Precarious Flânerie and the Ethics of the Self in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction 9783110767490, 9783110767476

Picaresque Fiction Today : The Trickster in Contemporary Anglophone and Italian Literature [1 ed.] 9789004311237, 9789004311220

In Picaresque Fiction Today Luigi Gussago examines the development of the picaresque in contemporary Anglophone and Ital

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The Epistolary Renaissance: A Critical Approach to Contemporary Letter Narratives in Anglophone Fiction 9783110584813, 9783110582024, 9783110709674

Since the late twentieth century, letters in literature have seen a remarkable renaissance. The prominence of letters in

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Situating the Self: Gender, Community and Postmodernism in Contemporary Ethics 0745609988, 9780745609980

In this book, Seyla Benhabib makes an intervention into the debates concerning modernity, postmodernity, reason and the

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Memory and Latency in Contemporary Anglophone Literature 9783111067384, 9783111063584

Up until fairly recently, memory used to be mainly considered within the frames of the nation and related mechanisms of

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The Dialectic of Self and Story : Reading and Storytelling in Contemporary American Fiction [1 ed.] 9781135713300, 9780815337591

Informed by selected postmodern theories and cultural criticism, this study argues that while American fiction of the 19

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The Ethics of Intensity in American Fiction 9781477300077

Drawing upon the philosophical theories of William James, Dewey, and Mead and focusing upon major works by Whitman, Stei

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The grotesque in contemporary British fiction 9781526112040

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The grotesque in contemporary British fiction 9781526112057

This book shows how the grotesque continues to be a powerful force in contemporary British writing and provides an illum

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Ethics in the Field: Contemporary Challenges 9780857459633

In recent years ever-increasing concerns about ethical dimensions of fieldwork practice have forced anthropologists and

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Memory and Latency in Contemporary Anglophone Literature 9783111067384, 9783111063584

Up until fairly recently, memory used to be mainly considered within the frames of the nation and related mechanisms of

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