How do readers make sense of Hemingway’s stories? With reserved narrators and laconic dialogs, his texts seem to say little, yet they capture our emotions. This book proposes a cognitively informed model of reading to discover what lies beneath the surface of his iceberg.
The problems in Shakespeare’s plays mirror those modern business leaders encounter. While today’s leaders are equipped with better tools, they may lack the moral strength found in these classics. This book delineates leadership and management theories through the Bard’s plays.
From Colonialism to the Contemporary
This selection of essays highlights key shifts in ideology found in world children’s literature. It traces the transformative and intertextual nature of these texts, revealing that this genre is subject to the same ideologies as other literature.
This book introduces “postcolonial soliloquies” as a new way to analyze West African literature. Using the theory of “dialogue” to explore history, culture, and identity, it shows how the novels of T. Obinkaram Echewa redraw the boundaries of colonial history.
Margaret Atwood’s Dystopian Fiction
Unpacking themes of science, gender, and faith in Atwood’s dystopias, this study reveals their startling relevance. It frames her novels within the urgent social, cultural, and political questions of our contemporary world, connecting her fiction to our reality.
Mapping Cultural Identities and Intersections
This book applies imagology to film, art, and narratives to explore identity construction. Through interdisciplinary approaches, it examines cultural and ethnic identities—the self and the other—with a focus on literary works as they are translated from one culture to another.
A Reading of Virgil’s Aeneid Book 2
For students and the general reader, this book offers a detailed literary analysis of Virgil’s Aeneid 2, one of the most famous parts of the poem. It enhances critical appreciation and enjoyment, making the epic come alive with exercises and topics to extend engagement.
T. S. Eliot’s famous poetry expresses not a rejection of faith, but a struggle with it. This book explores how he and Michelangelo wrestled with the highest meanings of existence, seeking to express a modernist view of mystical awe—the experience of God.
The Language of Literature and its Meaning
Exploring how the language of literature and its meaning have been dealt with in both Indian and Western aesthetic thinking, Shrawan focuses on the intersections between the theories of vakrokti and Russian formalism, and those between dhvani and deconstruction.
This is the first critical analysis of the physician as detective. Exploring the similarity between a medical “case study” and a mystery, this book reviews major authors from R. Austin Freeman to Patricia Cornwell. It will appeal to mystery fans and medical professionals alike.
Recent Scholarship on Japan
This collection of cutting-edge scholarship surveys Japanese literature from classical to contemporary. It explores works from Heian-era female authors to Haruki Murakami, relating them to Japanese society, the global context, and the vital role of translation.
A Cartographic Journey of Race, Gender and Power
This book explores how spatial borders are social constructs used to define hierarchies of race, gender, and power. Through literary narratives from East and West, it follows voices crossing these boundaries to envision a new model for a diverse global identity.
John Dos Passos
These essays explore Dos Passos’s writings through the lens of biography, aesthetics, and social critique. They examine his innovative literary techniques and his status as a towering figure of American Modernism who chronicled an era that shattered the ‘American Dream’.
Selected Studies on Genre in Middle Eastern Literatures
These 12 case studies by experts in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish literature offer new insights into the intellectual universe of the Middle East. Spanning genres from classical poetry and epics to travelogues and novels, this book creates a new comparative framework.
Jamesian Cultural Anxiety in the East and West
This volume explores the world that shaped Henry James’s work through themes of cultural anxiety. Each chapter offers a new way of reading his work to generate insights, establish intercultural understandings, and define the Jamesian worldview as universal.
Intersectionality and decolonisation are prominent themes in contemporary British crime fiction. This book examines representations of race, class, sexuality, and gender, arguing that the genre is a site where urgent social questions are debated and representation is explored.
This book explores the relationship between humanity and nature in classic eco-science fiction. It challenges the idea that human-centeredness is the sole cause of environmental catastrophe, examining the factors that lead to disaster and the solutions the novels may offer.
This lucid account of J. M. Coetzee’s South African career provides an inside view of apartheid madness. Linking his nonfictional thought with his fiction, it suggests the insanity of apartheid lies in the social deformation and pathological attachments it encourages.
Sacred and Immoral
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.
Baltic Postcolonial Narratives
This book explores postcolonialism’s difficult entry into the Baltic literary domain. It provides timely insights by analyzing Lithuania’s best postcolonial novels from the last decade of the Soviet period and the more recent post-Soviet era.
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