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Sacred and Immoral

On the Writings of Chuck Palahniuk

Edited By: Jeffrey A. Sartain

£39.99

This is the first scholarly anthology on Chuck Palahniuk’s work beyond Fight Club. It provides the most comprehensive resource to date, featuring new critical analyses, the most complete bibliographies, and a new interview with the author himself.

Coleridge’s Chrysopoetics

Alchemy, Authorship and Imagination

By: Kiran Toor

£39.99

This book assesses alchemy in Coleridge’s conception of authorship. It argues that for Coleridge, the author must become other to become himself. This alchemical view demonstrates a unique link between plagiarism and creativity, redefining originality itself.

Forces of Nature

Natural(-izing) Gender and Gender(-ing) Nature in the Discourses of Western Culture

Edited By: Bernadette H. Hyner

£39.99

Forces of Nature investigates the relationship between the natural world and gender and sexuality. This collection explores how nature has shaped our understandings of femininity, masculinity, and homosexuality, revealing an intimate, inseparable human connection to nature.

Fabricating the Body

Effects of Obligation and Exchange in Contemporary Discourse

Edited By: Sarah Himsel Burcon

£39.99

Fabricating the Body draws on disability, gender, and psychoanalytic studies to situate the body as a site of identity, obligation, and exchange. It stimulates conversation on "indebted" bodies, marginalization, and the ethical costs of societal progress.

Fabricating the Body draws on disability, gender, and psychoanalytic studies to situate the body as a site of identity, obligation, and exchange. It stimulates conversation on “indebted” bodies, marginalization, and the ethical costs of societal progress.

Hilarion’s Asse

Laurence Sterne and Humour

Edited By: Anne Bandry-Scubbi, Peter de Voogd

£39.99

Nine authors unlock Laurence Sterne's kaleidoscopic humour. This volume explores its many facets—the genial, bawdy, sentimental, philosophical, irreverent, and ludicrous—sending the classic text spiralling right off the page.

Nine authors unlock Laurence Sterne’s kaleidoscopic humour. This volume explores its many facets—the genial, bawdy, sentimental, philosophical, irreverent, and ludicrous—sending the classic text spiralling right off the page.

Transgression, Stylistic Variation and Narrative Discourse in the Twentieth Century Novel

By: Marie-Anne Visoi

£39.99

This book explores transgression as a literary theme in twentieth-century novels. Analyzing fictional acts from murder to adultery, it reveals how narrative strategies like "unreliable narrators" challenge readers to question social norms and moral values.

This book explores transgression as a literary theme in twentieth-century novels. Analyzing fictional acts from murder to adultery, it reveals how narrative strategies like “unreliable narrators” challenge readers to question social norms and moral values.

Spanishness in the Spanish Novel and Cinema of the 20th – 21st Century

Edited By: Cristina Sánchez-Conejero

£39.99

An exploration of the multiple meanings of “Spanishness” in 20th-21st century fiction. This book calls for a re-evaluation of what being Spanish means, analyzing themes like immigration, nationalism, and memory to dispel stereotypical notions of Spain.

Winifred Holtby, “A Woman In Her Time”

Critical Essays

Edited By: Lisa Regan

£39.99

This collection of critical essays sheds new light on Winifred Holtby, author of South Riding and a key figure of interwar Britain. It explores her novels, journalism, and passionate support for feminism, peace, and racial equality.

Literatures in the Digital Era

Theory and Praxis

Edited By: Dolores Romero, Amelia Sanz

£39.99

This book analyses the impacts of digital technology on literature. It explores how computer resources are used to preserve and study texts, the birth of a new digital literature, and the emergence of new literary theories pointing to a new humanism.

Literatures of War

Edited By: Eve Patten, Richard Pine

£39.99

War is a terrible disaster, yet it is a universal characteristic of human existence. Why? This multi-disciplinary collection of essays explores the transformation of the war experience into chronicles of hope and despair, from Herodotus up to the present day.

Transnational England

Home and Abroad, 1780-1860

Edited By: Monika Class, Terry F. Robinson

£39.99

Transnational England sheds light on how England’s encounters with other cultures shaped its identity. Through literature from 1780-1860, these essays reveal how global connections simultaneously fostered and challenged the sovereignty of the English nation.

Not Far From Here

The Paris Symposium on Raymond Carver

Edited By: Vasiliki Fachard, Robert Miltner

£39.99

Hailed as the “American Chekhov,” Raymond Carver’s work has international appeal, yet critical attention has been mostly US-based. This collection of essays by international scholars provides readers with new and multinational insights into his poetry and fiction.

Dancing the Tao

Le Guin and Moral Development

By: Sandra J. Lindow

£39.99

This book takes an original approach to Ursula K. Le Guin’s work, linking her Taoist upbringing to moral development. It emphasizes her depiction of child abuse and its aftereffects, exploring how morality develops through self-awareness and voice.

Language, Lineage and Location in the Works of Osbern Bokenham

By: Alice Spencer

£39.99

The first study of Osbern Bokenham since the discovery of his lost magnum opus. It reveals how Bokenham negotiates his marginality to claim poetic authority, countering patriarchal history by asserting an alternative, spiritual matrilineage.

Restless Travellers

Quests for Identity across European and American Time and Space

Edited By: Antonio José Miralles Pérez

£39.99

This book explores literature of travel and identity. From Britain's imperial age to North America, it examines writers who narrate journeys into distant lands, the female self, and the quest for belonging in the face of empire, race, and migration.

This book explores literature of travel and identity. From Britain’s imperial age to North America, it examines writers who narrate journeys into distant lands, the female self, and the quest for belonging in the face of empire, race, and migration.

Glocal Ireland

Current Perspectives on Literature and the Visual Arts

Edited By: Juan F. Elices Agudo, Marisol Morales Ladrón Soledad

£39.99

Ireland's transformation from the Celtic Tiger's boom to its dramatic downfall has redefined the nation's identity. This volume explores the interplay of the local and the global in contemporary Irish literature, culture, and cinema.

Ireland’s transformation from the Celtic Tiger’s boom to its dramatic downfall has redefined the nation’s identity. This volume explores the interplay of the local and the global in contemporary Irish literature, culture, and cinema.

The Poetics of Passage

Christa Wolf, Time, and Narrative

By: Heike Polster

£39.99

The Poetics of Passage discusses Christa Wolf’s guiding concerns: the experience and representation of time and history. This study outlines her critical engagement with memory and the writing process, formulating a poetics of contemporaneity.

Antillanité, créolité, littérature-monde

Edited By: Isabelle Constant, Kahiudi C. Mabana

£39.99

Explore how the movements of antillanité, créolité, and littérature-monde break from the literary center to forge authentic identities and a new genre.

The Global Literary Field

Edited By: Anna Guttman, Michel Hockx, George Paizis

£39.99

This collection of articles explores globalization's impact on literary production. Featuring non-Eurocentric perspectives, it comments on today's literary market, highlighting unexpected global exchanges and challenging the ongoing debate on “world literature”.

This collection of articles explores globalization’s impact on literary production. Featuring non-Eurocentric perspectives, it comments on today’s literary market, highlighting unexpected global exchanges and challenging the ongoing debate on “world literature”.

Chronology of Portuguese Literature

1128-2000

By: Rogério Miguel Puga

£39.99

The first Chronology of Portuguese Literature published in any language, this book presents a year-by-year list of significant works from 1128 to 2000. It documents the development of Portuguese letters and includes the birth and death dates of each author.