Over the last 200 years, a paradoxical fear of deception has grown in the fields of art and popular culture modes of expression that are traditionally dedicated to creating illusory, artificial worlds.
This volume examines scholarly perspectives on eco-imaginaries, focusing in particular on how eco-catastrophes have been represented in literature and different visual forms, including film, television and cartoons, among other cultural media.
Over the last 200 years, a paradoxical fear of deception has grown in the fields of art and popular culture modes of expression that are traditionally dedicated to creating illusory, artificial worlds.
Providing the reader with a systematic study of visual subjectivity in comparative thought and literature, this book analyses the role that vision and visuality, especially interpersonal visuality, plays in the constitution of subject and subjectivity in Chinese and American traditions.
A new genre of writing demonstrating that translation is neither a transparent medium nor a secondary form of literatureIn Translation Multiples, Kasia Szymanska examines what happens when translators, poets, and artists expose the act of translation by placing parallel translation variants next to one another in a standalone work of art, presenting each as a legitimate version of the original.
The Munich-based Carl Hanser Verlag was one of the most important publishers in the 1950s and 1960s when it came to promoting Polish literature in West Germany.
Poetic, Scientific, and Other Forms of Discourse: A New Approach to Greek and Latin Literature is the twenty-ninth volume in the esteemed Sather Classical Lectures series.
Poetic, Scientific, and Other Forms of Discourse: A New Approach to Greek and Latin Literature is the twenty-ninth volume in the esteemed Sather Classical Lectures series.
Matthew Arnold and American Culture examines the profound impact of Arnold's writings-spanning literary, social, religious, and cultural topics-on American intellectual life from the late 19th to the mid-20th century.
Matthew Arnold and American Culture examines the profound impact of Arnold's writings-spanning literary, social, religious, and cultural topics-on American intellectual life from the late 19th to the mid-20th century.
Women Writing Race in the Seventeenth-Century English Atlantic: Civil Agents highlights early modern women writers' invocations of civility to reach for the privileges of whiteness.
This collection examines representations of Spanish queer aging through investigations of literary and cinematic representations of this demographic, offering a showcase for research on communities often made invisible due to age and sexual identity in Spanish culture with wider implications for queer aging studies research.
How the entertainment narrative of upward mobility distorts the harsh economic realities in AmericaIn an age of growing wealth disparities, politicians on both sides of the aisle are sounding the alarm about the fading American Dream.
This collection seeks to explore what authenticity means in the context of adaptation, whether there is such a thing as an authentic adaptation, and what authenticity can offer for adaptation.
This collection seeks to explore what authenticity means in the context of adaptation, whether there is such a thing as an authentic adaptation, and what authenticity can offer for adaptation.
Oscar Wilde and Nihilism examines Wilde's major works in the context of nineteenth-century philosophical nihilism and the Victorian religious unsettlement.
This volume analyzes how people of diverse cultural and religious backgrounds living around the "e;Middle Sea"e; perceived, felt, and described homesickness, using a multidisciplinary approach which brings new perspectives to known phenomena and their evolving meanings.
Oscar Wilde and Nihilism examines Wilde's major works in the context of nineteenth-century philosophical nihilism and the Victorian religious unsettlement.
Twenty-First-Century Perspectives on British Travel Writing evidences the evolution of travel writing studies over the last two decades and points to innovative ways to study this heterogeneous genre.
Twenty-First-Century Perspectives on British Travel Writing evidences the evolution of travel writing studies over the last two decades and points to innovative ways to study this heterogeneous genre.
This book offers the first extensive investigation of Italian crime fiction in the period between 1861, the year of Italy's unification, and 1941, when the famous Mondadori series 'I libri gialli', which had published crime novels since 1929, was suppressed by the fascist regime.
This book offers the first extensive investigation of Italian crime fiction in the period between 1861, the year of Italy's unification, and 1941, when the famous Mondadori series 'I libri gialli', which had published crime novels since 1929, was suppressed by the fascist regime.
This book offers an in-depth discussion of the evolution of modernist poetry in Taiwan, with a focus on periods preceding and following World War II, and contextualizes the movement within the broader frameworks of Western, Japanese, and Chinese modernism.
This book offers an in-depth discussion of the evolution of modernist poetry in Taiwan, with a focus on periods preceding and following World War II, and contextualizes the movement within the broader frameworks of Western, Japanese, and Chinese modernism.
