Narrative Framing in Contemporary American Novels
Studniarz studies several doubly-mediated texts published 1968-2014, including John Gardner’s “The King’s Indian” and Paul Auster’s “Travels in the Scriptorium”. He sparks the revival of interest in fictions in parentheses, showing the need for research into more recent novels.
Narrative is the Essence of History
The historical novel was once admired, then disparaged by critics, though it always remained popular. Now, it is again receiving critical praise. What is the essence of historical fiction? Why is it such a resilient genre? What is its future?
Historicizing Fiction/Fictionalizing History
A unique comparative study of Umberto Eco and Orhan Pamuk. This book uses their historical novels to examine fictional depictions of reality, exploring how the text confronts a world of facts and how this affects the autonomy of the fictional space.
Kokborok Literature from Tripura
This study delves into the folktales and literature of the Borok tribe, revealing their struggle for cultural identity. Writers draw on myths and folklore to challenge mainstream stereotypes and reclaim a heritage shaped by cultural domination and conflict.
This monograph draws on structural issues underlying the on-going dispute between China and Japan concerning the Diaoyu/Diaoyutai Islands, along with the concomitant, multifaceted challenges that need to be investigated, in order to provide insights into Sino-Japanese relations.
This multifaceted study of Toni Morrison’s fiction investigates racism and dismemberment from historical, psychological, and cultural perspectives. It likens racism’s impact to the splitting of bodies and traumatic memories to offer a new analysis of her work.
Understanding Mīmāṃsā
This text explains the extended meaning known as Vakyartha according to the Prabhakara school of Purva Mimamsa, the ancient Indian theory of meaning. It discusses Expectation, Merit and Juxtaposition, recognised as the causes of deriving the meanings of words and sentences.
Passion and Precision
These essays bring passionate and precise attention to ten major poets from the fourteenth and twentieth centuries. The collection explores English and Irish writers from Chaucer and the Pearl-poet to T. S. Eliot, Yeats, and Seamus Heaney.
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.
Carver Across the Curriculum
Carver Across the Curriculum presents innovative, interdisciplinary approaches to teaching Raymond Carver’s work. Drawing on international scholars, this collection is a guide and inspiration for instructors, offering new insights into his fiction and poetry.
Essays by leading authorities chart Byron’s life and writings in London, revealing him as one of English poetry’s leading urban writers. Chapters explore the stage, boxing, and women writers, with many referencing his descriptions of the capital in Don Juan.
Transmedia Storytelling
This book charts Pemberley Digital’s transmedia adaptations of classic literature, interrogating their relationship with consumer culture. While appearing feminist, their narratives expose anxieties about unstable gender roles and financial vulnerability in the digital age.
Raimondi presents a linguistic analysis of a group of modern narratives written by Piedmontese authors. The novels and short stories examined are notable for the way they move between various idioms—Standard Italian, regional vernaculars, English and pastiches.
Images in Words
This compendium of William Mallinson’s poetry and prose is a vehicle to demonstrate that only history—in its purest form, the past—exists. It briefly evaluates the circumstances that led to each poem and story but avoids analysis, stressing the importance of emotion in reading.
Animal Narratives and Culture
Barcz’s monograph explains how realism is a narration that tests nonhuman vulnerable experience. The first part gives examples of realism’s redefinition in trauma studies, the second probes what is added to the narrative by literature, and the third analyses cultural texts.
This volume explores Robert Louis Stevenson’s connection to Europe, revealing how French culture shaped his achievements. It explains his influence on writers like Proust and Calvino and why he remained an admired model for Europeans.
A Fred Will Reader samples writings from poetry to philosophy. Naming the world, Will says, is half the world. The other half is supplied by the reader. By reading each other globally, we can learn to reconstruct the broken totality of the human condition.
Liminal Dickens
This collection of essays cast new light on some surprisingly neglected areas of Dickens’s writings, namely the rites of passage represented by such transitional moments and ceremonies as birth/christenings, weddings/marriages, and death.
A new approach to culture relates personality to the genesis of myths and religions. Cultures, like man, pass through phases from childhood to old age. From sacred tales to modern myths like Superman, these stories provide meaning and motivation for human behavior.
How do our identities and values change as places themselves are transformed? This collection brings together scholars from a range of disciplines, each shedding light on how place is both a transforming subject and a transformed object.
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