Radical Contra-Diction
This first book-length study of Coleridge’s reactions to the French Revolution examines his trajectory from ‘radical’ to ‘conservative’, and challenges the very notion that these labels can be applied to him.
Probing the Skin
Across art, literature, and medicine, these essays read the skin—as a sensual surface, a racial marker, and a canvas for tattoos, scars, and memory.
New Literature in Chinese
Shoutong discusses the connotations of the concept of “Modern Chinese Literature”, as well as its basic categories. He argues that such fields as “World Chinese Literature” should unite in the area of “New Literature in Chinese”, as they share a language, culture and tradition.
Experiencing Gender
This publication investigates the concept of gender in an international context. Focusing on various critical approaches, it explores how gender identities are shaped by socio-cultural factors, and provides a map of how gender experiences are represented in the arts.
Given that correctly understanding the nature of perception will help to shed light on many other central philosophical issues, this book discusses the idea that our perceptual experiences represent the world as being a certain way, and so have representational content.
Eiss explores how Eliot and Michelangelo struggle with the highest meanings of life in their artistic work and express what Rudolph Otto designates the mysterium tremendum. He reveals how Elliott struggled with his Christianity and turned to Michelangelo’s similar endeavour.
Telling Tales
This volume explores how stories in Spanish fiction and film shape the nation’s identity. Examining the impact of events like the Civil War and Franco’s dictatorship, it reveals the close bond between real-world events and fictional stories.
This volume presents the state of the art of philosophical practice worldwide from the perspectives of leading philosophical practitioners, and demonstrates the breadth of philosophical practice and its various methodological directions..
Essays on Unfamiliar Travel-Writing
Butler presents essays on travel-narratives, including writing by people who travelled from the East to the West, as well as those going the usual way. He gives, in an informal style, discussions about identity, otherness and stereotyping as they are displayed in the narratives.
The German Historical Novel since the Eighteenth Century
This collection looks at aesthetic and thematic continuities, as well as changes in the historical genre in Germany from the late 18th century to the present. It also gives insights into the novels’ political and socio-cultural implications and studies several historical novels.
A selection from the unpublished notebooks of Northrop Frye, Canada’s greatest literary critic. These insightful, startling, and unguarded passages reveal his fertile mind at work and showcase the seeds of the ideas he developed in his books and essays.
This book examines the diverse literature and culture of Newfoundland and Labrador. Scholars and writers explore its unique context across fiction, poetry, and filmmaking, bringing Indigenous histories to the foreground and encouraging international dialogue.
This book studies the fictional representation of circles of artists and intellectuals, and other diverse associations that share the common trait of being small and subversive collectives, showing how such communities represent the “other side” of official institutions.
Post Celtic Tiger Ireland
This anthology provides the reader with an exploration of various artistic works which grew out of the post-Celtic Tiger era in Ireland. In assessing the aftermath of this period and its impact on Ireland today, the contributors also allude to its future evolution and trends.
Social Networks in the Long Eighteenth Century
This collection uses social network analysis and digital humanities to re-imagine the 18th century as a networked community. It explores how clubs and associations formed public opinion, revealing surprising parallels to today’s digital public sphere.
C. S. Lewis and the Inklings
The Inklings’ views on the negative impacts of technology and their resolution through fellowship and faith. Essays demonstrate how their literary craft can enchant readers, empowering them with a keener spiritual vision to tackle present concerns.
This book deals with travel narratives on the North from 1784 to 1897, exploring how writers used the idea of a Nordic utopia to address Britishness, gender, and the racial discourse on nationhood.
This volume represents a meeting ground for historians, philologists, and scholars of social science, to discuss places and roles of laughter in history, in historical narratives, and in cultural anthropology from prehistory to the present.
Studies in Philology
This volume offers a holistic view of Philology, showing the thin line that separates Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies. It is a miscellanea of studies on Modern Language research, focusing on Spanish, English and French.
Equestrian Rebels
This collection of essays commemorates the first centenary of Mariano Azuela’s Los de abajo, and traces its impact on twentieth-century autobiographies, memoirs and, more specifically, on the Novel of the Mexican Revolution.