Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
Detective Fiction on the Case of Community: The Mystery at the Heart of the Modern
1st Edition
By Devin Fromm
May 21, 2026
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 ...
Exploring Anne Frank and Difficult Life Stories
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By Kirsten Kumpf Baele, Waltraud Maierhofer, Doyle Stevick
May 21, 2026
This volume, grounded in the Diary of a Young Girl and its continued appeal to readers of all ages, sees both promise in the relevance of Anne Frank’s story in the twenty‑first century, and potential for new ways of teaching her story and those of other genocides and human right violations. ...
Language in Colonization, Renaissance Poetry and Shakespeare: From Interpoetics to Translation
1st Edition
By Jonathan Locke Hart
May 21, 2026
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, close reading, interpretation, interpoetics and translation with particular instances and works, examining matters of ...
Language in Literature
1st Edition
By Jonathan Locke Hart
May 21, 2026
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 ...
Myths of the Golden Age in European Culture
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By Stephen G. Nichols, Claudia Olk
May 21, 2026
Hesiod’s concept of a Golden Age, together with analogous myths – Babylonian, Egyptian, Hebrew, etc. – speak to the psychic appeal, perhaps even deep-rooted need, for humans to conceive alternate worlds free from the anguish, toil, and dangers of the one they inhabit. Classical poets and ...
Transcending Postmodernism: Performatism 2.0
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By Raoul Eshelman
May 21, 2026
Transcending Postmodernism: Performatism 2.0 is an ambitious attempt to expand and deepen the theory of performatism. Its main thesis is that, beginning in the mid-1990s, the strategies and norms of postmodernism have been displaced by ones that force readers or viewers to experience effects of ...
Serial Fiction in the Western World: History and Theory
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By Giovanni Ragone, Antonio Rafele
February 27, 2026
This volume explores the long and intricate evolution of serial forms, presenting them as one of the cornerstones of Western culture. The first part traces the archaeology and early mainstream of serial narration: from antiquity to the medieval romance, from the first Baroque culture industry to ...
Batman and the Shadows of Modernity: A Critical Genealogy on Contemporary Hero in the Age of Nihilism
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By Rafael Carrión-Arias
December 26, 2025
This book aims to study the Batman narrative, or Bat-narrative, from the point of view of its nodal relationship to modern narrative. 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 and ...
Reading Words into Worlds: Phenomenological Mimesis of Givenness in the Novel
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By J. Clayton McReynolds
December 25, 2025
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 ...
Representations of Language Learning and Literacy: How to Read Literacy Narratives
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By Elena West
November 27, 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
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By Carmen Zamorano Llena, Billy Gray, Carolina León Vegas, Carles Magrinyà Badiella
September 24, 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
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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 ...