This volume’s eight essays examine Italian narrative from the 1980s to the present, focusing on genres and trends rather than authors. It covers a wide range of themes, from detective stories to lesbian and gay writing, immigration literature, and dystopia.
Trilogies as Cultural Analysis
This book views three universal themes—sea-crossing, human-animal relations, and father-son relationships—to show how passing between worlds has become the human condition. It invites readers to re-imagine writing styles that can travel beyond our “bubbles” and gain a hearing.
These essays reinterpret the Gothic inheritance from a 21st-century perspective, a mode uniquely applicable to the frightening instability of our world. This collection explores Gothic’s contemporaneity through horror novels, cinema, poetry, music, and fan cultures.
Understanding the Newspaper Business in Nigeria
Bringing together articles on newspaper writing and reporting, this resource book sensitizes would-be journalists to the arts of reporting and writing. In addition, it exposes them to the ways in which newspaper readership can be sustained in the age of online messaging.
Death may be the “great equalizer,” but our journeys towards it are not. This interdisciplinary collection addresses the many socio-cultural inequalities surrounding death and the end of life to encourage research and action that can improve the experience for all.
Revealing the importance of valuing literature that has travelled over bodies of water, this volume emphasizes the common theme that water unites nations and their readers through literature. Topics examined range from South Africa’s ongoing crises to reinvented poetry.
What Literature Teaches in Times of Crisis
The Covid pandemic offers a new lens for old stories. This book explores how collective trauma deepens our understanding of authors like Joyce, Kafka, and Chekhov, revealing the enduring psychological power of classic literature.
Women Rewriting Boundaries
Inspired by a panel at the 2013 Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention, this compilation offers fresh insights on how to read travel writing by women. It analyzes the connections between class, gender, physicality, and sexuality as found in 19th-century literature.
The various essays collected here examine how ‘women’, across time and space, experimented with new genres or forms of expression in order to transform, question, resist or paradoxically consolidate gender discriminations and dominant ideologies in their respective societies.