Two of the world’s most wicked writers, decadent poets Viereck and Crowley, formed an alliance in 1915 New York. Viereck was the editor of a pro-German magazine; Crowley was his new hire. But was Crowley a British secret agent sent to spy on the German network?
This collection revises subjectivity with postmodern theories, introducing a dynamic subjectivity to minority and colonial/postcolonial texts. Exploring intersubjectivity as a hybrid and flexible space, contributors discuss how different subjectivities negotiate and interrelate.
Modern Messages from Green Gables on Loving, Living and Learning
Many know Anne of Green Gables, but few know its author, L.M. Montgomery—a feminist far ahead of her time. In this book, a revivified Anne and her husband Gilbert explore their creator’s life, revealing how her challenges and triumphs offer messages for our own lives today.
This volume explores space, place, and hybridity in today’s multicultural societies. It considers how art, film, and literature can reinvigorate representations of modern nations and celebrate their dynamic communities without relegating minorities to the margin.
Contemporary Children’s and Young Adult Literature
This book explores how contemporary children’s and young adult novels write back to history and oppression. Analyzing works from across the globe, it investigates how these narratives raise vital questions about identity, power, language, and social justice.
This book explores dystopian British views of Serbia as a travel destination from 1717 to 1911. Travel accounts depict a politically unstable region on the fringe of the Orient, demonising Serbia’s national struggle while shedding light on its national awakening.
The Graveyard in Literature
This volume explores how cultural texts use the graveyard as a liminal space to challenge social values and articulate new perspectives. Immersed between life and death, where traditional certainties are suspended, new models for human interaction can be formulated.
This is the first work comparing Margaret Drabble with key Iraqi novelists, including Ahmed Saadawi. It analyses physical and soft violence in their novels, arguing they are interwoven and that soft violence can cause as much psychological and literal damage as hard violence.
Black American Women’s Voices and Transgenerational Trauma
This book explores neo-slave narratives by black American women, showing how authors write through the transgenerational trauma of slavery. It demonstrates how traumatic memory is inscribed on the female body and how storytelling enables black women’s voices to be heard.
Now more than ever, we must reconsider what borders and frontiers mean. This collection analyzes their representation in literature, philosophy, and cinema, drawing on global examples to find what unites us in our shared humanity, rather than what divides us.
This book provides critical research on the representation of ideologies in electronic media for children and young adults, including TV cartoons, animation, videos, and computer games. It will appeal to anyone interested in cultural studies, sociology, and ideology.
Theoretically Speaking about Literature
This book offers a practical insight into critical interpretation. By discussing a single text from the perspective of eighteen distinct theories, it makes complex ideas accessible and gives readers a comprehensible guide to the beliefs that underpin criticism.
Diversity in Narration and Writing
These essays take an international perspective on the novel, deepening understanding of classic authors like Flaubert and Joyce. It also offers a profound contribution to scholarship, covering Hungarian and Central European writers that have not been discussed in English before.
This study explores the work of feminist authors who responded to the Italian Risorgimento (1799-1861). Through novels, poetry, and political analyses, women from Mary Shelley to Cristina Belgiojoso championed democracy, civic justice, and gender equality.
This book is a literary journey through Salman Rushdie’s cross-pollinated gardens, where reading is a quest. It explores his sorcery with language, the dark season of the fatwa, the lush sensuality of his novels, and his Quichotte, a Don Quijote for the internet age.
This is the first book to apply expressive writing to L2 academic writing. Its techniques are particularly helpful for L2 students who have difficulty expressing themselves in English. The book will appeal to lecturers, linguists, psychologists, and teachers.
Conrad and the Being of the World
Why does Joseph Conrad’s universe feel so opaque and withdrawn? This unique study uses Object-Oriented Ontology to explore what lies hidden in his work, shedding new light on Conrad and articulating a metaphysical structure for his world, the universe, and ourselves.
This book draws parallels between different cultures. It explores how culture plays an important role in the development of personality, examines how behavior has a positive and negative effect, and interrogates how literature portrays the reality of a culture.
This book explores the cultural field of poiesis—creativity in art, science, and philosophy. It connects the creative act to metaphysical spirituality and the sacred, revealing it as a synthesis of opposites like intuition and reason that is fundamental to human existence.
This volume challenges how we think about pain and pleasure. It explores their literary expression as potent forces that shape both writer and reader, forging new meaning for these experiences in a world defined by the dynamics of power.