Fear, Trauma and Paranoia in Bret Easton Ellis’s Oeuvre
Párraga studies the role fear, trauma and paranoia play in Bret Easton Ellis’ novels and collections of short stories. He shows that these aspects are fundamental not only to Ellis’ work, but also to contemporary American literature and, indeed, American culture and society.
The Occidentocentric Fallacy
What is literature? Grbić brings together perspectives from both non-Western cultures and minority cultures within a supposed West, awakening the reader to the fact that, incredibly, literature in its total, all-human realization, is something yet to be discovered.
The Orpheus Myth in Milton’s “L’Allegro”, “Il Penseroso”, and “Lycidas”
This study uncovers the Orpheus myth as the key to Milton’s early poems, triggering their opposing voices and framing the profound journey from innocence to enlightenment.
Daskalova investigates works by prominent poets and writers of the 19th and 20th centuries, with a particular focus on (post)Romantics and modernists. She provides an original reading of the literary text as a means of representing and shaping the dialogism of different cultures.
A History of Alcman’s Early Reception
This history of Alcman’s early reception asks: Did emerging book culture kill “song culture”? Was Alcman an archetypal prototype of partheneia? This book argues the tradition of partheneia was never powerful enough, especially outside Sparta, to completely absorb the poet.
Translating Ethiopia
As a result of the cultural turn in translation studies and geography, Tomei adopts a comparative and diachronic perspective on colonial and postcolonial descriptions of space and place in Ethiopia, examining variations in intertextual citation and re-writing.
This publication raises profound economic, ethical, political, sociological, and psychological questions. It explores our fears and fantasies as it examines a range of fictions, films, and TV programs that speculate about the possibilities of humans in the future.
Ertin looks into the terms “camp” and “the closet” in Alan Hollinghurst’s fiction, since all four of his novels investigate the gay male experience throughout the late-twentieth century, to see whether the author writes from the margin or from the centre to recreate the origin.
What kinds of worlds will exist in our future? How will technology shape our cities, homes, and ourselves? This collection of essays explores science fiction’s new spaces—from utopias and dystopias to alien cityscapes—and discusses capitalism, equality, and feminist critique.
Essays on Shakespeare
Dahiya highlights new aspects of several of Shakespeare’s plays, such as the role of women and the lower classes in the Roman tragedies. She also emphasizes the role of the early Shakespeare teachers at the first Indian College of Western Education.
Poetry and Philosophy as Handlung
Poetry and Philosophy as Handlung offers verbal “doings” where sentences show both complicity and dissonance. Through this tactical sequence, time and place emerge, capturing the era’s peculiar aroma in a text that remains open to its own immediate future.
This work moves among sociolinguistics, critical discourse analysis and translation issues, exploring some of the most representative works by Philip and Johnson, noting their efforts to give to the Caribbean legacy and language the prestige they deserve.
Mazaheri’s essays explore the relationship between religion and literature in George Eliot’s early fiction, with a particular focus on Scenes of Clerical Life, Adam Bede, and The Mill on the Floss.
Three Long Poems in Athens
Poetic narratives travel through Athens, cutting into the city’s past and opening up its microcosm. This book features the first English translation of three Modern Greek poems, active political texts offering a unique itinerary through the city from the 1980s to the 2010s.
Gupta brings forth the popular theories of Indian aesthetics and Indian poetics. Her text represents primarily a compilation of commentaries and criticism of works such as Natryashastra, Dhvanyavloka, and Abhinavbharati, and there is a full glossary for non-Sanskrit speakers.
Managing The Manager
Nine internationally-known critics explore Richard Berengarten’s seminal poem, The Manager. This collection of original essays serves as an introduction to a figure who is arguably one of the most significant poets writing in English today.
John Steinbeck in East European Translation
Čerče narrows a huge gap in regard to Steinbeck translations in Eastern Europe, here considered in terms of the political division between Western Europe and the Soviet East. As the only book of its kind, it makes a major contribution to Steinbeck and American literature studies.
This anthology focuses on the role of writing to preserve memories, to excavate traumas and to heal the ever-present scars of the past. It gathers together research papers from different universities around the world, including India, Italy, Tunisia and the USA.
This volume details the uneasy and uncomfortable relationship between English identity and the discipline of English Studies. It draws together literary and cross-cultural studies material to shed light on internal visions and external projections of Englishness.
This study investigates Louise Erdrich’s unique literary style. In an interconnected series of novels, protagonists return and events re-surface. Her writing resists closure, focusing on shared human experiences that make her an internationally acclaimed author.