Literary Studies: from c 1900

Examines how the European Middle Ages has been used and received in a variety of American cultural contexts. There is a deep-seated preoccupation...

The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas argues that the process of recovering Latina/o figures and writings in the nineteenth cen...

This book examines contemporary visual poetry and how conceptual writing, poem-objects, and computational texts shape a posthumanist understanding ...

This book argues that the poetry of César Vallejo announces the event, as a moment of irruption of a truth that destabilises the usual state of rea...

Born in Silesia, raised in the Frankfurt area and educated in Berlin, Werner Sollors has spent most of his career at Harvard University in the Unit...

Abstraction is one of the most important words in modernism and in the critical thought of modernity, yet its complex work is invariably hidden in ...

From the influential work of Los Bros Hernandez in Love & Rockets, to comic strips and political cartoons, to traditional superheroes made nont...

This book offers a novel critical intervention in medical humanities, foregrounding the importance of spaces and senses in medical experiences. It ...

This first book-length study of Anna Kavan's writing contradicts earlier critical approaches that have figured her writing as sui generis by readin...

A new exploration of literary and artistic responses to WW1 from 1914 to the presentThis authoritative reference work examines literary and artisti...

Aimé Césaire is arguably the greatest Caribbean literary writer in history. Best known for his incendiary epic poem Notebook of a Return to my Nati...

Aimé Césaire is arguably the greatest Caribbean literary writer in history. Best known for his incendiary epic poem Notebook of a Return to my Nati...

Die Kultur der Weimarer Republik begeisterte sich in besonderem Maße für solche religiösen Ideen, von denen man sich Hilfe beim Umgang mit den allg...

The Great Gatsby is often called the great American novel. Emblematic of an entire era, F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic tale of illicit desire, grand...

What are the sourcesand the effectsof the pleasurable feeling of power that genre gives us? What happens to that power when conventionality tips in...

How poetic modernism shaped Arabic intellectual debates in the twentieth century and beyondCity of Beginnings is an exploration of modernism in Ara...

Romantic fiction has often involved stories of travel. In narratives of the journey towards love, romance often involves encounters with exotic pla...

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open intiative. In Traces of the Real: The Absent Presence of Photography in ...

The tragic conscience of modern Chinas most revered critic-translator, Fou Lei, is portrayed in this biography. Discoveries made in Parisian archiv...

This book explores the growing body of multimodal literary texts: books that creatively experiment with the potential of design to represent narrat...

Opening with an analysis of the concept of self-construal from Ren Descartes and Immanuel Kant to the beginning of the new millennium, this collect...

This book is a study of contemporary travel writing as a contested field of political and historical articulations. It poses the question of the re...

Informed by both new and old media theory, materialist approaches to the study of everyday objects, and a series of close readings that chart the c...

An exploration of the serialization of children's classics by contemporary publishers, this book digs into the impact of the practice and provides ...

This book explores how histories of migration, cultural encounter and transculturation have shaped formations of urban space, domestic architecture...

With a focus on nineteenth century Cuba, this volume examines understudied forms of mobility and networks that emerged during Second Slavery. After...

Vegetarianism and Science Fiction: A History of Utopian Animal Ethics examines how vegetarian ideals promoted within science fiction and utopian li...

Ethics of Description: The Anthropological Dispositif and French Modern Travel Writing follows the development of a minor tradition in French liter...

Anglophone Verse Novels as Gutter Texts draws on the notion of the gutter in graphic narratives the gap between panels that a reader has to imagin...

Metafiction has long been associated with the heyday of literary postmodernismwith a certain sense of irresponsibility, political apathy, or outrig...

This volume explores how the Cultural Cold War played out in Africa and Asia in the context of decolonization. Both the United States and the Sovie...

Speech and Silence in Contemporary Childrens Literature brings a fresh perspective to a central literary question Who speaks? by examining a variet...

Grief Memoirs: Cultural, Supportive, and Therapeutic Significance bridges literary studies and psychology to evaluate contemporary grief memoirs fo...

While globalization is often credited with the eradication of traditional' constraints tied to gender and caste, in reality the opening up of the I...

Svetlana Boym was a prolific writer, a charismatic professor, a novelist, and a public intellectual. She was also a fiercely resourceful and reflec...

There has been a growing awareness that ambiguity is not just a necessary evil of the language system resulting, for instance, from its need for ec...

Literature for a Society of Equals defends modern equality and seeks its best literature. It accuses equalitys supposed friends on the left of atte...

This interdisciplinary collection of essays brings together scholars in the fields of art history, theatre, visual culture, and literature to explo...

Bringing together concerns in border studies, the environmental humanities and Scottish literary studies, this open access book examines the relati...