Philosophies of art and beauty : introducing aesthetics / by Bredin, Hugh (Hugh Terence)

The new poetics of climate change : modernist aesthetics for a warming world / by Griffiths, Matthew (Matthew J. R.)

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The act of reading : a theory of aesthetic response / by Iser, Wolfgang

Re-figuring Hayden White /

Table of Contents: “…Philosophy, an introduction / Ewa Domanska -- On the metaphilosophy of history / David Carr -- White’s "new Neo-Kantiansim": aesthetics, ethics, and politics / Frank Ankersmit -- Hayden White and the crisis of historicism / Herman Paul -- Narrative, an introduction / Frank Ankersmit -- Narrative persistence: the post-postmodern life of narrative theory / Nancy Partner -- "Nobody does it better": radical history and Hayden White / Keith Jenkins -- Metahistory as Anabasis / Andrew Baird -- History: myth and narrative: a coda for Roland Barthes and Hayden White / Stephen Bann -- Discourse, an introduction / Frank Ankersmit -- "The burden of history" forty years later / David Harlan -- The rhetorical dialectic of Hayden White / Allan Megill -- Does the sublime price explanation out of the historical market? …”

Narrative analysis : studying the development of individuals in society /

Table of Contents: “…Fantastic self: a study of adolescents' fictional narratives, and aesthetic activity as identity work / Cynthia Lightfoot -- 1.3. …”

Beyond postmodernism : reassessments in literature, theory, and culture /

Table of Contents: “…-- The internet in a post-postmodern world / Doris Teske -- Re-reading postmodernism -- Pragmatic commitments : postmodern realism in Don DeLillo, Maxine Hong Kingston and James Ellroy / Christophe Den Tandt -- Why Derrida is not a postmodernist / Christopher Norris -- Paradox vs. analogy : De Man and Foucault / Helga Thalhofer -- 'Civilization's fear of nature' : postmodernity, culture, and environment in the god of small things / Peter Mortensen -- Beyond postmodernism -- Beyond postmodernism : toward an aesthetic of trust / Ihab Hassan -- Wobbly grounds : postmodernism's precarious footholds in novels by Bradbury, Parker, Rushdie, Swift / Klaus Stierstorfer -- Beyond indifference : new departures in British fiction at the turn of the 21st century / Vera Nunning -- Shades of gray : the peculiar postmodernism of Alasdair Gray / Dietmar Bohnke -- American postmodernist literature at the turn of the millennium : the death and return of the subject / Victoria Lipina-Berezkina -- The Anglo-Irish playwright Martin McDonagh : postmodernist zeitgeist as cliche and a (re)turn to the voice of common sense / Susanne Peters -- Extension of the battle zone : Ian McEwan's cult novel the Cement garden / Laurenz Volkmann.…”

Literature and globalization : a reader /

Table of Contents: “…Giving and receiving : nurudin Farah's gifts or the postcolonial logic of third world aid / Tim Woods -- 22. Aesthetics of globalization in contemporary fiction : the function of the fall of the Berlin wall / Padmaja Challakere -- 23. eEmpires / Rita Raley -- 24. …”

The Routledge handbook of violence in Latin American literature /

Table of Contents: “…Sons without a homeland: young migrants in contemporary literature / Elena Ritondale -- Solange Rodríguez Pappe, Mónica Ojeda and Denise Phé Funchal: femicide in contemporary fantastic literature / Emanuela Jossa -- Cien botellas en una pared and Blanco nocturno: the feminization and queering of representations of violencein Latin American novels of the [early] 21st century / Mariana Romo-Carmona -- Gender based violence in Latin-American neo crime fiction literature: The foreign girls by Sergio Olguín / Fabián Mossello -- Labor metamorphosis and violence against women in Sergio Chejfec's The dark / Matías Beverinotti -- Skin-deep: a psycho-ontological analysis of violence in Sergio Bizzio's Rabia / Alexander Torres -- Representations of violence in Mexico's theater / Hugo Salcedo Larios -- Postapocalyptic violence in 21st-century Mexican fiction / Aurelio Iván Guerra, and Gabriel Osuna Osuna -- "The past is forever unpredictable": aesthetic and political projections in contemporary Bolivian narrative / Magdalena González Almada -- Literary discourse and representations of violence: spaces and communities in Argentine narrative of the 21st century / Liliana Tozzi -- Three poems = Tres poemas / Jesús J. …”
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