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Traumatic Affect examines the intersection of trauma and affect theory. This collection of essays offers timely critiques of film, art, and politics, venturing into bold new territories to illuminate pressing realities that demand our engagement.
Traumatic Affect examines the intersection of trauma and affect theory. This collection of essays offers timely critiques of film, art, and politics, venturing into bold new territories to illuminate pressing realities that demand our engagement.
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Perspectives on Power
An Inter-Disciplinary Approach
In this interdisciplinary collection, postgraduate researchers boldly explore power relations. Twenty-one articles spanning the arts and social sciences—from human rights to literature—reveal the many similarities that exist between these distinct disciplines.
In this interdisciplinary collection, postgraduate researchers boldly explore power relations. Twenty-one articles spanning the arts and social sciences—from human rights to literature—reveal the many similarities that exist between these distinct disciplines.
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The Nordic Storyteller
Essays in Honour of Niels Ingwersen
Nineteen essays explore Nordic storytelling, from oral traditions like folklore and legend to the great literary works of authors like H. C. Andersen, Ibsen, and Isak Dinesen. The volume demonstrates the enduring power of narrative in Scandinavian life.
Nineteen essays explore Nordic storytelling, from oral traditions like folklore and legend to the great literary works of authors like H. C. Andersen, Ibsen, and Isak Dinesen. The volume demonstrates the enduring power of narrative in Scandinavian life.
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Never Mind about the Bourgeoisie
The Correspondence between Iris Murdoch and Brian Medlin 1976-1995
This collection of correspondence, covering over twenty years, records the deeply affectionate friendship between novelist Iris Murdoch and philosopher Brian Medlin. They spar over Marxism and radical politics, while he regales her with tales of Australian life.
This collection of correspondence, covering over twenty years, records the deeply affectionate friendship between novelist Iris Murdoch and philosopher Brian Medlin. They spar over Marxism and radical politics, while he regales her with tales of Australian life.
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“His Words Were Nourishment and His Counsel Food”
A Festschrift for David W. Holton
Explore the remarkable range of Greek literature, from medieval romance to postmodern fiction. These essays connect Shakespeare to Cavafy and cannibalism to dictatorships, revealing a culture thriving at the crossroads of history.
Explore the remarkable range of Greek literature, from medieval romance to postmodern fiction. These essays connect Shakespeare to Cavafy and cannibalism to dictatorships, revealing a culture thriving at the crossroads of history.
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Aesthetic Fatigue
Modernity and the Language of Waste
Why does progress feel like decline? This book uncovers the paradox at the heart of modernity, exploring the "language of waste" and the aesthetic fatigue that reshapes our world and our inner lives.
Why does progress feel like decline? This book uncovers the paradox at the heart of modernity, exploring the “language of waste” and the aesthetic fatigue that reshapes our world and our inner lives.
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Postfeminist Discourse in Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Warner’s Indigo
Ambivalence, Liminality and Plurality
A comparative study of Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Marina Warner’s rewriting, Indigo. Focusing on femininity and the other, this analysis explores ambivalence, liminality, and plurality in postfeminist and post-colonial contexts.
A comparative study of Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Marina Warner’s rewriting, Indigo. Focusing on femininity and the other, this analysis explores ambivalence, liminality, and plurality in postfeminist and post-colonial contexts.
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Mnemosyne and Mars
Artistic and Cultural Representations of Twentieth-century Europe at War
Explore the enduring cultural legacy of war through its powerful representation in literature, film, theatre, and music.
Explore the enduring cultural legacy of war through its powerful representation in literature, film, theatre, and music.
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This volume explores space as a construct of human activity. Essays cover topics from literature and film to cultural memory and cyberspace, outlining the shifts concerning existence and identity in continuously changing, transitory, in-between spaces.
This volume explores space as a construct of human activity. Essays cover topics from literature and film to cultural memory and cyberspace, outlining the shifts concerning existence and identity in continuously changing, transitory, in-between spaces.
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The Nordic literary canon is transforming. This book highlights how migration, minority, and queer literatures challenge national identity. It showcases the plurality of voices questioning the fundamentals of canon formation and Nordic self-understanding.
The Nordic literary canon is transforming. This book highlights how migration, minority, and queer literatures challenge national identity. It showcases the plurality of voices questioning the fundamentals of canon formation and Nordic self-understanding.
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Those Distant Shores
A Narrative of Human Restlessness
"Distant shores" represent the human yearning for fulfillment that makes us restless. This story follows the life-journeys of three Filipino friends and a young Spaniard whose very different paths intersect, exploring our fundamental restlessness and desire for transcendence.
“Distant shores” represent the human yearning for fulfillment that makes us restless. This story follows the life-journeys of three Filipino friends and a young Spaniard whose very different paths intersect, exploring our fundamental restlessness and desire for transcendence.
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See Shakespeare with fresh eyes. Through a “triple vision” method—as reality, poem, and play—this guide transforms Hamlet, Othello, and Macbeth into powerful tools for critical thinking in your everyday life.
See Shakespeare with fresh eyes. Through a “triple vision” method—as reality, poem, and play—this guide transforms Hamlet, Othello, and Macbeth into powerful tools for critical thinking in your everyday life.
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Reconsidering Shakespeare’s ‘Lateness’
Studies in the Last Plays
This book reconsiders Shakespeare’s “lateness” by analyzing his last plays. It reveals a pattern of steady artistic development, arguing that his final works show a continuation of his sustained professional energy and ongoing self-challenge.
This book reconsiders Shakespeare’s “lateness” by analyzing his last plays. It reveals a pattern of steady artistic development, arguing that his final works show a continuation of his sustained professional energy and ongoing self-challenge.
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Telling and Re-telling Stories
Studies on Literary Adaptation to Film
The contributions brought together here offer a comprehensive and authoritative study of literary adaptation to film, providing valuable study cases which suggest both the continuity and variety of adaptation theories.
The contributions brought together here offer a comprehensive and authoritative study of literary adaptation to film, providing valuable study cases which suggest both the continuity and variety of adaptation theories.
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That Elusive Fountain of Wisdom
A Tale of the Human Thirst for Knowledge
In the university town of Leuven, Belgium, visiting scholars pursue their personal and academic objectives. What starts out as an academic sojourn becomes a life-changing experience as their paths cross and they learn about each other, themselves, and life itself.
In the university town of Leuven, Belgium, visiting scholars pursue their personal and academic objectives. What starts out as an academic sojourn becomes a life-changing experience as their paths cross and they learn about each other, themselves, and life itself.
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This book revisits images of the Balkans in twentieth-century travel writing, mirroring the region's turbulent changes. It explores divergent and often contradictory views on the region’s path to reconciling its unique heritage with a European identity.
This book revisits images of the Balkans in twentieth-century travel writing, mirroring the region’s turbulent changes. It explores divergent and often contradictory views on the region’s path to reconciling its unique heritage with a European identity.
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Jamoussi explores two distinctive aspects of the allegorical stories of Theodore Francis Powys which are generally overlooked by his critics, namely supernatural visitors and animal symbolism, showing that they deserve close attention when discussing the writer’s work.
Jamoussi explores two distinctive aspects of the allegorical stories of Theodore Francis Powys which are generally overlooked by his critics, namely supernatural visitors and animal symbolism, showing that they deserve close attention when discussing the writer’s work.
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Gayatri Spivak
Deconstruction and the Ethics of Postcolonial Literary Interpretation
This compelling critical work explains the notoriously difficult theories of Gayatri Spivak. It is an in-depth study of her ethics of postcolonial interpretation, analyzing her readings of canonical texts to reveal new tools for interpreting the “wholly Other.”
This compelling critical work explains the notoriously difficult theories of Gayatri Spivak. It is an in-depth study of her ethics of postcolonial interpretation, analyzing her readings of canonical texts to reveal new tools for interpreting the “wholly Other.”
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A New Theory of Mind
The Theory of Narrative Thought
This book presents a unique way of understanding how humans think. It argues that narratives are the natural mode of thinking, that the “urge” to think narratively reflects known neurological processes and enables us to transcend our evolutionary limits and shape our own futures.
This book presents a unique way of understanding how humans think. It argues that narratives are the natural mode of thinking, that the “urge” to think narratively reflects known neurological processes and enables us to transcend our evolutionary limits and shape our own futures.
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Which Face of Witch
Self-Representations of Women as Witches in Works of Contemporary British Women Writers
Once a feared figure on the edge of society, the witch has been reclaimed by women as a feminist icon. This study investigates how contemporary British writers like Iris Murdoch, Jeanette Winterson, and Angela Carter interpret this ancient figure in creative ways.
Once a feared figure on the edge of society, the witch has been reclaimed by women as a feminist icon. This study investigates how contemporary British writers like Iris Murdoch, Jeanette Winterson, and Angela Carter interpret this ancient figure in creative ways.
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