...This chapter explores the key concepts surrounding gentrification and its deconstruction. It discusses gentrification as a form of neighborhood change, an economic phenomenon, and a social phenomenon. Even though gentrification affected far fewer American neighborhoods elsewhere than many believe...

...This chapter explores modernist figurations of life in Gottfried Benn who developed his poetics through an engagement with and rejection of earlier models of vitalism. Benn's avant-garde Ronne novellas, written during World War I, deconstruct the Kantian belief in the mind's capacity to unify...

... personal, and the varied techniques used to achieve their ends. The period of contemporization began with the efforts of such theories as Orientalism, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, and ecology to expose sometimes far-fetched new aspects of the ancient epic of Gilgamesh. This period ended with a monument...

... Englehart Steve Palmer Tom transcendence Doctor Strange emotional trauma philosophical questions escapism optimism Pilgrim’s Progress Steve Gerber absurdity disenchantment deconstruction Howard the Duck Out of all the writers discussed in this book, Steve Gerber is the one who seems the least...

...This chapter investigates the literary and critical deconstruction of Moscow, which opened the dialogue about Russian identity. Starting in the 1980s Moscow, the Soviet capital and imperial hub of the communist universe, the so-called second world, was a center starting to worry about its...

...This chapter looks at Lin Manuel Miranda's Hamilton: An American Musical through the lens of Jacques Derrida's approach to textual interpretation, commonly known as deconstruction. Taken together, the play's text, music, casting, and staging offer a master class in teasing out...