Comparative literature

First published in 1971, this work examines the tradition of the epic and the many forms in which it has presented itself over time.

This book follows the hybrid and contradictory history of magic realism through the writings of three key figures - art historian Franz Roh, novelist Alejo Carpentier, and cultural critic Fredric Jameson - drawing links between their political, aesthetic, and philosophical ideas on art's relationship to reality.

This book follows the hybrid and contradictory history of magic realism through the writings of three key figures - art historian Franz Roh, novelist Alejo Carpentier, and cultural critic Fredric Jameson - drawing links between their political, aesthetic, and philosophical ideas on art's relationship to reality.

The revolutionary boy at the barricades was memorably envisioned in Eugene Delacroix's painting Liberty Leading the People (1830) and Victor Hugo's novel Les Miserables (1862).

The revolutionary boy at the barricades was memorably envisioned in Eugene Delacroix's painting Liberty Leading the People (1830) and Victor Hugo's novel Les Miserables (1862).

This book is the first in-depth exploration of the relationship between Latin American and European modernisms during the long twentieth century.

This book is the first in-depth exploration of the relationship between Latin American and European modernisms during the long twentieth century.

First published in 1972, this work pursues the question 'what is comedy?

First published in 1972, this work pursues the question 'what is comedy?

First published in 1970, this work explores the literary genre of satire.

First published in 1970, this work explores the literary genre of satire.

First published in 1972, this book provides a helpful overview of the grotesque and its use in a number of literary genres including novels, drama and poetry.

First published in 1972, this book provides a helpful overview of the grotesque and its use in a number of literary genres including novels, drama and poetry.

In the last few years, the fields of Sephardic and Mizrahi Studies have grown significantly, thanks to new publications which take into consideration unexplored aspects of the history, literature and identity of modern Middle Eastern and North African Jews.

In the last few years, the fields of Sephardic and Mizrahi Studies have grown significantly, thanks to new publications which take into consideration unexplored aspects of the history, literature and identity of modern Middle Eastern and North African Jews.

Since the nation-state sprang into being in 1965, Singapore literature in English has blossomed energetically, and yet there have been few books focusing on contextualizing and analyzing Singapore literature despite the increasing international attention garnered by Singaporean writers.

Since the nation-state sprang into being in 1965, Singapore literature in English has blossomed energetically, and yet there have been few books focusing on contextualizing and analyzing Singapore literature despite the increasing international attention garnered by Singaporean writers.

This book explores the Gothic mode as it appears in the literature, visual arts, and culture of different areas of Latin America.

This book explores the Gothic mode as it appears in the literature, visual arts, and culture of different areas of Latin America.

First published in 1977, this book studies the picaresque as a literary genre.

First published in 1977, this book studies the picaresque as a literary genre.

"e;Digital culture"e; reflects the ways in which the ubiquity and increasing use of digital devices and infrastructures is changing the arenas of human experience, creating new cultural realities.

"e;Digital culture"e; reflects the ways in which the ubiquity and increasing use of digital devices and infrastructures is changing the arenas of human experience, creating new cultural realities.

Global Youth in Digital Trajectories explores the most recent developments regarding youth and media in a global perspective.

Global Youth in Digital Trajectories explores the most recent developments regarding youth and media in a global perspective.

Models of Journalism investigates the most fundamental questions of how journalists can best serve the public and what factors enable or obstruct them in doing so.

Models of Journalism investigates the most fundamental questions of how journalists can best serve the public and what factors enable or obstruct them in doing so.

This text offers a critical study of postmodernism in Russian literature.

This text offers a critical study of postmodernism in Russian literature.

First published in 1972, the work provides an introduction to Dada and Surrealism.

First published in 1972, the work provides an introduction to Dada and Surrealism.

Different from previous researches weighted toward historical description and individual writer and work, this book establishes a general analytical system and a multi-angled methodology to examine Chinese literature.

Different from previous researches weighted toward historical description and individual writer and work, this book establishes a general analytical system and a multi-angled methodology to examine Chinese literature.

In Just Literature, Tzachi Zamir introduces the idea of 'philosophical criticism' as an innovative approach to interpreting literary texts.

This book is an intervention in Hamlet scholarship.

This book explores the 'call' of literature, for both writers and their audiences, and reflects on how literary works have informed and drawn from - and continue to inform and draw from - theology, philosophy and sacred scripture.

With forty-four newly commissioned articles from an international cast of leading scholars, The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science traces the network of connections among literature, science, technology, mathematics, and medicine.

 This book explores the representation of Hinduism through myth and discourse in urban Hindi theatre in the period 1880-1960.

This interdisciplinary analysis presents an innovative examination of the nature of pride and humility, including all their slippery nuances and points of connection.

In 1888 the name Jack the Ripper entered public consciousness with the brutal murders of women in the East End of London.

Focusing on narratives with supernatural components, Karen J.

This book throws light on the relevance and role played by translations and translators at times of serious discontinuity throughout history.

This book examines melodramatic impulses in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga, as well as the series' film adaptations and fan-authored texts.

This book uses the discipline-specific, computational methods of the digital humanities to explore a constellation of rigorous case studies of modernist literature.

This book examines the developments in British serial detective fiction which took place in the seven years when Sherlock Holmes was dead.

This book identifies the 'cognitive humanities' with new approaches to literature and culture that engage with recent theories of the embodied mind in cognitive science.

An English-language translation of the MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize and LASA Premio Iberoamericano award-winning Spanish-language book, Arguedas/ Vargas Llosa.

This book is a radical re-appraisal of the poetry of Ted Hughes, placing him in the context of continental theorists such as Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Slavoj Zizek to address the traumas of his work.

This book is about the most vibrant yet under-studied aspects of Indian writing today.

Contributors to this volume discuss different types of emergencies and conflicts and how challenging these multilingual operational environments are for linguists.