Eden's endemics : narratives of biodiversity on Earth and beyond

Under the sign of nature : explorations in ecocriticism

Under the sign of nature.

Introduction: Accounting for Biodiversity -- Natural History at the End of the World: Seed Banks, Database, Apocalypse -- Cross Sections of the Tree of Life: Visualization and Evolutionary Supertrees -- A Bird in Hand: Species Encounters in Competitive Birding -- Islands in the Aether Ocean: Speculative Ecosystems in Science Fiction -- Biodiversity Within: The Human Microbiome -- Coda: Nature Writing by Artificial Intelligence.

Chaucer : his life, his works, his world

Into the King's Service (1342-1372) -- Memories -- A Young Man's World -- The Best of Times--the 1360s -- The Wheel Turns -- The Ear Within -- To Italy (1372-1380) -- Florence, 1373 -- To the Gatehouse -- The House of Fame -- Reading Boccaccio -- Boccaccio and the Birth of Fiction -- Into Our Time (1380-1400) -- Chaucer at Forty -- Troilus and Criseyde -- The Worst of Times--the 1380s -- The Canterbury Tales--the Plan Takes Shape -- The Canterbury Tales--Making a World of Story -- A New Age--the 1390s -- The End of the Pilgrimage -- The Order of The Canterbury Tales -- Chaucer's Reputation.

Kafka's Italian progeny

Toronto Italian studies

Toronto Italian studies.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Kafka, World Literature, and the Italian Literary Landscape -- 1. Amerika in Italy: Kafka's Realism, Pavese, and Calvino -- 2. Dreams of Short Fiction after Kafka: Lalla Romano, Giorgio Manganelli, and Antonio Tabucchi -- 3. Processi without End: The Mysteries of Dino Buzzati and Paola Capriolo -- 4. Kafka's Parental Bonds: The Family as Institution in Italian Literature -- 5. The Human-Animal Boundary, Italian Style: Kafka's Red Peter in Conversation with Svevo's Argo, Morante's Bella, and Landolfi's Tombo -- Epilogue: Calvino's Kafka and Kafka's Italy -- Works Cited -- Index

The end that does : art, science, and millennial accomplishment

Millennialism and society ;

Will (poem) / In/tensions / The pharmakon of the apocalypse / The merit of time : a genealogy of the countdown / Postcard I (poem) / Collecting the cosmos : the apocalypse of the ancient library / Giordano Bruno and the rewriting of the heavens / Francis Bacon's scientific apocalypse / Promise (poem) / The elusive Isis : theosophy and the mirror of millennialism / Promiseland : utopian technology and the American millennial dream / Postcard II (poem) / The end is still near : the eternal apocalypse of the tabloids / Christian apocalyptic fiction, science fiction, and technology / Unto (Rose Window, Sainte-Chapelle, Paris) / Y2KO to Y2OK / Cloister (poem) / Respite (poem) / The Space Needle hits the road : the portability of home, landmark and memorial / Ultima Thule--the city at the end of the world : Jerusalem in the modern Christian apocalyptic / International radio

Curiosity studies : a new ecology of knowledge

Introduction: What is curiosity studies? / Exploring the costs of curiosity : an environmental scientist's dilemma / Curious ecologies of knowledge : more-than-human anthropology / Curiosity, ethics, and the medical management of intersex anatomies / A network science of the practice of curiosity / Why should this be so? The waxing and waning of children's curiosity / The Dude abides, or, why curiosity is important for education today / "The campus is sick" : capitalist curiosity and student mental health / Autism, neurodiversity, and curiosity / Obstacles to curiosity and concern : exploring the racist imagination / Curious entanglements : opacity and ethical relation in Latina/ Transsexuality, the curio, and the transgender tipping point / Peeping and transgression : curiosity and collecting in English literature / Curiosity and political resistance / Curiosity at the end of the world : women, fiction, electricity / Conclusion: On teaching curiosity / Afterword

A view from the stars

Time enough for love / Whale song / A journey in search of home : on the inclusion of "The Wandering Earth" in the 30th anniversary of Science fiction world / The messenger / Thirty years of making magic out of ordinariness : celebrating Science fiction world's thirtieth anniversary / Butterfly / One and one hundred thousand Earths / On finishing Death's end, the last book in the Remembrance of Earth's past trilogy / The battle between sci-fi and fantasy ; The "Church" of sci fi : on depictions of the universe in science fiction / End of the microcosmos / Poetic science fiction / Civilization's expansion in reverse / Destiny / The dark forest theory / The world in fifty years / Heard it in the morning / On ball lightning, an interview with Liu Cixin ; We're sci-fi fans

Vargas Llosa among the Postmodernists

Introduction: Notes Toward the Postmodern. Redefining the Modernist Novel in The Green House -- Postmodernist Parody and Modernist Exemplification. Captain Pantoja and the Special Service and The Green House -- Literature and Commodification. The Production and Consumption of Texts in Vargas Llosa's Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter and Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveler -- Realism, Modernism, and Postmodernism. Three Versions of Apocalypse in The War of the End of the World -- Fiction and "Real Life" Vargas Llosa's The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta and Nabokov's The Real Life of Sebastian Knight -- Narrative, Metanarrative, and Utopian Fantasy in The Storyteller -- Detective Fiction, the Fantastic, and the Role of the Reader. Who Killed Palomino Molero? in Postmodernist Context -- The Reader as Voyeur. Culture, Pornography, and Religion in In Praise of the Stepmother. Postscript: Commitment and Ambivalence -- Appendix: Modernism and Postmodernism: Some Published Views.

The world of King Arthur

Introduction: Who Was Arthur? -- Arthur, Myth and Reality Sources of Evidence An Outline History Background: Britons and Romans -- Prehistoric Britain Iron Age Roman Conquest of Britain Coming of Christianity Late Roman Britain Age of Arthur (Ad 400-600) -- Tyrants and the End of Roman Britain Historical Evidence Inscriptions Archaeological Evidence Peoples of Post-Roman Britain Britons Picts Irish Saxons Chronicles of the Britons -- Patrick and Gildas Welsh Annals History of the Britons Geoffrey of Monmouth Legends of the Britons -- Pseudo-Chronicles Welsh Tradition Breton Material French Romances Perceval-Grail Tradition Tristan Tradition Arthurian Tradition and the Medieval World Late Medieval English Tradition Monarchy, Chivalry and the Return of Arthur -- Plantagenets Tudors and the Stuarts Victorian Revival Quest for Camelot -- Historical Arthur Merlin and Myrddin In Search of the Holy Grail Conclusion: An Age of Arthur -- Modern Arthurian Fiction Arthurian Films and Television Arthurian Music Once and Future King Story of Arthur -- Isle of the Mighty Birth of Arthur Arthur, Leader of Battles Knights of the Round Table Beguiling of Merlin Lancelot and Guinevere Quest for the Holy Grail Tristan and Isolde Lady of Shalott Battle of Camlann Isle of Avalon

Migration : Changing Concepts, Critical Approaches

Concepts for the Study of Culture (CSC) ;

Concepts for the study of culture ;

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction: Migration -- Frames, Regimes, Concepts / I: The Power of Images and the Imaginary -- Migration and the Regime of the Gaze: A Critical Perspective on Concepts and Practices of Visibility and Visualization / Framing Mobility / Migration and the Structure of the Imaginary / II: (Border) Regimes -- Border as Conflict Zone: Critical Approaches on the Border and Migration Nexus / Displaced Papers: Keeping Records of Persons on the Move / Orders of Belonging and Education: Migration Pedagogy as Criticism / III: Stories, Histories, and Politics -- Unsettling Crime: Memory, Migration, and Prime Time Fiction / Post/Memories of Forced Migration at the End of the Second World War: Novels by Walter Kempowski and Ulrike Draesner / Conceptualizing the Coloniality of Migration: On European Settler Colonialism-Migration, Racism, and Migration Policies / What Does Exile Have to Do with Us? Academic Freedom in Turkey / IV: New Contexts -- Changing Concepts -- Exclusion as a Liberal Imperative: Culture, Gender, and the Orientalization of Migration / Family Life in the Digital Age of Globalization: Critical Reflections on 'Integration' / Migration as Translation / Notes on Contributors -- Index.

The Cambridge companion to the American short story

Cambridge companions to literature

Cambridge companions to literature.

Transatlantic print culture and the emergence of short narratives / The short story and the early magazine / The short story fad: gender, pleasure, and commodity culture in late nineteenth-century magazines / The best of the best: anthologies, prizes, and the short story canon / The story of a semester: short fiction and the program era / The short story in the age of the internet / The war story / Narratives from below: working-class short fiction / The short story and the popular imagination: pulp and crime / Love what you do: neoliberalism, emotional labor, and the short story as a service / Local color to multiculturalism: minority writers in the short story and ethnographic markets / Native American short stories / African American short stories: from reform to renaissance / Little postage stamps: the short story, the American south, and the world / Regional stories and the environmental imagination / Sylvan Goldberg -- Concrete illuminations: the short story and/as urban revolution / Short fiction, language learning, and innocent comedy / The technology of the short story / Homelessness: the short story and other media / The human and the animal: toward posthumanist short fiction / The end of the story: grammar, gender, and time in the contemporary short story / The affordances of mere length: computational approaches to short story analysis

Adventures in the dream trade

The introduction / Mostly introductions -- Fan letter -- Shameful secrets of comics retailing : the lingerie connection -- But what has that to do with Bacchus? (Deadface) -- Breathtaker -- Bratpack (Rich Veitch) -- Astro City : confession (Kurt Busiek) -- 300 good reasons to resent Dave Sim (Cerebus) -- Tantrum (Jules Feiffer) -- The Dark Knight returns -- Starchild : crossroads (James A. Owen) -- The Adventures of Professor Thintwhistle and his incredible aetheric flyer (Alfred Bester) -- Concerning dreams and nightmares (H.P. Lovecraft) -- The Einstein intersection (Samuel Delany) -- The Swords of Lankhmar (Fritz Leiber) -- The Screwtape Letters (C.S. Lewis) -- The King of Elfland's daughter (Lord Dunsany) -- Curiosities : Lud-in-the-mist (Hope Mirrlees) -- From the end of the twentieth century John M. Ford) -- Jonathan Carroll -- Roger Zelazny -- The beast that shouted love at the heart of the world (Harlan Ellison) -- Banging the drum for Harlan Ellison -- After they've brought on the dancing girls -- Poetry -- A Writer's prayer -- Neil's thank you pome -- Sonnet -- How to write Longfellow's "Hiawatha" -- The Old warlock's reverie : A pantoum -- Flash girls -- In re: Pansy Smith and Violet Jones -- Banshee -- Post mortem on our love -- Personal thing -- All purpose folk song -- A girl needs a knife -- American gods web log -- Fiction -- Hallowe'en -- December 7, 1995 -- Good boys deserve favours -- The Flints of Memory Lane -- Essay for Patti --

Sherman Alexie

Critical insights

Critical insights.

On Sherman Alexie: American man of letters / Navigating the river of the world: collective trauma in The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian / "Doesn't everybody belong to a subculture?": community and history in Sherman Alexie's writing / Articulations of difference: minority existence in white America in Sherman Alexie's Indian killer and Toni Morrison's The bluest eye / Postmodern magic, traditional rage: the critical reception of Sherman Alexie's work / Half child/half adult: Sherman Alexie's hybrid young adult fiction / The rhetorical, performative poetics of Sherman Alexie: critical reflections on affect, memory, and subjectivity / A rez kid gone urban: Sherman Alexie's recent short fiction / Dialectic to dialogic: negotiating bicultural heritage in Sherman Alexie's sonnets / Sherman Alexie's indigenous blues / The exaggeration of despair in Sherman Alexie's Reservation blues / Reservation home movies: Sherman Alexie's poetry / A new road and a dead end in Sherman Alexie's Reservation blues / "The res has missed you": the fragmented reservation of the mind in The business of fancydancing / A bridge of difference: Sherman Alexie and the politics of mourning / A world of story-smoke: a conversation with Sherman Alexie / Indian killer / Sex and salmon: queer identities in Sherman Alexie's The toughest Indian in the world / The trans/historicity of trauma in Jeannette Armstrong's Slash and Sherman Alexie's Indian killer / Building cultural knowledge in the contemporary native novel / Sherman Alexie: interview