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  • I-96
    Judith Roof
    Like cars snaking down the interstate, Judith Roof’s I-96 offers a contemporary collection of singular yet connected short stories fueled by America’s lifeblood: individualism and gasoline.Roof’s incendiary wit and sly commentary poke at the '-isms' driving our collective road rage . . . regional and political stereotypes, gender and sexual anxieties, parenting and policing, an...
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    16,23 €

  • Tone
    Judith Roof
    Tone is often decisive in whether we love or dislike a story, novel, or even critical essay. Yet literary critics rarely treat tone as a necessary or important element of literary style or critique. There are surprisingly few analyses of what tone is, how texts produce tone, or the ways tone--as an essential element of narration--contributes to character, story, mood, and voice...
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    41,75 €

  • The Comic Event
    Judith Roof
    The Comic Event approaches comedy as dynamic phenomenon that involves the gathering of elements of performance, signifiers, timings, tones, gestures, previous comic bits, and other self-conscious structures into an 'event? that triggers, by virtue of a 'cut,? an expected/unexpected resolution.Using examples from mainstream comedy, The Comic Event progresses from the smallest co...
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    57,65 €

  • The Poetics of DNA
    Judith Roof
    How has DNA come to be seen as a cosmic truth, representative of all life, potential for all cures, repository for all identity, and end to all stories? In The Poetics of DNA, Judith Roof examines the rise of this powerful symbol and the implications of its ascendancy for the ways we think-about ourselves, about one another, and about the universe. Descriptions of DNA, Roof ar...
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    37,71 €

  • Reproductions of Reproduction
    Judith Roof
    Reproductions of Reproduction is about the loss of the paternal metaphor and how the ensuing scramble to relocate it has set off a series of representational crises. Examining the sudden popularity of such figures as cyborgs, bodybuilders, and vampires; shifts in legislation about abortion, paternity and copyright; the transition to a digital-based society; the emergence of les...
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    57,10 €