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War and American Literature
The New Feminist Literary Studies
Edited by Jennifer Haytock | State University College, Brockport, New York
Edited by Jennifer Cooke | Loughborough University
War and American Literature examines representations of war throughout American literary history, providing a firm grounding in established criticism and opening up new lines of inquiry. Readers will find accessible yet sophisticated essays that lay out key questions and scholarship in the field. • Makes connections among literature about all major US wars • Introduces new lines of inquiry, explaining five of the latest theoretical approaches and how these approaches can illuminate the subject of war in American literature • Provides grounding in literature and scholarship of major US wars
This book presents sixteen essays by feminists of theory and literature. It is useful to academics and students of feminism, gender studies, queer theory, and contemporary literature. Its essays both account for the current state of the field and sub-disciplines they tackle as well as making fresh critical interventions. • Intervenes in feminist debates and the subfields with which it intersects • Organized into useful sections – Frontiers, Fields, and Forms – making it easy to use and to find relevant essays easily • Presents both established and emerging feminist voices
Cambridge Themes in American Literature and Culture
Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions
December 2020 228 x 152 mm c.375pp 978-1-108-49680-3 Hardback c. £80.00 / c. US$110.00
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Literature – English Literature
Rock Art and Landscape in the Altai Mountains of Mongolia Esther Jacobson-Tepfer | University of Oregon
Culture, Theory and Criticism in the 21st Century Edited by Sherryl Vint | University of California, Riverside
After the Human documents the emergence of posthumanist ideas in the fractures within traditional disciplines, examines the new objects of analysis that thus came into prominence, and theorizes new interdisciplinary methods of study that followed. • Contextualizes the shifting terminology that shapes this area of study, and clarifies a history of various terms, from antihumanism to posthumanism, transhumanism, critical posthumanism and beyond • Demonstrates that there are a certain shared set of premises across a range of posthumanist thinkers, but also points to areas of tension or omission among them • Describes a trajectory of how scholarly enquiry has been changed in both its objects of analysis and its methods of theorization via the emergence of a diverse set of philosophical perspectives, situated analyses, and ethical frameworks loosely categorized as posthumanism After Series, 6
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Analysis of Petroglyphic rock art in three valleys of Mongolia’s Altai Mountains begins to explain the rhythm of cultural manifestations: where rock art appears, when it disappears, and why. The material and this remote arena offer an ideal laboratory to study the intersection of prehistoric culture and paleoenvironment. Elements in Environmental Humanities
March 2020 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 50 b/w illus. 978-1-108-79008-6 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00
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Can We Be Wrong? The Problem of Textual Evidence in a Time of Data Andrew Piper | McGill University, Montréal
This Element combines a machine learning-based approach to detect the prevalence and nature of generalization across tens of thousands of sentences from different disciplines alongside a robust discussion of potential solutions to the problem of the generalizability of textual evidence. Elements in Digital Literary Studies
September 2020 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 13 b/w illus. 978-1-108-92620-1 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00
Beyond the Anthropological Difference
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The Environmental Humanities and the Ancient World
Matthew Calarco | California State University, Fullerton
This Element provides a novel framework for understanding the nature of violence against animals. The author argues that the search for human uniqueness (an ‘anthropological difference’) is at the heart of this violence and should be replaced by a way of life based on the notion of human and animals being indistinct.
Questions and Perspectives Christopher Schliephake | Universität Augsburg
Elements in Environmental Humanities
July 2020 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 978-1-108-79737-5 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00
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The Anatomy of Deep Time
After the Human
December 2020 229 x 152 mm c.260pp 978-1-108-83666-1 Hardback £79.99 / US$105.00 978-1-108-81916-9 Paperback £22.99 / US$29.99
October 2020 229 x 152 mm c.260pp 978-1-108-47193-0 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99
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This Element aims to show why the ancient tradition still matters in the Anthropocene. Revisiting ancient materials alongside central concepts of contemporary environmental theory, Schliephake offers new perspectives and argues that classical ecological knowledge is a powerful resource for creating alternative world views. Elements in Environmental Humanities
July 2020 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 978-1-108-74904-6 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00
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