This book explores the dark labyrinths of the criminals from Dickens’s greatest novels, including Oliver Twist and Great Expectations. It supplants his image as the Santa Claus of Victorian society with another Dickens: one who understood the dark souls of his age.
The Emergence of Discourses and Cultural Hegemony
Edward W. Said’s seminal text Orientalism disrupted how the Orient understands itself. This book focuses on his work, analyzing how the discourse of orientalism perpetrated the West’s cultural hegemony and the internal hegemony within the non-western world.
A comprehensive guide for teachers, parents, and anyone interested in children’s literature. Combining theory with practice, it offers practical strategies to inspire reading and creative writing. Includes supplementary audio of nursery rhymes, poems, and fables.
Social Sciences and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Explore how Social Sciences can address Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This interdisciplinary volume analyzes local challenges and cultural nuances, weaving together empirical research, case studies, and local voices to offer actionable insights and grassroots solutions.
Challenging Thoreau’s Romanticism and Reimagining Nature
In Walden, Thoreau presented nature as a path to spiritual clarity. But is his vision too romanticized? This book reevaluates Thoreau’s ideals, challenging his romanticism and reimagining humanity’s relationship with nature in an era of ecological and societal upheaval.
Questioning the Eco-Ethics of Future Colonialism and Terraforming of Mars
Can we escape an apocalypse on Earth by terraforming another planet? Using Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy, this book argues this is simply the future of colonization, dooming us to repeat our mistakes. It reveals that our economic systems are the root of these catastrophes.
This book helps aspirant researchers find a proper topic for their research degrees and review the related literature. Including a bibliography of PhD theses, it guides them to theses available on Shodhganga—a reservoir of Indian theses—and in academic libraries.
Experiences of Migration
This book asks what migrants experience, finding answers not in academic studies, but in literary fiction. It argues that fiction offers ‘sensate knowledge’—an interconnection of senses and intellect—by relating stories to concepts like hospitality, courage, and hope.
A Brief History of Nobel Prize in Literature Winners from 1901-2024
A history of the Nobel Prize-winning authors from 1901 to 2024. This reference volume provides concise summaries of the authors and their works, featuring selected extracts and critical commentaries. An essential guide for students, teachers, and readers of great literature.
The first comprehensive study in English of the detective novel in Puerto Rico, from its origins in 1984 to the present. This book establishes a canon for the genre, analyzing some 50 works to reveal a diverse and innovative literary tradition on the island.
From Fin de Siècle to Semi-Centennial Drama of Europe
This book offers groundbreaking interpretations of timeless 19th and 20th-century drama. Using new critical methods like Cultural Memory and Vulnerability studies, it builds inroads to both obscure and notable texts, connecting the past to a vigilant future for researchers.
This book explores new research in English Studies, rethinking its relationship with other disciplines. The collection covers topics like memory, trauma, migration, identity, and posthumanism with a critical approach to biases related to race, gender, and sexual orientation.
Studies and Essays on Romance Literatures
This collection of essays is a journey into 20th-century masterpieces. From Pessoa to García Márquez, these studies re-read famous works of Romance literature to highlight their deep and hidden truths, metaphorically bridging the two sides of the Atlantic.
This work of literary criticism offers a detailed study of Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales,” demonstrating his imaginative insights into the drama of human life. It reveals his continuing relevance by exploring themes of domestic violence, trust, and the need for new perspectives.
A governess at an isolated country house becomes convinced that ghosts are corrupting two children, but only she sees them. This study argues her narration reveals a double consciousness, a severe indictment of the possessiveness which led to the story’s tragic climax.
This study explores Franz Kafka’s fiction through his innovative dream technique. Using Sigmund Freud’s research and existentialist thought, it provides a unique perspective on the uncanny “Kafkaesque” atmosphere, extrapolating dream features into speculative metaphysical areas.
A Shakespearean Reading of Pirandello’s Henry IV
This innovative comparative analysis of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Pirandello’s Enrico IV delves into the intertextual relationship between the two tragedies, presenting an original interpretation that connects concepts like original sin, farce, and simulacrum.
African Tragedy
Unknown since 1946, African Tragedy is the original version of Wulf Sachs’s famous Black Hamlet. This enthralling novel tells the story of John Chawafambira, an nganga in a psychic and political struggle within the inhospitable Johannesburg of the 1930s.
This collection considers how women writers subvert normative structures in their adaptations of fairy tales. Writers like Anne Sexton and Angela Carter reimagine the genre, long associated with conservative values, as an instrument for social critique of traditional structures.
Contemporary Debates in Human Rights and Literature
This book offers fresh perspectives on human rights in literature, providing cutting-edge readings of specific works. It engages with current debates about how rights are portrayed across identity, culture, and politics, highlighting human rights as a universal concern.