Topicality and Representation
Islam and Muslims in two Renaissance Plays
This book explores how topical concerns shaped Islamic figures in Elizabethan plays like Peele’s Battle of Alcazar and Percy’s Mahomet and his Heaven. It argues these characters were formed by contemporary issues, rendering the term ‘representation’ debatable.
This book explores how topical concerns shaped Islamic figures in Elizabethan plays like Peele’s Battle of Alcazar and Percy’s Mahomet and his Heaven. It argues these characters were formed by contemporary issues, rendering the term ‘representation’ debatable.
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Women and Work
The Labors of Self-Fashioning
The essays in Women and Work explore how nineteenth- and twentieth-century US and British writers represent the work of being women—encompassing not only paid labor but also the work of performing femininity and domesticity.
The essays in Women and Work explore how nineteenth- and twentieth-century US and British writers represent the work of being women—encompassing not only paid labor but also the work of performing femininity and domesticity.
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This book shows how literature is central to children’s education. Literary works open young minds and help them understand the world. This approach motivates students to improve literacy skills and develop literary competence for independent interpretations.
This book shows how literature is central to children’s education. Literary works open young minds and help them understand the world. This approach motivates students to improve literacy skills and develop literary competence for independent interpretations.
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Charitini Christodoulou argues that a "dialogic openness" permeates Nikos Kazantzakis’ The Last Temptation. Antithetical forces clash in unresolved tension, revealing that subjectivity and identity are always in the process of becoming.
Charitini Christodoulou argues that a “dialogic openness” permeates Nikos Kazantzakis’ The Last Temptation. Antithetical forces clash in unresolved tension, revealing that subjectivity and identity are always in the process of becoming.
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These essays explore Shakespeare in performance across time and media. From 17th-century stagings to modern cinema, the circus, and global theatre, the collection asks what motivates Shakespearean performance and how we trace what is ephemeral.
These essays explore Shakespeare in performance across time and media. From 17th-century stagings to modern cinema, the circus, and global theatre, the collection asks what motivates Shakespearean performance and how we trace what is ephemeral.
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The Apparelling of Truth
Literature and Literary Culture in the Reign of James VI; A Festschrift for Roderick J. Lyall
This collection of essays offers new perspectives on the literature and culture of the reign of James VI. Its emphasis is on the continuities in literary culture throughout his rule, extending beyond the court to regional and international contexts.
This collection of essays offers new perspectives on the literature and culture of the reign of James VI. Its emphasis is on the continuities in literary culture throughout his rule, extending beyond the court to regional and international contexts.
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The Yields of Transition
Literature, Art and Philosophy in Early Medieval China
This volume on the Wei Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties (220–589 AD) opens new pathways in sinological studies. It reveals a new image of this period, undermining common historical interpretations and showing its decisive achievements.
This volume on the Wei Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties (220–589 AD) opens new pathways in sinological studies. It reveals a new image of this period, undermining common historical interpretations and showing its decisive achievements.
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This study analyzes Margaret Laurence's work as an entity, exploring representations of race, ethnicity, gender, and class. Covering her fiction and non-fiction, it gives voice to the marginal to challenge readers’ perceptions.
This study analyzes Margaret Laurence’s work as an entity, exploring representations of race, ethnicity, gender, and class. Covering her fiction and non-fiction, it gives voice to the marginal to challenge readers’ perceptions.
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Quand la folie parle
The Dialectic Effect of Madness in French Literature since the Nineteenth Century
This study of madness in literature demonstrates that the non-sense of madness achieves a force of expression more powerful than logic. It presents madness as a contestatory, creative stance, while refusing to play down its isolating difficulties.
This study of madness in literature demonstrates that the non-sense of madness achieves a force of expression more powerful than logic. It presents madness as a contestatory, creative stance, while refusing to play down its isolating difficulties.
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Black Writers and the Left examines the fraught relationship between African American intellectuals and the leftist movement in the early twentieth century, featuring unpublished interviews and archival research on figures like Langston Hughes and Richard Wright.
Black Writers and the Left examines the fraught relationship between African American intellectuals and the leftist movement in the early twentieth century, featuring unpublished interviews and archival research on figures like Langston Hughes and Richard Wright.
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Literature and the Monarchy
The Traditional and the Modern Concept of the Office of Poet Laureate of England
This book explores the Poet Laureateship from the Restoration to today, revealing the symbolic link it forges between literature, the Monarchy, and national identity.
This book explores the Poet Laureateship from the Restoration to today, revealing the symbolic link it forges between literature, the Monarchy, and national identity.
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Parallaxes
Virginia Woolf Meets James Joyce
Despite being major Modernists, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf are seldom studied together. This volume fills that void, using the concept of parallax to provide new perspectives on the connections between their respective work and their difficult encounter.
Despite being major Modernists, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf are seldom studied together. This volume fills that void, using the concept of parallax to provide new perspectives on the connections between their respective work and their difficult encounter.
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Ex-centric Writing
Essays on Madness in Postcolonial Fiction
This volume of essays examines postcolonial alienation through the anamorphic lens of madness. In fiction from Africa, the Caribbean, Australia, and Asia, the mad character’s vision is a warning against discourses that pass as the natural order of things.
This volume of essays examines postcolonial alienation through the anamorphic lens of madness. In fiction from Africa, the Caribbean, Australia, and Asia, the mad character’s vision is a warning against discourses that pass as the natural order of things.
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The Politics of Poetics
Poetry and Social Activism in Early-Modern through Contemporary Italy
This book analyzes Italian poetry that aims not to represent the world, but to enact a change upon it. Using the metaphor of the rhizome—a subversive, unpredictable growth—it explores poetics as an agent of social transformation, a revolt from within.
This book analyzes Italian poetry that aims not to represent the world, but to enact a change upon it. Using the metaphor of the rhizome—a subversive, unpredictable growth—it explores poetics as an agent of social transformation, a revolt from within.
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Captured by the City
Perspectives in Urban Culture Studies
This collection of essays explores cities in North America, Europe, and Asia as dynamic encounters. Different disciplines intersect to shape the unique field of Urban Culture Studies and grant us a new understanding of how we inscribe cities and how they inscribe us.
This collection of essays explores cities in North America, Europe, and Asia as dynamic encounters. Different disciplines intersect to shape the unique field of Urban Culture Studies and grant us a new understanding of how we inscribe cities and how they inscribe us.
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Twelve of Italy's best novelle by literary masters can be read in the original Italian with parallel English translations. This collection, centered on the theme of a woman as the central character, includes biographies and notes on each writer.
Twelve of Italy’s best novelle by literary masters can be read in the original Italian with parallel English translations. This collection, centered on the theme of a woman as the central character, includes biographies and notes on each writer.
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Poetry and Voice
A Book of Essays
This international collection of essays fuses critical and creative treatments of poetic voice. Contributors give rare insights into inner poetic processes and artistic debates, approaching the question of what it is to ‘find a voice’ in poetry from multiple angles.
This international collection of essays fuses critical and creative treatments of poetic voice. Contributors give rare insights into inner poetic processes and artistic debates, approaching the question of what it is to ‘find a voice’ in poetry from multiple angles.
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Un-Australian Fictions
Nation, Multiculture(alism) and Globalisation, 1988-2008
Un-Australian Fictions analyses literary works from 1988-2008 that challenge the national ethos and mythology. These texts reflect the destabilisation of once certain borders of Australianness, asking what it means to be Australian in a new millennium.
Un-Australian Fictions analyses literary works from 1988-2008 that challenge the national ethos and mythology. These texts reflect the destabilisation of once certain borders of Australianness, asking what it means to be Australian in a new millennium.
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Magnificent Obsessions
Honouring the Lives of Hazel Rowley
This volume is a tribute to the life and work of biographer Hazel Rowley. This collection of essays and creative writing responds to her many interests: biography, politics, questions of race and sexuality, and the lives of couples.
This volume is a tribute to the life and work of biographer Hazel Rowley. This collection of essays and creative writing responds to her many interests: biography, politics, questions of race and sexuality, and the lives of couples.
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This volume explores the revolutionary tradition in modern Chinese literature from various angles, including feminism, sexuality, and history. Scrutinizing its complex legacy, revolution is viewed as neither a progressive force nor a simple tragedy.
This volume explores the revolutionary tradition in modern Chinese literature from various angles, including feminism, sexuality, and history. Scrutinizing its complex legacy, revolution is viewed as neither a progressive force nor a simple tragedy.
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