P. Papinius Statius Volume II
This three-volume work offers a revised text, prose translation, and extensive commentary for the two epics of Statius: his magnum opus, the Thebaid, and the Achilleid, which was left unfinished at his death.
Factual Fictions
This book explores the American documentary novel’s rise in the 1960s alongside New Journalism. Analyzing works by Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, and Don DeLillo, it productively complicates the precarious divide between fact and fiction.
French Orientalism
This volume challenges the canonic approach to French Orientalism. Broadening the scope of enquiry from the Middle Ages to the 21st century, it uses new theoretical perspectives to question, subvert, and resituate canonic theories and their global consequences.
Asian English Writers of Chinese Origin
This book brings together nine Asian English writers of Chinese descent to explore postcolonial impacts on race, class, and language. It takes a special look at gender politics and how Chinese women defy the Orientalist gaze and native patriarchy.
P. Papinius Statius Volume I
This three-volume work offers a revised text, prose translation, and extensive secondary apparatus for the two epics of Statius: his magnum opus, the Thebaid, and the unfinished Achilleid.
This collection of essays by Caribbean scholars offers novel perspectives on the region’s literature and culture. It cuts across disciplines to explore the diaspora, identity, gender, artistic expression, and the writer’s role as a political activist.
Beckett Re-Membered
This collection of recent scholarship on Samuel Beckett offers a diverse and comprehensive survey of his literary and philosophical work. It will appeal to any reader interested in provocative responses to one of the 20th century’s most important writers.
Irish Childhoods
This book explores how contemporary Irish children’s fiction engages with the past. It reveals how constructions of childhood in novels and films are used to explore complex questions of Irish history, culture, and identity.
This new approach to G. Eliot’s thought focuses on her profound religious and spiritual quest in Silas Marner. The author shows how Eliot distinguishes religion from superstition and offers a new definition of faith, stressing the qualities of her art.
This book deconstructs the ‘otherizing’ of the marginalized by offering an alternative reading of the body and desire. It investigates bodies with ‘unnatural’ desires to expose and subvert the subtle political ideologies behind stereotypes.
The Body of the Postmodernist Narrator
This book reads postmodern fiction through the bodies of its narrators. Using Lacanian psychoanalysis and feminist theory, it explores trauma, murder, and desire, exposing the body as the site of repressed knowledge, resistance, and artistic resolution.
This study traces the picaresque from its Spanish roots to contemporary novels, arguing it has never left the British literary scene. Postcolonial authors also favour this genre for their own stories of displaced characters and modern-day rogues.
Historical crime fiction serves the double purpose of entertaining while it teaches. It brings the past to the present, making characters alive and events interesting. Writers fill in human motivations where records don’t exist, recovering the past.
A wealthy philanderer attempts to buy the favors of his three beautiful married cousins. He succeeds with two, but it is the wild and impetuous Camila who resists his temptations and holds our attention. A major work from Spain’s greatest novelist.
Uncertain Justice
Il giallo, Italy’s crime genre, confronts uncomfortable truths about the nation. Uncertain Justice explores how contemporary noir debates unresolved history, the problematic family, and a flawed justice system, exposing injustice through the power of the word.
Twain’s Omissions
Mark Twain utilized a unique literary device by omitting crucial information to create narrative gaps. The essays in this collection explore these omissions in his greatest works, revealing overlooked information ironically generated by what he left out.
This volume offers critical perspectives on literature and culture, contesting the New World Order and the hegemony of stronger nations. With a significant focus on Islam, it challenges academic discourses founded upon Western-style scholarship.
The Fragmenting Force of Memory
This study is about cultural production that works through personal experiences of the civil war in Lebanon. It explores how writers and filmmakers reposition their sense of self from agent to casualty of history, unraveling self and circumstance through memory.
Passages
This collection of essays navigates literal and metaphorical “passages”—crossings, boundaries, and identity. Combining close textual readings with cultural theory, it stimulates debate on how old texts are revisited and how identity is renegotiated.
The physical body is an inescapable object of inquiry in life writing. This collection of new essays by established and emerging scholars offers a timely, interdisciplinary study with subjects ranging from Wharton and Stein to disability memoirs.
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