The Worlds of Elias Canetti
The essays gathered here challenge conventional wisdom about Nobel laureate Elias Canetti. This volume introduces us to a Canetti we have not yet known, one who belongs to the twenty-first century, and opens up new areas to scholarly investigation.
Postmodernism and After
This collection of essays reflects on developments in literature pointing beyond postmodernism. Diagnosing its exhaustion, these articles trace a return to traditional concepts and invite a reconsideration of truth and meaning in our new literary age.
This book is a study of ideologies and conflicts related to Nation and Identity in contemporary English literature. It explores the individual’s pursuit of identity amid nationalist conflicts, racial confrontations, and postcolonial legacies.
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.
Mapping Appetite
This collection of case studies explores the representation of food in cultural texts, from post-colonial fiction to magazines and cookbooks. The essays show how food narratives reveal crucial issues of gender, nation, race, and power in contemporary culture.
Francophone Women Coming of Age
These essays explore growing up female in male-dominated Francophone cultures. Spanning Africa, Europe, and North America, the works analyze conflicts of culture and family, sharing a common search for identity and liberation through writing.
The Gothic rewrites the past through nostalgia and perversion. This collection examines how novels, films, and music use this transgressive drive to break down boundaries between past and present, norm and deviation, and other and self.
Studies in Irreversibility
This collection argues that the difference between irreversible and reversible phenomena is underappreciated. Contributors from literature, art, history, and ethics use irreversibility as a key to interpreting culture, outlining a new paradigm for cultural studies.
Reacting to The Da Vinci Code, scholars debate the feminist challenge to patriarchal authority and the textual construction of meaning. These essays examine resistance to the sacred feminine in religious, cultural, and literary histories.