Explore the intricate connections between history, ethnicity, mythology, and literature. This book unravels how historical events, cultural myths, and ethnic heritage weave together to create multifaceted identities and shape the values of contemporary times.
This book offers a fresh look into the “languages of postcolonial modernity” in Africa. It investigates how African languages and literatures—in novels, film, poetry, and music—have embodied and mediated modernity while documenting the legacies of colonialism.
This collection of nineteen works from 1996 to 2022 introduces pragmapoetics, an innovative approach to literature. A philosophy of poetic utterances, it unites linguistics with the philosophy of language and mind, considering the poetic function a profound feature of life.
This book provides a deeper understanding of the autobiography as a genre and a data collection method. It presents various forms of autobiographies, with a unique focus on foreign language education, and applies a wide variety of qualitative and quantitative analytical tools.
This anthology presents three hundred Chinese cut verses, each with an English translation. The poems revolve around the poet’s life at Beijing Geely University, his vacations, and his experiences during the fight against the coronavirus.
Implied Irony in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
This book presents a new approach to irony in free indirect discourse (FID) through an analytical reading of Pride and Prejudice. It argues that a multistage theory best explains how irony is generated, making this essential reading for scholars of narrative technique.
This volume analyzes the “seeing-through utterances” in Kafka’s works, suggesting he intentionally used them as a type of rhetoric. As the first study of this technique, this book provides a new perspective for analyzing the rhetoric of Kafka’s works.
Tolkien in the 21st Century
This is the first book to apply expressive writing to L2 academic writing. Its techniques are particularly helpful for L2 students who have difficulty expressing themselves in English. The book will appeal to lecturers, linguists, psychologists, and teachers.
This overview of modern Arabic poetry is seen through its leading exponents: Salim Barakat, Mahmud Darwish, and Adunis. Unsurpassed translations reveal how Barakat’s poetry re-invents Kurdish culture, throwing new light on the output of his friend Mahmud Darwish.
Mythology offers cultural codes essential to the construction of culture and identity. This volume compares mythological elements in contemporary narratives with the motifs of classical narratives, and investigates their functions through semiotics and narratology.
Paul Valéry’s complex and graceful writing presents daunting obstacles for the translator. This volume is the culmination of 50 years devoted to bringing his poems into fluent English. It shows him as both the supreme poet of the mind and a consummate linguistic musician.
This book explores human universals in literature, cinema, and language. Scholars reveal how shared practices and concerns—from myth and trauma to identity—form a basis for intercultural communication, bridging gaps of misinformation across spatial and temporal boundaries.
International Perspectives on Multilingual Literatures
This collection of essays charts interactions between majority and minority languages. Through case studies of authors like Elena Ferrante, Yoko Tawada, and Dylan Thomas, it explores migration, self-translation, language death, and power in (post-)colonial contexts.
Seeking a Home for Poetry in a Nomadic World
This study explores the trespassing of linguistic borders through poets Joseph Brodsky and Ágnes Lehóczky. In their search for identity, these “nomadic” authors adopt English, confronting the fluid nature of language itself and forging new expressions for our future.
Swiftian Inspirations
This book analyzes the legacy of Swiftian satire from the Enlightenment to the age of post-truth and Brexit. It explores truth, madness, film adaptations of Gulliver’s Travels, and the politics of language to reveal Swift’s enduring relevance for today’s world.
Recent Scholarship on Japan
This collection of cutting-edge scholarship surveys Japanese literature from classical to contemporary. It explores works from Heian-era female authors to Haruki Murakami, relating them to Japanese society, the global context, and the vital role of translation.
Maurice Chapelan was three distinct writers: a poet, a famed grammarian, and an author of romans galants. But a unifying thread ran through his literary output: a beauty, simplicity and elegance of style, revealing a love of the French language and a hint of libertinage.
Raymond Queneau’s Dubliners
An exploration of two comic, erotic, and feminist novels by Raymond Queneau set in Ireland. This book examines Joycean influences and a surreal version of the Dublin Uprising, solving puzzles to reveal *Les Œuvres completes de Sally Mara* as a subtly integrated literary work.
This book presents four short works by prominent Japanese writers like Natsume Sōseki, in their first-ever English translations. A unique textbook, it provides the original Japanese and encourages you to make your own translation before reading the author’s and its commentary.