Building on its predecessor, Queer Tolstoy: A Psychobiography (2023), this book uncovers queer-anarchist dimensions of the second half of Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy's life (1828-1910) and of the Russian writer's later art-works.
This book proposes the term 'emergent poetics' to synthesize two divergent strands in contemporary literary media theory - the media archaeology of material inscriptions and the systems view of media ecology, which considers media as complex nodes of exchange.
This book proposes the term 'emergent poetics' to synthesize two divergent strands in contemporary literary media theory - the media archaeology of material inscriptions and the systems view of media ecology, which considers media as complex nodes of exchange.
A Year of Real and Literary Birds is simultaneously an almanac of bird life, a work of interdisciplinary literary scholarship, and a chronicle of family life.
Develops a new psychoanalytic theory of genius, a concept that is often invoked and pervasive in popular culture but which is rarely scrutinized in depth.
The book presents Winfried Georg Sebald and Ian McEwan as paradigmatic post-imperial writers who enmeshed in the hierarchies of power inherited from their imperial times, strive to disentangle themselves from that burdensome legacy.
Variously translated as "e;estrangement,"e; "e;enstrangement"e; or "e;defamiliarization,"e; Viktor Shklovsky's concept of ostranenie is more relevant than ever.
A timely and significant contribution to Palestinian children's literature from 1967 to the present day, Palestinian Memory and Identity in Modern Children's Literature examines a myriad of motifs and popular culture and the evolution of national identity and consciousness among young Palestinians.
The early Stuart funeral elegy was a copious and digressive genre, and exceptional deaths pressed elegists to stretch beyond the usual rhetoric of grief and commemoration.
First published in 1972, Goethe presents a biography looking at one of the few great Europeans to be universally recognized as a hero of culture, and in the light of modern sociological thought puts the hero into his background, human, social and political.
Emerging concerns and contexts of geological thinking seek to bring out how energopolitical interventions into the geokinetic "e;unfolding"e; of the Earth assume new dimensions and directions, owing to the complex and evolving intersections between "e;folds"e; and "e;fluxes"e; of energy in the context of oceans.
Literature and Computation presents some of the most relevantly innovative recent approaches to literary practice, theory, and criticism as driven by computation and situated in digital environments.
The Routledge Handbook for Global South Studies on Subjectivities provides a series of exemplary studies conjoining perspectives from Asian, African, and Latin American Studies on subjectivity in the Global South as a central category of social and cultural analysis.
Autoethnography in the 21st Century offers interpretive, analytic, interactive, performative, experiential, and embodied forms of autoethnography from around the globe.
Emerging concerns and contexts of geological thinking seek to bring out how energopolitical interventions into the geokinetic "e;unfolding"e; of the Earth assume new dimensions and directions, owing to the complex and evolving intersections between "e;folds"e; and "e;fluxes"e; of energy in the context of oceans.
The relationship between critical disability studies and the hearing sciences is a dynamic one, and it's changing still, both as clinicians come to terms with the evolving health of deaf and hearing communities and as the 'social' and 'medical' understandings of disability continue to gain traction among different groups.
There is a growing interest in studying narrative discourse as 'experimental values laboratory,' both reflecting social values and participating in their circulation.
Originally published in 1989, The Origins of Literary Studies in America brings together for the first time hard-to-find speeches, reports, and other writings by the founders of literary studies in the United States: Bliss Perry, Woodrow Wilson, Irving Babbitt, M.
