Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
Joseph Conrad and Honor: Victory in Defeat
1st Edition
By GW Stephen Brodsky
September 24, 2026
Joseph Conrad and Honor: Victory in Defeat explores the idea and themes of honor both explicit and implicit in Conrad’s life, letters and oeuvre, and its origins in Conrad’s Polish, French and English philosophical, historical and cultural contexts. Focusing on Conrad’s family history, his lives in...
Female Agents in the Male World of Cold War Spy Novels: The Spies Who Stayed Out in the Cold
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By Howard Mason
September 10, 2026
Female Agents in the Male World of Cold War Spy Novels: The Spies Who Stayed Out in the Cold is an in-depth analysis of the way writers of Cold War spy novels have portrayed their female characters, paying particular attention to women presented as secret agents and to the work of women writers. ...
Re-Reading Golden Age Crime Writing: Time, Space, and Place
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By Sarah Martin, Stefano Serafini
September 02, 2026
Re-Reading Golden Age Crime Writing: Time, Space, and Place intervenes in debates on crime literature by offering the first sustained analysis of British and American Golden Age fiction, broadly spanning the 1910s to the 1950s, through the interrelated yet analytically distinct frameworks of time, ...
New Approaches to the Doppelganger in Literature and Culture
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By Pamela Bedore, Anita Duneer
July 28, 2026
New Approaches to the Doppelganger in Literature and Culture addresses the pressing questions of our cultural moment about the very nature of reality. How can we grapple with rapid developments in the power of AI to impersonate, simulate, and replicate personal identities and virtual images? How do...
Poetry and Culture in Britain, Canada and the United States: 20th and Early 21st Century Literature
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By Jonathan Locke Hart
July 20, 2026
This book is about poetry and the poetic in the cultures and literatures of Britain, Canada and the United States. Close reading is the primary method. The figures discussed in the book were born from 1911 to the post-war years after 1945. The volume proceeds from Marshall McLuhan as a poet through...
Master-Narrative Transitions from the Vikings to Artificial Intelligence: How Fiction Helps Communities Adapt to a Changing World
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By Mads Larsen
July 03, 2026
Master-Narrative Transitions from the Vikings to Artificial Intelligence: How Fiction Helps Communities Adapt to a Changing World examines how societies survive and transform when their foundational stories begin to collapse. By tracing a millennium of cultural evolution in the Nordic region, it ...
Bangladeshi Novels in English: Cultural Contact and Migrant Subjectivity
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By Umme Salma
May 21, 2026
Bangladeshi Novels in English: Cultural Contact and Migrant Subjectivity is the first comprehensive study of Bangladeshi migration and diasporas through eight seminal Bangladeshi novels in English from the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries: Adib Khan’s Seasonal Adjustments and Spiral Road, ...
Detective Fiction on the Case of Community: The Mystery at the Heart of the Modern
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By Devin Fromm
May 21, 2026
Detective Fiction on the Case of Community uses one of the most popular forms of modern literature to examine one of modernity’s most trenchant problems. The project rests on the argument that detective fiction emerges specifically from an awareness of the stress that modernization puts on the ...
Exploring Anne Frank and Difficult Life Stories
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By Kirsten Kumpf Baele, Waltraud Maierhofer, Doyle Stevick
May 21, 2026
This volume, grounded in the Diary of a Young Girl and its continued appeal to readers of all ages, sees both promise in the relevance of Anne Frank’s story in the twenty‑first century, and potential for new ways of teaching her story and those of other genocides and human right violations. ...
Language in Colonization, Renaissance Poetry and Shakespeare: From Interpoetics to Translation
1st Edition
By Jonathan Locke Hart
May 21, 2026
Language is the central concern of this book. Colonization, poetry and Shakespeare – and the Renaissance itself – provide the examples. I concentrate on text in context, close reading, interpretation, interpoetics and translation with particular instances and works, examining matters of ...
Language in Literature
1st Edition
By Jonathan Locke Hart
May 21, 2026
Language in Literature examines the overlap and blurring boundaries of English, comparative and world poetry and literature. Questions of language, literature, translation and creative writing are addressed as befitting an author who is a poet, literary scholar and historian. The book begins ...
Myths of the Golden Age in European Culture
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By Stephen G. Nichols, Claudia Olk
May 21, 2026
Hesiod’s concept of a Golden Age, together with analogous myths – Babylonian, Egyptian, Hebrew, etc. – speak to the psychic appeal, perhaps even deep-rooted need, for humans to conceive alternate worlds free from the anguish, toil, and dangers of the one they inhabit. Classical poets and ...