Comparative literature

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

This book analyses intersemiotic translation, where the translator works across sign systems and cultural boundaries.

Women's Manga in Asia and Beyond offers a variety of perspectives on women's manga and the nature, scope, and significance of the relationship between women and comics/manga, both globally as well as locally.

This book examines the use of multiple writing systems and scripts’ role as a narrative feature.

This book focuses on the fiction of four postcolonial authors: V.

Affect Theory, Genre, and the Example of Tragedy employs Silvan Tomkins' Affect-Script theory of human psychology to explore the largely unacknowledged emotions of disgust and shame in tragedy.

This book provides a critical study of the relationship between Robert Burns and the United States of America, c.

This book explores the philosophical and theological thought of Nikos Kazantzakis.

This book discusses the elusive centrality of silence in modern literature and philosophy, focusing on the writing and theory of Jean-Luc Nancy and Roland Barthes, the prose of Samuel Beckett, and the poetry of Wallace Stevens.

This book examines the role played by the international circulation of literature in constructing cultural memories of the Second World War.

This book examines the distinction between literary expatriation and exile through a 'contrapuntal reading' of modern Palestinian and American writing.

The Black Middle Ages examines the influence of medieval studies on African-American thought.

This book traces a genealogy of political dandyism in literature.

Samson and Delilah in Medieval Insular French investigates several different adaptations of the story of Samson that enabled it to move from a strictly religious sphere into vernacular and secular artworks.

This volume presents key contributions to the study of ecocriticism in Nordic children's and YA literary and cultural texts, in dialogue with international classics.

Space, Place and Poetry in English and German, 1960-1975 examines the work of Paul Celan, J.

This collection of scholarly essays offers a new understanding of local and global myths that have been constructed around Shakespeare in theatre, cinema, and television from the nineteenth century to the present.

This book participates in the ongoing debate about the alleged "e;death of theory"e; and the current post-theoretical condition, arguing that the "e;finitude"e; of theoretical projects does not mean "e;end"e;, but rather contingency and transformation of thinking, beyond irreconcilable doctrines.

This book sets the grounds for a new approach exploring cultural mediators as key figures in literary and cultural history.

This Handbook offers a comprehensive and engaging overview of contemporary issues in Literary Translation research through in-depth investigations of actual case studies of particular works, authors or translators.

This volume revisits Genette's definition of the printed book's liminal devices, or paratexts, as 'thresholds of interpretation' by focussing specifically on translations produced in Britain in the early age of print (1473-1660).

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This book explores the modern cultural history of the queer martyr in France and Belgium.

The essays in this interdisciplinary volume explore language, broadly construed, as part of the continued interrogation of the boundaries of human and nonhuman animals in the Middle Ages.

This book examines the speculative core of Karl Barth's theology, reconsidering the relationship between theory and practice in Barth's thinking.

This book analyzes narrations embedded in political disputes, allowing readers to gain a deeper understanding of modern political reality.

This book assesses key works of twentieth-century dystopian fiction, including Katharine Burdekin's Swastika Night, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, to demonstrate that the major authors of this genre locate empathy and morality in eroticism.

This book explores Romanticism as a force that exerts an insistent but critically neglected pressure on the postcolonial imagination.

In a world awash in awesome, sensual technological experiences, wonder has diverse powers, including awakening us to unexpected ecological intimacies and entanglements.

This book examines performative strategies that contest nationalist prejudices in representing the conditions of refugees, the stateless and the dispossessed.

This book explores multilingualism as an imaginative articulation of the experience of modernity in twentieth-century Spanish and American literature.

This book-aimed at both the general reader and the specialist-offers a transatlantic, transnational, and multidisciplinary cartography of the rapidly expanding intellectual field of Galician Studies.

This book examines the intersection of culture and language in Ireland and Irish contexts.

This collection of thirteen specially commissioned essays by international scholars takes a fresh look at the profound impact of the Peninsular War on Romantic British literature and culture.

This collection emphasizes a cross-disciplinary approach to the problem of scale, with essays ranging in subject matter from literature to film, architecture, the plastic arts, philosophy, and scientific and political writing.

This volume is the first to identify a significant body of life narratives by working-class women and to demonstrate their inherent literary significance.

This volume looks at the representation of 9/11 and the resulting wars in European literature.

This book is a major study of the presentation of work and workers in contemporary novels from India, North America and the UK.

This volume provides a comprehensive account of how scholarship on affect and scholarship on texts have come to inform one another over the past few decades.

This book foregrounds entanglement as a guiding concept in Derrida's work and considers its implications and benefits for ecocritical thought.