Giving Voice to Exile in Literature: The Burdens and Privileges of Inheritance aims to provide undergraduate, graduate and professional readers with a nuanced understanding of how the unique status of exile, issues of displacement, complexities of cultural identity formation, the state of in-betweenness (liminality), and alienation shape fundamental human experiences.
Written in a clear and accessible style, Stylistics, Third Edition is a comprehensive resource which covers all the major theories, concepts and methods required for the investigation of language in literature.
Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: Concepts and Applications introduces major critical and literary theories to undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: Concepts and Applications introduces major critical and literary theories to undergraduate and postgraduate students.
A Room of His Own: Joseph Brodskyand the Making of a Bilingual Poet makes the original and persuasive claim that Brodskys force as a transnational poet derives paradoxically from an inward-looking stance that privileges the trope of the room and a practice of self-translation that is faithful to his own internal poetics rather than the poetic norms of the target tradition.
The concept "e;we"e; is central to every field in the interdisciplinary humanities and social sciences, yet it has been overdetermined by the question of "e;who we are"e;, leaving its basic conceptual operations undertheorized.
The concept "e;we"e; is central to every field in the interdisciplinary humanities and social sciences, yet it has been overdetermined by the question of "e;who we are"e;, leaving its basic conceptual operations undertheorized.
A Room of His Own: Joseph Brodskyand the Making of a Bilingual Poet makes the original and persuasive claim that Brodskys force as a transnational poet derives paradoxically from an inward-looking stance that privileges the trope of the room and a practice of self-translation that is faithful to his own internal poetics rather than the poetic norms of the target tradition.
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.
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.
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.
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 2nd edition of the Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese Literature provides a comprehensive survey of the field of modern Japanese literature and gives readers an overview of how we study Japanese literature today.
While countless memoirs have been written about depression and therapy, no one has examined how the "e;talking cure"e; of psychotherapy is presented in novels and other works of literature.
Der traditionell behauptete Gattungsunterschied von wahrheitsorientierter philosophischer Prosa und fiktionaler Literatur stellt sich nicht zuletzt dann als problematisch heraus, wenn Formen des Denkens und Erkennens aus der Betrachtung herausfallen, die sich keinem der beiden Modelle zuordnen lassen.
Dass Kritik nach dem Ende der großen Geschichte(n) weder als Lehre noch als Aufklärung, sondern als Reflexiv- und Problematisch-Werden von Entscheidungsprozeduren und Urteilsformen gedacht werden kann, souffliert Alexander Kluges Kunst- und Medienarbeit seit den frühen 60er-Jahren.
Mit Beiträgen von Peter Berz, Lars Denicke, Beatrice Gründler, Friedrich Kittler, Ludwig Morenz, Barry Powell, Oliver Primavesi, Joachim Schaper, Gerhard Scharbert, Joulia Strauss, Peter Weibel, Siegfried Zielinski.
Caribbean Futurism and Beyond is a tripartite combination of interviews with writers of the sf (speculative fiction, science fiction, fantasy, and folklore) genre, literary and cultural analysis of those interviews within the context of seven discrete yet overlapping dimensions - folklore, mythology, children's and young adult literature, science, technology, climate disaster, and identity; and a theoretical basis of Caribbean futurism as an esthetic practice reflecting not just future but also past and present experiences of Caribbean people.
While James Joyce was a central figure of high modernism, Malcom Lowry spoke for the next generation of modernist writers and, despite his denials, was almost certainly influenced by Joyce.
Here is the ideal introduction to satire for the student and, for the experienced scholar, an occasion to reconsider the uses, problems, and pleasures of satire in light of contemporary theory.
