Comparative literature

This book examines how the transcultural and transnational migration of people, texts, and ideas has transformed the paradigm of national literature, with Britain and Ireland as case studies.

This book contains a classic guide to historical study of early modern Chinese fiction from the late Qing Dynasty till early republican China.

This book, the first in-depth study of authorship in translation, explores how authorial identity is 'translated' in the literary text.

After more than a century of genocides and in the midst of a global pandemic, this book focuses on the critique of biopolitics (the government of life through individuals and the general population) and the counterdevelopment of biopoetics (an aesthetics of life elaborating a self as a practice of freedom) realized in texts by Virginia Woolf, Michel Foucault, and Michael Ondaatje.

This book explores the cultural bridges connecting George Bernard Shaw and his contemporaries, such as Charles Dickens and Arthur Miller, to China.

This pivot considers the dissemination of public health terms in Chinese scientific research and printed media.

"e;It is a new shudder, but not an old fear.

As American television continues to garner considerable esteem, rivalling the seventh art in its "e;cinematic"e; aesthetics and the complexity of its narratives, one aspect of its development has been relatively unexamined.

African Film Studies is an accessible and engaging introduction to African cinemas, showcasing the diverse cinematic expressions across the continent.

This book provides a Latino reading of John's prologue with special attention to how the themes of race, kinship, and the empire are part of the gospel's racial rhetoric.

This two-volume set examines recent presidential and vice presidential debates, addresses how citizens make sense of these events in new media, and considers whether the evolution of these forms of consumption is healthy for future presidential campaigns-and for democracy.

This book explores the perception of modern Greek landscape and poetry in the writings of Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon.

Remakes sind ein typisches Phänomen im Publikumskino der Adenauer-Zeit.

Beyond representation explores whether the last thirty years witnessed signs of 'progress' or 'progressiveness' in the representation of 'marginalised' or subaltern identity categories within television drama in Britain and the US.

Television has never been exclusive to the home.

With a foreword by Diane Negra and Jorie Lagerway As television has finally started to create more leading roles for women, the female antiheroine has emerged as a compelling and dynamic character type.

The successful return of horror to our television screens in the post-millennial years, and across a multi-media range of platforms, demonstrates that this previously moribund genre is once again vibrant, challenging and long-lasting.

The writings of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari offer the most enduring and controversial contributions to the theory and practice of art in post-war Continental thought.

TV Outside the Box: Trailblazing in the Digital Television Revolution explores the new and exploding universe of on-demand, OTT (Over the Top) networks: Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Crackle, CW Seed, Vimeo, AwesomenessTV, and many more.

The aim of this book is to orchestrate "e;a generic reconstitution of literary studies"e; based on a comprehensive theory of genre and generic transformation.

Wordsworth, Hemans, and Politics, 1800-1830: Romantic Crises is a study of the political lives of William Wordsworth and Felicia Hemans between 1800 and 1830.

Telecommunications: A Systems Approach (1976) uses two extended case studies, of public telephone and television systems, in order to introduce the basic ideas of telecommunication systems.

This book seeks to frame the "e;the idea of India"e; in the American imaginary within a transnational lens that is attentive to global flows of goods, people, and ideas within the circuits of imperial and maritime economies in nineteenth century America (roughly 1780s-1880s).

Counter-terrorism law and policy has been prominent and widespread in the years following 9/11, touching on many areas of everyday life from policing and border control to financial transactions and internet governance.

The idea of metatextuality is frequently framed as a recent television development and often paired with the idea that it represents genre exhaustion.

Materials for Learning (1981) examines the ability of books and broadcasts to change lives.

Drawing on comparative literary studies, postcolonial book history, and multiple, literary, and alternative modernities, this collection approaches the study of alternative literary modernities from the perspective ofcomparative print culture.

"e;It is a new shudder, but not an old fear.

This book offers a descriptive and practical analysis of prosody in dubbed speech, examining the most distinctive traits that typify dubbed dialogue at the prosodic level.

This book examines the central significance of sexualized female corpses in modern and contemporary Hispanic and Anglophone crime fiction.

Goethes «Italienische Reise» ist ein Schlüsselwerk der Weimarer Klassik – Flucht aus der Midlife-Crisis, Aufbruch in die Welt, Bildungsreise in die Antike, Selbstverortung des großen deutschen Dichters.

Materials for Learning (1981) examines the ability of books and broadcasts to change lives.

This volume studies the literary voices of the Italian diaspora in Britain, including 21 authors and 34 pieces of prose, verse, and drama.

Powerful and often controversial, news pictures promise to make the world at once immediate and knowable.

Since the early 2000s, Disney Channel has been dominated by original live-action programming popular among tween girls.

Television and film have always been connected, but recent years have seen them overlapping, collaborating, and moving towards each other in ever more ways.

This book examines comic book adaptations of Aristophanes' plays in order to shed light on how and why humour travels across cultures and time.

This volume recounts notable episodes of distortion throughout American media history.

In the age of "e;complex Tv"e;, of social networking and massive consumption of transmedia narratives, a myriad short-lived phenomena surround films and TV programs raising questions about the endurance of a fictional world and other mediatized discourse over a long arc of time.

Premiering in 2006,Ugly Betty, the award-winning US hit show about unglamorous but kind-hearted Betty Suarez (America Ferrera),is the latest incarnation of a worldwide phenomenon that started life as a Colombian telenovela,Yo soy Betty,la fea, back in 1999.

Tony Soprano, Don Draper, and Walter White ushered in the era of the television antihero, with compelling narratives and complex characters.

The extraordinary global success of Turkish drama serials is a significant development in contemporary popular culture.

Despite the prominence of "e;awkwardness"e; as cultural buzzword and descriptor of a sub-genre of contemporary film and television comedy, it has yet to be adequately theorized in academic film and media studies.