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 with ...
By Jonathan Locke Hart
October 11, 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, of close reading, interpretation, interpoetics and translation with particular instances and works, examining matters of ...
By Devin Fromm
October 07, 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 ...
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By Waltraud Maierhofer, Kirsten Kumpf Baele, Doyle Stevick
September 12, 2024
This volume, grounded in the “Diary of a Young Girl” and its continued appeal to readers of all ages, sees promise in the relevance of Anne Frank’s story in the 21st century, and potential for new ways of teaching her story and those of other genocides and human right violations. Drawing ...
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 ...
By Rafael Carrión-Arias
July 10, 2024
This book aims to study the Batman narrative or Bat-narrative from the point of view of its nodal relationship to modern narrative as such. 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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
By Isabelle Wentworth
March 18, 2024
'Time travels in divers paces with divers people.' Shakespeare’s oft-quoted line contains a hidden ambiguity: not only do individual people experience time differently, but time travels in diverse paces when we are with diverse persons. The line articulates a contemporary understanding of ...
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 ...
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 ...