{"product_id":"metaphors-of-confinement-the-prison-in-fact-fiction-and-fantasy-9780198840909","title":"Metaphors of Confinement: The Prison in Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy","description":"\u003cem\u003eMetaphors of Confinement: The Prison in Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy\u003c\/em\u003e offers a historical survey of imaginings of the prison as expressed in carceral metaphors in a range of texts about imprisonment from Antiquity to the present as well as non-penal situations described as confining or\u003cbr\u003erestrictive. These imaginings coalesce into a 'carceral imaginary' that determines the way we think about prisons, just as social debates about punishment and criminals feed into the way carceral imaginary develops over time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExamining not only English-language prose fiction but also poetry and drama from the Middle Ages to postcolonial, particularly African, literature, the book juxtaposes literary and non-literary contexts and contrasts fictional and nonfictional representations of (im)prison(ment) and discussions\u003cbr\u003eabout the prison as institution and experiential reality. It comments on present-day trends of punitivity and foregrounds the ethical dimensions of penal punishment. The main argument concerns the continuity of carceral metaphors through the centuries despite historical developments that included\u003cbr\u003emajor shifts in policy (such as the invention of the penitentiary). The study looks at selected carceral metaphors, often from two complementary perspectives, such as the home as prison or the prison as home, or the factory as prison and the prison as factory. The case studies present particularly\u003cbr\u003erelevant genres and texts that employ these metaphors, often from a historical perspective that analyses development through different periods.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Monika Fludernik\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/13\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 848\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.20w x 2.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198840909\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMonika Fludernik, \u003cem\u003eProfessor of English, University of Freiburg\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMonika Fludernik is Professor of English at the University of Freiburg. Her areas of research are narratology, postcolonial theory, Law and Literature studies, and the eighteenth century. Her teaching covers the whole breadth of English literature from the Middle Ages to the present, including\u003cbr\u003epoetry, drama, and narrative prose. Monika Fludernik was the director of the collaborative research centre Identities and Alterities (SFB 541) and is currently the director of a graduate school (GRK 1767) on Factual and Fictional Narration. In addition to her monographs and numerous edited\u003cbr\u003evolumes, she has published over one hundred essays, the majority in refereed journals such as \u003cem\u003eStyle, Narrative, Poetics Today, Journal of Literary Semantics, Text, Semiotica, Language and Literature, The Journal of Pragmatics, Diacritics, English Literary History, PMLA\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe James Joyce Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eShe is a member of the Austrian Academy of Science and the Academia Europaea.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":39932117844083,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":118.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_43dd20f2-bddf-4c27-8c1c-16a664b458ca.jpg?v=1647790506","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/metaphors-of-confinement-the-prison-in-fact-fiction-and-fantasy-9780198840909","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}