Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
Critical Poetics of Feminist Refusals: Voicing Dissent Across Differences
1st Edition
By Federica Bueti
August 26, 2024
Critical Poetics of Feminist Refusals renders a vivid portrait of the intergenerational and intersectional dialogue between influential feminist writers on how to say no to the conditions of oppression, exclusion, and exploitation imposed by patriarchal and systemically racist capitalist societies....
The Other Orpheus: A Poetics of Modern Homosexuality
1st Edition
By Merrill Cole
June 24, 2024
First published in 2003. This volume aims to re-establish an interest in poetry by integrating questions of prosody and aesthetics with political literary inquiry. The broader theoretical goal is nothing less than a rehabilitation of the concepts of affect and imagination, though the study also ...
The Zimbabwean Maverick: Dambudzo Marechera and Utopian Thinking
1st Edition
By Shun Man Emily Chow-Quesada
May 27, 2024
This book seeks to unfold the complexity within the works of Dambudzo Marechera and presents scholars and readers with a way of reading his works in light of utopian thinking. Writing during a traumatic transitional period in Zimbabwe’s history, Marechera witnessed the upheavals caused by different...
Erich Auerbach and the Secular World: Literary Criticism, Historiography, Post-Colonial Theory and Beyond
1st Edition
By Jon Nixon
January 29, 2024
Auerbach was one of the foremost literary critics of the 20th century whose work has relevance within the fields of literary criticism, historiography and postcolonial theory. The opening chapter of this book explains how he understood the task of interpretation and his role as an interpreter. The ...
Living with Monsters: A Study of the Art of Characterization in Aldous Huxley’s Novels
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By Indrani Deb
January 29, 2024
Aldous Huxley is one of the most well-known modernist intellectuals of the first half of the twentieth century, excelling in novels, essays, philosophical tracts, and poems. His novels are special in that they use a unique form – the novel of ideas – with which to satirize human nature and the ...
Trauma, Posttraumatic Growth, and World Literature: Metamorphoses and a Literary Arts Praxis
1st Edition
By Suzanne LaLonde
January 29, 2024
Pandemics, global climate chaos, worldwide migration crises? These phenomena are provoking traumatic experiences in unprecedented ways and numbers. This book is targeted for clinicians, scientists, cultural theorists, and other scholars and students of trauma studies interested in cultivating ...
Lu Xun’s Affirmative Biopolitics: Nothingness and the Power of Self-Transcendence
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By Wenjin Cui
September 25, 2023
This book explores an extraordinary case of affirmative biopolitics through the study of Lu Xun (1881–1936), the most prominent cultural figure of modern China. Diverging from the Enlightenment-humanist framework in reference to which Lu Xun is commonly interpreted, it demonstrates how his thinking...
(In)digestion in Literature and Film: A Transcultural Approach
1st Edition
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By Serena J. Rivera, Niki Kiviat
May 31, 2023
(In)digestion in Literature and Film: A Transcultural Approach is a collection of essays spanning diverse geographic areas such as Brazil, Eastern Europe, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, South Korea, Taiwan and the United States. Despite this geographic variance, they all question disordered...
Gender and Memory in the Postmillennial Novels of Almudena Grandes
1st Edition
By Lorraine Ryan
May 31, 2023
Almudena Grandes is one of Spain´s foremost women´s writers, having sold over 1.1 million copies of her episodios de una guerra interminable, her six-volume series that ranges from the Spanish Civil War to the democratic period; the myriad prizes awarded to her, 18 in total, confirm her ...
Ghostly Encounters: Cultural and Imaginary Representations of the Spectral from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
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By Mark Sandy, Stefano Cracolici
May 31, 2023
This volume reflects on the ghostly and its varied manifestations including the uncanny, the revenant, the echo, and other forms of artistic allusion. These unsettling presences of the spectral other occur in literature, history, film, and art. The ghostly (and its artistic, literary, filmic, ...
Queer Women in Modern Spanish Literature: Activism, Sexuality, and the Otherness of the 'Chicas Raras'
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By Ana I. Simón-Alegre, Lou Charnon-Deutsch
May 31, 2023
This original collection of essays explores the work and life choices of Spanish women who, through their writings and social activism, addressed social justice, religious dogmatism, the educational system, gender inequality, and tensions in female subjectivity. It brings together writers who are ...
Recycling Virginia Woolf in Contemporary Art and Literature
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By Monica Latham, Caroline Marie, Anne-Laure Rigeade
May 31, 2023
Recycling Virginia Woolf in Contemporary Art and Literature exam>ines Woolf’s life and oeuvre from the perspective of recycling and pro>vides answers to essential questions such as: Why do artists and writers recycle Woolf’s texts and introduce them into new circuits of meaning? Why do they ...