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  • A History of Autofiction

    Cognitive and Cultural Work from 18th-Century England to Contemporary Global Anglophone Literatures

    by Dr Alexandra Effe ...
    Mapping the largely neglected history of autofictional literature, and describing developments against socio-historical changes, cultural trends, and philosophical-psychological discussions around self and mind, this book both explores and historicizes autofiction's contemporary boom. Beginning with the genre's emergence in 18th-century England against changes in publishing culture and author ... Read more

    $141.99 USD

  • J. M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Narrative Transgression

    A Reconsideration of Metalepsis

    by Alexandra Effe ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book is about the metanarrative and metafictional elements of J. M. Coetzee’s novels. It draws together authorship, readership, ethics, and formal analysis into one overarching argument about how narratives work the boundary between art and life. On the basis of Coetzee’s writing, it reconsiders the concept of metalepsis, challenges common understandings of self-reflexive discourse, and ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Autofiction, Emotions, and Humour

    A Playfully Serious Affective Mode

    Edited by Alexandra Effe, Arnaud Schmitt ...
    Series series Life Writing
    Autofiction is often associated with humour, irony, and play. Moreover, authors of autofictional texts are frequently criticised for a lack of seriousness or for failing to straightforwardly and in their own voice engage with a given topic. Yet very few autofictional texts are exclusively, or even primarily, playful. Many employ humour and irony to address very serious subject matter. This volume ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Autofictional

    Approaches, Affordances, Forms

    Edited by Alexandra Effe, Hannie Lawlor ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This open access book offers innovative and wide-ranging responses to the continuously flourishing literary phenomenon of autofiction. The book shows the insights that are gained in the shift from the genre descriptor to the adjective, and from a broad application of “the autofictional” as a theoretical lens and aesthetic strategy. In three sections on “Approaches,” “Affordances,” and “Forms,” the ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Companion to Picturebooks

    Edited by Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer ...
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    Containing forty-eight chapters, The Routledge Companion to Picturebooks is the ultimate guide to picturebooks. It contains a detailed introduction, surveying the history anddevelopment of the field and emphasizing the international and cultural diversity of picturebooks.Divided into five key parts, this volume covers:Concepts and topics – from hybridity and ideology to metafiction and emotions ... Read more

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