Warwick Series in the Humanities
Homecoming Veterans in Literature and Culture: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
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By Niels Boender
March 27, 2025
From Homer’s Odyssey itself, the return of the veteran to his or her home has been a central trope of the literary canon. Huge bureaucracies and a panoply of global organisations are deeply concerned with facilitating a painless return to stable homes. This book presents ‘homecoming’ as an ...
Crisis and Body Politics in Twenty-First Century Cultural Production: Territorial Bodies
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By Charlotte Spear, Madeleine Sinclair
January 31, 2025
The twenty-first century has been deemed the “Age of Crisis”. We are witnessing the catastrophic unfolding of environmental crisis, financial crisis, pandemic and conflict. But are we to understand these crises as new phenomena? Is their seemingly simultaneous existence purely coincidental? Or ...
New Interdisciplinary Perspectives On and Beyond Autonomy
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By Christopher Watkin, Oliver Davis
August 26, 2024
What does ‘autonomy’ mean today? Is the Enlightenment understanding of autonomy still relevant for contemporary challenges? How have the limits and possibilities of autonomy been transformed by recent developments in artificial intelligence and big data, political pressures, intersecting ...
Allegory Studies: Contemporary Perspectives
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By Vladimir Brljak
May 31, 2023
Allegory Studies: Contemporary Perspectives collects some of the most compelling current work in allegory studies, by an international team of researchers in a range of disciplines and specializations in the humanities and cognitive sciences. The volume tracks the subject across disciplinary, ...
Interdisciplinary Essays on Cannibalism: Bites Here and There
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By Giulia Champion
May 31, 2023
Interdisciplinary Essays on Cannibalism: Bites Here and There brings together a range of works exploring the evolution of cannibalism, literally and metaphorically, diachronically and across disciplines. This edited collection aims to promote a conversation on the evolution and the different uses ...
Literature and Event: Twenty-First Century Reformulations
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By Mantra Mukim, Derek Attridge
May 31, 2023
If "event" is a proper name we reserve for monumental changes, crises, transitions and ruptures that are by their very nature unnameable or unthinkable, then this volume is an attempt to set up an encounter between such eventhood as it comes to have a bearing on literary works and the work of ...
A Quest for Remembrance: The Underworld in Classical and Modern Literature
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By Madeleine Scherer, Rachel Falconer
December 13, 2021
A Quest for Remembrance: The Underworld in Classical and Modern literature brings together a range of arguments exploring connections between the descent into the underworld, also known as katabasis, and various forms of memory. Its chapters investigate the uses of the descent topos both in ...
Archaeology of the Unconscious: Italian Perspectives
1st Edition
By Alessandra Aloisi, Fabio Camilletti
December 13, 2021
In reconstructing the birth and development of the notion of ‘unconscious’, historians of ideas have heavily relied on the Freudian concept of Unbewussten, retroactively projecting the psychoanalytic unconscious over a constellation of diverse cultural experiences taking place in the eighteenth and...
Beyond the Rhetoric of Pain
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By Berenike Jung, Stella Bruzzi
June 30, 2021
Beyond the Rhetoric of Pain presents a fresh, interdisciplinary approach to the current research on pain from a variety of scholarly angles within Literature, Film and Media, Game Studies, Art History, Hispanic Studies, Memory Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Philosophy, and Law. Through the ...
Mood: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, New Theories
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By Birgit Breidenbach, Thomas Docherty
June 30, 2021
Mood is a phenomenon whose study is inherently interdisciplinary. While it has remained resistant to theorisation, it nonetheless has a substantial influence on art, politics and society. Since its practical omnipresence in every-day life renders it one of the most significant aspects of affect ...
Prohibitions and Psychoactive Substances in History, Culture and Theory: Prohibitions and Psychoactive Substances
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By Susannah Wilson
June 30, 2021
This volume is a new contribution to the dynamic scholarly discussion of the control and regulation of psychoactive substances in culture and society. Offering new critical reflections on the reasons prohibitions have historically arisen, the book analyses "prohibitions" as ambivalent and tenuous ...
Food, Drink, and the Written Word in Britain, 1820-1945
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By Mary Addyman, Laura Wood, Christopher Yiannitsaros
December 12, 2019
This volume explores the intersection between culinary history and literature across a period of profound social and cultural change. Split into four parts, essays focus on the relationships between eating and childhood reading in the Victorian era, the role of hunger in depicting social ...