Описание: A first of its kind, The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature provides an overview of Comparative North American Literature, a cutting-edge discipline. Contributors make important interventions into multiculturalism in North America and into U.S.-Mexico and U.S.-Canada border literatures.
Описание: A first of its kind, The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature provides an overview of Comparative North American Literature, a cutting-edge discipline. Contributors make important interventions into multiculturalism in North America and into U.S.-Mexico and U.S.-Canada border literatures.
Winner, 2020 JDC-Herbert Katzki Award for Writing Based on Archival Material, given by the Jewish Book Council The astonishing story of the efforts of scholars and activists to rescue Jewish cultural treasures after the Holocaust In March 1946 the American Military Government for Germany established the Offenbach Archival Depot near Frankfurt to store, identify, and restore the huge quantities of Nazi-looted books, archival material, and ritual objects that Army members had found hidden in German caches. These items bore testimony to the cultural genocide that accompanied the Nazis’ systematic acts of mass murder. The depot built a short-lived lieu de memoire—a “mortuary of books,” as the later renowned historian Lucy Dawidowicz called it—with over three million books of Jewish origin coming from nineteen different European countries awaiting restitution. A Mortuary of Books tells the miraculous story of the many Jewish organizations and individuals who, after the war, sought to recover this looted cultural property and return the millions of treasured objects to their rightful owners. Some of the most outstanding Jewish intellectuals of the twentieth century, including Dawidowicz, Hannah Arendt, Salo W. Baron, and Gershom Scholem, were involved in this herculean effort. This led to the creation of Jewish Cultural Reconstruction Inc., an international body that acted as the Jewish trustee for heirless property in the American Zone and transferred hundreds of thousands of objects from the Depot to the new centers of Jewish life after the Holocaust. The commitment of these individuals to the restitution of cultural property revealed the importance of cultural objects as symbols of the enduring legacy of those who could not be saved. It also fostered Jewish culture and scholarly life in the postwar world.
Автор: Susan Castillo Street; Charles L. Crow Название: The Palgrave Handbook of the Southern Gothic ISBN: 1349693332 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349693337 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 4268.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book examines `Southern Gothic` - a term that describes some of the finest works of the American Imagination.
Автор: Hammond Andrew Название: The Palgrave Handbook of Cold War Literature ISBN: 3030389723 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030389727 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 26832.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In doing so, the volume forms a landmark contribution to Cold War literary studies which will appeal to all those working on literature of the 1945-1989 period, including specialists in comparative literature, postcolonial literature, contemporary literature and regional literature.
1. Introduction.- 2. "Mediating the Moon: Ferdinand Kriwet's Apollo Mission", Kurt Beal.- 3. "Writing the Elements at the End of the World: Varlam Shalamov and Primo Levi", Anindita Banerjee.- 4. "The Aesthetic Textuality of Oil", Brent Ryan Bellamy.- 5. "Literature and Energy", Jordan B. Kinder and Imre Szeman.- 6. "Triangulate: Literature and the Sciences Mediated by Computing Machines", Yves Citton.- 7. "Behaviorism and Literary Culture", Scott Selisker.- 8. "I'm Dying To!: Biopolitics, Suicide Plots, and The Ecstasy of Withdrawal", Dana Seitler.- 9. Science, Literature, and the Work of the Imagination", Bishnupriya Ghosh.- 10. "Edith Wharton's Microscopist and the Science of Language", Emily Coit.- 11. "Reading Generously: Scientific Criticism, Scientific Charity, and the Matter of Evidence", Todd Carmody.- 12. "Literary Studies in a Transdisciplinary Research Project: Genetic Privacy and the Case of Henrietta Lacks", Jay Clayton and Claire Sisco King.- 13. "Incantatory Fictions and Golden Age Nostalgia: Futurist Practices in Contemporary Science Fiction", Rebecca Wilbanks.- 14. "Reading Science: SF and the Uses of Literature", Amy C. Chambers and Lisa Garforth.- 15. "Linguistic Relativity and Cryptographic Translation in Samuel Delany's Babel-17", Joseph Fitzpatrick.- 16. "Autopoiesis between Literature and Science: Maturana, Varela, Cervantes", Avery Slater.- 17. "Listening to Pandemics: Sonic Histories and the Biology of Emergence", Robert Peckham.- 18. To Feel an Equation: Physiological Aesthetics, Modern Physics, and the Poetry of Jay Wright", Steven Meyer.- 19. Max Ritvo's Precision Poetry", Lara Choksey.- 20. New Physics, New Faust: Faustian Bargains in Physics before the Atomic Bomb", Jenni G. Halpin.- 21. "The Matter of In-Vitro Meat: Speculative Genres of Future Life", Coleman Nye.- 22. "Bodies Made and Owned: Rewriting Life in Science and Fiction", Sherryl Vint.- 23. "The Sciences of Mind and Fictional Pharmaceuticals in White Noise and The Corrections", Natalie Roxburgh.- 24. "Eugenic Aesthetics: Literature as Evolutionary Instrument in the Early Twentieth Century", Kyla Schuller.- 25. "Angry Optimism: Climate Disaster and Restoration in Kim Stanley Robinson's Alternate Futures", Everett Hamner.- 26. "Oil and Energy Infrastructures in Science Fiction Short Stories", Chris Pak.- 27. "Biology at the Border of Area X: The Significance of Skin in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy", Sofia Ahlberg.- 28. "Overlapping Agencies: The Collision of Cancer, Consumers, and Corporations in Richard Powers's Gain", Jeff Gonzalez.- 29. "'Golden Dust' in the Wind: Genetics, Contagion, and Early Twentieth-Century American Theatre", Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr.- 30. "The Art and Science of Form: Muriel Rukeyser, Charles Olson and F. O. Matthiessen at Mid-century", S.H. Daw.- 31. "Racial Science and the Neo-Victorian Novel", Josie Gill.- 32. "W.E.B. Du Bois's Neurological Modernity: I.Q., Afropessimism, Genre", Michael Collins.- 33. "Graphic Bombs: Scientific Knowledge and the Manhattan Project in Comic Books", Lindsay Michael Banco.- 34. "'The Path of Most Resistance': Surgeon X and the Graphic Estrangement of Antibiosis", Lorenzo Servitje.- 35. "
Описание: In this book, scholars with expertise in various national literatures and cultures explore how the Holocaust has been represented in novels, memoirs, film, television, and architecture. This book provides a unique vantage point for the scholar and student to compare how national context impacts representations of the Holocaust.
Автор: Lawson Tom, Pearce Andy Название: The Palgrave Handbook of Britain and the Holocaust ISBN: 3030559319 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030559311 Издательство: Springer Цена: 18294.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This handbook is the most comprehensive and up-to-date single volume on the history and memory of the Holocaust in Britain.
Автор: Dickens Peter Название: Palgrave Handbook of Society, Culture and Outer Space ISBN: 1137363517 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137363510 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 22563.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
1.Introduction. The Production of Outer Space; Peter Dickens and James S. Ormrod 2. Terrestrial Geographies in and of Outer Space; Jason Beery 3. Capitalism, Class and the Cosmos; Peter Dickens 4. Satellite Surveillance and Outer Space Capitalism: The Case of MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates; Jocelyn Wills 5. The Meta-Geopolitics of Outer Space; Nayef Al-Rodhan 6. Cosmofeminism: Challenging Patriarchy in Outer Space; Chris Pesterfield 7. Dialectics, Society and Cosmology; Peter Mason 8. Narrating the Universe; Felicity Mellor 9. The Social Impacts of Space Science; Mark R. Johnson 10. Res Communis?: A Critical Legal Geography of Outer Space, Antarctica, and the Deep Seabed; Christy Collis 11. Snared Suns and Liberated Moons: Decoding Cryptic 'Astronomies' in Indigenous Cultures; Lionel Sims 12. Contemporary Cosmologies, Critical Re-Imaginings; Allen Abramson and Martin Holbraad 13. The Whiteness of Cinematic Outer Space; Sean Redmond 14. Seeking the Galactic Club: Fred Hoyle, Carl Sagan and the C/SETI Novell; De Witt Douglas Kilgore 15. Space Activism: A Psychosocial Approach; James S. Ormrod 16. Transmissions from the Noosphere: Contemporary Art and Outer Space; Nicola Triscott 17. Conclusion: The Future of Outer Space; Peter Dickens and James S. Ormrod
Автор: Vlad Petre Gl?veanu Название: The Palgrave Handbook of Creativity and Culture Research ISBN: 1137463430 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137463432 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 26832.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This groundbreaking Handbook brings together leading international experts in creativity and culture research to provide an overview of current debates.
Описание: Harry Potter has given the critical study of popular culture quite an extraordinary platform for exploring the nature of human identity across cultures and around the world. Potter Studies is rapidly developing into a vibrant, interdisciplinary collection of scholars from a wide range of university and non-university environments. This intersection, between the multidisciplinary study of identity and Harry Potter as a cultural artifact is where this collected volume finds its home.Issues surrounding race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and personal virtue, both in the wizarding world and in our own real world, are introduced and examined here. The ways in which these issues manifest in the practices of fans, fandom cultures, and real-world schools and businesses are also interrogated. Ultimately, this collection of essays should provide an extensive and varied array of meanings, contexts, and connections to and/or around identity issues for both scholars and non-scholars who can see our world mirrored in that of Harry Potter.
