Memory, Narrative and Forgiveness
Drawing on South Africa’s TRC and global case studies, scholars explore the themes of memory, narrative, and forgiveness. This book analyzes the path to reconciliation and healing for societies ravaged by mass violence and unspeakable injustice.
Literature, History, Choice
This study offers a new theory of alternative history. Through a key work by Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon, it reveals this principle is not just a genre, but fundamental to the very act of reading—shaping plot, character, and imagination.
George Bellows Revisited
The artwork of one of the most important 20th-century American painters and printmakers, George Bellows, is studied in this essay collection. Innovative research is offered that probes his oeuvre from multiple viewpoints, challenging widely-held perceptions of Bellows.
Downloading the Poetic Self
An autobiography of a writer’s existence in poetry—the tracks left by a clumsy bear taming himself in public. It will light fires, inspiring you to find language as daring as your life and proving that poetry is essential to a good life.
Featuring papers from the Science Fiction Symposia, this volume demonstrate the diversity and adaptability of science fiction as a tool for asking and answering impossible questions. It explores how it challenges boundaries, whether conceptual, literary or metaphorical.
The Inside of a Shell
Worldwide specialists examine the first steps of Nobel laureate Alice Munro. This collection of essays offers new critical perspectives on her debut, Dance of the Happy Shades, revealing how these early stories foreshadow the patterns and themes of her celebrated later work.
PIERIDES IV
This volume examines Terence as both an interpreter of literary traditions and a subject of critical reception. It explores his experimental comedies, focusing on the meaning of his work in relation to his predecessors, contemporaries, and posterity.
Ireland and Dysfunction
At the intersection of cultural, literary and film studies, this compilation explores how dysfunction is tackled in Irish studies. It also investigates how mediation, managing, healing and transcending help in understanding the construction process of an Irish identity today.
Re-Entering Old Spaces
Using “old spaces” as a metaphorical tool, this book reintroduces established topics with new approaches. Contributors explore how spaces—physical, symbolic, and aesthetic—are created and recreated through writing, reflecting both their “visitors” and their “hosts.”
In a world of deepening conflict, what is solidarity today? This interdisciplinary volume analyzes the concept from philosophical, social, political, and artistic perspectives, exploring its relation to memory and inspiring readers to help victims of exclusion.
The Whirlwind of Passion
This collection of essays by distinguished scholars provides fresh insight into Shakespearean studies. It explores the Bard’s oeuvre through critical, performance, and comparative analyses, emphasizing the playwright’s relevance today.
Current Issues in Second/Foreign Language Teaching and Teacher Development
Representing presentations given at the 17th World Congress of the International Association of Applied Linguistics, the chapters here discuss issues related to second language acquisition, teaching and teacher education in a variety of contexts from around the world.
The Dan Brown Craze
Zhang and Zhu investigate why the work of Dan Brown has attained such global appeal, from a Chinese perspective, and provide a detailed exploration of his plots, characterisation, themes, and techniques.
Observing Napoleon’s march from Elba to his defeat at Waterloo was Byron’s friend J.C. Hobhouse. This book presents an essay on Byron and Napoleon, Byron’s poems, and Hobhouse’s letters and mostly unpublished diary from the thick of things in Paris.
The Reptant Eagle
Carlos Fuentes was a leading voice in Latin America’s Boom generation. The Reptant Eagle collects essays by renowned scholars that offer innovative readings of his major works and trace his contribution to the uninterrupted tradition of the art of the novel.
Recovery and Transgression
This collection is devoted to the ways in which poetic texts shape, and are shaped by, personal and collective memory. It looks at the techniques through which the past is recovered and repurposed in poetry, using poems by T.S. Eliot and Susan Howe, among others, as examples.
English Studies
This volume offers a wide range of research on English literature, including Shakespearean, Victorian, and postcolonial studies. With articles on comparative and translation studies, it serves as a fruitful reference and a guide for young academics in their studies.
Violence and Dystopia
A critical examination of imitative desire, scapegoating, and sacrifice in contemporary dystopian narratives through the lens of René Girard’s mimetic theory. It analyzes works by J.G. Ballard, Chuck Palahniuk, Margaret Atwood, and Will Self.
Ulysses Quotīdiānus
George presents a multi-pronged inverse historical analysis of Joyce’s high-modernist magnum opus Ulysses, foregrounding the historicity of its unapologetic subject matter – the quotidian.
This volume explores a multiplicity of “ways of being”, including the adoption of an ethnic position, the enactment of gender, the conception of childhood and artistic visions of urban life. It features discourses of identity and “ways of performing” identity in literature.