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Ethnology --- Science fiction --- Other (Philosophy) --- Other (Philosophy) in literature --- Literature and anthropology

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What grows out of the ordinary? This volume focuses on that which has been regarded as ordinary, self-evident and formulaic in literary and cultural phenomena such as diasporic cuisine, pet adoption narratives, Prairie writing, romance between stepsiblings, the program of a political party, and everyday shopping in poetry. The book argues that by engaging with that which is perceived as ordinary we also gain understanding of how otherness becomes defined and constituted. The volume seeks new ways to access that which might lie in-between or beyond the opposition between exploitation and emancipation, and contests the hegemonic logic of revealing oppression and rebuilding liberation in contemporary critical theory to create new ways of knowing which grow out of the ordinary.

Sociology of literature --- Originality in literature. --- Other (Philosophy) in literature. --- Literature, Modern --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- Originality in literature --- Other (Philosophy) in literature --- History and criticism&delete& --- Theory, etc --- Modern literature --- Arts, Modern

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"Explores the functions of mythology in contemporary high and popular literature, charting how it reacts with our science-oriented and postmodern culture"--

Myth in literature --- Mythology in literature --- Metamorphosis in literature --- Meaning (Philosophy) in literature --- Fiction --- English fiction --- History and criticism

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"This book examines the interconnection between the idea of monstrosity and the emergence of Chinese cultural identity since the Song dynasty. Chinese vernacular literature matured during the Southern Song period and coincided with society's growing apprehension of foreignness. As society's perception of the other fluctuated between acceptance and abhorrence following the Mongolian conquest of the Middle Kingdom and the subsequent political desire to return to a fixation with the concept of Han during the Ming dynasty, the idea of monstrosity was adopted by these works as a logical vessel for contemplating the question of identity. Unlike other forms of written work in China, vernacular literature developed out of the necessity to cater to the masses. As such, they provide a unique window to understand society's reaction to the cultural and political milieu of the time. By resituating the production of these works within this cultural backdrop, the importance of this study lies both in the foregrounding of the manifestation of Chinese cultural identity in the literary world and the proposition of its importance to our understanding of the cultural politics since the Song dynasty. Beyond its timely discussion of the background and historical genealogy of how Chineseness is conceptualized, this book specifically addresses the effect of the contentiousness of ethnicity on the identity question. In doing so, it explores how this gradual historical transformation of Chinese cultural identity is closely tied to xenophobia and the reimagination of foreignness as reflected in the idea of monstrosity"--

Chinese literature --- Xenophobia in literature --- Aliens in literature --- Other (Philosophy) in literature --- Animals in literature --- Monsters in literature --- History and criticism

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"Regarding Frames: Thinking with Comics in the Twenty-first Century explores the ways that literary comics engage readers in the mutual construction of meaning. Kwa draws from a wide range of philosophical, critical, and theoretical texts to analyze the visual and verbal narrative strategies that artists use. She examines the work of comic artists Gabrielle Bell, Michael DeForge, Kevin Huizenga, Laura Park, and Dash Shaw who construct their particular visions of the world"--

Comic books, strips, etc --- Comic books, strips, etc --- Comic books, strips, etc --- Comic books, strips, etc. --- Discourse analysis, Narrative. --- Discourse analysis, Narrative. --- Graphic novels --- Graphic novels. --- Meaning (Philosophy) in literature. --- Meaning (Philosophy) in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Technique. --- Technique. --- History and criticism.