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Coffee Dates
The only thing hotter than the coffee spilled down her jeans is the man responsible for it. When aspiring writer Hillary James escapes to New York City, she's ready to find herself and inspiration for her first novel. Instead, inspiration collides with her and her latte, and she finds herself becoming fast friends with the charming and talented actor Dalton Tremaine. Hillary can tell Dalton her secrets-all the messy reasons she left her small town in the first place. He's been searching for a meaningful connection, and Hillary grounds him in a way that no one else in New York has been able to. He loves her easy-going nature, and she loves that he accepts her exactly as she is. Hillary begins to feel like she can finally let go of her past and write a new chapter with Dalton as her leading man. That's why she can't tell him the one secret she's been holding on to since they first bumped into each other. Will their story end in heartache, or will she get her happy ending?
Julia Kristeva and Literary Theory
Engaged debate among feminist, political, and psychoanalytic thinkers has secured Julia Kristeva's status as one of the most formidable figures in twentieth-century critical theory. Nevertheless, her precise relevance to the study of literature - the extent to which her theory is specifically a literary theory - can be hard for new readers to fathom. This approachable volume explores Kristeva's definition of literature, her methods for analyzing it, and the theoretical ground on which those endeavors are based. Megan Becker-Leckrone argues that Kristeva's signature concepts, such as abjection and intertextuality, lose much of their force when readers extract them from the specific, complex t...
Salome's Modernity
Oscar Wilde's 1891 symbolist tragedy Salom has had a rich afterlife in literature, opera, dance, film, and popular culture. Salome's Modernity: Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetics of Transgression is the first comprehensive scholarly exploration of that extraordinary resonance that persists to the present. Petra Dierkes-Thrun positions Wilde as a founding figure of modernism and Salom as a key text in modern culture's preoccupation with erotic and aesthetic transgression, arguing that Wilde's Salom marks a major turning point from a dominant traditional cultural, moral, and religious outlook to a utopian aesthetic of erotic and artistic transgression. Wilde and Salom are seen to represent a bridge linking the philosophical and artistic projects of writers such as Mallarm , Pater, and Nietzsche to modernist and postmodernist literature and philosophy and our contemporary culture. Dierkes-Thrun addresses subsequent representations of Salome in a wide range of artistic productions of both high and popular culture through the works of Richard Strauss, Maud Allan, Alla Nazimova, Ken Russell, Suri Krishnamma, Robert Altman, Tom Robbins, and Nick Cave, among others.
Mimesis
A multidisciplinary study of a term rapidly returning to the forefront of contemporary theory, Matt Potolsky examines the key issues surrounding the term 'mimesis', including an exploration of the work of Freud, Lacan, Girard and Baudrillard.
Dickens's London
This phenomenological exploration of the streets of Dickens's London opens up new perspectives on the city and the writer.
The Change in Female Subjectivity in Women’s Fiction
This book aims to provide readers with an inclusive reading of Kristevan theories on subjectivity, focusing on semiotic and symbolic phases of the infant, abjection, melancholy, love and revolution. It presents three different types of novels from three well-known female authors in order to study their female characters, who are “subjects in process” trying to overcome their psychological maladies. In each part, different eras have been chosen to see how female subjectivity has changed throughout the Feminist Waves, starting from the Victorian period until the Third Wave. With its feminist stance, this book is expected to appeal to the students, researchers, and academicians, particularly those in the fields of sociocultural studies and literature.
Sexual Restraint and Aesthetic Experience in Victorian Literary Decadence
Can sexual restraint be good for you? Many Victorians thought so. This book explores the surprisingly positive construction of sexual restraint in an unlikely place: late nineteenth-century Decadence. Reading Decadent texts alongside Victorian writing about sexual health, including medical literature, adverts, advice books, and periodical articles, it identifies an intellectual Paterian tradition of sensuous continence, in which 'healthy' pleasure is distinguished from its 'harmful' counterpart. Recent work on Decadent sexuality concentrates on transgression and subversion, with restraint interpreted ahistorically as evidence of repression/sublimation or queer coding. Here Sarah Green examines the work of Walter Pater, Lionel Johnson, Vernon Lee, and George Moore to outline a co-extensive alternative approach to sexuality where restraint figured as a productive part of the 'aesthetic life', or a practical ethics shaped by aesthetic principles. Attending to this tradition reveals neglected connections within and beyond Decadence, bringing fresh perspective to its late nineteenth- and twentieth-century reception.
Heavy Metals
In recent years, urbanization and industrialization have produced large amounts of heavy metals, which are highly toxic to both humans and the environment. This book presents a comprehensive overview of heavy metals including their physiochemical properties, toxicity, transfer in the environment, legislation, environmental impacts, and mitigation measures. Written by experts in the field, chapters include scientific research as well as case studies.
Former Extremists
"A considerable number of initiatives across the globe aiming to prevent violence have utilized or have been led by former extremists and former combatants (Formers). In the context of programs aiming to prevent and counter violent extremism (P/CVE), some former far-right extremists and former Islamist extremists have spoken in schools and have been enlisted as peer mentors to support extremists exit their respective movement. In the context of post-conflict initiatives, former members of armed groups have in some cases taken active roles to prevent violence at conflict flashpoints or have engaged youth to counter pro-paramilitary narratives"--
Zombie Culture
Why have zombies resonated so pervasively in the popular imagination and in media, especially films? Why have they proved to be one of the most versatile and popular monster types in the growing video game industry? What makes zombies such widespread symbols of horror and dread, and how have portrayals of zombies in movies changed and evolved to fit contemporary fears, anxieties, and social issues? Zombies have held a unique place in film and popular culture throughout most of the 20th century. Rare in that this enduring monster type originated in non-European folk culture rather than the Gothic tradition from which monsters like vampires and werewolves have emerged, zombies have in many way...
