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Stuart Hood’s year fighting with the Italian Resistance in WWII shaped his peacetime trajectory. This collection assesses the achievements of this broadcaster, media studies pioneer, translator, and novelist, showing how his life offers fresh insights into 20th-century history.
Stuart Hood’s year fighting with the Italian Resistance in WWII shaped his peacetime trajectory. This collection assesses the achievements of this broadcaster, media studies pioneer, translator, and novelist, showing how his life offers fresh insights into 20th-century history.
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Reception Studies and Adaptation
A Focus on Italy
This volume explores the Italian adaptation of English literary, multimedia, and audiovisual texts. It investigates how translation choices, by imprinting "Italianness" on the original, can alter a work's meaning and success, directing or even undermining audience reception.
This volume explores the Italian adaptation of English literary, multimedia, and audiovisual texts. It investigates how translation choices, by imprinting “Italianness” on the original, can alter a work’s meaning and success, directing or even undermining audience reception.
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Texts can be a remedy for forgetting or a vivid testimony to trauma. This volume focuses on Paul Ricœur’s work on memory, history, and forgetting, with special emphasis on the dissension between individual and collective memory.
Texts can be a remedy for forgetting or a vivid testimony to trauma. This volume focuses on Paul Ricœur’s work on memory, history, and forgetting, with special emphasis on the dissension between individual and collective memory.
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How do readers make sense of Hemingway’s stories? With reserved narrators and laconic dialogs, his texts seem to say little, yet they capture our emotions. This book proposes a cognitively informed model of reading to discover what lies beneath the surface of his iceberg.
How do readers make sense of Hemingway’s stories? With reserved narrators and laconic dialogs, his texts seem to say little, yet they capture our emotions. This book proposes a cognitively informed model of reading to discover what lies beneath the surface of his iceberg.
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This book explores the figure of the female performer in 19th-century fiction, analyzing the clashing attitudes of Henry James, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Emile Zola. It examines women’s public roles as either a commitment to the feminist project or a mere exhibitionist demeanour.
This book explores the figure of the female performer in 19th-century fiction, analyzing the clashing attitudes of Henry James, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Emile Zola. It examines women’s public roles as either a commitment to the feminist project or a mere exhibitionist demeanour.
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This volume explores how the interplay of “exile” and “return” in Anglo-Caribbean literature shapes identity. Against a history of colonialism, diaspora, and slavery, it raises questions about literature's function in an increasingly hybrid and transcultural world.
This volume explores how the interplay of “exile” and “return” in Anglo-Caribbean literature shapes identity. Against a history of colonialism, diaspora, and slavery, it raises questions about literature’s function in an increasingly hybrid and transcultural world.
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The Heraldic World of Lawrence Durrell
The Man, His Circle, and His Art (Durrell Studies 4)
This book presents unorthodox explorations of Alexandria, the city at the heart of Durrell’s writing. It offers an insight into his Sicilian Carousel and a unique reading of his Alexandria Quartet in light of the art and landscape of ancient Egypt.
This book presents unorthodox explorations of Alexandria, the city at the heart of Durrell’s writing. It offers an insight into his Sicilian Carousel and a unique reading of his Alexandria Quartet in light of the art and landscape of ancient Egypt.
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What is a 'first letter'? Is it a child's first writing, a first love letter, or the first to a new correspondent? This volume examines the first letters of authors, philosophers, and artists—including Voltaire, Diderot, and Coleridge—and their connection to what follows.
What is a ‘first letter’? Is it a child’s first writing, a first love letter, or the first to a new correspondent? This volume examines the first letters of authors, philosophers, and artists—including Voltaire, Diderot, and Coleridge—and their connection to what follows.
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Spanish Women Authors of Serial Crime Fiction
Repeat Offenders in the 21st Century
This collection analyzes detective series with female investigators, exploring their treatment of current social, political, and gender issues. Authors break with convention by blending crime fiction with sci-fi and the supernatural in varied settings to reinvigorate the genre.
This collection analyzes detective series with female investigators, exploring their treatment of current social, political, and gender issues. Authors break with convention by blending crime fiction with sci-fi and the supernatural in varied settings to reinvigorate the genre.
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Short Stories by Werner Bergengruen
A Selection of His Novellas
Long-ignored Nobel nominee Werner Bergengruen is reintroduced in this selection of his best short stories. From learning to smile at death in "Death from Reval" to tales of honor, love, and power, his works offer timeless messages couched in rich historical settings.
Long-ignored Nobel nominee Werner Bergengruen is reintroduced in this selection of his best short stories. From learning to smile at death in “Death from Reval” to tales of honor, love, and power, his works offer timeless messages couched in rich historical settings.
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This collection of essays by international scholars provides new pathways through Frankenstein. Chapters explore the iconic novel’s themes, cultural context, and its numerous afterlives in film, games, and more, stimulating a new appreciation for the classic.
This collection of essays by international scholars provides new pathways through Frankenstein. Chapters explore the iconic novel’s themes, cultural context, and its numerous afterlives in film, games, and more, stimulating a new appreciation for the classic.
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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 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.
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This collection revises contemporary trauma theory. Moving beyond Western models, it adopts a cross-cultural approach to discuss trauma in Arab-Maghrebean, Afro-American, and Chinese contexts, and its artistic representation in poetry and drama.
This collection revises contemporary trauma theory. Moving beyond Western models, it adopts a cross-cultural approach to discuss trauma in Arab-Maghrebean, Afro-American, and Chinese contexts, and its artistic representation in poetry and drama.
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Contemporary Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Writing Back to History and Oppression
This book explores how contemporary children’s and young adult novels write back to history and oppression. Analyzing works from across the globe, it investigates how these narratives raise vital questions about identity, power, language, and social justice.
This book explores how contemporary children’s and young adult novels write back to history and oppression. Analyzing works from across the globe, it investigates how these narratives raise vital questions about identity, power, language, and social justice.
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For the curious reader, these essays explore Shakespeare and his re-envisioners; modern novels that interrogate identity; and underappreciated writers. They conclude with a series of pensees that reflect upon the interpretative craft itself.
For the curious reader, these essays explore Shakespeare and his re-envisioners; modern novels that interrogate identity; and underappreciated writers. They conclude with a series of pensees that reflect upon the interpretative craft itself.
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As we awaken to environmental crises, climate fiction (cli-fi) depicts our transformed Earth. This book analyzes apocalyptic works of literature, media, and art, shedding light on the inevitable interconnection of humankind with the nonhuman environment.
As we awaken to environmental crises, climate fiction (cli-fi) depicts our transformed Earth. This book analyzes apocalyptic works of literature, media, and art, shedding light on the inevitable interconnection of humankind with the nonhuman environment.
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This book explores the evolution of poetic imagery, showing how poets took over metaphors from their predecessors. It follows the development of wine imagery from pre-Islamic times to the days of Abo Nuwas, and how poets built on existing imagery to create new metaphors.
This book explores the evolution of poetic imagery, showing how poets took over metaphors from their predecessors. It follows the development of wine imagery from pre-Islamic times to the days of Abo Nuwas, and how poets built on existing imagery to create new metaphors.
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The Maghreb-Europe Paradigm
Migration, Gender and Cultural Dialogue
This book analyzes migration, gender, and identity for North African migrants in Europe. From sociological studies to literature, it debates notions of dispossession, cultural identity, and otherness, exploring the complex expressions of ‘exile’ and ‘pain’.
This book analyzes migration, gender, and identity for North African migrants in Europe. From sociological studies to literature, it debates notions of dispossession, cultural identity, and otherness, exploring the complex expressions of ‘exile’ and ‘pain’.
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An exhilarating tour through the mesmerizing world of Nobel Prize-winner Orhan Pamuk. This book examines nine novels spanning three decades, detailing the thematics and craft of Turkey’s foremost novelist in a style shorn of dry pedantry and jargon.
An exhilarating tour through the mesmerizing world of Nobel Prize-winner Orhan Pamuk. This book examines nine novels spanning three decades, detailing the thematics and craft of Turkey’s foremost novelist in a style shorn of dry pedantry and jargon.
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The road inspires freewheeling adventure, but it is also a site of our vulnerabilities. This collection highlights artists, writers, and filmmakers who have drawn upon the road as a cultural landscape, revealing our curiosity, anxieties, sorrows, and disquiet.
The road inspires freewheeling adventure, but it is also a site of our vulnerabilities. This collection highlights artists, writers, and filmmakers who have drawn upon the road as a cultural landscape, revealing our curiosity, anxieties, sorrows, and disquiet.
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