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With the Face of the Enemy - Arab American Literature Since 9/11

Terrorist, Ölscheich, voll verschleierte Frau - Stereotype über Araber sind seit dem 11. September in den US-Medien und der Populärkultur...

Ethnic Modernism and the Making of US Literary Multiculturalism

Ethnic Modernism and the Making of US Multiculturalism in which ethnic literary modernists of the 1930s play a crucial role. Focusing on ...

Teaching the Global South - Pedagogical Approaches to a Decolonizing Curriculum in Literary and Cultural Studies

Ezra Pound and the Spanish World

This collection gathers for the first time criticism on Ezra Pounds lifelong involvement with Spain and Spanish culture, from his early v...

Global Trespassers - Sanctioned Mobility in Contemporary Culture

Global Trespassers explores contemporary representations of minoritised migrants permitted to remain in the Global North. With reference ...

The Collected Poems of Henry Kirke White

This is the first scholarly edition of one of the best-selling poets of the nineteenth century -- a poet influential on Keats, Shelley an...

Recipes and Book Culture in England, 1350-1600

Thirteen essays providing new perspectives on medieval and early modern recipes - short instructional texts on a variety of topics includ...

The Entremés for Performance - Translations of One-Act Plays from Golden Age Spain

These comic interludes highlight the politics, social commentary, and brilliant comedy of Spain's classical theater period. With many app...

Out of This World: Gnostic Encounters in Modern French Literature and Thought

How to escape this world, this body? How can one invent a world parallel to this one? How do language and literature strive for a heterot...

David Peace

Providing the first analysis of screen and stage adaptations of Peace's writings, and featuring an exclusive interview with the author, t...

Revisionaries - What We Can Learn from the Lost, Unfinished, and Just Plain Bad Work of Great Writers

"An exploration of the rejected drafts and abandoned projects of famous authors that dispels the myth of the creative genius and offers l...

Treading Paths - Lemko Literature in the Years 1848-1918

The monograph is a presentation of the writings of the stateless people called Lemkos-Rusyns, from the earliest awareness of their own cu...

Postmodernizing the Holocaust - A Comparative Study of Chosen Novels

Marta Tomczok presents all Polish postmodern novels about the Holocaust, starting with "The First Splendor" by Leopold Buczkowski and end...

Always Connect - Transdisciplinarity and Intercultural Contact in Literary Discourse

Literature and its interactions with other disciplines such as history, philosophy, anthropology, the visual and multimedia arts, social ...

Literature at the End of History - Returning Politics to Culture

On the cultural backwardness of the West

Baltic Peripeties - The Power of Narration and the Making of Regions

In Aristotle's Poetics, the well-constructed turning point, peripeteia, makes a story by unfolding its tragic - or, more broadly, literar...

Literature, Translation, and the Politics of Meaning - Polish, American, and German Literary Traditions

This book deals mostly with American avant-garde literature of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and the present-day practice and...

Intra/Sections - Towards Post-Anthropocentric Concepts of Multiplicity

The global socio-ecological crisis is making it increasingly clear that 'we' do not only act in interpersonal social and political relati...

Adventure at Arms - On the Narrative Formation of Violence

Adventure fiction suggests that social conflicts can be displaced from the centre to the periphery of culture in order to be settled ther...

Paris, a New Rome

However shared the Roman inheritance may be, it hardly unifies. Which Rome is the model, the Republic or the Empire? The Rome of imperial...

Medievalisms in a Global Age

Discusses contemporary medievalism in studies ranging from Brazil to West Africa, from Manila to New York.

Finding Philosophers in Global Fiction - Redefining the Philosopher in Multi-Cultural Contexts

"The academic discipline of philosophy may tell us, too rigidly, what a philosopher is or should be; but fictional narration often uphold...

Freudians and Schadenfreudians - Loving and Hating Psychoanalysis

"Focusing on ten key writers and scholars who either passionately loved or gleefully loathed Freud, this book represents Freud's wide leg...

New Global Realism - Thinking Totality in the Contemporary Novel

"A comparative study of contemporary realist novels that employ totality as a method and a formal principle to represent the social and e...

Metamodernism and the Postdigital in the Contemporary Novel

"Drawing on a range of authors that includes Zadie Smith, Sally Rooney, Ben Lerner, Ali Smith, Tom McCarthy, Duncan Speakman and Kate Pul...

Herman Melville and Neurodiversity, or Why Hunt Difference with Harpoons? - A Primitivist Phenomenology

Focusing on the difference between lower-level perceptual processes in the "neural unconscious" and higher-order thought in the frontal l...

George Herbert and the Business of Practical Piety - Nudging Towards God

George Herbert and the Business of Practical Piety employs contemporary nudge theory to illuminate the religious writing of George Herber...

Old English Studies and Its Scandinavian Practitioners - Nationalism, Aesthetics, and Spirituality in the Nordic Countries, 1733-2023

An account of the Scandinavian contributions to the field of Old English studies from the eighteenth century onwards.

1650-1850 - Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 29) Volume 29

Exploratory and energetically analytical, 1650–1850 ranges over the expanse of long eighteenth-century culture. Welcoming research on all...

Prosaic Times - Time as Subject in Wordsworth, Richardson, Flaubert, and Melville

"By capturing the temporal dimensions in Wordsworth's The Prelude, Richardson's Clarissa, Flaubert's "Un Coeur Simple," and Melville's Mo...

Re-Embodying and Rethinking Greek and Roman Drama in Modern Times

Bridging disciplinary boundaries, this volume explores the reception of Greek and Roman drama in a variety of times and places, and by a ...

Making World Literature - Actors, Institutions, and Networks in the United States Since 1890

From universities to governments, the Big Five publishers to Amazon, the influence of institutions abounds in US publishing. A diverse ar...

Alternative Cornwalls - Literature and the Invention of Place

This book takes a fresh look at the representation of Cornwall in literature. It offers new readings of familiar texts, and re-inserts li...

From Paragraphs to Plots - Architecture of the Novel

"From Paragraphs to Plots continues the larger project that Matthew Clark began in How to Reread a Novel of examining the techniques thro...

Geographies of Travel - Impressions of America in the Long Nineteenth Century

A Companion to Literary Theory

Introduces readers to the modes of literary and cultural study of the previous half century A Companion to Literary Theory is a collectio...

Identity in Northeast Indian Literature - Rereading Select Writings from Meghalaya

This book provides an in-depth analysis and critical examination of the representation of ethnic, sexual, cultural and individual identit...

Police Writing and Radical Modernisation in the Porfiriato and the Conservative Republic (1870s-1910s).

This book explores the process of modernisation during the Porfiriato and the Conservative republic from the perspective of one of its mo...

Consistent Democracy - The "Woman Question" and Self-Government in Nineteenth-Century America

Consistent Democracy offers an intellectual history of democracy and the so-called woman question from the 1830s through the 1890s. It sh...

Cartographies of Disappearance - Vestiges of Everyday Life in Literature

Cartographies of Disappearance sheds light on representations of everyday life in an Iberian context.

Inventions of a Present - The Novel in its Crisis of Globalization

The giant of literary theory analyzes the novel: Conrad, James, Atwood, Oe, Mailer, Grass, Grossman, Garcia Márquez, Gibson, Knausgaard a...

The Routledge Introduction to American Comics

This accessible, up-to-date textbook covers the history of comics as it developed in the U.S. in all of its forms: political cartoons and...

The Gutenberg Parenthesis - The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet

PROSE AWARDS MEDIA ADN CULTURAL STUDIES FINALIST 2024 The Gutenberg Parenthesis traces the epoch of print from its fateful beginnings to ...

An Introduction to Quantitative Text Analysis for Linguistics - Reproducible Research Using R

An Introduction to Quantitative Text Analysis for Linguistics equips students and researchers with the essential concepts and practical p...

The Salvation of Faust - His Faustian Life

A.N. Wilson is a noted and prize winning biographer with studies of Tolstoy, Dickens, Milton and C.S. Lewis to his credit among others. H...

The Memory of Architecture in Edith Wharton's Travel Writings

It focuses on Wharton's symbolic representations of architecture in her travel writings. It shows how allusions to travel writing and art...

The Creative Writing Compass

The Creative Writing Compass presents a dynamic navigational instrument for creative writers, providing a method for developing and advan...

The Hidden D. H. Lawrence - Unmasking a Lyrical Genius

The Hidden D. H. Lawrence is a new study of the psychological and literary aspects of a great writer's lyrical genius.

Texts and Contexts - The Roman Writers and Their Audience

First published in 1979, Texts and Contexts identifies those classics of Roman literature which deserve to survive because of their intri...

Into Another Mould - Change and Continuity in English Culture 1625-1700

Although 1660 to some extent marks a turning point, this comprehensive book (originally published in 1992) demonstrates an underlying con...

Method and Postmethod in Language Teaching

Method and Postmethod in Language Teaching is both an accessible and engaging introductory textbook and a handy reference guide that expl...

Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1850s

"Examining the literature of a profoundly influential decade by some of the century's major writers, this volume brings new primary mater...

Love in the Time of Self-Publishing - How Romance Writers Changed the Rules of Writing and Success

Lessons in creative labor, solidarity, and inclusion under precarious economic conditionsAs writers, musicians, online content creators, ...

Rediscovering Ancient Egyptian Literature through Arabic Poetics

"This book is the first of its kind to thoroughly and systematically compare ancient Egyptian and Arabic literary devices. Hany Rashwan c...

Pulcinella's Brood - Popular Culture in the Enlightenment

This book traces the transnational arc of the Neapolitan clown Pulcinella in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, exploring how this...

Political Prayer in Nineteenth-Century American Literature - Petitioning Women

Political Prayer in Nineteenth-Century American Literature explores how white American women writers translated petitioning -- a politica...

Eighteenth-Century Transplantations - New Literary Lives, Forms and Contexts

Eighteenth-Century Transplantations places the existence of this transcultural circulation at the centre of attention and presents its pr...

Expressive Therapeutic Writing - Guiding Transformation and Restorative Care through Intermodal Arts, Word by Word

This book brings engagement and conversation to a cross-pollination of creative and expressive writing and multi-modal art forms.

The Collected Poems of J. R. R. Tolkien

World first publication of the collected poems of J.R.R. Tolkien, spanning almost seven decades of the author's life and presented in an ...

European Peripheries in the Postcolonial Literary Imagination

This book explores the meanings of European peripheries in postcolonial literary imagination. Acknowledging the unbalanced power structur...