Despite a number of retrospective works on cultural studies, to date no other book dedicates itself to the historical and theoretical examination o...

This study is a concise introduction to Bruno Latour's Actor-Network Theory and its application in a literary analysis of urban narratives of the 2...

The cultural field of advertising is a much-debated topic with perspectives focusing on a range of concepts from harassment and the anxiety of infl...

This volume is dedicated to the interrelation between temporality and representation. It presumes that time cannot be conceived of as an abstract c...

What makes up a public, what governs dominant discourses, and in which ways can counterpublics can be created through narrative? This edited collec...

"After the Storm" traces the cultural and political responses to Hurricane Katrina. Ever since Katrina hit the Gulf coast in 2005, its devastating ...

When Toula's father in "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" says to his daughter (age 30) "you look so old" or when Don DeLillo's protagonist (age 28) "feels...

The booming increase of the senior population has become a social phenomenon and a challenge to our societies, and technological advances have undo...

Dominant cultural narratives about later life dismiss the value senior citizens hold for society. In her cultural-philosophical critique, Hanne Lac...

The sustained expansion of the life span and the attendant demographic changes in the West have fuelled the production of cultural texts that explo...

In Slavic studies, aging and old age have thus far been only marginal concerns. This volume brings together the scattered research that has been do...

The linking of age and ill-health is part of a cultural narrative of decline as age is often defined as the absence of good health. Research has sh...

The global field of contemporary art is shaped by inter-racial conflicts. Alleviative Objects approaches Caribbean art through intersectional entan...

The volume entails a collection of contributions by leading scholars (Raymond Bryant, Michael K. Goodman, Benjamin Huybrechts, Andrew E.G. Jonas, R...

The study combines theories of myth, popular culture, structuralism and poststructuralism to explain the enormous appeal of "Star Wars" and "Harry ...

This book is a metaphor based analysis of the texts produced by the missionaries of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in the...

American Mobilities investigates representations of mobility - social, economic, geographic - in American film and literature during the Depression...

Amnesty International's (AI) focus on civil and political rights has marked their work with a gender bias from the outset. In the first comprehensi...

The essays, poetry, and visual art collected here consider the more-than-human cultures of our multispecies world. At a time when humanity's impact...

Can fiction teach us how to live? This study offers a fresh take on the North American short story, exploring how the genre has engaged in the cons...

andererseits provides a forum for research, commentary, and creative work on topics related to the German-speaking world and the field of German St...

andererseits seeks to provide a forum for unique and exciting research and reflections on topics related to the German-speaking world and the field...

andererseits is a collaborative project undertaken by students and faculties of universities in the USA (Duke and the University of Notre Dame), in...

andererseits is a collaborative project undertaken by students and faculties of universities in the USA (Duke and the University of Notre Dame), in...