Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
Serial Fiction in the Western World: History and Theory
1st Edition
Edited
By Giovanni Ragone, Antonio Rafele
February 27, 2026
This volume explores the long and intricate evolution of serial forms, presenting them as one of the cornerstones of Western culture. The first part traces the archaeology and early mainstream of serial narration: from antiquity to the medieval romance, from the first Baroque culture industry to ...
Batman and the Shadows of Modernity: A Critical Genealogy on Contemporary Hero in the Age of Nihilism
1st Edition
By Rafael Carrión-Arias
December 26, 2025
This book aims to study the Batman narrative, or Bat-narrative, from the point of view of its nodal relationship to modern narrative. To this end, it offers for the first time a new type of methodology adequate to the object, which delves both into materials scarcely studied in this context and ...
Reading Words into Worlds: Phenomenological Mimesis of Givenness in the Novel
1st Edition
By J. Clayton McReynolds
December 25, 2025
Reading Words into Worlds asks how it is that reading a novel can feel in some ways like being-in-a-world. The book explores how novels give themselves to readers in ways that mimetically resemble our phenomenological reception of given beings in reality. McReynolds refers to this process as ...
Representations of Language Learning and Literacy: How to Read Literacy Narratives
1st Edition
By Elena West
November 27, 2025
Representations of language learning and literacy, also known as “literacy narratives” are a staple of literature. They tell stories of conflict that illuminate the sociocultural dynamics whereby we learn to speak, read, and write. Yet, they tend to be read as stories about the “powers” of language...
Muslim Writing, Writing Muslimness in Europe: Transcultural Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Carmen Zamorano Llena, Billy Gray, Carolina León Vegas, Carles Magrinyà Badiella
September 24, 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 has...
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
Edited
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 ...