Literary Studies: General

In the last three decades the field of language teaching and learning has undergone a paradigm shift towards Communicative Language Teaching (CLT),...

Walter Scott's first novel, as he originally intended it to be readThis edition of Scott's Waverley marks the bicentenary of the first publication ...

First published in 1993. This volume is th author's observations of his reading of Fabliaux in order to observe their materials, methods and to eva...

The 'evil child' has infiltrated the cultural imagination, taking on prominent roles in popular films, television shows and literature. This collec...

This book is one of the first collections on a neglected field in American literature: that written by and about the working-class. Examining liter...

Prominent examples from contemporary vampire literature expose a desire to re-evaluate and re-work the long-standing, folkloristic interpretation o...

Slovak education, including foreign language education, is going through curricular reform. Even though the development of intercultural communicat...

Rather than turning backward and remembering 9/11, this book sets out to reflect on how the events of September 11, 2001, have shifted our perspect...

The divide between the techno-scientific and the humanities paradigm has critically endangered general comprehension. The prolegomena to a «unified...

This book of original essays explores three important areas in comparative literature and history and in cultural studies: the boundaries between h...

This Reader's Guide charts the reception history of Ted Hughes' poetry from his first to last published collection, culminating in posthumous tribu...

This book is the result of investiging whether Ode to a Nightingale could be interpreted as the record of an actual song that moved Keats so deeply...

Making use of new and original material based on firsthand sources, this book interrogates the vogue for collecting, discussing, depicting, and put...

The first detailed introduction to the entirety of Seamus Heaney's workThis study will enable readers to gain clearer understanding of the life and...

In this book, Mansfield's writing is repositioned as both postcolonial and diasporic. This volume addresses issues raised by Katherine Mansfield's ...

Whether we regard it as the collected inscriptions of an earlier oral tradition or as the divinely authored source text of liturgical ritual, the B...

Medieval attempts to capture a glimpse of heaven range from the ethereal to the mundane, utilizing media as diverse as maps, cathedrals, songs, tre...

The poems in this collection will give the reader an appreciation of both the distinctiveness and the variety of the medieval English Arthurian tra...

Modernist writing has always been linked with cinema. The recent renaissance in early British film studies has allowed cinema to emerge as a major ...

In art and literature, animals appear not only as an allegoric representation but as a reference which troubles the border between humanity and ani...

In Other Words: Dialogizing Postcoloniality, Race, and Ethnicity is a collection of essays by scholars and Americanists who labor under the convict...

The essay collection focuses on morbid phenomena such as melancholy, trauma, illness and death which engage with questions of «cultural vitality» a...