Truth to Power
How can scholars penetrate the corporate media? This collection of articles explores the role of the intellectual in a society where privately owned media dominates public discourse. Never have their opinions been more crucial to the public good.
Twain’s Omissions
Mark Twain utilized a unique literary device by omitting crucial information to create narrative gaps. The essays in this collection explore these omissions in his greatest works, revealing overlooked information ironically generated by what he left out.
Two Questers in the Twentieth-century North Africa
This unique exploration of Paul Bowles and Ibrahim Alkoni reveals timely insights into the relationship between the West and the Orient. An original work, it challenges existing scholarship and is a valuable contribution to comparative and postcolonial literature.
Ulysses Quotīdiānus
George presents a multi-pronged inverse historical analysis of Joyce’s high-modernist magnum opus Ulysses, foregrounding the historicity of its unapologetic subject matter – the quotidian.
Un-Australian Fictions
Un-Australian Fictions analyses literary works from 1988-2008 that challenge the national ethos and mythology. These texts reflect the destabilisation of once certain borders of Australianness, asking what it means to be Australian in a new millennium.
Uncertain Justice
Il giallo, Italy’s crime genre, confronts uncomfortable truths about the nation. Uncertain Justice explores how contemporary noir debates unresolved history, the problematic family, and a flawed justice system, exposing injustice through the power of the word.
Uncovering Caledonia
Uncover the burning cultural issues of modern Scotland from a non-native point of view. This book offers insight through the analysis of Scottish folk tales, legends, literature, and film, appealing to both scholars and the general reader.
Understanding Anne Enright is an introduction to one of the most original contemporary Irish writers. It analyses the evolution of themes and forms in her work, particularly her treatment of the corporeality of women’s experiences and the embodied language of her fiction.
Understanding Institutionalized Education
This book opposes defining schools solely by their effectivity. It defends the school as a place that enables young people to become sociable and as a place of self-education, stressing the importance of teachers and curricula for creating social cohesion.
Understanding Mīmāṃsā
This text explains the extended meaning known as Vakyartha according to the Prabhakara school of Purva Mimamsa, the ancient Indian theory of meaning. It discusses Expectation, Merit and Juxtaposition, recognised as the causes of deriving the meanings of words and sentences.
Ungrateful Daughters
Has the third wave of feminism spawned a literary movement? This book analyzes the fiction, memoirs, and anthologies of third wave writers like Rebecca Walker and Michelle Tea, defining a unique “third wave sensibility” and asking: does literary success help women’s liberation?
Unity in Diversity, Volume 1
How is identity formed by culture and society? This collection of essays by multicultural scholars explores issues of difference, otherness, inclusion, and multiple ethnic, cultural, and gender identities from literary, social, and historical perspectives.
Unsettling Stories
The first study of postcolonialism and the short story composite, this book considers how the form expresses writing on settler terrain. Uniquely comparing American, Canadian, and Australian literature, it explores difficult affiliations to place, home, and nation.
This captivating study unveils William Faulkner’s narrative prowess. It explores his innovative use of multiple perspectives and unique voices to craft complex worlds, offering an exhilarating glimpse into the storytelling universe of one of literature’s greatest visionaries.
Urban Monstrosities
The contributors here show how artists and writers across the past two hundred years figure the monster as a barometer of changing urban patterns. Here, monstrosity becomes the herald of embryonic social forms and marginalized populations in portrayals of cities across media.
Vanishing Voices
This first study bringing together Hopkins, Eliot, and Thomas explores silence in their poetry. Situated at the crossroads of poetics, philosophy, and theology, it shows how the poets sought a new language to talk about the Ineffable God and one’s experience of the divine.
Vendetta
This volume provides a riveting account of revenge as a muse in modern literature. It analyzes Hispanic, Italian, and French texts, exploring chivalric avenges, codes of honor, and the patient craftiness of women in a unique collection of topics.
Vergil’s Eclogues
In his Eclogues, Vergil introduced the pastoral genre to Latin literature. This book shows his dialogue with the earlier Greek and Latin tradition is not merely typical of his time, but a dynamic literary method used to define the character of each poem.
Victorian Fiction as a Bildungsroman
This book shows that the Victorian Bildungsroman has a unique development history and a thematic and narrative pattern. It details this tradition’s entrance into Victorian literature, scrutinizing novels to question whether their perspectives fit the shape of the genre.
Victorian Murderesses
Bulamur investigates the politics of female violence in four novels of the Victorian period, demonstrating how legal and even medical discourses endorsed Victorian domestic ideology and tackling the question of female agency.