Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
Language in Literature
1st Edition
By Jonathan Locke Hart
October 15, 2024
Language in Literature examines the overlap and blurring boundaries of English, comparative and world poetry and literature. Questions of language, literature, translation and creative writing are addressed as befitting an author who is a poet, literary scholar and historian. The book begins ...
Language in Colonization, Renaissance Poetry and Shakespeare: From Interpoetics to Translation
1st Edition
By Jonathan Locke Hart
September 30, 2024
Language is the central concern of this book. Colonization, poetry and Shakespeare – and the Renaissance itself – provide the examples. I concentrate on text in context, close reading, interpretation, interpoetics and translation with particular instances and works, examining matters of ...
Exploring Anne Frank and Difficult Life Stories
1st Edition
Edited
By Kirsten Kumpf Baele, Waltraud Maierhofer, Doyle Stevick
September 19, 2024
This volume, grounded in the Diary of a Young Girl and its continued appeal to readers of all ages, sees both promise in the relevance of Anne Frank’s story in the twenty‑first century, and potential for new ways of teaching her story and those of other genocides and human right violations. ...
Critical Poetics of Feminist Refusals: Voicing Dissent Across Differences
1st Edition
By Federica Bueti
August 26, 2024
Critical Poetics of Feminist Refusals renders a vivid portrait of the intergenerational and intersectional dialogue between influential feminist writers on how to say no to the conditions of oppression, exclusion, and exploitation imposed by patriarchal and systemically racist capitalist societies....
Batman and the Shadows of Modernity: A Critical Genealogy on Contemporary Hero in the Age of Nihilism
1st Edition
By Rafael Carrión-Arias
July 19, 2024
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
July 19, 2024
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
June 28, 2024
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...
The Other Orpheus: A Poetics of Modern Homosexuality
1st Edition
By Merrill Cole
June 24, 2024
First published in 2003. This volume aims to re-establish an interest in poetry by integrating questions of prosody and aesthetics with political literary inquiry. The broader theoretical goal is nothing less than a rehabilitation of the concepts of affect and imagination, though the study also ...
The Zimbabwean Maverick: Dambudzo Marechera and Utopian Thinking
1st Edition
By Shun Man Emily CHOW-QUESADA
May 27, 2024
This book seeks to unfold the complexity within the works of Dambudzo Marechera and presents scholars and readers with a way of reading his works in light of utopian thinking. Writing during a traumatic transitional period in Zimbabwe’s history, Marechera witnessed the upheavals caused by different...
Erich Auerbach and the Secular World: Literary Criticism, Historiography, Post-Colonial Theory and Beyond
1st Edition
By Jon Nixon
January 29, 2024
Auerbach was one of the foremost literary critics of the 20th century whose work has relevance within the fields of literary criticism, historiography and postcolonial theory. The opening chapter of this book explains how he understood the task of interpretation and his role as an interpreter. The ...
Living with Monsters: A Study of the Art of Characterization in Aldous Huxley’s Novels
1st Edition
By Indrani Deb
January 29, 2024
Aldous Huxley is one of the most well-known modernist intellectuals of the first half of the twentieth century, excelling in novels, essays, philosophical tracts, and poems. His novels are special in that they use a unique form – the novel of ideas – with which to satirize human nature and the ...
Trauma, Posttraumatic Growth, and World Literature: Metamorphoses and a Literary Arts Praxis
1st Edition
By Suzanne LaLonde
January 29, 2024
Pandemics, global climate chaos, worldwide migration crises? These phenomena are provoking traumatic experiences in unprecedented ways and numbers. This book is targeted for clinicians, scientists, cultural theorists, and other scholars and students of trauma studies interested in cultivating ...