Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
Muslim Writing, Writing Muslimness in Europe: Transcultural Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Carmen Zamorano Llena, Billy Gray, Carolina León Vegas, Carles Magrinyà Badiella
September 25, 2025
Throughout the first two decades of the twenty-first century the so-called “Muslim question” has intermittently, though persistently, taken centre stage in Western media and political discourses. In terms of culture within the European context, there is also a substantial body of literature that ...
Catching Time: Temporality, Interaction, and Cognition in the Novel
1st Edition
By Isabelle Wentworth
July 30, 2025
'Time travels in divers paces with divers people.' Shakespeare’s oft-quoted line contains a hidden ambiguity: not only do individual people experience time differently, but time travels in diverse paces when we are with diverse persons. The line articulates a contemporary understanding of ...
Queer Reading Practices and Sexology in Fin-de-Siècle Literature: Wilde, Stenbock, Prime-Stevenson
1st Edition
By Zsolt Bojti
July 28, 2025
This book scrutinises the production and transnational distribution of sexological knowledge at the turn of the century. The works of three transnationally mobile authors are in the focus: The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890/1891) and Teleny (1893) by, and attributed to, Oscar Wilde; ‘The True Story ...
Reading Wayde Compton: Geohistorical (Re)Constructions of Black Vancouver
1st Edition
By Fernando Pérez-García
June 29, 2025
This book is a comprehensive analysis of the literary oeuvre of Wayde Compton, examining the interplay between modes of literary production, urban commemoration, the formation of Black racial identity on the margins of the diaspora, and coalitions of solidarity with other communities in Vancouver. ...
The Fool and the Clown in Western Culture and Literature: Homo Insipiens
1st Edition
By Svetozar Poštić
June 29, 2025
The Fool and the Clown in Western Culture and Literature: Homo Insipiens is a fascinating description of these two perennial figures in European and North American history, folklore, theater, literature, arts, and popular culture. The first part of the book separates them into ten different ...
Literary and Cultural Representations of the Hinterlands
1st Edition
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By Ewa Kębłowska-Ławniczak, Dominika Ferens, Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice, Marcin Tereszewski
May 05, 2025
This interdisciplinary collection explores the diverse relationships between the frequently ignored and inherently ambiguous hinterlands and their manifestations in literature and culture. Moving away from perspectives that emphasize the marginality of hinterlands and present them as devoid of ...
Poetry and Culture in Britain, Canada and the United States: 20th and Early 21st Century Literature
1st Edition
By Jonathan Locke Hart
March 17, 2025
This book is about poetry and the poetic in the cultures and literatures of Britain, Canada and the United States. Close reading is the primary method. The figures discussed in the book were born from 1911 to the post-war years after 1945. The volume proceeds from Marshall McLuhan as a poet through...
Myths of the Golden Age in European Culture
1st Edition
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By Stephen G. Nichols, Claudia Olk
December 27, 2024
Hesiod’s concept of a Golden Age, together with analogous myths – Babylonian, Egyptian, Hebrew, etc. – speak to the psychic appeal, perhaps even deep-rooted need, for humans to conceive alternate worlds free from the anguish, toil, and dangers of the one they inhabit. Classical poets and ...
Transcending Postmodernism: Performatism 2.0
1st Edition
By Raoul Eshelman
December 02, 2024
Transcending Postmodernism: Performatism 2.0 is an ambitious attempt to expand and deepen the theory of performatism. Its main thesis is that, beginning in the mid-1990s, the strategies and norms of postmodernism have been displaced by ones that force readers or viewers to experience effects of ...
Conquest and Reclamation in the Transatlantic Imagination: The Amerindian Fictions of Henty, Haggard, and Griffith
1st Edition
By Luz Elena Ramirez
November 28, 2024
This book examines the imperial spectacles and startling reversals of fortune related in William H. Prescott's History of the Conquest of Mexico (1843) and History of the Conquest of Peru (1847), and investigates how these accounts inspired fictional adaptations by George A. ...
Bangladeshi Novels in English: Cultural Contact and Migrant Subjectivity
1st Edition
By Umme Salma
November 08, 2024
Bangladeshi Novels in English: Cultural Contact and Migrant Subjectivity is the first comprehensive study of Bangladeshi migration and diasporas through eight seminal Bangladeshi novels in English from the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries: Adib Khan’s Seasonal Adjustments and Spiral Road, ...
Detective Fiction on the Case of Community: The Mystery at the Heart of the Modern
1st Edition
By Devin Fromm
October 25, 2024
Detective Fiction on the Case of Community uses one of the most popular forms of modern literature to examine one of modernity’s most trenchant problems. The project rests on the argument that detective fiction emerges specifically from an awareness of the stress that modernization puts on the ...