The Age of Dystopia
This book examines the recent popularity of the dystopian genre in literature and film, connecting contemporary manifestations of dystopia to cultural trends and the implications of technological and social changes for the individual and society as a whole.
Colonial Psychosocial
With blistering rhetoric, William Lane mesmerised colonial Australia, playing on its fears of disease, deformity and invasion. This book follows his life—from dark cities to a failed utopia—to trace how he shaped a lasting legacy of exclusion.
ELT Revisited
Comprising papers from a conference for Czech teachers of English, this collection discusses a variety of English as a Foreign Language-related topics, including insights on classroom practice. It is relevant to any context where English is taught as a foreign or second language.
The Wild Pig
In war-torn Algeria, a narrator travels a land of stunning beauty, meditating on good and evil. As a primordial wildness wells within him, he chooses solitude. But will he be able to avoid confronting the wild beast in its lair?
Science, Gender and History
This study offers fresh readings of Mary Shelley and Margaret Atwood, comparing Frankenstein and The Last Man with The Handmaid’s Tale and Oryx and Crake to reveal an ongoing critique of oppressive science, gender ideologies, and environmental ruin.
Imagining Home
Tracing the nomadic lives of two exiled writers, this book redefines Romanian and American identity. It offers a crucial new context for Eastern European immigrant narratives.
Labels and Locations
This book critically examines identity, gender, family, and class in the short narratives of South Asian diaspora writers in Australia. By focusing on this much-neglected group, it fills a crucial gap in the broader critical rubric of diaspora studies.
Mathew presents six essays, each of which is an invitation to the reader to form an opinion on what care happens to be. Each chapter looks at care in a different setting, and a variety of psychoanalytic frameworks are employed on which to hang arguments.
This book reveals Shakespeare as an early modern materialist inspired by Lucretius. In chapters on six important plays, it demonstrates how he writes an “atomic” poetry of joining and splitting language to explore the art of nature and the nature of art.
The House, the World, and the Theatre
Cáffaro departs from three ideologically resonant spatial metaphors to discuss key aspects of nineteenth-century literature and culture, namely the way authors used their prefaces to fashion themselves to cater to ever-expanding audiences and to the new conditions of publishing.
Fighting Cane and Canon
This book explores the persistence of Hindi poetry in Mauritius through the work of Abhimanyu Unnuth. His writing captures a postcolonial people’s reevaluation of history, labor, and identity, raising crucial questions about language and canonicity in World Literature.
Despite efforts by ethnographic museums to acknowledge contemporary cultural practices and aesthetic expressions, this book reveals how the institution of the museum as such continues to be haunted by its previous, restrictive ideas of the other while talking about the self.
Alphonse de Lamartine’s prose-poem The Stonemason of Saint Point is the story of a peasant’s life, love and faith in the hills of Burgundy. In reality, it describes Lamartine’s own search for God through threatening and godless times in his country.
Literary Hermeneutics
This book analyses the evolution of literary hermeneutics, tracing its transformation from a methodology of reading to an ontological instrument for redefining the self, highlighting its vital role in contemporary debates over interpretation.
Questions of Authority
Zouidi examines the issues of authority and authorship in William Shakespeare’s problematic masterpiece Hamlet. In doing so, he argues that the Bard seeks to eternalize himself through his play, that Hamlet dramatizes the authorial quest for sempiternity.
This collection of essays offers a theoretical overview of fantastic literature. An accessible introduction to the field, it analyzes works by authors such as H.P. Lovecraft, George R.R. Martin, and Neil Gaiman alongside world literature classics.
The Oracle of the “tiny finger snap of time”
This unique collection of essays explores the use of time in the novel. Writers analyze novels and one film within specific time cultures, covering concepts from inner, felt, and cosmic time to time running backwards, hinting at the future of the novel.
This book offers new ways of thinking about identity by analyzing embodiment in the plays of Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco and Jean-Paul Sartre. It provides a new method for analyzing how characters form, or attempt to form, their ever-changing identities.
This edited collection examines the various ways combinatory processes influence the work of the Italian author Italo Calvino. Comprising chapters by six literary scholars, it asserts that the Ligurian writer’s creativity often stems from his contemplation of literature.
Islamic Postcolonialism
This book forges a new path with Islamic postcolonialism, using a Muslim perspective to challenge colonial legacies in Western writing. It explores the construction of Muslim identity in fiction by Kureishi, Ali, Aboulela, and Rushdie.