Global Failure and World Literature: Reading the Contemporary Quest Novel 9783111133997, 9783111132532

Global Failure and World Literature: Reading the Contemporary Quest Novel 9783111133997, 9783111132532

While the contemporary era has witnessed a series of spectacular failures with severe and widespread global consequences

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Jameson and Literature: The Novel, History, and Contemporary Reading Practices [1st ed.] 9783030548230, 9783030548247

This book demonstrates how Fredric Jameson’s understanding of the novel form has heavily influenced his work as a critic

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This Thing Called the World: The Contemporary Novel as Global Form 9780822374244

Debjani Ganguly theorizes the contemporary global novel and the social and historical conditions that shaped it, showing

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Reading Trauma Narratives : The Contemporary Novel and the Psychology of Oppression 9780813937397, 9780813937373

As part of the contemporary reassessment of trauma that goes beyond Freudian psychoanalysis, Laurie Vickroy theorizes tr

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Global Dimensions: Space, Place and the Contemporary World 1861891024, 9781861891020

Globalization is one of today's most powerful and pervasive ideas – for some a welcome dream, for others a nightmar

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The Culture and Commerce of the Early American Novel: Reading the Atlantic World-System 9780271035024

Taking his cue from Philadelphia-born novelist Charles Brockden Brown’s Annals of Europe and America, which contends tha

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Mann's Magic Mountain : World Literature and Closer Reading 9780192699855, 9780192871794

This is the first study of Thomas Mann's landmark German modernist novel Der Zauberberg (The Magic Mountain, 1924)

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The Contemporary British Novel 9780748626243

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748618958); Written by some of the world's finest contemporary litera

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Oil Fictions: World Literature and Our Contemporary Petrosphere 9780271091877

Oil, like other fossil fuels, permeates every aspect of human existence. Yet it has been largely ignored by cultural cri

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Specters of World Literature: Orientalism, Modernity, and the Novel in the Middle East 9781474467032, 9781474467063, 9781474467056

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