Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
Voice and Song in Contemporary Greek Myth Retellings
1st Edition
By Elsa Cavalié
January 22, 2027
Voice and Song in Contemporary Greek Myth Retellings examines the recent wave of contemporary retellings of Greek myth, focusing on the notions of voices, silence and music and the rewriting of history. Focusing on such authors as Pat Barker (Trojan trilogy), Madeline Miller (Circe, The Song of ...
Queer Reading Practices and Sexology in Fin-de-Siècle Literature: Wilde, Stenbock, Prime-Stevenson
1st Edition
By Zsolt Bojti
October 16, 2026
This book scrutinises the production and transnational distribution of sexological knowledge at the turn of the century. The works of three transnationally mobile authors are in the focus: The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890/1891) and Teleny (1893) by, and attributed to, Oscar Wilde; ‘The True Story ...
Reading Wayde Compton: Geohistorical (Re)Constructions of Black Vancouver
1st Edition
By Fernando Pérez-García
October 16, 2026
This book is a comprehensive analysis of the literary oeuvre of Wayde Compton, examining the interplay between modes of literary production, urban commemoration, the formation of Black racial identity on the margins of the diaspora, and coalitions of solidarity with other communities in Vancouver. ...
The Fool and the Clown in Western Culture and Literature: Homo Insipiens
1st Edition
By Svetozar Poštić
October 16, 2026
The Fool and the Clown in Western Culture and Literature: Homo Insipiens is a fascinating description of these two perennial figures in European and North American history, folklore, theater, literature, arts, and popular culture. The first part of the book separates them into ten different ...
Menetekel: The Black Whale and the Semiotics of Doom
1st Edition
By Todd Tyner Cronkhite
October 15, 2026
Menetekel: The Black Whale and the Semiotics of Doom explores a literary and cultural phenomenon known as menetekel—a sign or warning of impending disaster—using Ishmael, the narrator of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, as a guide to understanding how such signs are read, interpreted, and contested. ...
Joseph Conrad and Honor: Victory in Defeat
1st Edition
By GW Stephen Brodsky
September 24, 2026
Joseph Conrad and Honor: Victory in Defeat explores the idea and themes of honor both explicit and implicit in Conrad’s life, letters and oeuvre, and its origins in Conrad’s Polish, French and English philosophical, historical and cultural contexts. Focusing on Conrad’s family history, his lives in...
New Approaches to the Doppelganger in Literature and Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Pamela Bedore, Anita Duneer
September 17, 2026
New Approaches to the Doppelganger in Literature and Culture addresses the pressing questions of our cultural moment about the very nature of reality. How can we grapple with rapid developments in the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to impersonate, simulate, and replicate personal ...
Female Agents in the Male World of Cold War Spy Novels: The Spies Who Stayed Out in the Cold
1st Edition
By Howard Mason
September 09, 2026
Female Agents in the Male World of Cold War Spy Novels: The Spies Who Stayed Out in the Cold is an in-depth analysis of the way writers of Cold War spy novels have portrayed their female characters, paying particular attention to women presented as secret agents and to the work of women writers. ...
Re-Reading Golden Age Crime Writing: Time, Space, and Place
1st Edition
Edited
By Sarah Martin, Stefano Serafini
September 01, 2026
Re-Reading Golden Age Crime Writing: Time, Space, and Place intervenes in debates on crime literature by offering the first sustained analysis of British and American Golden Age fiction, broadly spanning the 1910s to the 1950s, through the interrelated yet analytically distinct frameworks of time, ...
Poetry and Culture in Britain, Canada and the United States: 20th and Early 21st Century Literature
1st Edition
By Jonathan Locke Hart
July 19, 2026
This book is about poetry and the poetic in the cultures and literatures of Britain, Canada and the United States. Close reading is the primary method. The figures discussed in the book were born from 1911 to the post-war years after 1945. The volume proceeds from Marshall McLuhan as a poet through...
Master-Narrative Transitions from the Vikings to Artificial Intelligence: How Fiction Helps Communities Adapt to a Changing World
1st Edition
By Mads Larsen
July 02, 2026
Master-Narrative Transitions from the Vikings to Artificial Intelligence: How Fiction Helps Communities Adapt to a Changing World examines how societies survive and transform when their foundational stories begin to collapse. By tracing a millennium of cultural evolution in the Nordic region, it ...
Bangladeshi Novels in English: Cultural Contact and Migrant Subjectivity
1st Edition
By Umme Salma
May 21, 2026
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, ...