Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
Trans(in)fusion: Reflections for Critical Thinking
1st Edition
By Ranjan Ghosh
May 31, 2023
Trans(in)fusion is a highly original book that tries to radicalize our ways of ‘critical thinking’ across disciplines. The book, refreshingly, brings into play critical philosophy, literary criticism, studies in mathematics, physics, chemistry and developmental biology, and various other ...
Telling Details: Chinese Fiction, World Literature
1st Edition
By Jiwei Xiao
March 10, 2022
What is a detail? How is it different from xijie, its Chinese counterpart? Is "reading for the details" fundamentally different from "reading for the plot"? Did xijie xiaoshuo, the Chinese novel of details, give the world its earliest form of modern fiction? Inspired by studies of vision and ...
Double Trouble: The Doppelgänger from Romanticism to Postmodernism
1st Edition
By Eran Dorfman
December 13, 2021
The double, doppelgänger, is mostly understood as a peculiar figure that emerged in nineteenth-century Romantic and gothic literature. Far from being a merely esoteric entity, however, this book argues that the double, although it mostly goes unnoticed, is a widespread phenomenon that has ...
Knots: Post-Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Literature and Film
1st Edition
Edited
By JEAN MICHEL RABATE
December 13, 2021
This collection of specially commissioned essays offers a wide array of new psychoanalytic approaches impacted by Lacanian theory, queer studies, post-colonial studies, feminism, and deconstruction in the domains of film and literature. We have witnessed a remarkable return to psychoanalysis in ...
Literary Twinship from Shakespeare to the Age of Cloning
1st Edition
By Wieland Schwanebeck
December 13, 2021
Unlike previous efforts that have only addressed literary twinship as a footnote to the doppelganger motif, this book makes a case for the complexity of literary twinship across the literary spectrum. It shows how twins have been instrumental to the formation of comedies of mistaken identity, the ...
Promiscuity in Western Literature
1st Edition
By Peter Stoneley
December 13, 2021
Poet and novelist Charles Bukowski described promiscuity as "feast and feast and feast." The promiscuous person is having fun, getting away with it, and showing no signs of stopping. More often, though, promiscuity has been seen as demonic, as the sign of an uncivilised race, or as a symptom of ...
Agamben’s Political Ontology of Nudity in Literature and Art
1st Edition
By Frances Restuccia
June 30, 2021
This volume develops the central (though neglected) Agambenian concept of nudity along with its crucial political implications. The book discovers within The Use of Bodies a philosophical path to Agamben’s "ontology of nudity," as it is subtended by his notion of the messianic—a dual temporality of...
Conceptualisation and Exposition: A Theory of Character Construction
1st Edition
By Lina Varotsi
June 30, 2021
While the concept of the fictional character has been widely discussed at interdisciplinary level, a foundational theory of character creation is yet to follow. As a result, creative writing students and beginner writers refer to post-construction analysis, as well as the step-by-step advice often ...
Constructing Coherence in the British Short Story Cycle
1st Edition
Edited
By Patrick Gill, Florian Kläger
June 30, 2021
The first major collection of essays on the contemporary British short story cycle, this volume offers in-depth explorations of the genre by comparing its strategies for creating coherence with those of the novel and the short story collection, inquiring after the ties that bind individual short ...
Narrative Reliability, Racial Conflicts and Ideology in the Modern Novel
1st Edition
By Marta Puxan-Oliva
June 30, 2021
How does racial ideology contribute to the exploration of narrative voice? How does narrative (un)reliability help in the production and critique of racial ideologies? Through a refreshing comparative analysis of well-established novels by Joseph Conrad, William Faulkner, James Weldon Johnson, ...
The Individual and the Authority Figure in Egyptian Prose Literature
1st Edition
By Yona Sheffer
June 30, 2021
The Individual and the Authority Figure in Egyptian Prose Literature explores and analyses political conflicts between individuals and authority figures, as those conflicts are depicted in thirteen Egyptian novels written from 1957 to the last years of Mubarak's presidency. The book discusses the ...
The Waste Fix: Seizures of the Sacred from Upton Sinclair to the Sopranos
1st Edition
By William G. Little
March 31, 2021
First published in 2002. This book explores the philosophical, social, and aesthetic implications of twentieth-century America's obsession with eliminating waste. Through interdisciplinary engagement with fiction and popular culture, William Little traces the way this obsession finds expression in ...