Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
Erich Auerbach and the Secular World: Literary Criticism, Historiography, Post-Colonial Theory and Beyond
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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
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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
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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 ...
Lu Xun’s Affirmative Biopolitics: Nothingness and the Power of Self-Transcendence
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By Wenjin Cui
September 25, 2023
This book explores an extraordinary case of affirmative biopolitics through the study of Lu Xun (1881–1936), the most prominent cultural figure of modern China. Diverging from the Enlightenment-humanist framework in reference to which Lu Xun is commonly interpreted, it demonstrates how his thinking...
(In)digestion in Literature and Film: A Transcultural Approach
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By Serena J. Rivera, Niki Kiviat
May 31, 2023
(In)digestion in Literature and Film: A Transcultural Approach is a collection of essays spanning diverse geographic areas such as Brazil, Eastern Europe, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, South Korea, Taiwan and the United States. Despite this geographic variance, they all question disordered...
Gender and Memory in the Postmillennial Novels of Almudena Grandes
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By Lorraine Ryan
May 31, 2023
Almudena Grandes is one of Spain´s foremost women´s writers, having sold over 1.1 million copies of her episodios de una guerra interminable, her six-volume series that ranges from the Spanish Civil War to the democratic period; the myriad prizes awarded to her, 18 in total, confirm her ...
Ghostly Encounters: Cultural and Imaginary Representations of the Spectral from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
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By Mark Sandy, Stefano Cracolici
May 31, 2023
This volume reflects on the ghostly and its varied manifestations including the uncanny, the revenant, the echo, and other forms of artistic allusion. These unsettling presences of the spectral other occur in literature, history, film, and art. The ghostly (and its artistic, literary, filmic, ...
Queer Women in Modern Spanish Literature: Activism, Sexuality, and the Otherness of the 'Chicas Raras'
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By Ana I. Simón-Alegre, Lou Charnon-Deutsch
May 31, 2023
This original collection of essays explores the work and life choices of Spanish women who, through their writings and social activism, addressed social justice, religious dogmatism, the educational system, gender inequality, and tensions in female subjectivity. It brings together writers who are ...
Recycling Virginia Woolf in Contemporary Art and Literature
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By Monica Latham, Caroline Marie, Anne-Laure Rigeade
May 31, 2023
Recycling Virginia Woolf in Contemporary Art and Literature exam>ines Woolf’s life and oeuvre from the perspective of recycling and pro>vides answers to essential questions such as: Why do artists and writers recycle Woolf’s texts and introduce them into new circuits of meaning? Why do they ...
Trans(in)fusion: Reflections for Critical Thinking
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By Ranjan Ghosh
May 31, 2023
Trans(in)fusion is a highly original book that tries to radicalize our ways of ‘critical thinking’ across disciplines. The book, refreshingly, brings into play critical philosophy, literary criticism, studies in mathematics, physics, chemistry and developmental biology, and various other ...
Telling Details: Chinese Fiction, World Literature
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By Jiwei Xiao
March 10, 2022
What is a detail? How is it different from xijie, its Chinese counterpart? Is "reading for the details" fundamentally different from "reading for the plot"? Did xijie xiaoshuo, the Chinese novel of details, give the world its earliest form of modern fiction? Inspired by studies of vision and ...
Double Trouble: The Doppelgänger from Romanticism to Postmodernism
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By Eran Dorfman
December 13, 2021
The double, doppelgänger, is mostly understood as a peculiar figure that emerged in nineteenth-century Romantic and gothic literature. Far from being a merely esoteric entity, however, this book argues that the double, although it mostly goes unnoticed, is a widespread phenomenon that has ...