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.
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.
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.
The short story is undergoing a renaissance. This collection celebrates its unique appeal, as scholars and writers explore its forms, genres, and international authors from James Joyce to Jorge Luis Borges. Integrating theory and practice, it appeals to writers and students.
New Literatures of Old
Artistic creativity is fuelled by dialogues between the past and the present. This book explores how these exchanges become active agents of intervention, creating spaces of dialogue and confrontation when establishing the cultural identity of a community.
This is the first volume to chart Samuel Beckett’s truly global influence. From Coetzee to DeLillo, commentators explore how his revolutionary art presents a profound challenge and liberation to authors, pushing at the very boundaries of literature.
This book explores topical issues in language and literature. It examines Cameroon’s linguistic colonial legacy, translation as a creative exercise, translator education, and the clash between Confucian and communicative classroom teaching in China.
Beyond Words
When interpretation no longer applies, the Othering Excursion begins. This book elaborates a new method for reading texts that use disruptive rhetoric and distortion to point beyond cultural norms, finding meaning in zones of literary obscurity.
Re-Reading Richard Hoggart
Richard Hoggart put the working class on the cultural map. The first critic to take popular culture seriously, he founded Cultural Studies and was a key witness in the Lady Chatterley trial. This volume explores his life and significant role in cultural shifts.
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.
Love, Sorrow and Joy
The poetic and philosophic insights in this book are new and fresh. Like the mystical writers of old, Gillespie explores doubt, hope, and the search for true self-identity, generating a new and profound experience.
Literatures in the Digital Era
This book analyses the impacts of digital technology on literature. It explores how computer resources are used to preserve and study texts, the birth of a new digital literature, and the emergence of new literary theories pointing to a new humanism.
But He Talked of the Temple of Man’s Body
This poetic study is a response to Locke’s philosophy through an analysis of Blake’s linguistic practices. It reads like a narrative of an effort to build, destroy, and rebuild, revealing Blake’s criticism of Locke as a critique of modernity itself.
Making Up
Research in creative writing is not only about the works it produces, but the explorations a creative writer undertakes. Through creative writing, a writer can explore ideas, concepts, and states of mind. This collection shows what this growing field does and more.
Not So Innocent Abroad
Travel and travel writing are never innocent. This book offers a fresh approach, arguing that journeying always occurs within political systems. It reveals the political implications and dissimulated messages in travelogues from the 18th to 21st century.
Storm and Dissonance
This collection of essays explores the darker side of L.M. Montgomery’s fiction and life writing. Her gentle landscapes and optimistic stories often contain undercurrents of anger, loss, and violence, providing new insights into her complex work.
“History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.” (George Santayana)
Remaking Literary History questions the past by exploring the links between literature and history through memory, trauma, and historical reinvention.
This volume is centred around the idea that the aim of literature is to build bridges, and, as such, focuses on the moral purpose of literature and its tendency to overcome divisive forces, using examples from texts across various geographical and cultural borders.
Front investigates the use of the notion of time and temporality and its various conceptualizations in theories of the new physics as a thematic and formal framework for the British novel of the twenty-first century.
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