Comparative literature

Christian poetry was born at the crossroads of the Greek, Hebrew, Roman, and Syrian cultures of late antiquity.

This book throws light on the relevance and role played by translations and translators at times of serious discontinuity throughout history.

Presents the most important theories in Translation Studies that have emerged over the last 50 years.

Using in-depth analysis of film, TV, news and online productions, Understanding Media Production shows how media theory helps aspiring producers understand good practice in media production.

This concise book provides an accessible overview of the history of the telenovela in Latin America within a pan-Latino context, including the way the genre crosses borders between Latin America and the United States.

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 interprets the close intimacy between poetry and painting from the perspective of intersemiotic translation, by providing a systematic examination of the bilingual and visual representation of landscape in the poetry of Wang Wei, a high Tang poet who won worldwide reputation.

DianeTuckman and Cecile Spiegel fled religious persecution with WWII conflicts attheir heels.

The book provides a global perspective of local government response towards the COVID-19 pandemic through the analysis of a sample of countries in all continents.

Cosmopolitanism and Transatlantic Circles in Music and Literature traces the transatlantic networks that were constructed between a select group of composers, including Edvard Grieg, Edward MacDowell, and Percy Grainger, and the writers with whom they shared cosmopolitan affinities, including Arne Garborg, Hamlin Garland, Madison Grant, and Lathrop Stoddard.

Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1871) and Carlo Collodi's Le Avventure di Pinocchio (1883) are among the most influential classics of children's literature.

Sport occupies a central position in Irish social and cultural life, yet has been relatively marginal within the academy.

This book examines the connections and conversations between women writers from the twentieth century and the twenty-first century.

Rethinking Place Through Literary Form regards the relationship between place and linguistic form as challenging real and perceived configurations of place and renegotiating geopolitically determined categories of the 'centre' and 'periphery'.

This volume considers the different implications of the rise of streaming services and their particular acceleration during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This book investigates how decolonising the curriculum might work in English studies - one of the fields that bears the most robust traces of its imperial and colonial roots - from the perspective of the semi-periphery of the academic world- system.

Lorna Jowett delves into the distinctive stories and characters, including the Doctors themselves, their female and male companions, Captain Jack Harkness, Missy, Sarah Jane and her young comrades.

This book explores the influence of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov on Russian-born French language writer Irene Nemirovsky.

Rebel in Radio (1973) looks at the story of WQXR, the rebel New York commercial radio station.

'Island Genres, Genre Islands' moves the debate about literature and place onto new ground by exploring the island settings of bestsellers.

Aus unterschiedlichen wissenschaftlichen Perspektiven zeigen die Beiträger:innen des Bandes, auf welche Weise in ausgewählten literarischen Texten Fragen nach globalen Veränderungen beantwortet werden.

The essays in this book respond to Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka's recent call to explore the relationship between the evolution of the universe and the process of self-individuation in the ontopoietic unfolding of life.

Symbolic representation is a crucial subject for and a potent heuristic instrument of diaspora studies.

This collection of essays expands the study of that immensely widely read and much-adapted novel, beyond the first book - The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (usually known simply as Robinson Crusoe) - to take in the far less well-known Farther Adventures and the almost unread Serious Reflections, beyond Defoe's texts, to their re-writing and adaptation and beyond the Atlantic and South American context to an Asian and Pacific context.

Ob die persönlichen Ansichten von Journalisten ihre Publikationsentscheidungen beeinflussen, ist eine in der Kommunikationswissenschaft viel diskutierte Frage.

This volume collects the critical prose of award-winning writer Anna Frajlich.

Few diseases have exercised the Western imagination as chronically as hysteria--from the wandering womb of ancient Greek medicine, to the demonically possessed witch of the Renaissance; from the "e;vaporous"e; salong women of Enlightenment Paris, through to the celebrated patients of Sigmund Freud, with their extravagant, erotically charged symptoms.

This book considers major male writers from the last three centuries whose relation to a strong, often distant woman-one sometimes modeled on their own mother-forms the romantic core of their greatest narratives.

This book offers a relevant contribution to the studies of streaming media and transmediality with an original approach of cultural sustainability perfectly intertwined with cultural memory beyond borders.

This edited volume presents a collection of stories that experiment with different ways of looking at international law.

Brüche in Biographien und in der Geschichte sind das übergreifende Motiv im Werk des Berliner Filmemachers und Grimme-Preisträgers Jan Franksen (1937–2004).

From Cinderella to comic con to colonialism and more, this companion provides readers with a comprehensive and current guide to the fantastic, uncanny, and wonderful worlds of the fairy tale across media and cultures.

Daytime Television Programming (1991) provides a practical understanding of daytime television formats, viewer demographics, and programming strategy.

An ambitious look at the African novel and its connections to African philosophy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuriesThe African Novel of Ideas focuses on the role of the philosophical novel and the place of philosophy more broadly in the intellectual life of the African continent, from the early twentieth century to today.

This book is a radical re-appraisal of the poetry of Ted Hughes, placing him in the context of continental theorists such as Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Slavoj Zizek to address the traumas of his work.