Warwick Series in the Humanities
Homecoming Veterans in Literature and Culture: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
1st Edition
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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
1st Edition
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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
1st Edition
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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
1st Edition
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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
1st Edition
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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 ...
Classicism and Romanticism in Italian Literature: Leopardi's Discourse on Romantic Poetry
1st Edition
By Fabio A Camilletti
January 20, 2016
In 1816 a violent literary quarrel engulfed Bourbon Restoration Italy. On one side the Romantics wanted an opening up of Italian culture towards Europe, and on the other the Classicists favoured an inward-looking Italy. Giacomo Leopardi wrote a Discourse of an Italian on Romantic Poetry aiming to ...
Gender and Space in Rural Britain, 1840–1920
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By Charlotte Mathieson, Gemma Goodman
January 20, 2016
The essays in this collection focus on the ways rural life was represented during the long nineteenth century. Contributors bring expertise from the fields of history, geography and literature to present an interdisciplinary study of the interplay between rural space and gender during a time of ...
Rome, Postmodern Narratives of a Cityscape
1st Edition
By Dom Holdaway
January 20, 2016
Until the mid-twentieth century the Western imagination seemed intent on viewing Rome purely in terms of its classical past or as a stop on the Grand Tour. This collection of essays looks at Rome from a postmodern perspective, including analysis of the city's 'unmappability', its fragmented ...