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Adaptation in Contemporary Culture: Textual Infidelities seeks to reconfigure the ways in which adaptation is conceptualised by considering adaptation within an extended range of generic, critical and theoretical contexts. This collection explores literary, film, television and other visual texts both as origins and adaptations and offers new insights into the construction of genres, canons and classics. Chapters investigate both classic and contemporary texts by British and American authors, from Jane Austen, Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Dickens to Bret Easton Ellis, P.D James and Sarah Waters
Literature --- Film --- Mass communications --- Film adaptations --- Mass media and literature. --- Motion pictures and literature. --- History and criticism. --- Adaptations. --- Literature and mass media --- Adaptations, Literary --- Literary adaptations --- Literature and motion pictures --- Moving-pictures and literature --- Mass media and literature --- Motion pictures and literature --- History and criticism --- Adaptations --- Film adaptations. --- Film adaptations -- History and criticism. --- Literature -- Adaptations. --- Languages & Literatures --- Literature - General
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'Transgender and the Literary Imagination' is the first full length study to revisit twentieth century narratives and their afterlives, examining the extent to which they have reflected, shaped or transformed changing understandings of gender.
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Presents new perspectives on representations of female heterosexuality in selected contemporary British and American novels.Drawing on feminist and queer theories of sex, gender and sexuality, this study focuses on female identities at odds with heterosexual norms. In particular, it explores narratives in which the conventional equation between heterosexuality, reproductive sexuality and female identity is questioned. Key Features: A timely exploration of the dynamic relationship between feminist and queer theory Offers close analysis of influential novels by leading contemporary authors, i
American fiction --- English fiction --- Heterosexuality in literature. --- Feminist literary criticism. --- Literary criticism, Feminist --- Feminism and literature --- Feminist criticism --- English literature --- American literature --- History and criticism. --- Literature --- Contemporary Fiction --- sexuality --- queer theory --- women writers --- feminist theory --- critical theory --- Heteronormativity --- Heterosexuality --- Homosexuality --- Human sexuality --- Lesbian --- Spinster
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'Transgender and the Literary Imagination' is the first full length study to revisit twentieth century narratives and their afterlives, examining the extent to which they have reflected, shaped or transformed changing understandings of gender.
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Heterosexuality in contemporary novels, re-examined using the frameworks of feminism and queer theory. Drawing on feminist and queer theories of sex, gender and sexuality, this study focuses on female identities at odds with heterosexual norms. In particular, it explores narratives in which the conventional equation between heterosexuality, reproductive sexuality and female identity is questioned. Key Features. A timely exploration of the dynamic relationship between feminist and queer theory Insightful close readings of acclaimed novels, including Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex, Zoñ Heller's Notes on a Scandal, A. M. Homes' The End of Alice, Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, Alan Warner's Morvern Callar and Sarah Waters' Affinity Topics range from spinsterhood and intergenerational sexuality to transgender and human cloning.
American fiction --- English fiction --- Heterosexuality in literature. --- History and criticism.
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Englisch. --- English literature --- English literature. --- Gender identity in literature. --- Gender identity in literature. --- Geschlechtsidentität --- Literatur. --- Transgender people in literature. --- Transgender people in literature. --- Transgender. --- History and criticism --- 1900-1999.
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Heterosexuality in contemporary novels, re-examined using the frameworks of feminism and queer theory. Drawing on feminist and queer theories of sex, gender and sexuality, this study focuses on female identities at odds with heterosexual norms. In particular, it explores narratives in which the conventional equation between heterosexuality, reproductive sexuality and female identity is questioned. Key Features. A timely exploration of the dynamic relationship between feminist and queer theory Insightful close readings of acclaimed novels, including Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex, Zoñ Heller's Notes on a Scandal, A. M. Homes' The End of Alice, Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, Alan Warner's Morvern Callar and Sarah Waters' Affinity Topics range from spinsterhood and intergenerational sexuality to transgender and human cloning.
American fiction --- English fiction --- Heterosexuality in literature. --- History and criticism.
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Heterosexuality in contemporary novels, re-examined using the frameworks of feminism and queer theory. Drawing on feminist and queer theories of sex, gender and sexuality, this study focuses on female identities at odds with heterosexual norms. In particular, it explores narratives in which the conventional equation between heterosexuality, reproductive sexuality and female identity is questioned. Key Features. A timely exploration of the dynamic relationship between feminist and queer theory Insightful close readings of acclaimed novels, including Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex, Zoñ Heller's Notes on a Scandal, A. M. Homes' The End of Alice, Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, Alan Warner's Morvern Callar and Sarah Waters' Affinity Topics range from spinsterhood and intergenerational sexuality to transgender and human cloning.
American fiction --- English fiction --- Heterosexuality in literature. --- History and criticism.
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Bringing together exciting new interdisciplinary work from emerging and established scholars in the UK and beyond, Litpop addresses the question: how has writing past and present been influenced by popular music, and vice versa? Contributions explore how various forms of writing have had a crucial role to play in making popular music what it is, and how popular music informs 'literary' writing in diverse ways. The collection features musicologists, literary critics, experts in cultural studies, and creative writers.
Music and literature --- Popular music --- History and criticism --- Music and literature. --- Literature and music --- Literature --- History and criticism. --- Popular music - History and criticism
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