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1. Zoohistoricism: Literary animals as codes in history and culture.- 2. Can natural theology rethink its relationship with non-human animals?.- 3. Jacques Derrida and the Autobiographical (Non-Human) Animal: An Analysis of (False) Animal Autobiographies.- 4. Reassessing Predatory Animals in Literary Journalism: A Look at John Vaillant''s The Tiger and Nate Blakeslee''s The Wolf.- 5.The Bird and Eye: Kinship with Birds as Proto-Ecofeminist Discourse of Liberation in George Meredith''s The Egoist.- 6. Deconstructing the Human-Animal Hierarchy at the End of the World: Readings in Literary Representation of Apocalypse.- 7. The Snake Has A Face: Levinas, Mondo, and the Suffering Non-Human Animal.- 8. Bowers of Persuasion: Toward a Posthuman Visual Rhetoric. 

The magic transformation of "your" money into "their" money is paralleled in contemporary media and culture by the centrality of transformation of one product to another as a media industry practice, as well as the transformation of bodies as a major theme both in the ensuing media products and in people's identity practices in daily life.

This book reveals the hitherto critically disregarded ludic elements in popular American comedy films, building on and expanding the theories developed by Johan Huizinga in his classic study Homo Ludens (1938) and Roger Caillois in Les jeux et les hommes (1958).

The magic transformation of "your" money into "their" money is paralleled in contemporary media and culture by the centrality of transformation of one product to another as a media industry practice, as well as the transformation of bodies as a major theme both in the ensuing media products and in people's identity practices in daily life.

This book is a collection of essays on neglected aspects of the Great War.

The book analyses a variety of topics and current issues in linguistics and literary studies, focusing especially on such aspects as memory, identity and cognition. It then investigates a variety of practices of language users, language learners and translators, such as the use of borrowings from hip-hop and slang.

This book is a collection of essays on neglected aspects of the Great War.

This edited collection explores the conjunction of multiculturalism and the self in literature and culture studies, and brings together essays by prominent researchers interested in literature and culture whose critical perspectives inform discussions of specific examples of multicultural contexts in which individuals and communities strive to maintain their identities. The book is divided into two major parts, the first of which comprises literary representations of multiculturalism and discussions of its impasses and impacts in fictional circumstances. In turn, the second part primarily focuses on culture at large and real-life consequences. Taken together, the two complementary parts offer an illuminating and well-rounded overview of representations of multiculturalism in literature and contemporary culture from a variety of critical perspectives.

The book offers a new approach to the study of Alice Munro's fiction. Part Three consists of an essay on didactic aspects of Munro's fiction and of several interviews with teachers of Canadian literature who have included stories by Munro in their syllabi.