Social Sciences

Literature against Paralysis in Joyce and His Counterparts

The Other Dubliners

Edited By: Márcia Lemos

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Dublin has inspired many literary masters, including James Joyce. This collection of essays on Irish writers analyses how their literature disrupts paralysis and entropy, making sense of our human “chaosmos” by juxtaposing local and universal concerns.

Literature and Catholicism in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Edited By: David Torevell

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This volume investigates how literary texts reflect a Catholic philosophy of life. It demonstrates how literature, by capturing the imagination, evokes human experience related to a Catholic understanding of life.

Literature and Ethics

From the Green Knight to the Dark Knight

Edited By: Steve Brie, William T. Rossiter

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This volume examines the crucial relationship between literature and ethics from the late medieval period to the present day. It focuses on instruction, judgement, and justice across a range of periods, texts, and genres to illustrate this relationship.

Literature and Geography

The Writing of Space throughout History

Edited By: Emmanuelle Peraldo

£57.99

Space has now replaced time as the main category of literary analysis, and is considered to be a central metaphor and topos. As such, this book examines the cross-fertilization of geography and literature as disciplines, languages and methodologies.

Literature and Image in the Long Nineteenth Century

Speaking Picture and Silent Text

Edited By: Amina Alyal

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This book explores how word and image worked together, negotiated, and competed in nineteenth-century pictures, poetry, and fiction. It covers the Pre-Raphaelites’ fusion of text and image and the tensions between writer and artist in book illustration.

Literature and Politics

Pushing the World in Certain Directions

Edited By: Peter Marks

£39.99

George Orwell argued writers want to change the world. This collection of new work by scholars explores political literature over the last century, from The Communist Manifesto to Oryx and Crake, showing its continuing ability to inform, enrage and engage.

Literature and Psychology

Writing, Trauma and the Self

Edited By: Önder Çakırtaş

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This study explores how psychological messages are portrayed and interpreted in writing. It analyzes the interaction between text and reader, with emphasis on emotion, identity, and trauma, offering an in-depth look at psychology and literature.

Literature and Sensation

Edited By: Anthony Uhlmann

£44.99

Literature has always treated the sensational, but it is also intricately connected with sensation in ways that are less understood. This book offers detailed readings of literature according to the sensations they represent, incite, or evoke in us.

Literature and the Arts since the 1960s

Protest, Identity and the Imagination

Edited By: Jorge Almeida e Pinho, Márcia Lemos

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This collection of essays explores the imaginative wake of the rebellious late 1960s. Focusing on the awakening moment of May 1968, it discusses the impact of the era's challenges to power and its rich consequences for literature and the arts.

This collection of essays explores the imaginative wake of the rebellious late 1960s. Focusing on the awakening moment of May 1968, it discusses the impact of the era’s challenges to power and its rich consequences for literature and the arts.

Literature and the Great War

The Fronts of Writing

By: Giovanni Capecchi

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This book traces an overall picture of the literature born from the Great War. Focused on Italy, but rich in European references, it is a journey through history and the human soul, between hopes and fears, from the eve of war to the trenches and the return home.

Literature and the Japanese War of Aggression against China

Investigations and Criticisms

By: Xiangyuan Wang

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This book defines “Invasion Literature,” revealing the pivotal role of Japanese writing in the war against China. It traces the genre’s origins, key authors, and post-war legacy, giving vital attention to powerful but long-neglected literary works.

Literature and the Monarchy

The Traditional and the Modern Concept of the Office of Poet Laureate of England

By: Ewa Panecka

£44.99

This book explores the Poet Laureateship from the Restoration to today, revealing the symbolic link it forges between literature, the Monarchy, and national identity.

Literature as Translation/Translation as Literature

Edited By: Christopher Conti, James Gourley

£44.99

Literature and translation are creative acts of interpretation. This volume explores their shared identity, looking at how an expanded idea of translation illuminates intercultural communication and resists the systematizing imperatives of globalization.

Literature in Exile

Emigrants' Fiction 20th Century Experience

Edited By: Irma Ratiani

£63.99

This conference proceedings provides the first in-depth analysis of the different angles of the problem of emigrant writing. It deals with such problems as the fate of writers opposing different political regimes and the place of such fiction within national literatures.

Literature in Society

Edited By: Regina Rudaitytė

£44.99

Does literature merely reflect society, or does it create and transform reality? Is it a tool of social power, or a source of pleasure? The essays in this volume explore the complex relations between literature and society from diverse angles and eras.

Literature of New York

Edited By: Sabrina Fuchs-Abrams

£34.99

This collection of critical essays examines New York through its literature, exploring the city's contradictions: possibility and self-realization versus corruption and despair. The literature of New York is as complex and creative as the City itself.

This collection of critical essays examines New York through its literature, exploring the city’s contradictions: possibility and self-realization versus corruption and despair. The literature of New York is as complex and creative as the City itself.

Literature, Geography, Translation

Studies in World Writing

Edited By: Stefan Helgesson

£39.99

This volume connects world literature, postcolonial, and translation studies. It approaches translation as a distinct practice that connects literatures, challenging global theory by insisting on the specificity of place and the resistance to translatibility.

Literature, History, Choice

The Principle of Alternative History in Literature (S.Y. Agnon, The City with All That is Therein)

By: Hillel Weiss

£49.99

This study offers a new theory of alternative history. Through a key work by Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon, it reveals this principle is not just a genre, but fundamental to the very act of reading—shaping plot, character, and imagination.

Literature, Parasitism, and Science

The Untold Worms of Stoker, Stevenson, and Doyle

By: Michael Wainwright

From £36.99

This book considers how parasitic worms molded the imaginations of Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Arthur Conan Doyle. Breaking the taboo surrounding parasitism, it reveals how classic literature owes much to the emerging science of parasitology.

Literature, Performance, and Somaesthetics

Studies in Agency and Embodiment

Edited By: Katarzyna Lisowska, Jarosław Woźniak

£61.99

These essays view textual and extra-textual worlds as an intimate continuum. Drawing from philosophical somaesthetics and performance studies, they explore the agency of the embodied self, examining literary characters, canons, and reception on a physical, visceral level.

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