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Alexander uses Julia Kristeva’s theory of abjection to examine several works by British writers from the Restoration to the Romantic era, providing a constructive perspective for thinking about literary depictions of the self-in-crisis.
Alexander uses Julia Kristeva’s theory of abjection to examine several works by British writers from the Restoration to the Romantic era, providing a constructive perspective for thinking about literary depictions of the self-in-crisis.
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Rimbaud’s provocative dictum that “I is an other” is reflected in this anthology, which discusses a wide-ranging array of twentieth-century and contemporary minority American modes of life writing with regards to identity, relationality, agency, and ethno-racial issues.
Rimbaud’s provocative dictum that “I is an other” is reflected in this anthology, which discusses a wide-ranging array of twentieth-century and contemporary minority American modes of life writing with regards to identity, relationality, agency, and ethno-racial issues.
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Death within the Text
Social, Philosophical and Aesthetic Approaches to Literature
What can we know about death? How is it socialised? How is it aesthetically shaped? This book tackles such questions, and the challenging theme of death as a whole, through the lens of literature and its connections with other fields in the humanities.
What can we know about death? How is it socialised? How is it aesthetically shaped? This book tackles such questions, and the challenging theme of death as a whole, through the lens of literature and its connections with other fields in the humanities.
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Bordered Identities in Language, Literature, and Culture
Readings on Cameroon and the Global Space
Cameroon’s complex postcolonial legacy has burdened it with a linguistic and pedagogic culture which has inhibited its national identity. The present volume reflects on this issue and serves to renegotiate its identity beyond the mega-frames of Empire.
Cameroon’s complex postcolonial legacy has burdened it with a linguistic and pedagogic culture which has inhibited its national identity. The present volume reflects on this issue and serves to renegotiate its identity beyond the mega-frames of Empire.
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Poetics of Indigenismo in Zapatista Discourse
The Mexican Revolution Revisioned through Mayan Eyes
Analysing the writings of Subcomandante Marcos and their relationship to multiple literary genres, this work shows that ,while Marcos employs the iconography of Che Guevara and Zapata et al., he also embodies the aspiration ‘to change the world without taking power’.
Analysing the writings of Subcomandante Marcos and their relationship to multiple literary genres, this work shows that ,while Marcos employs the iconography of Che Guevara and Zapata et al., he also embodies the aspiration ‘to change the world without taking power’.
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This volume continues the series project of providing interpretations of selected novels through analyses of each of its chapters. It provides in-depth explications of Austen’s text in order to illustrate its thematic complexity and model the practice of close reading.
This volume continues the series project of providing interpretations of selected novels through analyses of each of its chapters. It provides in-depth explications of Austen’s text in order to illustrate its thematic complexity and model the practice of close reading.
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Equine Fictions
Human–Horse Relationships in Twenty-First-Century Writing
This innovative volume explores the powerful human-horse bond in 21st-century fiction and autobiography from the perspectives of affect and politics. It analyzes how narratives of healing, mourning, and identity are shaped by gender and nation in contemporary writing.
This innovative volume explores the powerful human-horse bond in 21st-century fiction and autobiography from the perspectives of affect and politics. It analyzes how narratives of healing, mourning, and identity are shaped by gender and nation in contemporary writing.
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A History of Alcman’s Early Reception
Female-Voiced Nightingales
This history of Alcman’s early reception asks: Did emerging book culture kill “song culture”? Was Alcman an archetypal prototype of partheneia? This book argues the tradition of partheneia was never powerful enough, especially outside Sparta, to completely absorb the poet.
This history of Alcman’s early reception asks: Did emerging book culture kill “song culture”? Was Alcman an archetypal prototype of partheneia? This book argues the tradition of partheneia was never powerful enough, especially outside Sparta, to completely absorb the poet.
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Behind every crime novel is a family. Some are crime syndicates; others are dysfunctional, tearing themselves apart. Not everyone escapes alive. This collection of essays explores crime fiction, the family, and the disastrous impact society can have on personal relationships.
Behind every crime novel is a family. Some are crime syndicates; others are dysfunctional, tearing themselves apart. Not everyone escapes alive. This collection of essays explores crime fiction, the family, and the disastrous impact society can have on personal relationships.
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The Language of Literature and its Meaning
A Comparative Study of Indian and Western Aesthetics
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.
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.
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Containing commentaries on contemporary representations of gender and identity, the contributions here encompass readings of cinema, advertisements and literary texts and are pertinent for scholars in media studies, cultural studies, gender studies, sociology and literature.
Containing commentaries on contemporary representations of gender and identity, the contributions here encompass readings of cinema, advertisements and literary texts and are pertinent for scholars in media studies, cultural studies, gender studies, sociology and literature.
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Poetry and Philosophy as Handlung
A Tactical Sequence
Poetry and Philosophy as Handlung offers verbal “doings” where sentences show both complicity and dissonance. Through this tactical sequence, time and place emerge, capturing the era's peculiar aroma in a text that remains open to its own immediate future.
Poetry and Philosophy as Handlung offers verbal “doings” where sentences show both complicity and dissonance. Through this tactical sequence, time and place emerge, capturing the era’s peculiar aroma in a text that remains open to its own immediate future.
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Perspectives on Ecocriticism
Local Beginnings, Global Echoes
This volume gathers together papers presented at the conference “Ecocriticism in the Nordic Countries; Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow”. The chapters engage with topics such as the Anthropocene, sustainability, and civilizational critique, as well as dark ecology and animal studies.
This volume gathers together papers presented at the conference “Ecocriticism in the Nordic Countries; Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow”. The chapters engage with topics such as the Anthropocene, sustainability, and civilizational critique, as well as dark ecology and animal studies.
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Humanity at the Heart of Practice
A Study of Ethics for Health-Care Students and Practitioners
Healthcare is humans caring for other humans. This book on ethical decision-making uses humanity as its organizing structure, exploring values and theoretical ethics to resolve complex dilemmas at the beginning and end of life, and in healthcare as a business.
Healthcare is humans caring for other humans. This book on ethical decision-making uses humanity as its organizing structure, exploring values and theoretical ethics to resolve complex dilemmas at the beginning and end of life, and in healthcare as a business.
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China Beyond the Binary
Race, Gender, and the Use of Story
This book brings together Ancient Chinese stories, great novels, and modern online literature. It is a magic combination of stories and academic studies, with ideas from writers from different backgrounds, forming a picture of China and its relationship with other cultures.
This book brings together Ancient Chinese stories, great novels, and modern online literature. It is a magic combination of stories and academic studies, with ideas from writers from different backgrounds, forming a picture of China and its relationship with other cultures.
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The contributions on Lee’s work here include new interpretations from diverse critical angles, including US literary and cultural history, Southern studies, sociological theory, gender studies, stylistic analysis, translation, and pedagogy.
The contributions on Lee’s work here include new interpretations from diverse critical angles, including US literary and cultural history, Southern studies, sociological theory, gender studies, stylistic analysis, translation, and pedagogy.
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Reading Henry James in the Twenty-First Century
Heritage and Transmission
Leading scholars re-evaluate Henry James's legacy. This collection explores his influence on culture, the artists who shaped his work, and radical new readings for the 21st century. A guide to tracing his 'figure in the carpet' and understanding his continued impact today.
Leading scholars re-evaluate Henry James’s legacy. This collection explores his influence on culture, the artists who shaped his work, and radical new readings for the 21st century. A guide to tracing his ‘figure in the carpet’ and understanding his continued impact today.
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This accessible guide explores literary theory through Marina Warner’s fiction, covering pressing issues like colonialism, displacement, and women's oppression. Blending close textual analysis with jargon-free overviews, it is ideal for students, researchers, and teachers.
This accessible guide explores literary theory through Marina Warner’s fiction, covering pressing issues like colonialism, displacement, and women’s oppression. Blending close textual analysis with jargon-free overviews, it is ideal for students, researchers, and teachers.
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Rediscover a forgotten classic. Maxwell Gray’s bestselling 1886 novel, The Silence of Dean Maitland, combines evocative English landscape, in the mould of Thomas Hardy, with a gripping plot of crime and moral choice. This edition includes scholarly articles on its adaptations.
Rediscover a forgotten classic. Maxwell Gray’s bestselling 1886 novel, The Silence of Dean Maitland, combines evocative English landscape, in the mould of Thomas Hardy, with a gripping plot of crime and moral choice. This edition includes scholarly articles on its adaptations.
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Race Theory and Literature
Dissemination, Criticism, Intersections
This volume explores the unique interplay between literature and racial theories from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Spanning diverse genres and traditions, it features reflections on authors such as Kafka, Kleist, Voltaire, and Coleridge.
This volume explores the unique interplay between literature and racial theories from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Spanning diverse genres and traditions, it features reflections on authors such as Kafka, Kleist, Voltaire, and Coleridge.
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