The idea of light and darkness is one of the central ideas of the Symbolist movement, which emphasises contrasts. The contributors here present a range of studies that provide a detailed understanding of this notion and a variety of its Symbolist interpretations.
Constructing a System of Irregularities
Chee Lay Tan investigates the poetics of three renowned contemporary Chinese poets—Bei Dao, Yang Lian and Duoduo—exiled from China after the 1989 Tiananmen student movement. The author constructs a hermeneutical system that examines the irregularities and polysemy of these poets.
Fundamental Shakespeare
This volume sheds fresh light on, and offers new insights to, a wide range of topics including politics, psychology and discourse, by discussing the work of Shakespeare from an Eastern perspective.
Critical Times, Critical Thoughts
Despite the visibility of the Greek crisis, the media represents only the views of politicians and bureaucrats, leaving the voice of artists unheard. These specially commissioned essays by major Greek writers offer new insights into the crisis, and its causes and ramifications.
This collection of essays focuses on Anglo-American modernist fiction, considering it in the instances in which it transcends itself, moving towards postmodernist self-irony. It follows how these modernist authors’ perspectives on literature evolved with the changing world.
Culture-blind Shakespeare
This collection of essays offers a plethora of responses to Shakespeare by both Western and Eastern critics, indicating that the Bard crosses all nationalities and deserves to be defined as a global writer.
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.
Ekphrasis in American Poetry
Providing a sample of the chronological range and stylistic variety of poetry that engages with visual art, this volume shows how ekphrasis has been a part of American poetry from its inception, and will be of interest to scholars of both literature and art.
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..
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.