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Books in the Literary & Cultural Theory series

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  • - Technology, Textuality, Identity
    by Marcin Mazurek
    £30.49

    The book's argument revolves around the notion of apocalypse as metaphor, narrating a paradigmatic change in the discourse of postmodern identity. Drawing from science fiction studies, literary and cultural theory as well as popular cinema, it proposes a post-apocalyptic reading of late-capitalist culture.

  • - Poetics, Rhetoric and Literary History
    by Alina Silvana Felea
    £38.99

    The book presents the various viewpoints that poetics, literary history and Western rhetoric have adopted throughout Western history. The aim of poetics is to render the specificity of the literary discourse. Rhetoric places emphasis on the verbal effects of discourses and literary history examines the temporal succession of the literary systems.

  • - Six Critiques of Hallucinatory Realism
    by Jerry Xie
    £54.49

    This book analyzes Mo Yan's writings as well as other scholarly interpretations of his writings. The author stakes out a Marxist approach to theorizing the class ideology that underwrites what Mo Yan says he "knows" of the "nebulous terrain" where one supposedly experiences moments of "transcending" or going "beyond" class and politics.

  • - Essays Situating Martin Heidegger in Contemporary Media Studies
     
    £51.49

    This collection assembles a number of chapters engaging different strands of Heidegger's philosophy to explore issues relevant to contemporary media studies. Principal Heideggerian concepts have been drawn upon to explore photography, audiovisual production culture, the selfie phenomenon, and social media activism in the cultures of the West.

  • - Body, Identity and Representation in Western Culture
    by Marzena Kubisz
    £25.99

  • - Essays on Literature and Cultural Politics
     
    £56.49

    The contributions in this volume examine literary and other texts as well as cultural and political discourses in relation to issues of identity formation and dis-formation, of self and society and of the socially local within the global. All these issues come into play through the exploration of the fantasmatic space of mutual mis-recognition and mythmaking between coloniser and colonised, between ¿Africä and ¿Europe¿.

  • - Poetic Encounters with Other(ness)
    by Ewa Borkowska
    £51.99

  • - Somatics of Travelling and Discursive Practices
    by Zbigniew Bialas
    £42.99

    Contemporary materialism, in its varied configurations, persistently challenges claims that the body can be relegated to a subservient position when compared to reason. In most pertinent colonial and postcolonial studies the body is seen as a text, upon and by means of which signs of difference are instituted. Yet, to be able to test and appreciate to what extent the postcolonial body was and remains today a battleground for discursive control, it is helpful to start with the awareness of the somatics of the traveller himself ¿ his agreement to and with his own person or lack thereof vis-à-vis other bodies, his translation of the somatic into the semantic. The traveller¿s body, when rendered in writing, becomes a symbolic construct which enters into a relation with the represented world, and the nature of this multifaceted, troubled alliance ¿ if alliance it is ¿ forms the main theme of this book.

  • - Discourses of Identity in Chicklit Fictions
    by Katarzyna Smyczynska
    £48.49

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