European Vistas: History, Ethics and Identity in the Works of Claudio Magris (Cultural History and Literary Imagination Book 31) [1 ed.] 9781789976373, 9781789976359, 9781789976366, 9781789976380, 1789976375

San Francisco: A Cultural and Literary History (Cities of the Imagination Series) 1566564891, 9781566564892

Within a generation San Francisco grew from an isolated Mexican trading post with more hills than people into America�

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Cultural Transformations of the Public Sphere: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives (Cultural History and Literary Imagination) 9783035307412, 9783034309912

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Sephardism: Spanish Jewish History and the Modern Literary Imagination 9780804781718

Arguing that the Sephardic experience played a much more vital role in the development of modern nationalism and literar

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Playing False: Representations of Betrayal (Cultural History and Literary Imagination) [New ed.] 9783034308670, 9783035305296, 3034308671

Betrayal has never gone out of fashion. It is a ubiquitous phenomenon – from antiquity to the present, from the realm of

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Dialectic and Paradox: Configurations of the Third in Modernity (Cultural History and Literary Imagination) 9783034307147, 9783035304473, 3034307144

From Hegel to the present, the humanities and social sciences have revealed the volatile power of third agency. Systems

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Cannibal Angels (Cultural History and Literary Imagination) 9781788740388, 9781788740395, 9781788740401, 9781788740418, 1788740386

In the first three decades of the twentieth century, artists, writers, musicians, and architects from both sides of the

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Constructions of Melancholy in Contemporary German and Austrian Literature (Cultural History and Literary Imagination) [New ed.] 9783034307338, 9783035303940, 3034307330

Melancholy has become a central theme of German literature since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. The rapidly changi

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Other People’s Pain: Narratives of Trauma and the Question of Ethics (Cultural History and Literary Imagination) [New ed.] 9783034302609, 9783035301434, 3034302606

How do we approach other people’s pain? This question is of crucial importance to the humanities, particularly literary

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Invisibility Studies: Surveillance, Transparency and the Hidden in Contemporary Culture (Cultural History and Literary Imagination) 9783034309851, 9783035306712

Invisibility Studies explores current changes in the relationship between what we consider visible and what invisible in

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Asian Fusion (Cultural History and Literary Imagination) 9781787073555, 9781787073562, 9781787073579, 9781787073586, 1787073556

This book contributes to a historically evolving conversation about immigration as a facet of globalization in the Europ

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