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  • The Power of Smell in American Literature

    Odor, Affect, and Social Inequality

    Series Libro 69 - Mainzer Studien zur Amerikanistik
    Offering a thoroughly new approach to American literature, this book examines the literary representation of smell regarding its impact on establishing and subverting power structures. Although smell carries an enormous affective potential, it has been largely – but unjustly – overlooked in literary and cultural studies. Through her innovative close readings of works by authors such as Melville, ... Leer más

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    The American-Jewish Women’s Immigrant Experience Through the Eyes of a Young Girl from the Bukovina

    Freida Sima (Bertha) Eisenberg Kraus was among the two million Jewish men, women and children who emigrated from Europe to the United States during the Great Wave of Immigration (1881–1914). This book tells her story and that of her family, from her birth in the Bukovina to her immigration to New York City alone at age fifteen in 1911, her immigrant work life, her marriage to a widower with four ... Leer más

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  • Gender Equality and Quality of Life

    Perspectives from Poland and Norway

    This book engages with a critical perspective on gender equality and quality of life. It provides a comprehensive overview of theoretical and methodological frameworks for exploring both concepts which is complemented by the analysis of gender equality policies in Poland and Norway. With contributors from sociology to history and health studies, it draws on a wide range of examples to examine a ... Leer más

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  • The Identity of Metaphor – The Metaphor of Identity

    Discourse and Portrait

    The book sets out identity of metaphor in the literary discourse from a comparative perspective and links it with the ontological metaphor of identity. The author analyses both American and Romanian texts such as Lucian Blaga’s lyrosophical hermeneutics, Ileana Mălăncioiu, Mariana Marin and Sylvia Plath’s lyrical tirades, and Max Blecher’s poetic novels. She points out that ipseity is a trace of ... Leer más

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  • Kulturbegegnung und Kulturkonflikt im (post-)kolonialen Kriminalroman

    Series Libro 128 - Jahrbuch fuer Internationale Germanistik - Reihe A
    Kriminalliteratur bietet seit längerem ein Forum für die Behandlung schon ‚klassischer‘ postkolonialer Themen. So lassen sich die ProtagonistInnen vielfach als hybride Subjekte beschreiben, und die Suche nach ‚historischer Wahrheit‘ bedarf einer anderen Substruktion als der einfachen Antithetik von Gut und Böse. Darüber hinaus sind die im Verschwinden begriffenen ehemals klar getrennten kolonialen ... Leer más

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  • The Language of Polish Modernism

    de Ryszard Nycz ...
    Traducido por Tul’si Bhambry ...
    Series Libro 49 - Literary and Cultural Theory
    This book debunks the myth of Polish Modernist literature as rooted in rash, immediate expression. The author compares programmatic statements on language by turn-of-the-century writers such as Wacław Berent, Bolesław Leśmian, Stanisław Brzozowski or Karol Irzykowski with notions deduced from their literary works. He demonstrates that these writers’ linguistic self-consciousness informs their ... Leer más

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  • Feminism and the Politics of Travel after the Enlightenment

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    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
    Taking the Enlightenment and the feminist tradition to which it gave rise as its historical and philosophical coordinates, Feminism and the Politics of Travel After the Enlightenment explores travel as a “technology of gender.” It also investigates the way travel’s utopian dimension and feminism’s utopian ideals have intermittently fed off each other in productive ways. With broad historical and ... Leer más

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  • The Physiognomical Discourse and European Theatre

    Theory, Performance, Dramatic Text

    Series Libro 23 - Interkulturelle Begegnungen. Studien zum Literatur- und Kulturtransfer
    The discourse on Physiognomy had an important influence and impact on European theatrical culture at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries. The book discusses the debate about the scientific nature of Physiognomy. Starting from the concept that Physiognomy refers to particular signs on the face, it looks for evidence of a knowledge and awareness of this pseudo ... Leer más

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  • Memories of the Future

    On Countervision

    Edición de Stephen Wilson, Deborah Jaffé ...
    Series Libro 6 - Cultural Memories
    What is a memory of the future? Is it a myth, a fiction of a severed arm, a post-human debate or a broken time machine? In an increasingly insecure future-world there is an urgency to consider and debate these questions. Memories of the Future: On Countervision addresses these concerns by speculating on the connections between memory and futurity in fields such as counter-histories, women’s ... Leer más

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  • Inter-American Literary History

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    Series Libro 11 - Interamericana
    Inter-American literary study is an exciting and fast-growing area of comparative scholarship. The Americas are tied together by a common historical heritage and by a history of social, political, economic, and cultural interaction.As a contribution to this field, this book brings together the literatures and literary histories of English and French Canada, the United States, Spanish America, the ... Leer más

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  • Human Trafficking as a Quintessence of 21st Century Slavery

    The Vulnerability of Nigerians in Austria

    This book is a contribution towards a better understanding of the nature of the international crime of human trafficking. It is an impulse towards finding a new way at the international levels, and encouraging cooperation among nations in the fight against human trafficking and its root causes. The author analyzes human trafficking, which can be termed as «modern-day slavery» and in its complexity ... Leer más

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  • The Production of Subjectivity in «The Diamond Age» by Neal Stephenson

    Series Libro 9 - Beyond Humanism: Trans- and Posthumanism / Jenseits des Humanismus: Trans- und Posthumanismus
    The book brings to light Neal Stephenson’s answer to the technologically induced crisis in identity. The author of this book analyses the ethnocultural, technological, and ideological skeins that make up the biopolitical production of the self. The coming-of-age novel «The Diamond Age» reflects the processes surrounding the emergence of conscience. Through his inspired recycling of cultural ... Leer más

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