Comparative literature

Cuteness is one of the most culturally pervasive aesthetics of the new millennium and its rapid social proliferation suggests that the affective responses it provokes find particular purchase in a contemporary era marked by intensive media saturation and spreading economic precarity.

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 collection assembles a wide range of scholarship addressing the intersections, influences, and impacts of the horror genre's proliferation across multiple forms of media.

This book casts new light on the work of the German poet Friedrich Holderlin (1770 - 1843), and his translations of Greek tragedy.

This work delves into the act of reporting on different cultures as a means of exploring our own.

Women on the Edge re-envisions women's cinema as contemporary political practices by exploring the works of twelve filmmakers.

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

Set at the intersection of Human Rights, social justice and Literature, this cutting edge book examines a range of literary texts, fiction, plays and poetry, and through them considers representations of Human Rights and their violations.

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

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

This book offers a new, interdisciplinary model for understanding audience engagement as a type of behaviour, a form of response and a cost to audiences that, combined, offer value to the screen industries.

Global Television (1993) looks at how satellites, fibre optics, compressed digital transmission, and interactive and high-definition television have converged with computer technology to revolutionise TV and film production, TV sets and even the smart home in which TV is viewed.

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 serves as an accessible critical introduction to the broad category of American political television content.

This book offers a new, interdisciplinary model for understanding audience engagement as a type of behaviour, a form of response and a cost to audiences that, combined, offer value to the screen industries.

Post-Conflict Central American Literature: Searching for Home and Longing to Belong studies often-overlooked contemporary poetry.

The television broadcasting culture of Pakistan was changed dramatically in 2002.

This book comprises what may be called exercises in 'comparative cinema'.

The recording of Indigenous voices is one of the most well-known methods of colonial ethnography.

Popular film and television hold valuable potential for learning about sex and sexuality beyond the information-based model of sex education currently in schools.

This volume explores the potential of the concept of the creaturely for thinking and writing beyond the idea of a clear-cut human-animal divide, presenting innovative perspectives and narratives for an age which increasingly confronts us with the profound ecological, ethical and political challenges of a multispecies world.

Now in a second edition, this textbook surveys the channels, platforms, and programming through which television distribution operates, with a diverse selection of contributors providing thorough explorations of global media industries in flux.

Spirits without Borders is an ethnographic study of the transnational and multicultural expansion of Vietnam's Mother Goddess Religion and its spirit possession ritual.

This book illustrates a distinctive lineage of critical interventions in moving image culture and in the public sphere through the trajectories of a small number of film and video organizations established between the 1970s and the early 1980s in Western Europe and North America mainly by women and still operative today.

This book presents 18 highly influential essays on Chinese literature and semiotics by Professor Zhao Yiheng, including his analysis and discussions of the development of Chinese literature and its characteristics from traditional to modern times.

This collection gives a diversified account of world literature, examining not only the rise of the concept, but also problems such as the relation between the local and the universal, and the tensions between national culture and global ethics.

Why we must learn to tell new stories about our relationship with the earth if we are to avoid climate catastropheReading literature in a time of climate emergency can sometimes feel a bit like fiddling while Rome burns.

This book explores practical and theoretical approaches to translation in Korea from the 16th century onwards, examining a variety of translations done in Korea from a diachronic perspective.

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 edited volume covers an array of the most relevant topics in translation cognition, taking different approaches and using different research tools.

An accessible and engaging introduction to the critical study of popular culture, which provides students with the tools they need to make sense of the popular culture that inundates their everyday lives.

This volume illuminates how creative representations remain sites of ongoing struggles to engage with animals in indigenous epistemologies.

Drawing upon the existing scholarship of period drama and emerging research into new media ecologies, instigated by television streaming services such as Netflix, this book establishes a critical framework for understanding the representation of nationhood and cultural identity in television drama.

English Heart, Hindi Heartland examines Delhi's postcolonial literary world-its institutions, prizes, publishers, writers, and translators, and the cultural geographies of key neighborhoods-in light of colonial histories and the globalization of English.

This book shows how Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days changed the global imagination.

This book investigates a special genre of interpreting in the Chinese context, namely Government Press Conference (GPC) Interpreting.

When the Turkish government demanded the cancellation of all lectures on the Armenian Genocide at Israel's First International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide, and that Armenian lecturers not be allowed to participate, the Israeli government followed suit.

This volume provides an overview of contemporary Italian philosophy from the perspective of animality.