Magical Realism in Twenty-First-Century Transnational Fiction: The Global Supernatural offers a much-needed re-evaluation of magical realism, moving beyond traditional postcolonial frameworks to explore its vibrant evolution in the 21st century.
This book offers a comprehensive critical analysis of Colson Whitehead's fiction, positioning him as a key figure in both African American literature and the global "e;turn to genre"e;.
From Gilgamesh to Gawain and the Green Knight, the Brothers Grimm to Grimdark, the natural world has provided the backdrop for Fantasy since its earliest iterations.
Masculinities in Mid-Twentieth-Century Irish Fiction and Culture, 1931-1965 is a critical analysis of the construction, consolidation, and regulation of post-colonial Irish masculinity as evidenced by Irish fiction published during the mid-twentieth century.
This original collection of essays written by scholars and poets explores the life and work of Hyam Plutzik (1911-1962), whose poetry came to fruition at a time of cultural change set against the historical rupture of the Holocaust and World War II.
Philippe de Vigneulles (1471-1528), cloth merchant and hosier from the city of Metz, wrote a collection of comic short stories which he called Cent Nouvelles ou contes joyeux.
The almost universal adulation given Edmund Waller in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries-an adulation which, often as not, attached to his reform of poetry-has been commonly accepted with little question of the grounds on which it is based.
Nowhere is the richness and variety of the English Renaissance better shown than in the dramatic works of the period which combined to an unusual degree the arts of poetry, music, acting, and dance.
Sprachkraft, eng verwandt mit der Einbildungskraft, wird von Meuthen in Auseinandersetzung mit Meisterwerken allegorischer und ironischer Sprachgestaltung untersucht.
Since the early 1970s southern fiction has been increasingly attentive to social issues, including the continuing struggles for racial justice and gender equality, the loss of a sense of social community, and the decline of a coherent regional identity.
