Comparative literature

This volume explores the instrumental role played by memory in our daily and collective narratives and the manifold ways in which it can destabilize those prevailing in India.

In this critical study, Tidwell examines the conflict of aesthetics and politics in The Diary of Virginia Woolf.

In this critical study, Tidwell examines the conflict of aesthetics and politics in The Diary of Virginia Woolf.

How do text, performance, and rhetoric simultaneously reflect and challenge notions of distinct community and religious identities?

How do text, performance, and rhetoric simultaneously reflect and challenge notions of distinct community and religious identities?

From creepy picture books to Harry Potter, Lemony Snicket, the Spiderwick Chronicles, and countless vampire series for young adult readers, fear has become a dominant mode of entertainment for young readers.

From creepy picture books to Harry Potter, Lemony Snicket, the Spiderwick Chronicles, and countless vampire series for young adult readers, fear has become a dominant mode of entertainment for young readers.

This collection recovers the continuities between three forms of romance that have often been separated from one another in critical discourse: early modern prose fiction, the dramatic romances staged in England during the 1570s and 1580s, and Shakespeare's late plays.

This collection recovers the continuities between three forms of romance that have often been separated from one another in critical discourse: early modern prose fiction, the dramatic romances staged in England during the 1570s and 1580s, and Shakespeare's late plays.

Making British Culture explores an under-appreciated factor in the emergence of a recognisably British culture.

Making British Culture explores an under-appreciated factor in the emergence of a recognisably British culture.

This collection of essays is an important contribution to travel writing studies -- looking beyond the explicitly political questions of postcolonial and gender discourses, it considers the form, poetics, institutions and reception of travel writing in the history of empire and its aftermath.

This collection of essays is an important contribution to travel writing studies -- looking beyond the explicitly political questions of postcolonial and gender discourses, it considers the form, poetics, institutions and reception of travel writing in the history of empire and its aftermath.

Recent work on children's digital cultures has identified a range of literacies emerging through children's engagement with new media technologies.

Recent work on children's digital cultures has identified a range of literacies emerging through children's engagement with new media technologies.

Edward Said is widely recognized for his work as a critic and theorist of Orientalism and the Palestine crisis, but far less attention has been devoted to his considerable body of literary and cultural criticism.

Edward Said is widely recognized for his work as a critic and theorist of Orientalism and the Palestine crisis, but far less attention has been devoted to his considerable body of literary and cultural criticism.

Edgar Allan Poe is today considered one of the greatest masters and most fascinating figures of the American literary world.

Edgar Allan Poe is today considered one of the greatest masters and most fascinating figures of the American literary world.

This book engages cosmopolitanism-a critical mode which moves beyond cultural pluralism by simultaneously privileging difference and commonality-in order to examine its particular deployment in the work of several African American writers.

This book engages cosmopolitanism-a critical mode which moves beyond cultural pluralism by simultaneously privileging difference and commonality-in order to examine its particular deployment in the work of several African American writers.

Critical Approaches to Food in Children's Literature is the first scholarly volume on the topic, connecting children's literature to the burgeoning discipline of food studies.

Critical Approaches to Food in Children's Literature is the first scholarly volume on the topic, connecting children's literature to the burgeoning discipline of food studies.

The title of this collection, Profiling Shakespeare, is meant strongly in its double sense.

The title of this collection, Profiling Shakespeare, is meant strongly in its double sense.

This thoroughly revised edition includes updated essays on cultural themes and literary analysis, and its new essays analyze the full scope of the seven-book series as both pop cultural phenomenon and as a set of literary texts.

This thoroughly revised edition includes updated essays on cultural themes and literary analysis, and its new essays analyze the full scope of the seven-book series as both pop cultural phenomenon and as a set of literary texts.

Raymond Carver's fiction is widely known for its careful documentation of lower-middle-class North America in the 1970s and 80s.

Raymond Carver's fiction is widely known for its careful documentation of lower-middle-class North America in the 1970s and 80s.

Many readers are aware of Alfred Tennyson's treatment of legendary battles in such poems as Boadicea, The Revenge, Battle of Brunanburh, and Achilles over the Trench.

Many readers are aware of Alfred Tennyson's treatment of legendary battles in such poems as Boadicea, The Revenge, Battle of Brunanburh, and Achilles over the Trench.

In the Shadows of Divine Perfection provides an examination of Derek Walcott's Omeros 1990)- the St.

In the Shadows of Divine Perfection provides an examination of Derek Walcott's Omeros 1990)- the St.

This collection of 15 original essays, assembled by renowned Mamet and Pinter scholar Leslie Kane, examines the pervasiveness of crime and criminality in the plays and screenplays of two of the most influential contemporary dramatists.

This collection of 15 original essays, assembled by renowned Mamet and Pinter scholar Leslie Kane, examines the pervasiveness of crime and criminality in the plays and screenplays of two of the most influential contemporary dramatists.

The development of a mass readership, a mass market for books, and a prominent status of reading and readers is reflected in the central role of literacy, reading, and books in the lives of protagonists in nineteenth-century American and French literature.

The development of a mass readership, a mass market for books, and a prominent status of reading and readers is reflected in the central role of literacy, reading, and books in the lives of protagonists in nineteenth-century American and French literature.

In this book, Shelly Eversley historicizes the demand for racial authenticity - what Zora Neale Hurston called 'the real Negro' - in twentieth-century American literature.

Readers of James Merrill's poetry have long noted affinities and contrasts between Merrill and Yeats.

Readers of James Merrill's poetry have long noted affinities and contrasts between Merrill and Yeats.

Much has been written about women of the English Renaissance, but few examples of women's writing from that era have been readily available until now.

In Transcendence , thinkers from John Milbank, Graham Ward, and Kevin Hart, to Thomas Carlson, Slavoj Zizek, and Jean-Luc Marion have come together to create the definitive analysis of this key concept in modern theological and philosophical thought.

In Transcendence , thinkers from John Milbank, Graham Ward, and Kevin Hart, to Thomas Carlson, Slavoj Zizek, and Jean-Luc Marion have come together to create the definitive analysis of this key concept in modern theological and philosophical thought.

Much like the fantastic marginalia of medieval illuminated manuscripts, medieval and modern hybrid characters-including werewolves, serpent women, and wild men-function as a frame, critiquing the discourses that run through their texts.

Much like the fantastic marginalia of medieval illuminated manuscripts, medieval and modern hybrid characters-including werewolves, serpent women, and wild men-function as a frame, critiquing the discourses that run through their texts.

These papers explore the debate over new directions in Japanese studies.

These papers explore the debate over new directions in Japanese studies.

In Greek mythology, Hyperboreans were a tribe who lived far to Greece's north.

In Greek mythology, Hyperboreans were a tribe who lived far to Greece's north.

The Sense of an Interior is a fascinating exploration of domestic space and of the ways it determines how writers work.