Hermione’s bag, Nanny McPhee’s magic—all trace their lineage to Mary Poppins. The first book of its kind, this collection explores her vast legacy, tracing her iconic personality, teaching methods, and magical accessories through popular films, TV shows, and books.
This collection of 350 poems about Mark Twain explores a neglected dimension of his popular reception. Ranging from anonymous rhymes to highbrow tributes, they trace the crests in Twain’s fame over the decades, proving useful to general readers, teachers, and scholars.
Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities in the Post-Truth Era
This book dissects how post-truth operates in the public sphere and social media. It brings together research from different disciplines to reveal how each field has been affected by the post-truth era and what the intellectual reactions have been.
This collection explores how traditions shape society through movies, music, and literature. It reveals connections between culture and media that simplify our understanding of humanity, offering a guide to the evolving dimensions of African literature and popular culture.
Did Shakespeare write the 17th-century drama Thomas of Woodstock? For over 150 years, scholars have debated the question. This anthology of articles and book extracts introduces readers to both sides of this fascinating literary controversy.
A Critical Review of Contemporary Romanian Literature
This book offers insight into Romanian culture through literary criticism of its post-1989 writers. In reading these interpretations, audiences gain access to the heart of the people and understand what this enduring nation can offer the world.
Cultural and Literary Traditions in India
Indian myth is a living force. This book traces the interplay of history and orality from The Ramayana to diverse folk traditions, revealing how ancient narratives of power, gender, and identity illuminate contemporary conflicts and crises.
The Legacy of Karen Gershon
Based on private archives, this is the story of Karen Gershon, a child survivor rescued on the Kindertransport whose writing became the voice of a generation. It reveals her search for identity and home, and a family’s struggle with immigration and inherited trauma.
David Malouf’s Partnership Narratives
This profound and poetic analysis of eminent Australian writer David Malouf’s work invites the reader into his lyrical exploration of life. A groundbreaking study, it highlights his essential contribution to Australian and world literatures.
Living and Learning in Dissimilitude Without Dissonance
In an age of globalisation, being other is what we all have in common. This volume offers insights into how contemporary literature explores this paradox, revealing the underlying message: to confront otherness is to encounter ourselves in the mirror of culture.
Secretis bene uiuere siluis
Honoring Robert Maltby, this rich collection of scholarship covers Latin literature from Augustan times to the Renaissance. It offers fresh interpretations of texts, with special focus on the Corpus Tibullianum, etymology, and textual criticism. For classicists and beyond.
This book critically examines the historical views of Japanese right-wing scholars, focusing on the post-Cold War intellectual right. Using in-depth case studies, it analyzes representative figures and criticizes their viewpoints on the Japanese cultural invasion of China.
This book explores Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer’s fictional world as a lifetime battle against apartheid. A crusader for human rights, Gordimer fictionalized her activism to fight the regime’s censorship and depict the denial of basic rights to Black people.
This collection explores intercultural and transcultural studies in Bosnia and Herzegovina, showcasing contributions from local scholars across medieval, modern, and postmodern eras. It strengthens transcultural exchanges and helps navigate cultural differences in today’s world.
This study examines how 20th-century absurdist theatre reveals humanity’s angst by confronting the subconscious self with the socio-moral façade. It highlights the dramatic revolution of the mid-20th century through the plays of Beckett, Pinter, Ionesco, and others.
The Philosophy of Yoga in Contemporary American Fiction
This book unveils the mystical motifs and yoga philosophies interwoven into the narrative structures of fictions by Saul Bellow, J.D. Salinger, John Updike, and Kurt Vonnegut, opening new vistas on the interface between Eastern philosophy and Western literature.
Second-Generation Romantic Poets’ Paradoxical Approach to Women
This book examines the works of Byron, Shelley, and Keats, revealing their inconsistent attitudes towards women. Caught between their liberal views and the patriarchal norms of their age, their writing both reinforces and challenges traditional gender roles.
This book offers a bold, innovative approach to literary interpretation: the neurohermeneutics of suspicion. It illuminates the intricate bond between literature and the mind, encouraging readers to adopt a suspicious stance to unearth complex, multilayered meanings.
This survey of mediaeval texts tracks the power of the premodern mind, from Boethius to Chaucer and Dante. Exploring scorching lyric poetry, the darkness of Beowulf, and the travels of Marco Polo, it reveals the crucial role of mediaeval thought in making us who we are today.
Humour and Identity in Jewish American Fiction
This book explores the connection between humour and identity in contemporary Jewish American literature. It is a serious investigation into the strategic use of humour in identity formation, revealing the serious undertones in works that may first appear merely humorous.