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  • Violent Modernists: The Aesthetics of Destruction in Twentieth-Century German Literature

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    An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and Kai Evers’s Violent Modernists: The Aesthetics of Destruction in Twentieth-Century German Literature develops a new understanding of German modernism that moves beyond the oversimplified dichotomy of an avant-garde prone to aggression on the one hand and a modernism opposed to violence on the other. Analyzing works by Robert Musil, Franz...
    Keyword:
    fiction, literary criticism, novels, literature, and prose
    Subject:
    Literary criticism
    Creator:
    Evers, Kai
    Owner:
    Kirsten Markusic
    Publisher:
    Northwestern University Press
    Language:
    English
    Date Uploaded:
    01/25/2023
    Date Modified:
    01/25/2023
    Date Created:
    2013
    Resource Type:
    Book
    Alternate Identifier:
    Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-2930-6, Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-2962-7, and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-6727-8

  • Third-Generation Holocaust Representation: Trauma, History, and Memory

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    Victoria Aarons and Alan L. Berger show that Holocaust literary representation has continued to flourish well into the twenty-first century—gaining increased momentum even as its perspective shifts, as a third generation adds its voice to the chorus of post-Holocaust writers. In negotiating the complex thematic imperatives and narrative conceits of... and An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at...
    Keyword:
    fiction, literary criticism, novels, literature, and prose
    Subject:
    History and Literary criticism
    Creator:
    Berger, Alan L. and Aarons, Victoria
    Owner:
    Kirsten Markusic
    Publisher:
    Northwestern University Press
    Language:
    English
    Date Uploaded:
    01/25/2023
    Date Modified:
    01/25/2023
    Date Created:
    2017
    Resource Type:
    Book
    Alternate Identifier:
    Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3410-2, eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3411-9, and Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3409-6

  • Privately Empowered: Expressing Feminism in Islam in Northern Nigerian Fiction

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    Description:
    An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and Privately Empowered responds to the lack of adequate attention paid to Islam in Africa in comparison to Islam in the Middle East and the Arab world. Shirin Edwin points to the tight embrace between Islam and politics that has rendered Islamic feminist discourse historically and thematically contextualized in regions where...
    Keyword:
    fiction, literary criticism, prose, literature, and novels
    Subject:
    Social sciences, Literary criticism, Religion, and Islam
    Creator:
    Edwin, Shirin
    Owner:
    Kirsten Markusic
    Publisher:
    Northwestern University Press
    Language:
    English
    Date Uploaded:
    01/23/2023
    Date Modified:
    01/23/2023
    Date Created:
    2016
    Resource Type:
    Book
    Alternate Identifier:
    eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3369-3, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3367-9, and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3368-6

  • The Novel Map: Space and Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century French Fiction

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    Description:
    An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative and links to the open-access version can be found at... and Focusing on Stendhal, Gérard de Nerval, George Sand, Émile Zola, and Marcel Proust, The Novel Map: Mapping the Self in Nineteenth-Century French Fiction explores the ways that these writers represent and negotiate the relationship between the self and the world as a function of space in a novel turned map.
    Keyword:
    fiction, literary criticism, novels, literature, and prose
    Subject:
    Literary criticism
    Creator:
    Bray, Patrick M.
    Owner:
    Kirsten Markusic
    Publisher:
    Northwestern University Press
    Language:
    English
    Date Uploaded:
    01/19/2023
    Date Modified:
    01/19/2023
    Date Created:
    2013
    Resource Type:
    Book
    Alternate Identifier:
    eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-6638-7 and Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-2866-8

  • George Eliot's Religious Imagination: A Theopoetics of Evolution

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    Description:
    An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative can be found at  www.knowledgeunlatched.org. and George Eliot's Religious Imagination addresses the much-discussed question of Eliot’s relation to Christianity in the wake of the sociocultural revolution triggered by the spread of theories of evolution. The standard view is that the author of Middlemarch and Silas Marner “lost her faith” at this time of religious crisis. Orr...
    Keyword:
    fiction, literary criticism, novels, literature, and prose
    Subject:
    Literary criticism
    Creator:
    Orr, Marilyn
    Owner:
    Kirsten Markusic
    Publisher:
    Northwestern University Press
    Language:
    English
    Date Uploaded:
    07/14/2022
    Date Modified:
    07/14/2022
    Date Created:
    2018
    Resource Type:
    Book
    Alternate Identifier:
    Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3589-5, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3588-8, and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3590-1

  • Emotion in the Tudor Court: Literature, History, and Early Modern Feeling

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    Description:
    Deploying literary analysis, theories of emotion from the sciences and humanities, and an archival account of Tudor history, Emotion in the Tudor Court examines how literature both reflects and constructs the emotional dynamics of life in the Renaissance court. In it, Bradley J. Irish argues that emotionality is a foundational... and An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative can be found at  www.knowledgeunlatched.org.
    Keyword:
    Tudor, fiction, Great Britain, literary criticism, prose, literature, and England
    Subject:
    Literary criticism
    Creator:
    Irish, Bradley J.
    Owner:
    Kirsten Markusic
    Publisher:
    Northwestern University Press
    Language:
    English
    Date Uploaded:
    07/08/2022
    Date Modified:
    07/14/2022
    Date Created:
    2018
    Resource Type:
    Book
    Alternate Identifier:
    Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3639-7 , eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3641-0 , and Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3640-3

  • Demonic History: From Goethe to the Present

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    Description:
    In this ambitious book, Kirk Wetters traces the genealogy of the demonic in German literature from its imbrications in Goethe to its varying legacies in the work of essential authors, both canonical and less well known, such as Gundolf, Spengler, Benjamin, Lukács, and Doderer. Wetters focuses especially on the philological... and An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative can be found at  www.knowledgeunlatched.org.
    Keyword:
    fiction, literary criticism, novels, literature, and prose
    Subject:
    Literary criticism
    Creator:
    Wetters, Kirk
    Owner:
    Kirsten Markusic
    Publisher:
    Northwestern University Press
    Language:
    English
    Date Uploaded:
    06/08/2022
    Date Modified:
    06/08/2022
    Date Created:
    2014
    Resource Type:
    Book
    Alternate Identifier:
    Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-2976-4, Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3253-5, and eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-6764-3

  • Adulterous Nations: Family Politics and National Anxiety in the European Novel

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    In Adulterous Nations, Tatiana Kuzmic enlarges our perspective on the nineteenth-century novel of adultery, showing how it often served as a metaphor for relationships between the imperialistic and the colonized. In the context of the long-standing practice of gendering nations as female, the novels under discussion here—George Eliot’s Middlemarch, Theodor... and An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative can be found at  www.knowledgeunlatched.org.
    Keyword:
    fiction, literary criticism, prose, literature, and novels
    Subject:
    Literary criticism
    Creator:
    Kuzmic, Tatiana
    Owner:
    Kirsten Markusic
    Publisher:
    Northwestern University Press
    Language:
    English
    Date Uploaded:
    05/27/2022
    Date Modified:
    06/08/2022
    Date Created:
    2016
    Resource Type:
    Book
    Alternate Identifier:
    eBook ISBN 978-0-8101-3399-0, Cloth ISBN 978-0-8101-3398-3, and Paper ISBN 978-0-8101-3397-6