maternal Abandonment and Queer Resistance in Twenty-First-Century Swedish Literature")
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Björklund, J. (2021)
This book questions why so many mothers leave their families in twenty-first-century Swedish literature, analyzing literary representations of maternal abandonment in relation to …
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![Modernism and Theology]( "Modernism and Theology")
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Rzepa, J. (2021)
This is the first book-length study to examine the interface between literary and theological modernisms. It provides a comprehensive account of literary responses to the …
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![Smell, Memory, and Literature in the Black Country]( "Smell, Memory, and Literature in the Black Country")
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Groes, S. (Ed), Francis, R. M. (Ed) (2021)
From Banks’s brewery’s yeasty stink to groaty pudding to spicy curry, Sebastian Groes and R. M. Francis have assembled a new literary history of the smells and (childhood) …
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![Living Well with Pessimism in Nineteenth-Century France]( "Living Well with Pessimism in Nineteenth-Century France")
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Acquisto, J. (2021)
This book traces the emergence of modern pessimism in nineteenth-century France and examines its aesthetic, epistemological, ethical, and political implications. It explores how, …
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![Irène Némirovsky's Russian Influences]( "Irène Némirovsky's Russian Influences")
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Cenedese, M. (2021)
This book explores the influence of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov on Russian-born French language writer Irène Némirovsky. It considers the complexity of each of these …
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![Spanish Graphic Narratives]( "Spanish Graphic Narratives")
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McKinney, C. (Ed), Richter, D. F. (Ed) (2020)
Spanish Graphic Narratives examines the most recent thematic and critical developments in Spanish sequential art, with essays focusing on comics published in Spain since 2007. …
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![The Modern Irish Sonnet]( "The Modern Irish Sonnet")
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Guissin-Stubbs, T. (2020)
The Modern Irish Sonnet: Revision and Rebellion discusses how and why the sonnet appeals to Irish poets and has grown in popularity over the last century. Using a thematic …
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![The Literary Psychogeography of London]( "The Literary Psychogeography of London")
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Tso, A. (2020)
This Pivot book examines literary elements of urban topography that have animated Alan Moore, Peter Ackroyd, and Iain Sinclair’s respective representations of London-ness. Ann Tso …
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![Joyce, Multilingualism, and the Ethics of Reading]( "Joyce, Multilingualism, and the Ethics of Reading")
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Alexandrova, B. (2020)
What if our notions of the nation as a site of belonging, the home as a safe place, or the mother tongue as a means to fluent comprehension did not apply? What if fluency were a …
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![Contemporary Nordic Literature and Spatiality]( "Contemporary Nordic Literature and Spatiality")
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Malmio, K. (Ed), Kurikka, K. (Ed) (2020)
This open access collection offers a detailed mapping of recent Nordic literature and its different genres (fiction, poetry, and children’s literature) through the perspective of …
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![The Fascination with Death in Contemporary French Thought]( "The Fascination with Death in Contemporary French Thought")
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Rojtman, B. (2020)
This book analyses a cultural phenomenon that goes to the very roots of Western civilization: the centrality of death in our sense of human existence. It does so through a close …
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![Posthumanism in Italian Literature and Film]( "Posthumanism in Italian Literature and Film")
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Ferrara, E. M. (Ed) (2020)
As humans re-negotiate their boundaries with the nonhuman world of animals, inanimate entities and technological artefacts, new identities are formed and a new epistemological and …
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![Echoes of Opera in Modern Italian Poetry]( "Echoes of Opera in Modern Italian Poetry")
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Acetoso, M. (2020)
Twentieth-century Italian poetry is haunted by countless ghosts and shadows from opera. Echoes of Opera in Modern Italian Poetry reveals their presence and sheds light on their …
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![The Contestation of Patriarchy in Luis Martín-Santos' Work]( "The Contestation of Patriarchy in Luis Martín-Santos' Work")
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Bota, M. (2020)
This book proposes that Spanish author Luis Martín-Santos’ work focuses on the effects of patriarchy and hegemonic masculinity on men, to actively contribute to freeing both men …
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![Experimentation and the Lyric in Contemporary French Poetry]( "Experimentation and the Lyric in Contemporary French Poetry")
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Barda, J. (2019)
Experimentation and the Lyric in Contemporary French Poetry offers a new theoretical approach and historical perspective on the remarkable upsurge in creative poetic practices in …
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![Narcissism and Selfhood in Medieval French Literature]( "Narcissism and Selfhood in Medieval French Literature")
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Ealy, N. (2019)
This book offers analyses of texts from medieval France influenced by Ovid’s myth of Narcissus including the Lay of Narcissus, Alain de Lille’s Plaint of Nature, René d’Anjou’s …
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![The Artist as Animal in Nineteenth-Century French Literature]( "The Artist as Animal in Nineteenth-Century French Literature")
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Nettleton, C. (2019)
The Artist as Animal in Nineteenth-Century French Literature traces the evolution of the relationship between artists and animals in fiction from the Second Empire to the fin de …
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![Ernst Bloch]( "Ernst Bloch")
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Zipes, J. (2019)
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to and overview of the life and philosophy of Ernst Bloch. Bloch has had a strange fate in the English-speaking world. He wrote his …
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![Italian Science Fiction]( "Italian Science Fiction")
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Brioni, S., Comberiati, D. (2019)
This book explores Italian science fiction from 1861, the year of Italy’s unification, to the present day, focusing on how this genre helped shape notions of Otherness and …
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![Eastern Europeans in Contemporary Literature and Culture]( "Eastern Europeans in Contemporary Literature and Culture")
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Veličković, V. (2019)
Eastern Europeans in Contemporary Literature and Culture: Imagining New Europe provides a comprehensive study of the way in which contemporary writers, filmmakers, and the media …
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