Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
Representations of Language Learning and Literacy: How to Read Literacy Narratives
1st Edition
By Elena West
November 28, 2025
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...
Muslim Writing, Writing Muslimness in Europe: Transcultural Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Carmen Zamorano Llena, Billy Gray, Carolina León Vegas, Carles Magrinyà Badiella
September 25, 2025
Throughout the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the so-called Muslim question has intermittently, though persistently, taken centre stage in Western media and political discourses. In terms of culture within the European context, there is also a substantial body of literature that has...
Catching Time: Temporality, Interaction, and Cognition in the Novel
1st Edition
By Isabelle Wentworth
July 30, 2025
'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 ...
Queer Reading Practices and Sexology in Fin-de-Siècle Literature: Wilde, Stenbock, Prime-Stevenson
1st Edition
By Zsolt Bojti
July 28, 2025
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
June 30, 2025
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
June 30, 2025
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 ...
Literary and Cultural Representations of the Hinterlands
1st Edition
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By Ewa Kębłowska-Ławniczak, Dominika Ferens, Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice, Marcin Tereszewski
May 06, 2025
This interdisciplinary collection explores the diverse relationships between the frequently ignored and inherently ambiguous hinterlands and their manifestations in literature and culture. Moving away from perspectives that emphasize the marginality of hinterlands and present them as devoid of ...
Poetry and Culture in Britain, Canada and the United States: 20th and Early 21st Century Literature
1st Edition
By Jonathan Locke Hart
March 18, 2025
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...
Conquest and Reclamation in the Transatlantic Imagination: The Amerindian Fictions of Henty, Haggard, and Griffith
1st Edition
By Luz Elena Ramirez
November 28, 2024
This book examines the imperial spectacles and startling reversals of fortune related in William H. Prescott's History of the Conquest of Mexico (1843) and History of the Conquest of Peru (1847), and investigates how these accounts inspired fictional adaptations by George A. ...
Critical Poetics of Feminist Refusals: Voicing Dissent Across Differences
1st Edition
By Federica Bueti
August 26, 2024
Critical Poetics of Feminist Refusals renders a vivid portrait of the intergenerational and intersectional dialogue between influential feminist writers on how to say no to the conditions of oppression, exclusion, and exploitation imposed by patriarchal and systemically racist capitalist societies....
The Other Orpheus: A Poetics of Modern Homosexuality
1st Edition
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 ...
The Zimbabwean Maverick: Dambudzo Marechera and Utopian Thinking
1st Edition
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...