The Unknowable in Literature and Material Culture
How do we come to know the hidden, unspoken, and “unknowable”? Inspired by this question, the contributors to this volume explore fin de siècle homosexuality, Émile Zola as a seeker of concealed truths, crises of representation, and the dialogue between self and other.
Facing Trauma in Contemporary American Literary Discourse
In a culture where trauma breeds fear and aggression, this book turns to literature. Analyzing works by authors like Toni Morrison and Louise Erdrich, it shows how a good story can become a space for curiosity and healing in the face of uncertainty.
What kinds of worlds will exist in our future? How will technology shape our cities, homes, and ourselves? This collection of essays explores science fiction’s new spaces—from utopias and dystopias to alien cityscapes—and discusses capitalism, equality, and feminist critique.
Contemporary Indian English Poetry and Drama
This anthology of essays maps contemporary Indian English poetry and drama, exploring new themes and techniques in the post-globalization era. It considers whether the canon has widened to include innovative forms and generate novel perspectives.
The Maghreb-Europe Paradigm
This book analyzes migration, gender, and identity for North African migrants in Europe. From sociological studies to literature, it debates notions of dispossession, cultural identity, and otherness, exploring the complex expressions of ‘exile’ and ‘pain’.
This accessible guide explores literary theory through Marina Warner’s fiction, covering pressing issues like colonialism, displacement, and women’s oppression. Blending close textual analysis with jargon-free overviews, it is ideal for students, researchers, and teachers.
Containing commentaries on contemporary representations of gender and identity, the contributions here encompass readings of cinema, advertisements and literary texts and are pertinent for scholars in media studies, cultural studies, gender studies, sociology and literature.
Behind every crime novel is a family. Some are crime syndicates; others are dysfunctional, tearing themselves apart. Not everyone escapes alive. This collection of essays explores crime fiction, the family, and the disastrous impact society can have on personal relationships.
A History of Alcman’s Early Reception
This history of Alcman’s early reception asks: Did emerging book culture kill “song culture”? Was Alcman an archetypal prototype of partheneia? This book argues the tradition of partheneia was never powerful enough, especially outside Sparta, to completely absorb the poet.
Rimbaud’s provocative dictum that “I is an other” is reflected in this anthology, which discusses a wide-ranging array of twentieth-century and contemporary minority American modes of life writing with regards to identity, relationality, agency, and ethno-racial issues.
Drawing on contemporary developments in cultural studies, the papers in this anthology cover multiple forms and genres—including novels, films, documentaries, magazines, and commercials— in order to shed light on new sensibilities in postmillennial texts and media.
Bombay Novels
Walk the streets of Mumbai through the eyes of literary wanderers. Analyzing four novels, this book reveals how the act of flânerie uncovers hidden histories and exposes power relations, offering a transgressive, alternative vision of the city and its people.
Ecology and Literatures in English
Writers hold out a mirror, arguing that hope lies in our connection to the real world. This book explores how literature, from Shakespeare to detective novels, reveals the fundamental idea that everything is connected, and that this awareness is the key to protecting the planet.
Women Poets and Myth in the 20th and 21st Centuries
This book examines women poets and theorists who engage with myth. From H.D. to Margaret Atwood and Anne Carson, they rewrite old myths and create new ones for the present, interrogating their power to articulate our reality and act as catalysts for new ideas.
The contributions here explore a wealth of topics in children’s and young adult (YA) literature and culture, and include an examination of the Watchbird cartoons by Munro Leaf, the role of public youth librarians, and the use of popular video games in the secondary classroom.
Toward a Linguistic and Literary Revision of Cultural Paradigms
This publication considers the great divides between identity and otherness in order to recover a sense of cultural identity which is at once polymorphous and polyphonic.
Ivanova considers the persistent tendency to represent the “Middle East” as a region enclosed in less permeable boundaries through an analysis of the works of Rabih Alameddine, Diana Abu-Jaber, Laila Halaby and Elif Shafak.
An extensive study of the work of Femi Osofisan, one of Nigeria’s pivotal dramatists and postcolonial playwrights, this text details a variety of his plays to gather insights into the role of art in social change, and discusses the relationship between literature and politics.
Daskalova investigates works by prominent poets and writers of the 19th and 20th centuries, with a particular focus on (post)Romantics and modernists. She provides an original reading of the literary text as a means of representing and shaping the dialogism of different cultures.
This book challenges Sino-western dualism with a multi-dimensional model for cross-cultural research. By separating spatial and temporal dimensions, it reconceptualises the relationship between China and the West, seeking new pathways for understanding.
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