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Del Policial Clásico Al Post-Neopolicial: La Estética Del Crimen En La Narrativa Mexicana, 1940–2020, Maria Carpio-Manickam Apr 2025

Del Policial Clásico Al Post-Neopolicial: La Estética Del Crimen En La Narrativa Mexicana, 1940–2020, Maria Carpio-Manickam

Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures

Del policial clásico al post-neopolicial: La estética del crimen en la narrativa mexicana, 1940–2020 is a comprehensive study of Mexican crime fiction from cultural, gender, social, political, and literary perspectives. This book covers the different phases Mexican crime fiction has evolved through in the past eighty years: classical detective fiction (1940–1960s), género negro (1970s), neopolicial (1980–2000), narconarrative (1990s to the present), and post-neopolicial (2000 to the present). The first half of the book offers an overview of the development of crime fiction in the United States, how it was adopted by Mexican writers in the 1940s, and the changes it …


Volume 6 Issue 1 Mar 2025

Volume 6 Issue 1

NEBO: A Literary Journal

This special edition of Nebo: A Literary Journal, titled "Herstory", is a tribute to the voices of women writers throughout history and across cultures. Originally archived as Volume 6, Issue 1, this issue is actually Volume 10, Issue 1, covering Fall and Spring of the 1991-1992 academic year. Due to necessary metadata adjustments in the digital archiving process, some volume and issue numbers in the online collection may not match those printed in the original print editions.

This issue explores the rich contributions of women in literature, featuring poetry, fiction, nonfiction, translations, and literary criticism. …


The Ripple Effect: Gender And Race In Brazilian Culture And Literature, Maria José Somerlate Barbosa Aug 2023

The Ripple Effect: Gender And Race In Brazilian Culture And Literature, Maria José Somerlate Barbosa

Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures

In The Ripple Effect: Gender and Race in Brazilian Culture and Literature, Barbosa adopts a comparative, multilayered, and interdisciplinary line of research to examine social values and cultural mores from the first decades of the twentieth century to the present. By analyzing the historical, cultural, religious, and interactive space of Brazil’s national identity, The Ripple Effect surveys expressive cultures and literary manifestations. It uses the martial art-dance-ritual capoeira as a lynchpin to disclose historical ambiguities and the negotiation of cultural and literary boundaries within the context of the ideological construct of a mestizo nation. The book also examines laws …


The Visualist Ecology: Fear Of Sound & Word Materialism, Evelyn M. Malinowski Jun 2023

The Visualist Ecology: Fear Of Sound & Word Materialism, Evelyn M. Malinowski

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Reading At Random, Mark Hussey Jun 2023

Reading At Random, Mark Hussey

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Workingwomen-Volcano-Slag And Virginia Woolf’S Queer Inhumanisms, Chen Rupeng Jun 2023

Workingwomen-Volcano-Slag And Virginia Woolf’S Queer Inhumanisms, Chen Rupeng

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Why Look At Fish? Virginia Woolf’S Piscine Aesthetics, Marlene Dirschauer Jun 2023

Why Look At Fish? Virginia Woolf’S Piscine Aesthetics, Marlene Dirschauer

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Contemplating Reality: Unfolding The Ethics Of Attention In Mrs. Dalloway And To The Lighthouse, Krisztina Kitti Tóth Jun 2023

Contemplating Reality: Unfolding The Ethics Of Attention In Mrs. Dalloway And To The Lighthouse, Krisztina Kitti Tóth

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Daoist Attunement To The Nonhuman: The Mysticism Of Mundane Objects In Virginia Woolf’S To The Lighthouse, Xueying Zhou Jun 2023

Daoist Attunement To The Nonhuman: The Mysticism Of Mundane Objects In Virginia Woolf’S To The Lighthouse, Xueying Zhou

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Theories Of Making: Virginia Woolf Studies And Collaborative Feminist Art, Amy E. Elkins Jun 2023

Theories Of Making: Virginia Woolf Studies And Collaborative Feminist Art, Amy E. Elkins

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


“The Sands Of Oblivion”: Confronting Catastrophe, Kim Sigouin Jun 2023

“The Sands Of Oblivion”: Confronting Catastrophe, Kim Sigouin

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Woolf’S Ecologies Of Perception: Language And The “Panorama Of Life”, Teresa Prudente Jun 2023

Woolf’S Ecologies Of Perception: Language And The “Panorama Of Life”, Teresa Prudente

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Virginia Woolf & Ecologies: Selected Papers From The 32nd Annual International Conference On Virginia Woolf, Full Issue, Shilo Mcgiff, Laci Mattison Jun 2023

Virginia Woolf & Ecologies: Selected Papers From The 32nd Annual International Conference On Virginia Woolf, Full Issue, Shilo Mcgiff, Laci Mattison

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Ecologies Of Illness In The Voyage Out And Flush, Caylee Weintraub Jun 2023

Ecologies Of Illness In The Voyage Out And Flush, Caylee Weintraub

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Seaweeding With Virginia Woolf, Jeanne Dubino Jun 2023

Seaweeding With Virginia Woolf, Jeanne Dubino

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Ill, On Being: An Artist’S Book, Catherine Paul Jun 2023

Ill, On Being: An Artist’S Book, Catherine Paul

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


“The Book Has Somehow To Be Adapted To The Body”: Woolf Words And Tactile Investigations, A Commonplace Book, Melissa Johnson Jun 2023

“The Book Has Somehow To Be Adapted To The Body”: Woolf Words And Tactile Investigations, A Commonplace Book, Melissa Johnson

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Nonhuman Beings, Existential Anxiety, And Schopenhauer In Virginia Woolf’S Work, Yoshiki Tajiri Jun 2023

Nonhuman Beings, Existential Anxiety, And Schopenhauer In Virginia Woolf’S Work, Yoshiki Tajiri

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Ecologies Of Madness: Reading Virginia Woolf’S Life And Work Through Deleuze And Guattari, Kimberly Jackson Jun 2023

Ecologies Of Madness: Reading Virginia Woolf’S Life And Work Through Deleuze And Guattari, Kimberly Jackson

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Speculating On Obscurity: Virginia Woolf’S Fictionalization Of Real Lives As An Alternative To Hegemonic Tellings Of History, Mariana Muniz Pivanti Jun 2023

Speculating On Obscurity: Virginia Woolf’S Fictionalization Of Real Lives As An Alternative To Hegemonic Tellings Of History, Mariana Muniz Pivanti

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Virginia Woolf And Deep Ecology, Kathryn Van Wert Jun 2023

Virginia Woolf And Deep Ecology, Kathryn Van Wert

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Tea In The Library: Leonard And Virginia Woolf And The Ecologies Of Tea, Diane F. Gillespie Jun 2023

Tea In The Library: Leonard And Virginia Woolf And The Ecologies Of Tea, Diane F. Gillespie

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Woolfs, Shaws, Webbs: The Political Ecology Of International Government And Heartbreak House, 1916–1919, Wayne K. Chapman Jun 2023

Woolfs, Shaws, Webbs: The Political Ecology Of International Government And Heartbreak House, 1916–1919, Wayne K. Chapman

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Virginia Woolf And Arthur G. Tansley’S Botany And Psychoanalysis, Akemi Yaguchi Jun 2023

Virginia Woolf And Arthur G. Tansley’S Botany And Psychoanalysis, Akemi Yaguchi

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Floral Transformations: Humanoid Flowers And Floral Humans, Or Floral Erections And Decapitations: Woolf’S Armies Of The Upright And The Whacked, Elisa Kay Sparks Jun 2023

Floral Transformations: Humanoid Flowers And Floral Humans, Or Floral Erections And Decapitations: Woolf’S Armies Of The Upright And The Whacked, Elisa Kay Sparks

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Breaking With The Ring: Orlando’S Queer Geometries, Imogen Grigorovich Jun 2023

Breaking With The Ring: Orlando’S Queer Geometries, Imogen Grigorovich

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


“Outside Our Illusions”: Virginia Woolf’S Arboreal Compositions, Hadas Wagner Jun 2023

“Outside Our Illusions”: Virginia Woolf’S Arboreal Compositions, Hadas Wagner

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


Some (Early) Versions Of Pastoral: Virginia Woolf And Ecologies Of Form, Shilo Mcgiff Jun 2023

Some (Early) Versions Of Pastoral: Virginia Woolf And Ecologies Of Form, Shilo Mcgiff

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


“Moments Of Being” As Ecological Epiphany, Leanna Lostoski-Ho Jun 2023

“Moments Of Being” As Ecological Epiphany, Leanna Lostoski-Ho

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.


“I Do Not Cling To Life. I Shall Be Brushed Like A Beefrom A Sunflower”: Posthuman Extinction And The Long Now In The Waves, Oliver Case Jun 2023

“I Do Not Cling To Life. I Shall Be Brushed Like A Beefrom A Sunflower”: Posthuman Extinction And The Long Now In The Waves, Oliver Case

Virginia Woolf: Selected Papers

No abstract provided.