This collection offers an international perspective on evil in contemporary French literature. Essays explore how authors give account of human catastrophes—from genocide to terrorism—investigating the origins of evil and the ethics of writing on suffering.
This analysis of Hardy’s tragedies finds his famed pessimism is a mask for evolutionary ethics. Women’s suffering is an adapted parental investment in survival, a force of superiority granting greater fitness than the heroic deeds of men.
Ex-centric Writing
This volume of essays examines postcolonial alienation through the anamorphic lens of madness. In fiction from Africa, the Caribbean, Australia, and Asia, the mad character’s vision is a warning against discourses that pass as the natural order of things.
Ex-changes
This collection of articles explores the transfer of ideas in British and American cultures. Analyzing cultural texts from fiction to film, these essays document shifting definitions of identity, gender, and nationality across various genres, media, and disciplines.
Exchanges between Literature and Science from the 1800s to the 2000s
This collection responds to the intense interest that the relations between the discourses of literature and those of science have obtained. It focuses on the cultural significance of scientific discoveries and practices and scientific representations in literature and the arts.
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 collection of essays examines poetic and narrative responses to exile. It features works from rarely studied parts of the world, including Armenia, Egypt, and Tibet, exploring feelings of loss, memories of trauma, and the search for identity.
This exciting collection of original essays on early modern women’s writing introduces little-known writers and offers new critical strategies. The authors explore diverse genres, integrating literary history with religion, legal issues, and genre questions.
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.
Experiencing Gender
This publication investigates the concept of gender in an international context. Focusing on various critical approaches, it explores how gender identities are shaped by socio-cultural factors, and provides a map of how gender experiences are represented in the arts.
Mythology offers cultural codes essential to the construction of culture and identity. This volume compares mythological elements in contemporary narratives with the motifs of classical narratives, and investigates their functions through semiotics and narratology.
The term ‘border’ has become a ploy for chauvinism and ultra-nationalist bigotry, with notorious coverage in media, cinema, and literature. This volume explores a wide range of literary, linguistic, and media representations of the ‘border.’
Exploring Creative Writing
This volume offers a collection of articles based on presentations given in recent years at the annual Great Writing International Creative Writing conference. Creative writers included here are drawn from around the world, including the USA, Australia, Korea, and Finland.
This collection of critical essays explores the intersection of gender and diaspora in Indian literature. Drawing on feminist and queer studies, it examines the predicament of belonging and identity, showcasing the range and depth of the Indian diaspora.
Exploring Identity in Literature and Life Stories
In an era of globalization and migration, what defines our identity? This collection of essays explores key dimensions—culture, religion, ethnicity, gender—as they appear in international narratives, from literary texts and film to theatre and more.
Exploring Space
This collection of original essays on Literature, Linguistics, and Translation by Malaysian academics reflects state-of-the-art, interdisciplinary research. It provides textual and theoretical readings from a variety of traditional and modern perspectives.
Exploring Space
This two-volume collection offers a comprehensive insight into how the category of space can inform original philological research. The first volume covers cultural and literary studies, while the second refers to English language studies.
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.
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.
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.