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Finisterre II: Revisiting the Last Place on Earth. Migrations in Spanish and Latin American Culture and Literature is a collective aesthetic, historical, literary, and cultural analysis of how biopolitical, cultural, and economic trends have impacted narratives about migration in the Hispanic world. Considering migrants as protagonists of their stories, the book approaches the migrant as a Subject of cultural patrimony and knowledge. The different articles, written by scholars from the United States, Japan, Norway, the United Kingdom, and Ecuador, examine how Hispanic art and narratives of migrancy allow us to re-evaluate the cultural understanding of borders.

A troubled marriage--and love story--set against the background of the AIDS pandemic, and the American wars in Vietnam and Iraq lie at the heart of After Camus. Saul Davidoff and Tolle Riordan, who meet during a protest against the Vietnam War, marry, live through the Plague Years of the AIDS epidemic, raise a family ... and burn out. Camus is a hero to both of them: Tolle, a young dancer and choreographer, has a liaison with him in Paris shortly before his death; Saul, inspired by Camus's The Plague, becomes an infectious disease (and AIDS) doctor ... and Camus becomes a ghostly presence central to our story. Hoping to repair their marriage, Tolle and Saul return to a village in the South of France where they lived when they were first in love, and where Camus lived when recovering from a siege of tuberculosis. The novel draws a vivid portrait of a marriage that spans a series of historical events: from the Vietnam war through the AIDs epidemic and Gulf War, to the Iraq War and the advent of the right wing Le Pen movement in France. After Camus is both a fictional meditation on recent history and a compelling tale of how various forms of love and friendship do and do not survive in times of social and political upheaval. In this novel of enchantments, internationally acclaimed author Jay Neugeboren is at the peak of his powers as a master storyteller.

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In such classic works as The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion, J. R. R. Tolkien depicts a vast, complex world-system. Tolkien's Middle-earth comes to life with intensely detailed historical, geographical, and multicultural content, which is presented through different poetic forms that combine elements of epic, romance, myth, history, and the modern novel. This book analyzes Tolkien's project, paying attention to narrative form and its relation to social contexts, while also exploring his broader philosophical conception of history and the role of individual and collective subjects within it. Tolkien's published and posthumous writings, the film adaptations, and recent scholarship are all examined to provide an enlarged and refined critical perspective of these major works. Drawing upon Marxist literary theory and criticism, Robert T. Tally Jr. calls into question traditional views of race, class, morality, escapism, and fantasy more generally. Through close readings mixed with theoretical speculation, Representing Middle-earth allows readers see Tolkien's world, as well as our own, in a new light.

Rosalía de Castros zweiter Roman Flavio (1861) entführt uns in die spanische Romantik und stellt einen unberührten Naturmenschen vor, der mit der zivilisierten Gesellschaft in Berührung kommt. Die geheime Protagonistin des Romans ist jedoch eine junge Schriftstellerin mit außergewöhnlicher Strahlkraft auf die Männerwelt. Flavio Leonardo de Bredivan, der letzte Spross der Familie Bredivan, verlässt nach dem Tod seiner Eltern sein Schloss und seine paradiesische Heimat, um in der Welt Freiheit zu suchen. Während seiner Reise stößt Flavio auf die ihm unbekannten Konventionen seiner Zeit und kann seine natürlichen Ideale nicht aufrechterhalten. Ihm gegenüber tritt die Figur der Mara, mit der Rosalía de Castro eine junge Schriftstellerin entwirft, die offenbar das Gegenstück zur jugendlichen Schriftstellerin selbst ist, die ihre Berufung vor der Gesellschaft verbergen muss, um ihren vermeintlich guten Ruf zu wahren. Mara kämpft gegen die besitzergreifende und launische Liebe von Flavio an, um ihre Unabhängigkeit zu bewahren und sich nicht bedingungslos dem Willen eines obsessiven Verehrers zu unterwerfen. In einem Gasthaus trifft er Mara, eine selbstbewusste Dichterin, die aufgrund der herrschenden Konventionen ihre Gefühle vor der Gesellschaft verbirgt. Flavio fühlt sich zu ihr hingezogen und sieht in ihr eine Seelenverwandte. Misstrauen und Ängste treiben sie jedoch immer wieder auseinander. Während Mara zwischen Flavio und seinem Rivalen Ricardo hin- und hergerissen ist, trifft Flavio schließlich auf Rosa, die Tochter einer Herbergswirtin. Rosa verliebt sich unsterblich in Flavio. Nach dem Tod von Rosas Mutter erfährt Flavio von seiner wahren Herkunft und beschließt, das Erbe seiner Eltern anzutreten, um Rosa vor dem Ruin zu bewahren. Doch die Macht der Gerüchte und Intrigen zerstört das zerbrechliche Glück. Misstrauen, Verrat und die Aufgabe von Idealen haben tragische Konsequenzen. In Rosalía de Castros zweitem Roman konkurrieren Desillusionierung und die Aufwertung des Weiblichen in einer Zeit, in der Frauen als rechtloses Eigentum der Männer galten. Die Autorin entlarvt und zerstört den romantischen Mythos, indem sie ihren männlichen Protagonisten einerseits an den Rand des Selbstmords treibt und andererseits die Macht des Geldes, das jegliches moralisches Handeln auslöscht, drastisch vor Augen führt. Rosalía de Castros Flavio ist ein außergewöhnliches Beispiel der Frauenliteratur, das den Leser durch seine fesselnde Handlung und die psychologischen Konflikte zwischen den Figuren in seinen Bann zieht. Rosalía de Castro beschreibt detailliert die Entwicklung der eigentlichen Protagonistin des Romans. Diese hält trotz aller Enttäuschungen an ihren Idealen fest und wird zur wahren Heldin dieser erzählten Tragödie. Tauchen Sie ein in die Welt der spanischen Romantik und erleben Sie mit Flavio eine Geschichte voller Leidenschaft, Intrigen und der Suche nach der eigenen Identität.

Have you ever stumbled upon a vacant lot, a crumbling factory, or a wasteland scarring your city's landscape? These "eyesores," remnants of bygone industries, are often dismissed as burdens. But what if I told you these blighted spaces held the seeds of vibrant transformation? This book takes you on a captivating journey through successful brownfield redevelopment stories, where barren patches metamorphose into thriving icons, breathing new life into cities and communities.Prepare to be inspired by tales of communities banding together to reclaim their forgotten corners. Witness abandoned warehouses reborn as bustling hubs of creativity and commerce. Imagine polluted rivers revitalized, becoming arteries of life and leisure. You'll discover how historic structures, once deemed obsolete, are reimagined as centers of culture and education, whispering forgotten narratives into the present.This book isn't just a collection of success stories; it's a blueprint for change. It delves into the practicalities of brownfield redevelopment, exploring innovative approaches to financing, community engagement, and environmental restoration. You'll gain insights into navigating the complexities of land acquisition, remediation strategies, and sustainable design principles

Este libro explora la caracterización y el rol del judío en uno de los textos antisemitas más polémicos del siglo XVII en España: el Centinela contra judíos, compuesto por el franciscano Fray Francisco de Torrejoncillo. Mediante la primera transcripción completa y anotada del Centinela en español, nuestro trabajo brinda a los lectores hispanohablantes una edición académica accesible, que por primera vez distingue con claridad los textos de las ediciones madrileñas de 1674 y 1676, que contienen notables diferencias no señaladas antes por la crítica. También ofrecemos un análisis literario y cultural del Centinela, utilizando el aparato de la teratología con el fin de identificar y reconocer a su judío como monstruo en lugar de ser humano.

«This volume locates itself neatly in the growing collection of publications on intermediality by relating such practices to Roland Barthes. Barthesian motifs and writerly concerns are found within a variety of intermedial practices, as the analysis moves, historically and globally, across visual, aural and literary cultures. Such an approach is both appropriate and innovative within Barthes Studies and in cultural theory more generally.»(Andy Stafford, Professor of French and Critical Theory, University of Leeds)The essays in this collection reconsider Roland Barthes as a crucial figure in intermedia studies, arguing that the concepts and forms of analysis he pioneered are of continuing importance for students and scholars working in the field. These essays utilize an interdisciplinary methodology, drawing on Barthes's own intermedial critical practice, to examine the multiple relationships between art, literature, music and performance and across different languages. The collection places Barthes's writing in critical dialogue with other theorists, including Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Dick Higgins and Emmanuel Levinas, investigating the work of figures as varied as André Breton, Giordano Bruno, Alain Cavalier, Alfred Hitchcock, Marcel Schwob, W. G. Sebald, Steven Spielberg, Yoko Tawada and Lev Tolstoy. The collection demonstrates that Barthes's intermedial critical and theoretical practice provides a means of challenging fixed critical narratives and exploring crucial intermedial issues, including how narrative crosses media, the close relationship between image and text throughout history, and how twentieth-century consumer capitalist culture transformed the relationship between image and text.

The book contains contributions on the significance of German culture for Romanian art, language, and literature. Not only will the direct influence of German role models on Romanian culture be discussed, but it will also show how this influence set in motion a whole series of socio-cultural and artistic shifts that allowed Romanian culture to better understand its position in the European world.Das Buch enthält Beiträge zur Bedeutung der deutschen Kultur für die rumänische Kunst, Sprache und Literatur. Erörtert wird nicht nur der direkte Einfluss deutscher Vorbilder auf die rumänische Kultur, sondern es wird auch aufgezeigt, wie dieser Einfluss eine ganze Reihe soziokultureller und künstlerischer Veränderungen in Gang gesetzt hat, die der rumänischen Kultur ermöglichten, ihren Platz in der europäischen Welt besser zu verstehen.

Omniprésente dans la vie de Boris Vian, la musique lui a conféré une sensibilité qui est certainement pour une part à la source de son originalité en tant qüécrivain. Notre recherche vise à interroger l¿importance de la musique dans son univers littéraire, ainsi que les efforts qüil a consacrés au rapprochement des deux arts. Utilisant son acception ouverte des formes de la musique, nous avons découvert un monde où l¿écrivain inscrit l¿art d¿Euterpe de maintes manières. Dans l¿oeuvre de fiction, la musique exerce ainsi son infl uence depuis le detail stylistique jusqüà la structure macroscopique. Le premier volet de notre étude concerne les présentations explicites de la musique dans ses fictions tandis que la partie suivante poursuit l¿exploration vers une dimension plus implicite.Notre interprétation de la musique dans les fictions de Vian se développera selon trois dynamiques : la convergence, la transformation et la synchronisation. Nous avons découvert que la musique chez Vian joue un rôle important par rapport à l¿installation du contexte des récits, à la création des personnages, à l¿expression des émotions et des attitudes, ainsi qüà la construction de son architecture fictionnelle.

Dive into this delightful collection of amusing tales, each inspired by actual events that are almost too incredible to be true. Perfectly crafted for seniors, these 100 short stories offer a light-hearted escape, brimming with wit and humor. From quirky mishaps to laugh-out-loud moments, the stories are short enough to enjoy in one sitting but memorable enough to ponder over long after. This book is an excellent gift for anyone who loves a good chuckle, particularly those who appreciate the unique blend of wisdom and whimsy that comes with life's experience. It's a testament to the saying that truth can be stranger - and more amusing - than fiction. Ideal for senior readers, this anthology is sure to bring a smile to your face and a giggle to your day.

The beginning of the 21st century saw the rise of "New" Atheism and a resulting conflict with Theists ¿ at the same time as the resurgence of fantasy in popular culture. This volume analyses the impact of Theist and Atheist thought on the narratology of four highly popular works of contemporary fantastic fiction. In doing so, the work demonstrates how the ideological stances and the associated patterns of thought colour the novels¿ stylistic and narrative devices. The book also presents a new conditional genre metric that not only helps overcome previous impasses within fantastic genre categories but also allows insight into the aforementioned patterns of Atheist and Theist thinking.

El proyecto político-ideológico del régimen franquista en España (1939-1975) concebía un retorno a la tradición, lo que significaba recluir a la población femenina al ámbito exclusivo de la familia y seguir fielmente la tradición católica. Pese a la censura, muchas autoras lograron transmitir sus reivindicaciones y sus frustraciones, bien fuera con su propia voz o utilizando seudónimos, refugiándose en la palabra de los personajes de sus ficciones u oscureciendoel mensaje a través del tono poético o de las técnicas literarias novedosas. Entre ellas, las aquí presentadas: Ángela Figuera Aymerich, Carmen Conde, Amalia Junquera, Gloria Fuertes, Amparo Conde, Conchita Montes, Carmen Laforet, Mercedes Ballesteros, Mercedes Formica, Elena Soriano, Carmen Kurtz, Elena Quiroga y Carmen Martín Gaite.

How does science fiction imagine forms of life that are plausible, and yet different from anything that we already know?Fluid Futures is about how science fiction imagines an open future. Science fiction does not claim to predict what will actually happen in times to come. But it offers pictures of potential developments; it narrates the unfolding of possibilities for change that are already implicit, or incipient, in the present moment. As Rod Serling said, science fiction is “the improbable made possible.”The book starts by looking at three tools that are commonly used in science fiction to address futurity: extrapolation, speculation, and fabulation. It goes on to consider concrete examples of how science fiction texts employ these tools to illustrate ways in which the future might be different from – but not entirely discontinuous with – the present-day conditions with which we are familiar. Fluid Futures insists upon the aboutness of science fiction, as it depicts situations and ideas that are at once possible and difficult to grasp. The book then explores how the genre embraces fictionality and narrative, reconceives time, and projects images of possible worlds. The point of the book is not to give a theory of science fiction. Instead, it emphasizes the ways that science fiction texts themselves propose theories, leading readers to reconceive concepts that we have taken for granted.

Lawrence L. Lynch has authored a gripping book titled "The Last Stroke: A Detective Story". The mystery murder at the core of the tale shocks the sleepy, unassuming neighborhood. Everyone is on edge when a well-known person is the victim of a terrible murder, which starts a sequence of events. Here comes the seasoned investigator, whose quick brain and intuition play a crucial role in revealing the truth behind the murder. The detective story "The Last Stroke: A Detective Story" demonstrates Lawrence L. Lynch's skill at creating engrossing narratives that appeal to readers who like the detective subgenre. This book is a monument to Lynch's mastery of the form thanks to its engaging plot, well-developed characters, and satisfying balance of tension and intrigue.

"From fan fiction to "relatability"--the assessment of novels based on how easy it is to imagine the represented experiences--the individual reader's imagination has become a determining part of the contemporary literary environment. Literary studies has a long history of critical approaches, from New Criticism to surface reading, devoted to minimizing the associations and inventiveness that readers bring to a text. Imagining Otherwise instead seeks to explain how we came to view fiction as available for imaginative appropriation in the first place. Gettelman argues for the Victorian roots of the core modernist belief that readers complete an author's vision. As novel readership expanded in the nineteenth century, many Victorian writers became frustrated with readers' formulaic expectations and sought to engage aesthetically with their readers' imaginations. Gettelman argues that the elevation of the novel as a genre began when writers started to incorporate, rather than exclude, the common reader's daydreams and emotions into their work. Taking a fresh look at works by Austen, Dickens, George Eliot, and Trollope, as well as some of their modernist successors (Henry James, Virginia Woolf, and others), Gettelman traces narrative techniques, including direct address, verb tense, syntax, and prose style, that reflect Victorian authors' changing perceptions of and engagement with their readers"--

The history of written Romani literature is only about 100 years old, and thus Romani literatures are still being defined and consolidated. At least two special features characterize this young literature: on the one hand, it is a multilingual diasporic world literature that often can be characterized as engaged literature and tries to deconstruct various age-old stereotypes of the minority. On the other hand, female authors play a strikingly prominent role. Female authors frequently achieve visibility with their texts on the national book markets. Some authors appear in their own texts as committed feminists and/or human rights activists. For other authors, sexuality and gender play a less prominent role in their works. Additionally, women often also play very central roles in texts by male authors. Therefore, this volume aims to explore the different facets of Romani literatures on two interrelated axes. First, the essays explore the status of several diverse works as transnational world literature. Second, the contributions examine the significance of writing as a form of social engagement and self-empowerment. What emerges is the observation that mainly women authors have been speaking out and standing up for their rights as women and Romnya. With contributions fromOksana Marafioti, Ana Belén Martín Sevillano, Martin Shaw, Kirsten von Hagen, Marina Ortrud M. Hertrampf, Emilia Kledzik, Florian Homann, Paola Toninato, Sidonia Bauer, Lorely French, Viola Parente-Capkov

This book is a collection of stories set in various countries around the world. It showcases the human predicament in the face of socio-cultural and political forces beyond their control. In all the stories, the protagonists are victims of the system, puppets controlled by the political state or patriarchal norms. The prevailing feeling in the stories is the essential loneliness of the individual, arising from being away from home, loss of family, or detachment from the social community with which one cannot identify. Velliyodan boldly addresses political issues worldwide, reflecting the loss of human values such as loyalty, affection, love, sympathy, friendship, kinship, and above all, humanity. This book effectively explores both the dwindling of empathy and its potential rebuilding.

The first book-length scholarly study of one of the most influential creators of comics' Bronze Age

This 50th anniversary reissue of G.R. Thompson's Poe's Fiction makes available for Poe scholars, students, and aficionados the groundbreaking work that changed the course of Poe studies. Written in highly accessible prose, the book reads as fresh today as when it first appeared. Poe's Fiction, which established that Poe was neither a hack nor a madman, neither a writer purely devoted to ideality nor solely a morbid Gothicist-but rather consistently a romantic ironist-was not only the first book to make full sense of Poe, it also helped to explain Poe's enormous influence on twentieth-century literature.

Miles Morales: Cruzando el mito arácnido es un ensayo centrado en Miles Morales, la historia del Spiderverso y la película Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. A lo largo de sus páginas se repasa la vida editorial de Miles, su trayectoria dentro y fuera de las viñetas, el valor que ha aportado al legado de Spider-Man, el nacimiento y desarrollo del concepto del Spiderverso y los temas principales que unen todo en la segunda película del personaje. Más de una década después de su creación, este icono multimedia ha conquistado el mundo. ¿Qué hace que Miles Morales sea el Spider-Man definitivo? Estás a punto de descubrirlo.

Much attention has been paid to the "scientific romance" novels of H.G. Wells, a founder of modern science fiction and one of the genre's greatest writers. In comparison, little attention has been given by critics to his works of fantasy, which in the opinion of many, are just as artistic and worthy of study. This work, takes a critical look at Wells' little known fantasy The Sea Lady: A Tissue of Moonshine, which is "a parable of dark foreboding that unveils the nothingness of utopian dreams" and foreshadows Franz Kafka's dark fables of the totalitarian age. A lengthy introduction by the editor provides a comprehensive overview of the text and the story of The Sea Lady, and serves to explain the ideas of civil death and every citizen's acting as a public servant, and the concept of totalitarian metaphysics, which deals with a revolt against the limits of the human condition. This work provides a complete, extensively annotated text of the 1902 London first edition of The Sea Lady.

H.G. Wells barely revised The Invisible Man once it was published, adding only an epilogue. But the opening statement of that epilogue--"So ends the strange and evil experiment of the Invisible Man"--has posed challenges to scholars. How to understand it? Does it speak strictly to the scientific elements of the novel? Or is it a part of the work's political underpinnings? The 1897 New York first edition (the first edition to incorporate the epilogue) is used here as the basis for the exhaustive annotations and other critical apparatus of the world's foremost Wellsian scholar. The introduction examines in great detail the novel's position in the Wellsian canon and sets the major themes in context with the literary conventions used in his other works, particularly the scientific romances.

Ausgehend von Erkenntnissen über das Römische Haus im Weimarer Park geht die Arbeit der Frage nach, inwiefern Goethes Baupraxis in einem freimaurerischen Bezugsrahmen steht. Über den gleichen Ansatz wird das «Märchen» von 1795 erschlossen. Die Studie untersucht Motivik und Figurenrepertoire dieser Erzählung und erklärt den ihnen unterlegten maurerischen Sinn aus einschlägigen Lebensmomenten des Dichters. Erweiternd untersucht die Verfasserin Goethes Rezeption der «Falkennovelle» von Giovanni Boccaccio. Da Goethes Rückgriff eine Reminiszenz seiner Begegnung mit Lili Schönemann enthält, kann er als Zeugnis der dichterischen Verarbeitung seines Bruchs mit der Verlobten aus der Frankfurter Jugendzeit gelten. Der Text des «Märchens» gewinnt dadurch eine bislang ungekannte Plausibilität im Kontext der von Goethe geleiteten Weimarer Bauprojekte.

This monograph offers the most complete study of the literary and environmentalist work of Mexican author Homero Aridjis-currently one of the most representative and prolific writers worldwide. This comprehensive examination of his intellectual trajectory includes poetry, novels, plays, essays as well as writings dedicated to the environmental struggle, which is, together with his literary work, Aridjis' other essential facet.

This is the first study to examine the intersections of Indigenous scholarship, theories of New Materialism and Native American fiction regarding the Anthropocene future. The book discusses selected speculative fiction novels by North American Indigenous female writers such as Zainab Amadahy, Rebecca Roanhorse, Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel, Cherie Dimaline and Louise Erdrich. They offer a distinctive contribution to the emerging trend in Native American literature called Indigenous futurisms. The writers challenge established paradigms of science fiction genre by presenting alternative worlds where Indigenous people are heroes and Native knowledge means power. The book discusses how academic theory and selected Indigenous speculative fiction address the possibilities for more complex conceptions of the materiality of human bodies and the more-than-human world.

Værsgo! Læseinspiration til børn og unge – og ikke mindst deres voksne og da også gamle – fra en af Danmarks mest garvede anmeldere:”Den første bog jeg tændte på, var Robin Hood. Min mor gav mig lov til at pjække fra skole, fordi jeg måtte læse bogen færdig. Siden er jeg blevet tændt af mange bøger. Det er ikke nødvendigvis de allerbedste. Men de har tændt mig. Sådan er det med bøger. Så her er min helt egen pjækkebogliste,” skriver Steffen Larsen i bogens forord.Undervejs møder læseren hundredvis af forfattere og tegnere med alle deres frit flyvende fantasier. Men Harry Potter eller Alice møde man ikke, ligesom brødrene Løvehjerte også rider udenom. Dem kender man sikkert i forvejen. Til gengæld er her 79 nedslag i historier for børn og unge (og alle andre) om skønhed, sorg og salighed. En redningskrans til tiden. Mens tid er. Et lærketræ. Et vibeskrig. En lille sang om frihed.

'Not I - Kazuo Ishiguro and the Politics of Misrecognition' takes a closer look at how Ishiguro's narrators deal with their metaphorical 'parents', their literary ancestors from Hamlet to Alfred Prufrock. Ishiguro's narrators unwittingly express a metafictional concern about their existence in the shadows of English literary history and struggle with an imagined pressure to compete with iconic literary characters. This book traces their narrative anxiety against a variety of other canonical intertexts by William Shakespeare, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, George Eliot and T. S. Eliot and takes a closer look at the narrators' narrative strategy of repression. Like Walter Benjamin's angel of history, they all would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed through the carefully falsified construction of their stories. These narrators are never fully in control of their own narratives and so they inadvertently betray their own struggle for recognition.

The essays in this volume focus on new approaches to how literature reflects and creates 'world', and thus to the issues of "literature 'and' world" and "literature 'as' world". They discuss questions of the implied worldview of literary texts on the one hand, and the way literature may create 'world' through self-referentiality and the establishing of intermedial relations with other arts on the other. In the latter cases, works will foreground their own fictionality and/or mediality, and their status as artefacts and as the products of a poietic act of creation. Illustrating the potential of new approaches and developments for describing the nature of the worlds devised in fictional texts, the authors pay tribute to a scholar whose work has been foundational regarding the study of metareferentiality in literature and the arts, contemporary intermediality studies and the study of implied worldviews in literary texts: Werner Wolf.