This conference proceedings provides a starting point for understanding the issues of fracture and disruption within children’s and young adult literature. It includes chapters on violence, war, sexuality and politics, and hybrid literary forms as well as the issue of audience.
Extraterrestrial Intelligence
What are the implications for human society of a sophisticated extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) operating on Earth? This book explores this question from a multidisciplinary perspective. Any contact with ETI will be a paradigm changer, and we must prepare for this transition.
Prospects and Impediments of Feminist Monolithism
This book reads poetry by British, American, and Sub-Saharan women to argue for feminist monolithism. It finds remarkable consistency in themes of resisting oppression across geographical divides, proposing this as a stable ground for unity without ignoring their differences.
Diversity in Narration and Writing
These essays take an international perspective on the novel, deepening understanding of classic authors like Flaubert and Joyce. It also offers a profound contribution to scholarship, covering Hungarian and Central European writers that have not been discussed in English before.
Modern Messages from Green Gables on Loving, Living and Learning
Many know Anne of Green Gables, but few know its author, L.M. Montgomery—a feminist far ahead of her time. In this book, a revivified Anne and her husband Gilbert explore their creator’s life, revealing how her challenges and triumphs offer messages for our own lives today.
Shakespeare’s King Lear
Nagarajan provides this comprehensive edition of King Lear, presenting years of research. He illustrates Shakespeare’s use of language, Elizabethan theatre, history and values of the play, analysis of enigmatic scenes, and glimpses into its performance history.
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.
Mapping out the Rushdie Republic
This collection differs from existing studies on the work of Salman Rushdie by dint of its seriousness of intent and profundity of content. Every major writing of the writer is paid due attention as separate articles are devoted to every aspect of his literary persona.
The Maghreb-Europe Paradigm
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’.
A Far Light
DiNapoli presents the complete Old English text of Beowulf, in short sections followed by verse translations and extensive commentaries, making this extraordinary literary achievement accessible to interested modern readers who are not familiar with the language it uses.
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.
Literature in Exile
This conference proceedings provides the first in-depth analysis of the different angles of the problem of emigrant writing. It deals with such problems as the fate of writers opposing different political regimes and the place of such fiction within national literatures.
Teaching English Literature and Interdisciplinarity
This book explores teaching English and interdisciplinarity, engaging with issues that go beyond the strictly ‘literary’. Including chapters on film, feminist, and cultural studies, this collection provides a global perspective to widen horizons for academics and researchers.
The Poetry of Gregory of Nazianzus
Gregory of Nazianzus was a famous 4th-century theologian, but he was also a celebrated poet. This book discovers the poet, not the theologian, revealing the all-too-human aspects of his personality and bringing to light new characteristics of his life and thought.
This book theorizes the bioregional concept as an ecocritical tool for reading literary works. It highlights the interface between nature and culture, using Aboriginal plays to extend ecocriticism beyond prose and sensitize us to place-based cultural nuances.
Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities in the Post-Truth Era
This book dissects how post-truth operates in the public sphere and social media. It brings together research from different disciplines to reveal how each field has been affected by the post-truth era and what the intellectual reactions have been.
Tolkien in the 21st Century
The accepted chronology of Shakespeare’s works rests on flawed methods. This investigation exposes over-reliance on precarious stylometrics and unfounded assumptions, arguing for a startling conclusion: Shakespeare’s works must be radically antedated.
The most comprehensive review of deaf characters in literature available. Examining 300 years of examples in novels, comics, and film, this work identifies key trends through the lens of deaf education, the use of sign language, and the rise of deaf identity and communities.
Ecofeminism explores the interconnections between feminism and ecology. This volume takes a multi-disciplinary approach to address the most pertinent issues in this emerging field, examining them from various perspectives to avoid any hegemonic categorization.