Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
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 ...
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....
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 ...