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  1. Animal stories
    narrating across species lines
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Univ. of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, Minn. [u.a.]

    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf
    angm870.m151
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    Universitätsbibliothek Koblenz
    EN/S 2017 14685
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    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Münster
    3K 41641
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  2. Portals of power
    magical agency and transformation in literary fantasy
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  McFarland, Jefferson, NC [u.a.]

    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn
    2014/5410
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    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf
    anga887.c188
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    Universitätsbibliothek Siegen
    11DVSF1357
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780786446452
    Series: Critical explorations in science fiction and fantasy ; 19
    Subjects: Metamorphose <Motiv>; Fantastische Literatur; Englisch; Magie <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Fantasy fiction, English--History and criticism.; Fantasy fiction, American--History and criticism.; Change in literature.; Agent (Philosophy) in literature.; Magic in literature.; Supernatural in literature.
    Scope: X, 216 S., 23 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-212) and index. - Women and other magical creatures: portals in romance and fairy tale -- Charms, places, and little girls: portals in children's literature -- Haunted houses and the hidden self: portals in gothic, low fantasy, and science fiction -- Haunting history: the portal in modern/postmodern fantasy

  3. Real phonies
    cultures of authenticity in post-World War II America
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Univ. of Georgia Press, Athens, Ga.

    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf
    angm680.c515
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    Historisches Institut, Abteilung für Nordamerikanische Geschichte, Bibliothek
    422/301.15Che/Rea
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    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Münster
    3K 25359
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  4. Fatal Autonomy
    Romantic Drama and the Rhetoric of Agency
    Published: 2019; ©1997
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca

    Cover -- Fatal Autonomy -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part One Tragic Agents and the Origins of Romanticism, 1794-1797 -- 1 The Sublime Machine of History: The Fall of Robespierre and Wat Tyler -- 2 The... more

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    Cover -- Fatal Autonomy -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part One Tragic Agents and the Origins of Romanticism, 1794-1797 -- 1 The Sublime Machine of History: The Fall of Robespierre and Wat Tyler -- 2 The Claim of Compulsion: The Borderers -- 3 Fancy and the Spell of Enlightenment: Osorio -- Part Two Shelley, Byron, and the Body Politic, 1819-1822 -- 4 Performing Skepticism: The Cenci -- 5 Fatal Autonomy: Marino Faliero -- 6 History's Lethean Song: Charles the First and The Triumph of Life -- Index.

     

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  5. Reconfiguring human, nonhuman and posthuman in literature and culture /
    Contributor: Karkulehto, Sanna, (editor.); Koistinen, Aino-Kaisa, (editor.); Varis, Essi, (editor.)
    Published: 2019.
    Publisher:  Routledge,, New York :

    "The time has come for human cultures to seriously think, to severely conceptualize, and to earnestly fabulate about all the nonhuman critters we share our world with, and to consider how to strive for more ethical cohabitation. Reconfiguring Human,... more

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    "The time has come for human cultures to seriously think, to severely conceptualize, and to earnestly fabulate about all the nonhuman critters we share our world with, and to consider how to strive for more ethical cohabitation. Reconfiguring Human, Nonhuman and Posthuman in Literature and Culture tackles this severe matter within the framework of literary and cultural studies. The emphasis of the inquiry is on the various ways actual and fictional nonhumans are reconfigured in contemporary culture - although, as long as the domain of nonhumanity is carved in the negative space of humanity, addressing these issues will inevitably clamor for the reconfiguration of the human as well"--

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Karkulehto, Sanna, (editor.); Koistinen, Aino-Kaisa, (editor.); Varis, Essi, (editor.)
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780429243042; 0429243049; 9780429519628; 0429519621; 9780429512766; 0429512767; 9780429516191; 0429516193
    Series: Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture
    Subjects: Technology in literature.; Virtual reality in literature.; Biotechnology in literature.; Humanism in literature.; Agent (Philosophy) in literature.; Technologie dans la littérature.; Réalité virtuelle dans la littérature.; Biotechnologie dans la littérature.; Humanisme dans la littérature.; Agent (Philosophie) dans la littérature.; Literary Criticism / Modern.; Literary Criticism / Subjects & Themes / Nature.; Literary Criticism / Comparative Literature.; Agent (Philosophy) in literature.; Biotechnology in literature.; Humanism in literature.; Technology in literature.; Virtual reality in literature.
    Scope: 1 online resource.
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    Part 1. Towards Posthumanist Literature and Posthumanist Reading. 1. On the Possibility of a Posthuman/ist Literature(s) / Carole Guesse; 2. Posthumanist Reading: Witnessing Ghosts, Summoning Nonhuman Powers / Karoliina Lummaa; 3. Becoming-instrument: Thinking with Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation and Timothy Morton's Hyperobjects / Kaisa Kortekallio -- Part 2. Imagining Aliens and Monsters. 4. Alien Overtures: Speculating about Nonhuman Experiences with Comic Book Characters / Essi Varis; 5. Playing the Nonhuman: Alien Experiences in Aliens vs. Predator / Jonne Arjoranta; 6 Wild Things Squeezed in the Closet: Monsters of Children's Literature as Nonhuman Others / Marleena Mustola and Sanna Karkulehto -- Part 3. Becoming with Animals. 7 Dead Dog Talking: Posthumous, Preposthumous, and Preposterous Canine Narration in Charles Siebert's Angus / Mikko Keskinen; 8. Carnivorous Anatomies: Art and Being Beasts / Brad Bolman; 9. Reconfiguring Human and Nonhuman Animals in a Guiding Assemblage: Towards Posthumanist Conception of Disability / Hana Porkertová -- Part 4. Technological (Co- )Agencies. 10. Meeting the Machine Halfway: Towards Non-Anthropocentric Semiotics / Cléo Collomb and Samuel Goyet; 11. Journeys in Intensity: Human and Nonhuman Co-Agency, Neuropower, and Counterplay in Minecraft / Marleena Huuhka; 12. Cyborganic Wearables: Sociotechnical Misbehavior and the Evolution of Nonhuman Agency / Patricia Flanagan and Raune Frankjær -- Part 5. Afterword: Unnarratable Matter? 13. Unnarratable Matter: Emergence, Narrative, and Material Ecocriticism / Juha Raipola.

  6. Animal stories
    narrating across species lines
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Univ. of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, Minn. [u.a.]

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780816670321; 0816670323; 9780816670338; 0816670331
    RVK Categories: EC 5410 ; HG 430 ; LC 55000
    Series: Posthumanities ; 15
    Subjects: American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.; English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.; Animals in literature.; Human-animal relationships in literature.; Agent (Philosophy) in literature.
    Scope: XI, 280 S., Ill., 23 cm
    Notes:

    Literaturverz. S. 221 - 258