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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.
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.
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Seeking a Home for Poetry in a Nomadic World
Joseph Brodsky and Ágnes Lehóczky
This study explores the trespassing of linguistic borders through poets Joseph Brodsky and Ágnes Lehóczky. In their search for identity, these “nomadic” authors adopt English, confronting the fluid nature of language itself and forging new expressions for our future.
This study explores the trespassing of linguistic borders through poets Joseph Brodsky and Ágnes Lehóczky. In their search for identity, these “nomadic” authors adopt English, confronting the fluid nature of language itself and forging new expressions for our future.
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New Thoughts on Old Books
Why Read Homer, Milton, or a Medieval Nun at a Time like This?
Why continue reading “classic” texts today? This book is not a defense of the literary canon. Instead, professors of English offer thoughtful, engaging, personal responses, inviting readers to revisit “old assignments” in new terms.
Why continue reading “classic” texts today? This book is not a defense of the literary canon. Instead, professors of English offer thoughtful, engaging, personal responses, inviting readers to revisit “old assignments” in new terms.
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This volume provides insights into the Theatre of the Absurd by focusing on the character. Using mathematical approaches, it introduces new algebraic and geometric models to analyze dramatic relations. Useful for any reader interested in analyzing, staging, or writing a play.
This volume provides insights into the Theatre of the Absurd by focusing on the character. Using mathematical approaches, it introduces new algebraic and geometric models to analyze dramatic relations. Useful for any reader interested in analyzing, staging, or writing a play.
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Neuroscience is the new paradigm, prefixing everything from economics to ethics. But what does this really mean? This work examines the ethics of neuroscientific investigations and their associated technologies, including the moral problems of cognitive enhancement.
Neuroscience is the new paradigm, prefixing everything from economics to ethics. But what does this really mean? This work examines the ethics of neuroscientific investigations and their associated technologies, including the moral problems of cognitive enhancement.
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Communication in Postmodern Urban Fiction
The Shadow of Imagination
Exploring urban fiction from the 1980s to the early 2000s, this book reveals an anxiety about the loss of self in our digital age. From Auster and Ellis to Palahniuk and DeLillo, it highlights how distanced communication triggers an imagination of violence and destruction.
Exploring urban fiction from the 1980s to the early 2000s, this book reveals an anxiety about the loss of self in our digital age. From Auster and Ellis to Palahniuk and DeLillo, it highlights how distanced communication triggers an imagination of violence and destruction.
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Repeating Words, Retelling Stories
Repetition, Variation, and Serial Significance in Literature
In literature, repetition does more than re-enforce a concept; it creates new meaning. This book explores examples from Homer, Virgil, and Ovid, and draws on neuro-cognitive science to show why repetition is an unavoidable staple of any text.
In literature, repetition does more than re-enforce a concept; it creates new meaning. This book explores examples from Homer, Virgil, and Ovid, and draws on neuro-cognitive science to show why repetition is an unavoidable staple of any text.
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This book offers a biopolitical analysis of the Harry Potter series. Applying the theories of Foucault, Hardt, and Negri, it reveals how the fantasy world both perpetuates power inequalities and provides a dissident perspective on power relations.
This book offers a biopolitical analysis of the Harry Potter series. Applying the theories of Foucault, Hardt, and Negri, it reveals how the fantasy world both perpetuates power inequalities and provides a dissident perspective on power relations.
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This collection re-examines the work and life of Arthur Conan Doyle from multiple perspectives. It considers overlooked aspects of his oeuvre, offering fresh perspectives on his fiction and his relationship to contemporary writers and movements.
This collection re-examines the work and life of Arthur Conan Doyle from multiple perspectives. It considers overlooked aspects of his oeuvre, offering fresh perspectives on his fiction and his relationship to contemporary writers and movements.
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Twelve original essays explore the afterlives of nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers in biofiction and the biopic. Featuring case studies on Charlotte Brontë, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf, this volume situates these genres in their cultural and ideological contexts.
Twelve original essays explore the afterlives of nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers in biofiction and the biopic. Featuring case studies on Charlotte Brontë, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf, this volume situates these genres in their cultural and ideological contexts.
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The Shakespearean Search for Archetypes
The Mirror and the Signet
Shakespeare’s mythopoetic figures are not transcendental but are batteries of condensed cultural meaning. This book finds in these archetypes the explanation for why his work responds through time to perspectives as different as psychological, feminist, and postcolonial.
Shakespeare’s mythopoetic figures are not transcendental but are batteries of condensed cultural meaning. This book finds in these archetypes the explanation for why his work responds through time to perspectives as different as psychological, feminist, and postcolonial.
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A Reading of Virgil’s Aeneid Book 2
The Fall of Troy
For students and the general reader, this book offers a detailed literary analysis of Virgil’s Aeneid 2, one of the most famous parts of the poem. It enhances critical appreciation and enjoyment, making the epic come alive with exercises and topics to extend engagement.
For students and the general reader, this book offers a detailed literary analysis of Virgil’s Aeneid 2, one of the most famous parts of the poem. It enhances critical appreciation and enjoyment, making the epic come alive with exercises and topics to extend engagement.
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This book challenges the view of Restoration drama as purely domestic. It reveals how heroic plays used stereotypes of the Ottoman Turks to dramatize England's own revolution, regicide, and restoration, while shaping an emerging British imperial ideology.
This book challenges the view of Restoration drama as purely domestic. It reveals how heroic plays used stereotypes of the Ottoman Turks to dramatize England’s own revolution, regicide, and restoration, while shaping an emerging British imperial ideology.
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At the end of the 18th century, the British focus shifted from classical ideals to the rediscovery of Old Germanic culture. This book examines travel narratives from 1794 to 1845, shedding light on the representation of Germanness in relation to British national identity.
At the end of the 18th century, the British focus shifted from classical ideals to the rediscovery of Old Germanic culture. This book examines travel narratives from 1794 to 1845, shedding light on the representation of Germanness in relation to British national identity.
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Literature, Theory and the History of Ideas
An Updated Compendium
How do power structures shape our notions of identity, gender, and culture? This collection interrogates these crucial questions across literature, film, and cultural theory, making it a vital resource for scholars and students.
How do power structures shape our notions of identity, gender, and culture? This collection interrogates these crucial questions across literature, film, and cultural theory, making it a vital resource for scholars and students.
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This book analyzes the spacetime continuum in science fiction, synthesizing cutting-edge research from literary analysis, quantum physics, and astrophysics. These essays offer fresh views and analytical tools to stimulate the curiosity of educators, researchers, and students.
This book analyzes the spacetime continuum in science fiction, synthesizing cutting-edge research from literary analysis, quantum physics, and astrophysics. These essays offer fresh views and analytical tools to stimulate the curiosity of educators, researchers, and students.
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Black American Women’s Voices and Transgenerational Trauma
Re(-)membering in Neo-Slave Narratives
This book explores neo-slave narratives by black American women, showing how authors write through the transgenerational trauma of slavery. It demonstrates how traumatic memory is inscribed on the female body and how storytelling enables black women’s voices to be heard.
This book explores neo-slave narratives by black American women, showing how authors write through the transgenerational trauma of slavery. It demonstrates how traumatic memory is inscribed on the female body and how storytelling enables black women’s voices to be heard.
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This book explores dystopian British views of Serbia as a travel destination from 1717 to 1911. Travel accounts depict a politically unstable region on the fringe of the Orient, demonising Serbia's national struggle while shedding light on its national awakening.
This book explores dystopian British views of Serbia as a travel destination from 1717 to 1911. Travel accounts depict a politically unstable region on the fringe of the Orient, demonising Serbia’s national struggle while shedding light on its national awakening.
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This book explores how fiction from 1850-1930 shaped perceptions of women’s roles. From suffrage to sexual desire, these essays examine how literature tackled ‘The Woman Question’ through female characters who sought to defy social constraints in ways still relevant today.
This book explores how fiction from 1850-1930 shaped perceptions of women’s roles. From suffrage to sexual desire, these essays examine how literature tackled ‘The Woman Question’ through female characters who sought to defy social constraints in ways still relevant today.
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This book sheds light on the modernist short story cycle and its pivotal role in depicting place. Modernist writers found this form suitable for capturing a fragmented world through short, interconnected narratives that reflect an ever-changing attitude towards what place means.
This book sheds light on the modernist short story cycle and its pivotal role in depicting place. Modernist writers found this form suitable for capturing a fragmented world through short, interconnected narratives that reflect an ever-changing attitude towards what place means.
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