Comparative literature

This book explores how Canada is imagined primarily by US writers, and what readers and scholars on both sides of the Canada-US border can learn from these recent depictions by examining a selection of US-authored fiction from 9/11 to the present.

This book explains neoliberalism as a phenomenon of the capitalist world-system.

A compendium of profiles, interviews, and reviews published by the South Carolina book review editorArt and Craft presents the hand-picked fruit of Bill Thompson's three decades covering writers and writing as book review editor of Charleston, South Carolina's Post and Courier.

This book presents a comprehensive and systematic study of the narrative history and narrative methods of Chinese and Western popular fiction from the perspectives of narratology, comparative literature, and art and literature studies by adopting the methodology of parallel comparison.

This book delves into creative renditions of key aspects of Jewish Mysticism in Latin American literature, film, and art from the perspective of literary and cultural studies.

Amputation in Literature and Film: Artificial Limbs, Prosthetic Relations, and the Semiotics of "e;Loss"e; explores the many ways in which literature and film have engaged with the subject of amputation.

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

What is love for Sartre and Lacan?

Broadcast Voice Performance (1989) incorporates the insights and experience of more than 100 successful practising voice performers to succinctly and realistically examine the techniques, equipment and criteria of announcing within the context of major types of radio and television productions and programming formats.

Starting from the observation of the ubiquity of fan podcasts engaging in media commentary, this book explores three fan podcast genres in which commentary manifests as a structuring form: rewatch and reread podcasts, recap podcasts, and review podcasts.

The present volume contains thirteen articles based on work presented at the "e;XX.

Anhand des 1572 erstmalig gedruckten und bis ins 18.

This book introduces the theory of Medio-translatology.

Troja zählt zu den bekanntesten Mythen Europas.

This volume examines the shift toward positive and more accurate portrayals of mental illness in entertainment media, asking where these succeed and considering where more needs to be done.

Winner of first Prize in the BAFTSS Best Edited Collection competition, this volume examines how different generations of women work within the genericity of audio-visual storytelling not necessarily to 'undo' or 'subvert' popular formats, but also to draw on their generative force.

When the Holocaust broke out in Europe, Hansi and Joel Brand were joined by Israel (Rezso) Kasztner to launch an organized effort to save thousands of human lives.

The first book-length edited collection on Machado de Assis, this volume offers essays on Machado de Assis' work that offer new critical perspectives not only Brazilian literature and history, but also to social, cultural, and political phenomena that continue to have global repercussions.

A detailed study of the history and long-lasting influence of Marvel Comics, this book explores the ways Marvel's truly unique comic book world reflects real world issues and controversies alongside believable, psychologically-motivated characters.

The news media are often accused of lacking objectivity.

Offering a discussion of translation and social media through three themes, theory, training and professional practice, this book builds on emerging research in Translation Studies, including references citing recent translation and social media industry data.

Umbrüche markieren historische Zäsuren und teilen unser Geschichtsbewusstsein in ein Davor und Danach.

At the beginning of the 21st century, it hardly goes uncontested anymore that media organisations play an important role in democracy.

This is the first book-length study of imperial crossings in Thomas Hardy's novels and short stories.

This book examines the creative strategies, narrative characteristics, industrial practices and stylistic tendencies of complex serial drama.

The Anachronistic Turn: Historical Fiction, Drama, Film and Television is the first study to investigate the ways in which the creative use of anachronism in historical fictions can allow us to rethink the relationship between past and present.

This book explores how television and streaming services portray transgender characters who identify as male or nonbinary in television media.

This book is about the question of existence, the meaning of life .

This book examines the spaces where translation and globalization intersect, whether they be classrooms, communities, or cultural texts.

A major reinterpretation of Horace's famous literary manualFor two millennia, the Ars Poetica (Art of Poetry), the 476-line literary treatise in verse with which Horace closed his career, has served as a paradigmatic manual for writers.

This exciting book is an innovative and creative critique of the theories and practices of feminism, arguing that it still matters in the 21st century.

This book examines haunting in terms of trauma, languaging, and the supernatural in works by Chinese Australian writers born in Australia, Mainland China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore.

This book explores the role of gender in male- and female-produced efforts to translate a Chinese novel into English.

Television and the Embodied Viewer appraises the medium's capacity to evoke sensations and bodily feelings in the viewer.

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

The first in the Routledge Television Guidebooks series, Science Fiction TV offers an introduction to the versatile and evolving genre of science fiction television, combining historical overview with textual readings to analyze its development and ever-increasing popularity.

In this study of representations of children and childhood, a global team of authors explores the theme of undeadness as it applies to cultural constructions of the child.

In der Schwellenepoche der frühen Neuzeit bildet das Drama die dominante Gattung.

This is the first comparative study of literature written by writers who fled from East-Central Europe during the twentieth century.

Es gibt Zeiten im Leben, in denen scheinbar alles zerbricht und es keinen Ausweg aus dem Irrsal mehr zu geben scheint.

Mediating Sexual Citizenship considers how the neoliberal imperatives of adaptation, improvement and transformation that inform the shifting artistic and industrial landscape of television are increasingly indexed to performed disruptions in the norms of sexuality and gender.

A figure from ancient folklore, the doppelganger--in fiction a character's sinister look-alike--continues to appear in literature, television and film.