An accessible and comprehensive analysis of J.H. Prynne, a leading figure in contemporary poetry. This study analyses the nexus between Prynne’s political thought and linguistic innovation, providing a crucial pathway into his most challenging and complex volumes.
This book proposes adopting African Indigenous Knowledge Systems (AIKS) for Africa’s renewal and freedom. It offers solutions to the continent’s chronic problems from within, balancing short-term thinking with long-term planning for future generations.
Hamlet’s Ghost
Haunted by the mysterious deaths of two wives, Duke Vespasiano Gonzaga forged a new life by building Sabbioneta, the first ideal city. A true Renaissance man, his story reveals a fascinating link to Shakespeare’s Hamlet and the emergence of our modern consciousness.
Eva Figes’ Writings
Offering an overview of the life and literary career of the prolific writer Eva Figes, this book places her extensive production within the various literary movements that shaped the previous century, using the theoretical background provided by ethics and trauma studies.
The Nordic literary canon is transforming. This book highlights how migration, minority, and queer literatures challenge national identity. It showcases the plurality of voices questioning the fundamentals of canon formation and Nordic self-understanding.
This edited volume offers an overview of the complexity of the visual rhetoric of violence, discussing both fictional works, including films and novels, and non-fictional genres, such as news media, showing how such expressions of violence have assumed diverse narrative forms.
Defoe and the Dutch
This first book to examine the presence of references to, and influences of, the Dutch in Defoe’s novels investigates the perceptions of English readers of fiction of the Dutch, in an era during which two Anglo-Dutch wars were fought and a Dutch king took over the English throne.
For centuries, critics have failed to define Menippean satire. This book reveals a potent new method: the satire does what a Cynic would. This approach explains the fluid, polymorphous form in any medium and ends with a litmus test for its detection.
The Chinese Language Demystified explores the unique features of Mandarin Chinese. While discussing aspects that make it seem ‘mysterious,’ the book investigates how it is used by the Chinese people despite its lack of formal grammatical structure.
Chowaniec offers the first systematic overview of Poland’s literary and cultural environment since 1989 from the perspective of women’s writing, surveying the political and social transformations of this period through a close reading of prominent Polish female novelists.
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.
This study focuses on the lyric and narrative verse of a problematic poet who might have served as a missing link between Keats and Tennyson, an area which is under-represented in current scholarship on Beddoes.
Minding the Gap
This edited volume discusses writing non–fiction, media and genre, and addresses elements of identity, culture and linguistics in fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction as contributors consider the gaps that exist between the self as writer, and as reader.
W.B. Yeats and Indian Thought
Dabić investigates the impact of Indian philosophy and religion on Yeats’s poetic and dramatic work, exploring its development from his early impressionistic work to his more mature incorporation of such ideas into his writing.
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.
Graham Greene’s Narrative in Spain
This monograph details the literary contact between Graham Greene and Franco’s Spain, providing an overview of the roles played by national literary criticism and the book industry in the reception of his works, and the influence exerted by the regime in the publishing process.
Mood Spectrum in Graham Greene
Edwards examines the pathology of bipolar disorder through symptoms uniquely expressed in Greene’s novels, an area often ignored by critics, despite Greene often projecting his illness into character-constructs that share his condition, offering a case study of manic depression.
Contested Identities
These essays address the force of literary texts on problematic identities. They explore texts that travel across borders, discovering in difference the very condition for a useful, if paradoxical, sense of personal or textual coherence.
The Industrial Novels
Providing an historical and theoretical framework for reading three important novels by Charlotte Brontë, Dickens and Gaskell, Balkaya analyses these authors’ strategies for radical reform through improvements in the living and working conditions of the working class.
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..