The Future of Ecocriticism
How can we mitigate society’s destructive behaviors? The Future of Ecocriticism: New Horizons brings together the latest articles from leading scholars, offering a special focus on Turkish ecocriticism and a concluding dialogue among the editors.
Believing ‘no text is an island,’ this book explores intertextuality and transformation. It examines texts—especially children’s literature—that traverse boundaries of genre, medium, and geography, with essays from a wide range of international scholars.
This collection of essays challenges French-centered conceptions of francophonie. It proposes a pluricentric view, reading cultural forms from the Caribbean, Africa, and Quebec as products of their own contexts, revealing a Frenchness that is truly plural.
This bilingual work identifies and explains the subversive rewriting of ancient, medieval, and modern myths in contemporary novels. Analyses cover classical (Oedipus), biblical (the Golem), and modern (Faust) myths in fiction, art, and cinema.
The Wounds of Possibility
This timely volume offers an in-depth study of George Steiner, one of our most provocative thinkers. Leading scholars reflect on the relation between ethics and literature, philosophy and art, providing the most comprehensive engagement with Steiner’s work to date.
Distinguished scholars offer new readings of Henry James’s fiction and non-fiction. These essays explore his engagement with cities, gender, sexuality, and culture, making a convincing case for the enduring centrality of his work to literary and cultural studies.
IDEA
This collection of essays by prominent academicians explores current trends in English Studies. Dealing with issues from Shakespeare to translation and postcolonial studies, it presents a diversity of theoretical, cultural, and linguistic perspectives.
Re-Reading Zola and Worldwide Naturalism
Beyond Zola and France. This collection traces naturalism’s global journey and evolution, tracking its transformations across Europe, the Americas, and Asia into the twenty-first century.
The Future of Post-Human Chemistry
Is chemistry the central science? This book moves beyond conflicting views to provide a better way of understanding chemistry’s future. It offers a new theory that will fundamentally change how we think about the field, with enormous implications for humanity.
Rzyman focuses on how to deal with Terry Pratchett’s Discworld intertexts: how to track them down, analyse their role, predict translation obstacles, and suggest translation solutions. He also considers the translation of intertextual fragments in the Polish version, Świat Dysku.
Romantic Ireland
Romantic Ireland: From Tone to Gonne takes Irish Studies in new directions. Bringing together international scholars, it explores the tumultuous nineteenth century through a cross-cultural comparison with Scotland, enhancing our awareness of colonialism and nationalism.
Texts and Textiles
This study illustrates how fiction that makes use of textiles as an essential element utilizes synaesthetic writing and metaphor to create an affective link to, and response in, the reader. These links and responses are assessed using affect theory and work on synaesthesia.
This comparative exploration of Bryon and Pope’s satirical portraits of men and women, their expression of love and forbidden passion, and their various poetic techniques shows the profound influence Pope had on the deepest recesses of Byron’s poetic thought.
In King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare explores political survival at court. This book offers a new perspective on monarchy by distinguishing authority from power, arguing that persuasion is essential to reinforcing royal rule and establishing the monarch.
Offering 18 essays which critically examine the expanding canon of American children’s books against the backdrop of a social history comprised of a deep layering of struggle, this title charts new ground in how children’s literature is telling stories of historical trauma.
Murdering Ministers
Delve into Macbeth as never before. This guide integrates centuries of criticism and performance to answer enduring questions (Why is the play cursed?), explores its explosive historical context, and reveals the hilarious dramatic irony often missed in the sombre tragedy.
Authors from eight countries offer research across eight languages on current issues in Translation Studies. The volume covers four key areas: lexicological issues and corpora, quality and translator training, audiovisual translation, and literary translation.
Indian Ocean Futures
Rapid change in the Indian Ocean demands a revaluation of how communities, sustainability and security are constituted. This book examines the heritage, sustainability and security of the region to engage with the complex relations shaping its future.
Ecstatic Consumption
Radia argues how the culture of spectacle is ever-evolving and affecting the global dependence on consumption and its many different forms. She asks if avatar (anti)forms provide an escape into a utopian space or further enhance the dystopian ecstasy.
Space and Events
This book offers a new perspective on the syntax and semantics of spatial adpositions, presenting them as Relators in motion events. It provides a syntactic-semantic model and analyses equivalent elements across English, Kurdish and Arabic.