'Strandentwining Cable' explores the works of two of the most admired and mythologized masters of nineteenth- and twentieth-century prose: Gustave Flaubert (1822-1880) and James Joyce (1882-1941).
Derek Walcott's Encounter with Homer puts Derek Walcott's epic poem Omeros in conversation with Homer, especially the Odyssey, to show how reading them against each other changes our understanding of the poems of both poets.
Derek Walcott's Encounter with Homer puts Derek Walcott's epic poem Omeros in conversation with Homer, especially the Odyssey, to show how reading them against each other changes our understanding of the poems of both poets.
The Wounds of War and Conflict in Contemporary Arab Women's Writings from North Africa and the Middle East focuses on the writings of women authors from North Africa and the Middle East who open a critical and alternative imaginary of war and displacement in their literary production.
Over the past decade cultural theory has seen a number of 'turns' - the materialist turn, the animal turn, the affective turn - that address the human as an affective, embodied, and ultimately vulnerable animal embedded in dense webs of more-than-human relations, in short as a posthuman phenomenon.
In the 1970s and 1980s, Graham Greene adopted the yearly habit of touring Spain and Portugal in the company of his Spanish friend, the priest and university professor Leopoldo DurA!
In the 1970s and 1980s, Graham Greene adopted the yearly habit of touring Spain and Portugal in the company of his Spanish friend, the priest and university professor Leopoldo DurA!
In an era marked by global crises, political polarization, and contested truths, literature has re-emerged as a vital space for ethical reflection and legal imagination.
In an era marked by global crises, political polarization, and contested truths, literature has re-emerged as a vital space for ethical reflection and legal imagination.
Exploring the Non-Human and Religion in Nineteenth-Century Writings: Colonial Idols in British Curation and Culture examines the curatorial and literary representations of colonial idols in British writings of the long nineteenth century as they emerged in the imperial heartland as alien art, invasive commodities, and vessels of affect.
This book presents two major critical reorientations, developing new positions on James Joyce and Jacques Derrida by reading them together within a shared modernity.
This book presents two major critical reorientations, developing new positions on James Joyce and Jacques Derrida by reading them together within a shared modernity.
The Literary Legacy of the Kennedy Assassination: True Crime Tragedy surveys and analyzes literary representations of the 1963 JFK assassination in Dallas.
Philip Pullman and the Historical Imagination takes the general reader on a fascinating tour of seventeenth-century thought, exploring how this time period shaped Pullman's extraordinary trilogies His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust.
Exploring the Non-Human and Religion in Nineteenth-Century Writings: Colonial Idols in British Curation and Culture examines the curatorial and literary representations of colonial idols in British writings of the long nineteenth century as they emerged in the imperial heartland as alien art, invasive commodities, and vessels of affect.
An exploration of Paddingon the Bear as an international cultural phenomenon In 1958, a little marmalade-loving brown bear from Peru named Paddington was introduced to the post-war British public.
Philip Pullman and the Historical Imagination takes the general reader on a fascinating tour of seventeenth-century thought, exploring how this time period shaped Pullman's extraordinary trilogies His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust.
Getting to Good Friday intertwines literary analysis and narrative history in an accessible account of the shifts in thinking and talking about Northern Ireland's divided society that brought thirty years of political violence to a close with the 1998 Belfast/Good Friday Agreement.
Getting to Good Friday intertwines literary analysis and narrative history in an accessible account of the shifts in thinking and talking about Northern Ireland's divided society that brought thirty years of political violence to a close with the 1998 Belfast/Good Friday Agreement.
This book explores short fiction by migrant women writers in Canada and the United States from 1980 to 2020, including Jhumpa Lahiri, Edwidge Danticat, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jamaica Kincaid, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and Shani Mootoo, amongst many others.
The Literary Legacy of the Kennedy Assassination: True Crime Tragedy surveys and analyzes literary representations of the 1963 JFK assassination in Dallas.
An incisive, thought-provoking, and timely meditation, at once panoramic and synoptic, on American literature for an age of xenophobia, heightened nationalism, and economic disparity.
An incisive, thought-provoking, and timely meditation, at once panoramic and synoptic, on American literature for an age of xenophobia, heightened nationalism, and economic disparity.
This book explores how the novels by Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys - To the Lighthouse (1927), The Waves (1931), Between the Acts (1941), After Leaving Mr Mackenzie (1930), Voyage in the Dark (1934) and Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) - maintain an attachment to and love for life amid disenchanting times of war and social change.
Slightly Magical Irish Poetry and the Long 1990s is a major intervention in the field of Irish literary studies, disrupting conventional divisions and interpretive categories, mixing established poets and new ones, and including poems in English and Irish.
This book explores how the novels by Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys - To the Lighthouse (1927), The Waves (1931), Between the Acts (1941), After Leaving Mr Mackenzie (1930), Voyage in the Dark (1934) and Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) - maintain an attachment to and love for life amid disenchanting times of war and social change.
Slightly Magical Irish Poetry and the Long 1990s is a major intervention in the field of Irish literary studies, disrupting conventional divisions and interpretive categories, mixing established poets and new ones, and including poems in English and Irish.
The Found Voice: Writers' Beginnings uses the means of literary biography and criticism to do something rarely attempted--to understand how a key creative period establishes the authoritative voice of a unique artist.
Examining modernist fiction in the context of a longer tradition of narrative impersonality, Narrative Personae and Desire in Modernist Fiction explores how narrative language renders subjective states of interiority and desire.
Examining modernist fiction in the context of a longer tradition of narrative impersonality, Narrative Personae and Desire in Modernist Fiction explores how narrative language renders subjective states of interiority and desire.
Late Heaney follows Seamus Heaney through the landscapes, friendships and events that shaped his last four collections, The Spirit Level, Electric Light, District and Circle, and Human Chain, all set in conversation with his work at large.
