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  1. Utopia and terror in contemporary American fiction
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York, NY [u.a.]

    Universitätsbibliothek Bielefeld
    WU790 N553
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    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn
    2015/959
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    angm870.n553
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780203555972; 9781138813953; 9780415899123
    Edition: 1. issued in paperback
    Series: Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature ; 21
    Subjects: Utopias in literature; American fiction; Dystopias in literature; Terror in literature; Fantasy in literature; Transnationalism in literature; Terrorismus <Motiv>; Utopie; Literatur
    Scope: XII, 181 S., 23 cm
  2. Fantasy
    the literature of subversion
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Routledge, London

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781138837126
    Series: New accents
    Subjects: Fantasy fiction; Fantasy in literature
    Scope: 224 S.
  3. Dino Buzzati and anglo-american culture
    the re-use of visual and narrative texts in his fantastic fiction
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Cambridge Scholars Publ., Newcastle upon Tyne

    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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  4. Reading Arabia
    British orientalism in the age of mass publication, 1880 - 1930
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY

    Universitätsbibliothek Bamberg
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780815633235
    RVK Categories: HM 1101
    Edition: 1. ed.
    Series: Contemporary issues in the Middle East
    Subjects: Geschichte; Orientalism; Arabs in popular culture; Arabs in mass media; British literature; Arabs in literature; Fantasy in literature; Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature; Orientalisierende Literatur; Orientbild; Arabienbild
    Scope: XII, 269 S.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

  5. Fantasy
    the literature of subversion
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Routledge, London

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781138837126
    Series: New accents
    Subjects: Fantasy fiction; Fantasy in literature
    Scope: 224 S.
  6. Utopia and terror in contemporary American fiction
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York, NY [u.a.]

    Universitätsbibliothek Bielefeld
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780203555972; 9781138813953; 9780415899123
    Edition: 1. issued in paperback
    Series: Routledge transnational perspectives on American literature ; 21
    Subjects: Utopias in literature; American fiction; Dystopias in literature; Terror in literature; Fantasy in literature; Transnationalism in literature
    Scope: XII, 181 S., 23 cm
  7. Reading Arabia
    British orientalism in the age of mass publication, 1880 - 1930
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Syracuse University Press, Syracuse

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780815633235; 9780815652328
    Edition: First edition
    Series: Contemporary issues in the Middle East
    Subjects: Geschichte; Orientalism; Arabs in popular culture; Arabs in mass media; British literature; Arabs in literature; Fantasy in literature; Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature
    Scope: xii, 269 Seiten, Illustrationen
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    Enthält Literaturverzeichnis: seite 239-251

  8. La modalidad fantástica en el cuento dominicano en el siglo XX
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Ed. Pliegos, Madrid

    Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Bibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: Spanish
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9788496045927
    Series: Pliegos de ensayo ; 243
    Subjects: Short stories, Dominican; Dominican fiction; Fantasy in literature; Marvelous, The, in literature; Magic realism (Literature)
    Scope: 205 S., 20 cm
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    First publ. 2005 in America

    Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-201) and index

  9. La modalidad fantástica en el cuento dominicano en el siglo XX
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Ed. Pliegos, Madrid

    Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Bibliothek
    A 15 / 14126
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: Spanish
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9788496045927
    Series: Pliegos de ensayo ; 243
    Subjects: Short stories, Dominican; Dominican fiction; Fantasy in literature; Marvelous, The, in literature; Magic realism (Literature)
    Scope: 205 S., 20 cm
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    First publ. 2005 in America

    Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-201) and index

  10. Reading Arabia
    British orientalism in the age of mass publication, 1880 - 1930
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Syracuse Univ. Press, Syracuse, NY

    Orient-Institut Beirut
    014 1244
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    Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg
    GE 2014/4697
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    2014 A 10152
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    14 SA 7217
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    Historisches Seminar der Universität, Bibliothek
    Le 292
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0815633238; 9780815633235
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    9780815633235
    RVK Categories: HM 1101 ; EL 7910
    Edition: 1. ed.
    Series: Contemporary issues in the Middle East
    Subjects: Orientalism; Arabs in popular culture; Arabs in mass media; British literature; Arabs in literature; Fantasy in literature; Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature; Arabs in literature; Arabs in mass media; Arabs in popular culture; British literature; Fantasy in literature; Geschichte; Orientalism; Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature
    Scope: XII, 269 S., Ill., 24 cm
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    Introduction: Britain at the fin de siècle and the Orientalist unconscious -- The two tangents of British Orientalism : Burton and Doughty, dandy and prophet in the 1880s -- Khartoum nightmare : popular literature of the British campaign in the Sudan -- A refusal and a traversal : Robert Cunninghame Graham's engagement with Orientalism in Mogreb-el-Acksa -- Orientalism from within and without : Marmaduke Pickthall -- The Arabist as abject modern : T.E. Lawrence -- Conclusion: How to read the Orientalist archive.

  11. Ornament
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, s.l.

    Universitätsbibliothek Osnabrück
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1306985781; 0691069271; 9781306985789
    Subjects: Desire in literature; French language; Fantasy in literature; Psychoanalysis and literature; French literature
    Scope: Online-Ressource
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-279) and index

    Spine title: Ornament, fantasy & desire in nineteenth-century French literature

  12. Utopia and Terror in Contemporary American Fiction
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Taylor and Francis, Hoboken

    This book examines the quest for/failure of Utopia across a range of contemporary American/transnational fictions in relation to terror and globalization through authors such as Susan Choi, André Dubus, Dalia Sofer, and John Updike. While recent... more

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    This book examines the quest for/failure of Utopia across a range of contemporary American/transnational fictions in relation to terror and globalization through authors such as Susan Choi, André Dubus, Dalia Sofer, and John Updike. While recent critical thinkers have reengaged with Utopia, the possibility of terror - whether state or non-state, external or homegrown - shadows Utopian imaginings. Terror and Utopia are linked in fiction through the exploration of the commodification of affect, a phenomenon of a globalized world in which feelings are managed, homogenized across cultures, exagger

     

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    Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780415899123
    Series: Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature
    Subjects: Utopias in literature; American fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism; Dystopias in literature; Terror in literature; Fantasy in literature; Transnationalism in literature
    Scope: Online-Ressource (195 p)
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    Utopia and Terror in Contemporary American Fiction; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction ; 2 Rotten with Perfection: Kim Edwards, The Secrets of a Fire King; 3 Fiction and the Unabomber: Susan Choi, A Person of Interest ; 4 Blowback: André Dubus III, House of Sand and Fog ; 5 Falling Woman: André Dubus III, The Garden of Last Days ; 6 Pictures from a Revolution: Dalia Sofer, The Septembers of Shiraz; 7 Updike's Many Worlds: Local and Global in Toward the End of Time; 8 The Black Atlantic as Dystopia: Bernardine Evaristo's Blonde Roots

    9 Disaster Utopias: Chitra Divakaruni, One Amazing Thing Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index