Rewriting Wrongs
French Crime Fiction and the Palimpsest
The palimpsest, a reused artifact bearing traces of its past, is a fertile metaphor for crime fiction. This collection of essays explores its various manifestations in French crime fiction, where detective discovery often involves rewriting criminal or historical events.
The palimpsest, a reused artifact bearing traces of its past, is a fertile metaphor for crime fiction. This collection of essays explores its various manifestations in French crime fiction, where detective discovery often involves rewriting criminal or historical events.
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Beyond the Night
Creatures of Life, Death and the In-Between
From Beowulf to Buffy, this collection analyzes old and new creatures in popular culture. Beyond the Night offers insights into the monstrous, exploring their significance for society in relation to sexuality, gender, social change, and otherness.
From Beowulf to Buffy, this collection analyzes old and new creatures in popular culture. Beyond the Night offers insights into the monstrous, exploring their significance for society in relation to sexuality, gender, social change, and otherness.
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This book explores the poetics of “fancy” in Gerard Manley Hopkins, the essence of his concept of “inscape.” Fancy is the source of his inspiration and the basis of his poetic diction, creating a condensed evocation of art and nature for a “new Realism”.
This book explores the poetics of “fancy” in Gerard Manley Hopkins, the essence of his concept of “inscape.” Fancy is the source of his inspiration and the basis of his poetic diction, creating a condensed evocation of art and nature for a “new Realism”.
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An Ethics of Reading
Interpretative Strategies for Contemporary Multicultural American Literature
Sandra Cox considers how writers of contemporary American fiction represent collective identities by producing literature that bears witness to cultural traumas, and situates novels that explore ethnic identity in conversation with one another.
Sandra Cox considers how writers of contemporary American fiction represent collective identities by producing literature that bears witness to cultural traumas, and situates novels that explore ethnic identity in conversation with one another.
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Ethical Aestheticism in the Early Works of Henry James
The Shadow of John Ruskin
This study reveals parallels between the aestheticism of Henry James and John Ruskin. Rather than placing James in a single category, it demonstrates how he interfused Romanticism and realism, drawing on German thought and French realism to establish his own aestheticism.
This study reveals parallels between the aestheticism of Henry James and John Ruskin. Rather than placing James in a single category, it demonstrates how he interfused Romanticism and realism, drawing on German thought and French realism to establish his own aestheticism.
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Theory and Praxis
Indian and Western
This anthology of research papers critically explores contemporary literary theory. It provides a wide spectrum of theories—from postcolonialism to eco-criticism—and applies them to global texts, offering an interdisciplinary inquiry into human existence.
This anthology of research papers critically explores contemporary literary theory. It provides a wide spectrum of theories—from postcolonialism to eco-criticism—and applies them to global texts, offering an interdisciplinary inquiry into human existence.
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These twelve essays explore the fundamental role played by punctuation in the two semiotic fields of text and image. By bringing together authors from various fields, they offer new insights into the possibility and nature of the encounter between visual and textual creation.
These twelve essays explore the fundamental role played by punctuation in the two semiotic fields of text and image. By bringing together authors from various fields, they offer new insights into the possibility and nature of the encounter between visual and textual creation.
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Moon highlights the crucial role played by Victorian and Edwardian novelists in changing views of domestic violence, showing how their depictions of such violence interacted with changing paradigms of masculinity and femininity at the time.
Moon highlights the crucial role played by Victorian and Edwardian novelists in changing views of domestic violence, showing how their depictions of such violence interacted with changing paradigms of masculinity and femininity at the time.
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For centuries, critics have failed to define Menippean satire. This book reveals a potent new method: the satire does what a Cynic would. This approach explains the fluid, polymorphous form in any medium and ends with a litmus test for its detection.
For centuries, critics have failed to define Menippean satire. This book reveals a potent new method: the satire does what a Cynic would. This approach explains the fluid, polymorphous form in any medium and ends with a litmus test for its detection.
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Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture
A Mosaic of Criticism
This collection of essays investigates various nuances of a wealth of topics in children’s and young adult literature and culture, from the representation of race and bullying in picture-books to environmentalism and religion in fantasy literature, among others.
This collection of essays investigates various nuances of a wealth of topics in children’s and young adult literature and culture, from the representation of race and bullying in picture-books to environmentalism and religion in fantasy literature, among others.
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Achieving Consilience
Translation Theories and Practice
The contributions here demonstrate how theories in Translation Studies can be fruitfully and systematically applied during the translation practice, thus offering a better understanding of the translator’s decision-making process.
The contributions here demonstrate how theories in Translation Studies can be fruitfully and systematically applied during the translation practice, thus offering a better understanding of the translator’s decision-making process.
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Reconsidering the Origins of Recognition
New Perspectives on German Idealism
A new generation of researchers explores German idealism's central topic: recognition. Overcoming classical divisions, they offer critical re-readings of foundational texts, showing how this philosophy continues to inspire new generations of thinkers.
A new generation of researchers explores German idealism’s central topic: recognition. Overcoming classical divisions, they offer critical re-readings of foundational texts, showing how this philosophy continues to inspire new generations of thinkers.
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Shakespeare and Tyranny
Regimes of Reading in Europe and Beyond
This book shows Shakespeare as an unwitting commentator on unsettling political events. Essays explore how his plays have been used to reflect, legitimize, or challenge authoritarian rule in Europe, North Africa, South America, and beyond.
This book shows Shakespeare as an unwitting commentator on unsettling political events. Essays explore how his plays have been used to reflect, legitimize, or challenge authoritarian rule in Europe, North Africa, South America, and beyond.
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The Power of Form
Recycling Myths
Once dismissed as primitive fancy, myths are now seen as complex symbolic narratives that carry meaning. This interdisciplinary volume studies how myths are recycled within heritage, examining their personal and political implications for societies making sense of life.
Once dismissed as primitive fancy, myths are now seen as complex symbolic narratives that carry meaning. This interdisciplinary volume studies how myths are recycled within heritage, examining their personal and political implications for societies making sense of life.
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The Unharnessed World
Janet Frame and Buddhist Thought
Though Janet Frame encountered Buddhism, her work has never been examined through its lens. This study shows how a Buddhist reading sheds new light on her mysterious texts, arguing Frame used its epistemology to approach the infinite and the Other.
Though Janet Frame encountered Buddhism, her work has never been examined through its lens. This study shows how a Buddhist reading sheds new light on her mysterious texts, arguing Frame used its epistemology to approach the infinite and the Other.
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This book explores the literary grotesque in 19th-century Europe, with special emphasis on Charles Dickens. It compares his work with that of key writers like Hugo, Gogol, and Hardy, examining the grotesque as a tool for questioning society.
This book explores the literary grotesque in 19th-century Europe, with special emphasis on Charles Dickens. It compares his work with that of key writers like Hugo, Gogol, and Hardy, examining the grotesque as a tool for questioning society.
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Dining Room Detectives
Analysing Food in the Novels of Agatha Christie
This book analyzes the twofold role food plays in Agatha Christie’s novels: its function as a literary device and as a cultural sign. Christie used food to portray characters, construct plots, and fundamentally alter the rigid genre conventions.
This book analyzes the twofold role food plays in Agatha Christie’s novels: its function as a literary device and as a cultural sign. Christie used food to portray characters, construct plots, and fundamentally alter the rigid genre conventions.
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Liminal Dickens
Rites of Passage in His Work
This collection of essays cast new light on some surprisingly neglected areas of Dickens’s writings, namely the rites of passage represented by such transitional moments and ceremonies as birth/christenings, weddings/marriages, and death.
This collection of essays cast new light on some surprisingly neglected areas of Dickens’s writings, namely the rites of passage represented by such transitional moments and ceremonies as birth/christenings, weddings/marriages, and death.
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Ekphrasis in American Poetry
The Colonial Period to the 21st Century
Providing a sample of the chronological range and stylistic variety of poetry that engages with visual art, this volume shows how ekphrasis has been a part of American poetry from its inception, and will be of interest to scholars of both literature and art.
Providing a sample of the chronological range and stylistic variety of poetry that engages with visual art, this volume shows how ekphrasis has been a part of American poetry from its inception, and will be of interest to scholars of both literature and art.
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Reading Communities
A Dialogical Approach to French and Francophone Literature / Communautés de lecture
This book represents the product of long-term collaboration between French and American scholars sharing a common preoccupation with reading canonical and contemporary works of literature and cinema in a theoretical and pedagogical context.
This book represents the product of long-term collaboration between French and American scholars sharing a common preoccupation with reading canonical and contemporary works of literature and cinema in a theoretical and pedagogical context.
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