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Contemporary Children’s and Young Adult Literature

Writing Back to History and Oppression

By: Charlotte Beyer

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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.

De Facto Trauma Reconsidered

Edited By: Faten Haouioui

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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.

Moving from the Known to the Unknown in Academic Writing

By: Verbra Frances Pfeiffer

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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.

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, 1818-2018

Edited By: Maria Parrino, Alessandro Scarsella, Michela Vanon Alliata

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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.

Short Stories by Werner Bergengruen

A Selection of His Novellas

By: Albrecht Classen

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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.

Spanish Women Authors of Serial Crime Fiction

Repeat Offenders in the 21st Century

Edited By: Inmaculada Pertusa-Seva, Melissa A. Stewart

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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.

First Letters in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Edited By: Alain Kerhervé, Catherine Thomas-Ripault

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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.

The Heraldic World of Lawrence Durrell

The Man, His Circle, and His Art (Durrell Studies 4)

By: Bruce Redwine

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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.

Exile and Return as Poetics of Identity in Contemporary Anglo-Caribbean Literature

Becoming Home

By: Eleonora Natalia Ravizza

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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.

Shakespeare as a Portable Guide to the Human Condition

By: Frederic Will

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This book introduces the critical issues in Shakespeare’s plays. What is the secret of a character like Falstaff? What philosophical arguments do the problem plays introduce? What is the value of Shakespeare’s perspective for thinking effectively in our world now?

The Female Performer between Exhibitionism and Feminism in Novels by James, Hawthorne, and Zola

By: Nodhar Hammami Ben Fradj

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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.

A Cognitive Approach to Ernest Hemingway’s Short Fiction

By: Gabriela Tucan

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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.

On History and Memory in Arab Literature and Western Poetics

Edited By: Bootheina Majoul, Yosra Amraoui

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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.

Reception Studies and Adaptation

A Focus on Italy

Edited By: Giulia Magazzù, Valentina Rossi, Angela Sileo

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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.

Stuart Hood, Twentieth-Century Partisan

Edited By: David Hutchison, David Johnson

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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.

Encounters in Greek and Irish Literature

Creativity, Translations and Critical Perspectives

Edited By: Paschalis Nikolaou

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Literary experts and novelists explore the relationships between Greek and Irish writing. Through fiction, self-reflective essays, and discussions, this volume considers two literatures at the edges of Europe. Selected works are presented in both Greek and English.

Shi‘ism in the Maghrib and al-Andalus, Volume Two

Traditions

By: John Andrew Morrow

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Uncovering the hidden history of Shi'ism in North Africa and al-Andalus, this book offers the first English translations of Morisco traditions. It reveals their original works, study of diverse Shi'ite sources, and a vibrant faith that rewrites the region's history.

Uncovering the hidden history of Shi’ism in North Africa and al-Andalus, this book offers the first English translations of Morisco traditions. It reveals their original works, study of diverse Shi’ite sources, and a vibrant faith that rewrites the region’s history.

The Cultural and Historical Heritage of Colonialism

Interrogating the Postcolony

Edited By: Kenneth Usongo

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Decades after independence, why do many African nations still mimic the West at their own culture's expense? This book presents a bold challenge: to build a humane society by grounding it in local experience and synthesizing the best of indigenous and foreign values.

Decades after independence, why do many African nations still mimic the West at their own culture’s expense? This book presents a bold challenge: to build a humane society by grounding it in local experience and synthesizing the best of indigenous and foreign values.

A Comparative Guide to Sartrean and Deleuzean Selves in Modernist and Post-Modernist Fiction

By: Onur Ekler

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This book provides a comparative study of the Sartrean no-self and the Deleuzean rhizomic self, tracing the shift from Sartre’s nihilistic self in modernist fiction to the celebratory Deleuzean self in postmodernism, which may be a possible alternative for survival in crisis.

Modern Sonneteers, Hilary Mantel, and Critical Letters

A Triptych

By: Ethan Lewis

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This series of critiques explores three literary forums. "Modern Sonneteers" shows that the sonnet thrives still. "Homage to Hilary Mantel" offers new analyses of the pre-eminent novelist. "Critical Letters" gathers pensees on literature written during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This series of critiques explores three literary forums. “Modern Sonneteers” shows that the sonnet thrives still. “Homage to Hilary Mantel” offers new analyses of the pre-eminent novelist. “Critical Letters” gathers pensees on literature written during the COVID-19 pandemic.